Ismail Haniyeh is the ‘Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau,” and as such is supposedly the chief officer of that terrorist group. On October 7, 2023, he gave a televised speech from Istanbul, telling the world that the October 7th attack was fully justified, which he “highlighted threats to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, the continuation of the blockade on Gaza and Israeli normalization with countries in the region.” Safely living in Qatar, Mr Haniyeh is once again rejecting a ceasefire proposal which does not give Hamas complete victory. Continue reading
Category Archives: Foreign Policy
World War III Watch: Have we forgotten the history of our ever-increasing involvement in Vietnam?
Some of us are old enough[1]I was just barely young enough to not have served in Vietnam had I been drafted. When I did try to enlist, after graduation from college, my right eye failed the vision test anyway, so I never served … Continue reading to remember how President Lyndon Johnson slowly expanded our involvement in the war in Vietnam, piece by piece, little by little, until we had half a million troops there.
There are 58,276 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, but our ‘leaders’ in Washington seem to have forgotten that.
Biden gives Ukraine permission to carry out limited strikes within Russia using US weapons
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The pro #Hamas protests seem as though they are withering away
I do so love being proved right, I have said, both on this site and Twitter, it’s a bit pointless to use force to break up the protest encampments, because, with the semester ending, these encampments will just wither away.
Swarthmore College’s pro-Palestinian encampment disbands after 4 weeks and stalled negotiations
Student activists began voluntarily clearing the encampment on Parrish Lawn Thursday morning.
by Beatrice Forman | Friday, May 24, 2024 | 5:48 MP EDT
Swarthmore College’s pro-Palestinian encampment officially came down Friday morning, marking the end of the longest campus protest over the war in Gaza in the Philadelphia area.
About three dozen student activists began packing up their belongings from Parrish Lawn voluntarily Thursday, said organizer Ragad A., a sophomore, who declined to share their full name out of privacy concerns. Continue reading
Tuesday morning rant
Sometimes I get on a roll when commenting on The Pirate’s Cove. In response to the commenter styling himself Elwood P Dowd, I ranted:
The very good and noble Mr Dowd wrote:
Yes, everyone makes mistakes. Mr Teach was celebrating the deaths of two evil men while ignoring burning alive as many as 50 children, women and men.
Those “two evil men” weren’t brave soldiers on the battlefield, nobly resisting the advancing Israeli soldiers, but cowards who started a fight they couldn’t finish, hiding amongst the (purportedly) innocent children. How many ‘innocent’ Germans were killed as the Allies closed the noose on Germany, seeking to capture or kill Adolf Hitler and his henchmen? How many ‘innocent’ Japanese were burned to death in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, as the US softened up the country in preparation for invasion? Continue reading
The Golden Rule
Have you heard of the Golden Rule? “He who has the gold makes the rules!”
We have noted, many times, how deep-pockets donors have reacted very badly to the tolerance of anti-Semitism on campus. Several major corporate CEOs have said that they would not hire Harvard students who signed a stupid document blaming Israel for Hamas’ October 7th attack, and at least one CEO has said he will never again hire anyone from Harvard, MIT, or Penn following the three presidents’ debacle. Continue reading
Israel busts yet another Hamas tunnel and weapons cache
Hamas weapons captured, photo by IDF. Click to enlarge.
IDF troops raid Hamas compound, seize weapons cache from hidden tunnel in Rafah
IDF troops say they eliminated ‘dozens’ of Hamas members
By Anders Hagstrom, Fox News | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 1:40 PM EDT
Israeli forces conducted a raid against a Hamas compound in Gaza on Tuesday, uncovering a tunnel and a significant cache of weapons and explosives. Continue reading
Anti-Semitism at Hahvahd is nothing new.
Our good friends on the left have been assuring us that the many protests against Israel’s policies against the poor, poor Palestinians is simply support for an oppressed people, and is in no way anti-Semitic. Steve Keeley, of Fox 29 News, reproduced and tweeted out the message of John Fry, President of Drexel University in Philadelphia, concerning the new encampment of pro-Hamas protesters there:
While protest encampments such as this one are not legally protected, we had hoped last night that this demonstration would remain peaceful and respectful of others. Regrettably, that is not the case here. This demonstration already has proved intolerably disruptive to normal University operations and has raised serious concerns about the conduct of some participants, including distressing reports and images of protesters subjecting passersby to antisemitic speech, signs and chants.
There’s more of Dr Fry’s message, which can be seen at Mr Keeley’s tweet. The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the creation of the ‘encampment’ at Drexel, but, in an article last updated at 10:14 PM EDT on Saturday, had nothing on Dr Fry’s message or the anti-Semitic behavior of many of the protesters. Continue reading
Are barbed wire and lock-picking tools the usual things that peaceful protesters have and use? Just who is paying for these obviously organized professional agitators?
At least this time, the University of Pennsylvania didn’t waste any time! Continue reading
Israel recovers three more hostages from Gaza Unfortunately, they were already dead.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Israel Defence Force has recovered three more hostages who were seized by Hamas in the October 7th terrorist attack, and all three were dead. From The Wall Street Journal: Continue reading