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by Gordon G. Chang • June 26, 2024 at 5:00 am
Americans may think they are at peace with China, but China's ruling organization has already announced otherwise. [I]n May 2019, People's Daily... carried a landmark editorial declaring a "people's war" on America. This phrase sounds like meaningless propaganda to American ears, but it has special significance to the Party. "A people's war is a total war, and its strategy and tactics require the overall mobilization of political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, and other power resources, the integrated use of multiple forms of struggle and combat methods," declared a column carried in April 2023 by PLA Daily, the official newspaper of the People's Liberation Army. China has in fact weaponized just about everything. In 1999, two Chinese air force colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, in Unrestricted Warfare, listed 24 methods of warfare and advocated the use of all of them against the United States. [U]nrestricted warfare contemplates the turning of everything into a weapon, from business interactions to tourism to terrorism to illegal drugs to disease. All of these incidents are in defiance of about a dozen written and oral warnings, from the Biden State Department and President Biden himself, that the U.S. was prepared to use force against China to discharge America's obligations to Manila pursuant to the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty The American political class—both Democrats and Republicans—refuse to see Chinese hostility and act appropriately against it. The Communist Party, therefore, did not have to deceive Americans because Americans were determined to deceive themselves. Xi Jinping has made it clear that his goal is to bring down the international system, to "crack skulls and spill blood" as he announced in a landmark speech on July 1, 2021.
Americans may think they are at peace with China, but China's ruling organization has already announced otherwise. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
"It's very hard for China to take certain steps without harming its own economy," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on June 12. "And I think we now understand that economic performance is central right now to what is important to President Xi." "Campbell," Reuters reported, "told Washington's Stimson Center think tank China needed to reassure investors and others that it has a plan for its economy and would not be looking to create frictions that could escalate in unpredictable and dangerous ways." The Communist Party of China, according to the Biden administration, wants stability. That is a dangerous self-delusion. Moreover, it is a view that is indefensible in light of Beijing's actions, some recent.
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 26, 2024 at 4:00 am
The days of victimizing Jews without fear of retribution, revenge or retaliation are over. Pictured: Jews confront a mob of Hamas supporters who were illegally blocking the entrance to the Adas Torah Synagogue in Los Angeles, June 23, 2024. (Photo by David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)
The days of victimizing Jews without fear of retribution, revenge or retaliation are over. Just ask Hamas. Iran. Or Hezbollah. Oh, and while we are at it, let's remind the anti-Semites who have stormed classrooms and campuses at our nation's colleges waving banners that call for the eradication of Israel. Eight months after the most bloodthirsty assault on Jews since the Holocaust, and despite unimaginable obstacles placed in its way – lately by the Biden administration, which is refusing to deliver desperately needed weapons – Israel, smaller than the state of New Jersey, continues to act as the tip of democracy's spear. This nation is now defending the entire West, and our shared values of freedom, against well-funded aggression, terrorism and barbarism.
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by Ruthie Blum • June 25, 2024 at 5:00 am
The reason for the anxiety—say the outlet's White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, and national-security reporter Alexander Ward, citing "senior officials" whom they "granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal deliberations"—is that "no one knows what he is going to say." Team Biden is "increasingly believing" the mantra of Israel's "anybody but Bibi" protesters and their colluders across the pond: that Netanyahu doesn't care about the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza—where they're being physically, psychologically and sexually abused—or about the IDF troops risking and losing their lives to defeat Hamas and free the captives. The accusation isn't merely immoral; its premise is totally false. The far-right members of [Netanyahu's] coalition want "further escalation" of the war? ...This is Democrat-speak for the goal that most Israelis share: to achieve the swiftest possible victory over a brutal enemy whose genocidal slaughter and mass abductions on Oct. 7 forced Israel into a war it didn't want but must win. Bibi's plea eight years ago that the U.S. not reach an agreement with the evil regime in Tehran indeed enraged America's Iran appeasers ... Yet, his appeal to the U.S. lawmakers stemmed from Iran's race to obtain atomic bombs with which to wipe Israel off the map. He was also trying to convey that enriching the ayatollahs would simply enable them to pursue their nuclear program and fund their terrorist proxies around the globe. This, he insisted, would imperil the free world as a whole. What Lemire and Ward conveniently omit from their hostile analysis is that Netanyahu's standing up in this way to the Obama administration so impressed the Gulf states, which also feared an emboldened Iran, that it turned out to be the precursor to the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab neighbors. Both Biden and Politico ought to realize that it's not Netanyahu's "far-right" coalition members who oppose such an eventuality, but rather the vast majority of the Israeli public. Note to the Democrats and their apologists in the press: the Abraham Accords signatories and Saudi Arabia are carefully observing the war in Gaza and Israel's response to Hezbollah in Lebanon to see which side emerges as the strong horse. They are actually hoping for a decisive Israeli victory and an administration in Washington that makes Iran tremble—not the other way around. Netanyahu needs to show them that Israel is still their safest bet, regardless of the presidential election in November. And they'll be listening very carefully to his oratory.
