[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] If a paparazzi can get this close, so can a Hamas snatch team. How far away can a telephoto lens be? Geosynchronous orbit. She looks thrilled to be in L.A. Hasn't missed many meals lately, though.
She takes after her mom, her sister takes after her dad — physically, at least.
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Working on her Stacy Abrams look ahead of her political career.
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Sashay and Bulimia are as talented, smart, and charismatic as Chelsea Clinton
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'But isn't the story of Bill and Hillary! really the story of Barry! and Michelle?'
For her part, Chelsea tried.
-any part of the rumors be true, the girls have been hard partiers since mid-teens, as many children of privilege are. It does beg the question, as really nobody cares except DM and who paid for the piece, why?
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Looking at the depth of field, it's moderate telephoto, 300mm, maybe 500. If it was 1200mm or more, that brick wall in the near background would be as out of focus as the wooden post and trees.
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Is the Pentagone on board? Their compass seems to swing between gerbil worming and what supremaciss domestic extemiss as the worst things threatening the human race.
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Probably busy trying to figure Air Force aircraft onto Navy Aircraft Carriers so Lunch Vader is right in his statement.
[Daily Caller via Lucianne] Republican Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow the U.S. to use frozen Russian assets to reimburse itself for aid to Ukraine, according to a copy of the bill exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Approximately $330 billion in Russian-related assets has been seized and frozen by the U.S. and NATO allies, as part of a larger effort to impose sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the bill states. McCormick’s proposal, called the "Make Putin Pay" Act, would allow the Biden administration to use these frozen assets to reimburse the U.S. for its ongoing aid to Ukraine, and also to support future aid without using taxpayer dollars.
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Along that same line, there is $6 Billion laying around that should be gathered up to pay for support for Israel.
That fits the ‘We’ll spend it however we want’ theme.
[Breitbart] On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated that while President Joe Biden’s move to send a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean is a good move, it was a mistake to give up military facilities in Afghanistan, and that having bases in a country that borders Iran would be useful to help isolate them.
Rice stated, “For starts, let’s not go back to the pretense that we can have an agreement with the Iranians about their nuclear facilities.
...yeah. It’s much too late for that expensive fig leaf...
Let’s not go back to the place where we’re releasing funding to the Iranian mullahs who then just use that funding for Hezbollah and Hamas. That would be a good start. And let’s try again to isolate the Iranians in the way that we had earlier in the Bush administration and in the Trump administration. The idea that you can deal with the Iranians, you might find reasonable ways to deal with the Iranians, it seems to me this is just one more example of what we’ve seen over this last few days, that the Iranians are a revisionist power, that they are the most dangerous power in the region. And oh, by the way, Sean, we gave up military facilities in Afghanistan, a country that has a hundreds-[kilometer-long] border with Iran. That was a mistake in its own right. And so, how to deal with Iran, I think it starts with isolating them. I think it starts with what, actually, the Biden administration has done. I think sending the carrier battle groups into the region is a good idea, but this should really erase any notion that the Iranian regime can be dealt with.”
When it comes to Israel’s mortal enemies, the usual suspects are Arab authoritarian regimes, Iran, and the antisemitic far right. And yet, some of the most dangerous wannabe-destroyers of Israel have come from the left. Whether it has been communist states, or terrorist groups, or “peaceful” organizations, the left’s war on Israel has been long and determined.
Delivered at OCON 2023 in Miami, Florida on July 3, 2023.
Note that the video is almost an hour long, so make your preparations accordingly, dear Reader.
