In academia, one of the most common criticisms in research and discussions is that correlation does not mean causation. It refers to the logical fallacy for some who draw a cause-and-effect relationship between two events. The logical fallacy is captured in the Latin phrase cum hoc ergo propter hoc (‘with this, therefore because of this’). With the horrific attacks on Israel this week, some well-known commentators have been criticized for using the killing of hundreds by Hamas as a criticism of conservative figures or Republicans in general. That includes the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin who appeared to blame the GOP for inviting the attack and Professor Laurence Tribe who suggested (and later retracted) that the war was actually a “wag-the-dog” operation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to distract from corruption allegations.
Rubin (who goes by the moniker “Jennifer Truthful, Not Neutral Rubin”) immediately attempted to use the attack as another attack on Republicans: “How about this: With US House in chaos and US military promotions on hold, Hamas struck. Republicans’ weakness invites terror.”
Putting aside the effort to use this tragedy as a political cudgel domestically, Rubin ignores the fact that the motion to vacate the chair succeeded due to a unanimous Democratic vote and just eight dissenting Republicans. The Democrats wanted to vacate the chair even though McCarthy was being criticized by the dissenters for working with them and they will now likely receive a far more strident speaker.
Rubin has also called for expelling Republican members, who voted against certifying the 2020 election. She further declared that “we have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them because if there are survivors, if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again.”
The Washington Post has repeatedly failed to take down or correct columns containing false claims by Rubin. Instead, it has run her calls to end impartiality and neutrality in journalism.
Now Rubin is suggesting that Hamas decided to launch this massive attack because there is an acting Speaker in the House until next week. It appears that Hamas was just waiting for the motion to vacate to pass.
Laurence Tribe immediately used the massacre to attack Netanyahu. Citing the Washington Post, Tribe wrote “Is Netanyahu wagging the dog of war to take attention away from his own war on the independent judiciary? Can anyone put that past him?”
The response was fast and furious. It was even too much for figures like Keith Olbermann who condemned Tribe stating, “Well this is a moronic and indefensible POV.”
What was striking is that the media finally called out Tribe, who has regularly posted bizarre legal theories and personal attacks against conservative figures, including attacking Bill Barr (erroneously) over his faith. On MSNBC and other outlets, Tribe regularly makes profane or personal attacks against those who hold opposing views of constitutional interpretation, including myself. These attacks include false assertions that had to be later corrected.
These controversies highlight the need to restore an element of maturity and civility to commentary. The “everything-goes” mentality has now taken hold of major media outlets, which regularly feature trash talking and sensational claims. If the target of these attacks is a conservative or Republican, there is a sense of license to remove the safeties in public engagements.
Once again, it is possible to restore a modicum of civility and accuracy in our public discourse. All it takes is for people of good faith to turn away from the rage and return reason in our commentary.
Shane Bauer:
“During my two years as a hostage in Iran I always knew I could be killed in retaliation for some US action. I knew my life meant nothing. Yet never did my situation lead me to think that the country should be pulverized. Don’t use hostages as excuses for your murderous fantasies.”
Delenda es Hamas
Karen, you got that right. For human life to continue in this world Hamas must meet the same fate as the Nazi party, as it is of a piece with the Nazi party.
The Left has blamed Israel and Republicans for the terrorist attack, because they are desperately trying to avoid responsibility.
The Left has long been in support of antisemitic Palestinian terrorist groups. They long have relied upon the false equivalence of terrorists trying to kill as many Jews as possible, and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) targeting retaliatory efforts on the source of bombing, doing everything in their power to avoid civilian casualties. Israel developed a bomb that only shakes buildings, to warn people to leave. They drop leaflets and use loudspeakers to urge civilians to evacuate military targets. Hamas orders them to stay, because it wants dead civilians to gin up more Jew hatred. Hamas installs military operations below hospitals and orphanages, hoping they get hit.
The Left has had a problem with antisemitism in its ideology for quite some time now.
The Left is why the US government gave millions of dollars in aid to the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by terrorist organization Hamas since 2006, with zero Israeli presence. Joe Biden released $6 billion in frozen assets to Iran, a terrorist nation, who begins each day in its schools chanting, “Death to America! Death to Israel!” Hamas has publicly thanked Iran for its material support in its terrorist attack on Israel.
This was not a military exercise over disputed territory. This did not have military objectives. The objective was for homicidal antisemites to kill, torture, rape, and kidnap as many Jews as possible. Hamas’ slogan is “We love death more than Jews love life.” Their goal is to kill all the Jews. They are no different than Nazis. When you visit a Holocaust museum, one of the most heartbreaking sights are the piles of children’s shoes, remnants from the gas chambers. Hamas has uploaded videos of them deliberately murdering entire families, shooting babies, raping mothers, while antisemites around the globe cheer. Hamas itself uploaded a video of a woman raped and sodomized until the seat of her pants ran with blood, dragged by the hair by a terrorist into a car packed with more rapists, who will likely kill her in the end. Hamas took video of the body of a German tattoo artist, in her underwear, likely gang raped, dead, beaten so badly that her legs were bent backwards and hips looked dislocated.
This wasn’t an instance of a US or European soldier going rogue and assaulting women. This was en masse. The entire purpose of the excursion was to rape, torture, kill, like thousands of demented serial killers.
The Left relies upon their audience lacking all critical reasoning. To claim that changing the Speaker of the House meant the terrorists would attack Israel, but not Joe Biden releasing $6 billion to Iran, thanked publicly by Hamas for its planning and resources, is ludicrous.
People should check out Ben Shapiro’s show on dailywire.com. He has an anguished episode on his show in response to the moral equivalence so prevalent in the media today. There is no “cycle of violence.” There are terrorists trying to kill all the Jews, and the Jewish state beating them back while trying to minimize civilian casualties.
