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Six-Day War

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{{Military conflict
| image =Soldiers Western Wall 1967.jpg
| conflict =Six-Day War
| partof =[[Arab-Israeli conflict]]
| date =June 5, 1967-June 10, 1967
| location =[[Middle East]]
| combatant1 =[[Image:Flag of Israel.png|20px]] [[Israel]]
| combatant2 =[[Egypt]] [[Syria]] [[Jordan]] [[Lebanon]] [[Iraq]] [[Pakistan]] 
| commander1 =[[Levi Eshkol]] [[Yitzhak Rabin]]
| commander2 =[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] [[Abdel Hakim Amer]] Abdul Munim Riad Hussein Zaid ibn Shaker Asad Ghanma Salah Jadid
| strength1 =264,000
| strength2 =547,000
| casualties1 =776 killed
| casualties2 =Egypt: 15,000 killed Jordan: 696 killed Syria: 2,500 killed
}}
[[File:Driving the Jews into the sea.PNG|thumb|[https://books.google.com/books?id=Jh9CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false "Driving the Jews into the sea." Syrian cartoon. (How the phrase has, always, meant literally, in the Arab world)]]]
The June 1967 '''Six-Day War''' resulted when the [[Egypt]]ian ruler [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] closed off the Gulf of Aqaba, which was the only access [[Israel]] had to the [[Red Sea]]. Israel responded with massive [[preemptive]] air strikes against several Arab nations, including Egypt, killing many Arabs and destroying their military capabilities. Israel conquered [[Jerusalem]], the West Bank, the [[Sinai Peninsula]] and Golan Heights. In a political move to retain his popularity, Egyptian President Abdel Nasser announced his resignation, but later agreed to continue to lead Egypt.

==1965-6==

[[Palestinian]] [[Ahmad Shukeiri]] (who testified in his book that, 1940–1, Palestine Arabs cheered and prayed for the victory of the [[Nazis]] over the Allies,<ref>Elie Kedourie. Professor of Politics Emeritus. (1964) "Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies, Cass books on the Middle East." Psychology Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pJkH06fTLD8C&pg=PA189 p. 189].
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Shuqayri began to be active in Palestinian Arab politics in the early 1930s ... whether or not they were politically wise—Shuqayri was expressing the attitudes and feelings of his countrymen... He describes the great excitement with which they used to listen to German and Italian broadcasts, how he would follow during the night the military communiqués, marking on a map the places being occupied by the victorious Germans and meet his friends the following morning to discuss triumphs exceeding those of the previous day: '''Our sympathies were with the Axis powers being led by Hitler from victory to victory, and with our sympathies went our prayers for the victory of Germany'' and her allies, and defeat for Britain...</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/002-D-100749-00.html The Truth About the War of Independence: Poor Preparations - Chapter 19...] ''News 1'', March 13, 2015. 'Chapter Nineteen of Dr. Uri Milstein's research / book on the poor preparations for the War of Independence. In the chapter: Israeli Arabs sympathized with Nazi Germany in World War II.. The Palestinians sympathized with the Nazis.

During World War II, most of the leaders in Palestinian society supported Nazi Germany. The ideological and strategic conflict in the world had no meaning in their eyes. Their sympathy for the "Axis" countries expressed their desire to get rid of the British, the French and the Zionists, or at least to see the fall of the British. Ahmad Shukieri testified: "Our sympathy was with the Axis Powers. Hitler led from victory to victory. We prayed for the victory of Germany and its allies and the defeat of Britain and its allies. When the British government announced the establishment of an Eretz Israel military force for the war effort, our young men were instructed: 'Do not join this force' and almost everyone obeyed it. The German and Italian air forces arrived in Palestine. And in September 1940 their planes bombed targets in Tel Aviv and Haifa. The joy and excitement in our circles was indescribable. So happened that an Italian bomb fell in Acre in the neighborhood where my house was, it dug a large pit but did not cause any damage. The assistant governor in Acre visited me and said that the governor jokingly told him that this bomb was intended for Ahmad Shukeiri. I said: "Excellent. Upon me and all my enemies!"''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6UguAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%22], Vol. 28, Mifleget po'ale Erets-Yiśra'el, 1972, pp.225-6</ref> and he himself allied with / propagated for Hitler against the Jews,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3Yah_o9r5V4C&pg=SL1-PA456&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22Shukairy%22%20%22worked%20for%20the%20Nazis%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, United States. Congress, 1965, p.456]. 
"Ahmed Shukairy... a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II." </ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0nacFQ7dBJIC&pg=SL1-PA525#v=onepage&q=%22worked%20with%20the%20Nazis%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 110, Part 22. United States. Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. Page 525]: "Shukairy has had a remarkable history... he worked with the Nazis in the Middle East."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22all%20out%20for%20Hitler%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Volume 107, Part 24, United States Congress 1961, p.5735]:<blockquote>Warmongering in the U.N. Extension of Remarks Of Hon. Lester Holtzman Of New York. In the House of Representatives. Wednesday, July 26, 1961... Shukairy joined the Arab Higher Committee which was also headed by the ex Mufti. Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists led by the ex-Mufti. This gang cooperated with the Communists and prior to the Hitler-Stalin Pact sought in every possible way to sabotage the Allied war effort against the Nazis in the Middle East. However, when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the ommunists, and went all out for Hitler.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9 The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967. Page 9]:<blockquote>
'Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy.

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.

Dr. Simard said, that the Arab terrorist leader "also played a most active role in keeping tensions white hot in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ivMvAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Cooper%C3%B3%22 Ahora, Issue 95; Issue 101; Issue 119; Issue 124; Issue 133; Issue 136; Issue 143; Issue 162; Issue 186 - Publicaciones !Ahora!, 1965 - p.9].<blockquote>
'La guerra o la paz en el Madio Este puede depender en gran parte de éstos dos árabes: El Presidente Nasser, de la República Árabe Unida, y de Ahmad Shukairy, quien no encabeza a ningún país pero...dirigir a una fuerza de guerilla...
Shukairy cooperó con el Partido Comunista de Palestina, dirigido por Moscú antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Sin embargo, después que Hitler atacó a Rusia y a los comunistas en todo el mundo cambió posiciones, el feroz e impredeclble Shukairy se alineo con Hitler por sus programas contra los judios.'
 
[Translated: War or peace in the Middle East may depend largely on these two Arabs: President Nasser of the United Arab Republic and Ahmad Shukairy, who does not lead any country but ... (can) lead a guerilla force...

Shukairy cooperated with the Palestinian Communist Party, led by Moscow ahead of the Second World War.

However, after Hitler attacked Russia and communists around the world changed positions, the fierce and unpredictable Shukairy aligned himself with Hitler for his anti-Jewish programs.]</blockquote></ref> months after the war, in 1946, together with [[Jamal Husseini]], have justified the [[Holocaust]]<ref>"Behind the British Conspiracy." [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47 B'nai B'rith Messenger. 12 July, 1946, p.6]. <blockquote>...Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab office, who restituted in his conversation the words of Goebbels, justified the murder of six million Jews of Europe "because Hitler could not be all wrong." I met Jamal el Husseini; he issued the same warning as Shukeiri (he being Shukeiri's chief) ... and reiterated his justification of the mass murder of six million Jews "for Hitler couldn't be all wrong . . . ''</blockquote>
[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49964532/ The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July 12, 1946, p. 7].
 
"British Actions in Palestine". By Bernard Lerner.</ref>), visited China, under dictator [[Mao]], in 1965.
[[File:Survey of China Mainland Press, Issues 3406-3428, 1965, p 35.PNG|thumb|"Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmad Shukairy president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (praising [[Mao]]'s cadets in Wuhan, March 24, 1965)<ref name=book-socmp1965/>]]
On March 24, 1965, visiting Mao's cadets in Wuhan, Shukairy declared: "Our common target is US imperialism." <ref name=book-socmp1965>[https://books.google.com/books?&id=X74zAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Shukairy+praised Survey of China Mainland Press. Hong Kong: American Consulate General, 1965. p. 35].
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Delegation of Palestine Liberation Organization Visits Military Academy in Wuhan.
(NCNA-English, Wuhan, March 24, 1965).

"Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmed Shukairy president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.</blockquote></ref>
He praised the cadets for their superb skills. and said that Mao was the creator of an independent military theory. His army build up from nothing had become a mighty revolutionary army. Going along the same parh, the Palestine Liberation Army would be founded.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MqkcAQAAMAAJ&q=Ahmad+Shukairy+praised+the+cadets+for+their+superb+skills News from Hsinhua News Agency: daily bulletin. United Kingdom: n.p., 1965. p. 57].<blockquote>
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1965.

032456 -- "Delegation of palestine liberation organization visits military academy in Wuhan"

Wuhan, March twenty fourth (hsinhua) -- "Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmed Shukairy president of the palestine Liberation organization. When he and the delegation visited he is leading visited a military academy of the cChinese people's Liberation army here and watched a drill by cadets today.

Founded by chairman mao tse-tung, the great leader of the Chinese people .

...history of the academy and its classrooms. they were warmly welcomed by cadets who gave them a demonstration of shooting, bayonet practice and other skills.

Ahmed Shukairy praised the cadets for their superb skills. He said that Chairman Mao Tse-tung was the creator of an independent military theory. His army build up from nothing had become a mighty revolutionary army. Going along the same parh, the Palestine Liberation Army would be founded.</blockquote></ref>

Syria's fascist [[Ba'ath]] Party has appealed to China for help in the "liberation" of Palestine from the Jews. Following Shukeiri's visit to Peking, the PLO opened its office in [[Peking]], the first one of its kind on non-Arab soil.<ref>Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan. Pakistan: Pakistan Herald Publications., 1965. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=CX46AQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Non-Arab%22 p. 24].
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Recently Syria's Bath Party has appealed to China for help in the liberation of Palestine from the Jews. Following Syrian President Mr. Ahmed Shukeiri's visit to Peking recently, the Palestine Liberation Front opened its office in Peking, the first one of its kind on non-Arab soil.</blockquote></ref>

A year before the Six-Day War, Shukeiri had declared his support for the Viet Cong.<ref>Irving Louis Horowitz (1974) "Israeli Ecstasies/Jewish Agonies". Oxford University Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cb9tAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Landowner p. 11].
<blockquote>ARAB POLICIES.
In the 1930's Arab terrorists and "guerrillas" waged a continuous war against Jewish settlements in Palestine: arson, destruction of wells and pipelines, and murder. Then as now, they were part of the apparatus of "Arab liberation."
It was with the active propaganda and financial support of the Nazis and Fascists that Haj Amin El Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi propagandist, advocated mass murder of the Jews. '''Ahmed Shukeiri, present head of the so-called Palestine Liberation Organization, is a large landowner, an unmistakable heir of the revanchist chauvinism of the pro-Nazi Arab, who dares to proclaim himself leader of a national liberation struggle and offer "support" to the Vietnamese Liberation Front'''.
One day the head of the reactionary Syrian delegation to the United Nations, another day leader of the Saudi Arabian delegation , on yet another day he heads "guerrilla war" against Israel, a war against individual citizens, with "guerrillas" who never dare attack a military force, a "guerrilla force" which is, in fact, not a guerrilla force at all but a band of mercenaries in the pay of a foreign power, Egypt.</blockquote></ref>
And has threatened the [[United States]] with an alliance with the Vietcong.
<ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.05.26.001/3 The Detroit Jewish News, May 26, 1967.]
"Fear for Israel May Avert Third World War".
By Philip Slomovitz.
<blockquote>... To have permitted him to function, while he was threatening the United States with an '''alliance with the Vietcong''', was viewed by many as a grave danger.
Now Shukeiri and his PLO have come home to roost—and they could well instigate the Arab peoples who are unaware of the existing dangers to involve Israel and the entire free world in a third world conflict.</blockquote></ref>

In June, 1966, Shukairy defiantly declared that the Palestine Liberation Army was receiving military assistance as well as training from the Chinese [[Communists]]. In the same month, as a corollary, PLO announced, in programs broadcast over Radio Cairo, that it was preparing to intervene in the Vietnam war.
According to Shukairy, the PLO had decided to send its soldiers "to fight alongside the Viet Cong."

Explaining that by serving with the Viet Cong, troops of the PLO would gain valuable experience in guerilla warfare "which will be used in the inevitable war to liberate Palestine."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxDAQAAIAAJ&q=In+June,+1966,+Shukairy+defiantly+declared ''Facts'', Volume 16, B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League, p. 425].
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In June, 1966, Shukairy defiantly declared that the Palestine Liberation Army was receiving military assistance as well as training from the Chinese Communists. In the same month, as a corollary, PLO announced, in programs broadcast over Radio Cairo, that it was preparing to intervene in the Vietnam war. 
According to Shukairy, the PLO had decided to send its soldiers "to fight alongside the Viet Cong."

He said that by serving with the Viet Cong, troops of the PLO would gain valuable experience in guerilla warfare "which will be used in the inevitable war to liberate Palestine."</blockquote></ref>

In November 1966, Shukairy stated that his guerrillas would soon begin an expanded terrorist offensive in Israel modeled partly on the methods of the Vietcong.

He also let it be known that many of his men are being trained in Communist China His plan is to send these guerrillas into the two bulges. He already has some 10,000 troops under his command in the Gaza trip.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1966/12/02/01/article/164 Behind The Scenes At The United Nations By David Horowitz], B'nai B'rith, Dec 2, 1966.
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THE GREAT danger for Israel, despite King Hussein's disclaimer of any involvement, lies in the Arab refugee problem in these bulges who have sworn allegiance to the modern Antiochus Ahmad Shukairy who is arming them to the teeth in preparation for an all-out offensive.

Interviewed by a New York Times corresponding in Cairo last week. Shukairy stated that his guerrillas would soon begin an expanded terrorist offensive in Israel modeled partly on the methods of the Vietcong.

He also let it be known that many of his men are being trained in Communist China His plan is to send these guerrillas into the two bulges. He already has some 10,000 troops under his command in the Gaza trip.

These facts were not unknown to the Security Council members when they voted to condemn Israel.

The question arises: should Israel wait until this happens? Should Israel remain silent and allow Shukairy's Peking and Viet-cong-trained guerrillas to organize and strengthen themselves into the two bulges in readiness for their eventual offensive?

THIS WRITER believes waiting would be suicidal...</blockquote></ref>

== Prelude ==
Previously, Israel was forced to deal with several threats from Arab leaders. Already in 1965 Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel [[Nasser]] announced: “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”. On May 22, 1967, Syrian leader Nureddin al-Attasi told his troops “We want a full scale, popular war of liberation to destroy the Zionist enemy”. In the same month Nasser forced the UN Emergency Force to leave the Sinai Peninsula, where they were stationed since 1957.<ref>[https://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/articles/remembering-the-six-day-war-and-israels-fight-for-survival/ The Six Day War Remembered]. A reflection on the "what-might-have-beens." jewishvoicesnj, Jun 22, 2016. Joseph Puder.</ref><ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=Jh9CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 Arab Design for Israel's Annihilation, 1958-1967.]" Embassy of Israel, 1967.</ref>

The threat was real: The actions and rhetoric.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rnEBAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Genocide Ruppin, R. (1971). Us, Them and the Land of Israel /‏‬‎. Israel: Sherut ha-pirsumim. p.36]. 
''Arab propagandists, led by Ahmad Shukeiri - chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization - have even explicitly declared the extermination of Israelis (Genocide).''
''Nasser re-blocked the Straits of Tiran for Israeli sailing, provoking a wave of hysterical lust for war among millions of Arabs, in all their countries. Some of these actions were enough to make the war inevitable. When Israel went to war defending against Egypt, Jordan attacked Israel, even though Hussein was promised to honor the [[ceasefire]] agreement if he refrained from intervening. The aggression of Syria, whose army launched an attack on upper Galilee settlements, it was visible to all.''</ref>

[[File:Arabs.vow.to.liquidate.Israel.1966.jpg|thumb|File:Arabs vow to liquidate Israel - 1966]]

Nov. 1966: "Arabs Vow To Liquidate Israel."
<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v2ocAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA129 ''The Pittsburgh Press'', ‎Nov 13, 1966 (15)]
"Arabs Vow To Liquidate Israel.
Jordan Invaded..."</ref>

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Shukeiri.genocidal.ahead.of.Six-Day.war.1.jpg|[https://books.google.com/books?id=sG0pAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10 The Spokesman-Review, Jul 6, 1967 (p. 18)]. "Jodan Rift is Rumored" - Beirut, Lebanon (AP) --... The reports said Jordan's Premier Saad Jumaa bitterly condemned "mistakes" committed by Ahmed Shukairy, the PLO's fiery leader, just before the war. Jumaa was reported lo have said that the government asked Shukairy to remain in Amman but that he went by Jerusalem and made inflammatory statements destroying the Jews...

Shukeiri.genocidal.ahead.of.Six-Day.war.2.jpg|[https://books.google.com/books?id=JTpIAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7 Meriden Journal, Jun 14, 1967 (p. 12)] "Fate Of Fiery Leftist Leader Of Palestine Arabs In Doubt." By Michael Goldsmith. Beirut, Lebanon (AP) --The Arab defeat in the Middle Wast wareaves a big question mark over the future of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its firebrand leader -- Ahmed Shukairy. Shukairy narrowly escaped capture by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and many of his "Liberation Army" are now prisoners of the Israelis. "We will wipe Israel off the map and no Jew will survive," Mr. Shukairy declared two days before the war broke out June 5. He vowed to lead Ihe van-guard of his troops into the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and set up a "purely Arab government" there for all of Palestine.
</gallery>

[[Ahmad Shukeiri]] expressed his genocidal aims, including predicting that no one will survive.<ref>Iyunim biTkumat Israel, 11, 2001, pp. 141-132 [https://in.bgu.ac.il/bgi/iyunim/11/5.pdf] [Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon].
Moshe Shemesh - Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'?
<blockquote>The fact that in that statement he explicitly spoke of the extermination of Jews strengthened the credibility of the claim. That he called for throwing the Jews into the sea...</blockquote></ref>

Saad Jumaa, who was Prime Minister of [[Jordan]] at the time uttered: "After the war, we came to know that these chatter terrified the peoples of Europe and the American people, and caused everyone to identify with Israel, which Shukeiri intended to destroy and murder her wives and children."<ref>[http://www.mideast.co.il/p-2_a-216/ Ahmad Shukeiri and the failure of Palestinian nationalism] Dr. Yohai Sela, The Mideat Magazine, Aug 30, 2008.
<blockquote>Shukeiri in the eyes of the Jordanians.
Shortly after the Six Day War, two Western journalists - Vic Vance and Pierre Lauer - met with King Hussein to hear his version of wartime events. The king's words, which were visible, were translated into Hebrew and published in a book published in 1974. The book also includes a chapter by the Prime Minister of Jordan in 1967, Saad Juma...
Juma continued to describe Shukeiri the day after they arrived in Jordan:
 

"The next day Shukeiri visited my office. During his visit the king suddenly appeared, and Shukeiri began to spill as usual and utter his long, routine, corny and inflated words. Most of all, and what good would it be if the army from Syria entered Jordan, and he, namely Shukeiri himself, would command him in the liberation system. I told him willingly: 'In time of calamity you will be at the forefront of talks. The Syrian: The effort, the sacrifice and the fierceness do not depend on certain circumstances or a certain front. If the war breaks out, it will be general and comprehensive, and will not separate a Palestinian from a Jordanian, and between a Syrian and an Egyptian. I find in my diary that I told him briefly; 'Shukeiri, I'm asking you not to make speeches these days. The days are recruiting days. I'm afraid that you will provoke the emotions of the masses, which are tense anyway, and in preparation for war. 'Shukeiri smiled, unsatisfied a will, and promised not to travel, since if he traveled he would no doubt speak. Eventually he broke his promise, drove off and spoke.
The demonstrators, who left the mosque that day, almost turned to destroy the foreign consulates in Jerusalem - if the wise men did not cooperate with the security personnel in dispersing non-violent demonstrations. Shukeiri was not content with that, and on the same day (June 2), as he was leaving the mosque, held a press conference. On this occasion he uttered his famous words..:'We will destroy Israel and its inhabitants, and those who remain - if anyone remains - the ships are ready for their exile.' He told me ... a lecturer from the University of Jordan, that he saw Shukeiri on the television screen in London when he uttered these nonsense. After the war, we came to know that these chatter terrified the peoples of Europe and the American people, and caused everyone to identify with Israel, which Shukeiri intended to destroy and murder her wives and children. "When the fighting started, on the morning of June 5, Shukeiri fled from Jerusalem to Amman, and from there - I do not know where."
 
Saad Juma'a, of course, forgot to mention the contribution of Amman Radio to Arab enthusiasm on June 5, 1967, when he exclaimed, "Oh Arabs, strike everywhere. Beat until the end. The end of Israel is in your hands." On June 7, 1967, King Hussein delivered a speech calling on his subjects "Kill the Jews with whatever you can get your hands on. Kill them with your arms and your hand, and your nails and your teeth." Shukieri's statement on June 2 was similar to his statement given to the Arab media on May 28, when he said that "the natives of Israel, who will survive, can stay in Palestine. However, in my best estimation, none of them will survive." As Shukieri said these words, dozens of mass graves were prepared in Israel, as there was no doubt that the Israeli victims would be enormous. Rabbis went from site to site and consecrated them as burial places. Israelis who watched Egyptian television in those days were attacked with real existential anxiety in the face of the scenes seen from the screen, since Arab ecstasy was at its peak. For example, Algeria Radio put it this way on June 4, 1967: Brethren, this is the battle of the Arab homeland, of the Arab nation. Battle of Fate, we must look at the battle from this point of view. "The true freedom of the entire Arab homeland must be achieved through the elimination of the Zionist state."</blockquote></ref>

Shukeiri incited the Arabs into a frenzy [[Jihad]]. He ''fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you."''<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382480217/ The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California, December 31, 1967, p. 28]:<blockquote>

Shukairy Steps Down It Might Be Said that Terror is his middle name.

"We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," warned Ahmed Shukairy last June. As head of the clandestine [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] for the past four years, Shukairy has been responsible for the murders of dozens of Israeli men, women and children in bloody midnight raids across the borders of Jordan and Syria.

A Jowly heavy-lidded Haifa lawyer, he fired up his followers with injunctions for a "sacred war," like the Koran's: "Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you." Israel and the Jews have by no means been Shukairy's only targets. - He hates the United States nearly as much and isn't terribly fond of Jordan either. With characteristic temperance he once said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces." He once described Jordan's moderate king as the "tyrant of Amman, Hussein; who betrayed Allah, the "Prophet"...</blockquote></ref>

Author:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tczy5YtB4PEC&pg=PA174 Steven Heydemann, ‎Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East: 'War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.' University of California Press, 2000, p. 174] Israel and the 1967 War. Joel S. Migdal.
''From Doom To Boom.''</ref>
<blockquote>
The dark warnings of Arab leaders about what would happen to Israel if their forces were to triumph had been all too explicit. Only a week before the outbreak of fighting, [[Egypt]]'s president, Gamal Abdul [[Nasser]], had threatened that "this will be a total war. Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel." And the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, [[Ahmad Shukeiri|Ahmed Shukairy]], had added to the sense of looming tragedy, "Those native-born Israelis who survive can remain in Palestine. But I estimate that none of them will survive."</blockquote>

Historian:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HxC7AAAAIAAJ&q=Shukeiri+hitler Meyer Levin: 'The Story of Israel,' (Putnam), 1966 (1967), pp. 221-222].</ref>
<blockquote>Again, Arab leaders began to vie with each other on promising genocide for the Jews of the Holy Land. It was to be a war of extermination in which not a man, woman, or child should be spared, announced Ahmed Shukeiri, the bloodthirsty organizer of commando units in the Arab refugee camps. Nasser promised to place Shukeiri's men in the front ranks when he invaded.</blockquote>

Summarizing in ''The Chicago Tribune'':<ref>"[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-06-07-8702120006-story.html 20 Years after six day war triumph, Israel still grappling with]." Jonathan Broder, Chicago Tribune. June 7, 1987.</ref><blockquote>
For three weeks before the fighting erupted, the tiny Jewish state was caught in the stranglehold of an Egyptian naval blockade that cut off Israel's vital Red Sea port of Elat. Encouraged by Western apathy and indecision, Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser then ousted United Nations buffer troops from the Gaza Strip and moved his forces up to the 1949 armistice line with Israel.

Sensing Israel`s vulnerability, the Arab world rallied to Nasser`s side. Jordan, Syria and Iraq signed mutual defense pacts with Egypt and began moving troops and tanks toward Israel`s eastern and northern borders. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco and Tunisia announced that their soldiers and facilities stood at Egypt's disposal.

By the end of May, daylong broadcasts throughout the Middle East exhorted Arabs to join the jihad (holy war) against Israel. On May 25, Nasser declared publicly, ''The problem now before the Arab countries is not whether the port of Elat should be blockaded--but how to totally exterminate the state of Israel for all time.''

Palestinian leader Ahmed Shukeiry, asked about the fate of the Jews in Israel after the war, replied, ''I estimate none of them will survive.''</blockquote>

The PLO's broadcasts:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AVdYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA68 Jordan Is No. 1 Choice To Provide War Spark], ''Spokane Daily Chronicle'', Jun 1, 1967 (30).<blockquote>
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Ahmed Shukairy. head of the Palestine Liberation Organization of refugees said today it is "possible and even most likely" that Jordan's army will fire the first shot unleashing an Arab war against Israel...
Broadcasts from Cairo of the Palestine Liberation Organization heard in Israel urged Arabs still living in Israel to revolt.

The broadcasts said the U.S 6th fleet is coming to take the Jews...
Broadcast Quoted

"Only Arabs will then remain and you will be and you will be slaughtered if you don't rebel," the broadcasts said...</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Broadcasts from Cairo of the Palestine Liberation Organization heard in Israel urged Arabs still living in Israel to revolt. The broadcasts said the U.S 6th fleet is coming to take the Jews.. Quoted: "Only Arabs will then remain and you will be and you will be slaughtered if you don't rebel." </blockquote>

Author [[Matthias Küntzel]]’s article,<ref name=kuntzel-2017>Matthias Küntzel, [https://fathomjournal.org/1967-nassers-antisemitic-war-against-israel/ “1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel”]. ''Fathom Journal'', Spring 3l2017</ref> shows that the 1967 Six-Day War was driven not primarily by territorial disputes or immediate military necessity, but by deep-rooted antisemitism and anti-Zionist ideology in the Arab world, especially as embodied by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Main Line.

Author contends that Nasser deliberately escalated tensions with Israel in 1967 despite opportunities for compromise. He contrasts Nasser with Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, who in 1965 urged Arab leaders to accept a peaceful settlement with Israel based on the UN partition plan. Bourguiba advocated coexistence and negotiation, but Nasser rejected this approach and instead pursued confrontation.

He points out that:

* Nasser sought not coexistence but Israel’s destruction.
* Soviet misinformation and support contributed to the crisis, but Nasser made the decisive choices.
* Antisemitic ideology, influenced partly by European fascism and Nazi propaganda, shaped Nasser’s worldview and Arab political culture.
* Mass anti-Israel sentiment in the Arab world (“the Arab street”) reinforced and encouraged Nasser's course toward war.

The Road to the Six-Day War.

The article outlines the escalation in May–June 1967:

* The Soviet Union falsely warned Egypt that Israel was massing troops near Syria.
* Nasser moved Egyptian troops into Sinai, expelled UN peacekeepers, and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
* Arab leaders and media increasingly used militant rhetoric calling for Israel's destruction.
* Israel, fearing an existential threat, launched a preemptive strike on June 5, beginning the Six-Day War.

Author emphasizes that international observers found no evidence of the Israeli troop buildup claimed by the Soviets.

Soviet Role.
The Soviet Union played a significant but indirect role by:

* Arming Arab states.
* Spreading false intelligence about Israeli troop concentrations.
* Encouraging anti-Israel propaganda.

However, author says Moscow did not actually want Israel destroyed and later tried to reduce tensions once the crisis escalated too far.

Nasser's Ideological Background.
A central section examines Nasser's early political influences:

* As a young man, he was associated with the ultranationalist Young Egypt movement, which admired Nazi Germany.
* He had ties to members of the Muslim Brotherhood before coming to power.
* Postwar Egypt under Nasser became a refuge for some former Nazis and German military experts.

Nasser embraced antisemitic conspiracy theories, including belief in the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Holocaust denial, and that these beliefs shaped his hostility toward Israel.

Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism.
Anti-Zionism in the Arab world often merged with antisemitism:

* Israel became a political scapegoat in Arab politics after 1948.
* Nazi propaganda in Arabic during World War II had long-term influence on Arab political discourse.
* Arab governments used anti-Israel rhetoric to channel domestic frustrations.

Scholars such as Ruth Wisse and Bernard Lewis state hostility toward Israel reproduced classic antisemitic themes.

Conclusion.
The Six-Day War resulted less from immediate strategic necessity than from ideological hostility toward Israel rooted in antisemitism and radical anti-Zionism. Nasser both reflected and amplified these sentiments among Arab populations.

== The War ==
Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol cited principles of self-defense for his approval of air-strikes on Egypt and battles with Jordanian and Syrian forces. Eshkol told a British newspaper, "The threat of destruction that hung over Israel since its establishment and which was about to be implemented has been removed. For the first time in 19 years, Jews are again free to pray at the Wailing Wall and at other shrines sacred to Judaism in Jerusalem and Hebron."<ref>''BBC'', [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/10/newsid_3047000/3047177.stm 1967 - Israel ends six-day war]</ref>

In 2021, a [[Syria]]n bunker full of weapons from Six Day War uncovered in the Golan Heights.<ref>Anna Ahronheim, "[https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/syrian-bunker-full-of-weapons-from-six-day-war-uncovered-683791 Syrian bunker full of weapons from Six Day War uncovered]", JPost, Nov 2, 2021
 ''The Syrian bunker was found as Israel's Mine Action Authority began work to clear area at Mitzpe Gadot from minefields.''</ref>

This war reportedly displaced 500,000 Palestinians, and Israel offered the Palestinians in Jerusalem the opportunity to become Israeli citizens, but most declined, of the 120,000 who tried to sign up to return to Israel (after fleeing) only 14,000 were allowed back in.

To explain their humiliating defeat, Nasser and King Hussein of Jordan together concocted a lie that US and British forces aided Israel by joining in the war. Once they issued this claim to the Arab world, it caused immense hostility against the West. Their lie is one of the main reasons the US and British are hated by Arabs today.<ref>http://www.fsmitha.com/review/r-oren.html</ref>

Since this war, Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations to enter into peace agreements with Israel.
==A Turning Point==
The 1967 War: A Turning Point.<ref>Golan, A., Azaryahu, M., Brenner, M., Dowty, A., Makovsky, D., Troy, G., Stern, Y., Divine, D. R., Bayme, S., Ellenson, D., Ariel, Y., Stillman, N., Harris, R. S., Omer-Sherman, R., Troen, C. (2017). ''Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century''. United States: Indiana University Press, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0OQ6DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 pp.159-161]</ref>
{{quotebox-float|Americans in particular thrilled to the pioneering, romantic Israel that had defended civilization against what many then viewed as the Arab hordes. Over the next decade, some Israeli leaders were almost as admired and well known as American pop stars. Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed general who was credited with the lightning-quick Six-Day War victory in 1967, was the real-life Jewish superman, transforming the Jews' image from poor bent victims in the dark European ghetto to suntanned and macho Middle Eastern war heroes. Abba Eban, the eloquent diplomat, was the Jeffersonian scholar-statesman, articulating Israel's cause before the United Nations with Oxonian precision brim- ming with democratic idealism. And Golda Meir, a rare female prime minister during a prefeminist age, was the Yiddishe mama leading the nation, combining a reassuring Eastern European maternal image with an American accent and Israel's cutting-edge pioneering kibbutz spirit.
Despite his affinity for Israel, Lyndon Johnson discouraged Israel from launching a preemptive strike during the tense spring of 1967. Nasser had united the military commands of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. He followed his bellicose threats to destroy the Jewish state with actions, removing the UN troops serving as a buffer force in the Sinai, and then blocking the international waterways toward the southern port of Eilat, the Straits of Tiran. After a tense May, when Jews in Israel and abroad feared an- other Holocaust, an Israeli air raid one early June morning destroyed the Egyptian and Syrian air forces. The ensuing six days of war expanded the Jewish state by adding the Sinai desert to the south, the Golan Heights to the north, and Jerusalem as well as the West Bank to the east.

Israel emerged as a winner just as the international community was becoming enamored with losers. In this context, its increasingly close ties with the United States and the surge in the number of Palestinian refugees under Israel's control complicated Israel's relations with Europe and the developing countries. Israel lost its David status and became a Goliath overnight, able to defeat Arab armies with ease-and an oc- cupier responsible for more than one million angry Palestinians. As in 1956, Israel's control of the Sinai-territory they considered part of Af- rica despite being in Asia-had infuriated many postcolonial Africans. Now the thorough shellacking Israel administered to the Arab armies humiliated and enraged their Soviet patrons.

As Israel's position vis-à-vis the Arab states grew stronger, the con- flict shifted: Palestinians took the initiative to advance their rights and launched an independent armed struggle. Various guerrilla movements from the 1950s merged together into the Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion (PLO) in 1964. In January 1965 the PLO's main strike force, Fatah, attacked Israel's national water carrier, its first target. The PLO founding covenant called Zionism....

The wording of the charter was deliberately chosen. The charismatic and ruthless PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, and his allies understood that beyond terror attacks and diplomatic power plays, they were fighting an ideological war. Rhetoric was important. Targeting world opinion, they played to a Third World, postcolonial solidarity and what would be called a postmodern world glorifying the underdog, especially if the conflict could be cast as people of color opposing Western whites. Exploiting the rise of a global mass media and what the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said referred to as the twentieth century's "generalizing tendency," the Palestinians linked their local story to what Said called “the universal struggle against colonial and imperialism,” including “Vietnam, Alge- ria, Cuba, and black Africa." Well-funded think tanks and publishers publicized this interpretation. Said's 1978 book Orientalism built what became the dominant intellectual edifice in the postmodernist academy and among anti-imperialist progressives. It blamed Westerners automatically and took their guilt as a given, even as his postcolonial revolution decried the "Eurocentric" prejudice against Arabs and Islam.

In November 1967, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242, seeking a “just and lasting peace in the Middle East" guided by two principles. First, "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territo- ries occupied in the recent conflict.” For Israelis as well as the American negotiators, omitting the before the word territories and using the plural meant some land, not necessarily all. Second was the right for "every State in the area... to live in peace within secure and recognized bound- aries free from threats or acts of force." This framework, which Security Council Resolution 338 reinforced after the 1973 War, also shaped the road map later adopted by the Quartet—the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the UN-in 2003, with the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords. The notion of “every State" had expanded to include a Palestin- ian state to be established through gradual negotiations.

Although it annexed East Jerusalem in 1967 and the Golan Heights in 1981, Israel did not annex the West Bank or Gaza Strip, keeping mil- lions in legal limbo. "Israel became an occupying power.. not simply a Jewish state," Edward Said would claim in 1992, when explaining Israel's growing international predicament post-1967. "The Zionist settler in Palestine was transformed retrospectively and actually from an implacably silent master into an analogue of white settlers in Africa.”

Trying to woo the world, Palestinian propagandists wavered. At times they echoed the [[Arab]] and [[Soviet]] media's crass [[anti-Semitism]]. On other occasions, they masked it as "merely" anti-Zionism. Although his goal remained to destroy Israel, [[Arafat]] insisted that his call for a "secular democratic state” was “a humanitarian plan which will allow the Jews to live in dignity, as they have always lived, under the aegis of an Arab state." This statement conveniently ignored the Jews' humiliating, second-class [[dhimmi]] status under [[Islam]] and negated Judaism's national dimension. Beneath the intellectual veneer and occasionally cautious language ran an undercurrent of anti-Semitism. [[Adolf Hitler]]'s manifesto [[Mein Kampf]] was required reading in some [[Fatah]] training camps, where former [[Nazis]] trained Palestinian guerrillas to continue Hitler's war against the Jews.
As fighter and propagandist, Arafat mastered the two sides of the terrorist's sword: you could justify violence in an increasingly polarized.}}

==Further reading==
* Oren, Michael B. ''Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East'' (2003) [https://www.amazon.com/Six-Days-War-Making-Modern/dp/0345461924/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255773712&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
* Tucker, Spencer C., ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Political, Social, and Military History'' (4 vol. 2008)

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Siegmund Kaznelson

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'''Siegmund Kaznelson''' (born May 17, 1893, in [[Warsaw]], Russian Empire; died March 20, 1959, in [[Jerusalem]]; also Siegmund Katznelson) was a lawyer, editor, author and publisher who emerged as a [[Zionist]] activist.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/archives/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL990029053220205171/NLI Siegmund Kaznelson Archive] NLI (זיגמונד כצנלסון).
<blockquote>
Description.
Siegmund Kaznelson (1893 Warszaw–1959 Jerusalem), editor, publisher, Zionist, and historian, was best known for documenting German Jewry in his book Juden im Deutschen Kulturbereich (1934) ('Jews in the German cultural area').