Pictured: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2015. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
An article published in Politico on Saturday claims that the administration in Washington is worried about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address next month to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The reason for the anxiety—say the outlet's White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, and national-security reporter Alexander Ward, citing "senior officials" whom they "granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal deliberations"—is that "no one knows what he is going to say." According to the authors and their nameless contacts, the White House fears that Bibi might take the opportunity to (gasp!) criticize President Joe Biden for not sufficiently supporting Israel's war effort. Terrifying indeed.
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by Daniel Greenfield • June 25, 2024 at 4:00 am
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A week before the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel, Daniel Pipes, a longtime respected foreign policy expert, a former board member of the United States Institute of Peace and the president of the Middle East Forum, had turned in his manuscript for his new book. What emerged in the final months of 2023 was Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated. The foundational thesis of Pipes' work, that Israel had spent far too much conciliating the Islamic terrorist groups that dominate Gaza and the West Bank, offering them the promise of peace and prosperity, emerged from the rubble more relevant than ever. "Israeli leaders seek to improve Palestinian economic welfare: I call this the policy of enrichment," Pipes writes in Israel Victory, criticizing Israel for not adopting "the universal tactic of depriving an economy of resources, but on the opposite one of helping Palestinians to develop economically."
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by Jonathan S. Tobin • June 24, 2024 at 5:00 am
As far as the White House and Democrats are concerned, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it again. Similar to multiple occasions during the presidency of Barack Obama, Netanyahu is not playing by the rules Washington and the foreign-policy establishment believe are laid down to govern the behavior of client states. Pictured: Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Congress on March 3, 2015. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
As far as the White House and Democrats are concerned, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it again. Similar to multiple occasions during the presidency of Barack Obama, Netanyahu is not playing by the rules Washington and the foreign-policy establishment believe are laid down to govern the behavior of client states. Rather than assume the role of the loyal and pliant vassal to his nation's superpower ally, there have been several times when Netanyahu has talked back in public to Obama and now President Joe Biden. Washington's angry response to the video the prime minister released last week, in which he spoke of the way the administration has been slow-walking arms deliveries, made it clear that—assurances of goodwill from both sides notwithstanding—U.S.-Israel relations have reached a crisis point. In the 49-second video posted on the YouTube page of the prime minister's office on June 18, Netanyahu said the following:
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by JNS • June 24, 2024 at 4:00 am
Hezbollah is storing massive amounts of Iranian armaments at Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon's main civilian airport (pictured), staff say. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)
Hezbollah is storing massive amounts of Iranian armaments at Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon's main civilian airport, staff say. Hezbollah has been accused of using the Beirut airport for weapon storage in the past, but whistleblowers say it has ramped up the practice since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. "This is extremely serious, mysterious large boxes arriving on direct flights from Iran are a sign that things got worse," an airport worker told The Telegraph. "When they started to come through the airport, my friends and I were scared because we knew that there was something strange going on." He feared that an explosion, or an attack on the airport to destroy the weapons, could cause major damage to Beirut, similar to the 2020 port blast that devastated much of downtown. That explosion was blamed on a weapons warehouse belonging to Hezbollah.
