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-Great Cultural Revolution
The Left Isn't Just Marching Through Our Institutions, It's Imploding Them
[Federalist] he law professor Glenn Reynolds has talked for years about the premise, in public policy, that people can be brought into the middle class if you give them the markers of middle-class status. Having a college degree is middle class, so make it easier to get a college degree. Owning a house is middle class, so lower the barriers to homeownership. 1.) Make it all much easier. 2.) Give people way more free stuff. 3.) Larger middle class!

"But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class," he writes. "Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them."

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The new Manchurian candidates
Hat tip HotAir
[Spiked] Openness to outsiders is a liberal democracy’s greatest strength, but it can also prove a curse. Hostile autocratic powers such as China and Qatar have realised that throwing dollars around Washington, Ottawa, London, Sydney or Brussels can get results. How else do you get a proposed US-sponsored Qatari airbase in Idaho, and even a US commitment to defend the terrorist-sponsoring kingdom? China, for its part, often backs Democratic candidates like New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill, who received $65,000 from a businessman with strong links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

This may not be the programmed treachery portrayed in the 1962 thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, but foreign interests have gained growing influence across the West. At the same time, much of the far left lives off donations from CCP-allied Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham. In 2028 we might see Gavin Newsom — California’s China-friendly governor — as a wannabe satrap at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Most foreign influence-peddlers are not partisans, but opportunists. China, often tied to the left, was recently found using an agent to penetrate Germany’s hard-right AfD. Authoritarian states see weakness in Western societies — particularly among an increasingly out-of-touch political class — as an opening to accentuate divisions within polarised publics. Influence-peddlers butter their bread on both sides, not minding that their fingers might get greasy.

In his classic transactional manner, Trump’s family members and associates are getting rich off deals with Middle Eastern monarchs. Top administration officials like Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and FBI head Kash Patel have strong connections with Doha. Trump, no stranger to impropriety, has even accepted a gift of a jumbo jet from Qatar, which is to be refitted for use as Air Force One.

At the same time, many prominent GOP figures — including former House speaker John Boehner — have signed up to a lobby firm that pushes for China’s interests. Trump allies on Wall Street also lobby on behalf of China, cashing in on investments that strip America’s productive capacity — even amid the Trumpian trade wars that are supposed to rein China in.

Over the past decade, much of the largesse from abroad has gone to universities — bulwarks of ’progressive’ politics. Qatar alone accounts for more than a third of all foreign donations to US universities. This is the same nation, lest we forget, that funds Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.

China’s university gambit includes its so-called Confucius Institutes, which openly push the CCP line on campus. Other funds have been used to promote access to US technological know-how. Harvard alone attracted $560million in gifts from China between 2010 and 2025. Similar patterns can be seen in universities in the UK, Australia and Canada.

This influence extends to culture, too. Hollywood stars now denounce Israel and Trump as genocidal maniacs, but ignore the systematic suppression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The CCP bans any film that threatens its ideological hold. Despite all the kowtowing in Hollywood, Beijing is rapidly replacing vacuous Hollywood blockbusters with its own vapid films. Qatar, for its part, appears to have financed the movie career of Mira Nair — mother of nepo-baby and likely next New York mayor, the socialist Zohran Mamdani.

Some of this largesse goes directly to Democratic politicians who, like the Trumpistas, are no less lured by foreign lucre. Timmy Davis, Joe Biden’s ambassador to Doha, last month landed a lucrative job at Irth Capital Management, a fund controlled by the ruling al-Thani family. This despite having no experience in finance. But what does that matter among friends?

As befits the world’s other superpower, China’s influence is even more pervasive. The late Dianne Feinstein’s driver was apparently an agent, while congressman Eric Swalwell — a consistent critic of Trump’s alleged Russian ties — was involved with an alleged Chinese femme fatale. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, had extensive business dealings with Chinese interests, while his brother, James, hired an ex-Secret Service agent to assist a Chinese client.