Kaznelson was born in Warsaw and studied at the German University in Prague. From 1913 until 1917 he began writing about Jewish and Zionist topics in the Prague Zionist magazines Die Welt and Selbstwehr. After graduating in 1918 he moved to Berlin, where he first worked for the monthly publication Der Jude by Martin Buber. In 1920 he became manager of the publishing house Jüdischer Verlag and made it the most important publishing house for Jews in Germany. During this time were published the diaries of Theodor Herzl, the world history of Jews by Simon Dubnow, the Jewish Encyclopedia, the works of Ahad haAm and other important Jewish texts. In 1937 Kaznelson immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He directed the Jewish Publishing House Ltd., and was administrator of the Jüdische Welt-Rundschau. He was married to Robert Weltsch's sister Lisa.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kaznelson-siegmund Kaznelson Siegmund] JVL.<blockquote>
KAZNELSON, SIEGMUND (1893–1959), publisher and editor. Born in Warsaw, Kaznelson completed his studies at the German University in Prague. During his student days, he began publication of articles on Jewish and Zionist subjects in Die Welt and Selbstwehr, the Zionist periodical of Prague which he edited during World War I. After the war, he moved to Berlin, where he first worked on the editorial staff of M. *Buber's monthly, Der Jude. From 1920 he managed the Juedischer Verlag publishing house, which he developed into the largest publishing house of German Jewry. Under his management it published Herzl's diary, Dubnow's history, the Juedisches Lexikon, the works of Aḥad ha-Am, and other important Jewish works. In 1937 Kaznelson immigrated to Ereẓ Israel and took up residence in Jerusalem. While still in Germany he began his scientific-literary project on the role of the Jews in German culture. Part of this work was published during his lifetime; the rest was published posthumously as Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich (1962/3), Beethovens ferne und unsterbliche Geliebte (1954); Juedisches Schicksal in deutschen Geschichten (anthology, 1959); The Palestine Problem and its Solution (1946); and Zionismus und Voelkerbund (1922).
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[[File:Juden-im-deutschen-kulturbereich sidebar.png|thumb|Juden im deutschen kulturbereich]]
He was best known for documenting [[German]] [[Jews|Jewry]] in his book ''Juden im Deutschen Kulturbereich'' (1934) ('Jews in the German culture').<ref name=jigl-2000>Jews in German Literature Since 1945: German-Jewish Literature?. (2000). Netherlands: Rodopi.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=lOjC6Za9liEC&pg=PA23 p.23]
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Kaznelson was born in Warsaw in 1893. He studied law at the German University in Prague. He soon became a leading figure in literary and Zionist circles there. Like Frankl he was in a position to help and encourage young Jewish writers, and like him he began early to compile all kinds of Jewish lore. He could combine both interests when he became editor of the journal Selbstwehr, where he was able to publish a couple of the early works of his friend Franz Kafka.
He moved in 1920 to Berlin, where he founded the 'Jüdischer Verlag'.
In 1935 he produced there his magnum opus, the anthology Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich. It too was a form of Jewish self-defence, a counter to Nazi propaganda directed against Jewish contributions to German culture.

Naturally the Nazis banned and confiscated the book, but when Kaznelson emigrated to Palestine in 1937 he took a copy with him and revised and expanded it there.
This large compilation was eventually republished in an edition by Robert Weltsch, also in Jüdischer Verlag, in Berlin in 1959. As anthologists of Jewish poetry.</blockquote></ref>

Kaznelson's collection of works, ''Jews in German culture'', which was completed in late 1934 and was conceived with apologetic intent and to defend Jewish honor, is still of great value today.
It was based on an idea by Leopold Ullstein (1906–1995) in 1933.<ref>Avraham Barkai , Paul Mendes-Flohr : ''Awakening and Destruction: 1918–1945'' (German-Jewish History in Modern Times. Vol. 4). Munich 1997, p. 189</ref> Ullstein was a junior member of the well-known newspaper and book publishing family and at the time a partner in the Rowohlt publishing house. He had drawn up a draft for the book, delegated the processing of the individual subject areas to various employees and approached Kaznelson in his then capacity as director of the Jewish publishing house. Kaznelson was convinced by the concept and immediately offered his cooperation.

Kaznelson's foreword to the first edition shows how little he had distanced himself from the racial theory and its conclusions dictated by National Socialist terminology at this time: The criterion that was considered decisive for the inclusion and selection of the personalities mentioned in this work was not mere religious affiliation, but the racial affiliation that was now valid and legally defined in Germany. The book therefore includes Jews as well as people of Jewish descent in the circle of its considerations.<ref name=bm1996>Breuer, M. (1996). German-Jewish History in Modern Times. United Kingdom: Columbia University Press, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_U-DHljWu5kC&pg=PA194 194]</ref>

It was "an endorsement of the fellowship and intellectual collaboration between non-Jews and Jews."<ref name=bm1996/>

Naturally the [[Nazis]] banned the book<ref name=jigl-2000/> via its Secret State Police Office in Berlin under the excuse "to restore public safety and order" and the existing copies were confiscated.

But when Kaznelson emigrated to Eeetz Yisrael Mandatory Palestine in 1937 he took a copy with him and revised and expanded it there.
This large compilation was eventually republished in an edition by Robert Weltsch, also in Jüdischer Verlag, in Berlin in 1959. As anthologists of Jewish poetry.

When the second edition was finally published by the Jewish Publishers in 1959, the book had become a "final assessment" and a "monument" of German Jewry, as Robert Weltsch wrote in the spirit of the editor Kaznelson, who had died shortly before. The monumental work, which is over 1,000 pages long and has an index of names containing around 5,000 entries, is not just a memorial book and reference work. It was also read as an invitation to continue researching the forgotten Jews. Numerous additions and corrections were added in the appendix of the third edition in 1962 based on letters from readers.<ref>[https://www.jmberlin.de/digitalisat-juden-im-deutschen-kulturbereich Jews in German culture (1934/1962) | Jewish Museum].<blockquote>
When the second edition was finally published by the Jewish Publishers in 1959, the book had become a "final assessment" and a "monument" of German Jewry, as Robert Weltsch wrote in the spirit of the editor Kaznelson, who had died shortly before. The monumental work, which is over 1,000 pages long and has an index of names containing around 5,000 entries, is not just a memorial book and reference work. It was also read as an invitation to continue researching the forgotten Jews. Numerous additions and corrections were added in the appendix of the third edition in 1962 based on letters from readers.</blockquote></ref>

==Further info==
Digital viewing: ''Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich (Jews in the German Cultural Sphere)'' [https://tinyurl.com/53vmktk2]

==References==
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Sherrod Brown

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'''Sherrod Campbell Brown''', born November 9, 1952 (age {{age|1952|11|9}}), is a pro-[[abortion]]<ref>Brown has a 100% rating with NARAL [http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Sherrod_Brown_Abortion.htm Sherrod Brown on Abortion] On The Issues</ref>
[[Democratic]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Ohio]]. He was also a member of the [[House of Representatives]] (1993–2007), Ohio Secretary of State (1983–1991), and an Ohio State Representative (1974–1982). As a Senator, he came to congress in the 2006 anti-Bush wave of so-called "Conservative Democrats" with more than $3 million poured into his campaign from out of state.<ref>[http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=cdcltncab&v=001SEg_mP6bgKQF1WBbTZAKJb4WF-PtsK7u531Z4CT-tKKyULDTS8voy2P65XMsf7UUU-Px9Ji8t-vDs9Eu6i5wP6MlHM7DJDeemNNfJo97QIOI42sLa_WCjI3ZgSinSQR-RHrQEW0RD1KtVK3vFs08YPnZh5UMgpoGtwZdhR8m-PRGf8Ic5Sqf5PQo51gFsUYd (1)]</ref> Brown is a member of the [[socialist]] Progressive Caucus. Brown is tight with [[George Soros]] as evident by a personal campaign contribution from him.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977 GEORGE SOROS, Discover The Networks]</ref> The ''National Journal'' has ranked U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) as the U.S. Senate's “Most Liberal” member.<ref>[http://www.nrsc.org/congratulations-sherrod-brown-on-being-ranked-most-liberal-senator Congratulations, Sherrod Brown, On Being Ranked “Most Liberal” Senator, NRSC, February 25, 2011]</ref>

Brown is a champion of [[ACORN]] and was once a spokesman in their propaganda videos. They in turn supported his campaign. He was named in an ACORN Corruption Congressional Report stating the promotion of a partisan political agenda in violation of many tax and election laws.<ref>[https://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/07/24/sen-sherrod-brown-tied-to-acorn-in-congressional-report/ Sen. Sherrod Brown tied to ACORN in Congressional report, Red State, July 24, 2009]</ref> Brown's daughter Emily works for [[Service Employees International Union]],<ref>[http://ebfromga.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/ohios-senator-sherrod-browns-connection-to-acorn/ Ohio’s Senator Sherrod Brown’s Connection to SEIU and ACORN, Earl Says, September 18, 2009]</ref> the union co-created by ACORN's [[Wade Rathke]].

He wrote an Op-Ed piece for USA Today were he attacks the [[Tea Party movement]] as faux populism and extremism.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-10-04-column04_ST1_N.htm How to fight Tea Party's faux populism, USA Today, October 3, 2010]</ref>

On March 2, Sherrod Brown gave a speech on the Senate floor defending [[labor unions]]. He would attack Republicans by comparing them to other horrible governments that were opposed to labor unions; saying that dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin opposed them.<ref>[https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/147323-ohio-senator-hitler-stalin-didnt-want-unions Ohio senator: GOP tries to take down unions, and so did Hitler and Stalin, The Hill, March 3, 2011]</ref> Unknown to Brown, Hitler and Stalin both championed policies Sherrod Brown supports such as universal healthcare, expanded animal welfare laws, support of healthy, organic foods and vegetarianism, a minimum wage, progressive taxation, and tight gun control.<ref>[https://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/03/03/senator-sherrod-brown-d-oh-meets-hitler/ Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Meets Hitler, RedState, March 3, 2011]</ref>

==2012 Senate Race==
Brown faced Republican [[Josh Mandel]] in 2012. [[Obama]] formally started his campaign for re-election in Columbus, Ohio together with Brown. Brown has started the ''Women for Sherrod Brown'' subgroup, which ties into the national meme from Democrats of a GOP [[War on Women]]. The [[Daily Caller]] learned that Brown's first wife had a placed a restraining order on him, citing in [[divorce]] records that Brown was guilty of extreme cruelty toward her, on several occasions, Larke alleged, her husband had “intimidated, pushed, shoved, and bullied her.” <ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Sherrod-Brown-Divorce-Obama?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29, OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN WITH ALLEGED WIFE-ABUSER SHERROD BROWN, May 4, 2012]</ref>

==2024 elections==
Republican businessman [[Bernie Moreno]] has defeated incumbent Brown, "the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, boosting Republican chances of taking back control of the Senate."<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4973460-moreno-defeats-brown-senate-race/ Moreno ousts Brown in Ohio Senate race], ''The Hill'', Nov 5, 2024</ref>

==Votes==
According to the leftwing Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Brown votes with the liberal agenda 95% of the time. Some votes below:

*July 1996 he voted against a bill defining marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”
*April 2005 he supported “the transportation of a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.”
*April 2005 he voted against allowing oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska.
*September 2007 he supports Federal funds distributed to organizations that support the practices of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
*Brown voted for the Stimulus, the Omnibus spending bill and [[ObamaCare]].
*Voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.
*Voted for Cash for Clunkers
*Voted for auto bailouts
*Voted for "card check"
*Voted against earmark moratorium
*Voted against repeal of the death tax
*Voted against a ban on funding for [[Planned Parenthood]]

He has never turned down and always votes for massive tax hikes.

Brown sponsored 6 bills, none made into law. Brown co-sponsored 49 bills, none made into law.<ref>[http://www.opencongress.org/person/show/400050 Senator Sherrod Brown, Open Congress]</ref>

February 2010, it was reported that a "clean technology" bill sponsored by Brown—the "Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act of 2009"—was drafted with the help of the [[Apollo Alliance]], a leftwing environmental group and [[Tides Foundation]] project.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://brown.senate.gov/ Sherrod Brown's Senate Website].
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000944 Brown, Sherrod]. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
*[http://brown.senate.gov/senator/biography/ Senator Sherrod Brown]. Biography from his Senate website.
*[http://dumpsherrodbrown.wordpress.com Dump Sherrod Brown website]

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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman

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'''Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman''' (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن; ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), widely known in the [[United States]] as "the Blind Sheikh", was a blind [[Arab]] [[Egyptian]] Islamofascist cleric and [[jihad]]ist<ref>Alexander, Y., Swetnam, M. (2021). ''Usama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network.'' Netherlands: Brill,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=pqpxEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 p.38]</ref><ref>Kepel, G. (2002). ''Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam''. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=tttzgNKFAI8C&pg=PA412 p.412]</ref><ref>''The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism'', Second Edition. (2011). United States: SAGE Publications.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ClN2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 p.3]</ref><ref>Pellowski, M. (2003). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OPtdgZpQmeMC&q=Sheik+OmarThe Terrorist Trial of the 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center: A Headline Court Case]''. United States: Enslow Publishers.</ref> leader who was convicted of terrorism-related offenses and served a life sentence in federal prison at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, in North Carolina.

[[File:Blind Sheikh - jihad.jpg|Blind Sheikh - jihad]]

A longtime resident of [[New York City]], Abdel-Rahman was a prominent figure in radical [[Islamism|Islamist]] circles. In 1995,<ref>Pellowski, M. (2003). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OPtdgZpQmeMC&q=Sheik+OmarThe Terrorist Trial of the 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center: A Headline Court Case]''. United States: Enslow Publishers.</ref> he and nine co-conspirators were convicted of ''seditious conspiracy'' for plotting attacks against the United States, including plans to bomb key New York City landmarks. His prosecution stemmed directly from the investigation into the [[1993 World Trade Center bombing]], an early Islamist terrorist attack on American soil that killed six people and injured over a thousand. Abdel-Rahman was viewed by his followers as a spiritual authority who endorsed violent jihad against the U.S. and its allies.

[[M. T. Mehdi]] advocated for him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/10/nyregion/immigration-board-rejects-sheik-s-plea-for-asylum.html |title=Immigration Board Rejects Sheik's Plea for Asylum |work=Baltimore Sun |date=July 10, 1993}}..
"Dr. Mehdi said that officials at the Federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., told him yesterday that Mr. Abdel Rahman was still hospitalized..."</ref>

He remained imprisoned until his death in 2017.

==Adam Hamaw==

In 2026, it was revealed<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/congressional-candidate-attacks-front-page-as-anti-islam-after-we-expose-his-terror-ties/ Congressional Candidate Attacks Front Page as ‘Anti-Islam’ After We Expose His Terror Ties], ''FPM'', May 9, 2026.</ref>
that [[New Jersey]] congressional candidate [[Islam]]ic Adam Hamaw had close ties in the early 1990s to Islamist cleric Omar Abdel Rahman,

Hamawy testified for Rahman's defense in 1995 and described under oath traveling with him to Islamic conferences, visiting him at home, and translating for him. According to trial excerpts cited in the article, Hamawy acknowledged hearing Rahman speak repeatedly about “jihad” and describe the United States and Israel as enemies of Islam.

Hamawy attended a Detroit conference alongside figures accused of Islamist extremism and notes that meetings connected to the World Trade Center bombing allegedly took place at a Jersey City mosque mentioned during testimony.

After the story was published, Hamawy's campaign accused the David Horowitz Freedom Center and its publication FrontPage Magazine of running “anti-Islam” and “guilt-by-association” attacks against Muslim and Arab candidates.
Though other outlets, including Fox News, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal, later covered the controversy.

After all, Hamawy is slammed for refusing in interviews to specifically denounce Rahman or the concept of jihad, instead condemning “all extremism and all violence.”

{{Terrorism}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Terrorism]]
[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Immigration]]

Sebastián Piñera

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'''Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique''' (born December 1, 1949 - died February 6, 2024<ref>AnneClaire Stapleton and Tara John, [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/06/americas/chile-sebastian-pinera-dead-helicopter-crash-intl-latam/index.html Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has died in a helicopter crash, says his office], ''CNN'', 6 February 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/primeras-imagenes-caida-helicoptero-viajaba-sebastian-pinera-6-2-2024 Las primeras imágenes tras la caída del helicóptero donde viajaba Sebastián Piñera], ''T13'', 06-02-2024</ref>) was a [[Chile]]an politician and businessman who previously served as [[President of Chile|President]] from March 11, 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-election-idUSTRE60G1O420100118|title=Chile shifts right as billionaire wins presidency|publisher=Reuters|date=January 7, 2010}}</ref> to March 11, 2014, and then again from March 11, 2018, to March 11, 2022.

Piñera sided with the Left on certain issues, such as discussing with Canadian Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] about "gender" policies and how to advance the [[homosexual agenda]].<ref name="HomosexualAgenda"/> Pinera supported Chile's anti-abortion laws, which outlaw the practice in all circumstances.
In 2021 he supported the legalization of [[same sex "marriage"]].
He believes in the anthropocentric [[climate change]] hoax and implemented heavy COVID restrictions such as the [[Covid passport#Chile|COVID Vaccine Passport]] (''Pase de movilidad''). Piñera betrayed Pinochetists and the military.

He studied economy in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and in [[Harvard]].

In 2009 he was convicted for the crime of buying shares with privileged information.

He died on a helicopter accident on Lake Ranco on 2024.

==Background==
[[File:Senator Sebastián Piñera Echenique (1990).jpg|150px|thumbnail|left|Senator Sebastián Piñera Echenique in 1990.]]
Sebastián in the 80's was a ''[[Christian Democrat]]'' and as such had worked for [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]]'s candidacy, which did not prosper due to [[Patricio Aylwin]]'s cunning. In 1989, Andrés Allamand, who had always run for the Christian Democracy, had the strange idea of taking Piñera to the command of [[Hernán Büchi]], Minister of Finance, who was leading the presidential polls. But that literally "blew it" and the candidate resigned, alleging a "vital contradiction". There are no two more different people in the world than Hernán Büchi and Sebastián Piñera.

On August 27, 1982, an arrest warrant was issued by the investigating minister Luis Correa Bulo to the Prefecture of Investigations, against Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique for crimes under banking legislation and for defrauding the Bank of Talca, for which he worked.

"14th Criminal Court of Santiago. Santiago, August twenty-seventh, 1982. Luis Correa Bulo, visiting minister in this 14th Criminal Court of Santiago, in case 99.971-6 has decreed the apprehension by the Prefecture of Investigations of Santiago of Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (...) for the crime of infringement of articles 25 and 26 of the General Law of Banks and defrauding the Bank of Talca".

The order was not complied with because the subject remained at large. [[Mónica Madariaga]], Minister of Justice in the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]], stating that she received a request from minister [[José Piñera]], his brother, to intercede with Piñera's investigator to prevent him from being arrested. She adds that years later they met on a plane and he thanked her for having kept him out of jail. He even owes that debt to the military government, which he later betrayed.

Piñera was a 28-day prisoner on the run and was later acquitted by the Supreme Court.<ref name=Townsend>{{cite web|url=https://centroschilenos.blogia.com/2009/072806-sobrino-de-pinochet-asegura-que-madariaga-dice-la-verdad.php|title=Sobrino de Pinochet asegura que Madariaga dice la verdad|date=July 28, 2009|language=es|publisher=La Nación|author=[[Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet]]}}</ref>

Finally the Supreme Court accepted an appeal in his favor and he was freed from jail, but, according to researcher Carlos Tromben, author of "Crónica Secreta de la Economía Chilena", although the arrest warrant was left without effect, "as confirmed by a note that appeared in 'El Mercurio', the ruling was actually negative for Piñera and Massad".

[[Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet]] explains that Mónica Madarriaga didn't intercede in favor or Piñera, but asked that the businessman's case be expedited. "She never intervened for better or worse in favor of anyone. She is an honest, suitable and clear woman, her clarity is of a transparency that anyone would want and I think she deserves all the respect and not the rude way she is being referred to".<ref name=Townsend/>

He lent money to companies in which he was a partner, to buy shares in the same bank. That is why its main controller once declared to the press: "What that boy wanted was to keep the bank for himself".<ref name=prontuario>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2017/06/el-triunfo-del-prontuario-mas-negro.html|title=El Triunfo del Prontuario Más Negro|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=4 June 2017}}</ref>

Piñera voted "No" in the [[1988 Chilean national plebiscite]].

Then Piñera presented himself as a candidate for senator for Santiago on a list with a real conservative, [[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]], and he had the opportunity to get to know him well and be completely frightened. [[Jaime Guzmán]] told Hermógenes: "You have to beat him, because he is pernicious and in the Senate he will be fatal for Pinochet and the Junta". Piñera won and was pernicious. On one occasion he contributed the decisive vote to remove a Supreme Court minister, constitutionally accused by the left for applying the amnesty, a law in force. He wanted to hide the black ballot when voting, but his fingers were too short and it came out in the photo.

Piñera believed that raising taxes gave him votes and was useful to do good business, as when he bought the LAN Airlines shares held by CORFO, under Aylwin's government, during the "policy of agreements". In exchange for the facilities that allowed him to buy, although officially he said he did it to "legitimize the model", he supported with the votes of the party National Renewal, Aylwin's tax reform that increased the corporate tax from the 10% to which the Military Government had lowered it (and the GDP growing at double digits in 1989 under Minister Büchi's leadership) to 15% in 1991.

At that time Piñera was a senator, but he appeared in the newspaper as chairman of the board of directors of ''Editorial Los Andes'', a corporation, despite the fact that Article 57 of the Constitution stated that the parliamentarian who "accepts to be a director of a corporation" shall cease to hold office. But Sebastián has never cared nor has the Constitution or the laws been applied to him (if he had not been charged here today, as he is in Argentina).<ref>"La Nación", [[Buenos Aires]], 29.12.16</ref>

==Political history==

===2005 election===

He wanted to be a presidential candidate, already in the '90s, but was caught conspiring in an unconfessable way against Evelyn Matthei and had to wait for everything to be settled by the newspapers and blaming her, leaving him as a "victim". Then he tried to harm to Lavín in 2005, when he had the support of the [[Independent Democratic Union]] and [[National Renewal]] assured, but the latter was stolen by Sebastián. Then candidate [[Michelle Bachelet]], who had plenty of votes in that first round, called her supporters to vote for Piñera "to stop Lavín". Lavín was still right-wing and a defender of the military.

===2009 election===
Sebastián was thus "positioned" and in 2009 he ran against Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. Things looked close. Then he asked to summon retired military men, who flocked to his club in the Alameda and promised to enforce the laws in the trials-business of leftist lawyers of "human rights". In particular, he promised to enforce the statute of limitations and offered to shorten the number of trials, which at that time was around 300. He was elected. It was the first supposed right-wing government to enter [[La Moneda]] since the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] of [[Augusto Pinochet]] and President Jorge Alessandri who governed from 1958 to 1962, however, Piñera's Government was going to be a continuation of the [[Concertación]] instead of an opposition. Piñera's Coalition was called "Alianza por el Cambio" (Alliance for Change).

===First Government===
[[File:Piñera in the San José Mine with the message confirming the miners are alive.jpg|thumbnail|Piñera in the San José Mine with the message confirming the 33 miners of the accident are alive.]]

Piñera raised taxes, created more ministries and increasing the spending of the State. Half of the jobs generated during his four-year term were in 2010, his first year, and thanks to the enormous fiscal impulse that the minister of the previous administration, Andrés Velasco, gave to the economy: he made public expenditure grow by 16.5 % in 2009<ref>"El Mercurio", 30.09.16</ref> and public investment by 25.1 %, also in 2009, unprecedented figures in the economic history of the country, which gave a boost to the following years. But then Piñera decreased public investment, which even fell by --4.3 % in 2013, his last year.<ref name=ElMerc>"El Mercurio", 01.10.16</ref> He also rejected Hidroaysén hydroelectric plant for ecologist reasons.

GDP grew less and less and fell from 5.8% in 2010 and 2011 to 5.5% in 2012 and 4.0% in 2013. It had structural fiscal deficit in all its years of government and effective deficit in two of the four.<ref>"El Mercurio", 04.10.16</ref> The national savings rate dropped from 24% in 2010 to 20.6% in 2013.<ref>"El Mercurio", 21.10.16</ref>

Public sector indebtedness increased from 8.6% of GDP when Piñera received the government to 12.6% when he left it.<ref>"El Mercurio", 29.09.16</ref> He benefited from the highest copper price in history for a while, however the country fell from 30th to 34th place in world competitiveness during his administration.<ref name=prontuario/><ref>"El Mercurio", 28.09.16</ref>

2010 was the Bicentenary year of the Republic of Chile, Piñera had the honor to be President in this celebration. In the same year the famous 2010 Copiapó mining accident in the San José Mine happen in which the government successfully rescued all 33 miners alive, this was used politically by Piñera which took credit for it and also showed a paper of them being alive in all over the world while the miners where underground. His government had the task to reconstruct Chile after the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 which as a technocrat managed to do.

Piñera, after having proclaimed in 2011 that the communist "student" movement (leaded by [[Gabriel Boric]], Giorgio Jackson and Camila Vallejo) was "great, noble, beautiful", he immediately picked up one of the proposals of the communist protests: to raise the corporate tax to improve state education, which was not in his program and contravenes a fundamental precept of the right wing. But it turned out to be another "piñericosa" (term used to describe Piñera's blunders), since the following year the income tax collection fell by 6.1%.<ref>"El Mercurio", 17.02.14, p. B4</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2014/03/legado-del-kerensky-chileno-ii.html|title=Legado del Segundo Kerensky Chileno|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=9 March 2014}}</ref>

[[File:Marxist students protesting in Chile, 2011.jpg|250px|left|thumbnail|Marxist students protesting in Chile in 2011, Piñera conceded raising taxes for a "National Agreement for Education".]]

In accordance with the new criminal procedure system, the judges of guarantee let free the Antifa protestors arrested by Carabineros because "in a scenario of stones, water, tear gas bombs, smoke and people running all over the place, it is quite risky to determine their participation".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2011/08/cria-cuervos-y-te-sacaran-los-ojos.html|title="Cría Cuervos y Te Sacarán los Ojos"|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=9 Agusut 2011}}</ref>

One of the first taxes he raised was the mining royalty which, as it had always been a favorite tribute of the communists (Piñera loved to make them favours, and that is why he declared Volodia Teitelboim "a great of the history of Chile", financed a treatment to Gladys Marín and publicly said that Pinochet had been worse than Allende). The result was the fall in national mining production, apart from the drop in mineral prices.

But when he raised taxes in 2010, he took the proceeds from the sales of Colo Colo, Chilevisión and LAN Airlines, three quarters of his wealth, to tax havens abroad. Taxes went up for others, but not for him. This only became known as a result of the lawsuit filed by the communist deputy Hugo Gutiérrez for incompatible negotiation, since Piñera had bought shares of the [[Peruvian]] company "Exalmar" when that country was litigating with Chile in The International Court located in [[The Hague]] to obtain more surface of the exclusive maritime zone. In 2011 the famous television presenter and actor, Felipe Camiroaga, and other television personalities died tragically on a plane accident in the Juan Fernández Archipelago.

Once elected, he did the opposite of what he had promised: he tripled the number of lawsuits (a thousand more) against the military, whose number of prisoners reached more than 200, filling [[Punta Peuco Jail]]. And he declared that the supporters [[Augusto Pinochet regime (Chile, 1973–90)|of the Junta Regime]] (with whose votes he had reached [[La Moneda]]) were "passive accomplices" of "human rights abuses" and "crimes against humanity". He hired dozens of leftist lawyers in the Ministry of the Interior to better prosecute the uniformed officers and to sponsor appeals before the Supreme Court to increase their sentences, when in the first instance and appeals they had been low or had been remitted and the leftist plaintiffs themselves had been satisfied. In this way he made possible millionaire compensations at the expense of the Treasury. Never had the human rights lawyers won as much as under Piñera.

[[File:Piñera signing the "Great National Agreement for Education".jpg|250px|thumbnail|Piñera signing the "Great National Agreement for Education", at his left is Joaquín Lavín, former political rival and then Minister of Education.]]

Since at the end of his mandate he was low in the polls (because he was always caught, and he had been denounced in several obscure situations) he decided to transfer the generals who were imprisoned in the "Cordillera Jail" to the Punta Peuco penitentiary. A gift for the most hateful left. The most pundit of the unjustly imprisoned generals, Odlanier Mena, innocent, of course, and terminally ill, opted for suicide. And with that vile publicity stunt and the communist applause (guaranteed after he allowed the hammer and sickle emblem to be hung on the portico of "Cordillera" on the night of the publicized transfer), he rebounded in the polls and reached the 50% he longed for. The then still communist Javiera Parada recited eclogues of homage to Piñera.

In 2013, he praised as "brave and mature" a pregnant 11-year-old rape victim who said she was happy to have the child. The same year in the context of [[terrorism in the South of Chile]], the couple of elders, Luchsinger-Mackay, was burnt alive by [[Indigenism|indigenist]] marxist terrorists in La Araucanía. The new fishing law promulgated during his government was questioned due to cases of bribery during its redaction on the Congress.

Half of the million jobs created was in 2010 alone and thanks to the record increases of the previous administration minister, Andrés Velasco, in public spending in 2009, 16.5%, and public investment, 21.6%. Piñera ended up decreasing public investment in 2013.<ref name=ElMerc/> It was the preamble of the lower job creation that took place from the final part of his government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2017/05/y-las-ultimas-frescuras-de-pinera.html|title=Y las Últimas Frescuras de Piñera|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=3 May 2017}}</ref>

He influenced the Chilean football federation, changing its president, Mayne-Nichols for Sergio Jadue and had involved in the DT Bielsa's resignation.

As a consequence of the prevailing discontent, a government of the globalist left (Bachelet) came after Piñera's government, which triumphed with almost two thirds of the votes. The candidate to succeed him had to settle for the remaining third: that was the political fruit of Piñera with his "Fifth Government of the Concertación".

He extended the "postnatal" from 3 months to 6 (a law which secures mothers to be with her baby, not working, 6 months after its born) and made a civil union law for gay couples to live together legally and inherit their stuff in case of death.

Piñera promoted a general pardon law for leftist terrorists from the Military Government, in his own words "those condemned or prosecuted for infractions to the anti-terrorist legislation and other penal provisions on politically motivated violence".<ref>"La Segunda" of June 9, 2011, p. 10</ref> But it denies pardons to uniformed officers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/pais-primitivo-con-plata.html|title=País Primitivo con Plata|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s blog|date=June 9, 2011|language=es}}</ref>

===2017 election===
Incredibly, the right wing relapsed in 2017 and reelected him as their candidate. [[José Antonio Kast]], who was more right-wing was defeated by Piñera in the first round of that year, Kast prophesied to the Piñera businessmen (that is, to almost all of them), in Casapiedra and during the campaign, what was to come: "if you continue doing the same, you are going to have this in power in 2022". And he projected on the screen an image of [[Gabriel Boric|Boric]] and Jackson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2022/03/la-historia-no-absolvera-sebastian.html|title=La Historia No Absolverá a Sebastián Piñera|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=12 March 2022}}</ref> Kast and his supporters helped Piñera win the second round to avoid an Alejandro Guiller government, a continuation of [[Michelle Bachelet|Bachelet]]'s Government.

===Second Government===
[[File:Piñera with an anchor baby.jpg|250px|thumbnail|Piñera with an Haitian [[anchor baby]].]]

Piñera led the center-right coalition called [[Chile Vamos]]. He advocated the [[homosexual agenda]] by supporting Gender Identity laws,<ref name="HomosexualAgenda">{{cite web|url=http://www.t13.cl/noticia/politica/pinera-destaco-anuncios-agenda-genero-dialogo-primer-ministro-canada|title=Piñera destacó anuncios en agenda de género en diálogo con Primer Ministro de Canadá|date=25 May 2018|language=es|publisher=T13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://santiagotimes.cl/2018/11/29/chile-enacts-landmark-gender-identity-law/|title=Chile enacts landmark gender identity law|date=November 29, 2018|publisher=Santiago Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Economia/2018/09/16/920919/Pinera-defiende-Ley-de-Identidad-de-Genero-tras-asistir-al-Tedeum-Evangelico.html|title=Piñera defiende Ley de Identidad de Género tras asistir al Tedeum Evangélico|publisher=Emol|date=September 16, 2018|language=es}}</ref> a "deep cultural change",<ref>{{cite web|language=es|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2019/06/02/agenda-de-genero-el-largo-etcetera-de-la-cuenta-publica-de-sebastian-pinera/|title=Agenda de género: el largo etcétera de la cuenta pública de Sebastián Piñera|date=2 June 2019|publisher=El Mostrador}}</ref> increase the number of ministries,<ref>{{cite web|language=es|url=https://www.rockandpop.cl/2019/06/el-nuevo-ministerio-de-ciudad-vivienda-y-territorio-anunciado-por-sebastian-pinera/|title=El nuevo Ministerio de Ciudad, Vivienda y Territorio anunciado por Sebastián Piñera|publisher=RockAndPop|date=3 June 2019}}</ref> a "gender equality" agenda,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msgg.gob.cl/wp/index.php/2018/05/23/todosportodas-presidente-pinera-anuncia-agenda-de-equidad-de-genero/|title=#TodosPorTodas: Presidente Piñera anuncia Agenda de Equidad de Género|publisher=Gobierno de Chile|language=es|date=23 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/Revisa-los-12-puntos-de-la-Agenda-de-Equidad-de-Genero-anunciada-por-Pinera|publisher=T13|date=23 May 2019|language=es|title=Revisa los 12 puntos de la Agenda de Equidad de Género presentada por el Gobierno}}</ref> the legalization of 300.000 illegal immigrants,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/04/09/america/1523294949_287480.html|language=es|title=Piñera anuncia en Chile la regularización gradual de 300.000 inmigrantes|date=9 April 2019|publisher=El País}}</ref> as well for the call for more Venezuelans to come to the country,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/cecilia-perez-afirma-se-seguira-recibiendo-migracion-venezolana-chile-pais-lo-resista/732904/|title=Cecilia Pérez afirma que se seguirá recibiendo migración venezolana a Chile "hasta que el país lo resista"|language=es|publisher=La Tercera|date=July 8, 2019}}</ref> the increase of digital taxes,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.t13.cl/noticia/negocios/pinera-confirma-impuesto-plataformas-digitales-como-netflix-uber-y-spotify|title=Piñera confirma impuesto a plataformas digitales como Netflix, Uber y Spotify|language=es|publisher=T13|date=21 August 2018}}</ref> and maintain the 27% of corporate taxes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Piñera decide mantener tasa de impuesto a empresas en 27% por "dificultades heredadas"|language=es|url=http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=474254|date=1 June 2018|publisher=Economía y Negocios}}</ref>

He also promoted the "Safe Classroom" law which regulates the expulsion of violent students from public schools,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mineduc.cl/2018/09/20/proyecto-de-ley-aula-segura/|title=Gobierno envía al Congreso Proyecto de Ley "Aula Segura"|date=20 September 2018|language=es|publisher=Gobierno de Chile}}</ref> a law which privileges the meritocracy in the admission to Chilean Schools<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/ministra-cubillos-defiende-proyecto-admision-justa-senala-actual-sistema-ciego-solo-ve-rut-del-nino/519480/|title=Nacional Ministra Cubillos defiende proyecto de Admisión Justa y señala que el actual sistema "es ciego y solo ve el rut del niño"|date=Febrary 7 2019|language=es|publisher=La Tercera}}</ref> and he refused to sign the [[UN Migrant Treaty|UN Global Migration Pact]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/poblacion/inmigrantes/presidente-explico-nueHvamente-por-que-chile-no-suscribio-el-pacto/2018-12-15/120055.html|title=Presidente explicó nuevamente por qué Chile no suscribió el Pacto Migratorio de la ONU|language=es|publisher=Cooperativa|date=15 December 2018}}</ref> however he signed the [[UN Refugee Pact]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Internacional/2018/12/17/931170/ONU-adopta-Pacto-Mundial-sobre-Refugiados-con-el-apoyo-de-Chile-y-el-rechazo-de-EEUU.html|title=ONU adopta Pacto Mundial sobre Refugiados con el apoyo de Chile y el rechazo de EE.UU.|language=es|publisher=Emol|date=17 December 2018}}</ref>

In 2018, Piñera promised to oppose efforts to expand abortion in the country, saying he will do “everything that is necessary to defend life”. The same year he rejected signing the globalist and ecologist [[Escazú Agreement]] arguing sovereign reasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-54263916|title=Acuerdo de Escazú: el polémico rechazo de Chile al primer gran pacto medioambiental de América Latina y el Caribe|language=es|publisher=BB Mundo|date=23 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2018/10/01/ministra-schmidt-explica-porque-no-se-firmo-el-acuerdo-de-escazu-no-queremos-que-se-ponga-en-peligro-la-soberania-de-nuestro-pais/|title=Ministra Schmidt explica por qué no se firmó el Acuerdo de Escazú: "No queremos que se ponga en peligro la soberanía de nuestro país"|language=es|publisher=El Mostrador|date=1 October 2018}}</ref> In August he designed Mauricio Rojas as Culture Minister who just after two days was expelled since the Media found his declarations about the Marxist "Museum of Memory" where he said it was a hoax.

[[File:Barricada Santiago.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|Barricades in [[Santiago de Chile]] during the [[2019 Chilean State of Emergency|2019 October Marxist insurrection]].]]

In his first year of government, around 200,000 immigrants entered Chile, with a total of 1,251,225 new immigrants since 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/ine-poblacion-inmigrante-chile-llega-1.251.225-personas|language=es|publisher=T13|date=14 Febrary 2019|title=Inmigrantes en Chile llegan a 1.251.225 personas y venezolanos superan a peruanos por primera vez}}</ref> Piñera continued an [[open border]] policy similar to what his [[Michelle Bachelet|predecessor]] did, but under Piñera, it was a bit more regulated and the main new immigrants were [[Venezuela]]ns instead of [[Haiti]]ans. Illegal immigrants were pardoned and a new more flexible immigration law was made.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diarioantofagasta.cl/regional/antofagasta/165362/vamos-a-seguir-recibiendo-venezolanos-en-chile-la-invitacion-de-pinera-que-termino-con-el-lider-del-tren-de-aragua-ingresando-al-pais-con-visa-y-por-paso-habilitado/|title=“Vamos a seguir recibiendo venezolanos en Chile”: La invitación de Piñera que terminó con el líder del Tren de Aragua ingresando al país con visa y por paso habilitado|publisher=El Diario de Antofagasta|date=Augusto 4, 2022|language=es}}</ref> One of his minister said that Venezuelan immigrants would be welcome "as long as the country can stand it".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/cecilia-perez-afirma-se-seguira-recibiendo-migracion-venezolana-chile-pais-lo-resista/732904/|title=Cecilia Pérez afirma que se seguirá recibiendo migración venezolana a Chile "hasta que el país lo resista"|language=es|date=July 8, 2019|publisher=La Tercera}}</ref>

He supported [[Juan Guaidó]] against marxist dictator [[Nicolás Maduro]] in the Venezuelan crisis.