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by Bassam Tawil • June 23, 2024 at 5:00 am
The Palestinians, meanwhile, appear to have their own ideas about what should happen the day after the war in Gaza: they want to murder even more Jews and carry on the Jihad (holy war) to destroy Israel. Rebuilding the Gaza Strip is not a top priority for many Palestinians. Their primary focus lies in providing support to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations that aim to destroy the sole homeland of the Jewish people. Hamas says its plan is to "keep the flame of resistance burning.... the [resistance] will not end and will not be extinguished until the comprehensive liberation and the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital." Hamas refers to a variety of terrorist actions as "resistance." These include suicide bombings, stabbings, car-rammings, shootings, firing rockets, gang rapes, and beheadings. This is the only form of "resistance" Hamas has known and practiced since its founding 36 years ago. As far as Hamas is concerned...[a]ll Jews are "settlers" who need to be killed or expelled from their state. As Hamas openly states in its charter... "There is no solution for the Palestinian question expect through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors." Hamas... is, not surprisingly, also opposed to any plan that seeks to remove it from power in the Gaza Strip. As long as Hamas's military capabilities are not totally eliminated, neither the Palestinian Authority nor the Arab countries will take over administration of the Gaza Strip. The only plan Hamas (and many Palestinians) believes in is one that calls on all Muslims to undertake Jihad against Israel. For this reason, the Biden administration is misguided in thinking that Hamas, which enjoys broad support among the Palestinians, would approve of any plan for the day after in the Gaza Strip that does not view terrorism as the only means of eradicating Israel and ethnically cleansing the Jewish people. The [Palestinian Center For Policy and Survey Research] poll also found that satisfaction with Hamas's performance has increased to 75%. Any strategy the Biden administration proposes for the day after the war in the Gaza Strip is bound to fail.... Any legitimate discussion about what the day after looks like in the Gaza Strip must address the radical and Islamist elements in Palestinian society. "The possibility of defeating Israel is very real...and the possibility of liberating Palestine is very great... Any other option will certainly be rejected, especially if it is accompanied by any non-Palestinian security presence. The Palestinians will consider it a new form of occupation, regardless of the identity of these forces." — Bassam Naim, senior Hamas official, to Al-Jazeera. "Israel is a country that has no place on our land.... We must remove it because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation.... We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do it twice and three times. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth...." – Ghazi Hamad, senior Hamas official, Lebanese TV channel LBC, October 24, 2023.
The Palestinians appear to have their own ideas about what should happen the day after the war in Gaza: they want to murder even more Jews and carry on the Jihad (holy war) to destroy Israel. Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration says it will soon reveal its plans for the Gaza Strip's future in the aftermath of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which the terrorist organization murdered 1,200 Israeli, wounded thousands more and kidnapping more than 240 Israelis, including babies, women and the elderly. Half of the Israeli hostages, only 50 of whom may still be alive, are still being held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists and "ordinary" Palestinians. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on June 12: "In the coming weeks, we will put forward proposals for the key elements of a 'day after plan' including concrete ideas for how to manage governance, security, reconstruction. That plan is key to turning a ceasefire into an enduring end to the conflict, but also turning an end to the war to a just and durable peace and using that peace as a foundation for building more integrated, more stable and prosperous region,"
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by Daniel Greenfield • June 23, 2024 at 4:30 am
Pictured: US President Joe Biden meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Act 1. The stage is set. The key players are Barack Obama, who wants to manufacture a break with Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, looking to navigate a hostile administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Joe Biden. During Biden's visit to Israel, the Obama administration stages a scandal, claiming that it was deliberately insulted because the local Jerusalem municipality routed some housing that the administration belatedly opposed through an approvals process. Hillary Clinton spends an hour (and later brags about) yelling at Netanyahu over the phone. Biden refuses to come down for an hour to an event and a glass trophy being awarded to him ends up being broken. The media plays up a scandal that had been purely invented while spreading the narrative that it was Netanyahu who was creating a crisis.
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by Amir Taheri • June 23, 2024 at 4:00 am
The election [French President Emmanuel Macron] unnecessarily provoked could produce a hung parliament in which no party has a majority. That could make France ungovernable for at least a year, as the president cannot dissolve the parliament within a year of a previous dissolution.