It’s like saying if someone breaks into your home, rapes your wife, kidnaps your little girl, and the husband arrives to shoot them dead, that it’s a “cycle of violence” instead of self defense.
If there is any silver lining, it’s that Hamas has revealed to the world that it is indeed a terrorist organization that exists to kill and rape Jews. It uploaded the evidence against itself, to cheers. No one, who looks at Hamas’ own video evidence, can engage in moral equivalence with any credibility. No one urging Israel not to retaliate or do anything at all, has any moral credibility.
Israel abandoning the Gaza Strip in 2005 was obviously a mistake. Giving land to terrorists didn’t make them recognize Israel’s right to exist.
The Jews are the indigenous people of Judea. What we have witnessed is a genocide on indigenous people in their own Holy Land, a legally created country. This was a Holocaust. Hamas must be fought with the same vigor that the Allies fought the Nazis. What is an alliance with the US even worth, if we haven’t supplied active military support to what amounts to a Nazi attack on women, children, and the elderly?
There is no point arguing with an antisemite who claims it’s Republican’s fault.
Thank you Karen. Your moral clarity is in stark contrast to idiot liberal elites.
Thanks, oldmanfromkansas. I am absolutely haunted from the videos and images that I’ve seen, uploaded by Hamas. Some of our friends returned from visiting Israel a day or two before this happened. Their 16 year old daughter and 14 year old son were just at our ranch yesterday. It could have been all of them on the news.
I am so disappointed at the lack of unity in condemning Hamas. There is a disturbing amount of moral equivalence and blaming the victim on the Left wing news and in politics.
The very nature of terrorism is evil.
“The Left” is not a person. Nor is is a group of people who all think alike. Name whoever you’re condemning instead of making sloppy, untrue overgeneralizations about “the Left.”
We could start with the two people called out in Turley’s article, and continue with our inept Secretary of State who thinks that as soon as terrorists rape, maim, and execute hundreds of Jews, there should be a cease fire so Israel can’t deter future attacks. Anyone calling for a cease fire right now is supporting the evil terrorists, and that includes Antony Blinken. There, I named names. Happy?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-deletes-social-media-post-calling-israel-hamas-cease-fire
In my very first comment on this column (October 8, 2023 at 9:35 AM), I wrote:
I condemn Rubin’s and Tribe’s responses.
I also condemn the responses by Republicans like J.D. Vance who lied that “our tax dollars funded this,” Trump who lied that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” Tim Scott who lied that “The truth is though, Joe Biden funded these attacks on Israel… We didn’t just invite this aggression, we paid for it,” … and more.
I am totally unsurprised that JT condemns the former and is entirely silent about the latter.
So I join you in condemning Rubin’s and Tribe’s comments. As for Blinken, I believe he is right. As Jeremy Slevin tweeted, “If we have learned anything from the war on terror, it should be that bloodlust and vengeance do not do anything to bring loved ones back. They just perpetuate the cycle of violence.”
I don’t agree with you that “Anyone calling for a cease fire right now is supporting the evil terrorists.” How will it stop? Certainly not with the Israelis bombing civilians in Gaza.
A.N.D.
The “cycle of violence“ theme is total bullsh*t. If an armed marauder breaks into your house and rapes and executes two of your six children, then intends to murder the rest of your family, only an insane person would tell you not to harm the guy as he looks for other victims because that would just perpetuate the cycle of violence.
What you fail to recognize is that coexistence with Iran’s terrorist proxy armies is impossible. They will not stop attacking and mass-murdering as long as they exist. Every conflict Israel engages in is an existential war. If Israel loses, there will be no homeland for the Jewish people. Israel must crush the terrorists merely to survive.
We in the comfortable west can sit in our comfy armchairs and lecture Israel about “cycle of violence,“ as we will never face national extermination like Israel does on a regular basis. But when we do engage in such armchair lecturing, we only declare our own moral turpitude, and Israel should (and does) ignore us. So Antony Blinken can take his cease fire recommendation and shove it up his a$$. It ain’t gonna happen and it SHOULDN’T happen until Hamas is wiped off the face of the earth.
You pretend that Israel is solely harming Hamas. It is not. It is knowingly bombing civilians, many of them children, just like Hamas did. It is harming over two million people living in Gaza by blocking the transport of food, blocking electricity, … That only continues the cycle of violence (which you’re free to consider BS, and I’m free not to). Do you deny the fact that Israel is bombing civilians? How is that just? Would it be OK for you as the homeowner to attack the intruder’s kids? Really?
I’ve lived overseas in a military dictatorship that ended up mired in civil war, so don’t assume things about me that you have no way of knowing.
So then you agree that Hamas will never permit coexistence with Israel, and that every conflict for Israel is an existential conflict? I noticed you did not dispute those points. Nor did you dispute that Hamas will never accept coexistence with Israel, although Israel would surely accept coexistence with all of its Arab neighbors if they would simply stop trying to kill Jews and annihilate Israel. Do you disagree? (As is often said: if the Arabs would disarm, there would be no more war; if Israel would disarm, there would be no more Israel.)
What we’re left with is that you think Israel is wrong for killing civilians when it strikes back against Hamas. Perhaps you are unaware that Israel leads the world in techniques to minimize civilian casualties, and that such casualties that do occur result from Hamas purposely stationing rocket launchers and other military equipment in hospitals, schools, and other civilian centers to purposely try to get its own civilians killed so that it can use such deaths as a propaganda tool. There is a material difference: Israel’s purpose is never to kill civilians, but because of what Hamas does, some civilian casualties are inevitable; by contrast, Hamas’s actions have as their very purpose to kill Jewish civilians.