[[File:Piñera enacting the same sex "marriage" law.jpg|250px|thumbnail|Piñera enacting the [[same sex "marriage"]] law, this also legalized adoption of children for gay couples (as seen on the picture).]]

Piñera wanted to host COP25 ([[Climate Change]] [[United Nations]] summit) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of 2019, in which [[President Trump]] planned to sign an agreement with China regarding the [[Trade War]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/destacado/2019/10/11/chile-protagonista-inesperado-trump-cambia-de-idea-y-anuncia-acuerdo-con-china-que-se-firmaria-en-la-apec/|title=Chile protagonista inesperado: Trump cambia de idea y anuncia acuerdo con China que se firmaría en la APEC|publisher=El Mostrador|date=October 11, 2019|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3035340/donald-trump-xi-jinping-set-november-17-meeting-chile-sign|title=Donald Trump, Xi Jinping set for November 17 meeting in Chile to sign interim trade war deal|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=October 29, 2019}}</ref> however the [[2019 Chilean State of Emergency|2019 October Marxist insurrection]] (called ''Estallido social'' by the left) occurred during Piñera's presidency and on November 15, 2019, a "Peace" Agreement in the Congress was made in order to start the process of a full Constitutional Change with a referendum set for April 2020 (which took place in October due to lockdowns) in which the Approve option won against the Rejection one, the second referendum with the New Constitution written is set for September 2022 during Boric's Administration.

[[File:Piñera being vaxxed.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|Piñera made Chile one of the countries with higher [[COVID vaccines|COVID vaccination]] rates, using the [[Covid passport#Chile|COVID Vaccine passport]] as a method to coerce citizens.]]

He implemented [[Covid passport#Chile|Vaccine passports]] and [[Covid lockdown|lockdowns]] as well as a big [[COVID vaccine]] distribution in Chile during the [[CCP global pandemic|COVID 'pandemic']]. As a globalist he supported the implementation of [[5G]] in Chile to which he said "With 5G comes the ability to read thoughts and manipulate feelings".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://odysee.com/pi%C3%B1era:7|title=Piñera (Presidente de Chile): Con el 5G llega la posibilidad de leer nuestros pensamientos y manipular los sentimientos|language=es|date=June 10, 2021}}</ref> President Piñera vetoed leftist "Childhood Guarantees Act" (''Ley de Garantías de la Niñez'') a law which was made to eliminate the guarantee bases of parents in the care of their children, who would pass into the hands of the State and through its political and ideological operators, would constantly monitor parents, eliminating all freedom and rights of parents over their children and the defense of their rights. The law included "Progressive Autonomy" and "Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI)", legislation that was already vetoed at the time, but which was included on a second time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elbaquedano.com/noticias-blog/padres-entregan-carta-al-presidente-sebastin-piera-para-pedir-vetar-ley-de-garantas-de-la-niez|title=PADRES ENTREGAN CARTA AL PRESIDENTE SEBASTIÁN PIÑERA PARA PEDIR VETAR LEY DE GARANTÍAS DE LA NIÑEZ|publisher=El Baquedano|date=June 8, 2021|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/presidente-pinera-veta-proyecto-de-ley-de-garantias-de-la-ninez/YE22XFU3JRHAJG3SHLSCGEE6HY/|title=Presidente Piñera veta proyecto de ley de Garantías de la Niñez|publisher=La Tercera|date=June 21, 2021|language=es}}</ref>

The [[Chile presidential election, 2021|2021 presidential election]] was won by [[Gabriel Boric]] in the second round, the first one was won by [[José Antonio Kast]], the favorite candidate of Piñera was Sebastián Sichel, who was minister in his administration and was previously a politician from the center left (Concertación). Boric, with only 35 years, was one of the leaders of the 2011 protests, and, not even him imagined to be President after Piñera.

In the last year of his second administration Piñera pushed for the legalization of [[same sex "marriage"]], on his last day as president he received the first gay couple to use this law when this one became effective<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2022/03/10/1048886/primer-matrimonio-igualitario-chile.html|title=Se concreta la primera ceremonia de matrimonio igualitario en Chile|publisher=Emol|language=es|date=March 10, 2022}}</ref> and on the same day the administration officialized documents on possible side effects of vaccination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/destacado/2022/03/31/gobierno-de-pinera-oficializo-documentos-sobre-posibles-efectos-secundarios-de-la-vacunacion-el-ultimo-dia-de-su-mandato/|title=Gobierno de Piñera oficializó documentos sobre posibles efectos secundarios de la vacunación el último día de su mandato|date=March 31, 2022|publisherEl Mostrador|language=es}}</ref>

Sebastian Piñera received millions from China to allow them to install secret bases in Chile and business.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2022/10/28/1076913/base-china-en-vina-del.html|title=Supuesta base china en Viña del Mar: La Moneda asegura que hay una investigación|date=October 28, 2022|publisher=Emol|language=es}}</ref>

==Death==
He died in a helicopter accident on Lake Ranco, Futrono, Los Ríos, Chile on February 6, 2024. He couldn't take off his seat belt, the other three people who were on the vehicle managed to escape.

==See also==
*[[José Antonio Kast]]
*[[Michelle Bachelet]]
*[[José Piñera]]
*[[2019 Chilean State of Emergency]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-billionaire-sebastian-pinera-wins-chile-presidency-2010jan17-story.html Billionaire Sebastian Pinera Wins Chile Presidency]

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Sean Hannity

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|birth_place=[[New York City]]
|spouse=Jill Rhodes (div.)
|religion=[[Christian]]<ref>[https://www.themix.net/2019/12/sean-hannity-opens-up-religious-journey-christian-faith/ Sean Hannity Opens Up About His Religious Journey and Christian Faith]</ref>
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'''Sean Patrick Hannity''' (born December 30, 1961) is a talk show host and [[television]] host of [[Fox News]]'s show [[Hannity (tv show)|Hannity]], as well as host of the former [[Hannity's America]]. He generally takes [[conservative]] positions, with notable exceptions being the controversy regarding [[Todd Akin]] (see below), as well as being generally [[neoconservative]] warmonger on foreign policy. Liberals strongly oppose Hannity<ref>Ernst, Douglas (May 24, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/24/sean-hannity-warns-fans-of-organized-left-wing-eff/ Sean Hannity warns fans of organized, left-wing effort to ‘silence’ him]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 24, 2017.</ref> because he contradicts their favored narratives.<ref name="MonopolizeMedia"/>
He was among the first on any network to use his program to host a discussion of the pandemic by Dr. [[Anthony Fauci]], the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/5/how-the-liberal-media-weaponizes-covid-19-against-/ How the liberal media weaponizes COVID-19 against Trump] - '''The Washington Times'''</ref>

== Todd Akin/Roy Moore controversy ==
Congressman Todd Akin was the [[Republican Party]] nominee for one of the most-watched races for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 2012. He had represented a portion of the greater [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]] area in the [[House of Representatives]] from 2001 to 2013 (Missouri's 2nd congressional district).

On August 19, 2012, in a local television interview with KTVI, Akin rejected a suggestion that there should be a broad [[rape]] exception to limits on [[abortion]]. He distinguished between an actual rape and a false allegation of rape by referring to the former as a "legitimate rape," terminology that the [[liberal media]] then unfairly took out of context to engage in demagoguery against him.

Hannity claimed that Akin should consider withdrawing from the Senate race: "I think there is one political reality that I think has to be faced by you and your campaign ... Democrats now have a ton of ammunition and they are now going to try to use these remarks to hurt everybody they can. And if I was put in that position, I would at least be thinking about what is in the best interest of the party."<ref>[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/20/hannity_urges_akin_to_consider_dropping_out_in_interview_with_him.html]</ref>

True conservatives stood with principle and defended Akin's remarks, and his right to remain in the race.<ref>http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=004DDFAC-6907-452E-93F5-62D3793BBABE</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/21/tony-perkins-gop-treatment-of-akin-suspect/</ref><ref>http://www.rollcall.com/news/missouri_delegates_still_support_todd_akin_despite_controversy-217050-1.html</ref><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57497428-503544/rep-steve-king-backs-up-todd-akin-weighs-in-on-rape-and-abortion/</ref><ref>[http://mycn2.com/politics/rand-paul-reticent-to-weigh-in-on-akin-s-future-but-says-akin-s-comment-was-incorrect Rand Paul reticent to weigh in on Akin's future but says Akin's comment was incorrect] by Ryan Alessi, mycn2.com, August 22, 2012, retrieved August 24, 2012</ref><ref>http://akin.org/huckabee-chip-in</ref><ref>http://hinterlandgazette.com/2012/08/social-conservatives-including-frc-head-tony-perkins-defending-rep-todd-akins-legitimate-rape-comment.html</ref><ref>https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80049.html</ref><ref>http://buchanan.org/blog/a-grand-old-party-in-panic-2-5223</ref>

Hannity showed himself to be a [[RINO Backers|RINO backer]] through his actions.

In 2017, Hannity similarly damaged the [[Roy Moore]] U.S. Senate campaign in [[Alabama]] when he scolded the former state chief justice for failure to defend himself adequately in regard to allegations of sexual abuse that surfaced in the campaign. Moore then lost the race to the liberal Democrat [[Doug Jones]], and the GOP Senate majority slipped from 52 to 51.

==Early career==
The youngest of four children, Hannity was born in [[New York City]] to Irish immigrants. He dropped out of college to embark on a [[radio]] career, and in 1988 was at a small-town station of WVNN in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], Alabama. He later broke into a Top 10 market in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], at 640 AM WGST. His national recognition came as an occasional substitute host on the top rated ''[[Rush Limbaugh|The Rush Limbaugh Show]]''. Allegedly on his first guest show, he dropped the golden [[Excellence In Broadcasting|EIB]] microphone because of a case of high nerves. The attention gained from substitute-hosting the show paved his way to national syndication.

==Television==
Sean Hannity was asked to join the newly formed Fox News Channel (FNC) in September 1996.<ref name="foxnews.com">https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1242,00.html</ref>
He accepted the offer and became co-host with liberal [[Alan Colmes]] of ''Hannity and Colmes'', a prime-time one-hour debate-driven talk show focusing on the controversial issues and newsmakers of the day.<ref name="foxnews.com"/> January 9, 2009, was the final show of Hannity & Colmes, replaced the following week with Hannity's solo, self-titled show [[Hannity (tv show)|Hannity]]. ''Hannity and Colmes'' ranked among the leading cable TV news shows (just behind CNN's ''Larry King Live'' and FOX's ''O'Reilly Factor''). Hannity also has a weekend show on Fox News, [[Hannity's America]].

In September 2017, Hannity's show was moved to the 9 pm EDT time slot, putting him in direct competition with left-wing MSNBC host [[Rachel Maddow]]. In his first week in competition with her, Hannity received much higher ratings than her, despite her rise in ratings prior to that in 2017.<ref>Schwartz, Jason (September 29, 2017). [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/sean-hannity-rachel-maddow-ratings-243307 Hannity beats Maddow in first week of 9 p.m. showdown]. ''Politico''. Retrieved September 30, 2017.</ref><ref>Enloe, Chris (September 30, 2017). [https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/30/sean-hannity-is-now-in-head-to-head-competition-with-rachel-maddow-and-the-ratings-just-came-in/ Sean Hannity is now in head-to-head competition with Rachel Maddow — and the ratings just came in]. ''The Blaze''. Retrieved September 30, 2017.</ref><ref>Beck, Conor (September 29, 2017). [https://freebeacon.com/culture/hannity-beats-maddow-first-week/ Hannity Beats Maddow in First Week at 9 P.M. Hour]. ''The Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved September 30, 2017.</ref> Not only has Hannity consistently ranked #1 on cable television, but some days, such as during his coverage of President Trump's summit with [[North Korea]]n dictator [[Kim Jong-un]], he has ranked #1 out of every television show whatsoever.<ref>Miles, Frank (June 12, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/06/12/hannity-is-most-watched-show-on-all-television-monday-even-beating-bachelorette.html 'Hannity' is most-watched show on all of television Monday, even beating 'The Bachelorette']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved June 13, 2018.</ref>

==Controversies==
Hannity angered some traditional [[Catholics]] with his antagonistic treatment of Father Thomas Euteneuer in August 2006, during which Hannity criticized Fr. Euteneuer for prominent sex scandals in the Catholic Church.<ref>http://thebadguy.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/video-of-the-hannity-euteneuer-squabble</ref> After heated remarks by Hannity during the interview, he finally asked the priest, "Wait, would you deny me Communion?" To which Fr. Euteneuer responded, "I would."<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/070320</ref>

Hannity has also received criticism for his involvement with the Freedom Alliance charity and the associated Freedom Concerts that he has hosted for the [[charity]] since 2003. The concerts are held to raise money to give to severely injured [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. soldiers]] or as scholarships for the children of slain or injured soldiers. Through 2008, less than 20% of revenues raised by the Freedom Alliance have actually gone to these causes (and as low as 3.7% in 2006), according to IRS Form 990 tax data.<ref>Economic Research Institute. Nonprofit Organization Information - Freedom Alliance. http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Form990&EIN=541411430&Year=2009</ref> This was widely reported by [[Debbie Schlussel]], a conservative commentator and [[blog]]ger, and Schlussel has also made corroborated accusations that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent by the Freedom Alliance for each concert to accommodate Hannity and his friends and family.<ref>Schlussel, Debbie. "Sean Hannity’s Freedom CONcert Scam: Almost None of Charity’s $ Went to Injured Troops, Kids of Fallen Troops; G5s for Vannity?" March 18, 2010. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hannitys-freedom-concert-scam-only-7-of-charitys-money-went-to-injured-troops-kids-of-fallen-troops-g5s-g6s-for-vannity/</ref> Hannity has been accused of taking advantage of the charitable nature of conservative, patriotic Americans.

In May 2017, Fox News published and then retracted a story about the [[murder of Seth Rich]]. Hannity did not retract anything he stated, noting the fact that liberals and Democrats themselves widely accepted and circulated [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], most notably those regarding alleged Russian interference in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential election]].<ref>Concha, Joe (May 23, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/334825-hannity-on-seth-rich-coverage-i-retracted-nothing Hannity on Seth Rich coverage: ‘I retracted nothing’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved May 23, 2017.</ref> Because of Hannity's decision, liberal advertisers chose to pressure and bully him by pulling out their ads from his show.<ref>Kew, Ben (May 24, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/05/24/advertisers-bow-to-activist-left-begin-pulling-ads-from-hannity/ Advertisers Bow to Activist Left, Begin Pulling Ads from Hannity]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 24, 2017.</ref> Many of these attacks were attempts on the part of left-wingers to destroy a non-left-wing voice in the media.<ref name="MonopolizeMedia">Kew, Ben (May 25, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/05/25/brent-bozell-attack-on-hannity-part-of-liberal-strategy-to-monopolize-the-media/ Brent Bozell: Attack on Hannity Part of ‘Liberal Strategy to Monopolize the Media’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 26, 2017.</ref>

In October 2023 Sundance of [[The Conservative Treehouse]] summarized Hannity's transformation into a [[neocon]] [[Deep State]] shill for the [[military industrial complex]]:
{{quotebox-float|"Hannity, the perpetual interrupter, totally loses his cool in an interview with [[Vivek Ramaswamy]] and starts defending the agenda of defense contractors. It is a remarkable level of sunlight upon the controlled Fox News host who succumbed to the black-ops file involving his zipper problems (see Ainsley Earhardt). Now divorced, and under substantial financial pressure, Murdoch et al have Hannity right where they want him.

Hannity attacks Ramaswamy for the candidate’s position on government contractors funding SuperPACS, then goes into a diatribe about how only deep state government defense and intelligence officials can manage our national political priorities. Dropping the remnants of his mask, Hannity finishes the interview extolling the virtues of the military industrial complex, and saying only career politicians are qualified to be President."<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/13/glowworm-showing-sean-hannity-goes-bananas-during-interview-with-vivek-ramaswamy/ Glowworm Showing – Sean Hannity Goes Bananas During Interview with Vivek Ramaswamy], Sundance, ''The Conservative Treehouse'', October 13, 2023.</ref>}}

==Books==
Hannity's books use patriotic rhetoric as a main theme. His first book, in 2002, was entitled ''Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism''. The book remained on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for 17 weeks.<ref>http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/24930/Sean_Hannity/index.aspx</ref>
In 2004 he published ''Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism'' in which he "reveals how the disgraceful history of appeasement has reached forward from the days of [[Neville Chamberlain]] and [[Jimmy Carter]] to corrupt the unrepentant leftists of the modern [[Democratic Party]] from [[Howard Dean]] and [[John Kerry]] to [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]."

==Radio==
Hannity reaches approximately 12.5 million radio listeners each day, second only to Rush Limbaugh.<ref>''Newsweek'', April 27, 2007, p. 29</ref>

==Trophy==
In Oct. 2022, Senate Republican campaign chairman gave Hannity ‘Champion of Freedom’ trophy.<ref>Alexander Bolton, [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3709387-senate-republican-campaign-chairman-gives-hannity-champion-of-freedom-trophy/ Senate Republican campaign chairman gives Hannity ‘Champion of Freedom’ trophy], The ''Hill'', Oct 28, 2022. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) gave Fox News host Sean Hannity a small silver trophy on Thursday night to celebrate him as a “Champion of Freedom” at a town hall style event in West Palm Beach.
Scott feted former President Trump in the same way at his Mar-a-Lago estate in April of last year because he said Trump “worked hard” on border security, the economy and holding China “accountable".
The Senate Republican campaign chairman heaped praise on Hannity while they shared the stage with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), who is running for re-election.</ref>

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[Conservative Links]]

==External links==
*[http://www.hannity.com/ Sean Hannity's Official Website]
*[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1242,00.html Biography] at Fox News

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Sean Duffy

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'''Sean Duffy''' (born October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin) is the [[Republican]] U.S. Representative from [[Wisconsin]]'s 7th congressional district, succeeding [[Democrat]] and House Appropriations Committee Chairman [[David Obey]]. Although Duffy served eight years as district attorney in Ashland County, he is best known for his role on [[MTV]]'s "The Real World."

In August 2019, Duffy announced he would resign from [[Congress]] to care for his ninth son, who had health issues.<ref>Jacob, Madeline; Chretien, Claire (August 26, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-congressman-resigns-putting-his-large-family-and-special-needs-unborn-baby-above-politics Pro-life congressman resigns, putting his large family and special-needs unborn baby above politics]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved August 26, 2019.</ref><ref>McGhee, Kaylee (August 26, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/sean-duffy-gives-up-congress-for-his-family Sean Duffy gives up Congress for his family]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved August 26, 2019.</ref>

==References==
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Sbarro restaurant massacre

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The '''Sbarro restaurant massacre'''

The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing was a catastrophic Arab Palestinian Islamic terrorist attack massacre carried out by Hamas on August 9, 2001, at a crowded pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem.

Children were targeted.

[[File:Sbarro restaurant massacre1.jpg|thumb|Sbarro restaurant massacre]]

The blast killed 16 civilians—including eight children and a pregnant woman—and injured approximately 130 others. It stands as one of the deadliest and most infamous atrocities of the Second Intifada.

Arab Islamic "palestine" terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, then 20 years old, disguised herself and Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri, the suicide bomber, as Jewish tourists. She chose the target for al-Masri and left the area before the bomb detonated and went to report on the bombing on a Palestinian news channel where she was a part-time journalist. Ahlam Tamimi who helped choose the target, scouting the location to decide when the crowd would be largest, the death count highest, and then dropped off the bomber. She later smiled as she recalled celebrating as the death toll rose from 3 to over a dozen people.
With a bomb backed with metals, nails to cause maximum danage, the butcher carefully approached the spot where most of the children were at...

==The Attack Target==
The Sbarro pizzeria at the highly trafficked intersection of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem.

==Method==
Suicide Arab Islamic bomber Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri, disused as a Jew, entered the crowded restaurant during the lunchtime rush, carrying a 5 to 10 kg bomb packed with nails, nuts, and bolts inside a guitar case to maximize casualties.

The butcher approached slowly meticulously moved toward the densest crowd of children before detonating upon them.

==Perpetrators==
[[Hamas]] and [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] initially claimed responsibility. The attack was orchestrated by a Hamas terror cell, with bomb-maker Abdallah Barghouti constructing the explosives, and Ahlam Tamimi scouting the location and escorting the bomber.

==Victims and Casualties==
The explosion completely gutted the restaurant and decimated entire families.

Total Deaths:
15 people died instantly or shortly after the attack. A 16th victim, Chana Nachenberg, passed away in June 2023 after spending 22 years in a permanent vegetative coma caused by her injuries.
The Schijveschuurder Family:
Five members of a single Dutch-Israeli family were killed together: parents Mordechai and Tzira, and three of their children aged 14, 4, and 2.Malki Roth: A 15-year-old American-Israeli girl, whose family subsequently launched the Keren Malki foundation to support children with disabilities in her honor.

Aftermath and the Fight for JusticeThe legal and political ramifications of the bombing remain a deeply painful, unresolved issue in international relations:

==The Mastermind==
Ahlam Tamimi was sentenced by an Israeli court to 16 consecutive life terms in 2003. However, she was released to Jordan in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, where she became a media celebrity and expressed absolute lack of remorse.

==Extradition Battle==
Because three American citizens were killed, Tamimi was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list. Despite a standing extradition treaty, the Jordanian government has repeatedly blocked attempts to hand her over to face trial in the United States.

==The Bomb Maker==
Abdallah Barghouti was sentenced by Israel to 67 life sentences in 2004 for his role in Sbarro and multiple other attacks.

==Sickening gloating==
As is so often in the twisted Palestinianism culture of gloating at pain. The "moderate" [[Palestinian Authority]] recreated the scene on its anniversary. As a warped joyous celebration.

==Sources & Further reading==

*[https://kerenmalki.org/the-sbarro-restaurant-massacre/ The Sbarro Restaurant Massacre - Keren Malki.The Malki Foundation]

*[https://www.gov.il/en/pages/suicide-bombing-at-the-sbarro-pizzeria-in-jerusalem Suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem]. ''Gov.il.''

*[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-904720 Some 25 years after the Sbarro bombing, one family is fighting to bring Ahlam Tamimi to justice]. ''JPost'' (8/7/26).

*[https://www.timesofisrael.com/25-years-ago-today-the-sbarro-bombing-opened-a-wound-in-israel-that-still-hasnt-healed/ 25 years ago today, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed]. ''TOI'' (8/9/26)

*[https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1821946157087568270 Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom: On this day in 2001, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at Sbarro's in Jerusalem during peak lunch hour, killing 15, including 7 children and a pregnant woman, and injuring 130...] [https://archive.ph/NPH17]

*[https://x.com/IsraelMatzav/status/2086511156366123433 ((IsraelMatzav))) @IsraelMatzav. *25 years ago today: The Sbarro massacre in Jerusalem*..] [https://archive.is/kFiJE]

*[https://tinyurl.com/SbarroMassacreHR] 25 years ago today, a man dressed to blend in walked into a Sbarro pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem carrying a guitar case packed with explosives and flesh-shredding nails. Fifteen people, including seven children, were murdered that day. Chana Nachenberg, there with her toddler, remained in a coma for 22 years before dying from her injuries, becoming the 16th victim. Ahlam Tamimi helped choose the target, scouting the location to decide when the crowd would be largest, the death count highest, and then dropped off the bomber. She later smiled as she recalled celebrating as the death toll rose from 3 to over a dozen people. This was not “resistance.” It was the deliberate mass murder of Jewish children, teens, adults. ''HonestReporting'' (8/9/26).

*[https://palwatch.org/home/search?q=Sbarro#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Sbarro&gsc.page=1 PMW] Celebration and payments by Palestinian Authority.

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Sarah Hudson-Pierce

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Resident of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]
|religion=[[Church of Christ]]
|spouse=Charles Edwin Pierce (divorced) 
'''Children:''' 
Robin Lynette Pierce 
Perry Loyce Pierce 
Jeremy Winter Pierce 
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'''Sarah Rachel Hudson-Pierce''' (born February 22, 1948)<ref>[https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/columnists/2021/03/23/sarah-hudson-pierce-when-god-kept-lights-just-long-enough/6966304002/ Sarah Hudson Pierce: Memories from late March 1994 ice storm], Shreveport Times, March 23, 2021</ref> (She may no longer be using the hyphen in her last name.) is an author of inspirational books, a [[publisher]], a [[journalist]], and a former cable [[television]] host in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].

==Early years==

She was born to Roy Earnest Hudson (1895–1958) and the former Marcella May Morris (1906–1986) near Sulphur Springs in Benton County in northwestern [[Arkansas]]. Her girlhood home, still in existence, was a house constructed in the 1840s.

Sarah's mother, Marcella, was born in an underground [[American Indian]] sod dwelling near tiny Fairvalley in Woods County in north central [[Oklahoma]]. Marcella's grandparents, William Henry Morris (1833–1901) and the former Mary J. Barter (born 1838), had been among the pioneers who staked out 160 acres in the Oklahoma Land Rush. W. H. Morris was born Monmouth County, [[New Jersey]]. Prior to the [[American Civil War]], he came to Linn County, [[Iowa]], where in 1855, he married the 16-year-old Mary Barter. He then attended medical school in Keokuk, Iowa, having completed his instruction in 1864. The couple later moved to Oklahoma; three years after his death, Mary B. Morris was still living in Alva in Woods County, Oklahoma.

Hudson-Pierce traces her ancestry to Lewis Morris (1671–1746), the [[Great Britain|British]] governor of New Jersey from 1738 until his death. Previously Lewis Morris had been royal governor of the New York colony, which included New Jersey prior to the separation in 1738. This Lewis Morris' grandson, also [[Lewis Morris]] (1726–1798), was a landowner and developer who in 1776 signed the [[Declaration of Independence]] as a representative at the [[Second Continental Congress]] for [[New York]]. Lewis Morris was a half-brother of [[Gouverneur Morris]] (1752–1816), the [[New York City]] native who was editor-in-chief of the [[United States Constitution]] and the author of its preamble.

Before her third birthday, Marcella Morris was playing on the soft dirt roof of her dwelling. She slipped, fell through the roof, sustained brain damage, and lapsed into a coma. Marcella's mother, meanwhile, was dying of [[typhoid fever]] when this accident occurred. Marcella's six-year-old brother, Jimmy, had died of the fever some six weeks earlier. Marcella's father left his two daughters in the care of a kindly neighbor, Clara Knox, who became Marcella's foster mother. In 1914, Marcella's father remarried, and Marcella, at the age of eight, left the security of life with Clara. Marcella did not marry until she was in her late thirties and then only after her father, Sarah's grandfather, had died. Having lived into her nineties, Clara thereafter told Sarah of the tragic circumstances of Marcella's life.

Roy Hudson died, and Sarah lived with Marcella for four years. Marcella subsisted by taking odd jobs but became unable to care for Sarah. Hence, at the age of fourteen, Sarah began living in the foster home of the late Cullen and Martha Adair of Grove in Delaware County in northeastern Oklahoma. Sarah was later placed in an orphanage, the Turley Children's Home, now known as Hope Harbor, in Claremore near [[Tulsa]]. She resided at Turley from 1962 to 1966.

Hudson-Pierce graduated in 1966 from McLain High School in Tulsa. Marcella lived for another three decades, having died in the nursing home in Grove, Oklahoma. While she was in the eleventh grade at McLain, Sarah turned to creative writing and public speaking. From 1966 to 1967, she attended the [[conservative]] [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Harding University (then College) in Searcy in White County, north of the capital city of [[Little Rock]].<ref>"Dedication to writing brings success", Harding College ''Alumni News'', Spring 1998.</ref>

==Author==

Hudson-Pierce has written five books, three being free verse poetry:

''Friendship Is A Journey'' (1987)

''The Warming of Winter'' (1989)

''To Soar Again!'' (1994)

The other two are inspirational pieces:

''Southern Vignettes'' (1995)<ref>Lenora Nazworth, "Women's Days Marked with Celebration and Challenge", ''The Shreveport Times'', March 8, 2002.</ref> 

''Turning Points'' (1996), semi-autobiographical.

One of Hudson-Pierce's articles, "The Old Steamer Trunk", was published in ''Guideposts'' magazine in January 1998. Richard "Dick" Schneider, a senior staff editor at ''Guideposts'', said that Hudson-Pierce's selection was particularly poignant and fitting for the publication. Stories about the article were written in numerous newspapers.<ref>Dave Morris, Sr., Review of "The Old Steamer Trunk", ''Cedar Rapids Gazette'', Cedar Rapids, [[Iowa]], March 1998.</ref><ref>Tim Morris, Review of "The Old Steamer Trunk" in ''Guideposts'', Morganville, [[New Jersey]] ''News Transcript'', March 27, 1998.</ref>

From 1995 to 2008, Hudson-Pierce hosted her own television program in Shreveport through the former Time Warner Company. She interviewed artists, authors, political figures, or anyone else of interest. She writes an occasional column for the ''The Shreveport Times'', one of which is on the difficulties of moving.<ref>Sarah Hudson-Pierce, "Moves are a physical hassle, emotional drain," ''The Shreveport Times'', May 26, 2007</ref> Another is her autobiographical recollection of Christmas 1957.<ref>Sarah Hudson Pierce, "My greatest Christmas gift," ''The Shreveport Times,'' December 23, 2010.</ref> She has also written for ''The Bossier Press-Tribune'' newspaper in [[Bossier City]], located across the Red River from Shreveport.

==Ritz Publications==

In 2002, Hudson-Pierce launched, on a shoestring budget, Ritz Publications, named for her maternal great-randfather Nicholas Ritz, who came to the United States in 1851 from [[Bern]], [[Switzerland]]. Her first selection was the rejuvenation of an out-of-print book titled ''Poems'' by Julia Pleasants Creswell, the great-grandmother of the late Shreveport Mayor James Creswell Gardner. Ritz also released two more of Julia Creswell's books: ''Athalie and Other Poems'' and ''Callamura''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ritzpublications.com/callamura.html|title=''Callamura''|publisher=ritzpublications.com|accessdate=February 9, 2011}}</ref> Hudson-Pierce published two volumes of Jim Gardner's memoirs entitled ''Jim Gardner and Shreveport''. She also compiled in 2010 a tribute book to Gardner.<ref>''James Creswell Gardner: First Citizen of Shreveport'' (Shreveport: Ritz Publications, 2010), 250pp., ISBN=1-886032-11-4.</ref>

In 2002, Tanya Brasher Alexander, who resides near Shreveport, wrote a biographical poem of Hudson-Pierce's life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sarahhudsonpierce.net/its-me-sarah.html|title=Sarah Hudson-Pierce|publisher=sarahhudsonpierce.net|accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref>

Successful Ritz books have included: ''Stone Justice'' (2001) by Debi King McMartin and Lyn Morgan, which details the tragic life of Toni Jo Henry of Shreveport, who on November 28, 1942, became the only woman ever to have been executed in Louisiana's [[electric chair]]. Henry's story has been compared to that of Karla Faye Tucker in [[Texas]], executed in 1998. The motion picture ''The Pardon'', filmed in Shreveport, is adapted from ''Stone Justice''.<ref>Alexandyr Kent, "'The Pardon', a locally produced feature, begins shooting May 15", ''The Shreveport Times'', April 28, 2007.</ref>

Still another Ritz publication is ''Will Somebody Call the Coroner?'', an [[autobiography]] of the 56-year Caddo Parish Coroner Dr. [[Willis P. Butler]], with the preface by the late Shreveport historian [[Eric Brock]].<ref>[[Eric Brock]], Shreveport historian, ''The Forum'' magazine, November 10, 2004</ref><ref>Eric John Brock obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', December 3, 2011</ref> Ritz Publications also offers Sarah Dorsey's ''Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen'', an updated 2004 study of Louisiana's [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] governor. Dorsey owned the Biloxi estate, Beauvoir, and was a benefactor of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]], who lived for a time rent-free at Beauvoir.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beauvoir.org/complete.html#sdorsey|title=Beauvoir|publisher=beauvoir.org|accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref>

Another Ritz release is ''Tinkerbelle'', the story of Robert Manry, a copy editor for ''The Plain Dealer'' in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], who in 1965 solo-navigated the smallest sailboat ever across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. Ritz offers a rare book, ''Our Baby's History'' (1898), by the American artist Frances Brundage, particularly known for her depictions of wide-eyed [[Victorian era|Victorian]] children.

In 2009, Ritz published ''Jerry Wray: Pioneer Artist Of The South'' by Shreveport artist [[Jerry Wray]]. That same year, Ritz published ''Mama's Boys'', a novel by Matt Whitehead, a journalist and a former child protective services worker. Another 2009 publication is ''Investing Without A Net'' a collection of short vignettes by Shreveport author Larry LaBorde, the owner of a silver trading company and a family-owned oil business.

In 2010, Ritz published an autobiography of [[Virginia Shehee]], the businesswoman from Shreveport who served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 1980. The book has a coffee-table format with an introduction by former Mayor James Gardner, one of Shehee's classmates at Alexander Elementary School and C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport. The book is titled ''Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee: First Lady of Shreveport.''<ref>Virginia Shehee, ''Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee: First Lady of Shreveport'' (Shreveport: Ritz Publications, 2010), 250pp, ISBN: 1886032106.</ref>

In 2012, Ritz published the autobiography of George Dement, the late mayor Bossier City, entitled ''George Dement: I will, If you will, Saith the Lord.'' The introduction is written by former Governor [[Edwin Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ktbs.com/news/Former-Bossier-City-Mayor-holds-book-signing/-/144844/15439588/-/gu8y2x/-/index.html|title=Former Bossier City Mayor holds book signing, July 7, 2011|publisher=KTBS-TV ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in Shreveport)|accessdate=February 3, 2013}}</ref>

Ritz Publications is the publicist for the inspirational book, ''Valerie'', Jasmine Morelock-Field's biography of her daughter, Valerie Morelock, who was murdered in 1973 on the [[Louisiana State University]] campus in [[Baton Rouge]]. Morelock-Field turns a tragedy into a story of hope by placing all of her trust in God. She was interviewed in 2012 by Donna LaFleur on Louisiana Public Broadcasting's "Authors in Shreveport" feature at the Louisiana State Exhibit Building Museum.<ref>The link to the LaFleur interview of Jasmine Morelock-Field is http://media.lpb.org/LNWMK0447_iPod.mp4</ref> Jasmine Morelock-Field was also interviewed on Rick Rowe's ''Promise of Hope'' by KTBS-TV, the [[American Broadcasting Company]] outlet in Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/video/video/A-Promise-Of-Hope-01-06-2013/-/144384/18031650/-/eb5d9u/-/index.html|title=''A Promise of Hope''|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=January 6, 2013}}</ref>

Ritz is the publisher for ''Home to Holly Grove: Cherishing Our Rich Heritage'', by Frances Swayzer Conley,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebestoftimesnews.com/radio.php?show=DOWNLOADS&radio=573|title=Interview of Frances Conley by Gary Calligas|publisher=thebestoftimesnews.com|accessdate=January 27, 2013}}</ref> an English professor at Bossier Parish Community College. The book is a pictorial family history of the Holly Grove Colored Baptist Church in Wisner in Franklin Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The church was established after the Civil War by one of Swayzer's ancestors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://northshreveport.ksla.com/news/arts-culture/74867-book-signing-la-state-museum-july-7|title=Book signing at LA State Museum on July 7|publisher=KSLA-TV ([[CBS]] in Shreveport)|accessdate=January 26, 2013}}</ref>

Another book available through Ritz is ''Gardening to Attract Butterflies: The Beauty and the Beast'' by Loice Kendrick-Lacy of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. The book begins with Kendrick-Lacy as a young girl introduced to butterflies by her grandmother.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.lpb.org/LNWMK0447_iPod.mp4|title=Loice Kendrick-Lacy|publisher=media.lpb.org|accessdate=January 26, 2013}}</ref>

Ritz is also the publicist for James Robertson's biography of his brother, Phil Robertson, from the Arts and Entertainment Network former television series, ''[[Duck Dynasty]]''. The book is entitled ''The Legend Of The Duck Commander''. In 2012, James Robertson was interviewed on LPB's "Authors in Shreveport" feature at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.lpb.org/LNWMK0447_iPod.mp4|title=James Robertson|publisher=Louisiana Public Broadcasting|accessdate=January 26, 2013}}</ref>

In 2013, Ritz published the [[World War II]] memoir, ''A Time to Remember'', by Ken Cochran.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/22260768/arklatex-best-vivian-soldier|title=''A Time to Remember'' by Ken Cochran|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=April 24, 2013}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Sarah left college in 1967 to marry Charles Edwin Pierce (born 1941), a minister in the Church of Christ, originally from Falcon in Nevada County near Magnolia in south Arkansas. The couple has three children: Robin Lynette Pierce (born 1969) of Shreveport, Perry Loyce Pierce (born 1970) of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], and Jeremy Winter Pierce (born 1976) of Searcy, Arkansas. There are two grandchildren. Hudson-Pierce has an older sister, Alice H. Roberts of Bastrop, Texas.