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It is still too early to decide how French President Emmanuel Macron might be remembered by history. But one distinction he is unlikely to win is that of "master of timing." Yet his entourage claims that his decision to call an early general election was a master stroke in good timing. This is how the argument goes: With the ultra-right National Rally topping the polls in the European Parliament election earlier this month, Macron saw the danger that it would also win the next presidential election in 2027. So he decided to bring the parliamentary election forward so that the ultra-right's youthful standard-bearer Jordan Bardella would get the premiership and more than two years in which to be exposed as a disagreeable and incompetent figure, thus allowing Macronists to keep the presidency with a new candidate of their own. But what if things don't happen the way Macron the super-strategist fantasized?
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by Majid Rafizadeh • June 22, 2024 at 5:00 am
The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently issued an unusually jarring warning, highlighting a development in Iran's nuclear program. IAEA inspectors confirmed that, for the first time, Iran has commenced the process of feeding uranium gas into three cascades of advanced IR-4 and IR-6 centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment facility. By waiving sanctions on Iran, the Biden administration has effectively provided financial support amounting up to an estimated $100 billion to the mullahs. Worse, the Biden administration has turned a blind eye to Tehran's destabilizing and aggressive policies, both within the region and without. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has explicitly articulated his vision for Israel's destruction in his 416-page book, Palestine. This manifesto serves as a detailed guide to eliminating Israel, often referred to in Iran as "The Little Satan," and vehemently condemns the United States, referred to as "The Great Satan." By acquiring nuclear weapons, the regime could also equip its proxies -- Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis -- with these weapons to use against Israel. Using its proxies as its "human shields" allows Iran's regime to maintain plausible deniability, so it can continue hiding behind them while escalating the real threat to Israel, which is Iran itself. The Biden administration needs urgently to take decisive action to curb Iran's aggressive nuclear advancements. The US needs to stop its current practice of waiving sanctions on Iran and start reimposing -- and enforcing -- severe sanctions on the country's oil and gas industry. The US also needs to cut off the financial flow to the regime by imposing secondary sanctions: any country that does business with Iran may not do business with the United States. US failure to act will only rapidly lead to a nuclear-armed Iran, significantly upending global stability and providing a potential vacuum for America's adversaries to fill.
The Biden administration needs urgently to take decisive action to curb Iran's aggressive nuclear advancements. The US needs to stop its current practice of waiving sanctions on Iran and start reimposing -- and enforcing -- severe sanctions on the country's oil and gas industry. US failure to act will only rapidly lead to a nuclear-armed Iran, significantly upending global stability (Image source: iStock)
The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently issued an unusually jarring warning, highlighting a development in Iran's nuclear program. IAEA inspectors confirmed that, for the first time, Iran has commenced the process of feeding uranium gas into three cascades of advanced IR-4 and IR-6 centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment facility. These cascades, which consist of multiple centrifuges working in unison, increase the efficiency of uranium enrichment by spinning the uranium gas at extremely high speeds, allowing Iran to enrich it at a much faster rate and significantly reducing the time required to produce nuclear weapons. Iran is already enriching uranium to 84%, alarmingly close to the 90% enrichment level of weapons-grade uranium. Iran therefore may well be on the brink of acquiring the necessary material for nuclear bombs.
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by Daniel Greenfield • June 21, 2024 at 5:00 am
Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers to boost their ranks. Pictured: San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies and other law enforcement agents cut down cannabis plants during a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Newberry Springs, in the western Mojave Desert of California on March 29, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave Desert. Four of the men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County. Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels. Instead, the legal market has failed, and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California and the rest of the country. California's legal drug revenues have fallen consistently, as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado, whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.
