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Islamists Keep Stabbing People

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Why are we not allowed to talk about it?

This “Islamaphobephobia” has been going on since 911. Whenever an Islamist Islamists, the knee-jerk reaction is to express concern over our reaction to it, rather than the act (similar to how when there is Democrat wrong doing, the story is about Republicans “pouncing”). And it’s not just in Europe; the pro-Hamas demonstrations and riots indicate that it’s here as well, and we’ve been letting many in at the open border. The administration’s notion that Gazans should be “resettled” here is insane.

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Admiral McRaven To The American People

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“There are countries that do not tolerate speech critical of the government and its institutions. There are countries where citizens who publicly disagree with the actions of the government and its institutions are condemned as disloyal citizens, investigated and tried. There are countries where people with political views that differ from those of the governing authorities are subject to governmental abuse and ruin just because of their political opinions. We have a name for these countries. They are totalitarian.“

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Campus Anti-Semitism

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It’s nothing new.

In addition, the New York Times covered for both Hitler and Stalin.

[Update a while later]

Campus protesters have experienced some kind of psychiatric break.

It certainly appears that way. They are demonstrably nuts.

[Thursday-morning update]

The real cause of anti-Semitism on campus.

And a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution says that the Red Guards are back.

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Victoria Nuland

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An interview:

This is the mindset that has created such a disaster in the Middle East:

Where do you see the Israel-Hamas war heading?

Essentially, there are two paths on the table. There is continuing this war with all of the destruction and horror and lack of clarity about how you end Hamas’ reign of terror.

The other path is the route that the administration and allies and partners and a lot of countries in the Gulf are pushing, and a lot of Israelis want, which is: a hostage deal leads to a long-term cease-fire, leads to a better future for Palestinians both in the West Bank and in Gaza, leads to Saudi-Israel normalization and a path to two states, and a region where the ideology and the violence that Hamas is offering is beaten by more opening, more opportunity, more peace, more stability.

You end Hamas’ reign of terror by decisively defeating Hamas, just as we ended the Nazis’ reign of terror by decisively defeating the Nazis, and we ended the Japanese empire’s reign of terror by decisively defeating the imperial Japanese forces. There is no lack of clarity there. Unfortunately, she and the Democrats since the end of the war have been unwilling to allow either America or Israel to win a war. When you fight wars, and particularly when you fight a war against an enemy that uses its own population as human shields, civilians are going to die. Israel does more than any nation in history, including us, to minimize civilian casualties, and will continue to do so because, unlike Hamas which worships death, the Jews worship life.

As for her second path, it’s a continuing fantasy. A hostage deal that leaves Hamas in place will just set up another October 7. We can be sure of this because they continually tell us this. There was a ceasefire on October 6th (if you ignore the continuing rocket attacks from Gaza). There will be no two-state solution, because the Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank have turned one down every time it’s been offered. Because they have no desire to build a thriving state (if they had, they could have been doing it in Gaza). Their only desire is to destroy a state, and all of the infidels living in it, which would in their minds be just a good start, because ultimately their desire is to rid the House of War throughout the world of all kuffirs — Jews, Christians, atheists, et al.