Quoting [[M. Scott Peck]], [[psychiatrist]] and author of ''The Road Less Traveled'', Hudson-Pierce says that "Life is difficult. ... It is in the attaining of goals that we blossom and grow. ... I know that [[God]] is the source of my strength and that without Him, I am nothing. ..."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mscottpeck.com/html/scott-peck.html|author=[[M. Scott Peck]]|title=The Road Less Traveled: New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth|location=[[New York City]]|publisher= Simon & Schuster|date=1978|accessdate=February 9, 2011}}</ref>

==References==
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Sandra Day O'Connor

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'''Sandra Day O'Connor''' (March 26, 1930 – December 1, 2023) was the first woman [[Associate Justice]] ever appointed to the [[United States Supreme Court]]. A classmate and friend of then-Justice [[William Rehnquist]], O'Connor was appointed in 1981<ref>https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sandra-day-oconnor-emory-law-clerk-supreme-court-justice</ref> by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] to fulfill his campaign promise to appoint the first women to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. Justices O'Connor and Rehnquist then frequently joined each other's opinions, with Rehnquist often obtaining O'Connor's support on his conservative opinions,<ref>''See, e.g.'', ''[[Boy Scouts v. Dale]]'' (2000) and [[United States v. Morrison]] (2000)</ref> and sometimes O'Connor persuading Rehnquist to support her on a more [[liberal]] opinion.<ref>''See, e.g.'', the FLMA case{{fact}} and [[Troxel v. Granville]] (2000).</ref> Reagan did not bother to interview any other candidates for the job, thereby making almost no effort to nominate a real [[conservative]].

Justice O'Connor then provided the pivotal 5th vote to the [[liberal]] wing of the Court in the important [[abortion]], [[affirmative action]], [[campaign finance]] and [[Establishment Clause]] cases. In October 2013, Justice O'Connor performed the second-ever homosexual marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court.<ref>https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/justices-oconnor-ginsburg-perform-same-sex-marriage-ceremonies-inside-supre</ref>

Justice O'Connor retired in June 2006, and was eventually replaced on the bench by [[Samuel Alito]].

== Judicial Philosophy ==

Justice O'Connor advocated the use of balancing tests, often weighing the state interests against the individual rights. Often her balancing tests would have multiple parts or prongs, and arguing what would tip the balance to one side or the other became a complex exercise in brief-writing by attorneys before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] who focused almost entirely on her philosophy. Almost none of the other Justices embraced this philosophy, and its significance was limited to cases in which her vote was the pivotal swing vote, such as on [[abortion]] and the [[Establishment Clause]].

In three precedent-setting [[liberal]] decisions, Justice O'Connor was the swing vote who joined the bloc of 4 liberal justices in order to overcome four [[conservative]] justices:

*''Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan'' (1982)<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/458/718</ref>

*''Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education'' (1999)<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-843.ZS.html</ref>

*''Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education'' (2005)<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-1672.ZS.html</ref>

Upon Justice O'Connor's retirement in 2005, [[Ann Coulter]] published a column entitled "Reagan's Biggest Mistake Finally Retires."<ref>https://humanevents.com/2005/07/07/reagans-biggest-mistake-finally-retires/</ref>

== Political Background ==

Sandra Day O'Connor served in the Arizona state legislature and had a [[liberal]] voting record that included:<ref>''Phyllis Schlafly'', The Supremacists, pp. 216-217 (2006).</ref>

*On April 29, 1970, she voted Yes on H.B. 20, an abortion-on-demand bill, in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
*On April 30, 1970, she voted Yes on the same bill in the Republican Majority Caucus (where the bill was defeated).
*On April 23, 1974, she voted No in the Senate Judiciary Committee on a Right to Life Memorial asking Congress to extend constitutional protections to the unborn.
*On Feb. 8, 1973, she co-sponsored the Family Planning Act (S.B. 1190) to provide "family planning," including abortions, to minors without parental consent.
*In May 1974, she voted No on an amendment to prohibit abortions at the taxpayer-supported University of Arizona Hospital.
*On March 23, 1972, she co-sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment (which Arizona consistently rejected).
*On April 15, 1971, she succeeded in amending anti-pornography bills (H.B. 301 and 302) so that porn shops ("adult bookstores") could be 4,000 feet from schools and parks instead of at least a mile away.
*In 1973, she sponsored Arizona's no-fault divorce bill (h.b. 1007).

== References ==
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{{See also|San Francisco values}}
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'''San Francisco''' refers to both the city and [[county]] in [[California]]<ref>Technically it is considered a "consolidated city-county". Other such arrangements exist elsewhere in the United States – [[Denver]] is an example – but it is the only such arrangement in [[California]].</ref> and is one of the most beautiful but disastrously [[liberal]] cities in the world.<ref>http://www.globosapiens.net/travel-information/San+Francisco-638.html</ref> It is well known for its excellent public transit systems, including Muni subway and streetcars, BART ([[Bay Area Rapid Transit]]) trains to suburbs, and the famous San Francisco cable cars.<ref>http://www.reserve-hotel.com/HBOImages/destinations/usa/sanfran/transportation.asp</ref> The city has survived two damaging [[earthquake]]s, one in 1906 and another one about 75 miles away in 1989<ref>http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/89.html</ref><ref>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.php</ref> known as the [[Loma Prieta Earthquake]]. Fear of another [[earthquake]] is the reason that no freeway through the city exists. Indeed, it is impossible to access the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] without driving on city streets. San Francisco has one of the largest [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]] populations in the West coast. Chinese are the largest single ethnic minority group in San Francisco at 22% of the city's total population. Whites only make up about 24% of the city's population.

[[Political correctness]] tends to downplay multiple problems of political origin afflicting San Francisco. Shockingly, a prevalence of human waste litters the streets due to a large [[homeless]] population. Housing is unaffordable for most, and a [[Two-tier system|two-tier society]] more common in [[socialism|socialist]] countries exists. A [[United Nations]] report called the homeless crisis created by San Fransico's Progressive culture a human rights violation.<ref>https://sf.curbed.com/2018/10/26/18028576/united-nations-rapporteur-homeless-farha-human-rights-violantion</ref> While [[Democrat]]s promote public transportation as an alternative to gas-powered vehicles, more homeless ride public transportation 24/7 as an alternative to living outdoors. Crime on public transportation has increased while ridership among the general population has decreased.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/09/05/homeless-riding-san-francisco-trains-crime-ridership/</ref> Random shootings and other crimes as a result of San Francisco being a sanctuary city plague the community, sometimes with perpetrators never caught or, if caught, not convicted. San Francisco used to be conservative, but over the years it became liberal ever since the 1960s and 70s of the hippie culture.
[[File:Pelosi poop map.jpg|left|220px|thumb|The City of San Francisco official "poop map" of reports of human feces on the street covers [[U.S. House]] [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]'s entire Congressional district.<ref>https://www.mrctv.org/blog/new-report-shows-nancy-pelosis-district-seat-piled-high-dirty-needles-and-human-feces</ref>]]
The downtown area of the city is laid out on two grids, with a 45-degree offset between them. Market Street separates the two grids. Many tourists come to visit the Civic Center, Embarcadero, and Union Square areas, all of which are north of Market. Famous San Francisco landmarks include the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], Fisherman's Wharf, and [[Alcatraz Island]].

San Francisco, with a large [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] population, is also considered to be one of the [[most liberal American cities]]. The city's former [[democrat]] mayor, [[Gavin Newsom]] ordered the city clerk to issue marriage licenses [[same-sex marriage|to same-sex couples]] despite the practice being explicitly illegal under California law. The marriages were nullified by the courts shortly thereafter, as the mayor and clerk were violating California state law.<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07020106.html</ref>

In 2001, the city of San Francisco extended its workers health insurance to cover sex-change operations for municipal employees.<ref>http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-05-01/article/4630?headline=Sex-change-benefits-approved-in-San-Francisco</ref><ref>http://www.brentmorrison.com/0102Sex_change.htm</ref>
The Board of Supervisors and Mayor approved the measure which extended up to $50,000 in benefits to city workers who want to switch their gender.<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E0D71130F93BA25751C0A9679C8B63</ref>

San Francisco is also a "[[sanctuary city]]", which means they have passed an ordinance that it is against the law to report illegal immigrants to the United States authorities as they are required to legally do. In other words, anyone upholding the federal law will get in trouble with the city. This has led to a culture of underaged drug dealers continuing their trade with impunity.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374803,00.html</ref>

San Francisco is part of the [[San Francisco Bay]] Area, which includes [[Oakland]], [[San Jose]], [[Berkeley]], and other smaller towns like Cupertino, Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Saratoga, and Menlo Park. The city is home to several large companies, including Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, [[X Corp.|X]], and Cnet. San Francisco has been overtaken in population and economic significance by [[San Jose]] and the rest of [[Silicon Valley]].

The last Republican mayor was elected in 1959. Democrat socialist [[London Breed]] assumed office in July 2018 and was up for reelection in November 2024 but lost to Democrat Daniel Lurie.

==History==
[[File:View of San Francisco in 1846-7.jpg|thumb|View of San Francisco, Formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846–7.]]
The Yelamu tribe of American Indians lived in the San Francisco peninsula prior to European arrival in the area, with settlements dating to as late as 3000 BC;<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/seac/sfprehis.htm</ref> however, it should be noted that [[carbon dating]] is likely flawed. San Francisco was founded as a mission by Franciscan monks in 1776. Within only a few years, several natives had been converted to Christianity.<ref>http://www.islaiscreek.org/ohlonehistorybackground.html</ref> A census conducted at the time showed a total of 814 people living in and around the mission.<ref>The Annals of San Francisco Part I Chapter 3</ref> The San Francisco Bay, as well as its central location, and position on the California mission trail played heavily into the growth of the city during the [[California Gold Rush]]. In 1848 San Francisco's Chinatown was established in the downtown area of the city centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street. It is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.

===Major Earthquakes===
In 1906, a large earthquake struck San Francisco, killing approximately 3000 people and starting a fire that burned about 4.7 square miles of cityscape.<ref>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/casualties.php</ref> The earthquake originated on the [[San Andreas]] fault, which continues to threaten major Californian cities.
The second largest earthquake to affect San Francisco, the [[Loma Prieta Earthquake]], struck in 1989, causing damage to the city and surrounding areas.

===Boosters===
In the first half of the 20th century, business interests in San Francisco, organized into the Chamber of Commerce, asserted themselves as the only legitimate leaders of the community, asserting that labor unions were only a disruptive special interest. However, the voters and the overall political culture of the city were much more sympathetic to the working class and to labor unions as their representatives in civic decision-making. After conflict between businesses and unions, including strikes sometimes requiring federal troops, businesses finally accepted the legitimacy of labor unions after the bitter strike in 1934. The resulting business-labor partnership aided San Francisco's postwar expansion.<ref>William Issel, "Business Power and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1900-1940," ''Journal of Urban History,'' 1989 16(1): 52-77</ref>

The Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-40 boosted San Francisco. The exposition's board was dominated by members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce who had the support of major area corporations, other western states, and federal agencies. The Exposition departed from the tradition of world fairs in its eclectic organization of exhibits, which included productions, displays, lectures, films, demonstrations, and bazaars. These exhibits reflected a transitional phase in American culture, characterized by the process of fragmentation and recombination. The tensions of American society on the eve of World War II were manifested in exhibitions expressing both desires for peace and simplicity, and fascination with expansion and technology.<ref>Lisa Rubens, "Re-presenting the Nation: The Golden Gate International Exposition," ''European Contributions to American Studies'' 1994 27: 121-139.</ref>

===Progressivism in the 1970s===
[[File:Jim Jones and the Democrat party.jpg|right|400px|thumb|''Left to Right:'' The [[Rev. Jim Jones]], Mayor [[George Moscone]] (murdered along with City Councilman [[Harvey Milk]]), Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] a [[white privilege]]d refugee from [[Baltimore]], Speaker [[Willie Brown]] ex-lover and political patron of [[Kamala Harris]], and Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]] whose rise came on the heels of the Moscone/Milk murders. The Moscone/Milk murders and the tragedy at [[Jonestown]] are intimately connected in San Francisco's [[Progressive]] [[Democratic party]],<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyXNWYmfXg Jim Jones, The Most Admired Democrat of The 1970s, Censored Info], youtube</ref> a fact kept hidden by the [[mainstream media]] for decades.]]
[[Jim Jones]] was the original founder of the "[[Rainbow Coalition|Rainbow Family]]" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a term Jones used to refer to his family.<ref>Reiterman & Jacobs 1982, p. 65</ref><ref>https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=64933</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/jonestown/sfeature/race.html "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple - Race and the Peoples Temple".] PBS.org. February 20, 2007.</ref> Jones moved to San Francisco in 1970 and was deeply involved in the city's [[progressive]] politics.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3U1pA8keSw Jim Jones on gay marriage, women's rights, white privilege and other Progressive causes], youtube.</ref> Jones's [[Peoples Temple]] was instrumental in the election of Mayor [[George Moscone]], serving as campaign workers and busing in unregistered people to vote. Jones was rewarded with the post of housing commissioner.

It was [[Kamala Harris]]'s mentor, [[Willie Brown]], who brought Jones in contact with the California [[Democratic party]].<ref>http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/</ref> From there, Jones become involved with the [[DNC]]. Willie Brown supported [[same-sex marriage]] as early as 1977. Jones publicly met with vice president candidate [[Walter Mondale]], and spoke at events with other leading Democrats at the San Francisco headquarters after the election in 1976, among them First Lady [[Rosalynn Carter]] and California governor [[Jerry Brown]].

[[Harvey Milk]], the first openly gay politician elected in California with Jones's help would say: "My name is etched in stone with you."<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Articles/sawyer.htm]</ref> Milk wrote letters in support of Jones to [[President Jimmy Carter]]. Both Milk and Jones were [[homosexual]] activists.

===Progressivism in the 21st century===

:{{See also|2020 Marxist insurrection}}
San Francisco<ref>https://forums.carm.org/forum/secular/society-ethics-politics/11922-drinking-water-danger-scat-francisco</ref> faces [[Environmental Protection Agency]] fines over the environmental damage done by the city in collaboration with its homeless partners.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/19/will-epa-fine-san-francisco-homelessness/</ref>

Since 2011, the city's Poop Patrol office has received 118,352 reports of turds in the street, or roughly am average of one every 90 seconds, around the clock, for eight solid years.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/17/calif_118352_human_feces_reports_in_frisco_since_11.html]</ref> With a growing population, the numbers can only be expected to increase. ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' reported in 2018 on the plight of residents unable to get a response from the city. A frustrated citizen finally called the newspaper after finding a suitcase full of human excrement on the corner of his block. The resident purchased a $750,000 condo for his wife and 2-1/2 year old child. The paper described the neighborhood as "progressive."<ref>https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Neighbors-disgusted-over-despair-on-block-hit-13015964.php</ref> With the city already covered in feces, the newly elected Democrat district attorney vowed to not prosecute public urination.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/11/san-francisco-chesa-boudin-public-urination/</ref>

In a city with an estimated homeless population of 8,000,<ref>https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18629080/san-francisco-homeless-population-count-numbers-2019-sf</ref> the taxpayers liberally hand out 4.5 million free syringes annually,<ref>https://sf.curbed.com/2018/5/9/17336090/san-francisco-needles-syringes-exchange-numbers-sf</ref> or roughly one every 16 hours, assuming (a) the needles are used exclusively by the homeless and (b) all 8,000 homeless are intravenous drug users. While homeowners and renters may take advantage of this taxpayer subsidy, there is no means testing. And the city leaders give little thought to the health and safety of children in public parks and elsewhere exposed to the careless disposal of dirty needles which are thrown away at a rate of some 12,000 daily. While the city has banned the use of plastic straws because they are a "threat to the environment."<ref>https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/No-more-slurping-through-plastic-straws-in-San-13102063.php</ref> the city continues the distribution of disposal plastic syringes which are a threat to everybody's health and the environment.
[[File:Antifa_white_supremacist_punches_out_teeth_of_Black_man.png|right|250px|thumb|In a [[racist]] attack, an Antifa [[white supremacist]] knocked out the front teeth of Philip Anderson at a Free Speech Rally.<ref>https://archive.is/ZB1Y3</ref>]]
[[Chesa Boudin]] was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2019. Chesa was elected with money from [[George Soros]],<ref>https://issuesinsights.com/2020/06/05/soros-investments-in-far-left-district-attorneys-campaigns-yields-bitter-fruit/</ref> is the child of two cop-killing [[communist]]s,<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/14/george-soros-pushes-remake-criminal-justice-system/</ref> and is named after a cop killing communist.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/07/17/short-list-black-lives-matters-cop-killing-heroes/</ref> Chesa, a Democrat, was elected on a platform of not prosecuting [[criminal]]s and opening the [[prison]]s as an important step in furthering the Marxist [[revolution]].<ref>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/andrew-mccarthy/the-progressive-prosecutor-project/</ref> Chesa is named after [[Joanne Chesimard]],<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard</ref> also known as [[Assata Shakur]] of the [[FBI]]'s 10 Most Wanted list currently living in [[Cuba]]. Chesimard was convicted of the [[murder]] of a [[New Jersey]] State Trooper in 1977 and escaped prison in 1979. Chesimard is the inspiration of [[Patrisse Cullors]], founder of [[Black Lives Matter]] (BLM).

Chesa's mother is [[Kathy Boudin]], who served 22 years in prison for the murder of two policemen and a Brink's guard. His father, [[David Gilbert]], remains in prison. Chesa was adopted and raised by [[Weather Underground]] (WUO) self-admitted [[terrorist]]s [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]].<ref>https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/san-francisco-socialist-son-of-imprisoned-weather-underground-terrorists-who-was-raised-by-bill-ayers-and-worked-for-hugo-chavez-elected-d-a/</ref>

Chesa's namesake, Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur, is the former "queen" of the [[Black Liberation Army]] (BLA) terrorist group, who was convicted of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973. She was convicted of the [[murder]] in 1977 and seven other [[felon]]ies. While serving a life sentence, she escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979. She was granted [[political asylum]] in [[Cuba]] in 1984 where she has lived ever since, despite US government efforts to have her extradited. She is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, under her maiden name Joanne Deborah Chesimard. BLM founders openly admit to being "trained Marxists."<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1273739801464725504</ref> [[BLM]] co-founder [[Alicia Garza]] is a black separatist and more recently was affiliated with the Marxist [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]] that wants to carve out an independent [[nation-state]] in the Bay Area.<ref>[https://www.periscope.tv/w/1zqKVljlzyDJB ''Black Lives Matter Unmasked''], Lee Stanahan, 2020.</ref> Garza wrote, "When I use Assata [Shakur]'s powerful demand in my [[Community organizing|organizing]] work, I always begin by sharing where it comes from, sharing about Assata’s significance to the Black Liberation Movement, what its political purpose and message is, and why it’s important in our context."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Garza|first1=Alicia|title=A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement|url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/|website=The Feminist Wire|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref>

On October 17, 2020, a [[racist]] [[Democrat]] mob attacked a [[Free Speech]] rally organized by an [[African American]] man and beat participants. The rally was two weeks before the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/10/17/hundreds-of-antifa-attack-conservative-free-speech-rally-punch-organizers-teeth-out-assault-several-others/</ref>

== Bill O'Reilly and San Francisco Values ==
[[Image:Wicked.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The book ''When the Wicked Seize a City'' by Dr. [[Chuck McIlhenny]] recounts he and his church were terrorized by [[homosexuality|homosexual]] activists in San Francisco.]]
:{{See also|San Francisco values}}
There is much antipathy between the liberal San Franciscans and [[Bill O'Reilly]], who has made many comments about [[San Francisco values]]. For example, the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] devoted two-thirds of its front page to a picture of Bill O'Reilly and had an extremely large story about him when he stated that San Francisco should secede from the [[United States]] and form its own country.<ref>http://www.chronwatch-america.com/blogs/363/Bill-OReillys-comments-upset-the-liberal-San-Francisco-crowd.html</ref>

Mr. O'Reilly has stated the following regarding San Francisco values:
{{cquote|But back to San Francisco values, as listed in my book, ''Culture Warrior''. Here they are. Cradle-to-grave entitlements for the poor, with a punishing tax rate to pay for them. Legalized drugs. Unfettered [[abortion]] rights. No parental notification for minors having abortions, and rehab, not punishment, for many dangerous criminals.

No restrictions on the Southern border. San Francisco welcomes all illegal aliens. An anti-Christian attitude. Remember last March? The supervisors condemned a rally by a conservative Christian youth group – kids. The supervisors called it anti-gay and anti-choice. But the city apparently is comfortable with militant gays dressing up as nuns in a public parade and mocking said nuns. No proclamation condemning that.

This is just a few of the "values" San Franciscans embrace in their [[Secular left|secular progressive]] paradise.<ref>http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2006/11/10/01</ref>}}

A notable incident involving the issue of San Francisco values was the [[Hamilton Square Baptist Church Riot]] and the persecution of [[Chuck McIlhenny|Dr. Chuck McIlhenny]].

=== Homosexual Public Indecency Tolerated in San Francisco ===
[[Image:HamSquare.jpg|thumbnail|150px|left|[[Hamilton Square Baptist Church Riot|Hamilton Square Baptist Church]]]]
''For more on this topic see:'' [[Homosexual Public Indecency Tolerated in San Francisco]]

In San Francisco, there have been notable cases of [[homosexual]] public indecency that have been tolerated. [[Christianity Today]] states the following regarding Pastor David Innes regarding the [[Hamilton Square Baptist Church Riot|Hamilton Square Baptist Church riot]]:
{{cquote|Innes says he blames not police, but those in political control of the city, particularly the board of supervisors. "You really can't compare San Francisco with any other city," says Innes. "Homosexual advocates infiltrate and dominate the political structures here. Police are in straitjackets. They can't do their job. They've been instructed not to arrest homosexuals."<ref>Christianity Today, Nov 8, 1993 v37 p57</ref>}}

Pastor Innes then cites a September 30, 1993 letter published in the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] from a veteran police officer who was "highly embarrassed" when people asked him why he was not making any arrests in regards to totally naked males engaging in lewd behavior at the San Francisco Folsom Street Fair. The officer stated, "At least a dozen times I had to painstakingly explain that we were to take a position of 'high tolerance' and not to create an incident." <ref>Christianity Today, Nov 8, 1993 v37 page 57</ref>

In 1990 and 1991 extreme public lewdness was exhibited at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Parades and when police authorities were asked why there were no arrests they offered various excuses such as the primary responsibility was to "reflect community standards and maintain crowd control."<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/marco/special/spc12.html</ref>

The city at that time had no rule outlawing being naked in public; on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on if they would change the law that allowed public nudity.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/san-francisco-lawmakers-set-vote-nudity-ban-17765727#.UKuzA1JK1kg</ref> The nudity ban passed 6 votes to 5.<ref>http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/SF-Supes-Approve-Nudity-Ban-180252481.html</ref>

===Chesa Boudin===
In a surprise June 2022 result, San Francisco overwhelmingly rejected ultra-liberal DA Chesa Boudin.<ref>[https://www.fox8live.com/2022/06/08/san-francisco-voters-dump-progressive-da-chesa-boudin-recall-election/ San Francisco voters dump progressive DA Chesa Boudin in recall election], AP, Fox8, June 8, 2022.</ref> Proving how dangerous the crime wave has become in the liberal values capital.

===Business insecurity===

In 2023, a California Bill to prohibit employers from requiring employees to confront shoplifters went to the State Assembly.
{{Cquote|SAN FRANCISCO—The California Senate passed a controversial bill on May 31 that would prohibit employers from requiring staff to intervene in active shoplifting. The bill is pending further review by state Assembly committees.

SB 553, authored by state Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), requires employers, who could potentially be victims of shoplifting and robberies, to Prohibitdo more to “keep employees safe at work.” Employers are asked to maintain a violent incident log, provide active shooter training and shoplifter training, and stop maintaining policies that require workers to confront suspected active shoplifters. The bill allows companies to apply for workplace violence restraining orders.<ref>Zachary Steiber, [https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-bill-to-stop-employees-from-confronting-shoplifters-goes-to-assembly_5323008.html California Bill to Prohibit Employers From Requiring Employees to Confront Shoplifters Goes to State Assembly], ''Epoch Times'', 06/10/2023.</ref>}}

==Walk For Life West Coast==
In January 2011, San Francisco held the 7th Annual Walk for Life West Coast, a [[pro-life]] rally. Up to 50,000 people took part, a record turnout for the event.<ref>Hale, M. "Record-breaking 50,000 attend Walk for Life West Coast"; ''LifeSiteNews.com''; January 24, 2011 [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/recordbreaking-turnout-for-walk-for-life-west-coast-in-san-francisco/]</ref> The counter-protest "was deafened by the sheer size of Walk for Life".<ref>Moreno, G. "Anti-abortion supporters rally thousands in San Francisco"; ''Golden Gate [X]press''; January 21, 2011 [http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/015972.html]</ref>

==Sports==
San Francisco is home to two major professional sports teams: the [[San Francisco Giants]] [[baseball]] team and the [[San Francisco 49ers]] [[football]] team. The [[Golden State Warriors]] plan to move from Oakland back to San Francisco in 2019 (when the team moved to the West Coast they were originally located in San Francisco) but will retain their team name (it is the only franchise among the four major professional sports to use a state nickname).
==Management==
In June 2022, San Francisco was named the second-worst-run city in the US by WalletHub.<ref>Amy Graff, Joshua Bote, [https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-named-second-worst-run-city-17271311.php San Francisco named second-worst-run city in US by WalletHub. City officials are livid] sfgate, June 29, 2022.</ref>
Determined by the city's operating budget relative to the quality of services it provides.

== See also ==
* [[Emperor Norton]]
* [[Grace Cathedral]]
* [[San Francisco 49ers]]
* [[Adolph Sutro]]
* [[Gun control]] -- [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]], along with [[New York]], [[Washington D.C.]], [[Los Angeles]] and [[Chicago]], is known to be one of the 5 top cities with the most [[left-wing]] [[Second Amendment|Anti-Second Amendment]] laws.
* [[Most liberal American cities]]
*[[Anti-Asian hate crime]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:California Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:San Francisco]][[Category:San Francisco Bay Area]]
[[Category:Western United States]]
[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]
[[Category:California Counties]]
[[Category:Most Liberal American Cities]]

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[[File:Samidoun.genocidal.jpg|thumb|Samidoun - Islamists shout to kill Jews (Apr 2023)]]

'''Samidoun''' is an [[Islamic Republic of Iran|Iran]] and terrorist [[PFLP]],<ref name=swc>[https://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/simon-says-3.html Simon Wiesenthal Center Commends Berlin Police on Banning of Pro-Hamas Signs During May Day Demonstrations], ''SWC'', May 2, 2023</ref><ref>Adam Kredo, [https://freebeacon.com/national-security/discover-card-cuts-ties-with-palestinian-terror-linked-organization/ Discover Card Cuts Ties With Palestinian Terror-Linked Organization], ''Free Beacon'', Sep 16, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/evidence-of-deep-seated-link-between-samidoun-and-iran-new-report-states/ Evidence of ‘deep-seated’ link between Samidoun and Iran, new report states], ''JNS'', Mar 29, 2023 <blockquote>— Founded in 2012, Samidoun “serves as an affiliate for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group,”...</blockquote></ref> [[BDS]] linked, [[Islamism|Islamist]] hate group, advocating for violence and support for dangerous terrorists.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/berlin-bans-palestinian-activist-from-taking-part-in-rallies Berlin bans Palestinian terrorist from taking part in rallies], ''AP,'' via ''Fox News'', March 27, 2019.</ref> In [[Germany]], its terrorist flags at May Day events in 2023, were banned,<ref>Benjamin Wenthal, [https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-739299 Berlin bans protests of terrorist NGO after calls of 'death to Israel'], ''JPost'', Apr 15, 2023.<blockquote>A protest including chants of “Death to Jews” and “Death to Israel” was organized by Samidoun, a Palestinian NGO that is classified as a terrorist entity by Israel.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/berlin-bans-palestinian-terrorist-flags-at-may-day-events/ Berlin bans Palestinian terrorist flags at May Day events], ''JNS'', May 1, 2023.<blockquote>The move follows a march in the city during the Passover on April 8 co-organized by Palestinian NGO Samidoun where the mainly German Muslim participants chanted "Death to Jews" and "Death to Israel."</blockquote></ref> afrer a demonstration whereby its Muslims shouterd to Kill Jews.<ref name=swc/><ref>[https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/04/10/cries-of-death-to-the-jews-heard-at-pro-palestinian-demonstration-in-berlin/ Cries of ‘Death to the Jews’ Heard at Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Berlin], ''Algemeiner'', Apr 10, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/chants-of-death-to-jews-at-samidoun-berlin-march-spark-calls-to-ban-ngo/ 'Death to Jews' Chants at Samidoun Berlin March Spark Calls to Ban NGO], ''JNS'', April 17, 2023.</ref><ref name=ejc3may2023/><ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/death-to-the-jews-chants-heard-at-berlin-pro-palestinian-rally/amp/ ‘Death to the Jews’ chants heard at Berlin pro-Palestinian rally], ''JTA, TOI'', Apr 12, 2023</ref>
Berlin's police also banned pro [[Hamas]] and signs supporting Hizb ut-Tahrir, a nonviolent fundamentalist organization seeking to reestablish an Islamic caliphate.
<ref name=ejc3may2023>[https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/germany/berlin-police-ban-pro-hamas-signs/ Berlin police ban pro-Hamas signs], ''EJC'', May 3, 2023</ref>

Noted:<ref>Itai Reuveni, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-antisemitic-protest-in-berlin-another-wake-up-call-for-europe/ The Antisemitic Protest in Berlin: Another Wake-up Call for Europe], ''TOI'', Apr 13, 2023.</ref><blockquote>
Numerous research publications have demonstrated how hate rhetoric contributes to the rise of violent antisemitism in Europe, and eventually to violence in general. Actions and statements by groups like Samidoun constitute a threat to the safety of European citizens, particularly Jews.
This is far from the first example of Samidoun involvement in incitement to violence. In October 2022, the organization organized a march in Brussels, where participants donned the headbands of the Lions’ Den terror group, praised Hamas military leaders who murdered Israeli civilians, and even called for "the defeat of the European Union". In August 2022, Samidoun’s German branch shared on Facebook pictures of a gunman, with the words “No one will surrender the rifle.” Cataloging every such example would be too onerous in this space.</blockquote>
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Salah el-Dine Tarazi

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'''Salah el-Dine Tarazi''' (1917–1980) [صلاح الدين ترزي] was a [[Syria]]n jurist and diplomat who served as a judge at the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) from 1976 until his death in 1980. Prior to his judicial career, he represented Syria as its Permanent Representative to the [[United Nations]] during the early 1960s, where he frequently opposed Israeli and Western positions.

Tarazi had reluctantly co-signed an agreement with his Israeli counterparts in July 1949. Before accepting
his duties to negotiate an armistice, Tarazi, a radical '''Arab nationalist''', reportedly wept before his colleagues.<ref>Moubayed, S. M. (2006). ''Steel & Silk: Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900-2000''. United States: Cune, p.419.</ref>

== Diplomatic and Political Opposition ==

=== Opposition to Israel and Rhetoric at the [[UN]] ===
During his tenure as Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Tarazi was a persistent critic of Israel.

Already in Oct 1948, Tarazi attempted to accuse Israel of so-called "genocide."<ref>Goda, Norman JW. 2025. "[https://isca.indiana.edu/publication-research/research-paper-series/norman-jw-goda-research-paper.html The Genocide Libel: How the World Has Charged Israel with Genocide]." ISCA Research Paper 2025-3.</ref>

Tarazi frequently employed highly charged rhetoric in debates (including Nazi comparisons, already in those early days).

* In 1962, he publicly argued for a UN-appointed custodian to oversee Arab property in Israel, framing the issue in ways that delegitimized Israel's sovereignty and property rights. He also drew comparisons to Nazi atrocities, a characterization that inflamed tensions and was strongly condemned by Israeli and Western delegates.<ref>{{cite news
|title=U.S. Opposes Proposal for U.N. Custodian over Arab Property in Israel
|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=12 December 1962
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/u-s-opposes-proposal-for-u-n-custodian-over-arab-property-in-israel
}}</ref>
* In 1963, Tarazi and other Arab delegates rejected Israeli peace proposals, continuing a pattern of opposition that reinforced international isolation of Israel in UN forums.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Saudi Arabia, Syria Reject Israel's Bid for Peace with Arabs
|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=10 October 1963
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/saudi-arabia-syria-reject-israels-bid-for-peace-with-arabs
}}</ref>

During the UN 1962 sessions, when [[Argentina]] and [[Chile]] slammed [[Ahmad Shukairy]], the Saudi Arabia's ambassador, for (11.30.62) promoting [[neo-Nazi]] Tacuara (reminding its about hatred and genocide), Tarazi did not condemn Shukairy, instead he offered Arab unity agreeing to Shukairy statement put out as P.A.D (with [[Issa Nakhleh]]).

It was<ref>Report of a Study of United States Foreign Aid in Ten Middle Eastern and African Countries: Submitted by Senator Ernest Gruening ... Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. Committee Print ... 88-1 ... October 1, 1963. (1963). United States: (n.p.). [https://books.google.com/books?id=kyBSp1DrWf8C&pg=PA389 p.389]. Shukairy's failed attempt to turn tables around was after, in his 11.30.62 he mentioned: "recently the NYT..." in his promotion of Tacuara. That 9.16.62 NYT headline is clear: "[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html Argentine Youths in Nazi Group Salute and Cry: 'Hail Tacuara!'; Anti-Semitic Organization, Said to Be Growing, Asserts It Fights 'Zionism, Capitalism and Communism' Tells About Drills He Doubts Charges]".</ref> after:
{{Cquote|Ramon Huidobro, of Chile, referring to the so-called "Tacuara" movement in Argentina. said he could not believe that the Government and people of Saudi Arabia and of the other Arab countries hoped for the growth of a movement that was contrary to the laws of friendly countries and undermined the very foundation of the inter-American system, which was built upon racial and religious tolerance and coexistence.

The spread of those Latin American principles to the rest of the world would do more to promote the cause of the Palestine refugees and of peace in general than dissemination of doctrines of hatred and genocide.}}

=== Advocacy Against Israel at the UN ===
Tarazi consistently worked to advance Arab claims over territory and property in ways that challenged Israeli sovereignty.

'''UN Custodian Proposal:''' He led efforts supporting the establishment of a UN custodian for Arab property in Israel, which Israel and U.S. representatives argued would violate the property rights of Israeli citizens and undermine legal norms. These initiatives are seen as part of a broader strategy to internationalize disputes over land and refugees, often at the expense of Israel's legal and political standing.<ref>{{cite news
|title=U.S. Opposes Proposal for U.N. Custodian over Arab Property in Israel
|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=12 December 1962
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/u-s-opposes-proposal-for-u-n-custodian-over-arab-property-in-israel
}}</ref>
==ICJ==
Tarazi's election to the International Court of Justice occurred during the [[Cold War]], when the ideological orientation of judges was closely scrutinized. His strong advocacy for [[Arab]] nationalist positions and repeated opposition to [[Israel]]i interests drew concern among Western diplomats, who feared his presence on the ICJ could influence rulings in ways unfavorable to Israel and its allies.<ref>{{cite news
|title=U.S. Opposes Proposal for U.N. Custodian over Arab Property in Israel
|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=12 December 1962
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/u-s-opposes-proposal-for-u-n-custodian-over-arab-property-in-israel
}}</ref>

=== Legal Controversy: [[Tehran]] Hostages Case ===
Tarazi is best known for his dissenting opinion in the ICJ case ''[[United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran]]'' (1980) [https://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/cwilj/vol11/iss3/14/], which arose from the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in [[Iran]] and the detention of American diplomats.

* '''Contextualizing Violations:''' While the Court found Iran in clear violation of the [[Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations]], Tarazi's dissent was widely interpreted as an attempt to justify or mitigate Iran's actions by citing broader political grievances. Critics argue that his stance blurred the line between objective legal judgment and political advocacy.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Dissenting Opinion of Judge Tarazi
|url=https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/64/064-19800524-JUD-01-03-EN.pdf
|publisher=International Court of Justice
|date=24 May 1980
|access-date=8 January 2026
}}</ref>
Author describes:<ref>''The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2022''. (2023). United States: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, p.205.</ref>
{{Cquote|In his dissenting opinion in the Tehran Hostage Case,.while not raising the issue of any more recognizable erga omnes obligations, Judge ad hoc Tarazi upheld the Court's finding of the violation by Iran of its obligations under the two Vienna Conventions concerning diplomatic and consular relations. However, the underlying claim of some measure of universality in the nature of erga omnes obligations and discernible in another conventional form was more expressly noticed by Tarazi in the UN Charter.
Tarazi was of the view that the "philosophy of law has made considerable progress
since the end of the Second World War. Noting that "Christianity asserts itself by
opposing an international community," Tarazi expressed the view that "Islam did not
approach collaboration and that it contented itself with confrontation." Geography
of the region of nationality seems to have informed no one particular judicial consider
ation. It seems that the judge ad hoc was influenced more by the inviolability of diplomatic personnel in the Islamic legal culture than by the geography of the region of his nationality.}}

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Saira Rao

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[[File:Saira Rao 9-19-20.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Hate-fuelled [[racist]] and [[sexist]] content typical of Rao's postings on ''X'' (formerly ''Twitter'').]]
'''Saira Sameera Rao''' (born 1974) is a [[racist]] [[propagandist]] (of [[Islam]]ic background<ref>Meaning of Zaira is of Arabic Zahrah, meaning "blooming flower."
Samira is a feminine name of Arabic roots, meaning "evening conversationalist."</ref>) and [[Failure|failed]] candidate for the [[Democratic Party]], who has been described by some as an author and publisher. She is known for her [[antisemitism]], for which she has the indignity of being [[condemned]] by [[Jewish]] leaders,<ref>[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/american-anti-racism-activist-condemned-over-terrified-about-zionist-doctors-claim/ American ‘anti-racism’ activist condemned over ‘terrified about Zionist doctors’ claim]</ref> and [[anti-white sentiment]], which she particularly targets at white women, as evidenced by her 2022 propaganda film ''Deconstructing Karen''.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/activists-paid-call-dinner-guests-racist-complain-white-women-tears-derail-conversation Activists paid to call dinner guests racist, complain 'White women tears' derail the ‘whole conversation’]</ref> Rao is also known for her [[Misandry|hatred of men]].