Many of the Democratic Party’s favoured oligarchs also tend to be pro-Beijing. The very billionaires who see themselves as defenders of democracy had no trouble clinking glasses in San Francisco last year with China’s brutal dictator, Xi Jinping. To them, a real, committed autocrat, it seems, is preferable to a mercurial, term-limited one.

Democratic mega-donor Michael Bloomberg once described China as ’ecologically friendly, democratically accountable and invulnerable to revolution’.
…all three points being completely wrong.
He even claimed that Xi is ’not a dictator’.
And, of course, that one. Why did he bother?
Apple’s Tim Cook, whose products are largely made in China, waxes lyrical about a ’common future in cyberspace’. The relentlessly self-promoting hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio, who made much of his wealth in authoritarian China, attacks Trumpian authoritarianism while envisioning American decline and Chinese ascendancy. One leading Silicon Valley VC firm, Sequoia Capital, even employs the offspring of Politburo members.
So the chosen ones get lots of money, but what does the firm get out of the situation?
Canada, too, has been targeted. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has identified relentless efforts to gain inside information about Canada’s raw materials, defence and AI industries. It has also documented China’s use of agents, including Canadian citizens, to influence MPs and to blunt criticism of the Middle Kingdom.

Similar patterns have emerged in Australia, where Chinese operatives, sometimes working with local ethnic minorities, use political donations from CCP-linked businesspeople to sway the China policy of major parties. One senator was expelled from parliament after being caught pandering to Chinese-language media on South China Sea policy and warning his CCP-linked patron about government surveillance.

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Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1770 views] Top|| File under: Commies



Cyber
Patrick Bet David: Google Is FINISHED - How OpenAI’s Atlas Might CRUSH Chrome In Web Browser Wars

Google's not finished yet. The Atlas release is so far only for MacOS. Presumably Google is paying attention.
Might covers from maybe to probably…
Posted by: badanov || 10/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1766 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's built on the Chromium engine and integrates the assistant platform of ChatGPT directly, enabling tasks such as webpage summarization, inline text editing and agentic functions.

Good luck with that. Do you want a browser that "summarizes" Rantburg?
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/23/2025 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  We do it ourselves, right there at the top: Civil, well-reasoned discourse.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Sometimes with some beating until morale improves :-)
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/23/2025 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Google, Microsoft, Meta.... just buyout threats all the time
Posted by: Airandee || 10/23/2025 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Goog is quite willing to fight back and play dirty.
And they've got lotsa money.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/23/2025 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ and the mindset
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/23/2025 9:57 Comments || Top||


Europe
'Were the Russians right?' The debate over 'Banderism' in Poland has reached a new leve
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Khavich

[REGNUM] On October 20, one of Poland's most popular weeklies, Do Rzeczy (close to the conservative opposition), put on its cover a question that truly concerns Poles: "Why do Ukrainians defend Banderism?"

The issue's cover story is illustrated with a photo of a rally under red-and-black banners near the Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv.

This issue of the popular magazine is the latest rhetorical twist in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict surrounding the glorification of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine and attempts to criminalize similar actions in Poland.

The beginning of the current stage of this conflict can be considered to be September 29 of this year, when Polish President Karol Nawrocki introduced a bill to the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) criminalizing Bandera's ideology (called "Banderism" in the document).

The bill provides for amendments to the law on the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland – the Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (INP), as well as to the Criminal Code.

The law on the INP proposes “clarification of the provisions defining the concept of crimes committed by members and accomplices of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Bandera faction and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as well as other Ukrainian formations that collaborated with the Third Reich, with the aim of countering the dissemination of false allegations in this area.”

“The introduction of the proposed change will facilitate more effective prosecution of criminal cases against individuals who deny the participation of the OUN faction of Bandera and the UPA in crimes of genocide,” the explanatory note states.

There are two points to note here.

