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  • Pat Buchanan Belongs Among the Conservative Movement’s Greatest Heroes

    09/02/2025 4:49:38 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 55 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | September 2, 2025 | Kevin Roberts , Riley Moore
    In 1963, when President John F. Kennedy gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom its name, he said that “in a period when the national government must call upon an increasing portion of the talents and energies of its citizens, it is clearly appropriate to provide ways to recognize and reward the work of persons, within and without the government, who contribute significantly to the quality of American life.” Today, our country is in even greater need of such virtuous citizens—of heroic men and women who can serve as examples of what it means to defend the republic, renew our culture,...
  • ‘Jews Say No to Ethnic Cleansing’: Hundreds of rabbis and artists reject Trump's Gaza plan

    02/16/2025 6:05:12 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 52 replies
    Middle East Eye ^ | February 13, 2025 | Yasmine El-Sabawi
    Some of the most well-known Jewish creatives, including actor Joaquin Phoenix, playwright Tony Kushner, and comedian Ilana Glazer, joined 350 rabbis on Thursday to call for an end to US President Donald Trump's plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The group made the call on Thursday in a full-page ad in The New York Times entitled, “Jewish People Say No to Ethnic Cleansing!”... “Jewish leaders from across the political spectrum are outraged by the proposal and felt compelled to speak forcefully against it, even as some American and Israeli Jewish communal leaders endorse Trump’s plan,” a statement from Cody Edgerly,...
  • Rabbis for Appeasing Hamas

    09/03/2025 2:44:12 AM PDT · by Salman · 14 replies
    Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield) ^ | 2025-09-03 | Daniel Greenfield
    The Chief Bee Whisperer, a leftist UCLA ‘rabbi’ who kicked a pro-Israel Jewish woman, the lecturer behind ‘an Introduction to Islam for Jews’ and a rabbi who claimed Hamas is ready for ‘peaceful coexistence’ signed a letter attacking Israel’s campaign against Hamas after Oct 7. The ‘open letter’, billed as a “Jewish Orthodox response” and a “call for moral clarity” against Israel has been written up by anti-Israel outlets like the New York Times is mostly made up of anti-Israel activists and leftists, appeasers and the completely deluded. “In my assessment it is possible to make peace with Hamas,” Rabbi...
  • Trump Weighs Bold Gaza Plan: $5,000 to Voluntarily Relocate, Transforming Region Into Tech Hub

    09/01/2025 7:35:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 52 replies
    Townhall ^ | 09/01/2025 | Sarah Arnold
    President Donald Trump is reportedly reviewing a proposal to offer Gaza residents $5,000 each to voluntarily leave the region, as part of a larger plan to redevelop Gaza into a tech and trade hub backed by Israeli and Gulf investment. The 38-page plan, reported by The Washington Post, outlines a temporary relocation of Gaza’s two million residents, either to other countries or into secure zones within Gaza during reconstruction. Those who own land would be compensated with digital tokens that could be used to finance relocation or redeemed for housing in newly built “smart cities.”The proposal, known as the GREAT...
  • ‘We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Zionism,’ Says Palestinian Activist Hailed in Mainstream Media Reports As ‘Hero’

    09/01/2025 3:56:22 PM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 27, 2025 | Adam Kredo
    When Israel arrested 24-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi for inciting terrorism in 2023, mainstream media outlets described her as a modern-day Gandhi. The New York Times hailed Tamimi as an "international symbol of Palestinian resistance." Reuters claimed her protests of "Israeli land seizures" had made her "a hero since she was a teenager." Even before her arrest, CNN called her a "fearless teen" who suffered the horrors of "living under Israeli military occupation." What those outlets have not reported, among other things, is Tamimi’s praise for Adolf Hitler, promises to drink the blood of Jews, and declarations that she is...
  • 'They beat me, humiliated me': Ex-hostage describes traumatic captivity in Gaza. In Spanish, she said, “I am also here today as a Mexican woman, because that is where I was born, where the cartels kill and torture people."