Saira Rao hold the hypocritical view that white people should not write BIPOC characters, yet has made a career out of telling white people what to do. She was formerly a prolific user of the social media platform ''X'' (formerly ''[[Twitter]]''), and her online content is characterised by hatred, vitriol and negative stereotypes about white people. Rao apparently thinks that being white makes a person a [[terrorist]].<ref name="bbkaren" />
== Failed political career ==
Saira Rao is a [[Failure|failed]] candidate in the 2018 Democrat primary for Colorado's First Congressional District, in which voters opted for [[Diana DeGette]], who had held the seat since 1997. She used the defeat to further her racist agenda, by saying she'd "given up on white people" as a result.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/07/07/colorado-democrat-candidate-given-up-white-people/ Failed Democrat Candidate Saira Rao Has ‘Given Up on White People’]</ref>
== Racist activities ==
=== Antisemitism ===
Saira Rao was accused in January 2024 of anti-semitism over her claims that Jewish doctors give worse care to Black and Muslim patients.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/02/saira-rao-claim-black-muslim-patients-risk-zionist-doctors/ Fury over US anti-racism campaigner’s ‘Zionist’ doctors slur]</ref>
=== Anti-white tweets ===
Saira Rao was a regular poster of the social networking site ''X''/''Twitter'', and nearly every post she made on the site mentioned white people in a negative light.

On 10 September 2022, Rao said "white people are not well" due to the fact that people of all races were sad about the death of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] (1926–2022). Rao spuriously described the Queen as a "horrible, genocidal, old white woman",<ref>[https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1568404478407180290 The global response to the death of a horrible, genocidal, very old white woman (“the queen”) tells us all we need to know. Namely...]</ref> despite Elizabeth II overseeing the largely decolonisation process in history.

Rao wrote on 15 November 2022 that "white people wake up every day and choose violence".<ref>[https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1592510563154038786 White people wake up every day and choose violence.]</ref>

Rao deleted her racist X account in late 2024. However, she still posts racist content elsewhere, such as on Instagram Threads.

=== ''Deconstructing Karen'' (2022) ===

In 2022, Rao co-hosted a racist [[propaganda]] film, which described itself as a "documentary", in which [[conservative]] and [[liberal]] white women were invited to a fancy dinner party to be forced to admit that they are "complicit" in "[[white supremacy]]" simply for the colour of their skin.<ref name="bbkaren">[https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/27/deconstructing-karen-documentary-shows-white-women-admiting-their-complicity-in-white-supremacy/ ‘Deconstructing Karen’ Documentary Shows White Women Admitting Their ‘Complicity in White Supremacy’]</ref>

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Sadiq Khan

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|name=Sadiq Khan (صادق خان)
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|birth_date=October 8, 1970 (age 51)
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|spouse=Saadiya Ahmed (m. 1994)
|children=2
|alma_mater=
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|office=Mayor of London
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'''Sadiq Aman Khan''' ([[Urdu]]:'''''صادق امان خان''''') (born October 8, 1970) is the [[far-left]] [[globalist]] and [[Islamist]] Mayor of [[London]]. He is the first. Islamic politician to head a major European capital. He is a [[Liberal|left-winger]] and a [[Fabian socialist]]. He succeeded [[Boris Johnson]] as mayor after a bitter campaign facing the son of a [[billionaire]], Zac Goldsmith. Khan entered the [[House of Commons]] in 2005 and rose through the ranks of the [[Labour Party]] as Shadow Minister for London. He is known for his vocal [[anti-Trump]] stances, links to [[Islamic Extremism]],<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/05/03/london-is-about-to-elect-a-muslim-mayor-who-has-defended-islamists-911-terrorists-and-who-is-endorsed-by-anti-semites/ London Is About To Elect A Muslim Mayor Who Has Defended Islamists, 9/11 Terrorists, And Who Is Endorsed By Anti-Semites]</ref> as well as the massive increases in crime London has been during his tenure. Khan was backed by prominent [[Antisemite|anti-semites]], and his office has made [[racist]] remarks about white British people.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/20/straightforward-racism-sadiq-khans-office-said-white-families-dont-represent-real-londoners/ ‘Straightforward Racism’ — Sadiq Khan’s Office Said White Families Don’t ‘Represent Real Londoners’]</ref>

After Khan has spent time criticizing the [[United States]] president and even appeared in a [[pro-abortion]] video on the eve of Trump's visit to the [[U.K.]], a convicted terrorist with Mayor Khan's same common [[Pakistan]]i last name went on a killing rampage in late 2019 near [[London]] Bridge.

Khan is of [[Pakistan]]i descent, married to Saadiya Ahmed, and they have two children.

== Links to extremism ==
Several conservative organizations have highlighted Khan's ties to [[Islamism|Islamic extremism]] and other questionable activities that he has been associated with. Here are some examples of these concerns:<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/07/telegraph-breitbart-u-s-conservatives-alarmed-sadiq-khan-victory/ Telegraph Freaks Out Over Breitbart and Drudge ‘LondonisKhan’ Headlines]. ''Breitbart News''. May 7, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref><ref name="AboutToElect">Kassam, Raheem (May 3, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/03/london-is-about-to-elect-a-muslim-mayor-who-has-defended-islamists-911-terrorists-and-who-is-endorsed-by-anti-semites/ London Is About To Elect A Muslim Mayor Who Has Defended Islamists, 9/11 Terrorists, And Who Is Endorsed By Anti-Semites]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref>
*In 2001 he was the lawyer for the Nation of Islam in its successful High Court bid to overturn the 15-year-ban on its demagogic leader, [[Louis Farrakhan]].
*In 2005 and 2006 he visited terror-charged Babar Ahmad in Woodhill Prison. Mr. Ahmed was extradited to the U.S. in 2012, serving time in [[prison]] before being returned to the UK in 2015. Mr. Ahmed pleaded guilty to the terrorist offenses of conspiracy and providing material support to the [[Taliban]].
*Khan also campaigned for the release and repatriation of Shaker Aamer, Britain's last [[Guantanamo]] detainee, who was returned to the UK in November.
*Khan has campaigned with Suliman Gani, an imam who supports female subservience to men and who has called for the founding of an Islamic state.
*Khan has blamed terrorism on UK government policy
*Khan has defended Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 terrorist who admitted to being a member of Al Qaeda

==Mayor of London==
{{See also|European migrant crisis#United Kingdom}}
Khan was elected Mayor of London in 2016, becoming the first Muslim to hold the position.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/06/live-wire-uk-elections/ LIVE WIRE — Sadiq Khan Elected London’s First Muslim Mayor]. ''Breitbart News''. May 6, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> During Khan's tenure, nearly every category of crime, including knife crime, gun crime, theft, burglary, rape, and homicide, saw massive increases,<ref>Kassam, Raheem (January 2, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/02/sadiqs-london-knife-crime-gun-crime-theft-burglary-rape-homicide-massively/ Sadiq’s London: Knife Crime, Gun Crime, Theft, Burglary, Rape, Homicide all MASSIVELY Up]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.Br>See also:
*Shaw, Adam (July 30, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/30/anti-trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-under-fire-for-pathetic-response-to-crime-surge.html Anti-Trump London Mayor Sadiq Khan under fire for 'pathetic' response to crime surge]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved July 30, 2018.</ref> and he devoted the city government's resources to prosecuting "[[hate crime]]s" (merely offensive speech, often on social media) against Muslims.<ref>Deacon, Liam (August 16, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/16/london-mayor-to-set-up-police-online-hate-crime-hub-in-partnership-with-social-media-firms/ London Mayor To Set Up Police ‘Online Hate Crime Hub’ In ‘Partnership’ With Social Media Firms]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> Khan was even forced to do a [[U-turn]] on his promise to end the effective law enforcement practice of "stop and search" after the massive crime increases were reported.<ref>Deacon, Liam (January 11, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/11/london-mayor-flips-on-stop-and-search-after-breitbart-expose-of-capital-crime-epidemic/ London Mayor Flips on ‘Stop and Search’ After Breitbart Exposé of Capital Crime Epidemic]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> Even as London's government focused on "hate crimes", less than 5% of robberies were solved in the city.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (June 20, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/29323-london-called-wild-west-fewer-than-5-of-robberies-solved-but-hate-crimes-still-priority London Called “Wild West”: Fewer Than 5% of Robberies Solved — But “Hate Crimes” Still Priority]. ''The New American''. Retrieved June 20, 2018.</ref>

On 19 Janruary 2017, Sadiq Kahn appeared at the [[World Economic Forum]]'s annual summit of [[left-wing]] [[globalist]] technocrats. At the Davos meeting, he had a delusional rant about the dangers supposedly posed by a hard [[Brexit]].<ref>[https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/mayors-message-world-economic-forum The Mayor's message at the World Economic Forum]</ref>

In late 2017, Khan called on the UK government to make a "full and formal" apology for an Indian massacre that happened nearly 100 years prior.<ref>Friedman, Victoria (December 9, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/09/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-demands-uk-apologise-century-old-indian-massacre/ London Mayor Sadiq Khan Demands UK Apologise for Century-Old Indian Massacre]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref>
[[File:Sadiq Khan and Elena Baturina.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Sadiq Khan with Russian fugitive and [[Hunter Biden]] client [[Elena Baturina]].]]
Khan has feuded with [[conservative]] U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] numerous times during his tenure, with him frequently calling for the UK government to prevent the president from visiting Britain and with President Trump criticizing him and his left-wing policies.<ref>Multiple references:
*Pace, Julie; Lucey, Catherine (June 5, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/05/trump-calls-for-american-resolve-against-vile-enemy.html Trump criticizes London's mayor, again]. ''Fox News'' (from the ''Associated Press''). Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/06/london-mayor-khan-suggests-calling-off-trump-state-visit-to-britain.html London Mayor Khan suggests calling off Trump state visit to Britain]. ''Fox News''. June 6, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*[https://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/25/londons-khan-blasts-trumps-rhetoric-makes-comparison-to-isis.html London's Khan blasts Trump's rhetoric, makes comparison to ISIS]. ''Fox News''. September 24, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Deacon, Liam (November 30, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/30/londons-muslim-mayor-calls-trump-ban-retweets-church-england-apology/ London’s Muslim Mayor Calls for Trump Ban After Retweets, Church of England Demands Apology from President]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Lane, Oliver JJ (December 26, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/26/not-welcome-londons-muslim-mayor-repeats-calls-cancel-trump-visit/ ‘Not Welcome’: London’s Muslim Mayor Repeats Calls to Cancel Trump Visit]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> Khan had endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. presidential election]],<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/16/sadiq-khan-backs-clinton-u-s-president/ London’s Muslim Mayor Backs Clinton For U.S. President]. ''Breitbart News'' (from ''Reuters''). September 16, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Boyle, Christina (May 16, 2016). [https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-britain-sadiq-khan-trump-20160512-snap-story.html London's first Muslim mayor calls Trump 'ignorant' and supports Clinton]. ''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> and his endorsement cost London taxpayers £39,806 due to a trip he made to the U.S. effectively to campaign for Clinton.<ref>Skwirczynski, Przemek (October 8, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/08/50000-cost-clintons-campaign-london-taxpayers/ Khan: The £39,806 Cost of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign to London Taxpayers]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> In January 2018, Trump supporters disrupted a speech Khan made to the left-wing [[Fabian Society]].<ref>Multiple references:
*Montgomery, Jack (January 13, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/13/sad-khan-protesters-disrupt-mayors-speech-londoners-wake-sadiqs-shthole/ SAD KHAN! Protesters Disrupt Mayor’s Speech as Londoners Wake Up to Sadiq’s ‘Sh*thole’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Marshall, Francesca (January 13, 2018). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/13/pro-trump-supporters-crash-fabian-conference-protest-sadiq-khan/ Pro-Trump supporters crash Fabian conference in protest of Sadiq Khan]. ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Blake, Andrew (January 13, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/13/donald-trump-supporters-disrupt-speech-sadiq-khan/ Trump supporters disrupt speech by London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> According to the former UK Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Khan's moves were hurting Britain's chances at securing a free trade deal with the U.S.<ref>Montgomery, Jack (January 14, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/14/former-uk-us-ambassador-posturing-sadiq-khan-others-kill-post-brexit-trade-deals/ Former UK-US Ambassador: Posturing of Sadiq Khan and Others Could Kill Post-Brexit Trade Deals]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> In May 2018, Khan stated that "we have a responsibility" to condemn tweets by Trump that he disapproved of, but not to condemn human rights abuses by authoritarian leaders.<ref>Deacon, Liam (May 17, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/17/mayor-khan-uk-responsibility-call-out-trump-tweets-not-saudi-arabia/ Mayor Khan Says UK Has a ‘Responsibility’ to ‘Call Out’ Trump for Tweets, But Not Saudi Arabia]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> Additionally, while Khan strongly opposed limiting [[free speech]] for [[anti-Trump]] protestors in London simply "because somebody's feelings might be hurt", he strongly supports censoring Twitter to avoid hurting the feelings of those whose views align with his.<ref>Rogen, Tom (July 13, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/london-mayor-sadiq-khans-two-faced-free-speech-approach London Mayor Sadiq Khan's two-faced free speech approach]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 13, 2018.</ref> Also, he denied free speech rights by banning a pro-Trump rally at the U.S. embassy in London,<ref>Montgomery, Jack (July 14, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/14/police-khans-london-ban-pro-trump-rally-u-s-embassy/ ‘Free Speech Is Dead’ – Police in Khan’s London BAN Pro-Trump Rally at U.S. Embassy]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 14, 2018.</ref> and his government removed a satirical painting of himself just before the protests because it was "offensive."<ref>Deacon, Liam (July 19, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/19/london-removes-offensive-mayor-khan-swim-suit-painting-trump-baby-balloon/ London Removed ‘Offensive’ Mayor Khan Mural Weeks Before Allowing Trump Baby Balloon]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 19, 2018.</ref> Khan spent a disproportionate amount of energy opposing Trump over combating the London's rising crime rate,<ref>Mikelionis, Lukas (July 14, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/14/critics-slam-embarrassing-mayor-sadiq-khan-for-feuding-with-trump-while-london-faces-rising-crime-knife-deaths.html Critics slam 'embarrassing' Mayor Sadiq Khan for feuding with Trump while London faces rising crime, knife deaths]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved July 14, 2018.</ref> and he also used his time to attack other conservatives.<ref>Montgomery, Jack (September 1, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/01/khan-brands-trump-global-poster-boy-white-nationalism-attacks-polish-govt-farage-orban-salvini/ Khan Brands Trump ‘Global Poster Boy for White Nationalism’, Attacks Polish Govt, Farage, Orban, Salvini]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 1, 2019.</ref>

Under Khan's tenure, London overtook [[New York City]] as having the largest number of murders for the first time since 1800.<ref>Multiple references:
*Montgomery, Jack (April 1, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/01/murders-london-overtake-new-york-first-time-since-1800-sadiq-khan/ Murders in London Overtake New York for First Time Since 1800 Under Sadiq Khan]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
*Carbone, Christopher (April 1, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/01/london-murder-rate-beats-new-york-for-month-as-stabbings-surge.html London murder rate beats New York for month as stabbings surge]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
*Duke, Selwyn (April 5, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/28679-war-zone-crime-wave-khan-fiddles-while-london-burns "War Zone" Crime Wave: Khan Fiddles While London Burns]. ''The New American''. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
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*Hawkins, Awr (April 2, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/02/more-homicides-gun-controlled-london-new-york-city/ How it Happened: More Homicides in Gun-Controlled London than in New York City]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
*Steyn, Mark (April 2, 2018). [https://www.steynonline.com/8547/diversity-unto-death-literally Diversity unto Death - Literally]. ''Steyn Online''. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
*Byas, Steve (April 3, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/28652-londons-rising-murder-rate-raises-questions-about-gun-control London’s Rising Murder Rate Raises Questions About Gun Control]. ''The New American''. Retrieved April 4, 2018.</ref> In March 2018, the murder rate had risen 44% compared to the previous year.<ref>Hale, Virginia (May 20, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/20/london-murder-surge-serious-crime/ Murder Surges 44 Per Cent in Khan’s London Amidst ‘Troubling’ Rise in Serious Crime]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 20, 2018.</ref> Khan responded to the massive crime increase to the Conservative Party, despite his own policy changes.<ref>Deacon, Liam (April 4, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/04/khan-responds-knife-crime-surge-blames-tories/ Khan Responds to Knife Crime Surge, Blames Tories]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 4, 2018.</ref> In 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump harshly criticized Khan's crime and terrorism policies.<ref>Montgomery, Jack (July 13, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/13/trump-crushes-khan-london-mayor-terrible-job-terrorism-crime/ Trump Crushes Khan: London Mayor Has Done ‘Terrible Job’ on Terrorism, Crime]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 13, 2018.</ref> Since the UK already had excessive [[gun control]] laws, Khan proposed banning knives and even cars as a response to the crime and terrorism.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (August 16, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/29796-combating-terrorism-ban-guns-ban-knives-and-now-says-london-mayor-ban-cars Combating Terrorism: Ban Guns, Ban Knives, and Now, Says London Mayor, Ban Cars]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 16, 2018.</ref> Knife crime in the entire UK reached a record high in 2018–2019,<ref>Multiple references:
*Pearce, Tim (July 18, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/epidemic-knife-crime-hits-record-high-in-the-uk 'Epidemic': Knife crime hits record high in the UK]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
*Ozimek, Tom (July 19, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/knife-crime-hits-record-high-in-uk-london-mayor-blames-spike-on-austerity_3008610.html Knife Crime Hits Record High in UK, London Mayor Blames Spike on ‘Austerity’]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
See also:
*Montgomery, Jack (July 21, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/21/trump-londoners-will-never-have-safe-streets-under-incompetent-sadiq-khan/ Trump: Londoners ‘Will Never Have Safe Streets’ Under ‘Incompetent’ Sadiq Khan]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 21, 2019.</ref> and London's rate continued to increase to record levels.<ref>Friedman, Victoria (September 27, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/27/khans-london-murder-rate-set-to-surpass-last-years-decade-high-level/ Khan’s London: Murder Rate Set to Surpass Last Year’s Decade-High Level]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 28, 2019.</ref> In 2019, the number of people murdered in London reached its highest level in a decade.<ref>Zindulka, Kurt (January 4, 2020). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/04/khans-london-murder-rate-reaches-decade-high/ Khan’s London: Murder Rate Reaches Decade High as Knife Killings Surge]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 4, 2020.</ref>

Khan defended the placement of a statue of John Chilembwe, an anti-colonial activist who ordered the decapitation of William Jervis Livingstone in front of his children and then displayed his head on a pike, reflects London's “achievements and diversity”.<ref>https://www.newswars.com/sadiq-khan-says-new-statue-of-activist-who-beheaded-white-colonizers-in-front-of-their-children-reflects-londons-achievements-and-diversity/</ref>

In only three years into Khan's tenure, violent crime in London's underground subway system increased by 43%.<ref>Friedman, Victoria (January 18, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/18/khans-london-violent-crime-london-underground-up-43-percent-three-years/ Khan’s London: Violent Crime on Underground Up 43 Percent]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref>

In 2025, Khan, in his [[Muslim]] ramadan massage, he was accused of spreading genocidal ‘Hamas propaganda’ (pallyweid).<ref>(April 4, 2025). [https://www.jpost.com/international/article-848892 London mayor accused of spreading ‘Hamas propaganda’ in Ramadan message]. ''Jerusalem Post''
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Saddam Hussein

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| parents =Hussein 'Abid al-Majid Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat
| religion =Islam (Sunni)
| education =Cairo Law School, Egypt 1962-65 (dropped out) University of Baghdad (law degree, 1971)
| spouse =Sajida Talfah
| children =Uday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti Raghad Saddam Rana Saddam Hala Saddam
| death =December 30, 2006 Kadhimiya, Iraq
| deathmanner =Executed by hanging
| burial =Al-Awja, Iraq
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| war =[[Iran-Iraq War]] [[Invasion of Kuwait]]
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'''Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti''' (most often referred to as simply Saddam Hussein) (April 28, 1937 – December 30, 2006) was the [[Sunni]] President of [[Iraq]] from July 16, 1979<ref>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aasaddambio.htm</ref> to December 14, 2003.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3317429.stm</ref> Hussein was a Socialist, following other modern [[Socialist]] movements and the [[Nasser]] model. He brought change and [[secularization]] to an otherwise faith-based and religiously guided society, and even appointed Tariq Aziz, a member of the [[Chaldeans]], as Deputy prime minister from 1983 to 2003. To the consternation of Islamic conservatives, his government gave women freedoms and offered them high-level government and industry jobs. Hussein also created a Western-style legal system, making Iraq the only country in the Persian Gulf region not ruled according to traditional Islamic law (Sharia). Hussein abolished the Sharia law courts, except for personal injury claims.

==Iran-Iraq War==
During the 1980s, during the [[Iran-Iraq War]], the [[United States of America|United States]] considered Hussein to be a friend and assisted him with loans<ref>http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/</ref> up until the time of the [[Iranian initiative]] under [[President Ronald Reagan]] when U.S. policy shifted. Fearing the threat to Iraq's neighbors, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Gulf States if a militarized Iraq under Hussein emerged from the war intact, the U.S. through intermediaries began selling [[TOW missile]]s to Iran in what has come to be known as the [[Iran/Contra affair]], to break the deadlock and tip the balance in favor Iran.

He was one of the few modern leaders who used [[weapons of mass destruction]], specifically [[chemical weapon]]s, in war; and was the instigator of at least two wars: the [[Iran-Iraq War]] during the 1980s and Iraq's August, 1990, invasion of Kuwait.

On March the 16th 1988 Hussein used Sulfur mustard, [[Sarin]] and [[VX]] to kill his own [[Kurdistan|Kurdish]] citizens, though the US Army War College said that it was greatly exaggerated.<ref>http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/helms.html</ref><ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/40276361?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref>

On January 18, 1991, Hussein ordered to fire scud missiles at the [[Israel]]i cities [[Tel Aviv]] and [[Haifa]] at 0300 local time, when most people were asleep. Nobody was killed and a few people were injured.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/18/newsid_4588000/4588486.stm 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel]. ''BBC''. Retrieved August 30, 2018.</ref> In addition, around that time, Saddam Hussein had started moving his chemical weapons stockpiles outside the country to both Jordan and Syria, in an attempt at doing a two-wave chemical weapon attack against Israel.<ref name="Leftist Myth Busted: Saddam Moved WMD from Iraq to Syria">https://theblacksphere.net/2017/04/leftist-myth-busted-saddam-moved-wmd-from-iraq-to-syria/</ref>

==War on Terror==
In 2003 a "[[coalition of the willing]]" invaded Iraq to force a change of regime from Hussein's [[Ba'athist]] party to a constitutional liberal democracy. A further aim was to break the alliance between [[al Qaeda]] and Hussein, though this link has never been proven.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp</ref>

Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarek]] and Libyan [[Socialist]] General Secretary [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in negotiations with Hussein relayed a message through Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and Spanish President [[Jose Maria Aznar]] to UK Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] and US President [[George W. Bush]] that Hussein feared assassination and would be willing to avoid removal by force and voluntarily go into exile, provided Hussein was allowed to take $1 billion and "all the information he wants about [[weapons of mass destruction]]".<ref>[https://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/09/saddam_risked_his_life_for_wmd_1.asp Saddam Risked His Life for WMD Secrets], ''WeeklyStandard.com. Spetember 29, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646639 Scoop for Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion], ''Editor & Publisher'', September 26, 2007.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092602414.html Report Says Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion], He Is Said to Have Sought $1 Billion and Information on Arms, By Karen DeYoung and Michael Abramowitz, ''[[Washington Post]], September 27, 2007; Page A17.</ref><ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Llego/momento/deshacerse/Sadam/elpepunac/20070926elpepinac_1/Tes Llegó el momento de deshacerse de Sadam], ''El Pais'', 26/09/2007. (In Spanish).</ref> However, because he had already moved the stockpiles outside Iraq since 1991 up to a year beforehand (with his using the bursting of the Orontes River in Syria during that time as an excuse to move them via modified 747 and 727 planes to quickly transport them, with some Russian aid), the coalition forces could not find any evidence of WMDs, which caused liberals to falsely claim that Bush lied about the transfer.<ref name="Leftist Myth Busted: Saddam Moved WMD from Iraq to Syria" />

==Trial and Execution==
[[Image:Saddam6.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Saddam Hussein after his capture, December 2003]]
Captured by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003, Hussein was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government set up by U.S.-led forces. Saddam held the Islamic book, the Quran, during the trial.<ref>https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/msnbc/Components/Photos/051128/051128_saddam_hmed-10236093.jpg</ref> On November 5, 2006, a tribunal found him and 6 other co-defendants guilty of charges related to the executions of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites suspected of planning an assassination attempt against him. He was consequently sentenced to death by hanging. Following the sentence being affirmed on appeal, he was executed on December 30, 2006.

==See also==
[[Abdel Bari Atwan]]
==References==
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Sabbath

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[[Image:Girl on hill.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The spirit of the Sabbath is joy, refreshment and mercy, arising from remembrance of God's goodness as Creator and as the Deliverer from bondage.]]
{{Bible}}
''This article is about the primarily [[Judaism|Jewish]] day of rest. For the Christian day of rest and worship, see [[Lord's Day]].'' The '''Sabbath''' ([[Hebrew]]: שַׁבָּת‎ ''shabbat'' "the day to cease/rest"), is the seventh day of the week, the day being counted from sunset to appearance of three stars, that is, from Friday evening to Saturday night. The Sabbath was instituted to provide God's people with an interruption in their work and ambitions so as to turn their hearts and minds to their Maker.
It is a [weekly] 'refreshing' statement to reaffirm, strengthen in the hearts, the faith in God the Creator

The Greek term for it, "σάββατον", is used almost exclusively in the [[Gospels]] and has an [[Aramaic]] as well as a [[Hebrew]] origin.

The Sabbath is introduced in the creation week when God ceases for 24 hours from His work of creating time, space and matter, <blockquote> "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and [[Holy|sanctified]] it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."</blockquote>

Christians kept the Sabbath on the seventh day as instructed by the Torah and by the practices of Jesus during his life and by the first century Jerusalem church. The change from Sabbath to Sunday was gradual, beginning in the second to fourth centuries. Great controversy accompanied both the keeping or denying of the Sabbath to the changing of the meaning or the day of keeping of the Sabbath. Sabbath-keeping on the seventh day became a minority Christian practice until the present day, however, the nationwide and international return to Saturday Sabbath keeping is growing.

==Bible==

The Israelites are reminded to keep the Sabbath before the giving of the [[Ten Commandments]] when God promised to send [[manna]], a miraculous substance to nourish and sustain them, but He would provide it only for six days out of every seven. On the sixth day there would be twice as much as usual, but none on the seventh day. Moses explained that "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the '''sabbath''', in it there shall be none." (Exodus 16:26):<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2016:26;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref> <blockquote>"And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. And he said unto them, this is that which YHVH [the LORD] hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto YHVH [the LORD]" ([[Exodus]] 16:22-23)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2016:22-23&version=KJV]</ref></blockquote>

God considered that the Sabbath observance was ''already'' His law: some of the Israelites disobeyed Moses and went out looking for manna on the seventh day "but they found none" (Exodus 16:27)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2016:27;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref> God's Word regarding this disobedience, and that seventh-day Sabbath observance was ''already'' a commandment was unequivocal:{{Bible quote|And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.|book=Exodus|chap=16|verses=28-29|version=KJV}}

The Sabbath command is reiterated by God in the [[Ten Commandments]]: <blockquote>''Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of YHVH [the LORD] thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.'' ([[Exodus]] 20:8-11)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020:8-11&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref></blockquote>

In [[Leviticus]], God reaffirmed to Moses the sanctity of the seventh-day Sabbath:<blockquote>''Six days shall work be done: '''but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation'''; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.'' ([[Leviticus]] 23:3)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2023:3;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref></blockquote>
The [[prophet]] [[Isaiah]] said of the importance of the Sabbath as God's Word and Law:<blockquote>''If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.'' ([[Isaiah]] 58:13-14)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058:13-14;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref></blockquote>
Through the prophet [[Jeremiah]] God warned men to "''bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.''" (Jeremiah 17:21-22)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2017:21-22;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>
"''But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.''" (Jeremiah 17:27)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2017:27;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>

Through the prophet [[Ezekiel]], God said:<blockquote>''Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.''(Ezekiel 20:12, 13, 16)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2020:12,%2013,%2016;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref></blockquote>

[[Matthew]], in his [[Olivet Prophecy]], reaffirms that Christians at the [[Second Coming]] should still observe God's commanded seventh-day Sabbath.<ref>''"But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day"'' Matthew 24:14-20 [[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024:14-20;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>

==The purpose of the Sabbath==
On the Sabbath all members of a household were to rest from labor, including servants, guests and even animals. All were to "cease" from their normal, routine work, and should spend much of the Sabbath with other family members as a family or household. God's Law was not directed merely to the Israelites: it applied even to the "stranger that is within thy gates", "it is the Sabbath of the Lord in '''all''' your dwellings." Christ Himself pointed out that "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." ([[Mark]] 2:27)<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%202:27;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>

The Sabbath is a day for teaching and learning of God's wondrous acts and laws, and God's great miracles are to be remembered on this day. "Thus the spirit of the Sabbath was joy, refreshment and mercy, arising from remembrance of God's goodness as Creator and as the Deliverer from bondage. The Sabbath was a perpetual sign and covenant, and the holiness of the day is collected with the holiness of the people; "that ye may know that I am Jehovah that doth sanctify you." (Exodus 31:12-17;<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%206:6-7;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref> [[Ezekiel]] 20:12<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2020:12;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>) Joy was the key-note Of their service. Nehemiah commanded the people, on a day holy to Jehovah ''Mourn not, nor weep: eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared.'' ([[Nehemiah]] 8:9-13<ref>[[King James Version]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%208:9-13;&version=9; BibleGateway]</ref>)"<ref>''Sabbath'' [http://www.bible-history.com/smiths/S/Sabbath/ Smith's Bible Dictionary]. Accessed 15 February 2008</ref> This also shows that the Sabbath is a day to focus on [[charity]] to the less fortunate.

==Seventh day==
Many churches observe Sunday as their day of rest and worship, and most Christians celebrate the Lord's Day on Sunday. It is common for [[megachurch]]es, though, to offer Saturday evening services, but the purpose is not to practice Sabbath keeping as it is to provide an option to members/attendees who must work on Sunday (as well as to handle the large numbers of those who attend).

However, according to Jewish tradition Saturday is the seventh day of the week, and Sunday is the first day of the week. Despite many modifications of calendars through the centuries, the seven-day weekly cycle has remained intact throughout history. The days of the week have always remained in their proper order, with Sunday as the first day of the week and Saturday as the seventh.<ref>''Which Day Is the Sabbath?'' [http://www.ucg.org.uk/UCG_BI_Literature/booklets/SS/daysabbath.htm UCG]. Accessed 15 February 2008</ref>

When the [[Julian calendar]] was replaced by the [[Gregorian calendar]] in 1582 AD, ten days were deleted in order to bring the calendar in synchronism with the seasons. But the sequence of the days remained the same. Thus, 1582-OCT-4 (a Thursday) was followed by 1582-OCT-15 (a Friday), and the Sabbath of 1582-OCT-16 happened exactly 7 days after the previous Sabbath of OCT-9.<ref>''Has the Calendar been Changed?'' "Christian holy days: The weekly Sabbath: is it to be Saturday or Sunday?" [http://www.religioustolerance.org/sabbath.htm#move Religuious Tolerance.org]. Accessed 15 February 2008</ref>
Even in the 21st century Judaism still observes the seventh-day as the Sabbath - from sunset (the end of the day) Friday until sunset on the end of Saturday.

==The Sabbath and Jesus Christ==
That the Jews of Christ's time and today observe the biblically-commanded seventh-day Sabbath makes it no more a "Jewish tradition" than their observing the commandment against adultery makes marital fidelity a "Jewish tradition".<ref>''Jesus Christ's Example'' [http://sabbath.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Basics.Tour/ID/3/Jesus-Christs-Example.htm Sabbath.org]. Accessed 16 February 2008</ref>

Jesus observed the seventh-day Sabbath not because it was Judaic tradition or the culture of the time. Jesus' teaching in these verses is summarized by Freedman: "At times Jesus is interpreted to have abrogated or suspended the Sabbath commandment on the basis of controversies brought about by Sabbath healings and other acts. Careful analysis of the respective passages does not seem to give credence to this interpretation. The action of plucking ears of grain on the Sabbath by the disciples is particularly important in this matter. Jesus makes a foundational pronouncement: "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27). The disciples' act of plucking grain infringed against the rabbinic halakhah of minute [[casuistry]] in which it was forbidden to reap, thresh, winnow, and grind on the Sabbath. Jesus reforms the Sabbath and restores it to its rightful place as designed in creation, where the Sabbath is made for all mankind and not specifically for Israel, as claimed by normative Judaism. It was God's will at creation that the Sabbath have the purpose of serving mankind for rest and [to] bring blessing."<ref>Freedman, David Noel ''Sabbath'' "The Anchor Bible Dictionary" vol. v; pp 855-856 (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; 1992) ISBN 0-3854-2583-X</ref>

==Sabbatarians==
Despite that the majority of Christian denominations still observe the tradition by third-century Christians of practicing the spirit of the Sabbath on Sunday, some Christian denominations (usually referred to as [[Sabbatarians]]) practice it on the actual seventh day of the week.

The Christian tradition of practicing the spirit of the Sabbath on Sunday may have begun as a means by the third-century Christians of separating themselves as a community from the Jews who were under Roman persecution after the Zealot Revolt. But, it is likely that the motive of first-century Christians for chosing Sunday as the day of rest and celebration was largely because of their interpretation of particular New Testament passages regarding on what day of the week Christ died and on what day of the week he rose from death. Since the Roman religion of [[Mithra]]ism observed Sunday as their day of religious observance, converts to Christianity before the fourth century AD from that religion may have also contributed to the popularity of a Sunday observance. In 321 AD, while still a pagan sun-worshipper, the Emperor [[Constantine]] declared that Sunday was to be the day of rest throughout the Roman Empire:<blockquote>''On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for gain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.''<ref>''Why and When the Weekly Sabbath was Moved'' "The weekly Sabbath: is it to be Saturday or Sunday?" [http://www.religioustolerance.org/sabbath.htm#move ReligiousTolerance,org]. Accessed 15 February 2008</ref></blockquote>

[[James Cardinal Gibbons]], [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] educator and archbishop of [[Baltimore]] 1877-1921, was blunt about the change: "You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify. The Catholic Church correctly teaches that our Lord and His Apostles inculcated certain important duties of religion which are not recorded by the inspired writers... We must, therefore, conclude that the Scriptures alone cannot be a sufficient guide and rule of faith."<ref>''The Faith of Our Fathers'', (1917), (p. 89) quoted in ''Which Day Is the Sabbath?'' [http://www.ucg.org.uk/UCG_BI_Literature/booklets/SS/daysabbath.htm UCG]. Accessed 15 February 2008</ref>

==The Seventh Day Adventists==

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church is a Protestant denomination, founded in America in the 1860s during the [[Second Great Awakening]], which interprets those passages differently, and which believes that God always intended for the day of the week on which rest and celebration was taken to be the seventh, or final, day of the week ("[[Saturday]]"). So, the Seventh Day Adventist Church opposes laws that make Sunday the Sabbath.

"Seventh-day" means that the observance of the original Sabbath, on "Saturday", still is a sacred obligation. Adventists argue that just as the other nine of the original [[Ten Commandments]] had not been revised, so also the injunction to "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" remained in full force. This theological point in the late 19th century turned the young group into a powerful force for religious liberty. Growing into its full stature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these Adventists opposed Sunday laws on every side. Many were arrested for working on Sunday. In fighting against the real threat of a legally established National Day of worship, these Sabbatarians had to fight for their liberty on a daily basis. Soon, they were fighting for religious liberty on a broader, less parochial basis. The fear that other Protestants would establish a Christian Sunday expanded into opposition to the establishment of a "Christian" identity for the otherwise pluralistic secular nation, and, thus, opposition to state-sanctioned school prayer. This led, naturally, to certain alliances with secularists in the American political spectrum who opposed state enforcement of any form of theistic religion.<ref>Douglas Morgan, ''Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement.'' (2001)</ref>

In holding to a perpetuation of the literal seventh day for rest and celebration, Seventh Day Adventists, as such, do not equate its observance with [[legalism]]. They argue, rather, that, though legalism is possible in regard to any law, God was not being a legalist for having given, commanded, and enforced the seventh-day rest upon His own nation any more than for having given, commanded, and enforced the primary law (to have no other Gods but God). They further argue that the seventh day, in being the first thing which God called sacred in the human realm, is comparable to Adam's own first words toward woman; such that the focus of the human creature's life is not toward law at all, but toward what human life was made to be at its most joyous times; and, that, only by such extended and deep violations of the truths of these joys is even God Himself (like his wisely initiatived, humble representatives) finally induced to impose commands and enforcements concerning keeping them,<ref>[http://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/comm_view.cfm?AuthorID=4&contentID=1506&commInfo=5&topic=Daniel&ar=Dan_3_16 ’’Matthew Henry’s Commentary on Daniel 3:16’’]</ref> lest the whole Earth be destroyed by the natural consequences of their violation <ref>[http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rev&c=11&v=18&t=KJV#18 ''Revelation 11:18'']</ref>

==Impact, reminder in languages==
Due to the Hebrew/Israelite/Jewish Sabbath [SHABBAT שבת], the following are interesting testimonials:

In Latin languages, such as in [[Italian]] and in [[Spanish]], the Jewish Sabbath day (Saturday) is called ''Sabato'', ''Sabado''. (Respectively).

In [[Greek]]: ''Sávvato''.

In [[Russian]]: ''Subbota.''

In [[Czech]]: ''Sobota''.

