Winnik’, Blinken, and Nod
Clarice hits another home run thus surprising no one. Let’s check out her main themes.
Winkin’
Every one of the United Nation’s agencies involved in the Middle East have placed it on the side of the most barbarous enemies of civilization. The worst is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Disgusted by the agency’s role, Germany has frozen its substantial contributions to UNRWA (Germany is UNRWA’s second largest donor at $202 million last year) and the United States should do no less. (In 2018 President Trump cut funds to UNRWA; the Biden Administration rushed to restore them.)
UNRWA was formed in 1948. There was already in existence the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which had successfully resettled refugees. UNRWA, in contrast, has hired radical Islamists and used the schools, hospitals, and programs it manages to propagandize generations into serving as Islamist foot soldiers and martyrs. Zach Lewis is right:
Its benefits fund terrorism and are a pillar of the festering sore that is the “right of return” to all of Israel and the restoration of a mythical Palestine that never existed. Although UNRWA claims to aid over 5 million refugees, these people (and registered deceased and non-existent people) are not refugees by any definition. Refugee status is not maintained when people are resettled, let alone to offspring of those displaced. UNRWA was wrong in conception and disastrous in execution. It’s 1.5 billion annual budget (funded by the US, other countries, and NGOs) is sponsoring terrorism, totalitarianism, anti-Western hate and virulent antisemitism. Their facilities, personnel and budget are co-opted by criminals. They sometimes ignore, and often aid and participate in terrorism and crime. It’s time to end the farce that is UNRWA. It is long past time to #DefundUNRWA.
As always there is more correlative detail at the link.
Blinken
Having played a role in the negotiation of the cease-fire and its extension, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said little, if anything, about Hamas’s repeated violations of the terms of the agreement. Families were to be released together. They were not. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was supposed to be given access to the hostages to oversee their existence and conditions. It was not. Indeed, the ICRC refused repeatedly to provide to an elderly hostage needed medicines given them by her daughter. Upon her release she is in very poor health.
Hamas has tortured hostages and their families. They said one young girl was dead, and then said she wasn’t. She returned home in severely traumatized state, whispering because for almost two months she had been forbidden to speak. She was fearful, obviously poorly fed, and covered in head lice and bug bites. Another young hostage who saw his father murdered was forced to watch over and over videos Hamas took of the onslaught in Israel with a gun held to his head, forbidden to cry. A father was filmed by Hamas crying as they told him his family – a baby, a toddler, and his wife — were dead. (Whether they are or not no one knows.)
Nod
What gets little coverage in the media is that many Arab countries share Israel’s belief that there can be no peace or prosperity for all in the Middle East unless Hamas is eradicated. The Saudis, UAE, Egypt, and Jordan want Israel to eliminate Hamas, even if the UN and the State department might not. Indeed, the reliably very left-wing Israeli publication Haaretz reported this week that in behind the scenes talks with Israeli officials, almost every Arab leader told Israel that it should not end the war with Hamas until Hamas is totally destroyed. They obviously see Hamas as proxies for Iran and Qatar, who are their domestic enemies, even if Blinken thinks they are our allies. The House voted 307-119 this week to force the administration to permanently freeze $6 billion in funds it had opened up to Iran. While 118 Democrats opposed this, all but one Republican voted for the bill.
And that should surprise no one. The Arabs have a problem and it’s getting worse. America is increasingly disinterested in the world, and Iran (or Persia of you like the old ways) is knocking loudly on the tent poles as it has been doing since at least Moses’s time. Israel is by a large measure the most modern nation in the Middle East, and the Arabs know that they need Israel but they get in an uncomfortable bind trying to negotiate with Israel while the idiots in Europe and America screech about the so-called Palestinians, by the way, that term comes from the Roman Empire who coined it to cover the area after they destroyed Jerusalem, during the siege of Jerusalem.
That was about 20 generations after King David if I remember my ‘begats’, Jesus was about 15 generations down the tree from Jesse (normally a generation is about 30 years, so that’s about 450 BC, The Temple was destroyed in 70CE. BTW Mohammend was born sometime around 300CE, if memory serves, and developed his heresy of the Abrahamic faiths in Mecca in the mid-300s or so.
That’s all very nice and true, but battles are won with F-15s and Galil rifles, and the IDF is very current.
Well, I wish I was surprised, but I’m not, not even a little. It’s what we have come to expect from the grifters that compose the US government. From ZeroHedge.
