SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM GOES ROGUE

 In all of recorded history there has seldom been a time when obviously spurious claims have been transformed into a cause and then asserted as a right.

Senator Graham misses the point and misleads himself and all of us when he says, “…….. If you pretend the Palestinians will vanish, or that one state is viable, you are not being honest with Israel or with yourself.” 

Really?!! The Arab Palestinians are no more an homogeneous people indigenous to the region than the equator is a country. Their hostility towards the Jews long predates the reconstitution of Israel in 1948. Claiming land theft as a reason for attacking Israel is a pretext for the real goal which is the annihilation of the world’s only Jewish-nation-state and the death of its entire Jewish population so that yet another Islamic country can be created in the Middle East. 

The good senator is speaking as if there was a time when the Arab Palestinians held de facto authority over a defined geographic region with defined borders recognized by other nations or states. This has NEVER been the case. 

They do not now, nor have they ever existed as a people let alone had a constituted government of any kind. They have only existed since 1964 as a quasi-political/military faction to brutally terrorize Israel into submitting to their fraudulent claims and intimidate the rest of us so as to implement the so-called "two-state-solution". This ruse would be a temporary arrangement eventually devolving into a one-state-solution and then the Final-Solution which has been the eternal ambition of the Muslim world all along. 

Senator Graham is usually a serious politician, but his remarks in the article below reveal that he lacks moral clarity. He believes that terrorism works, that wrong should prevail over right and that Israel should be content to live side by side with the Islamic supremacists who have been trying to annihilate the Jews since Mohammed concocted the ferocious hatreds of Islam in the 7th. Century. "Et tu Brute?!!" How utterly disheartening.

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION’S MORAL COLLAPSE

 Mark Twain once said that if you give a man a reputation for being an early riser that man can sleep until noon. To those of us who watched the video of Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, refusing to excoriate Tucker Carlson for his softball and ingratiating interview with Nick Fuentes it was clear that Mr. Roberts has been sleeping well into the late afternoon during his stewardship. His remarks were not irradiated with luminous majesty. It was painfully obvious that he had misplaced his moral compass.

His presentation was a handwashing statement in which he sought to bestow redemption upon Tucker Carlson without forsaking the sinner who recently and proudly declared to the giddy Nick Fuentes that he hates Christian Zionists. Nick Fuentes is a determined Holocaust denier and avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. 

In between that and his veiled anti-Semitism Tucker introduced us to Daryl Cooper who he confidently announced was one of America's best historians. Mr. Cooper went on to tell us that Winston Churchill was the main villain of WWII. After picking myself off of the floor where I had collapsed in a paroxysm of laughter, I felt what little credibility Tucker has left being sucked out of every pore. Doubtless it landed in the same place where Mr. Roberts' moral compass now languishes.

Mr. Roberts accused his and Carlson's critics of "sowing division", but we are not the ones who unnecessarily went out of our way to make sure that the audience understood the differences between Christian and Judaic beliefs as J.D. Vance did at the recent TPUSA gala at the University of Mississippi. Responding to a question with a distinct air of amiable malice about the American/Israel alliance he hit upon the obvious but with a profound sense of discovery when he told the audience that Christians and Jews have different beliefs. As he beamed his wisdom towards the questioner he reminded everyone that Jews do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah. I was waiting for him to say, "And that's why they killed him." 

During his morally deficient defense of the Heritage Foundation's support of Tucker Carlson and his nodding approval of Nazi lovers and historical revisionists Mr. Roberts, a staunch Christian, asserted that the Heritage Foundation was and remains the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement in America, but that backbone has begun to curve in the direction of anti-Semitism. It is not the first time that there has been a sickly Christian passivity in the face of Jew-hating fascism. 

Mr. Roberts boasted that the Heritage Foundation is dedicated to fighting the "vile ideas of the Left", but it is the vile ideas of the extreme Right that ought to be attracting a lot of his attention. Perhaps he just sees the whole issue in terms of profit and loss when he should be seeing it in terms of good against evil. In the meantime, he has doubtless guaranteed his place as an honored guest on Tucker's next podcast. If we are lucky he might get bumped by David Duke.

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GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM ON AMERICA'S RIGHT

 If one listens carefully in our own conservative circles one can sometimes hear anti-Jewish sentiments at the end of sentences, but this week we heard the vice-president of the United States utter a complete sentence the content of which, if thoroughly implemented, would endanger the very survival of the state he ostensibly champions.

Responding to a preliminary vote taken in the Knesset to reclaim sovereignty over Judea & Samaria Vice-President Vance stated: “If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it…….the West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel.”

Why should he take “some insult” to Israel attempting to rectify the horrendous mistake it made in 1993 with the Oslo Accords? Judea & Samaria were part of ancient and historical Israel. Not one square foot should have been ceded to the newly created Palestinian Authority.

