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This week, President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was unquestionably responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and thousands of others throughout the Middle East -- mostly Muslim. His global terror network ran from South America to Europe to Africa to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. Soleimani was an unparalleled organizer and a pitiless murderer. His death was richly earned. But for many in the media and on the domestic and international...

The stealth C.I.A. drone that crashed deep inside Iranian territory last week was part of a stepped-up surveillance program that has frequently sent the United States’ most hard-to-detect drone into the country to map suspected nuclear sites, according to foreign officials and American experts who have been briefed on the effort. Until this week, the high-altitude flights from bases in Afghanistan were among the most secret of many intelligence-collection efforts against Iran, and American officials refuse to discuss it. But the crash of the vehicle, which Iranian officials said occurred more than 140 miles from the border with Afghanistan, blew...

Drone over N. Israel: Iranian with stolen US apps [.... from Obama, Hillary and Kerry] The UMV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) that flew on July 17 over northern Israel was a “Yasir’ drone made in Iran that was launched from a Hizballah base in Syria’s Qalamoun Mountains, some 60km from central Golan. This is reported by debkafile military and intelligence sources. The Yaasir can reach an altitude of 5,000 feet, operate in a 200km radius and stay aloft for 8 hours. .... exceptional maneuverability, unlike most drones, due it is believed to the advanced US electronic systems installed by reverse engineering...

A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran. "Yep, that's it," the official told Fox News. "And it's intact." U.S. officials had been expecting the video to appear. The footage, which shows the aircraft intact, confirms the Iranians have custody of the drone but appears to refute Iranian claims that it shot down the RQ-170 drone. With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President...

Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State, John Kerry was secretly meeting with Iranian officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear weapons program. After the news broke last week, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called on G-men to arrest John Kerry for his treasonous acts. Kerry was working against the Trump administration to salvage the Iranian nuclear deal.In May of 2018 former Obama Secretary of State was seen dining with several Iranian regime officials.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump’s claim that John Kerry violated the Logan Act is “true.”“It’s true. I mean I was there in Munich when I saw not only Kerry...

A couple of days ago Conunderground.com was the first to point out that the circumstances surrounding the “crash” of the top secret RQ170 Sentinel drone simply didn’t add up. And we were tight! The story continues to develop and it doesn’t look good! To recap, first we were told that Iran might’ve shot it down and then the story changed to “the drone crashed on Iranian soil ” After realizing that the Iranians were about to parade a perfectly functional drone with nary a scratch on it, the official story changed to “the drone landed because it wants to live”...

Twitchy US NEWS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT CARTOONS Premium Content My Account × Search twitchy.com.... Barack Obama tells Virginians we don’t have time for ‘trumped up culture wars’ and ‘fake outrage’ Posted at 7:45 pm on October 23, 2021 by Brett T. Everyone has noticed by now that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is bringing in a lot of big names who don’t live in Virginia to campaign for him: Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, to name a few. Obama campaigned for McAuliffe over the weekend and told the “crowd” that we don’t have time for “trumped-up culture...

NATIONAL SECURITY GOP Moves To Block Cash to Iran Through Defense Authorization Bill Provisions would prevent sanctions relief and expose Iran's malign activities The sprawling annual defense bill includes several provisions that would block the Biden administration from providing Iran with cash and would require the administration to come clean about any economic sanctions relief it provides to the Islamic Republic. The Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest GOP caucus in Congress, is codifying its anti-Iran platform in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which funds U.S. defense efforts and is expected to pass through the House this week

The Worst U.S. PresidentsThe U.S. presidents whose administrations were the worst-run, most ill-fated, or most corrupt. The worst U.S. presidents of all time, measured by their negative impact on the nation, its citizens health and happiness, and its future prosperity. (In some cases - such as the popular selections of Warren G. Harding and Richard Nixon - the negative view of the president and his administration is due to various scandals and perceived corruption within its ranks. Nixon remains the only president to step down from the office amid threats of impeachment.) Much of a president's job - including serving...

The Taliban executed some 900 people in six weeks in just one province as its fighters overran government troops, a police chief has claimed Targets included police officers, tribal elders, civil activists, and even a popular comedian who were dragged from their homes and killed in southern Kandahar province, the region's former head of police Tadin Khan said. Islamist fighters have now recaptured much of the province and have laid siege to the regional capital - also named Kandahar - as they push to retake control of the country following US troop withdrawal.

More than 200 rabbis sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ridiculing her for not more strongly condemning Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and accusing the Minnesota Democrat of inciting attacks on American Jews. "We reiterate that the mob attacks on American Jews today are directly attributable to the rhetoric of Rep. Omar and those who stand with her within and beyond Congress," the rabbis wrote in the letter Wednesday, which was organized by the Coalition of Jewish Values and its president, Rabbi Pesach Lerner. The coalition said Pelosi’s response to the controversial comments was “far too mild” and argued...