A 52-year-old man who stabbed former police officer Derek Chauvin with an “improvised knife” is a former FBI informant, according to court documents filed on Dec. 1.
John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times before being subdued by responding corrections officers. He later told them that he would have killed the man convicted for the murder of George Floyd (who had an elephant dose of fentanyl in his system and died ‘with’ Covid).
The stabbing occurred on Nov. 24 around 12:30 p.m., the day after Thanksgiving known commonly as Black Friday. Turscak waived his Miranda rights and told FBI agents that he ‘did not want to kill Chauvin, but had been thinking about attacking him for a month,’ taking the opportunity when both of them were in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution Tucson.
“Turscak stated that his attack of [Mr. Chauvin] on Black Friday was symbolic with the Black Lives Matter Movement and the ‘black hand’ symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia criminal organization,” said prosecutors.
As the Epoch Times notes, Turscak was charged with four counts, including assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to commit murder. He was moved after the stabbing to an adjacent federal penitentiary in Tucson, where he remained in custody Friday, inmate records show.
Mr. Turscak did not have a lawyer listed on the court docket.
A lawyer for Mr. Chauvin did not return an inquiry about the charges.
J.B. Shurk in American Thinker.
President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in Paris in 1910 about a subject he knew well. The Man in the Arena.TR as you may recall had been a sickly child who believed the strenuous life would make you healthy, and lived it. He spent a winter on the North Dakota grasslands in a soddy, raising cattle, became a reforming police commissioner of New York City, and finally the youngest Vice President (to McKinley) whom he succeeded when McKinley was assassinated, During all that he wrote something like a hundred books. What he said in Paris is a lesson to us all,
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly
Obviously, he was describing the President who had made the US a major world power, a man he saw every day when he shaved but I think he described another Republican President who would come along some 105 years after that speech – Donald Trump. From the article:
Professional Republicans’ sustained contempt for the electorate has been infuriating. For this reason, there was a time when candidate Donald Trump was more “murder weapon” than presidential dynamo in my mind. I loved what he had to say in the lead-up to the 2016 election, and I believed he was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale political pantomime. However, confronted with the Establishment’s absurd attempt to saddle voters with another Bush or Clinton eight years ago, voting for Trump felt, first and foremost, like swinging a sledgehammer through a mold-laden Uniparty wall in dire need of being knocked down.
Since his victory over Hillary Clinton — an unindicted co-conspirator in the Russia collusion fraud against the American people — President Trump has proven himself far more capable and consequential than I ever imagined. As evidence for how much the Deep State fears this one political outsider above all others, compromised prosecutors, judges, bureaucrats, and lawmakers have done nearly everything they can to deprive him of his property and liberty. Still, the man stands with a vim and vigor that is inspiring. Even while fighting one legal battle after the next in courtrooms across the country, he holds back-to-back campaign events and political rallies. The contrast with Dementia Joe’s lethargic attempts to merely walk across a stage without falling down is stunning. […]
ust as astonishing, the U.S. government has plumbed to insidious depths to keep Trump from the presidency. Obama’s FBI not only spied on his campaign but also framed him as a Russian spy. While Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann attempted to cover up the government’s ongoing criminality, they spent two more years threatening the Trump administration with selective prosecutions and process crimes. Congress impeached him for noticing Biden’s pay-to-play family corruption in Ukraine. Those same turds impeached him again for giving a speech a mile from the Capitol concerning the 2020 election’s obvious fraud. After killing four unarmed Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, authorities in D.C. pushed ridiculous propaganda defaming J6 protesters as “insurrectionists” attempting to overthrow the government. The FBI and DOJ have spent the last three years hunting down Trump supporters, sanctioning election lawyers for daring to combat fraud, censoring and prosecuting pro-Trump meme-makers for exercising their free speech, and secretly listing anyone who denounces these tyrannical actions as a potential “domestic terrorist.” As for the coming 2024 election, Joe Rogan says it best: the Uniparty’s only campaign strategy is to imprison Donald Trump.
The U.S. government’s unconstitutional and criminal behavior has been shockingly atrocious. If nothing else, Donald Trump’s rise to power has revealed a level of entrenched D.C. corruption and rampant authoritarianism that most Americans never imagined possible. It has been enough for General Mike Flynn — one of the first Trump administration officials to be targeted by the Deep State — to conclude that the United States is “now officially a communist third world banana republic.”
Read it all, and remember as we go to the polls next year.