To say one is insulted or offended is an attempt to prioritize one’s own feelings. It is not an argument but a call to end the discussion. It is an admission of intellectual impotence.

President Trump, to whom we have so much to be grateful, gets an A++ for his efforts, but his 20-point Peace Plan is tragically flawed. Its main flaw, you may have spotted it, is that it allows Hamas to survive when eliminating this threat was the whole point of the Gaza War. This is the salient point missed by Steve Witkoff, a graduate of the Instagram School of Diplomacy, and Jared Kushner during their self-serving interview on 60 MINUTES last Sunday.

To make matters worse President Trump reinforced Vance’s statement about Judea & Samaria when he declared, “It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.” Why? Does he plan to create a state for Arab Palestinians out of the original homeland of the Jewish people? All of the land belongs to tiny Israel. This has been the case for over 3,000 years. Besides, In 2006/07 the Arab Palestinians voted for Hamas to govern their affairs in Gaza and we can see how well that turned out.

One can’t help the sinking feeling that some aspects of Trump’s peace plan resemble the disastrous Munich Agreement of 1938 concluded between Great Britain, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy when Czechoslovakia, the country whose fate it concerned, was excluded from the discussions. Making guarantees about the fate of Judea & Samaria is far beyond President Trump's scope of responsibility and he has made them to countries that have been violently opposing and undermining the security of the West for centuries. This is not only strategically unsound it is also obscene.

The total number of Arabs living in the Arab nations is estimated at 366 million. The number of Arabs in countries outside the Arab League is estimated at 17.5 million, yielding a total of close to 384 million. The Arab world stretches around 5,000,000 square miles from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast. Israel is 8,500 square miles with a population of about 8 million Jews and just over 2 million Arabs who are Israeli citizens.

President Trump and Vice-President Vance having tumbled the numbers and surveyed the landscape have concluded that what the region needs is yet another Arab/Muslim state devoted to the hatreds of Islam and its ferocious doctrines sitting right beside Israel, the world's only Jewish-nation-state and an embattled outpost of western values.

Their deliberations, I suspect, have been strongly influenced by the growing contingent of whispering and more vocal anti-Semites on the right whose pied piper is Tucker Carlson. Instead of granting them the slightest credence Trump and Vance should be purging their party of this filth in much the same way as William F. Buckley purged it of the detestable John Birch Society and several years later of the anti-Semitically inclined Pat Buchanan. 

" What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted!

   Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just;

   And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,

   Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

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THE 20 POINT PEACE PLAN-CONFUSING ACTIVITY WITH ACHIEVEMENT:

 This is just one reason why Turkey cannot be trusted as an honest participant in the duties for which it will be responsible in Gaza. It’s like expecting a poacher to become a gamekeeper.

It is important not to learn the wrong lessons from history but many aspects of this so-called peace plan, including its proposed implementation, remind me of the Munich Agreement of 1938 in which everyone was involved except Czechoslovakia, the country whose very life was at stake. 

We are confusing activity with achievement. Worst of all, we have allowed Hamas to survive with the monsters of its verminous leadership luxuriating in Qatar to go unpunished. 

While tilting at windmills across the Middle East, Steve Witkoff playing Sancho Panza to Jared Kushner’s Don Quixote have cooperated with the world’s most sadistic evil. This window-dressing of a diplomatic triumph leaves us holding the same empty sack with which we began because we will be forced to confront that evil again and again and again. 

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once remarked that there is no education in the second kick of a mule, but this is a turbo-charged boomerang coming towards us at a vertiginous rate.

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SECRETARY OF WAR, PETE HEGSETH, ANNOUNCE NEW JOINT U.S-QATARI AIRBASE IN IDAHO

 On the Richter Scale of Bad Decisions this one registers at 1,000 !!

Our president is determined to invite Qatar to insinuate itself into our defense establishment. Yet, for decades Qatar has been the main financier of lethal attacks against Israel, our most faithful and intrepid ally in the region. It has also subverted every one of our institutions and many of our most prestigious universities with its billions of petrodollars. This pattern has been repeated in Europe where it targets not just institutions but also politicians and members of the media. Its eventual goal is the establishment of an Islamic caliphate and the destruction of western civilization and the Judeo/Christian ethic. It is as patient, cunning and lethal as its main ally and enthusiastic collaborator, the Muslim Brotherhood. 

In 2017 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain simultaneously severed their bilateral relations with Qatar and banned its aircraft and ships from utilizing their sovereign territory by air, sea and land thereby establishing a virtual blockade of the country. They accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the region.

What do these Gulf states know and understand about Qatar that our president chooses to ignore? The alarming answer to that question, I suspect, might even be enough to make Governor Pritzker throw up his third helping of desert.

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