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimizing-harm-to-civilians-in-gaza/#:~:text=Hamas%20exploits%20these%20efforts%20by,to%20ignore%20the%20IDF%27s%20warnings.&text=As%20part%20of%20its%20efforts,in%20buildings%20designated%20for%20attack.
Sharif Kouddous, 7 hours ago:
“Casualties in Gaza continue to climb. Latest toll is 687 dead, including 140 children. 3,726 injured, approx 370 of them children. Death toll includes 13 families “massacred,” numbering 105 people, according to Health Ministry in Gaza. Over 123,000 have been displaced”
Perhaps you find that acceptable, but I do not.
Perhaps you find that acceptable . . .
You’re missing the point. Of course I don’t find it acceptable. But blaming Israel is absurd. Hamas makes those casualties inevitable, (1) first by brutally attacking Israel in such a manner that makes it clear Hamas and Israel are in a fight to the death (since Israel has to completely eliminate Hamas in order to survive), and (2) second by making sure that when Israel strikes back – which, again, it has to in order to survive – these civilian casualties will occur. It is what Hamas desires so it can use such deaths as propaganda to be credulously consumed by people like you.. See my comment above for a fuller explanation.
LOL
“(since Israel has to completely eliminate Hamas in order to survive)”
WOW, ANOTHER BLOWOUT BRAINDEAD PILE OF CRAP.
17 years so far and nutter boy hasn’t noticed Israel is still there. While 24X less palestinians are.
I wonder if he took several dumps in drawers tonight as he exceeds joe bidens usual lies level.
“Perhaps you find that acceptable . . .”
Yes. Since the blame lies with Hamas and Iran. And since Israel has the moral right to defend itself from terrorist attacks.
“but I do not.”
Then you side with the butchers who slaughtered innocent Israelis.
Your misericordiam fallacy is revolting.
I’m certainly glad your attitude is pervasive, it got us 22 years of the never ending wars since 911.
At some point one would hope all these stupid nations who can’t get along would get a clue.
No chance I can say the USA isn’t one of the biggest bully idiots on the planet.
Certainly can’t say there aren’t a whole lot of others as well.
It has just become clear to everyone the dim bulbs in DC have been lying their rear ends off claiming they were winning against Russia, but that was never true. Not even one day was it true. But they told the lie over and over and over again and all the idiots sucked it down like candy. Well, that big lie done for, it literally just finally broke apart, and what do you know…
The big global MIC monster has another one to go to bat for. What a perfect timing line up, I’d love to see the scheduling for the next couple of decades. Literally days ago the speaker got slapped down for his side deal with Ukraine funding and out he goes on his rear end and all the neocons start wailing and moaning and the big cohencidence streams into play.
I’m digging deep. Into my wallet.
Blinken went whining to Turkey to try to make them force hamas into a cease fire, so even on this point the raging lunatic jew jew jew jew promo boy is incorrect and mischaracterizing the facts.
He whines about his chaber trying to shut down the enemy then reverses the whole thing screaming I want vengeance and when I get it everyone has to blame hamas and war is gonna be big time.
So, totally unhinged.
On no it’s great, because “techniques” and “you are unaware israel leads the world in not murdering civvies !”
On the other hand, after that big fat lying pile of crap is delivered on a shabbat platter, you must be reminded , all the dead civilians are the enemies fault !
So not only do they not do it, they do do it, but they are the best at not doing it,(according to them analyzing their own BS meter and calling it good), though they have done it a lot already and it is not and never is their fault, and it is unacceptable but hey the enemy did that. When joey the blowhard quacking tard blew up the Nordstream 2 and of course told us he would before he did, that wasn’t his deal jack, Putin did it !
Same deal here, man, get with the plan – everyone you murder death kill is because the evil devil enemy made you do it ! That’s great and tremendous, coming from the lawyerly crew, I bet they use that in court all the time.
No, your honor, the bank made my client rob them, everyone knows they are evil, so it’s on them.
Oops, probably a touchy subject for the analogy… I can’t say why or all the goons will go ape
“….every conflict for Israel is an existential conflict? ”
This is what whackaloons do, so deep into brain fried BS spew they can’t come up for air. Just remember the nutjob swears everything Israel does murdering all over the place is because …. they have to or they won’t exist.
“Every conflict Israel engages in is an existential war. ” They’ve been saying this BS since 1948, and before. It’s never been true, but if you repeat the lie long enough you demand everyone else believe your brain fart.
We all know, and I do mean ALL of us, that there is no chance in hell hamas and the gaza strip will wipe away Israel.
The exact opposite though, is 100% possible, very quickly, Israel could wipe the gaza strip, so the big fat stupid line from whack job dumb dumb liar is absolutely WRONG.
Hamas will not defeat Israel, and Israel won’t be defeated if Hezbollah joins them, to a small extent, they already did. Even the inclusion of the West Bank won’t destroy Israel. Nonetheless, the existential threat exists as long as terrorist animals cross the border to kill Israeli civilians.
You must love the Mexican cartels killing ~100,00 Americans through overdoses. You might also like the fact that they bring in terrorists and criminals. They have become more brazen since they have a lot of weapons. When they start to kill our border patrol and ranchers that close their backyards, will you tell everyone it isn’t an existential threat? You think these killers should be permitted to do what they want.
Karen S.
Well said.
If you get a chance, historian Victor Davis Hanson has a good read on the topic: https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1711174923220361268
Another good read is from The Free Press: https://www.thefp.com/p/hamas-war-on-israel-everything-you-need-to-know
Many more Jews are on the left than the right. Do you consider all of us anti-semitic?