Firstly, the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland is not simply a research and propaganda institution; in the investigation of individual crimes (for example, genocide), it performs the functions of a prosecutor's office.

Secondly, the ethnic cleansing of the Polish population carried out by OUN-UPA militants during the Second World War in Volyn and Galicia (the “Volyn massacre”) is officially recognized in Poland as genocide of Poles.

As for the amendments to the Polish Criminal Code proposed by the President, they provide for the addition of the following wording to Article 256, which establishes a penalty of up to three years' imprisonment for propaganda of totalitarian regimes and incitement of hatred on a national basis:

“The same punishment is imposed on anyone who publicly promotes <…> the ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of the Bandera faction and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army <…>.”

"For Poland, Banderism has a special and painful significance. It was directed directly against the Poles living in the Eastern Borderlands (now Western Ukraine – Ed.), who were considered an obstacle to the realization of the nationalist vision of Ukraine. The memory of the Volyn massacre and other crimes remains an integral part of Polish history and collective identity," the explanatory note to the bill states.

Karol Nawrocki himself then stated that Poland supports Ukraine, but the symbols of Bandera and the red-black flag should simply be thrown out of the Polish public space.

"They should be treated as a symbol of an ideology that killed at least 120,000 of my fellow citizens. Ukrainians have a problem with this. This is perhaps the most important and only problem in attitudes toward war today... But we don't want to have the red and black flag, which is a symbol in public space, and we want to punish its use," the Polish president emphasized.

The Kyiv authorities did not dare to directly respond to this step by the head of the Polish state and opted for a demonstration of “public indignation.”

In early October, the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine (an institution with the status of a ministry) published an “Open Statement by Representatives of the Historical Community of Ukraine Regarding the Intentions of Certain Political Forces in Poland to Legislatively Condemn the Activities of the UPA and OUN(b), Equating Them to the Totalitarian Regimes of Nazism and Communism.”

The Ukrainian Embassy in Poland immediately disseminated this statement on its social media pages, despite the extremely undiplomatic formulation of "some political forces" in relation to Karol Nawrocki.

The statement contained a very specific call to avoid politicizing issues of shared history with Poland.

“Attempts to equate the anti-imperial, national liberation activities of the UPA and OUN(b) with the genocidal practices of the neo-imperial totalitarian regimes of the Nazis and communists, against which the Ukrainian rebels fought first and foremost, are quite dubious,” the text categorically stated, the number of signatories of which soon reached a symbolic 88 people.

Then, for some reason, historians issued threats on behalf of the Kyiv authorities.

"In accordance with existing practice, the Ukrainian side will also be forced to apply reciprocal measures and adopt appropriate legislative acts assessing the actions of individual units of the Home Army (AK) and the Peasant Battalions (Polish armed formations – Ed.). They are known to have committed criminal acts against the Ukrainian civilian population during World War II and in the immediate post-war years," the document stated.

But the main point made by Ukrainian historians is anything but novel: the deterioration of relations between Kyiv and Warsaw is only beneficial to Moscow.

The office of President Navrotsky understood perfectly well who was behind the “historians,” among whom were such odious figures as the former and current heads of the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine, Volodymyr Vyatrovich and Oleksandr Alferov (the latter a veteran of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, created on the basis of the neo-Nazi “Azov”).

Polish Presidential Spokesperson Rafal Leskiewicz began his response with the same conclusion about Moscow's sinister "hand." In his view, the Ukrainian response itself is "the implementation of a scenario written in the Kremlin, that is, provoking a crisis in the historical arena between Poland and Ukraine."

According to the official, the presidential bill is needed precisely to combat Russian disinformation.

"The red and black flag is not a symbol alien to Ukrainian nationalists. It symbolizes blood and soil. It is an ideology as criminal as Nazism and Communism," Leskevych said.

He also noted that attempts to compare the casualties of Ukrainian and Polish armed forces are cynical, and began to compare the numbers of the dead.