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by Robert Williams • June 20, 2024 at 5:00 am
Since October 7, when Iranian proxies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad committed unspeakable atrocities against men, women, children and babies in Israel, large parts of the international community have been in a frenzy over the Jews' puzzling inclination to defend themselves. This is the same French government [which banned Israel from participating in Eurosatory 2024 defense industry trade fair] so obsessed with appearing inclusive and non-discriminatory that it recently supported a bill that outlaws discrimination based on hair texture, length, color or style. Meanwhile, the French government did not think it necessary to ban the participation of China, presently indulging in two genocides – against Tibetans and against Uyghurs – from participating in Eurosatory. China's representation at the trade fair counts around 61 defense companies. The French government also did not ban... Turkey, which has been taken to the International Criminal Court for committing crimes against humanity against hundreds of thousands of opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruthless regime... When there are no Jews to blame, evidently, crimes against humanity, genocide and human rights abuses are perfectly acceptable. Since October 7, more than 19,000 rockets have been launched into Israel, a country smaller than New Jersey, primarily by the terrorist groups ruling Gaza, as well as from another of Iran's terrorist proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon Never mind that John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, determined that Israel has consistently implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any military in the history of warfare. "The Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace," said Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares. The remark, oddly, did not appear to be addressed the entities that started the war: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Qatar. Iran, the Middle East's warmonger par excellence, and -- along with major funding from Qatar, which seems never to have met an Islamic terrorist group it did not finance or promote -- was the originator of the current war in Gaza. Iran's terrorist proxies span the region -- Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza; Hezbollah in Lebanon; the Houthis in Yemen, and various proxy militias in Syria and Iraq -- well-funded because of the Biden administration's lifting sanctions. Yet Albares has nothing but praise for Iran. The submission to the Islamic regime by European leaders such as Albares, who knows full well that Iran is behind the war in Gaza, tells us more about them than about Israel. In April, however, the EU imposed sanctions on Israeli "settlers." Regrettably, to many Palestinians, all of Israel is "one big settlement" that needs to be uprooted, and everyone there, a "settler."
France and other European countries are falling over themselves to boycott and exclude Israel. Pictured: Members of the Nazi SA and SS in Berlin paste a sign onto a Jewish shop, calling on Germans to boycott Jewish businesses, on April 1, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Since October 7, when Iranian proxies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad committed unspeakable atrocities against men, women, children and babies in Israel, large parts of the international community have been in a frenzy over the Jews' puzzling inclination to defend themselves. This preference, however, not to simply let themselves be murdered by allowing Iran -- through Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah -- to continue inflicting death and misery on them, has led to several countries to break ties with Israel. Not only that, but other countries have recalled their ambassadors, amid demands for boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS), isolation, and general exclusion from world society of the world's only Jewish state.
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by Naomi Linder Kahn • June 20, 2024 at 4:00 am
The letter provides irrefutable evidence and undeniable testimony that the humanitarian aid provided to Gaza, ostensibly to the civilian population, is invariably commandeered by Hamas: The letter cites statements to this effect by the US embassy in Israel, the US government itself, the IDF, UNRWA – and even Fatah officials. "The shocking truth is that the United States is providing material support to a terrorist organization that is waging a brutal war against the only democratic ally the US has in the middle east, and the US-funded and trained Palestinian Authority Security Forces are no different than Hamas. Exposing the terrorist nature of the US's 'partner for peace' is 'inconvenient,' to put it politely, so the Administration has decided to attack the messenger in order to suppress the message." – Meir Deutsch, Director General, Regavim.
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Biden Administration seeks to silence consensus civil society organizations in Israel with sanctions typically used against terrorists: "A draconian measure that harks back to the days of colonialist oppression." A team of legal experts submitted a sharply worded letter to the US State Department following the announcement of Executive Order 14115 sanctioning the Tzav 9 Movement. "The Executive Order is an anti-democratic attack on free speech and the right to protest." Earlier this week (Monday), following publication on Friday, 14 June 2024 of a US Executive Order imposing sanctions on the Israeli protest movement Tzav 9, a team of lawyers headed by Attorneys Marc Zell, Noam Schreiber, Jerome Marcus and other experts in US and international law, on behalf of the Regavim Movement, sent a request for clarification to the US State Department.