The self-loathing Jew is a well documented phenomenon. Bernie Sanders is a prominent example of a left wing Jew who habitually sides with Jew haters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew
Most aren’t, though, and Jews in Israel generally don’t have that luxury.
Sanders statement on Saturday: “I absolutely condemn the horrifying attack on Israel by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There is no justification for this violence, and innocent people on both sides will suffer hugely because of it. It must end now.” Tell me again how he “habitually sides with Jew haters.”
And you didn’t answer the question: Do you consider all of us [Jews on the left] anti-Semitic?
LOL – whack job’s brain glitched. You stumped him. He’ll contact the Knesset for further instructions.
Karen: there are Palestinians and there’s Hamas. They are NOT necessarily synonymous. Not all Palestinians support Hamas, and Hamas wouldn’t have the foothold it does if Israel respected the rights of Palestinian people and their property rights. The US refuses to speak out against Israel when it sets up residences in Palestinian territory and drives out Palestinians–something the U.N. has condemned–and that’s just one of the root causes of the conflict. So, if Israel goes in to Gaza and other Palestinian areas and starts slaughtering people to get revenge, cuts off utilities, food and medicine upon which non-Hamas-supporting Palestinians rely–this will only strengthen Hamas and keep the conflict going. Other Muslim countries might get drawn in, too, and there might be an all-out war. Even if Hamas is totally obliterated, another group would take its place. If there’s to be peace in the region, the rights of Palestinians have to be supported.
Oh boy, we have another propaganda suction pipe that is backed up…
“Israel developed a bomb that only shakes buildings, to warn people to leave. ”
So that wasn’t the goofballs missing ? They have so much money and so many bombs shock and awe is sound effects ?
I see at the end you claim everyone dies anyway because hamas orders them to.
so another 24 x to 1 murder death kills apologist and excuse artist…
“They drop leaflets and use loudspeakers to urge civilians to evacuate military targets.”
So total control of the skies, and within shouting distance or total control of the local city speakers …
They literally pull up on the enemy and announce, with loudspeakers “we are about to kill you all”….”leave!”
And the enemy of course shouts back “we can see the whites of your eyes, may we fire upon you ?”
The stories really are pretty. Fantastical.
” Hamas orders them to stay, because it wants dead civilians to gin up more Jew hatred. ”
Oh well, all the training since youth you people always scream about and the open air prison abuse and the bulldozers wrecking homes and the 1000X to 1 military advantage and the wipe off the map total mindset is weak ? They need more propaganda ? Earlier your buddies claimed it’s thousands of years from caveman times this has been going on over there , now suddenly the civvies you kill is because the enemy wants em all dead ? The thousands of years isn’t good enough anymore ? The unbelievable oppression doesn’t do it ?
“Hamas installs military operations below hospitals and orphanages, hoping they get hit.”
Yeah because of course destroyed hospitals is great for the cause ! They want to die from injuries, right. They can’t get enough of rubbing sand and salt in their own eyes because hey, they love israel. They must kill themselves to show their allegiance to you.
Is that the next one you wackos pull or can we say it’s pretty much included already ?
I think we can say it is included already.
Thank you for the great rinse and repeat total BS, it was enjoyable.
” A Palestinian uprising in 2000 unleashed a new wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel decided to leave Gaza in 2005 ”
So no different before than after. Just a constant war skirmish. Can’t get along with the neighbors.
YOU: ” Israel abandoning the Gaza Strip in 2005 was obviously a mistake. “
Turley doesn’t understand the difference between fact and opinion, as his writings show. Today’s example: “The Washington Post has repeatedly failed to take down or correct columns containing false claims by Rubin. Instead, it has run her calls to end impartiality and neutrality in journalism.” Rubin said: ““How about this: With US House in chaos and US military promotions on hold, Hamas struck. Republicans’ weakness invites terror.” This is her opinion, to which she has every right–so why should the WaPo take it down? And, she is correct about the House being in chaos–due to the Republicans and their inability to govern, which DOES make the US look weak. Does Turley’s employer ever correct or apologize for the swill put out by people like Hannity, Levin or others? Congress cannot pass any aid bills for Israel or Ukraine when Republicans can’t even get their act together to the extent of choosing a speaker, and the fact that McCarthy had to give loonies like Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Matt Gaetz the power to bring a motion to remove him with just one vote, in order to get the gavel, and this was after an unprecedented 15 rounds of voting, proves her point. Then, there’s Tommy Tuberville, who refuses to allow military promotions to go through, all because he opposes women service members to be given an allowance for travel expenses to obtain an abortion where it is legal. The lack of permanent leadership is hurting the military. Tuberville and Republicans sincerely don’t care–placing roadblocks in the way of pregnant service women who want abortions is more important.
Turley also repeats the Fox-talking-point theme that it was the DEMOCRATS who brought down McCarthy. I actually heard that come from the mouth of Maria Bartiromo yesterday when I was channel surfing. Uh, Turley, was it a DEMOCRAT who made the motion to remove McCarthy? AND, to quote Congresswoman Jayapal, WHY should Democrats help out McCarthy? Were his efforts to come to a bipartisan short-term budget agreement to keep open the government some kind of favor to Democrats, given the fact that most Americans do not want the government to shut down, and that a shut down would hurt us all?
“War is breaking out in the Middle East so it’s good thing our oil reserves are full…
Oh wait, Biden drained it down to its last 17 days of supply to boost his polls”
Hamas publicly, on camera, thanked Iran for its planning and material support of its assault on Israel. Joe Biden released $6 billion in frozen assets to Iran, and is currently working on loosening nuclear restrictions.