In [[Armenian]] ''Shabat’ ory''.

In Georgian: ''Shabati.''

==See also==
*[[Essay: Christians and the Law of Moses]]

==Further reading==
* Bechtel, Florentine. "Sabbath." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 13. (1912). [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13287b.htm online]
* Slater, Thomas. "Sunday." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' Vol. 14. (1912) [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm online]
* Bacchiocchi, Samuel. "From Sabbath to Sunday" A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity. 1977
* Bacchiocchi, Samuel. "The Sabbath Under Crossfire" 1998
* Bacchiocchi, Samuel. "Divine Rest for Human Restlessness" A Theological study of the Good News of the Sabbath for Today. 2001
* Essay: The Nature of the Sabbath http://conservapedia.com/Essay:_The_Nature_of_the_Sabbath

==References==
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Ryan Wesley Routh

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'''Ryan Wesley Routh''' is a [[North Carolina]]-born [[conspiracy theorist]], [[anti-Semite]], [[white supremacist]] and [[warmonger|pro-war]] registered [[Democrat]] who attempted to assassinate president [[Trump]] on September 15, 2024, in [[Florida]]. This was the second assassination attempt on Trump, two months after the [[Assassination attempt on Trump|attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania]]. His son confirmed to the [[British]] press that "his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does.'"<ref>Shawn Cohen, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13853755/Son-alleged-assassin-says-dad-hates-Trump-like-reasonable-people-hes-never-owned-gun-wouldnt-bats-crazy.html EXCLUSIVE: Son of alleged would-be assassin says his dad hates Trump like 'all reasonable people' but he's never owned a gun and wouldn't do anything bats*** crazy], ''Daily Mail'', 16 September 2024</ref>
The [[FBI]] said this "Trump shooter suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was on their radar since 2019."<ref>Katelyn Caralle, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13857469/trump-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh-known-fbi-history.html FBI says Trump shooter suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was on their radar since 2019 as it's revealed whether he acted alone in assassination attempt], ''Daily Mail'', Sep 16, 2024</ref>

Ryan Routh is a warmonger and [[Russia hoax]]er who was [[radical]]ized by the [[mainstream media]] into traveling to [[Kyiv]].<ref>https://youtu.be/FUyInDGLFlo</ref> He appears to have been very involved in multiple [[CIA]]-backed "democracy" operations in [[Belarus]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Taiwan]], and [[Ukraine]],<ref>https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835456771512524897</ref>
and is very Anti-[[Zionist]] (denying history).<ref>(Pushing "palestinian" [[pallywood]]). [https://www.jpost.com/international/article-820281 Suspect in Donald Trump assassination attempt may have been 'politically motivated' ADL says].
Jerusalem Post Staff. September 16, 2024.<blockquote>
In December 2023. In a post showing a photo of a "Students map of Palestine" for the study of the Bible, he wrote, "I am unclear what of part of Israel the Jews owned based on this historic map; Judea perhaps? It seems to be historically all Palestinian."</blockquote></ref> At the time of the assassination attempt, he was a resident of [[Hawaii]] and traveled to Florida for the assassination of President Trump.
==Months leading to incident==
Routh wrote chilling letter months before golf course plot. In his book he also discusses a Trump assassination, this time encouraging the [[Islamism|Islamic]] Republic of [[Iran]] to carry it out.<ref>Anders Hagstrom, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-assassination-suspect-wrote-chilling-letter-months-before-golf-course-plot-i-failed-you Trump assassination suspect wrote chilling letter months before golf course plot], ''Fox News'', September 23, 2024</ref>

==Personal life==
Ryan Wesley Routh was born in circa 1966 in Greensboro, [[North Carolina]], where he lived for much of his life.

In August 1991 the Greensboro Police Department awarded Routh a "Law Enforcement Oscar" and called him the "citizen of the year".<ref>https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/ryan-routh-arrest-newspaper-greensboro-nc</ref>

In 2015 Routh had a 3-hour armed standoff with Greensboro Police inside his place of business.<ref>https://greensboro.com/man-with-gun-barricades-self-inside-business/article_3006b4f9-9370-5b08-a54e-46c87faf6cbe.html</ref>

==Pakistan connection==
Ryan Routh was recruiting [[mercenaries]] in [[Pakistan]] for the [[NATO war in Ukraine]].<ref>https://archive.is/GQ80t</ref> On the [[Joe Rogan]] podcast [[Mike Benz]] explained how [[weapon]]s were being transferred from Pakistan to [[Romania]] over an air bridge to supply the [[Zelensky regime]].<ref>https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/great_britain_made_air_bridge_between_pakistan_and_romania_to_transport_122_mm_shells_to_ukraine-4478.html</ref> Pakistan has been crucial for the [[Biden regime]]'s [[war]] effort, and in April 2022 the Biden [[State Department]] deposed its [[Prime Minister]],<ref>https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/</ref> [[Imran Khan]] who opposed the war.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistani-premier-hits-out-western-envoys-joint-letter-russia-2022-03-06/</ref> [[NATO]] is building the largest NATO based on the [[Black Sea]] in Romania.<ref>https://rumble.com/v6pmvaf-why-romanian-president-was-arrested-how-this-ties-in-to-stamping-out-trumpi.html</ref><ref>https://www.happyscribe.com/public/the-joe-rogan-experience/2272-mike-benz</ref> In December 2025 Romania elected [[Calin Georgescu]] as [[President]] on a platform of ending support for Ukraine.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/10/romania-has-barred-leading-candidate-calin-georgescu-from-postponed-presidential-election/</ref> The election results were nullified under pressure from the [[European Union]], and Georgescu was arrested and barred from the ballot in a revote.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/democracy-dies-romania-after-winning-december-georgescu-now-banned-may-presidential</ref>

This apparently is part of the [[deep state]] effort of stamping out "[[Trump]]ism/[[Populism]]".<ref>https://archive.is/ur696#selection-577.0-606.0</ref>

==Ukraine collusion==
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In early 2022 Routh flew to [[Poland]] and travelled on to [[Kyiv]] to [[illegal]]ly recruit foreign [[mercenaries]] to fight for the [[Zelensky regime]] at $1,200 per month.<ref>https://t.me/thisiswarobserver/4739</ref> Routh posted on [[social media]] "I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE…Can I be the example We must win."<ref>https://rumble.com/v5f5svv-jamie-rejent-interviewed-ryan-wesley-routh-on-the-border-of-poland-and-ukra.html</ref> Routh started something called the International Volunteer Center of Ukraine, which purported to help foreigners seeking to assist Ukraine's war effort.<ref>Wiseman, Oliver. (16 September 2024).[https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=260347&post_id=148943088 ‘I Met Trump’s Would-Be Assassin.’ Plus. . .]</ref><ref>https://t.me/Slavyangrad/108857</ref><ref>https://t.me/ForeignAgentIntel/12062</ref>

A March 25, 2023 ''[[New York Times]]'' article reported, "With Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among [[Afghan]] soldiers who fled the [[Taliban]]...Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from [[Pakistan]] and [[Iran]] to Ukraine."<ref>https://archive.is/T9bzJ</ref>

[[Max Blumenthal]] reported Routh published a 291-page book, “Unwinnable War,”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/17/questions-arise-over-would-be-trump-assassins-shady-connections-in-iran/</ref> about his time in Ukraine's International Legion. Routh said he'd like to see [[President Putin]] of [[Russia]] assassinated and seems to hope for [[President Trump]]'s assassination as well, and calls for the [[United States]] to "instigate" a [[nuclear war]] with Russia. Routh clearly articulated mindset toward Russia that mirrors the [[deep state]] beltway [[swamp]]. Routh offered gushing admiration for [[Juan Guaido]], the [[Free Syrian Army]], [[Myanmar]] rebels, and other [[CIA]] backed forces, while hinting at "a friendship with [[MSNBC]] [[natsec]] hack and fellow International Brigade member [[Malcolm Nance]]."<ref>https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1835552460481478829</ref>

Routh appeared in a May 2022 [[propaganda]] video glorifying the [[neo-Nazi]]<ref>''ADL'' (16 Aug 2023). [https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2023-08/Research-Study-Two-Auto-generating-Autocompleting-Hate-v5.pdf Research Study Two Auto-generating & Autocompleting Hate].
— "...Azov battalion of Ukraine, a military unit celebrated by white supremacists for its neo-Nazi connections."</ref> [[Azov Battalion]].<ref>[https://t.me/Slavyangrad/108859 @1:49 secs; subtitled]</ref><ref>https://x.com/ChiefTrumpster/status/1835494617728340408</ref>

Matthew Crosston, professor of [[national security]] at Bowie State University told ''Sputnik'' "prosecutors did not find it productive or realistic to look more seriously into how Routh was radicalized or who facilitated his access to [[weapon]]s or attempts at acquiring more weapons." When Routh mentioned Ukraine in court, the judge silenced him.<ref>https://sputnikglobe.com/20250915/trump-shooters-ukraine-links-why-are-prosecutors-staying-silent-1122791434.html</ref>

==Liberal reactions==
*[[NBC fake news]] propagandist [[Lester Holt]] blamed president [[Trump]] and [[JD Vance]] instead blaming his propaganda and suggested that ass*ss*nation attempt on Donald Trump was due to his "campaign rhetoric."<ref>LibsOfTikTok:<blockquote>BREAKING: Ryan Routh has been identified as the suspected sh**ter who attempted to ass*ss*nate Donald Trump.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXjaNNGWAAAk0cT?format=png&name=small]
Ryan's apparent X page is filled with pro-Democrat and anti-Trump posts.</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835477707523592471 Sep 16, 2024]</ref>
*[[MSNBC]] also blamed president Trump for assassination attempt and call him to “tone down the rhetoric” after the assassination attempt.<ref>https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835416815293571473</ref>
*[[CBSNews]] instead of covering the assassination attempt, they ran a January 6th segment on their 60 Minutes program attacking Trump within hours of an ass*ss*nation attempt on his life, telling their viewers that he’s a threat to Democracy.<ref>https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835478016006205798</ref>
*Dems U.S. House minority leader [[Hakeem Jeffries]] tweeted that: Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump's Project 2025. We must stop them. Just few minutes after assassination attempt.<ref>https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1835400811012071678</ref>
*[[Mark Zuckerberg]] removed the perpetrator page after few minutes of assassination attempt from [[Facebook]].<ref>https://twitter.com/alx/status/1835449215968837914</ref>
*Former RINO U.S. House Rep [[Adam Kinzinger]] also blamed president Trump instead of blaming his propaganda.<ref>https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1835757090423411003</ref>
*After one day of assassination attempt Biden Harris junta mouthpiece [[Karine Jean-Pierre]] called president existential threat.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jean-pierre-scorched-for-utterly-heinous-response-defending-biden-harris-rhetoric-calling-trump-a-threat/ar-AA1qLBVD</ref>
*[[Hillary Clinton]] after one day of the assassination attempt called president Trump a dangerous threat and called for social media censorship.<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-dangerous-111505471.html Hillary Clinton calls Trump a dangerous threat to the world]</ref>

==Related==

[[File:Image (1).jpg|thumb|In Nov 2024, 3 Islamists Iran linked - charged with plot to asassinate Trump before the elections]]
In Nov 2024, 3 Islamists Iran linked - charged with plot to asassinate Trump before the elections [Farhad Shakeri], on Oct 7 (the anniversary to Hamas "palestine" led atrocities attack).<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-murder-hire-and-related-charges-against-irgc-asset-and-two Justice Department Announces Murder-For-Hire and Related Charges Against IRGC Asset and Two Local Operatives], ''DOJ'', Nov 8, 2024.

Greg Norman, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/iranian-asset-2-others-charged-plot-assassinate-trump-doj-says.amp Iranian asset charged in plot to assassinate Trump, DOJ says]. ''Fox News'' November 7, 2024.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Thomas Matthew Crooks]]
*[[Asif Merchant]]
*[[Iran]]
*[[Palestinization]]
*[[Charlie Kirk]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1835842473635049485 15 mins of fire, deep down the rabbit hole of Ryan Routh], [[Mike Benz]], Sep 16, 2024.
*[[Glenn Greenwald]], [https://youtu.be/1MOmw8T9HCo Second Trump Assassination Attempt: Who is Ryan Routh and What Are His Political Beliefs?], Sep 17, 2024.

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Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr

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[[File:Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr.jpeg|thumb|Roy Everett Frankhouser Jr. in ''American NAZI Party'' Uniform]]
[[File:Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr. Hate literature.jpeg|thumb|Roy Everett Frankhouser Jr. & supremacist propaganda]]
'''Roy Everett Frankhouser Jr.''' (Or/and spelled "Frankhauser"; November 4, 1939 – May 15, 2009) was a Grand Dragon of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], a member of the [[American]] [[Nazi]] Party,<ref>Activities of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First[-second] Session. (1966). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ny8WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3348 pp. 3348-33450].</ref> a government informant, and a security consultant to [[fascist]] [[Lyndon LaRouche]],<ref>Lateer, J. (2017). Three Barons: The Organizational Chart of the JFK Assassination. United States: Trine Day.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=jsRADwAAQBAJ&pg=PT103 Ch. 14]</ref> arrested multiple times.

==See also==
*[[Lyndon LaRouche]]

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Rosh Hashanah

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'''Rosh Hashanah''' is a holiday marking the beginning of the [[Jewish]] new year. The holiday is celebrated in a solemn manner beginning at sunset the night before. In the Hebrew calendar, the first month<ref>[https://www.jewfaq.org/tishri JewFaq, Tishri]</ref> of each year is called "Tishri".<ref>[https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0323.htm Leviticus, 23:23-24], (as [https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2263462/jewish/Tishrei.htm its]
the 7th, the first being [https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2164005/jewish/Nisan.htm Nisan]).</ref> Rosh Hashanah lasts for two days.

Recognition of this [[Holy Day]] consists of saying prayers for God's forgiveness and requesting a good year, blowing the Shofar.<ref>Biblical command. [https://aish.com/holidays/high-holidays/rosh-hashanah/the-shofar/ Rosh Hashanah, the Shofar - Aish], [https://torah.org/rosh-hashanah/ Rosh Hashanah].</ref> It is a time of penance, with "The Ten Days of Penitence" beginning on Rosh Hashanah, which is the Day of Judgment, and ending on [[Yom Kippur]], which is the Day of Atonement.
(It's the first of the [https://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/36130/jewish/High-Holidays-2024.htm High Holidays]).

Special dishes are usually prepared in served on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, often using honey to represent the request to [[God]] for sweetness in the coming year.

Jews don't traditionally wish each other “happy new year”. Instead saing the Hebrew phrase “shanah tovah” which — in spite of the mistaken translation that appears on almost all greeting cards — has no connection at all to the expression “have a happy new year.”
As 'Shanah tovah conveys the hope for a good year rather than a happy one. And the reason for that distinction contains great significance.'<ref>[https://aish.com/jews-dont-say-happy-new-year/ Jews Don’t Say Happy New Year | Aish].</ref>
[[Image:Rosh-Hashanah.jpg]]

Reform Jews now typically celebrate it for only one day.

Although it is not a Federal holiday, in [[Texas]] (which does not have a large Jewish population) it (along with [[Yom Kippur]]) is an "optional holiday" which state employees may observe (subject to staffing needs).

== External links ==

*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/holiday2.html Rosh Hashanah at the Jewish Virtual Library]
*[http://www.history.com/minisites/roshhashanah/ Rosh Hashanah at History.com]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Jewish Holidays]]

Ron DeSantis

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'''Ronald Dion "DeSanctimonious" DeSantis''' (born September 14, 1978) is a corrupt politician who has been governor of [[Florida]] since 2019.

It was due to Trump's endorsement of him in 2018 that DeSantis was able to win the [[Republican]] gubernatorial primary, and then barely defeated the later-indicted [[Democrat]] [[Andrew Gillum]] in the [[2018 midterms]].<ref>''[http://archive.is/QfvFt If Democrats want to win, they need a black politician on the ticket]'', Theodore R. Johnson, ''The Washington Post'', March 13, 2020.</ref> In 2022, [[Ashley Moody]] won reelection as Attorney General by nearly 61% of the vote, which helped carry DeSantis to victory with a smaller number of those same votes.<ref>Previously, DeSantis served as a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from January 2013 to September 2018.</ref> DeSantis won re-election in a landslide, routing his opponent: Gov. DeSantis Wins Florida Re-election in a Rout
Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor, demonstrated his viability as a potential presidential contender by beating [[Charlie Crist]], a Democrat with wide recognition in the state."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/politics/desantis-wins-florida-governor.html</ref>

Amidst the [[CCP pandemic]], DeSantis' main claim to fame has been his numerous polices which have emphasized "freedom over [[Faucism]]."<ref>Stone, Tyler (June 4, 2021). [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/06/04/desantis_florida_choose_freedom_over_faucism.html DeSantis: Florida Chooses Freedom Over Faucism]. ''RealClearPolitics''. Retrieved October 10, 2021.</ref> This has caused many to believe that he is a sincere anti-establishment conservative, much like many once believed [[Ted Cruz]] to be such. However, there is much evidence to the contrary. In recent months, DeSantis has embraced the [[liberals]], [[mainstream media]], and other [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Never-Trumpers]] who have been heavily promoting him as an alternative to [[Donald Trump]] for the [[Republican]] nomination for president in 2024, despite the fact that he has no chance of defeating Trump even if he tries to do so. Additionally, DeSantis supports or has previously supported several initiatives promoted by the Republican party establishment, such as the [https://www.conservapedia.com/Trans-Pacific_Partnership Trans-Pacific Partnership][https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_DeSantis%27_congressional_history], the [[NATO war in Ukraine]], and [[censorship]] of [[politically incorrect]] businesses.

DeSantis is thought to have initially, behind the scenes, slowed passage in [[Florida]] of the [[pro-life]] [[Heartbeat Bill]], despite how it had already passed in 14 other states. Instead DeSantis boasted of a sham [[pro-life]] 15-week ban riddled with loopholes.<ref>See [[DeSantis sham pro-life bill]].</ref> Apparently beholden to the [[Koch network]]'s [[dark money]], DeSantis endorsed their half-baked scheme to rewrite the [[U.S. Constitution]] misnamed the "[[Convention of States]]."<ref>https://conventionofstates.com/endorsements</ref> His office may have played a role in securing a $10 million "jackpot" job for fellow [[Koch network]] functionary [[Ben Sasse]], who then quit his job as [[U.S. Senate|U.S. Senator]] before even the middle of his term to become president of the [[University of Florida]]. Apparently to appease his [[dark money]] delusional donors, in February 2023 advertisements were played in [[Idaho]] of DeSantis endorsing a [[Con Con]],<ref>https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/joy-reid-desantis-constitution-rcna71158</ref> which Justice [[Antonin Scalia|Scalia]] called a "horrible idea."

Under DeSantis' leadership, [[Florida]] has become a center for [[abortion]] in the southeast and the Chief Justice appointed by DeSantis to the [[Florida Supreme Court]] is thought to believe there is a right to abortion in the Florida Constitution.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/21/floridas-abortion-access-hinges-on-conservative-court-redone-by-desantis-00103036</ref> DeSantis is perhaps best known for appearing in US socialist Junta leader Joe Biden's attack ads on Trump.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/biden-uses-desantis-dig-trump-160933439.html Biden Uses DeSantis’ Dig At Trump In New Campaign Ad]</ref>

Pandering to his [[dark money|dark-money]] mega-donors, DeSantis personally pushed for statewide [[sports gambling]] in a deal valued at $2.5 billion, despite opposition by [[conservative]]s based on the enormous harm inflicted by the [[gambling]] [[addiction]].<ref name="Politico">https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/desantis-scores-big-legal-win-upholding-2-5b-gambling-deal-with-florida-tribe-00104427</ref>

Despite propaganda claiming the contrary, DeSantis has not governed as a sincere conservative. To paraphrase "Dutchman," a prominent commentator on ''[[The Conservative Treehouse]]'', every action he has taken since 2018 was a political calculation designed to create two non-existent images, one of a "Free State of Florida" and the other of a "Trump lite". He is not nor has he ever been [[America First]]; his public image is totally artificial and disconnected from reality.[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/22/everyone-is-going-to-think-im-nuts-but-im-not-nuts]

DeSantis is also a supporter of the inappropriately-named "[[Convention of States]]" movement, which despite its premise would grant [[globalist]]s and [[leftists]] a unique opportunity to unilaterally rewrite the [[U.S. Constitution]].

Despite DeSantis’ many nefarious and arguably criminal deeds as governor, Florida continues to evolve into a bastion of conservatism, a development for which he deserves no credit whatsoever.

During COVID-19 years, many conservative leaning people moved from "Blue States" to [[FL]], due to Covid restrictions which they thoughts to be too harsh.
==Florida Governor==
[[File:DeSantis 2018.png|right|300px|thumb|DeSantis campaign ad from 2018.]]
DeSantis moved quickly to implement conservative policies as Florida's governor.<ref>Campo-Flores, Arian (January 10, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-florida-governor-moves-quickly-with-supreme-court-pick-environmental-plan-11547154648 New Florida Governor Moves Quickly With Supreme Court Pick, Environmental Plan]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved January 22, 2019. See also:
*Wilson, Reid (April 23, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/440037-new-governors-chart-ambitious-paths-in-first-100-days New governors chart ambitious paths in first 100 days]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 23, 2019.</ref> By the end of DeSantis's first month in office, he had already appointed three justices to the Florida Supreme Court, dramatically shifting it from a liberal to a conservative court.<ref>Varney, James (January 22, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/22/ron-desantis-florida-governor-completes-makeover-s/ DeSantis completes makeover of Florida Supreme Court]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 22, 2019.</ref> On January 31, 2019, DeSantis signed an executive order to end [[Common Core]].<ref>Multiple references:
*Berry, Susan (January 31, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/31/florida-gov-ron-desantis-issues-executive-order-to-eliminate-common-core/ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Issues Executive Order to Eliminate Common Core]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
*Patrick, Craig (January 31, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-desantis-signs-executive-order-scrapping-common-core Florida Gov. DeSantis signs executive order scrapping Common Core]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
See also:
*Hillyer, Quin (February 1, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/florida-gov-desantis-puts-common-core-out-of-its-misery Florida Gov. DeSantis puts Common Core out of our misery]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved February 1, 2019.</ref> DeSantis removed many of former Governor [[Rick Scott]]'s political appointees, which the latter made without DeSantis's permission shortly before DeSantis took office.<ref>Berry, Susan (February 27, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/27/gov-ron-desantis-removes-rick-scotts-appointees-across-florida/ Gov. Ron DeSantis Removes Rick Scott’s Appointees Across Florida]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 28, 2019.</ref> In his first two months in office, DeSantis made many other conservative reforms, including deregulation, promoting lower taxes, posthumously pardoning wrongly convicted black people, and pushed back against the government-subsidized sugar industry.<ref name="Tireless">Multiple references:
*Murdock, Deroy (March 8, 2019). [https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/the-tireless-ron-desantis/ The Tireless Ron DeSantis]. ''National Review''. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
*Murdock, Deroy (March 10, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/florida-governor-ron-desantis-cleans-house-and-bucks-status-quo-to-make-state-great-again Unpredictable Florida governor Ron DeSantis cleans house and bucks status quo to make state great]. ''Fox News'' (from the ''National Review''). Retrieved March 11, 2019.
See also:
*Harper, Jennifer (March 19, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/19/inside-the-beltway-ron-desantis-shows-how-its-done/ Ron DeSantis shows how it's done]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved March 20, 2019.</ref> Early in his tenure, DeSantis oversaw a state "deregathon" which significantly reduced the state regulatory burden.<ref name="Tireless"/><ref>[https://www.flgov.com/2019/06/05/governor-ron-desantis-dbpr-announce-fee-reduction-for-licensed-real-estate-professionals/ Governor Ron DeSantis, DBPR Announce Fee Reduction for Licensed Real Estate Professionals]. ''FLgov.com''. June 5, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.</ref>

In 2019, DeSantis encouraged Florida sheriffs to increase their cooperation with ICE, though he did nothing to push through a bill to establish E-Verify in Florida despite campaigning on it.<ref>Cadman, Dan (April 4, 2019). [https://cis.org/Cadman/Florida-Sheriffs-Encouraged-Cooperate-ICE Florida Sheriffs Encouraged to Cooperate with ICE]. ''Center for Immigration Studies''. Retrieved April 6, 2019.</ref> On June 14, 2019, DeSantis signed a bill banning [[Sanctuary City (Immigration)|"sanctuary" cities]] in Florida.<ref>Multiple references:
*Bleau, Hannah (June 14, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/14/florida-governor-ron-desantis-signs-sweeping-bill-banning-sanctuary-cities/ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Sweeping Bill Banning Sanctuary Cities]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
*Campo-Flores, Arian (June 14, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-sanctuary-city-ban-11560536897 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Sanctuary-City Ban]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
*Campisi, Jessica (June 14, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/448662-desantis-signs-bill-banning-sanctuary-cities DeSantis signs bill banning sanctuary cities]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
*Nguyen Ly, Mimi (June 15, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-banning-sanctuary-cities_2964331.html Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Sanctuary Cities]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
*Adelmann, Bob (June 17, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/32613-florida-governor-signs-ban-on-sanctuary-cities-president-trump-approves Florida Governor Signs Ban on Sanctuary Cities; President Trump Approves]. ''The New American''. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
*Cadman, Dan (June 18, 2019). [https://cis.org/Cadman/Florida-Enacts-AntiSanctuary-Law Florida Enacts an Anti-Sanctuary Law]. ''Center for Immigration Studies''. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
See also:
*Folley, Aris (October 1, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/463904-florida-law-banning-sanctuary-cities-takes-full-effect Florida law banning sanctuary cities takes full effect]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
*Ozimek, Tom (October 2, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-law-banning-sanctuary-cities-enters-into-full-force_3103543.html Florida Law Banning Sanctuary Cities Enters Into Full Force]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
*Vadum, Matthew (October 11, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-upholds-florida-law-that-prohibits-sanctuary-jurisdictions_3113175.html Federal Judge Upholds Florida Law That Prohibits Sanctuary Jurisdictions]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved October 11, 2019.</ref> As governor, DeSantis associated himself with Angel families while advocating for an E-Verify law.<ref>Binder, John (November 25, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/25/ron-desantis-joins-angel-families-to-demand-mandatory-e-verify-secure-rising-wages-for-florida-workers/ Ron DeSantis Joins Angel Families to Demand Mandatory E-Verify, Secure ‘Rising Wages’ for Florida Workers]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 25, 2019. See also:
*Calvan, Bobby Caina (November 25, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/25/florida-governor-ties-e-verify-to-public-safety/ Florida governor ties E-Verify to public safety]. ''The Washington Times'' (from the ''Associated Press''). Retrieved November 25, 2019.
*Madden, Nate (November 26, 2019). [https://www.conservativereview.com/news/congress-remains-gridlocked-immigration-crisis-floridas-republican-governor-forges-ahead-reforms/ While Congress remains gridlocked on the immigration crisis, Florida’s Republican governor forges ahead with reforms]. ''Conservative Review''. Retrieved November 26, 2019.</ref> He also ordered Florida prisons to begin identifying criminal illegal aliens in custody.<ref>Multiple references:
*Binder, John (November 26, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/26/florida-prisons-to-begin-identifying-criminal-illegal-aliens-in-custody/ Florida Prisons to Begin Identifying Criminal Illegal Aliens in Custody]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
*Allegri, Samuel (November 27, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-prison-guards-will-be-deputized-as-ice-officers_3159079.html New Agreement Will Give Some Florida Prison Guards Immigration-Related Authority]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 27, 2019.</ref>

On May 8, 2019, DeSantis signed a bill into law allowing local school districts to arm their teachers.<ref>Multiple references:
*Hawkins, Awr (May 8, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/florida-gov-signs-bill-allowing-armed-teachers-for-classroom-defense/ Florida Gov. Signs Bill Allowing Armed Teachers for Classroom Defense]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
*Chamberlain, Samuel (May 8, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-letting-more-teachers-carry-guns-in-school Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill letting more teachers carry guns in school]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
*Axelrod, Tal (May 8, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/442827-florida-gov-signs-bill-to-arm-teachers Florida gov signs bill to arm teachers]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.</ref> In July 2019, DeSantis signed a bill allowing medics to legally carry guns when in dangerous situations.<ref>Hawkins, Awr (July 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/07/new-law-allows-florida-medics-to-carry-firearms-for-self-defense/ New Law Allows Florida Medics to Carry Firearms for Self-Defense]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 7, 2019.</ref>

DeSantis strongly supports [[Israel]] and opposed the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] movement.<ref>Glick, Caroline (June 4, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/06/04/caroline-glick-ron-desantis-takes-on-the-bds-movement/ Caroline Glick: Ron DeSantis Takes on the BDS Movement]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 5, 2019.</ref> In July 2021, DeSantis penalized Ben & Jerry's for refusing to sell ice cream in the Palestinian territories, liberally interpreting an existing law which essentially curbs freedom of speech and freedom of association for business owners, as well as demand that they pledge loyalty to a foreign nation.[https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2021/07/26/Ron-DeSantis-sanctions-Ben-Jerrys-Israel-boycott/2371627346528/]

In December 2019, DeSantis announced civics requirements in Florida public high schools.<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/desantis-announces-civics-requirements-for-high-school-seniors DeSantis announces civics requirements for High School seniors]. ''Fox 4''. December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
*Ciccotta, Tom (December 14, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/12/14/florida-will-require-all-high-school-students-to-take-civics-course/ Florida Will Require All High School Students to Take Civics Course]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
*Pan, Gq (December 16, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-high-school-civic-exam_3174091.html Florida Governor: High School Seniors Should Pass a Civics Exam Similar to Citizenship Test]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved December 16, 2019.</ref>

In addition to promoting conservative policies, DeSantis saw high approval ratings.<ref>Meads, Timothy (October 31, 2019). [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/10/31/maga-floridas-desantis-soars-in-polls-56-percent-of-democrats-82-percent-of-h-n2555664 Florida's DeSantis Soars in Popularity; 56 Percent of Democrats, 82 Percent of Hispanics Approve.] ''Townhall''. Retrieved October 31, 2019.</ref> The high ratings have caused speculation that he may seek to run for President in 2024 (or maybe 2028, after completing the maximum two terms he would be allowed as Florida Governor).

He has also been very active in keeping businesses open (or letting them re-open quickly) during the [[CCP flu pandemic]], even despite criticism that he was putting his state's large senior population at risk; notably he declared [[professional wrestling]] matches to be "essential businesses" ([[World Wrestling Entertainment]] operates a major training facility in the state, while All Elite Wrestling and [[Impact Wrestling]] — two other professional wrestling promotions — are based there).

On May 12, 2021, DeSantis announced that he would be granting pardons to anyone who had been unjustly charged and fined for refusing to wear face masks or social distance in areas of Florida that were imposing unconstitutional [[CCP flu]] edicts.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/florida-gov-desantis-pardon-covid-violations-video/ Florida Gov. DeSantis to Pardon COVID Violations] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

In 2021, DeSantis took decisive actions to counter the leftist Biden administration.<ref>Holt, Nanette (December 19, 2021). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/desantis-took-on-washington-in-2021_4138361.html DeSantis Took on Washington in 2021]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved January 1, 2022.</ref>

In March 2022, DeSantis signalled support to strip the [[Disney]] corporation of its status as an independent government in the [[Orlando]] area after Disney's attack on the people and state of Florida's democratic processes.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-desantis-signals-support-for-stripping-disney-of-special-self-governing-status-as-feud-escalates/ar-AAVJgjp</ref> The Disney corporation is a vocal advocate for indoctrination of children by [[public school]] teachers in the age group of [[kindergarten]]s through the third grade, into the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[transgender]] lifestyles.<ref>https://youtu.be/hYPGchhXjIQ</ref> The state of Florida moved to restrict such child abuse.
[[File:How trannies see America.png|thumb|DeSantis's effort to revise school curriculum and discourage the sexualization of children has provoked a fierce reaction from the left. This map compares state laws on transsexual issues. Florida law is more favorable to traditional family values than that of any other state, according to the map. Source: [https://jacobin.com/2023/08/transphobia-us-state-legislation-migration ''Jacobin''].]]

On May 9, 2022, as part of DeSantis' education agenda, DeSantis signed a bill, [[Florida House Bill 395]], into law which designates November 7th as "Victims of Communism Day",<ref>[https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=73664 CS/HB 395 - "Victims of Communism Day"] ''www.myfloridahouse.gov''. Retrieved May 9, 2022.</ref> honoring [[Death toll of communism|those who perished]] under [[communism]], and would require public high schools in the state to teach about the evils of communist and totalitarian regimes.<ref>King, Ryan (9 May, 2022). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/desantis-signs-bill-mandating-florida-schools-teach-evils-of-communism DeSantis signs bill mandating Florida schools teach 'evils of communism']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved May 9, 2022.</ref>

On Aug 4, 2022, DeSantis suspended State Attorney [[progressive]] Andrew Warren for failure to enforce State laws.<ref>Jeff Reynolds, [https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2022/08/04/florida-gov-desantis-suspends-state-attorney-andrew-warren-for-failure-to-prosecute-n1618320 BREAKING: Florida Gov. DeSantis Suspends State Attorney Andrew Warren for Failure to Enforce State Laws], Pjmedia, Aug 4, 2022.</ref> Tweeting: ''Progressive prosecutors ... have refused to enforce laws across the country. They treat criminals with deference & victims with contempt.''

An August 2022 poll showed DeSantis with solid leads over either Democratic opponent.<ref>Staff, [https://www.villages-news.com/2022/08/19/chamber-poll-shows-desantis-with-solid-lead-over-democratic-challengers/ Chamber poll shows DeSantis with solid lead over Democratic challengers], Villages News, Aug 19, 2022.</ref>

Memorable DeSantis' lines from the Oct 24, 2022 debate with Charlie Crist:<ref>"Gov. Ron DeSantis, Charlie Crist debate in Fort Pierce". YouTube · WPTV News - FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast. (Oct 24, 2022) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GtMXSmEnX0g].</ref>

*(Re CRT): "The way to stop discrimination based on race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

*"The only worn-out old donkey I want to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist."

In March 2023, DeSantis stripped the liquor license from hotel that held drag show with kids present],
<ref>[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/03/15/desantis-strips-the-liquor-license-from-hotel-that-held-drag-show-with-kids-present-n1678567 DeSantis Strips! — the Liquor License From Hotel That Held Drag Show with Kids Present], PJMedia, Dec 15, 2023.</ref>

In June 2023, Mexican president threatened DeSantis over immigration.{{Cquote|“The Government of Mexico emphatically condemns the practice of transporting migrant persons from states bordering Mexico toward other parts of the United States with electoral and political ends … Legal and diplomatic measures will be explored,” said the June 8 statement from Mexico’s foreign ministry.
<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/06/10/mexican-government-threatens-desantis-for-anti-migration-policies/ Mexican Government Threatens DeSantis for Anti-Migration Policies], ''Breitbart'', 10 June 2023.</ref>}}
[[File:NBC DeSantis.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[NBC News]] compared Gov. DeSantis relocating [[illegal immigrant]]s to [[Martha's Vineyard]] to 'dumping trash'.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/16/nbc-deletes-tweet-comparing-immigrants-trash/</ref>]]
===Dealing with liberal media===
DeSantis sent migrants to liberal location [[Martha's Vineyard]], the migrants were actually happy about it, per MSNBC reporter.<ref><blockquote>MSNBC REPORTER: "I can tell you, they’re not angry at Ron DeSantis. They are actually thanking him for having brought them to Martha's Vineyard."</blockquote>
B911, [https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1570887358412918785 Sep 16, 2022].</ref>

In August 2022, DeSantis responded to an invitation by ABC's ultra liberal talk show [[The View]]:<ref>Brian Flood, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-heres-how-ron-desantis-political-team-responded-invite-abc-talk-show ‘The View’: Here's how Ron DeSantis’ political team responded to invite from ABC talk show], ''Fox News'', Aug 2, 2022. 
Republican governor likely won’t appear on ''[[The View]]'' anytime soon</ref>
<blockquote>
Thanks for the invite. I understand that you are sending this request on behalf of your team, Griffin wrote in a message he shared on Twitter. But are the hosts of the View really interested in hearing from Governor DeSantis about all of the important work he is doing on behalf of Floridians to protect their health and livelihoods, to stand up for parents and children, and to defend freedom?</blockquote>

=== Strong Budget Surpluses in Florida ===

The National Debt continued to increase under both Biden and Trump. Meanwhile, Governor Ron DeSantis ran strong budget surpluses instead in Florida: "TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the surplus for Fiscal Year 2021-22 is $21.8 billion – the highest in state history and more than 21 percent above the state budget for the fiscal year. Collections in May were $742 million above estimates, and preliminary data for June collections are approximately $950 million above estimates.

“Despite the headwinds created by the Biden administration’s policies, Florida is in a strong fiscal position because we preserved freedom and kept our economy open,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Our responsible policies have allowed us to make record investments to support our communities, promote education, protect the environment, and provide record tax relief for Floridians, all while building record reserves to protect the state against the reckless fiscal policies from Washington.” <ref>https://www.flgov.com/2022/07/07/governor-ron-desantis-announces-record-surplus-for-fiscal-year-2021-22/</ref><ref>https://reasonstobechristian.com/f/why-ron-de-santis-is-a-better-conservative-candidate-than-trump</ref>

==2022 Midterm elections==
In the November [[2022 midterm elections]], DeSantis rode on the landslide coattails of the pro-[[Trump]], anti-[[election fraud]] [[Florida]] Attorney General [[Ashley Moody]], who garnered more votes. This victory included traditionally blue regions in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach.
<ref>Deirdra Funcheon, Martin Vassolo, [https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2022/11/14/miami-dade-midterm-election-republicans Miami-Dade flips red: Midterm lessons for Republicans and Democrats], Nov 14, 2022.</ref><ref>Ben Jacobs, "winners and 4 losers from the midterm results so far", ''VOX'', November 9, 2022.</ref>

According to the National File, DeSantis was in on the RINO-led efforts to sabotage pro-Trump candidates in the midterms.[https://nationalfile.com/republican-governors-association-builds-anti-trump-war-chest-with-ron-desantis/]

DeSantis apparently offered no help to [[Herschel Walker]] in the tight race for the [[U.S. Senate]] next-door in [[Georgia]], despite how many other [[Republican]] officials did help Walker.