    09/01/2025 5:26:06 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 23 replies
    JPost ^ | 8.27.25
    Former Gaza hostage Ilana Gritzewsky recalled in a Wednesday UN Security Council meeting that during her captivity, when she was moved locations, she was forced to walk hand in hand with a terrorist as if she were his wife, so nobody would notice she was a hostage. “They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, causing me to lose my breath. They dragged me across the floor, lifted me, and threw me against the wall. They pointed guns at me, hit me, and tried to film me with my phone. "I raised my hands, told them I...
  • Radical Squad Member Rep. Rashida Tlaib Goes Full Anti-American at Pro-Hamas Rally — Boasts of Palestinian Infiltration and Curses in Vulgar Anti-Israel Tirade: “Every Genocide Enabler, Look at This Room, Motherf**kers… We are Not Going Anywhere”

    09/01/2025 8:04:44 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 37 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | September 1, 2025 | Jim Hoft
    Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the most radical member of the far-left squad, once again put her hatred for America and Israel on full display this weekend. Speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine, a gathering packed with open Hamas sympathizers. Tlaib delivered a speech dripping with defiance, rage, and vulgarity.
  • International media protest over journalist deaths in Gaza

    09/01/2025 6:57:25 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 19 replies
    AFP(Agence France Presse) ^ | 9/1/25 | AFP via Yahoo
    ar AL-QATTAA/AFP/AFP More than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest Monday highlighting the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, the Reporters Without Borders media freedom group said. "At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no-one left to keep you informed," the group's general director Thibaut Bruttin said in a statement. The protest was taken up on the website front pages of publications including Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, British news site The Independent, French newspapers La Croix and L'Humanite...
  • Ilhan Omar Said It's 'Categorically False' To Call Her a Millionaire. Her Net Worth Just Reached Up to $30 Million, an Increase of at Least 3,500 Percent in One Year.

    09/01/2025 6:15:23 AM PDT · by Sir_Humphrey · 84 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | 9/1/2025 | Andrew Kerr
    Much of the 'Squad' member's wealth comes through her husband's winery and venture capital firm Rep. Ilhan Omar’s personal fortune exploded to upwards of $30 million in 2024, the Minnesota Democrat disclosed just months after telling the press it is "ridiculous" and "categorically false" to say she is worth millions of dollars.Omar reported in her latest financial disclosure that she and her husband, former political consultant Tim Mynett, accumulated a net worth at the end of 2024 ranging from at least $6 million to $30 million. Their wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Mynett’s ownership stake in...
  • Trump mulls ‘GREAT’ plan to pay Palestinians $5K to leave Gaza during post-war rebuild: report

    08/31/2025 3:31:33 PM PDT · by bitt · 96 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | Aug. 31, 2025 | Victor Nava
    The White House is reportedly considering a plan to pay Palestinians $5,000 to relocate for 10 years while the Gaza Strip is transformed into the “Riviera of the Middle East” envisioned by President Trump. The Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) proposal would establish a trusteeship for control of the 25-mile-long strip of land that would be administered by the US for at least 10 years, while reconstruction – financed by billions of dollars in public and private-sector investments – takes place, according to the Washington Post. Gaza’s entire 2 million population would need to be temporarily relocated for...
  • Clashes Between National Socialists And Conservatives At March For Australia

    08/31/2025 5:34:51 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 24 replies
    Mahyar Tousi TV ^ | 31/8/25 | Mahyar Tousi
    Footage of massive demonstration, clashes with NSN (National Socialist Network) who, inter alia, attacked Jewish journo, who brought his own security, and other Jews and brown people. Mahyar's analysis. Lots of far leftards, too. Transcript linked below video.
  • Iranian Jews feel safe and secure

    08/31/2025 4:00:31 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 22 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 31/8/25
    Representatives of the Jewish community in Iran strongly criticized the Australian government’s decision to expel the Iranian ambassador over allegations of Iranian involvement in the Melbourne synagogue attack last weekend. They claimed that the decision was based on prejudice against Iranian Muslims. The representatives spoke to Iranian state media and noted that about 15,000 Jews live in the country and there are one hundred active synagogues in various cities. They also claimed that synagogues in Iran are open without security, unlike in European countries where police protection is required. .....
  • Israel INVASION Of Gaza City Begins - Islamists Face Downfall"

    08/30/2025 3:46:00 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 33 replies
    Mahyar Tousi TV ^ | 30/8/25 | Mahyar Tousi
    Heavy fighting, casualties on both sides, four IDF missing, on-scene phone videos of everything, including Hamas attacks on civilians. Some Hamas leadership offed, the rest have fled. Lots of fake reports from Gaza Health Department, fakestream media taking it as gospel without verification. Humanitarian aid paused. Transcript linked below video.
  • Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards

    08/30/2025 11:27:39 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 5 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 30, 2025Updated 11:08 a.m. ET | Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
    The meeting was so secret that only the attendees, a handful of top Iranian government officials and military commanders, knew the time and location. It was June 16, the fourth day of Iran’s war with Israel, and Iran’s Supreme National Security Council gathered for an emergency meeting in a bunker 100 feet below a mountain slope in the western part of Tehran. For days, a relentless Israeli bombing campaign had destroyed military, government and nuclear sites around Iran, and had decimated the top echelon of Iran’s military commanders and nuclear scientists. The officials, who included President Masoud Pezeshkian, the heads...
  • IDF said to believe entire Houthi cabinet likely killed in Thursday strikes

    08/30/2025 7:18:34 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 55 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | August 29, 2025 | Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
    Yemen's Al-Jumhuriya channel and the Aden Al-Ghad newspaper reported that Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli attack on an apartment in the capital Sanaa, with the latter reporting that several of his companions were killed as well.It appeared from the reports to have been a separate strike from the one that was said target 10 senior Houthi ministers as they gathered in a location outside of the capital to hear a speech by the group's leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.The IDF on Friday confirmed that the Houthi defense minister and chief of staff were targeted in that...
  • Hamas threatens to kidnap IDF soldiers, warns hostages held in Gaza City combat zones

    08/30/2025 6:20:14 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 28 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | AUGUST 29, 2025 | By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
    Hamas’s military wing spokesperson, Abu Obeida, declared on Friday that Israeli hostages are being held alongside its fighters in combat zones under the same perilous conditions, as Israel intensifies preparations for a full-scale invasion of Gaza City. “We will preserve the lives of the captives to the extent that we can,” the terror group said. “They will remain with our fighters in the places of confrontation, exposed to the same risks.”
  • Israel Resumes Daytime Operations in Gaza City, Signaling Buildup to Assault

    08/29/2025 5:38:13 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 4 replies
    The New York Times ^ | August 29, 2025 | Adam Rasgon
    The Israeli military on Friday ended its policy of pausing daytime operations in Gaza City, intended to ease aid delivery, in the latest indication that the military was moving toward a full-scale invasion of the area. In a statement, the military said the “local tactical pause in military activity” would not apply to the city as of 10 a.m. on Friday, describing the area as a “dangerous combat zone.” The Israeli military said in late July that it started instituting pauses of operations between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. in several parts of the Gaza Strip. It made the move...
  • Meet the Radical Anti-Israel Activists Joining 'Squad' Dem Tlaib at Detroit Confab

    08/29/2025 2:15:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 29, 2025 | Alec Schemmel , Peter Pinedo
    Rep. Rashida Tlaib will headline a Detroit pro-Palestinian conference featuring ex-prisoners, extremistsA controversial pro-Palestinian gathering in Detroit is drawing scrutiny for featuring speakers with extremist views—including two former Israeli prisoners released in a Hamas deal—alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a prominent anti-Israel congresswoman. The second annual "People's Conference for Palestine" conference, which is being organized by a dozen different pro-Palestinian groups, will begin Friday afternoon and will end on Sunday. Rep. Tlaib will speak alongside several individuals accused of espousing antisemitic rhetoric, including a professor who has compared Jews to Nazis, a journalist who quipped about Hamas kidnapping "several...
  • Qatar Does Not Seem Interested in Any Deal that Ends the Rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip: What Qatar Is Saying in Arabic

    08/29/2025 3:16:10 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 21 replies
    Gatestone Institute ^ | Aug 28, 2025 | Bassam Tawil
    As the US and other Western countries continue to rely on Qatar to broker a ceasefire-hostage deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, senior Qatari journalists affiliated with the Qatar's state-run media continue to praise the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, and are even calling for Hamas to kidnap more Israelis.Al-Jazeera has been broadcasting similar videos from Hamas since the beginning of the war.While the Qatari government claims to the Trump Administration that it is working to release the 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas, & other terrorists in the Gaza Strip, al-Harmi, closely associated with Qatar's leadership,...
  • Israel says it's launching an attack on Gaza City, halts humanitarian pauses (Israel also said it recovered the body of hostage Ilan Weiss from the Gaza Strip)

    08/29/2025 7:01:42 AM PDT · by jerod · 7 replies
    The Israeli military said on Friday that it has begun preliminary operations and the initial stages of a planned offensive on Gaza City, adding that it is currently operating with great force on the outskirts. Earlier on Friday, Israel's military said it was suspending midday pauses that allowed the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza City, calling it a "a dangerous combat zone." The city was among the places that Israel paused fighting last month to allow food and aid supplies to enter from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time. The "tactical pauses" applied to Gaza City, Deir al-Balah...