As predicted a month ago, Iran then promptly massively increased its support of terrorist organization Hamas, allowing it to rape, torture, and kill as many Jews as possible. Some of the weapons held by Hamas are American. It is believed that they came from Biden’s disastrous rout in Afghanistan.
You blame changing the Speaker of the House, and not Joe Biden? How do you sleep at night? The political malpractice at this point has led to the rape and murder of countless Jews. A Holocaust.
Democrat policies, like defunding police, refusing to prosecute crimes, and no bail, have led to massive increases in theft and murder. We are witnessing this on a global scale.
No, Karen, Biden didn’t release $6 billion to Iran. In exchange for releasing 5 American prisoners, these frozen funds were transferred to a restricted account in Quatar that could only be used to purchase food and medicine. To date, the funds haven’t been touched. It was Trump who failed to have all of the weapons and equipment in Afghanistan returned before releasing 5,000 Taliban and drawing down our troops from 14,000 to only 2,500. These are just more lies Republicans keep telling, published by alt-right news you rely on. All you do, every time you post, is prove the depth and extent of your discipleship, your deep and irrational hatred of Democrats, and willingness to believe the lies put out by alt-right media.
“To date, the funds haven’t been touched.”
To date, Biden regime has not pulled funds back, have they? Why not? They know Hamas could not have pulled off a massacre of this scale without Iran. The world knows it, why don’t Biden, Blinken and Nod? Because they are liars.
Why did Biden’s regime surrender Pogrom Air Base? a decision clearly favorable to China?
Because Biden is bought and paid for by the CCP. Biden works for China, not America.
Today, the Biden Administration, by agreement with Qatar, which is holding the funds, announced that the funds, which haven’t been touched, will not be disbursed even for food, medicine and medical supplies.
The United States does not pay ransom.
Biden regime pays terrorists.
Obama paid ransoms.
Obama sent cold hard, unmarked cash to terrorists.
The United States of America does not pay ransom.
What’s Biden regime doing? Figure it out.
“We have a moral obligation to drive Democrats from power. For our sake and every other nation.”
@ScottAdamsSays
Republicans need to vote like their lives depend on it. That’s our reality.
@Cernovich
We have a moral obligation to drive Democrats from power. For our sake and every other nation. For the worlds children. Democrats and Hamas stand hand in hand. Never Trump was a willing collaborator with evil. Trump 2024!
Biden regime left behind in Afghanistan billions in weaponry that is now being used by terrorists to slaughter civilians in Israel and elsewhere.
Well done Biden regime, you treasonous, corrupt sellouts.
How about this: With US House in chaos and US military promotions on hold, Hamas struck.
Gigi the ignorant, has no idea the House has no immediate role. Nor is the US military under the direction of Congress
And the amount of planning and coordination that was involved, this was started months ago.
Not in a week.
More likely when Biden was elected. They saw what we all see, a weak, old man.
This was, indeed, a highly planned attack. A cyber attack on the fencing that was supposed to detect ladders, 3500 bombs to overwhelm the Iron Dome, a planned paraglider attack on the Supernova rave in the desert, coordinated assaults on Jewish border towns, and then an organized retreat back to Gaza.
This wasn’t the spur of the moment terrorist attack. It was the product of planning, espionage, and coordination.
Leadership and promotions for various branches of the military have to be approved by Congress. Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked such approvals, which is why the Navy doesn’t have a commander. Those are facts. To quote Leslie Chow: “Read a book”.
Tuberville is a hero, a Republican with balls….finally.
The Congress cannot allow the White House or the military leadership to dictate to IT what laws they will ignore, simply because they think they can get away with it with zero pushback.
The Congress cannot allow the WH and the Pentagon to implement illegal and lawless policies that they want implemented simply because they thinks they can continue to get away with it.
Nope.
Tuberville is doing the right thing, in the right way.
The Biden regime lawlessness should not stand.
Tuberville is a hero.
Pro-Palestinian protester in NYC holds up swastika:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nyc-pro-palestinian-rally-slammed-as-abhorrent-as-hamas-attacks-israel/amp/
“Pro-Palestinian protester . . .”
Hamas is an ideology of genocide, supported by the genocidal maniacs in Iran.
The USS Gerald R. Ford strike group is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Wake me when its arsenal levels Tehran.
You wait. Joe Biden will allow Iran to have nukes, for the next President to deal with.
This is just the beginning.
There is no material difference between the homicidal antisemite terrorists, and Nazis, so this is in line.
The Nazis supported Arab efforts to exterminate the Jews long ago. That mentality has not changed in the descendent members of Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.
Sam – Dennis is still sore that I called him out on mis-quoting Professor Turley in order to criticize Professor Turley. And that I pointed out how juvenile his position was that if pro-lifers don’t think a pregnant woman counts for two people in an HOV lane, they’re being inconsistent. Notice I said nothing about Tribe and Rubin being Jewish. My assessment of their mental health was solely based on the things they said. They’re also Americans, does that mean that if I criticize them I’m anti-American? They’re both white, am I anti-white? They’re both on the east coast, am I anti-coastal? Of course not, such a conclusion would be absurd. But then Dennis realizes the things he says are patently absurd; he says them anyway to stir the pot. His acting like a moronic gas-bag on this website doesn’t bother me in the least because I virtually never read anything he writes, it’s simply not worth the time.
Yours as always,
Uncle Henry
Jonathan
Because you refused to heed the calls to remove the vile, despicable, hate filled post of Dennis McIntyre the racist who said that Fanis Willis is “the first intelligent black woman in a courtroom”, he continues his personal attacks today. Oldmanfromarkansas is Jewish, yet when he calls TWO PARTICULAR NUTBAG JEWS out for what they are, Dennis wants to call him an anti-semite.