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[PJMedia] There would be peace in the Middle East if Israel just ended its occupation, right? Some Squad's public statements
...So all three are in agreement: Israel’s occupation is the problem. It’s a shame that we don’t have any real journalists today, because someone should ask the same question to all three of them: "If Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land?" They all likely assume that there was a previous Palestinian state that the Israelis occupied and destroyed, but in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind, ever, at any point in history. There has been a region known as "Palestine" since 134AD, when the Romans applied that name to the land that had previously been known as Judea, that is, land of the Jews. But "Palestine" was akin to "Staten Island" — it was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire had sovereignty over the territory that is now Israel and the supposedly occupied land as well. The Ottoman Empire was, however, known by this time as "The Sick Man of Europe." In the early 1920s, just before the empire fell altogether, it conceded control of Palestine and the land that came to be known as Transjordan and now as Jordan to the League of Nations. On July 24, 1922, the League granted administrative control over these territories to Britain with specific instructions to create a "national home for the Jewish people."
Britain immediately turned over 77% of the Mandate to the Arabs to create Jordan but remained generally committed to establishing a Jewish national home in the remainder. This was known as the Mandate for Palestine. Sometimes Leftists point to it as the Palestinian state that supposedly predated Israel, but this claim relies on the ignorance of the fact that this British territory had been explicitly set aside for Jewish settlement; nine years before the founding of the modern state of Israel, a 1939 flag of "Palestine" sports a star of David.
When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, it immediately had to fight a war for its survival against the surrounding Arab nations that had vowed to destroy it. Then there was finally an occupation — in fact, two: Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (which it renamed the West Bank). Israel won back those territories in the Six-Day War of 1967, but that was actually ending an occupation, not starting one: the only international law governing sovereignty over those territories stipulated that they were to be part of a national home for the Jewish people.
So from whom was the land stolen? Not from the Ottomans, who had ceded it to the League of Nations. Not from the league, which had granted administrative powers over it to the British. Not from the British, who only had it in order to help create a Jewish state there. And not from the Palestinians, who didn’t even exist until the 1960s, when the KGB and Yasir Arafat bestowed Palestinian nationality upon a group of Levantine Arabs as a rhetorical weapon to use against Israel.
And it has worked beautifully. The idea that Israel is occupying Palestinian land was furthered in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords, to which Israel unwisely acceded, and in which it agreed to work toward the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which would only become a new base for more jihad attacks against a diminished Jewish state. But a Palestinian state, if it is ever created, would be the first-ever such entity in the history of the world. There is actually no Israeli occupation at all. The Squad, and the left in general, is either ignorant or malicious. Or, of course, both.
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Simplified but more accurate than info you would get from faculty at a US college or university.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Strelnikov
Of course genocide is a crime. But getting the civilian population to move itself out of the way before the attack, especially in the face of Hamas orders to stay put as human shields, is exactly the opposite of genocide.
[RIA] The war declared by Israel on the Palestinians after an attack by Hamas militants is already debunking many myths, including the omnipotence of the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD, the invulnerability of Merkava tanks, as well as the ultra-modernity and over-equipping of the Israeli IDF army, which collects the most necessary things throughout the country, even panties and socks.
But the main myth, which is rapidly collapsing before our eyes, is the image of “the only democracy in the Middle East,” for which the collective West has fervently prayed for decades.
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[REGNUM] The UN said a directive was received from Israeli authorities on Thursday evening requiring more than 1 million residents of the Gaza Strip to move to its southern areas.
“The United Nations considers it impossible for such a displacement to occur without devastating humanitarian consequences,” said Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in a statement.
According to him, the UN urges that the order be lifted to avoid the tragedy “turning into a catastrophic situation.”
Dujarric clarified that the Israeli military's order also applies to all UN employees and those sheltering at UN facilities, including schools and medical centers.
It is obvious that Israel intends to finally resolve the “Palestinian issue” in the Gaza Strip.
Regardless of whether the IDF conducts a ground operation in Gaza or not, the massive bombing campaign, leveling entire neighborhoods of the city along with its inhabitants, will continue.