"There's no symmetry in this issue: we're talking about the murders of 120,000 Polish citizens by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, including Jews, since the UPA aided the Germans. And now Kyiv is announcing legislation against the Home Army—we're talking about a thousand killed by the AK in retaliatory attacks," the Polish president's press secretary fumed.

A bill banning the propaganda of "army-regionalism" has not yet appeared in Ukraine, but Stepan Bandera's supporters with history degrees continued their mocking attacks on Navrotsky.

Thus, Vyatrovich's former deputy at the Institute of National Remembrance, Oleksandr Zinchenko, wrote on social media:

"I wouldn't limit myself to criminalizing the denial of the crimes of the AK and Peasant Battalions against Ukrainian civilians during World War II—I would legally ban the promotion of idiocy as the dominant ideology of today's Poland. There never was an 'ideology of Banderism'; it was invented by Karol Nawrocki. In real history, Banderites had the idea of ​​​​Ukrainian statehood: 'You will gain a Ukrainian state, or you will die fighting for it.' Does the President of Poland again want to stand in the way of Ukrainian independence?"

The theme was continued by propagandist and Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Vakhtang Kipiani, who promoted Stepan Bandera's candidacy for the role of "the greatest Ukrainian" back in a 2008 television show.

"1991. Chornovil. Trident. Today, Polish media writes that this symbol represents pitchforks and the Volyn massacre. Half of our neighbors have elected anti-Ukrainian idiots to power, and they are leading Poland to disaster," he declared.

As unfortunate as it was for the Poles, the subsequent course of events largely confirmed the correctness of Zinchenko and Kipiani, since Nawrocki's office did not publicly respond to these insults and did not even propose banning these individuals from entering Poland.

It is therefore not surprising that just a few days later, the scandalous Ukrainian blogger Elena Mandzyuk, known for her calls to beat Russian-speaking children, arrived in Poland wearing a sweatshirt with an image of Bandera.

She posted a photo of herself in this outfit on social media with the caption "dress code at the border" and later expressed surprise that it provoked a negative reaction from some Ukrainians in Poland.

"I wouldn't dress like that in Poland; it's like coming to Ukraine in a Putin T-shirt," one of her followers wrote. Mandzyuk responded sharply: "How can you even compare? Yesterday, I received such comments from Ukrainians in Poland. Not from Poles! Because they haven't passed such a law, they're just pursuing this anti-Ukrainian policy, fueled by Russia. And the Ukrainians are already falling for it."

At the same time, Polish patriotic circles doubt that even if the presidential bill is adopted, anything will change in Poland.

"It's necessary to remind everyone ad nauseam that the Polish Criminal Code already contains Article 256, 'Propaganda of Nazism, Communism, Fascism, or Other Totalitarian Regimes.' Banderism is Nazism. It doesn't need to be further banned. It's enough to persecute and eradicate it—to try Nazis, deport them, and arrest them, whether they're Ukrainians or anyone else. It's very simple. It's a matter of political will, not legislation. There's simply no will," Polish political analyst Konrad Renkas told Regnum in an exclusive comment.

He also noted that the bill only mentions "Banderism," meaning that supporters of Ukrainian Nazi leaders such as Andriy Melnyk or Taras Bulba-Borovets will be able to continue to preach their views in Poland, as they have been doing for many years.

"Even if such a law is passed, the government, prosecutors, police, and courts in Poland will not enforce it. And the 'erroneously adopted' provisions will be quickly repealed, as was done in 2019 by a ruling by the Constitutional Court—at that time controlled by the Law and Justice party, whose candidate is Nawrocki. After all, for Eastern European countries, 'there are good Nazisms,' as Anne Applebaum, wife of Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, the likely future prime minister of Poland, once wrote. And Banderism, for such people, undoubtedly qualifies as such," said Renkas.