==2024 presidential election campaign==
{{See also|Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign}}
De Santis was a stealth [[establishment]], [[Never-Trumper 2024|Never-Trumper]] candidate for president in 2024. DeSantis was a puppet of [[globalist]] [[private equity]] managers who funnel millions into his campaign coffers, in their futile hope of defeating their nemesis [[Donald Trump]] and advancing the billionaires' agenda of rewriting the [[U.S. Constitution]]. In early 2023, DeSantis appeared in radio ads in [[Idaho]] to urge that harmful proposal.<ref>https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/01/24/ron-desantis-appearing-idaho-ads-calls-constitutional-convention/</ref> DeSantis has supported slashing [[Social Security]] (which would benefit [[private equity]]), and opposed [[Ethanol]] subsidies for [[Iowa]] farmers,<ref>https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110463643535963277</ref> which compete with the [[Koch brothers]]' and [[Texas]] mega-donors' [[oil]] refineries.

Federal election law apparently prohibits DeSantis from using much of his campaign funds, much of which were contributed in million-dollar donations by [[hedge fund]] and [[private equity]]-type billionaires, on a presidential campaign.<ref>https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/08/for-desantis-overflowing-war-chest-obscures-the-challenges-ahead/</ref>

After Trump was indicted on politically motivated charges by a rogue [[Department of Justice]], DeSantis took to Twitter and cited these abuses of federal power as a reason to vote for him over Trump.[https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1666986884604522499]

In November 2021, former Trump campaign advisor and [[lobbyist]] [[Roger Stone]] prophetically accused DeSantis of political posturing to set up a [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]]-like campaign for the [[United States presidential election, 2024|2024 presidential election]]. Stone sought a pledge by DeSantis not to run against Trump.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/roger-stone-run-governor-desantis-pledges-not-to-run-president-2021-11</ref><ref>https://t.me/RogerStoneJr/1470</ref> DeSantis supposedly privately mocked Stone's status as a convicted felon, despite evidence that Stone's prosecution was the result of a [[Deep State]] smear campaign and the fact that he had been pardoned by Trump. Those remarks were supposedly made behind closed doors, as DeSantis likely knew that making them public would potentially end his political career. Stone in turn responded by demanding that DeSantis apologize for those remarks.<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/florida-playbook/2021/11/10/stone-desantis-owes-me-an-apology-495042</ref> As of January 2023, DeSantis had not issued such an apology. Stone also insulted DeSantis, calling him a "Yale Harvard fat boy" who "can't get out of his own way" and accused DeSantis having an affair with former [[Newsmax]] reporter Emerald Robinson while he had been out of the public eye, despite the fact that DeSantis had been helping his wife Casey during her struggle with breast cancer during that time.<ref>https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/roger-stone-calls-ron-desantis-yale-harvard-fat-boy-after-reports-of-rift-between-florida-gov-donald-trump-30657050</ref>

In January 2022, Trump called Republican politicians "gutless" for refusing to reveal whether or not they received a vaccine booster, a remark many perceived to be directed at DeSantis.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/trump-calls-politicians-who-refuse-to-say-they-received-covid-boosters-gutless.html</ref> DeSantis stated that one of his "biggest regrets" as governor was not speaking up more against Trump's early COVID lockdown policies, which were strongly influenced by the advice of people like Anthony Fauci.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/desantis-viewed-as-target-of-trump-remark-about-gutless-politicians-not-admitting-to-receiving-booster-shots-01642031351][https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1481355199121960971</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/01/14/desantis-says-he-regrets-not-opposing-trump-administrations-lockdown-calls-as-tensions-grow-with-ex-president/?sh=c8d7c2a46c20]</ref><ref>https://ruthlesspodcast.com/episodes/ron-desantis-gets-ruthless</ref>

In February 2022, DeSantis expressed support for the [[Neoconservatism|neocon]] position on the [[Maidan regime|crisis]] in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/01/ron-desantis-on-ukraine-crisis-biden-wont-hit-putin-where-it-counts/</ref>

In August 2022 polls showed strong numbers for Ron DeSantis and bad numbers for Biden and [[Kamala Harris]].<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/another-national-poll-another-strong-showing-for-desantis/ Polls: Strong Numbers for DeSantis, Bad Numbers for Biden and Harris], ''National Review'', Aug 5, 2022.</ref>

During a gubernatorial debate with [[Charlie Crist]], DeSantis walked back his previous assertion that he would not run for President in 2024 if [[Donald Trump]] declared his candidacy.[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/25/governor-ron-desantis-easily-won-his-debate-yet-flubbed-the-most-predictable-question/]

In an incoherent interview with [[British]] [[liberal]] [[Piers Morgan]], DeSantis showed how clueless he is about the [[globalist]] and [[Deep State]] enemies of [[America]], and blustered that the president should "look to people like our [[Founding Fathers]].”<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-trump-piers-morgan_n_641a5468e4b0bc5cb653285c</ref> Even anti-[[Trump]] ''Politico'' downplays DeSantis's chances as of April 19, 2023,<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/19/desantis-dc-trump-endorsement-00092695 "DeSantis is in a rut. His trek to D.C. didn’t help."]</ref> and DeSantis is ridiculed for his unsuccessful fight against [[Mickey Mouse]] ([[Disney]]). DeSantis's betrayal of [[Trump]] is compared [[Judas Iscariot]]'s biblical betrayal.

However, increasingly billionaires ruled out supporting DeSantis, as of late April 2023.<ref>DeSantis has spent much of his governorship improperly "shadow" campaigning for president. [https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/28/florida-house-passes-bill-allowing-desantis-to-run-in-2024-without-resigning-heads-to-governor-desk-for-signature-after-he-returns-from-overseas-tour/][https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-ethics-complaint-2024-presidential-campaign-e887199fb9f63ef2051295eced5068ce]</ref> John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, ruled out supporting DeSantis while observing that he "doesn't even return phone calls." Two high-profile endorsements by DeSantis lost big in elections in [[Kentucky]] and [[Florida]] on May 16, 2023.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-candidate-for-kentucky-governor-trounced-desantis-last-minute-endorsement-so-trump-gloated-ron-s-magic-is-gone/ar-AA1bk35e</ref>

According to [[Laura Loomer]], the DeSantis campaign has been employing individuals with ties to Ukrainian as well as Israeli "political affairs" to operate [[sock puppet]] accounts to promote him on [[social media]].<ref>https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1674027818030620672</ref> Another June 2023 poll showed him tied with Trump, in [[FL]].<ref>Hannah Bleau, [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/14/poll-trump-desantis-tied-sunshine-state/ Poll: Trump and DeSantis Tied in the Sunshine State], ''Breitbart'', June 14, 2023</ref>

By June 30, 2023, DeSantis was far behind [[Trump]] in the polls despite "burning through cash," and he had only $9M left for the primary amid many expenses and a staff of nearly 100.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lagging-trump-desantis-campaign-fires-staff-after-rapidly-burning-through-cash/ar-AA1dUSHX</ref>

DeSantis secretly wears steep heels to try to boost his short stature, shorter than any Republican president in 50 years. DeSantis stands at only 5'9" or at most 5'10", which the [[liberal media]] is beginning to expose.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ron-desantis-interview-piers-morgan-162839809.html No Republican nominee as short as DeSantis has won the presidency since [[William McKinley]], who stood at 5'7" and won in 1896 and 1900 against the relatively short [[William Jennings Bryan]]. [https://potus.com/presidential-facts/presidential-heights/]</ref>

==Personal life==
DeSantis was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He married his wife Casey in 2010, with whom he has two daughters and one son. DeSantis is a [[Catholic]]. DeSantis graduated from both Harvard and Yale Universities.<ref>Observer Staff (August 1, 2012). [https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/article/candidate-qa-us-house-6-ron-desantis-r CANDIDATE Q&A: U.S. House 6, Ron DeSantis (R)]. ''PalmCoastObserver''. Retrieved February 24, 2022</ref>

==See also==
*[[Anti-grooming bill]]
*[[DeSantis congressional record]]
*[[DeSantis judicial nominees]]
*[[DeSantis sham pro-life bill]]
*[[Desantisites]]

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}

==External links==
*[https://www.flgov.com/ Official Governor Website]
*[https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Official Twitter Page]
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000621 Profile at the ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'']

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Roddie Edmonds

2026-11-06T05:44:47Z

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''American infantryman and WWII POW honored as Righteous Among the Nations''

'''Roderick "Roddie" Waring Edmonds''' (August 20, 1919 – August 8, 1985),<ref name="ww2soldier_2015_12_21_cnn">{{cite web |last=Liebermann |first=Oren |date=December 21, 2015 |title='We are all Jews': World War II soldier saved POWs |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/europe/us-pow-holocaust-hero/index.html |publisher=CNN}}</ref> was a U.S. Army [[Infantry|infantryman]] renowned for his courageous stand during [[World War II]]. As the highest-ranking American non-commissioned officer captured by German forces in December 1944, Edmonds was interned at Stalag IX-A,<ref>Not to be confused with [[Stalag XI-A]].</ref> a [[prisoner-of-war camp]] in [[Ziegenhain|Ziegenhain, Germany]]. On January 27, 1945, Edmonds refused an order by German officers to identify Jewish-American soldiers, possibly for separate execution, instead defiantly declaring that "We are all Jews here." The captors relented, sparing the lives of up to 300 Jewish-American [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bartrop |first=Paul R. |title=The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4408-4084-5 |editor-last=Bartrop |editor-first=Paul R. |volume=1 |location=Santa Barbara, California |pages=181 f |chapter=Roddie Edmonds |oclc=967457463 |editor-last2=Dickerman |editor-first2=Michael}}</ref><ref name="we_are_all_jews_2016_01_27_ny_times">Julie Hirschfeld Davis, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/middleeast/obama-honor-americans-effort-to-save-jews-the-holocaust.html "Saying 'We Are All Jews,' Obama Honors Americans' Lifesaving Efforts in Holocaust"], January 27, 2017, ''[[New York Times]]''</ref> In risking his own life to save his Jewish comrades, Edmonds' actions exemplified profound moral courage and leadership. He was posthumously recognized by [[Yad Vashem]] as "[[Righteous Among the Nations]]," the only American serviceman to receive this honor.<ref>{{cite news |title=Trump posthumously awards WWII hero Roddie Edmonds with Medal of Honor |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-889425 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=March 10, 2025}}</ref> Edmonds' actions are widely recognized as sincere, highlighting the enduring power of individual conscience in the face of [[structural evil]].<ref name="us_solider_2015_12_02_npr_org">[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/02/458166709/u-s-soldier-posthumously-honored-for-protecting-jewish-pows-in-1945 "US Soldier Honored Posthumously For Protecting Jewish POWs In 1945"], December 2, 2015, [[National Public Radio]]</ref> [[Barack Obama]] praised Edmonds during a speech in 2016 at the [[Israeli Embassy]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref name="we_are_all_jews_2016_01_27_ny_times" />

== Early life and education ==

Roderick W. "Roddie" Edmonds was born in 1919 in [[South Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]], and graduated from Knoxville High in 1938. Some sources, including the 1930 Federal census and the posthumous act awarding him the Congressional Gold Medal, spell his given name "Rodrick". He had three brothers: Thomas "Shake" Edmonds Jr., Leon Edmonds, and Robert Edmonds.<ref name="us_solider_2015_12_02_npr_org" /> He was married three times and had two sons: Kim Michael and Christopher W. Edmonds.<ref>Obituary (August 9, 1985). ''Knoxville News Sentinel''.</ref>

== Military career ==

=== World War II ===

At age 22, Edmonds enlisted in the Army on March 17, 1941, at [[Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia)|Fort Oglethorpe]] in Georgia. Edmonds arrived in the [[European Theater of Operations, United States Army|European Theater of Operations]] in December 1944 with the [[106th Infantry Division (United States)|106th Infantry Division]], arriving only five days before Germany launched the [[Battle of the Bulge]]. During the battle much of the division was overrun and on December 19, 1944, Edmonds was captured and sent to [[Stalag IX-B]]. Shortly thereafter he was transferred to [[Stalag IX-A]] near [[Ziegenhain, Germany]]. As the highest ranking soldier at the camp, [[Master Sergeant]] Edmonds became responsible for the camp's 1,275 American POWs.<ref name="us_solider_2015_12_02_npr_org" /> On January 27, 1945, the German commandant ordered Edmonds to have all Jewish-American soldiers identify themselves the following morning.<ref name="ww2soldier_2015_12_21_cnn" /> Instead, Edmonds ordered all 1,275 prisoners to assemble. When the commandant demanded that Edmonds identify the Jewish soldiers, Edmonds replied: "We are all Jews here." He also warned the commandant that the [[Geneva Conventions]] required prisoners to give only name, rank, and serial number. The commandant backed down.<ref name="ww2soldier_2015_12_21_cnn" /> Edmonds' actions are credited with saving up to 300 Jewish-American soldiers.<ref name="ww2soldier_2015_12_21_cnn" />

== Post-war life ==
After returning from captivity Edmonds never spoke publicly about the incident. He was later called to serve during the [[Korean War]], serving with the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)|1st Cavalry Division]]. After military service he worked for ''[[The Knoxville Journal]]'' and later in sales in the mobile home and cable television industries. He died in 1985.<ref name="ww2soldier_2015_12_21_cnn" />

== Recognition and legacy ==

[[File:Roddie Edmonds historical marker, Knoxville.jpg|thumb|right|Historical Marker, Knoxville, for Roddie Edmonds]] In 2015 [[Yad Vashem]] recognized Edmonds as one of the [[Righteous Among the Nations]].

The ceremony was held at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. in January 2016.<ref name="we_are_all_jews_2016_01_27_ny_times" /> Chris Edmonds later began a campaign to have his father's heroism recognized with the [[Medal of Honor]].

== Medal of Honor ==

It was revealed on February 16, 2026, that President [[Donald Trump]] had notified Edmonds' son Chris that he would posthumously award Edmonds the [[Medal of Honor]] for his actions as a [[POW]] during World War II.<ref>{{cite news |title=WWII hero who defied Nazis to save Jewish troops to receive Medal of Honor |url=https://www.jns.org/wwii-hero-who-defied-nazis-to-save-jewish-troops-to-receive-medal-of-honor/ |work=JNS |date=February 27, 2026}}</ref> The medal was awarded by President Trump on March 2, 2026.<ref>{{cite news |title=Roddie Edmonds awarded posthumous Medal of Honor for saving Jewish POWs during WWII |url=https://www.jns.org/roddie-edmonds-awarded-posthumous-medal-of-honor-for-saving-jewish-pows-during-wwii/ |work=JNS |date=March 2, 2026}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[106th Infantry Division (United States)#Notable members|106th Infantry Division (United States)]]

==Notes==
The "[[Righteous Among the Nations]]" honor is an award presented to non-Jewish people by [[Israel]] for people that risked their lives to protect Jewish people during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]].
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.roddieedmonds.com/ "Roddie Edmonds" website]
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/edmonds.html Yad Vashem biography]
* [https://www.jfr.org/documentaries/footsteps-of-my-father Footsteps of My Father], documentary by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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'''Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.''' (born January 17, 1954, age {{age|1954|1|17}}), often referred to as '''RFK, Jr.''', is the [[Secretary of Health and Human Services]] in the [[Second Trump Administration]]. He is a recognized authority on human health who founded the Children's Health Defense, which speaks out against harm caused by [[vaccines]]. He is the eldest son of former [[Attorney General]] and [[Senator]] [[Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.]]. Despite decades of imposters and pretenders, Robert F. Kennedy is the true heir of the Kennedy mantle and legacy.<ref>[[Robert Barnes]], [https://youtu.be/Bp3U6JSgqY4?t=497 Guilty until proven innocent w/Robert Barnes (Live)], ''The Duran'', Apr 6, 2023.</ref> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced his candidacy for [[President of the United States]] in [[Democratic presidential candidates 2024#Declared candidates|2024 Democratic presidential primaries]]. '''''The [[liberal]] [[ABC News]] unfairly edited an exclusive interview with RFK Jr. in April 2023 in order to prevent airing of his criticism of the [[COVID vaccine]]'''''.<ref>https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/abc-news-cuts-rfk-jr-vaccine-remarks-out-of-interview/</ref>

After being wrongly shunned by the [[Democrat Party]], RFK Jr. announced on Oct. 9, 2023 that '''''he is running for president as an independent rather than as a Democrat'''''.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/robert-kennedy-jr-run-independent-could-complicate-trump-biden-2024-contest-2023-09-29/</ref> On Aug. 23, 2024, RFK Jr. withdrew his candidacy and endorsed [[Donald Trump]] for president.

Often referred to as "Bobby, Jr.," he is the most courageous [[Democrat]] in standing up against the [[Deep State]] and the [[globalist]]s. He inherits substantial support that previously went to [[Bernie Sanders]], and RFK, Jr.'s popularity extends further. RFK, Jr., is an effective critic of [[crony capitalism]]. Popular actor [[Woody Harrelson]] was photoed donning an RFK Jr. hat, and star [[NFL]] quarterback [[Aaron Rodgers]] appears to have endorsed him.<ref>https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/aaron-rodgers-appears-to-endorse-rfk-jr-s-2024-bid/</ref>

Robert Kennedy, Jr., is an outspoken critic of [[vaccine mandate]]s, and of the denials by the [[Establishment]] of harm caused by vaccines. He has large bipartisan [[grassroots]] support among parents and millions of [[American]]s who share his skepticism about vaccination. [[Big Tech]] [[monopoly|monopolies]] have [[censorship|censored]] in the [[internet]] some of the good information provided by an organization Kennedy helped found. Kennedy himself has been the target of Big Tech censorship with his [[Instagram]] account permanently suspended.<ref>[https://youtu.be/2noX_9MgW2I Instagram 'permanently removes' account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr], [[WION]], Feb 11, 2021.</ref>

In his 2021 bestseller, ''[[The Real Anthony Fauci]]'', Kennedy exposes the deceit behind the handling of the COVID-19 issue by [[Anthony Fauci]] of the [[NIH]], [[Big Pharma]], and others.

Several politically ambitious members of the Kennedy family, such as Rep. [[Joe Kennedy III]], pander to the [[liberal media]] and have disavowed the views of Robert Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. supports "a massive subsidized daycare initiative" whereby taxpayers would pay for mothers to put their kids in daycare: "we will pay 100% of care for the three million children under five who live beneath our poverty line."<ref>https://www.kennedy24.com/abortion</ref> But to his credit, he favors home-based child-rearing in his proposal.
[[File:Trump Kennedy 2024.png|right|300px|thumb|After the rigged [[Democrat]] convention that nominated [[Kamala Harris]] without a single [[primary election|primary]] [[vote]], Kennedy withdrew his 3rd party candidacy and endorsed [[Donald Trump]].]]
==2024 Democratic presidential primary campaign==
{{See also|2024 presidential election}}

On April 5, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced his intention to challenge the demented and incompetent incumbent Democrat [[Joseph R. Biden]] for the [[Democratic party]] presidential nomination in the [[2024 presidential election]]. Bobby, Jr., said in making the announcement,
[[File:Harvard Harris poll Oct 2023.png|right|400px|thumb|A Harvard Harris poll conducted in October 2023 still showed Trump winning in a 3-way contest.]]
{{quotebox-float|"The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom's new alliances with [[China]] and [[Iran]] are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[neocon]] strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of [[military]] power...China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, [[economic]] power...The [[Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the neocon's short-lived American Century...The neocon projects in [[Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[middle class]], made a laughingstock of [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military power]] and [[moral]] authority, pushed China and [[Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the [[dollar]] as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance [[democracy]] or win friendships or influence.”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-neocon-projects-iraq-and-ukraine-have-made-laughingstock-us-military-power-and</ref>}}
While he was speaking at the Plaza Hotel in Boston about how [[China]] is building roads and bridges while the U.S. [[military industrial complex]] has been bombing them into rubble, the fire alarm went off at the packed event. “Nice try” he quipped after the alarm continued, prompting the crowd to roar with approval.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-rfk-jr-tells-deep-state-nice-try-fire-alarm-interrupts-his-presidential</ref>

Early polling of [[Dem]]s shows that "14% of Biden's 2020 supporters said they would vote for Kennedy."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chances-beating-biden-polls-1795430</ref> A mid-May 2023 [[Rasmussen poll]] showed Bobby and Biden in a statistical dead heat at 35% and 36% respectively.<ref>https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/rfk-jr-ties-biden-in-primary-poll-1-in-5-dems-say-theyd-pick-trump-kennedy-over-biden-harris/</ref>

Bobby is a defender of women's rights and opposes [[transgender]]s in girls and women's sports.<ref>https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/rfk-jr-opposes-trans-athletes-womens-sports-i-dont-think-thats-fair</ref>

After the public release of the [[FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives]], Kennedy announced, "I think the issues are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened. I mean, these revelations where you had [[Burisma]], which is, you know, a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to [[Hunter Biden|Hunter]] and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/24/robert-f-kennedy-jr-calls-probe-joe-biden-alleged-bribes-changing-his-tune/</ref>

Kennedy announced his switch to a third party candidacy on October 9, 2023, after the [[DNC]] refused to allow primary debates. A Harvard Harris poll released in late October 2023, after Robert Kennedy announced his 3rd party bid, still showed President Trump defeating both Kennedy and the Democrat nominee.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/22/harvard-harris-poll-shows-rfk-jr-independent-run-hurting-biden-more-than-trump/</ref>

On March 12, 2024 it was reported that Kennedy asked [[Aaron Rogers]] to be his Vice Presidential running mate.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/report-aaron-rodgers-was-just-asked-to-be-a-vp-candidate/</ref>

[[File:RFK 24.PNG|right|250px|thumb|RFK, Jr.]]
===Climate change===

Kennedy told journalist Kim Iverson,
{{quotebox-float|"Climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by the [[World Economic Forum]] and [[Bill Gates]] and all of these big mega billionaires. The same way that Covid was exploited to use it as an excuse to clamp down, top down, [[totalitarian]] controls on society, and then to give us engineering solutions. And if you look closely, as it turns out, the guys who are promoting those engineering solutions are the people who own the IPS, the patents for those solutions.

“It’s a way they’ve given climate chaos a bad name because people now see that it’s just another crisis that’s being used to strip the wealth of the poor and to enrich billionaires.

“And I, for 40 years, have had the same policy on climate and engineering. You can go check my speeches from the 1980s, and I’ve said, the most important solution for environmental issues? Not top-down controls. It’s [[free market]] [[capitalism]].”<ref>https://twitter.com/VictoryDeclare/status/1652281055208955904</ref>}}

===Coronavirus===
In an interview with Russel Brand, Kennedy detailed how the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) was in charge of Operation Warspeed's [[COVID-19]] [[mRNA vaccine]]s, the history of the United States [[bioweapon]]s program, and why Anthony Fauci is the highest-paid government official in history:<ref>https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1657175672660566016</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"The weird thing about the [[pandemic]] was this constant involvement by the [[CIA]], the intelligence agencies, and the [[military]]. When Operation Warp Speed made its presentation to the [[FDA]] committee called VRBPAC. When Warp Speed turned over the organizational charts that were classified at the time, it shocked everybody because it wasn't [[HHS]], [[CDC]], [[NIH]], [[FDA]], or a public health agency. It was the NSA, a spy agency that was at the top and led Operation Warp Speed.

The vaccines were developed not by Moderna and [[Pfizer]]. They were developed by NIH, their own the patents are owned 50% by NIH. Nor were they manufactured by Pfizer, or by Moderna. They were manufactured by military contractors, and basically, Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their stamps on those vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry. This was a military project from the beginning.

One of the things I uncovered in my book is 20 different simulations on coronavirus and pandemics. That started in 2001. The first one was right before the [[anthrax]] attacks and the CIA sponsored them all. The last one was Event 201 which was in October 2019. And one of the participants was [[Avril Haines]], the former Deputy Director of the CIA, who has been managing coverups her whole life. She did the [[Guantanamo Bay]] and others. She is now the [[Director of National Intelligence]] which makes her the highest ranking officer at the NSA which managed the pandemic.

So you have a spy who is convening these pandemic simulations and in each of these simulations going back 20 years, they're not simulating a public health response. They're not doing things like how do we stockpile [[Vitamin D]]. How do we get people outdoors losing weight doing exercise? How do we develop an information grid for all the 15 million front line doctors all over the world so that we can get their information that works and what doesn't work. We had an incredible opportunity to manage a pandemic in a way that was intelligent and sensitive and devastating to the [[disease]], but we didn't do any of those things.

It was all about how do you use a pandemic to clam down [[censorship]]. How you use it to force [[lockdown]]s. By the way, with lockdowns, every pandemic preparedness document that had been adopted by any major public health agencies, whether it was CDC, '[[WHO]], European Health Agency, National Health Services of Britain. All of them said you don't do lockdowns, you quarantine the sick, you protect the vulnerable. And you let everybody else go back to work because a lockdown actually amplifies the impacts of the disease. If you isolate people, it makes them more vulnerable, it breaks down their [[immune system]]."}}

===Criticism of Fauci===
{{See also|Gain of function}}
[[File:Biden mandates.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Healthcare professionals demonstrating against [[Biden vaccine mandate]]s.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/09/20/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings/</ref>]]
The [[SARS-CoV-2]] virus did not occur in nature.<ref>https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/coronavirus-is-a-biological-warfare-weapon</ref> Its [[genome]] was "inconsistent with evolutionary theory."<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100015</ref> The evidence came out that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the [[president]], had funded [[gain-of-function]] research on coronavirus at the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] to make the virus transmissible to humans.<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/09/recommended-policy-guidance-potential-pandemic-pathogen-care-and-oversight</ref> The funds were administered by Anthony Fauci.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/05/13/dr-fauci-saying-the-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research-at-the-wuhan-lab-is-evasive-at-best-n1446170</ref> Fauci extended the funds,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/17/infamous-wuhan-lab-authorized-to-receive-us-taxpayer-funding-nih-confirms/</ref> but did not gain approval from a mandatory [[Department of Health and Human Services]] review board as required first.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hhs-board-never-approved-wuhan-institute-of-virology-research-grant/</ref> [[Barack Obama]] banned such research in the United States in 2015. The research was done illegally via the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance,<ref>https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/</ref> making Fauci directly responsible for the coronavirus outbreak.<ref>https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director</ref> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Sen. [[Rand Paul]] called Fauci out on it.<ref>https://nationalfile.com/watch-rand-paul-confronts-fauci-for-funding-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/</ref>

On January 9, 2017, eleven days before President Trump was sworn into office, the [[Obama]] White House Office of Science and Technology Policy restored funding for gain-of-function research in the United States.<ref>https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co-finalguidancestatement.pdf</ref> Three days later Fauci told a [[D.C.]] conference with certainty that President Trump would be facing a [[pandemic]].<ref>https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170111/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak</ref> Fauci knew when the outbreak occurred that covid-19 was manufactured in a Chinese [[PLA]] laboratory and, as the nation's top health advisor, misled the president of the United States and the American people.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fauci-lied-and-people-died/</ref>

Speaking at [[Hillsdale College]] in March 2023, Kennedy told over 1,000 students that Anthony Fauci became the head of [[bioweapon]] development in 2001. During the [[Obama administration]] three viruses escaped Fauci's lab. After Obama shut the operation down, Fauci moved the project to the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] in [[China]].<ref>https://hillsdalecollegian.com/2023/03/pharma-cca-draws-one-of-largest-crowds-in-history/</ref>

===Criticism of forced vaccinations===
{{See also|Vaccine mandate}}

[[Big Tech]] [[oligarch]] and [[Jeffrey Epstein]] patron [[Bill Gates]] claimed that the [[Covid-19]] outbreak in [[Africa]] could cause "10 million deaths," hours before [[Egypt]]'s ministry of health confirmed its first case.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/15/coronovirus-bill-gates-warns-10-million-deaths-virus-spreads/</ref> Gates pushed heavily for universal [[vaccination]]s, which he is invested heavily in, complete with a digital yellow badge<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OACVmzCqKNo</ref> so governments can identify non-vaccinated individuals.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/17/bill-gates-says-this-is-the-best-investment-he-has-ever-made.html</ref> Robert Kennedy, Jr., ripped the curtain back on Gates "Mass Vaxx" program:
{{quotebox-float|"Gates took control of [[India]]'s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017.

In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the [[World Health Organization]] reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening [[epidemic]]s in [[Congo]], the [[Philippines]], and [[Afghanistan]] are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, 1/4 of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines."<ref>https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/rfk-jr-rips-the-curtain-back-on-bill-mass-vax-gates/</ref>}}
[[File:Biden regime tried to censor RFK Jr.PNG|right|350px|thumb|The [[Biden junta]] attempted to [[censor]] RFK, Jr.<ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/biden-admin-twitter-silence-robert-f-kennedy-jr/</ref>]]
===Big Pharma and network news advertising===
Kennedy<ref>[https://youtu.be/68MhtliIAvk Robert F. Kennedy Jr tells Tucker this is turning America into a system of socialism for the rich], Ticker Carlson, Fox news, Apr 19, 2023.</ref> tweeted on April 24, 2023, the day after [[Tucker Carlson]] was fired by [[Fox News]]:
{{quotebox-float|"Fox fires Tucker Carlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless. For many years, Tucker has had the nation's biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of [[CNN]]. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of [[Big Pharma]]."<ref>https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1650550341027475479</ref>}}

===Big Tech censorship===

Robert Kennedy Jr. is an attorney handling a lawsuit filed on August 17, 2020, by the Children's Health Defense against [[Facebook]], for its censorship.<ref>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/FACEBOOK-COMPLAINT-DKT-1-08-17-2020.pdf</ref>

===NATO war in Ukraine===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the Pentagon; [[Victoria Nuland]] later confirmed 46 locations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US], Mar 11, 2022.</ref>]]
In June 2023 Kennedy said of the [[Biden regime]]'s mishandling of the NATO war in Ukraine, "What we’re doing in [[Ukraine]] now is just a massive assault on Ukrainians...We have trapped Ukraine in a [[proxy war]] against [[Russia]] and they are being devoured by the geopolitical machinations of [[neocon]]s in the [[White House]] who have this comic book depiction that a lot of Americans have swallowed about what is happening...We have now turned Ukraine into an abattoir that has devoured 350,000 young Ukrainians...They are lying about how many people have died, they’re concealing it from us – the [[Pentagon]]’s concealing it from the American people…Ukraine is concealing it from their people...We have turned that poor little nation into a killing field for these idealistic young kids in order to advance a geopolitical agenda that has nothing to do with Ukraine”.

In an interview on SiriusXM's ''The Briefing with Steve Scully'', Scully attempted to claim that [[President Putin]] didn't want peace, Kennedy replied,
{{quotebox-float|"No, no. Putin has repeatedly said yes...In fact, he negotiated — two times he agreed to agreements...He agreed to the [[Minsk Accords]], and then he agreed in 2022 to an agreement that would’ve left Ukraine completely intact...It was us who forced [[Zelensky]] to [[sabotage]] that agreement...It was already signed...So, you know, the [[Russia]]ns were acting in [[good faith]]...So, no, I think we’re the ones who have not been acting in good faith”.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-says-124441558.html</ref>}}
[[File:RFK shot.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ever since the murder of Robert Kennedy Sr. by unknown assailants of the Deep State,<ref>[https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Kennedy Unsolved Mysteries, The Murder of Robert Kennedy].</ref> leading presidential candidates of both parties have been granted Secret Service protection. The Biden junta denied RFK Jr.'s request for protection.]]
Kennedy told [[Tucker Carlson]] in August 2023,
{{quotebox-float|"We have [[Ukraine#Biological weapons research labs|biolabs in Ukraine]] because we are developing bioweapons. Those [[bioweapon]]s are using all kinds of new synthetic biology and CRISPR technology and [[genetic engineering]] techniques that were not available to a previous generation....When the [[Patriot Act]] reopened the biolabs [[arms race]] in 2001, the [[Pentagon]] began putting a lot of money into bioweapons. But they were nervous at that time because if you violate the [[Geneva Convention]], it’s a hanging offense. So they were nervous about actually going full force into bioweapons development. So they transferred the authority for biosecurity to one agency in the [[HHS]]. But now, when you do bioweapons development, every bioweapon, it needs [[vaccine]] so you develop them side by side because in a 100% of the cases when you deploy a bioweapon, there’s [[blowback]]. Your side also gets sick."<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/tucker-carlson-interviews-robert-kennedy-jr-latest-tucker/</ref>}}
Kennedy noted the Biden regime is providing personal security protection for [[neocon]] warmonger [[John Bolton]] and Ukrainian [[fascist]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]], it continued to deny protection for the No. 1 challenger for the 2024 Democrat presidential nomination.

===Assassination attempt===

On July 28, 2023, the Biden regime denied Bobby Jr.'s request for [[Secret Service]] protection.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/07/28/this-is-evil-rfk-jr-evokes-fathers-assassination-after-hes-denied-secret-service-protection-1381471/</ref> Bobby's father, [[Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.]], the leading peace candidate who vowed to end the [[War in Vietnam]], was murdered by unknown assailants of the [[Deep State]], according to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ever since the murder, prospective candidates with good chance of becoming the next [[President of the United States]] have been granted Secret Service protection. The Biden regime's denial of Secret Service protection for RFK, Jr., in conjunction with its election interference by indicting [[Republican]] frontrunner [[Donald Trump]] on questionable charges, was more evidence of the Deep State's determination to hold onto power at all costs.

[[Dr. Robert Malone]] commented on the consequences of [[weaponization of government|government weaponization]].<ref>https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/consequences-of-government-weaponization</ref> Historian Eric Zues noted Joe Biden wants RFK Jr. dead.<ref>https://theduran.com/joe-biden-wants-rfk-jr-dead/</ref> ''[[The Conservative Treehouse]]'' reported ''Troubling – Heavily armed man with fake US Marshals badge arrested at RFK Jr event''.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/16/troubling-heavily-armed-man-with-fake-us-marshals-badge-arrested-at-rfk-jr-event/</ref> ''The DC Daily Journal'' noted ''Assassination attempt on presidential candidate has all hell breaking loose.''<ref>https://dcdailyjournal.com/general/assassination-attempt-on-this-presidential-candidate-has-all-hell-breaking-loose/#</ref>

===On Bill Gates===

RFK Jr. blows the lid off Bill Gates’ little philanthropy “money-making plot”...
<ref>[https://revolver.news/2023/11/rfk-jr-blows-the-lid-off-bill-gates-little-philanthropy-money-making-plot/ RFK Jr. blows the lid off Bill Gates’ little philanthropy “money-making plot”…] Revolver, Nov 25, 2023]</ref>

==Family==
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s son fought with [[NATO]] troops in the 2022 [[Kharkov]] offensive in the NATO war in Ukraine.

==See also==
*[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-now-presidential-candidate-ukraine-vaccines-economy/story?id=100247005 ABC News' biased analysis of RFK Jr.'s positions]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://childrenshealthdefense.org/ Children's Health Defense]
*[https://open.spotify.com/episode/6sabm2Ozcy0HhiGJwruSPd Strategies For China and Russia] with [[Alex Christoforou]] - RFK Jr podcast

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Ritchie Boys

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[[File:Richie Boys.png|thumb|Richie Boys]]

The '''Ritchie Boys''' are the graduates of the Military Intelligence Training Center, the field intelligence unit of the US Army, known as Camp Ritchie, the training center of the United States Army during World War II. The approximately 9,000 participants were mainly young emigrants from Germany and Austria, mostly Jews, who had found a new home in the United States, to escape Nazi persecution.<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ritchie-boys Ritchie Boys | Holocaust Encyclopedia]</ref><ref>The Ritchie Boys | 60 Minutes Archive
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeqTcsyuwRU YouTube] · 60 Minutes
Dec 12, 2023</ref>

==Further info==
Book:

Henderson, B. (2017).

[[File:Sons and Soldiers.jpeg|thumb|Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler]]

''[https://books.google.com/books?id=75RnDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler]''.

United States: HarperCollins.

Film:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435725/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl The Ritchie Boys] IMDb, 2004.

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Rishi Sunak

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'''Rishi Sunak''' (born 1980 in [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]]) is a British politician, [[globalist]] [[warmonger]] and the undemocratically<ref>[https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-tory-party-coup-wing-cdo-rebels-pm-reform-uk-2035892 Rishi Sunak accused of Tory party ‘coup’ as right-wing CDO rebels warn PM about the rise of Reform UK]</ref> appointed [[centre-left]]<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/13/rishi-sunak-sack-home-secretary-mean-for-cabinet-reshuffle/ Rishi Sunak is living dangerously by freezing out the Tory Right]</ref> puppet stooge who occupied the position of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] during the [[NATO-Russian proxy war]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-leadership-sunak-truss-poll-b2143346.html Tory members’ ballot an ‘undemocratic’ way to choose next PM, say voters], Adam Forrest, ''The Independent'', 13 August 2022.</ref>

Senselessly chosen to lead the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Tory Party]] since October 25, 2022, Sunak has run it into the ground so badly that it is headed for its worst defeat since [[World War I]] in the elections scheduled for July 4, 2024.<ref>https://uk.news.yahoo.com/election-defeat-rishi-sunak-conservatives-193907367.html</ref> While Sunak has held a few genuinely [[conservative]] positions, he is entwined with the [[Chinese Communist Party]], for example, being endorsed by [[China]]'s communist regime.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/17/wef-acolyte-rishi-sunak-receives-backing-from-communist-china/ China Backs WEF Acolyte Rishi Sunak to Replace Boris Johnson], ''Breitbart'', July 17, 2022.</ref><ref name="washingtonexchina" /> Sunak is said to be a puppet of the UK [[uniparty]] and [[deep state]] and criticized as a stateless elite with no connection to local communities; indeed, for Sunak's ineffective approach to border control, [[Darren Grimes]] concluded that "the man is more [[Davos]] than he is [[Darlington]]" (Darlington being close to Sunak's own constituency of Richmond).<ref>[https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1724534590520385843 Free from Government censorship, Suella Braverman's damning statement makes clear that Rishi Sunak never had any desire to give Britain border controls. The man is more Davos than he is Darlington]</ref> Sunak's political career also includes being a Member of Parliament for Richmond in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]] since 2015, and having served as the [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] between 2020 and 2022.