These ad hom attacks must STOP
Thanks Anon. My sense is that JT allows Dennis to keep spewing idiocy as an object lesson for the rest of us on how not to think and behave. My reply to Sam above applies here too.
Best wishes,
Uncle Henry
Pro-Palestine rally occurs outside White House following Hamas attack in Israel
https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1711083916411465865
If Catholics were to pray the rosary in front of an abortion facility, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Nazi SS officers would eliminate those Catholics in less than 60 seconds to ban hate speech
“A pro-Palestine rally occurred outside the White House in Washington, D.C., and speakers called the attack on Israel from Hamas a “revolution.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pro-palestine-rally-occurs-outside-white-house-following-hamas-attack
Biden = Hamas
Jonathan: The minute you mention two of your most severe critics, who happen to be Jewish, it gives the opportunity for more anti-Semites to come out from under their rocks. This time it’s “oldmanfromkansas” who says: “As for Rubin and Tribe, not only are they mentally deranged, they have kicked over the traces of even being human” (10/8@2:44pm). Looks like oldmanfromkansas has been re-reading Mein Kampf. Like DJT, he probably keeps it on his bedside stand.
The Nazi regime dehumanized Jews. They considered them “sub-human”–incapable fundamental human experiences. That racial theory led to the “Final Solution”, the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million Jews. Since you don’t appear to be concerned by the anti-Semitism on your blog I will use every opportunity to call out the anti-Semites, like oldmanfromkansas. They have no place on what should be a civilized blog!
Dennis brings us a brilliant history lesson today. Who needs Mr Rogers?
You still want to be a democrat, Mr. Turley? They are celebrating Hamas in front of the White House.
They aren’t.
https://youtu.be/8r_7_Ir0-mE?si=lOW9GEcxgUe4ujBG
Pro-Palestine (homicidal antisemitic) demonstration in support of the rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping of Jews, right in front of the White House.
The Democrat Socialists of America also staged a support demonstration in NYC, home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel.
Your video shows people chanting “free Palestine” and “long live Palestine.” It does NOT show a “(homicidal antisemitic) demonstration in support of the rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping of Jews.”
Palestinians and Israelis both deserve to live in peace. Killing unarmed civilians is a war crime on both sides. When will it stop?
I agree that both groups deserve to live in peace. I also think that the US should support Israel defending itself, but not provide funds used solely to get revenge. Slaughtering innocent Palestinians to get revenge for the Hamas killing innocent Israelis is wrong, and the US should not support doing so, because we would be complicit in assisting in the commission of war crimes. As you say, killing unarmed civilians is a war crime. If the US is complicit in and supports such killings, we can expect more retribution from other radical Muslim groups.
Biden’s Cash For Dictators and Terrorists
That $6 billion to Iran’s tyrants is more like $16 billion (or $23 billion, if you include the IMF). (Look it up yourself.)
But ignore that financial support for state-sponsored terrorism, if you wish. Because there’s this:
While the Biden administration kneecaps America’s energy producers, it loosens and turns a blind eye to the oil and gas sanctions on Iran. And the greatest beneficiary (besides Hamas)? China. Can you say “diamonds?”
Some 700 Israelis (including children) were murdered by Iran. Their death, that invasion, that barbaric destruction is on the hands of the Biden administration.
Where, now, is the bloodthirsty one who demands that America declare war on Russia? The one who insists that Americans have a duty to drain their wallets and shed their blood to support Ukraine. Do not those same (blood-lust) arguments apply to Israel and Iran? Isn’t Israel even more deserving of U.S. support than the authoritarian regime in Ukraine?
Could it be that the bloodthirsty one is just a shill for the Biden administration? Or a PR hack for Zelensky?
I would be perfectly content if every rapist who dragged a Jewish woman by her hair, raped and sodomized until the seat of her pants ran with blood, into a vehicle full of more rapists, was put down. Also those who shot babies, who dragged away a trembling 12 year old boy likely to his murder, who shot a father who shoved his children out the window to the roof and covered their escape. Heck, make a line. I didn’t even know I had a violent bone in my body, until I saw those videos and images that Hamas uploaded, to brag about killing babies. I get queasy at the sight of blood and have to steel myself when one of my horses gets hurt. I am jumping out of my skin with worry about what happened to those kids they dragged off, including that boy who’s only slightly younger than my own. Hamas is demonic. I’ll probably never find out what happened to that 12 year old boy, or the 5 year old who was surrounded by Hamas kids taunting him to cry for his Mommy, who was probably dead. Then there’s the video of a little boy, held in his father’s bloodstained arms, crying because Hamas killed his sister. 30 years from now, those images are going to haunt me. The adjective evil is overused. We’ve seen real evil in Hamas. Actual evil should be destroyed, its molecular bonds broken, and its atoms split.
I am ALL FOR sending military support to Israel, and I don’t care if it pisses off terrorists, because we can’t make decisions based on what the terrorists would want. Iran begins each school date chanting, “Death to America! Death to Israel!” It funded Hamas’ assault on Israel a month after Joe Biden promised to release $6 billion in frozen assets to Iran. Even if we do nothing, the US is next. Millions of illegal immigrants have arrived in one year alone. Terrorists have taken advantage of the open border, and are already here. They’re already planning what’s next for us. They’ll do to us what they did to those poor Jewish people in Israel, because that’s what terrorists do.
I read an account where an armed man prevented terrorists from entering his home in a Kibbutz, protecting his wife and children, while unarmed Jews were killed or kidnapped elsewhere. This is why a 2nd Amendment is so vital in the US.