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by Uzay Bulut • June 19, 2024 at 6:00 am
Today, June 19, the United Nations will observe the annual International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Yet, it took the UN five months to document and condemn Hamas' sexual crimes on October 7. These crimes are reminiscent of the crimes ISIS (Islamic State) committed against Christians and Yazidis during and after their violent takeover of large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Sexual assault as a military tactic has commonly been used by Islamic terrorists since the seventh century, worldwide. More than 2,600 abducted Yazidi women and children are to this day still waiting to be rescued from the hands of ISIS terrorists. Teenage girls abducted by Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria were sold in slave markets "for as little as a pack of cigarettes," the UN envoy on sexual violence, Zainab Bangura, said. "Since October 7th, the media has suppressed your [Israelis'] story, even going so far as to claim it never happened while others justified it as warranted resistance to Israeli oppression. Someone please tell me where children bound and shot to death with their guts cut out constitutes a warranted resistance... We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people are not offended.... The media is actively suppressing the events of October 7th to rewrite history according to their chosen narrative.... It all boils down to likes, views, and revenue for them." — Steve Maman, founder of The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq. "[On October 7], humiliation, mutilation and murder took place during those rapes. Woman raped in front of their loved ones and then shot. Knives inserted into their private parts. Scalped heads. Nails inserted into woman's private areas. Indescribable pain must have taken place before death.... Attacking innocent people and subjecting hostages to torture is not an act of freedom fighting.... The global response to victims of radical Islam has consistently been one of silence, allowing such atrocities to continue unchecked, perpetuating a cycle of violence." — Steve Maman. Regarding the large numbers of Israeli women who were brutally raped by Hamas terrorists and their supporters, many of those women's organizations have engaged in total denial, refusing to believe Israeli women and all the evidence in front of their eyes.... What their silence and denials have actually done is only to cover up and further the crimes of Hamas and other terrorist groups. In April 2024, the NGO CyberWell released a report on the widespread online denial of Hamas's October 7 sexual violence.... The Women's Alliance for Security Leadership, for instance, still has not issued a statement. Many feminist and human-rights groups — such as Amnesty International and the National Organization for Women— have said little about the sexual crimes Gazans committed against Israelis. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (also known as UN-Women) waited until December 1, nearly two months after the October 7 massacre, to make a superficial statement of condemnation. Among others, UN-Women released a statement on October 13 equating the Hamas brutalities with Israel's self-defense. Likewise, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) neglected to explicitly condemn Hamas's atrocities. And the international #MeToo movement completely failed to mention Hamas — or the Israeli victims. When it comes to abused and raped Israeli women, those women's rights and human rights organizations have chosen to be on the side of rapists and murderers and to enable jihadist terrorism.
Sexual assault as a military tactic has commonly been used by Islamic terrorists since the seventh century, worldwide. Regarding the large numbers of Israeli women who were brutally raped by Hamas terrorists and their supporters on October 7, many women's organizations have engaged in total denial. Pictured: Naama Levy, an Israeli woman abducted and taken to Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, when she was 19 years old. She is still being held hostage by Hamas. (Image source: Hamas)
Hamas terrorists, backed by Iran, invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. They massacred more than 1,200 people; burned families alive, tortured and raped women, children and men, and abducted roughly 250 hostages, including babies and children. Since the October attack, however, Israeli women have faced public doubts and questions about the brutality and sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Gaza's Muslim men. Despite the silence, and sometimes even outright denial, by many women's organizations around the world, Hamas' sexual crimes are well-documented. The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel published a report in February entitled "Silent Cry – Sexual Crimes in the October 7 War".
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 18, 2024 at 3:00 pm
In a dramatic reminder that the Russians are seeking to intimidate the White House and launch a second chapter of the Cold War, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine (pictured), along with an accompanying flotilla of warships, recently spent five days visiting Cuba. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
The Russians are coming. Again. In a dramatic reminder that the Russians are seeking to intimidate the White House and launch a second chapter of the Cold War, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, along with an accompanying flotilla of warships, recently spent five days visiting Cuba. In the event, the Oval Office missed the point; several of these vessels can deploy nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Published reports suggest the Biden Administration's response is studied indifference, telling reporters that missile test firings off the Florida coast by the Russian vessels were routine. Hardly. Putin's navy is reminding the United States that it has recaptured the Soviet Union's ability to project naval power where and when it wants. And by extension, that if it wishes to send a potent reminder that it has the coordinates of America's cities if it ever came to unleashing the unimaginable, it doesn't need to base ballistic missiles in Cuba.
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