The current ultimatum is aimed at moving the Palestinian population to the border with Egypt, and after the northern part of Gaza turns into ruins beyond restoration, a similar fate most likely awaits the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Israel had been trying the other options since 1967, and since both led to unending attacks by the Gazans, whether under local governance, the PLO, or Hamas, the only choices remaining are exodus or genocide.
Thus, the surviving Palestinians will be squeezed out to Egypt and the issue of the Gaza Strip will be closed completely.
My mother’s parents were happy to choose exodus over Nazi genocide for themselves and their two daughters, and they thrived in America. Palestinians have been emigrating for almost a century, and in general those who leave do much better elsewhere than they did at home.
The second “Nakba” (“catastrophe” - the mass exodus of Palestinians from their lands in 1948, as well as in 1967 - Author’s note), which is unfolding before our eyes, was also the result of direct support from the United States and the West for any Israeli actions .
The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the destruction of entire residential areas by Israeli aircraft in order to push the remaining Palestinians into the Sinai in the West were considered an “adequate response”, which reflects the true essence of the “civilized world”, the basis of which ideology is still the principles of racial superiority and neocolonialism, only veiled in various ways.
At the same time, Palestinian groups from Gaza in the current round of confrontation have committed numerous war crimes, primarily massacres of civilians, including women and minors, for which there is and cannot be any justification, and any explanations on the part of these forces also cannot be accepted .
WHY DID HAMAS ATTACK ISRAEL?
As Edward Said, an American intellectual of Palestinian origin,
...and a professional Jew-hater, which has earnt him a very pretty penny or several...
once said, the term "East" was created by the West, and the very concept of the West revolves around the concept of "Other".
As opposed to the Moslem concept of Dar al Harb vs Dar el Islam — House of War vs House of Submission.
The mobilization of fear, hatred, disgust, pride and arrogance, much of it related to Islam and Arabs as opposed to Westerners, seeks to obscure the deep-rooted racism in the cultural fabric of settler-colonial societies, as exemplified by Israel.
Ahah! The buzzwords appear. Everything beyond this can be safely assumed to be nonsense and/or propaganda, as was what came before.
Moreover, the unconditional US and European support for Israel's apartheid regime serves as a reminder that the continent itself has yet to fully address its own racial prejudices against colonized peoples.
However, there is still no clear answer to what provoked Hamas to carry out such a suicide attack, given Israel's known military capabilities and the obvious response on its part, the scale and direction of which was beyond doubt.
But it is also clear that the Hamas leadership understood that the Israeli solution to the “Palestinian problem” had reached the red line that would be followed by the gradual abolition of Palestinian enclaves, whether in the West Bank or Gaza.
The signal to action for Hamas appears to have been Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that Palestinians have "no say" on Saudi-Israeli normalization.
But, it seems, this was only the tip of the iceberg and the Palestinians were deprived of a voice on all issues related to their future, and behind their back certain agreements had already been reached that placed the solution to their problem entirely in the hands of the Israeli leadership. At least Hamas leaders might have known this.
Therefore, in order to “turn the board” and try to change the emerging negative situation for the Palestinians, Hamas decided on a similar adventure at first glance. Which, however, could attract the attention of the Arab world and left a chance, if not for the intervention of certain states in the conflict, then at least could force them to reconsider relations with Israel.
THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE: “ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS FORWARD”
Let us recall that Israel consistently moved towards a solution to the “Palestinian question”, the end result of which was to be the final marginalization and then the gradual liquidation of the Palestinian Authority.
To achieve this, Tel Aviv used a “one step back, two steps forward” strategy, when any actions that could be perceived as compromises towards the Palestinians actually only aggravated their situation, allowing the Israelis to move even further towards resolving the “Palestinian issue” .
Actually, the so-called Oslo II agreements, signed in 1995, essentially made it possible to remove the issue of creating a Palestinian state from the agenda instead of creating one.