“The weekend’s depraved attack by Iran-sponsored Hamas terrorists on Israel reportedly blindsided US and Israeli intelligence. How could that be?”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/failed-foreign-policy-gave-terror-the-element-of-surprise-agencies-blinded-by-joes-fiascos/
That’s a GREAT question. No clue why Israeli intelligence was caught flatfooted, but one answer concerning why US intelligence didn’t see this coming is that they were too busy setting up a special surveillance of Trump supporters:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears
https://www.newsweek.com/2023/10/13/exclusive-fbi-targets-trump-followers-2024-election-nears-1831836.html
The Israeli intelligence was too preoccupied with virtue signaling and spying on its own, just like ours.
Anon– “The Israeli intelligence was too preoccupied with virtue signaling and spying on its own, just like ours.”
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Could be, but maybe there is more. People who have worked in Israeli and American intelligence in the past are stunned that preparations for an attack this large were missed. Apparently they were also warned by Egypt and those warnings were dismissed.
No longer secret that the Biden administration appears to have worked with Israeli agencies to muster crowds and propaganda to block Netanyahu’s reforms. Sort of how they made every effort to undermine Trump.
I wonder now if, as usual, Israeli intelligence knew of an attack in the offing and let it go in hope of discrediting Netanyahu only to realize to their horror that the attack was much more massive and deadly than expected. If that is the case I hope a few of those traitors are hanged in what’s left of Gaza.
If you want to know the root cause of the strife in Israel–read this. It was issued only one year ago and explains why there will still be conflict unless Israel changes its ways:
From the United Nations: “Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territory is Illegal”
20 October 2022Human Rights
Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful under international law due to its permanence and the Israeli government’s de facto annexation policies, a UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry said in its first report, published on Thursday.
The three-member Commission is pushing for the issue to be referred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest court.
They stressed that under international humanitarian law, the occupation of territory in wartime is a temporary situation and does not deprive the occupied power of its statehood or sovereignty.
A core UN principle
“Recent statements by the Secretary-General and numerous Member States have clearly indicated that any attempt at unilateral annexation of a State’s territory by another State is a violation of international law and is null and void; 143 member States including Israel last week, voted in favour of a General Assembly resolution reaffirming this,” said Navi Pillay, the Commission Chair.
“Unless universally applied, including to the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, this core principle of the United Nations Charter will become meaningless”, she added.
The Commission has called on the UN General Assembly to request an urgent Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the legal consequences of the occupation.
Settlement ‘enterprise’ studied
For their report, the Commissioners reviewed the policies and actions Israel has used to maintain the occupation and annex parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
They focused on how Israel has sustained and advanced its “settlement enterprise”, including statements made by Israeli officials indicating the intent to maintain permanent control over the land in violation of international law.
The Commission concluded that by continuing to occupy the territory by force, Israel incurs international responsibilities and remains accountable for violations of the rights of the Palestinians, both individually and as a people.
“By ignoring international law in establishing or facilitating the establishment of settlements, and directly or indirectly transferring Israeli civilians into these settlements, successive Israel governments have set facts on the ground to ensure permanent Israeli control in the West Bank,” said Ms. Pillay.
Restrictive land policies
The Commission also reviewed Israel’s expropriation and exploitation of land and natural resources, and its restrictive urban planning and zoning policies in the West Bank.
Land is often confiscated for military purposes but then used for settlement construction, the report found.
The Commission reviewed statements by Israeli officials indicating that Palestinian construction is seen as an impediment to settlements, requiring action such as confiscation, demolitions and displacement.
Similar processes were also seen in East Jerusalem, where restrictive planning and zoning have contributed to shrinking space for Palestinians.
‘Silent harm’ and trauma
The report also addresses Israeli Government policies that have had an impact on all aspects of Palestinian life, such as access to clean and affordable water.
“There is so much ‘silent harm’ and psychological trauma, that may not be immediately apparent, resulting from the erosion of economic, social and cultural rights. These debilitating processes have severe short and long-term consequences and must be urgently addressed”, said Commissioner Miloon Kothari.
The Commission also examined how the occupation and de facto annexation policies have affected Palestinian human rights, as well as the impacts on Palestinian women and children.
The “coercive environment” which forces Palestinians to leave their homes has fragmented Palestinian society and hampered the right to self-determination, the report said.
International action required
The report concludes by saying that some of the Israeli government policies and actions may constitute “elements” of crimes under international criminal law, including the war crime of transferring part of your own civilian population into occupied territory.
“The actions of Israeli Governments reviewed in our report, constitute an illegal occupation and annexation regime that must be addressed,” said Commissioner Chris Sidoti.
“The international system and individual States must act and uphold their obligations under international law. That must begin at this session of the General Assembly with a referral to the International Court of Justice.”
About the Commission of Inquiry
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, receives its mandate from the UN Human Rights Council.
The Commissioners are not UN staff and they are not paid for their work.
They will present their report to the UN General Assembly on 27 October.
Israel announced yesterday it was cutting off all water, electricity and other utilities to Palestinian territory to retaliate against Hamas. Defending yourself against an attack and retaliating against innocent people are not the same thing. Retaliating by cutting off water, electricity, food and medical supplies will NOT end the strife–it will only escalate the situation and punish people who are NOT part of Hamas, all of which will may cause other Middle Eastern groups to support Hamas. It’s time the US stood up to Israel and advised it to honor the rights of Palestinians.
LOL — Fox “News” on TV is now using Iran’s attack on Israel as an excuse to argue that RINO Keven McCarthy should get the Speaker’s job back. There is no end to the corruption of Fox “News.”
Sounds like an opinion. Unless they were reporting what others were saying, then its news, like it or not.
McCarthy was doing a fine job. Gaetz just wanted him gone. I was high school boys dick measuring contest. All Democrats screeching about about how important tradition and norms were to protecting democracy, took a knee because, while the spew talking points the dont actually do the work it takes to support them.