In fact, the lead article in the latest issue of the weekly Do Rzeczy, titled "Closing Our Eyes to the Inconvenient Truth," is devoted to the close collaboration between Bandera and other Ukrainian nationalists with German Nazis during World War II.

"Ukrainian nationalism does not exist in a vacuum. It is a system built on a specific historical foundation: terrorism, crime, collaboration with Nazi Germany, and genocide. All these elements have not gone away, they're just swept under the rug for now," writes its author, renowned publicist Łukasz Warzecha.

Michał Szulzyński, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, a publication that supports Poland's left-liberal government, attempted to make fun of his colleagues.

He posted a photo of the cover of Do Rzeczy on social media with the comment, "Aha, so the Russians were right when they wanted to fight Banderism in Ukraine and denazify Kiev?"

To this, the famous Polish political scientist, Professor Adam Velomski, sarcastically responded: “So, it was Putin who erected monuments to Bandera and Shukhevych in Ukraine?”

And user Michal Toporny directly approached Shuldzhinsky: "Editor, a fundraiser for the restoration of the Shukhevych Museum has started in Lviv. You can participate."

However, not only Kyiv propagandists but also the majority of Polish politicians, including opposition right-wing parties, turn a blind eye to all the facts of the glorification of Bandera and Banderites in Ukraine.

Incidentally, according to rumors from behind the scenes at the Sejm, Karol Nawrocki is not trying to expedite the consideration of his bill against "Banderism," as he is not confident that even the Law and Justice faction will fully support it.

Posted by: badanov || 10/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1776 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Somebody must be pissed if they're name-checking Stefan Bandera.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/23/2025 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  A butt-hurt ex-Sovief said it,
Indignant, on backwards-R Reddit:
"Turn Hitlerite dunce
To rape Poland just once...
And they never will let you forget it!"
Posted by: Zorba Clomogum6449 || 10/23/2025 23:30 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza is Divided and Could Remain That Way Unless Hamas Disarms
A useful observation that had entirely escaped me.
[HotAir] President Trump succeeded in getting phase one of his peace plan enacted. That meant a ceasefire in which all of the 20 living Israeli hostages were returned to Israel in exchange for hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners and a partial withdrawal of the IDF from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. (Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
was supposed to return the dear departed hostages as well but it seems that is going to take a bit longer to accomplish.

But the big question has been whether or not Trump's team could move on from a successful phase one of the plan to phase two, which everyone agrees is the tougher part. In phase two, Hamas is supposed to disarm itself in exchange for funds to rebuild Gaza and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces. The general consensus is that Hamas is unlikely to ever give up its weapons. On the contrary, the group has suggested it is happy for a long ceasefire in which they remain in control of Gaza.

Hamas intends to maintain security control in Gaza during an interim period, a senior Hamas official told Reuters, adding he could not commit to the group disarming - positions that reflect the difficulties facing U.S. plans to secure an end to the war.

Hamas politburo member Mohammed Nazzal also said the group was ready for a ceasefire of up to five years to rebuild devastated Gaza, with guarantees for what happens afterwards depending on Palestinians being given "horizons and hope" for statehood.

Israel is not okay with this alternative to disarmament.

Asked for comment on Nazzal's remarks, the Israeli prime minister's office said Israel was committed to the ceasefire agreement and continued to uphold and fulfil its side of the plan.

"Hamas is supposed to release all hostages in stage 1. It has not. Hamas knows where the bodies of our hostages are. Hamas are to be disarmed under this agreement. No ifs, no buts. They have not. Hamas need to adhere to the 20-point plan. They are running out of time," it said in a statement to Reuters.

The Hamas plan is also not what the Trump administration wants. As Ed reported earlier, President Trump is warning that if Hamas doesn't disarm, they will be eradicated.

Vice-President JD Vance just arrived in Israel today and he repeated that warning, though he also made clear that making disarmament happen is going to take some time.