To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, “There are no Palestinians.” My actual words were: “There is no Palestinian people. There are Palestinian refugees.” The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations. When in 1921 I...

ASSASSINS IN IRAQ KILL ARAB LEADER; Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, Foe of Terrorists in Palestine, Slain in Baghdad BACKED BRITISH IN WAR Victim Denounced Haj Amin el Husseini, Now in Berlin, After Flight From Country. The New York Times, November 10, 1941, p. 3. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/11/10/archives/assassins-in-iraq-kill-arab-leader-fakhri-bey-nashashibi-foe-of.html ___ Sachar, H. M. (1974). Europe Leaves the Middle East, 1936-1954. United Kingdom: Allen Lane. pp.91-92.https://books.google.com/books?id=rrBtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22efforts%22 henchman,+Aref+al-+Razzaq Thus, in August, 1936, Nasr al-Din Nasr, the mayor of Hebron, was shot dead outside his home. The mukhtar (village leader) of Caesaria met the same fate in February, 1937. In April of that year Ibrahim Yusuf, a member...

Klaus-Michael Mallmann, ‎Martin Cüppers, Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. (Enigma Books, 2010). p. 201. https://books.google.com/books?id=vjsLAqafdQ8C&pg=PA201 The five paratroopers were briefed by el-Husseini himself, who compared Islam to National Socialism and assured them that the struggle in Palestine would help Germany. He hoped that all the Arab nations would now unite in fighting the Jews ... He succeeded Eugen Faber as head of the Palestinian Hitler Youth in 1938, joined the Brandenburg regiment in 1940, accompanied Grobba to Iraq one year later. And since then had been part of sonderstab F. Lieutenant Werner Frank...

Students of the law, get ready to learn about systemic racism.Such will be the case at New York’s Yeshiva University.As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, the college’s Cardozo School of Law sent an email to attendees Thursday delivering news of a change.The message hailed a major curriculum overhaul “designed to help our students examine and understand racism in the law and throughout the legal system.”To that end, the incoming Class of ’24 will be the first required to complete at least one of the following courses:Cross-Cultural NegotiationRace and the LawIndigenous Rights in the AmericasCritical Race TheoryBut don’t assume those...

The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967. Page 9 Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy(Direct JTA Teletype Wire - to The Jewish News)NEW YORK — In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday's New York Times, Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West. Recalling the pro-Hilter activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem....

No. It's not a case of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg'. Seeing the horrific Arab Muslim attacking Jews, even in the US, at times with 'allahu akbar,' under banner of do called "free palestine," reminds us to refresh our memory. Hatred came before grievances... Here are highlights of Arab attacks on Jews before 1948. * Arab attack on Jews 1886 Petach Tikwa. * In 1914 'Filastin' was banned by the Turks for inciting racial hatred. * 1920, al-Husseini instigated killing Jews. Firing up with jihadi calls to kill. > * In 1929, Mufti al-Husseini instigated an all...

WHENEVER I discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with western Leftists who believe Israel is an illegitimate state, I’m shocked at their ignorance of basic historical facts. Most Leftists believe that before the 1947 UN Partition Plan for British Mandatory Palestine there was a country called Palestine inhabited by mostly Arab Muslim Palestinians, and that it was stolen by Jews emigrating from Europe. I always ask Leftists why the Arabs of Palestine should be granted two states comprising the entirety of historic Palestine but the Jews of Palestine shouldn’t have a sliver of the land for themselves? Almost always, the Israel-haters will...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) warned that "the cease-fire agreed to by Israel must not be permitted to obscure its responsibility for the war crimes it committed against the Palestinians. Their practice of urging civilians to evacuate the target zones for Israeli air strikes doesn't excuse the fact that these bombings are acts of aggression against the righteous efforts of freedom fighters to dislodge the illegal occupiers of Muslim lands." Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) expressed a similar message, calling Israel's retaliation for the thousands of Hamas rockets fired into heavily populated areas within Israel "totally unwarranted. The attempt to exterminate the...

The new American Middle East policy is an extension of the new American domestic policy. By Victor Davis Hanson More than 2,500 rockets have landed in Israel over the past week. Some Arab Israeli citizens are terrorizing Jewish Israelis. Apparently, as the rockets fall, these citizens are to be Arab Islamic nationalists first, and Israelis last—even if they wisely prefer to live on the Israeli rather than the Palestinian side of Israel’s hated wall. The usual Hamas sympathizers are promising death to the Jews on social media (so much for the idea that Twitter and Facebook are “shocked, shocked” by...