Now not all countries remember the Palestinian state, and if they do, it is at the level of empty declarations, and in the West they no longer see the need for such a thing. But at the same time, the Oslo II agreement actually split the Palestinian resistance, forcing many groups to abandon the fight. Those who continued this fight were condemned not only by Israel, but also by its Western allies as terrorists. To which, in fact, Hamas was classified.
At the same time, Hamas should not be considered as an “Islamist” force hostile to Russia, as many media have already tried to present it.
The group refused to support Ichkeria, advocating the territorial integrity of Russia. And after February 2022, it supported the Russian Northern Military District in Ukraine.
In turn, Tel Aviv gradually intensified its efforts to push the Palestinians out of Israeli territory.
Such “steps back”, such as quotas for jobs or providing Palestinians with electricity and fuel, were only compensation (and very small ones at that) for the lack of any conditions for the Palestinians themselves to create the industries they needed and conduct economic activities with given their complete economic blockade by Israel.
For example, Gaza is deprived of a port and the ability to receive and send cargo through it, although it has access to the sea and even gas fields on the shelf.
Just as in the West Bank there are no Palestinian airports or other logistics centers that would allow the Palestinians to create their own economy, making the Palestinian enclaves completely dependent on Israel and the will of Tel Aviv. Palestinians have no jobs and even have trouble moving between enclaves blockaded by Israel or obtaining a passport.
THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS
Thus, the Palestinian Authority has not solved a single problem facing the Palestinians, but only helped Israel speed up the solution to the “Palestinian issue.”
Finally, the “Abraham Accords” (a series of agreements on the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states, signed in 2020–2021 - Ed.), authored by the American administration, were finally supposed to deprive the Palestinians of support from other Arab states.
In the end, the Palestinians once again turned out to be the losing side, and all the “steps back” came down to the alleged promises of the Israeli leadership not to build settlements in Palestinian territories. As it turned out later, this was only a temporary moratorium and the construction of settlements was to resume in 2024.
That is, the very essence of the “Abraham Accords” was that Arab countries had to recognize Israel without the condition of creating a Palestinian state within the borders of 1967, the creation of which was discussed in all UN Security Council resolutions concerning the Middle East settlement.
In addition, these agreements were supposed to legalize the settlements themselves, which were built contrary to previously reached agreements and UN Security Council resolutions. In fact, in exchange for certain promises of investment, the creeping occupation of Palestinian territories would continue, the construction of new settlements would continue, while the Palestinian enclaves themselves would become increasingly smaller.
Actually, the Gaza Strip, the largest Palestinian enclave, did not have any chance for the future, as well as development prospects, having turned into something between a reservation and a concentration camp, it was doomed.
Naturally, Israel set the task for the Palestinian population from this enclave to choose other places of residence, moving to Palestinian camps in other countries. This was to be followed by a gradual strangulation of Palestinian settlements in the West Bank.
Finally, the constant provocations of the Israelis regarding the Islamic shrines of Al-Aqsa left little doubt that another provocation should have led to the closure of access there for Palestinians. It should also be recalled that Itamar Ben-Gvir , Israel's Minister of National Security and leader of the far-right religious party Otzma Yehudit, climbed the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where Islam's third holiest site is located, demanding the removal of all restrictions on Jews visiting the site.
Thus, everything was going to the point that the Palestinians were not only losing their lands, but could soon lose their shrine in the lands of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
It was under these conditions that Hamas decided to take active action, and Israel decided to speed up the resolution of the “Palestinian issue”, taking advantage of the situation.
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^ I'll see your immigration policy and raise you to a global policy of no muzzists.
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Because Iran paid them to attack.
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It was a planned op waiting for an opportunity. It is a move in a larger chess board. Just as Ukraine was.
There can be no peace. Paleos are generationally down the road of an enemy they believe is subhuman. Israel has a timeline to send the message. Unrestricted war in that region will blow up. The Arabs have no idea if they start throwing in.
And you can bet NGOs are lined up to facilitate those refugees into Europe. It’s an industry with a design.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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