But in my view the most interesting development today came from Jared Kushner who was at the same press conference with VP Vance. Kushner indicated that, moving forward, no reconstruction aid would be given to Hamas controlled areas of Gaza. Here's his comment along with a map of Gaza as it is currently divided between Hamas and the IDF.



So Hamas is thinking they can retain control of Gaza while reconstruction happens and I have no doubt there plan is to siphon off money for legitimate projects and use it to rebuild their tunnels and infrastructure in preparation for the next attack on Israel. But what Kushner is saying is that any part of Gaza controlled by Hamas won't be reconstructed. Instead, that money will only flow into the areas controlled by the IDF. If this drags out, you could essentially have two Gazas. The one under IDF control would be rebuilt and presumably full of people and the one held by Hamas would remain an area full of rubble with no investment to improve it.

I'm sure Hamas can steal construction supplies the same way it stole food supplies, but this plan might actually make things pretty difficult for them. If they want to see Israel out of Gaza and the entire thing rebuilt, they need to surrender their weapons. It still sounds like a longshot but I'm glad to see that, so far, Kushner seems to have a plan to keep the pressure on Hamas to finally surrender as the peace plan requires.
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#1  ...Oh, this would be funnier than hell to watch - the Best Korea/Worst Korea comparison in small enough scale that all you have to do is sit back and see the difference.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/23/2025 13:30 Comments || Top||

#2  sort of a 4 state solution

Israel
PA controlled territory
IDF controlled Gaza
Hamas controlled Gaza
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/23/2025 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The shaded area on the map could be a demilitarized zone with barbed wire, mines, etc.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/23/2025 16:23 Comments || Top||


A plan that gives countries like Qatar and Turkey a role in rebuilding or running Gaza?
From the Facebook page of Clarice Feldman:
By Avi Abelow

I want to be clear: I support President Trump. He is one of the best friends Israel has ever had in the White House. (And Kamala Harris would have been a disaster for Israel and the world). But this Gaza deal? It makes no sense. And we have to keep speaking out.

How can anyone, let alone Prime Minister Netanyahu, support a plan that gives countries like Qatar and Turkey a role in rebuilding or running Gaza?

These are not neutral players. They are Muslim Brotherhood countries. They fund, support, and protect Hamas. They are ideologically committed to Israel’s destruction and to spreading radical Islam worldwide. And Egypt? It also empowered Hamas, and as a country, has been pouring in tens of thousands of troops and tanks into Sinai, breaking the peace accord with Israel!

Yet according to Trump’s 20-point plan, Turkey, a NATO member in name only and a direct threat to Israel, is expected to send military forces into Gaza as part of an “International Stabilization Force.” Let that sink in. Turkish soldiers, under the command of Erdoğan, who literally threatened war with Israel if we retook Gaza, are supposed to help “stabilize” it? That’s not a peace plan. That’s a suicide pact, with certainty of setting up the next war in Gaza.

Thank God Netanyahu reportedly sees this as a red line. According to journalist Ariel Kahana, Netanyahu yesterday made it clear that he is strongly opposed to Turkish troops entering Gaza.

Netanyahu also is pushing back against Turkish companies getting lucrative reconstruction contracts in Gaza.

Erdoğan wants a foothold in Gaza, and he wants to use Qatari money and Hamas as his proxies. We cannot let that happen. We cannot repeat the mistake of 2005, giving up control of Gaza and hoping for the best. We saw what happened on Oct. 7th when we ignore the 1,400+ years of jihadi Islam.

But here's where it gets even more confusing: How did Netanyahu agree to this deal in the first place? Did he not know who was involved? And why are Trump, Jared Kushner, and Steven Witkoff still supporting Qatari involvement when even the Saudis, yes, Saudi Arabia, are saying they want no part of the plan if Qatar is included?

That should be the wake-up call.

Saudi Arabia, the country Trump & Netanyahu are trying to bring into the Abraham Accords to create a historic new trade route to India, understands what’s at stake. They don’t want the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of anything!