Apparently I’m now blocked from posting comments here unless I post them as coming from “Anonymous.” Are the others posting as “Anonymous” also blocked from posting comments using a regular screen name by which they can be differentiated from others?
Some of us, yes.
Biden’s DOJ invited an Iraqi judge aligned with Iran to come to the US with an arrest warrant for Trump and meet with the DOJ:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mystery-surrounds-visit-dc-iran-backed-iraqi-judge-issued-warrant-trumps-arrest
That seems like the kind of legal news that could benefit from some expert legal analysis. Where’s Turley? Oh, right — he’s busy having a silly cat fight with Lawrence Tribe.
A Lesson For Americans:
Israel Was At War With Itself
Over the past nearly 40 weeks, as the battle over the judiciary overhaul surfaced, violently, old questions of identity and religious affiliation, as well as ethnicity, class and privilege, shook the populace.
The judiciary change, presented by the most right-wing government in the country’s history, seemed to threaten Israel’s liberal nature. Israelis felt that they were fighting for the soul of the nation and that in this fight, all bets were off and nothing was sacred — including the once-untouchable idea of shirking reserve duty in the army.
Despite the turmoil in the streets, the ruling coalition refused to accept the fact that with a slim majority, it could not enforce such big changes without consensus, plowing ahead with ever more anxiety-inducing policies day by day.
Edited From:
“Israelis Can No Longer Afford Vicious Infighting”
Copying / pasting articles from NYT will not help the NYT hemorrhaging of money due to their loss of paid subscription members and relevance. That you hide the source of your copy/paste proves how embarrassing they have become, and you as well. Time to find a new religion
WHY would you quote a New York Times article without mentioning the source? And WHY didn’t you provide a link to the story?
The only answers to those two questions I can think of are that you wanted to conceal your source. Is there another reason that I’m missing?
Professor Turley Writes:
Rubin ignores the fact that the motion to vacate the chair succeeded due to a unanimous Democratic vote and just eight dissenting Republicans.
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No pundit in mainstream media has even come close to suggesting that Democrats had any obligation to support Kevin McCarthy. This perverted talking point only plays in the rightwing bubble.
This perverted talking point is actually a form of denialism. To deny the fact that Republicans are incapable of governing.
Kevin McCarthy agreed to the preposterous rules that allowed Matt Gaetz to vacate the speakership. McCarthy ‘had’ to agree in order to become Speaker. But what good is the speakership when any bomb-thrower can vacate??
When McCarthy made that agreement, almost every mainstream pundit recognized the folly. It was obviously the symptom of a dysfunctional party.
2 years earlier McCarthy voted to deny Joe Biden’s victory even ‘after’ the violence of January 6th. McCarthy was there, in the capitol, when it was under siege. Still he came out in support of Trump’s false election claims.
Fast forward to this year when McCarthy makes a budget deal with Democrats; then totally reneged when Donald Trump objected. It was Trump, in fact, who demanded the shut-down. Trump wanted a shut-down to ‘defund’ his prosecution.
Then before McCarthy had any deal to avoid a shutdown, he acquiesced again to Trump’s demands by opening an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
So this idea that Democrats had an obligation to save McCarthy stands logic on its head! Democrats would have been indirectly supporting Trump’s waterboy!!
No pundit in mainstream media has even come close to suggesting that Democrats had any obligation to support Kevin McCarthy.
Neither did Turley
This post on Instapundit.com about Iran sounds about right.
https://instapundit.com/610051
If it happens will Biden’s puppet masters try to protect Iran? Anything possible with this lunatic administration.
a poster provided a link…
“When the Obama administration paid approximately $1.5 million to Iran to gain the release of three Americans kidnapped along the Iran-Iraq border in 2009, the price amounted to about $500,000 per hostage.
In 2016, the Obama administration paid $1.7 billion and exchanged seven jailed Iranians for five American hostages, about $340 million per hostage.
Predictably, Iran then seized more hostages. The Trump administration secured the release of some of those hostages without ransom payments, relying instead on swapping prisoners. (THE ART OF THE DEAL, noted)
ransom payment for the latest batch by Biden about $1.2 billion per hostage.
It’s like the demoncrats paying off and bailing out the antifa and blm and other street criminals – they are on the wrong side, again.
https://www.heritage.org/middle-east/commentary/bidens-6-billion-ransom-payment-iran-fuels-their-terror-machine
SMH it’s just unbelievable what demoncrats do.
Once again it is Trump that has the credibility.
Barack Obama is the biggest America-hating, empty-suit, fraud ever perpetrated on this country.
And he is SILENT about the terrorist attack of innocent Israeli’s.
He is not only silent, he’s throwing a BBQ at the WH.
A lot of people are wondering why Obama hasn’t issued a statement on Israel yet and I just assume it’s hard to speak when you’re grinning ear to ear.
Magills
@magills_
Correction, it was only $5.4 billion. We need to account for Joe’s $600 million kickback, 10% for the Big Guy
Biden is disloyal to his own country and countrymen.
Biden’s policies have made America less safe.
Biden family greed has sold out America’s interests to our enemies.
Biden still sits in the White House while clearly mentally compromised
and compromised by our enemies.
Joe Biden is a criminal.
Joe Biden is a traitor to this country.
American lives have been lost BECAUSE of this man. More will be lost.
To date, over 200k Ukrainian young men are dead BECAUSE of this man.
Thousands of Israelis are dead BECAUSE of this man.
When will it end? When will Biden’s illegitimate reign of terror end?
Congress, it is time to ACT.
Biden must be removed from power immediately.
Biden’s crimes must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.