And U.S. Vice President JD Vance, during his visit to Israel just yesterday, said that Israel has veto power over which countries participate. Good. Let’s use it. Qatar? Veto. Turkey? Veto. Egypt? Veto.

Mark Levin yesterday posted on X that ghe American delegation currently in Israel is pressuring us.

They’re trying to push Israel into accepting this broken deal, even as Hamas continues to violate every term of Phase II. Meanwhile, Qatar’s emir is accusing Israel of war crimes and calling for our destruction, at the same time Qatar is supposed to be helping disarm Hamas?

This isn’t diplomacy. This is delusion.

Thank you to Mark Levin for saying what too many are afraid to say: HAMAS MUST BE DESTROYED AND ONLY ISRAEL HAS THE GUTS TO DO IT. That’s it. That’s the truth.

We cannot “manage” Hamas. We cannot “contain” it. We must eliminate it. And we certainly can’t let its backers in Doha and Ankara rebuild Gaza in their image while we pretend peace is on the way.

Let’s be honest about what’s going on here.

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu both want quiet in Gaza. Why?
Probably because they know the real storm is coming from the north and east. Hizbullah in Lebanon has rebuilt itself with more weapons, right on the Israeli border, again! ISIS-linked forces under Jolani in southern Syria are still massacring Christian’s, Druze, Alawites and Kurds. U.S. diplomacy has failed. And Iran is still a threat.

Israel needs to turn its focus to destroying Hizbullah and neutralizing the Jolani/ISIS threat in Syria. But to do that, they need quiet in Gaza. So Netanyahu might have agreed to this bad deal to buy time. But at what cost?
We cannot sell out our long-term security for short-term quiet.

Gaza must stay under full Israeli control. Forever. That’s the only way to prevent another terror buildup from Iran, Qatar, Turkey, or anyone else. We cannot let radical Islamic countries plant their flags in Gaza under the false label of “stabilization” or “reconstruction”, with US protection!

The jihadi Muslims have waited 1,400 years to establish their caliphate. They are patient. They are determined. And many of them are now influencing policy at the highest levels of Western governments, including, sadly, inside the U.S. administration.

We must be smarter. We must be braver. And we must be louder.

Israel will come out of this stronger. I have no doubt.

We will eventually defeat our enemies.

But we must not let the wolves back into Gaza while we do it.
It’s time for clarity. It’s time to finish the job.

And it’s time to say to Trump: Wake up. Qatar is an enemy that is working to also destroy America, as documented in the Muslim Brotherhood documents from the First Twin Towers bombing trial.

Regarding Gaza: NO to Qatar. NO to Turkey. NO to Egypt.

YES to full Israeli sovereignty everywhere we liberate, together with Trump’s emigration plan, to protect Israel and the minorities also threatened by the jihadi Muslims.

That is the only way forward to ensure safety in this Muslim jihadist Middle East.

We are winning this war and we will win!

Am Yisrael Chai!!!

Posted by: badanov || 10/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Qatar was #1 funder of Hamas, Israel #2. It makes sense.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 10/23/2025 2:01 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Men's brains shrink faster than women's; researchers explore Alzheimer's connection
[FoxNews] New research challenges assumptions about brain aging and dementia patterns
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1753 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
It's no wonder married men develop Alzheimer's.
Imagine what a married man's brain undergoes on a daily basis.

Just the fact that married women tend to recite over 20,000 words a day, compared to a mere 7,000 for married men. Might also explain, why married men are far more likely to develop right ear hear issues in the USA, vs those in the UK that have left ear issues more so. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/23/2025 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  "Shrinkage" as in retail shrinkage, right ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/23/2025 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  ...per #1.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/23/2025 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ excellent!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/23/2025 8:34 Comments || Top||


#6  ^#5

What was that old saying...

I drink to forget?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/23/2025 8:58 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Many N's for the win!
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/23/2025 10:02 Comments || Top||



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