[[Joe Biden]], the disputed 46th President of the United States, appears to think Sunak is called "Rashi Sanook" (see [[Joe Biden's racist history]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU1gONFZXSE Mr Sanook? | Joe Biden gaffe as he mispronounces Prime Minster Rishi Sunak's name]</ref>

Sunak's religion is [[Hinduism]], which is generally [[pro-life]] and opposed to the [[homosexual agenda]]. However, Sunak has a mixed record on these issues.

Six months before Tory rule was set to expire Sunak called for snap elections to be held on July 4, 2024, as [[NATO]] plotted aggression against the [[Russian Federation]]; it was reported because he did not want to be a [[war]]time prime minister.<ref>[https://t.me/AmericanCommunityinRussia/2375 "We are at war with Russia right now, they just haven't told you... Sunak is calling elections early because he wants out. He doesn't want to be a wartime Prime Minister." - Andrew Bridgen MP], Americans living in Russia Forwarded from Foreign Agent Intel, May 24, 2024. t.me/AmericanCommunityinRussia</ref>

== Early life ==

Sunak was born in and grew up in [[Southampton]], where his father, Yashvir, was a doctor for the [[NHS]] and his mother, Usha, who had immigrated from [[East Africa]], operated a pharmacy. Both are of Indian descent. He attended Winchester College and later Oxford University, then went on to study at [[Stanford University]] in [[California]].<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11347889/Britains-non-white-Hindu-prime-minister-set-power-Diwali.html</ref>

In 2009, Sunak went work for a [[London]] hedge fund before quitting the following year to establish his own investment group, Theleme Partners. He prospered in this business over the next several years, then in 2015 began his political career, winning the parliamentary seat of Richmond in North Yorkshire as a Conservative in 2015.

== Career ==
=== Summer 2022 Conservative Party Leadership race ===
Following [[Boris Johnson]]'s 2022 resignation as UK Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak announced his bid to succeed Johnson on 8 July 2022. His bid for prime minister was endorsed by the [[Chinese Communist Party]].<ref name="washingtonexchina">Tom Rogan,
[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-china-endorsed-rishi-sunak-to-be-next-uk-prime-minister Why China has endorsed front-runner Rishi Sunak to be the next UK prime minister], ''Washington Examiner'', July 14, 2022</ref>

His initial bid to succeed Boris Johnson was unsuccessful, winning only 43% of the popular vote against [[Russophobic]], neoconservative warmonger [[Liz Truss]].

=== Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2022-present) ===
[[File:Sunak depleted uranium.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Neocon]] warmonger Rishi Sunak sent depleted uranium shells to Ukraine.]]
Liz Truss became the shortest serving Prime Minister in UK history after resigning in late October 2022. After Penny Moraunt dropped out of the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership race, Rishi Sunak became Conservative Party leader and, as a result of the party having a parliamentary majority, UK Prime Minister on 25 October 2022. Sunak made history for being the first "person of color" as PM.

Sunak's appointment as Prime Minister was widely celebrated by Britons of Asian descent, seeing it as a source of pride; the president of his home temple in Southampton went so far as to compare it with the 2008 election of [[Barack Obama]] as US President, evidently meaning that as a compliment.
<ref>[https://www.thenational.wales/news/23074861.rishi-sunak-becoming-pm-will-source-pride-many-british-asians/ Rishi Sunak becoming PM will be 'source of pride to many British Asians'], The National Wales, Oct 24, 2022.</ref>

On 23 December 2023, Rishi Sunak said it was "completely reasonable" for the UK government to block Scottish dictator [[Nicola Sturgeon]]'s controversial "gender reform" legislation.<ref>[https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/gender-recognition-reform-bill-rishi-sunak-says-it-is-completely-reasonable-for-uk-government-to-block-scotland-legislation-3964807 Gender Recognition Reform Bill: Rishi Sunak says it is 'completely reasonable' for UK Government to block Scotland legislation]</ref>

Sunak made one of his most conservative actions on 16 January 2023, in which he vetoed the extreme gender reform legislation of the [[SNP]] regime, which was even too woke for the globalist UN. Scottish socialist autocrat Nicola Sturgeon pledged to defend the legislation, opposed by around 80% of Scottish people, in court.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/16/rishi-sunak-blocks-nicola-sturgeons-gender-reforms/ Rishi Sunak blocks Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms]</ref>

On 21 March 2023, it was reported that Sunak ordered the deployment of [[depleted uranium]] [[nuclear weapons]] to the [[NATO]] proxy regime of [[Ukraine]].<ref>[https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/03/21/dirty-bombs-london-to-hand-cancer-causing-depleted-uranium-ammo-to-kiev-with-challenger-2-tanks/ Dirty Bombs: London to Hand Cancer Causing Depleted Uranium Ammo to Kiev With Challenger 2 Tanks], INTEL-DROP, March 21, 2023.</ref>

On 10 April 2023, it was reported by ''The Telegraph'' Sunak was planning a general election for October or November 2024. Political editor Ben Riley-Smith said that this would allow Sunak to close the polling gap with Labour by allowing the economy time to improve and the laws supposedly to stop illegal immigration to work. At the time of reports, Sunak's Tories were 18 points behind Labour.<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NckJ40ngnsQJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/10/rishi-sunak-general-election-autumn-2024/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Rishi Sunak plans autumn 2024 general election in hope of shock victory]</ref>

Rishi Sunak, on 14 April 2023, stated the fact that, despite the assertions of [[transgender]] activists, 100% of women do not have penises, as opposed to his Labour rival [[Keir Starmer]] who thinks that one in every 1000 women has a penis.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/14/this-is-somehow-news-no-women-have-penises-uk-pm-confirms/ Who Knew! No Women Have Penises, UK Prime Minister Confirms]</ref>

====Depleted uranium dirty nuclear weapons====
Sunak delivered [[depleted uranium]] shells - essentially [[dirty nuclear weapon]]s - to the fascist [[dictatorship]] of [[Volodymyr Zelensky]].<ref>[https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/04/26/putin-warns-sunak-after-uks-big-admission-on-depleted-uranium-shells-in-ukraine/ Putin warns Sunak after UK’s big admission on depleted Uranium shells in Ukraine], INTEL-DROP, April 26, 2023.</ref>
[[File:UK depleted uranium.PNG|left|300px|thumb|On March 20, 2023, it was announced the UK was supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine.<ref>https://declassifieduk.org/britain-supplying-depleted-uranium-rounds-to-ukraine/</ref>]]
On January 25, 2023, Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, warned:
{{quotebox-float|“We know that [[Leopard 2]] tanks, as well as Bradley and Marder armored fighting vehicles, can use [[depleted uranium]] shells, which can contaminate terrain, just like it happened in [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Iraq]]...If Kiev were to be supplied with such munitions for the use in western heavy military hardware, we would regard it as the use of ‘[[dirty nuclear bomb]]s’ against Russia, with all the consequences that entails.”}}
Depleted uranium is a very dense metal, ideal to be used on projectiles because of its mass, and also because it ignites at around 600 degrees Celsius; it can penetrate an armoured vehicle and incinerate the crew once it enters the cabin. As a block or a projectile, the material can be handled with no health consequences, but when it ignites or explodes, it's turned into dust, then, it can be inhaled or ingested by live creatures and it wreaks havoc in the internal organs, creating a very large number of cancerous lesions and genetic malformations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/tiDNTA12_gk Depleted Uranium]</ref> That is why it is considered a very dangerous polluting material, same as a dirty bomb.

The use of depleted uranium shells was developed by the United States in the 1980s. The Russian military made the decision at that time not to follow suit and compete by developing depleted uranium as a battlefield weapon because of its long lasting environmental and health effects. Existing tactical nuclear weapons were considered a sufficient deterrent to what is essentially a nuclear dirty bomb used by NATO and the United States.

On March 20, 2023, Annabel Goldie, the British Minister of State for Defence, declared that her country would provide depleted uranium munitions to the Kyiv regime.<ref>https://youtu.be/vSG_3cduRLA</ref> In response, President Vladimir Putin reported on March 25 that the decision had been made to deploy a tactical nuclear weapon on the territory of Belarus by July 1, 2023, to reduce flight time against NATO aggressors. Reduced flight time, if even by a few seconds, is an important consideration in the age of modern missile defense.
[[File:Khmelnytsky blast.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Prevailing winds after the release of gamma radiation from British depleted uranium shells in NATO occupied Ukraine.]]
On May 2, 2023, [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]], tied for the lead in the [[Democratic presidential candidates 2024|2024 Democratic presidential nomination]],<ref>https://www.newstarget.com/2023-05-10-rfk-jr-tied-biden-poll-democrats-trump.html</ref> warned:
{{quotebox-float|"In another reckless escalation, [[Britain]] has confirmed delivery of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine. [[DU]] munitions should be banned. They partially vaporize on impact, poisoning the environment with uranium dust that causes [[cancer]] and horrific birth defects."<ref>https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1653562264539070465</ref>}}
On May 13, 2023, a series of explosions at the Khmelnytsky ammunition storage depot in western Ukraine led to a significant increase in gamma radiation levels,<ref>https://t.me/intelslava/47714</ref> suggesting the release of depleted uranium dust into the air posing severe risk to public health. The resultant fire was remotely extinguished by robots. Depleted uranium munitions, while typically emitting minimal gamma radiation, are known to pose risks when a large stockpile is destroyed, as in the Khmelnytsky incident.

The effects of gamma radiation can be particularly detrimental to cellular structures and DNA/RNA molecules, with an extended range of damage in fluids such as gas or liquid. The British Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed that it provided depleted-uranium tank rounds to the Ukrainian armed forces. Reports indicate that the detonated warehouse in Khmelnytsky contained a substantial quantity of depleted uranium shells, causing alarm among locals and prompting residents to evacuate nearby areas. Yuri Kot, a political scientist, has stated that his sources confirm the presence of a large stockpile of depleted uranium shells in the destroyed Khmelnytsky warehouse.

Following the explosions, gamma radiation levels in Khmelnytsky have rose steadily. This surge is particularly concerning as depleted uranium typically emits only a low dose of gamma radiation, suggesting the destruction of a significant quantity of munitions and the release of uranium dust into the surrounding environment.

Dosimetric patrols in the city conducted radiation background measurements in uncharacteristic locations. Previous measurements were concentrated around the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant but were expanded to cover the regional center, western regions of the area, and Ternopil. The prevailing wind direction, blowing northwest at the time of the explosions, raised concerns about the spread of [[radioactive]] particles to [[Warsaw]], [[Berlin]], and [[Prague]].<ref>https://newindian.in/gamma-radiation-spikes-as-explosions-rock-munitions-depot-in-ukraine/</ref>

Residents were in a panic and began gathering their belongings and leaving the affected areas, including Khmelnytsky, Lviv, and Ternopil.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/radioactive-panic-russians-missiles-hit-ukrainian-ammunition-depot-in-khmelnytsky-causing-massive-explosion-cache-of-british-depleted-uranium-tank-shells-destroyed-gamma-radiation-spikes-in-the-r/</ref>

== Political views ==
=== International relations and terrorism ===
[[File:Rishi Sunak's first speech as Prime Minister Front (cropped).jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Rishi Sunak photograph taken on the day of first speech as Prime Minister.]]
On Aug 3, 2022, Sunak vowed crackdown on [[Islamic]] extremism.<ref>[https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/international/world-news-politics/uk-pm-hopeful-rishi-sunak-vows-crackdown-on-islamic-extremism-1132688.html UK PM hopeful Rishi Sunak vows crackdown on Islamic extremism], Deccan Herald, Aug 3, 2022.</ref>

In an August 4, 2022 interview with ''the JC'', he described [[Israel]] as a "shining beacon of hope".<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/politics/what-does-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-mean-for-british-jews-1nl8CK1metfSp1hNfKaGuf], '"JC'', Oct 24, 2022.</ref>

=== Brexit ===

During his parliamentary career, Sunak positioned himself as firmly on the side of [[Brexit]], and even in his youth had been critical of the idea of further European integration. In 1997, he wrote of newly elected Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], "He revels in the idea of patriot, but has plans for the possible break-up of the United Kingdom and membership of an eventual European Superstate." He supported the "Leave" vote during the Brexit referendum in 2016, and opposed the idea of a second referendum that might overturn its results.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11347049/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Rishi-Sunak-real-Right-winger.html</ref>

=== Social policy ===
Sunak has largely abstained on parliamentary votes on abortion. However, he has voted twice with the pro-abortion lobby and never against it; he voted in 2021 in favour of giving the Northern Ireland secretary powers to impose the commissioning of abortion services in NI, as well as approving a motion to impose the teaching of pro-abortion propaganda in NI schools.<ref>[https://righttolife.org.uk/votes/Richmond-and-Northallerton/Rishi-Sunak Where does Rishi Sunak stand on abortion?]</ref>

Sunak stated in 2022 that he would crack down on elements of the [[homosexual agenda]] such as gender neutral language.<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:va1qBFA20AUJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/09/rishi-sunak-pledges-protect-womens-rights-first-leadership-policy/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Rishi Sunak pledges to protect women’s rights in first leadership policy pitch]</ref>

==Criticism==
Sunak has been nicknamed Rishi '[[Great Reset|Reset]]' Sunak. Sunak held a U.S. Green Card, declaring himself a U.S. permanent resident to escape paying UK taxes until 2021, while raising taxes as a member of the majority Tory party on British citizens back home.<ref>https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/rishi-sunak-tax-scandal-green-card-non-dom-status-controversy-explained-pm-net-worth-3649278</ref> Sunak has been criticized as a stateless banker with no connection to local communities.

== Family ==
Sunak's father is the founder of a company, linked to the globalist [[World Economic Forum]], that is developing a China-style [[social credit system]].<ref>https://www.visionnews.online/post/rishi-sunak-owns-social-credit-score-company-with-links-to-world-economic-forum</ref>

Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, like him of Indian (Asia) descent, is the daughter of billionaire businessman N. R. Narayana Murthy and a wealthy capitalist investor in her own right. The couple's estimated net worth is in excess of $800 million and are among the top 250 richest people in the UK.

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Randy Fine

2026-11-06T05:36:00Z

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'''Randall A. "Randy" Fine''' (born April 20, 1974) is an American businessman and Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for ''Florida's 6th congressional district''. He won a special election in April 2025 after previously serving in the [[Florida]] ''House of Representatives'' (2016–2024) and a brief term in the ''Florida Senate'' (2024–2025). Fine is known for his strong alignment with [[conservative]] values and policies.

== Early life and business career ==
Fine was born in [[Tucson]], Arizona. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1996 and an MBA from ''Harvard Business School'' in 1998.<ref name="JewishLibrary">{{cite web |title=Randy Fine |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/randy-fine |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref>

Before entering politics, Fine worked as a corporate executive in the casino and gaming industry. He founded The Fine Point Group, a management consultancy specializing in gaming operations.<ref name="JewishLibrary" />

== Political career ==

=== Florida Legislature ===
Fine was elected to the ''Florida House of Representatives'' in 2016, representing District 53 and later District 33 after redistricting. He gained a reputation as a leading conservative voice, supporting pro-life legislation, school choice expansion, tax cuts, and parental rights in education. Fine also advocated for strong environmental accountability, including efforts to reduce sewage discharges in coastal communities.

In 2024, he was elected to the ''Florida Senate'', representing District 19, which includes parts of [[Brevard County, Florida|Brevard County]].<ref name="Ballotpedia">{{cite web |title=Randy Fine |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Randy_Fine |website=Ballotpedia |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref> He resigned from the Senate in March 2025 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.<ref name="FLPoliticsResign">{{cite web |last=Wilson |first=Kirby |title=Randy Fine officially resigns from Florida Senate |url=https://floridapolitics.com/archives/709749-randy-fine-officially-resigns-from-florida-senate/ |website=Florida Politics |date=March 11, 2025 |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref>

=== U.S. House of Representatives ===
Fine won the April 1, 2025, special election to fill Florida's 6th Congressional District seat, vacated by [[Michael Waltz]].<ref name="ClickOrlando">{{cite web |title=Randy Fine wins special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District |url=https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/04/01/randy-fine-wins-special-election-in-floridas-6th-congressional-district/ |website=Click Orlando |date=April 1, 2025 |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref> He was endorsed by former President [[Donald Trump]].<ref name="FLPoliticsTrump">{{cite web |last=Sarkissian |first=Arek |title=Randy Fine gets Trump endorsement in House run |url=https://floridapolitics.com/archives/706545-randy-fine-gets-trump-endorsement-in-house-run/ |website=Florida Politics |date=February 28, 2025 |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref>

Fine's platform includes securing the southern border, reducing government regulation, defending the Second Amendment, opposing abortion, advancing an “America First” foreign policy, and strengthening U.S.-Israel relations.<ref name="FLPoliticsTrump" />

==Views==

'''Crime & punishment'''
In January 2021, he co-sponsored Bill No. HB 1, to increase criminal penalties for assaulting law enforcement officers. He has been endorsed by the International Union of Police Associations.<ref>Peter Schorsch (January 30, 2023). "[https://floridapolitics.com/archives/584672-international-union-of-police-associations-backs-randy-fine-for-senate/ Police union backs Randy Fine’s state Senate bid]," Florida Politics.</ref>

'''Economy and fiscal'''
In 2023, Fine received a rating of 100% from Americans for Prosperity-Florida, a libertarian conservative political advocacy group.

== Political style and public image ==
Fine has been described as a “firebrand” conservative with a confrontational political style.<ref name="Politico">{{cite web |last=Caputo |first=Marc |title=This is Fine: Florida sends a bare-knuckle brawler to Congress |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/randy-fine-florida-congress-00276568 |website=Politico |date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=September 14, 2025}}</ref> He is known for aggressively promoting conservative causes, particularly on social and cultural issues. Supporters describe him as principled and unapologetic.

== Personal life ==
Fine is Jewish and a strong advocate for pro-Israel policy.<ref name="JewishLibrary" /> He is married with two children and lives in Brevard County, Florida. He moved to the area in 2006 and often references his academic background and business success in public appearances.<ref name="JewishLibrary" />

On September 10, 2025, shortly after [[Charlie Kirk]] was assassinated, the first commenter on his X feed was "you're next!"<ref>Randy Fine, appearing on ''OANN'', 'Fine Point' w/ Chanel Rion, Sep 10, 2025</ref>

== Electoral history ==
* 2016: Elected to Florida House, District 53
* 2018: Re-elected
* 2020: Re-elected
* 2022: Re-elected in District 33
* 2024: Elected to Florida Senate, District 19
* 2025: Elected to U.S. House of Representatives, Florida's 6th District (special election)

== See also ==
* [[Florida Senate]]
* [[Florida House of Representatives]]
* [[United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2025]]
==Extetnal links==
*https://fine.house.gov/
== References ==
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Ramot Junction Shooting Massacre (2025)

2026-11-06T05:35:42Z

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The '''Ramot Junction shooting massacre''' was another deadly terrorist attack carried out by two [[racism|racist]] [[Islamism|Islamo]]-[[Arab]] [[Palestinian]] gunmen on the morning of '''8 September 2025''' in the '''Ramot neighborhood of [[Jerusalem]]'''. Armed with automatic weapons, the assailants opened fire on [[Israeli]] civilians waiting at a bus stop, killing '''seven''' people and injuring several others, including women and children. The attack occurred in a predominantly ultra-Orthodox [[Jewish]] area, and the deliberate targeting of religious civilians was widely condemned as an act of ideologically motivated violence.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414564|title=Terror in Jerusalem: Six dead in shooting attack at Ramot Junction|date=2025-09-08|publisher=Israel National News}}</ref>

=== Attack ===

At approximately 10:20 a.m. (GMT+3), two Palestinian terrorists arrived at Ramot Junction in northern Jerusalem and began shooting indiscriminately at individuals gathered at a bus stop. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers subsequently boarded a public bus and continued their assault, [typically audacious cruelty:] firing at close range at passengers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/ramot-terror-attack-timeline|title=A Timeline of Terror: What Happened in the Minutes After the Ramot Shooting|last=Fleming|first=Eliana|date=2025-09-08|publisher=JFeed}}</ref>

One of the Haredi victims was later identified as a man who had just offered his seat to assist another passenger, underscoring the human cost and tragedy of the attack.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/jerusalem-attack-victim-final-kindness|title=A Final Act of Kindness: Victim of Jerusalem Attack Gave Up His Seat to Save Another|last=Fleming|first=Eliana|date=2025-09-08|publisher=JFeed}}</ref>

Anothet terror attack religious Jewish victim, a dual Ametican-Israeli citizen pioneered healthy bakery in Israel.
<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/food/article/sk8g7kh9le Jerusalem terror attack victim pioneered healthy bakery in Israel]. Ynet, 2025-09-08</ref>

The attackers were neutralized at the scene by a combination of civilian responders and an off-duty [[IDF]] soldier, preventing what authorities said could have become an even deadlier mass casualty event.

=== Victims ===

Six Israeli civilians were murdered in the attack. The targeted victims (included) members of the [[Haredi]] (ultra-Orthodox) community, non-combatants, overwhelmingly conscientious objectors due to religious choice exemptions from military service. Among the dead were elderly individuals, a child, and students en route to religious studies. Multiple others sustained serious injuries and were transported to [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center]] for emergency treatment.

Names of the murdered:
Levi Yitzhak Pash, Yisrael Matzner, 28; Rabbi Yosef David, 43; Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, 79; Yaakov Pinto, 25; Sarah Mendelson, 60.

=== Government Response ===

President [[Isaac Herzog]] visited survivors later that day and condemned the attack, declaring, "We saw absolute evil." He praised both security personnel and first responders for their swift and heroic actions.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414600|title=Pres. Herzog visits wounded terror victims in Jerusalem: 'We saw absolute evil'|date=2025-09-08|publisher=Israel National News}}</ref>

Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] and other senior officials described the attack as an act of "pure hatred" and reiterated the government's commitment to expanding counter-terrorism operations, particularly in the [[West Bank]] and East [[Jerusalem]].

===Genocidal "Palestine" regime incitement and deceit===

Genocidal Hamas is calling for Palestinians across Judea and Samaria to "escalate the confrontation," stating that the intentional murder of civilians is "a natural response."<ref>[https://www.jns.org/several-wounded-in-suspected-terrorist-shooting-in-jerusalem/ Six murdered in Jerusalem shooting by ‘Palestinian resistance fighters’]. JNS. 2025-09-08</ref>
As if deceitful Hamas ever needs an excuse.

=== Context ===

The Ramot shooting is part of a continuing wave of ideologically driven Palestinian terrorism targeting Israeli civilians. The choice of location—a peaceful, predominantly religious neighborhood—suggests an intent to strike at the heart of Jewish civil life rather than engage in any form of strategic resistance. Many observers noted that Haredi communities, which largely abstain from military service and political involvement, are unlikely to be military targets, reinforcing the view that the attack was religiously and ethnically motivated.

This event echoes a long history of anti-Jewish violence in the region, from the [[1920 Nebi Musa riots]] to the [[1929 Hebron massacre]], highlighting the deep-rooted incitement and extremism that continue to threaten Israeli civilians today.<ref>[https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2025/09/islamo-arab-racism-strikes-again.html Islamo-Arab Racism Strikes Again]. JustSayin'. 9.8.25
<blockquote>
The same old lies from the Arab apologists—claiming that Arab “Palestinian” massacres of Jews are some sort of “response” to provocations.

The reality, though, is far darker. Arab violence against Jews didn’t start yesterday. It didn’t even start in 1948. No, this racist hatred goes back to April 1920, with the Nebi Musa riots—where Arabs openly declared, “We will drink the blood of the Jews” and proudly proclaimed, “Muhammad’s religion was born with the sword.”

The genocidal ideology of “adbakh al yahud”—literally “slaughter the Jews”—was not invented by some fringe group, but was spearheaded by none other than Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arab nationalist leader.
He promoted it in the 1920s, long before he knocked on Nazi Germany's door in 1933 and in 1941 traveled to Nazi Germany to beg for an alliance with the very regime that sought to wipe out Jews.

So why, you might ask, target religious Jews—those who live modest lives, refuse to serve in the Israeli army? The answer is simple: Because they’re Jewish.

Let's take a look at the mounting list of terror attacks, targeting not soldiers, not government officials, but innocent, law-abiding Jews going about their daily lives.
There have been numerous terror attacks specifically targeting ultra-Orthodox Jews; the following are just a few examples:

October 15, 2015: Rabbi Y. Krishevsky, a beloved member of his community, was brutally murdered in a ramming attack in Jerusalem.

February 10, 2023: Children at Ramot Junction, simply waiting atva bus stop, were targeted in yet another horrific ramming attack.

April 2021: Before Operation “Guardian of the Walls,” violent Arab-Muslims thugs—incited by the rising tide of anti-Jewish hate—began filming themselves beating Haredim in the streets of Jerusalem. This disgusting trend spread across the globe, with two racist Arab-Muslim "Palestinian" brothers in Belgium harassing non-Zionist religious Jews.

March 29, 2022: In Bnei Brak, a terror attack claimed the lives of innocent Jews. The attacker was later found to have drawings of Al-Aqsa mosque and a swastika in his workplace. Not a coincidence.

May 5, 2022: In Elad, an axe-wielding terrorist struck, murdering and injuring, leaving one victim’s skull mutilated in the shape of a swastika. This was no random act of violence—it was premeditated Jew-hatred, pure and simple.

September 8, 2025: In Ramot, Jerusalem, a terror attack at close range.

Every Arab knows the neighborhoods where the Haredim live. Shooting in close range. These attacks aren’t mistakes—they’re targeted. These are just a few examples of the constant, ongoing persecution that Jews, particularly religious Jews, face at the hands of racist Arab-Muslim terrorists.

Every single one of these attackers knew exactly who they were targeting. This isn’t about politics or land—it’s about hate.
A hate that has been brewing for over a century, built on an ideology that dehumanizes Jews and seeks their annihilation.
And no amount of "peace talks" or "concessions" will ever change that. It’s time the world stops pretending. It was always about hatred.</blockquote></ref>

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Rhode Island

2026-11-06T05:03:35Z

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|name=Rhode Island
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|gparty=Democrat
|senator1=Jack Reed
|s1party=Democrat
|s1phone=(202) 224-4642
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[[File:Rhodeislandstatecap.JPG|thumb|370px|Rhode Island Capitol building.]]
'''Rhode Island''' is the smallest U.S. state in land area (48 miles long by 37 miles wide<ref>http://www.visitrhodeisland.com/regions/index.aspx</ref>) and one of the original thirteen colonies. Its area is 1,214 square miles, less than one-seventh the size of [[New Jersey]].

Its official name is actually "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."<ref>http://www.sec.state.ri.us/library/riinfo/riinfo/knowrhode</ref> So, even though it is the smallest state in the [[United States]], it has the longest name.

'''[[Providence]]''', the capital of Rhode Island, was founded by [[Roger Williams]]. It was the first government in the world to be founded on the principles of religious liberty, and separation of church and state. This was very different from the situation in Boston, which was ruled by the [[Puritan]] [[theocracy]]. [[Quaker]]s, for example, were welcome in Rhode Island but not permitted in [[Boston]]. For a while the Quakers controlled the colony of Rhode Island, and took an active part in King Philip's War.

The state Constitution of Rhode Island, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''. It says:
:''We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of government.''

==Elected officials==
Rhode Island [[Democrat]] Sen. [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] is a [[systemic racism|systemic racist]] who is a member of an [[white supremacy|all-white]] beach club in which his wife is a major shareholder.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/democrat-gets-cornered-over-being-a-member-of-all-white-private-elite-club/</ref><ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/21/sen-sheldon-whitehouses-office-says-beach-club-has-had-members-of-color-doesnt-explain-why-he-said-theyre-still-working-on-it/</ref> Whitehouse called membership in the club "a long tradition in Rhode Island."<ref>DePaolo, Joe (June 21, 2021). [https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-dem-senator-squirms-quickly-flees-when-confronted-about-his-membership-in-a-private-all-white-beach-club/ WATCH: Democratic Senator Squirms, Quickly Flees When Confronted About His Membership in a Private Beach Club (UPDATE)]. ''Mediaite''. Retrieved September 22, 2021.</ref>

===Federal===
*Sen. [[Jack Reed]] (D)
*Sen. [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] (D)
*Rep. [[Gabe Amo]] [D, RI–01]
*Rep. Seth Magaziner [D, RI–02]

===Statewide===
*Governor [[Daniel McKee]] (D)
*Lt. Governor Sabina Matos (D)
*Secretary of State Gregg Amore (D)
*Attorney General Peter Neronha (D)
*State Treasurer James Diossa (D)

==Interesting facts about Rhode Island==
* Rhode Island did not send any delegates to the [[Constitutional Convention]], which drafted the [[U.S. Constitution]]
* Shortly after the [[American Revolution]], Rhode Island imposed high taxes in interstate commerce and required its residents to use paper money
* Rhode Island is the only state that still celebrates Victory Day (victory over Japan).<ref>http://www.sec.state.ri.us/library/riinfo/riinfo/knowrhode</ref>
* Rhode Island was the first of the original thirteen colonies to declare its independence from [[Great Britain]]
* Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 states to ratify the [[Constitution]], and only ratified it after [[George Washington]] was president
* Rhode Island merchants controlled between 60% and 90% of the African slave trade to America after the [[American Revolution]]<ref>http://www.slavenorth.com/rhodeisland.htm</ref>
* The first [[Baptist]] Church in [[America]] was founded in 1671 [[Providence]], Rhode Island.
* The two state capitals in the United States that are the closest to each other are [[Providence]], Rhode Island and [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] (42 miles (68 km); 50 miles (80 km) by highway).
* According to a report by the Communications Workers of America, Rhode Island has the fastest average broadband speed of any state.<ref>http://www.projo.com/business/content/bz_rhode_island_internet_speeds_07-06-07_NF6765T.2677fa3.html</ref>

==Notable Rhode Islanders==
[[File:Thomas A. Jenckes.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Picture of [[Thomas Jenckes]].]]
*[[Thomas A. Jenckes]], Republican U.S. representative from the 1st district who pushed for [[civil service system|civil service reform]]
*[[Nathanael Greene]]
*[[Esek Hopkins]]
*[[Oliver Hazard Perry]]
*[[Samuel Slater]]
*[[Gilbert Stuart]]
*[[Roger Williams]]
*[[Aimé J. Forand]], Democrat U.S. representative who was part of the [[Cox Committee]]

==See also==
*[[State Governors]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{USstates}}
[[Category:States of the United States]]
[[Category:New England]]
[[Category:Colonial America]]
[[Category:Blue States]]

Quds Force

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The Iranian '''Quds Force''' ('''Jerusalem Force''') is the organization tasked with [[Iran]]'s external covert, paramilitary, [[terrorist]] and intelligence functions. Quds Force also carries out some [[diplomacy|diplomatic]] functions.<ref>http://citizenship.typepad.com/isebrandcom/2013/10/perhaps-the-most-important-military-leader-opposing-the-us-who-youve-never-heard-of.html</ref> As the name implies, the Jerusalem Force was organized to capture [[Jerusalem]] from [[Israel]]. Its leader answers directly to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah [[Ali Khamenei]] as of 2021. The [[United States]] has designated the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] (IRGC) and Quds Force as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) based on the IRGC's “continued support to and engagement in terrorist activity around the world.”<ref>{{cite news |title=Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 |url=https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Country-Reports-on-Terrorism-2019-2.pdf |agency=Country Reports}}</ref>

==Organization==
Quds is organized in several sections. There are publicly known [[special forces]]. And there are also covertly organized, undercover-acting, agents in the tens of thousands, all across the [[Arab]] world and [[Israel]]. Their purpose is to organize and prepare an all-out war of the [[axis of resistance]] against Israel, in what is essentially most of the Muslim world around Israel. We can think of them as thousands of active agents, preparing, organizing, and coordinating militias and governments around Israel for the final blow. And thousands of sleeper cells, only waiting for a prepared sign that would make them execute a predefined and pre-communicated sequence of actions.

Actions with one single purpose. Bringing an end to Israel.

==Under Soleimani==
The Jerusalem Force was formerly led by Iranian General [[Qassem Sulemeini]] until the time of his death in January 2020. In early 2008, the [[Iraq]]i President, Jalal Talabani, handed a cell phone with a text message to CENTCOM commander and later [[CIA]] Director [[David Petraeus]].
{{cquote|Dear General Petraeus, you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, [[Lebanon]], Gaza and [[Afghanistan]]. And indeed, the ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who’s going to replace him is a Quds Force member.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander?currentPage=all</ref>}}
Soleimani oversaw the Quds Force operatives who plotted the assassination of the [[Saudi Arabia]]n Ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, in the [[United States]] in 2011. Solemeini was designated in May 2011 pursuant to [[Obama administration]] Executive Order 13572, targeting [[human rights]] abuses in [[Syria]], for his role as the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force, the primary conduit for Iran's support to the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate (GID).<ref>http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1181.aspx</ref>

==See also==
[[Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps]]
==References==
{{reflist}}

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[[Category:Iran]]
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[[Category:Anti-Semitism]]
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Qasem Soleimani

2026-11-06T03:22:00Z

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Major General '''Qasem Soleimani''' also '''Qassem Suleimani''' (11 March 1957 – January 3, 2020) was an Iranian general, terrorist and war criminal. He was the leader of the terrorist, anti-Semite and radical Islamic Shiite militia of [[Quds Force]]. He was assassinated by direct order from President Trump after his plans to attack the American embassy in [[Baghdad]] on January 3, 2020, with another Iraqi terrorist and war criminal, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50979463 Qasem Soleimani: US kills top Iranian general in Baghdad air strike]</ref> Qasem Soleimani was responsible of murdering hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/qassem-soleimani-was-responsible-for-the-deaths-of-hundreds-of-american-soldiers Qasem Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers]</ref> He was also a war criminal and accused of killing thousands of civilians in Iran, Iraq and Syria and displacing millions of peoples.<ref>[https://www.theunitedwest.org/2020/01/07/a-glance-at-qassem-soleimanis-crimes-in-syria/ A Glance at Qasse Soleimani’s Crimes in Syria]</ref><ref>[https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-war-crimes-and-atrocities-of-soleimani/ The War Crimes and Atrocities of Soleimani]</ref> He was also known for his support of terrorist militias like [[Hezbollah]], [[Hamas]], [[Houthi]] and the [[Assad]] regime in Syria.

Suleimani reported directly to the Iranian Supreme Leader and [[Commander-in-Chief]], Ayatollah [[Ali Khamenei]]. Solemeinani was the most powerful Iranian in the Middle East, and many people saw him as the ''de facto'' benefactor of Nouri al-Maliki and Haider al-Abadi in [[Iraq]] along with [[Bashar al-Assad]] in [[Syria]].<ref>https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/560611-abadi-is-an-iranian-victory</ref>

==Early career==

Soleimani joined the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp ([[IRGC]]) in 1979. He participated in suppressing the 1979 Iranian Kurdish rebellion. During the 1980-1988 [[Iran-Iraq War]] he was sent to the front very early to transport water, however by the end of the war he was commander of 41st Sarollah Division. After the war he returned to his home territory in eastern Iran, along the Afghan border, to combat narcotics traffickers.<ref>Sistan va Balouchestan and Soleimani's home Kerman Province.</ref> The areas are impoverished and dominated by minority Sunni, and have always been difficult for the central Teheran government to control. Having earned a reputation for cleaning the place up, he was promoted to head the Iranian Quds Force in 1998.

Soleimani was named on U.S. Treasury Department and [[United Nations]] Security Council watch lists for his involvement in [[terrorism]] and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies.<ref>The AL-QA’IDA - QODS FORCE NEXUS, Michael S. Smith II, Kronos, 29 April 2011, [http://www.kronosadvisory.com/Kronos_AQ_QF_Nexus_REDACTED.pdf p. 9].</ref>

==War with America in Afghanistan and Iraq==

Suleimani was the point man for Iran's [[Iraq]]i policy and operations since 2003 with authority second only to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<ref>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gDsyohS7nh0J:https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/560611-abadi-is-an-iranian-victory+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</ref> Soleimani was granted power to employ the full range of diplomatic, security, intelligence, and economic tools to shape a more pro-Iranian regime in Baghdad.

In early 2008, the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, handed a cell phone with a text message to CENTCOM commander and later [[CIA]] Director [[David Petraeus]].
{{cquote|Dear General Petraeus, you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, [[Lebanon]], Gaza and [[Afghanistan]]. And indeed, the ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who’s going to replace him is a Quds Force member.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander?currentPage=all</ref>}}

Following the Iraqi regime's crackdown on Iranian-supported Sadrist militias in Basra in March 2008, Iran recalibrated its operations in Iraq to encompass more "soft power" (economic, religious, educational) support and investment as part of a broader "hearts and minds" campaign.

==War with Saudi Arabia==
Qasem Soleimani oversaw the Quds Force operatives who plotted the assassination of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, in the United States in 2011.

==Syrian War==
Solemeini was designated in May 2011 pursuant to Obama administration Executive Order 13572, targeting [[human rights]] abuses in [[Syria]], for his role as the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force, the primary conduit for Iran's support to the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate (GID).<ref>http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1181.aspx</ref>

==2014 Gaza conflict==
During the 2014 Gaza conflict Soleimani issued a rare public, almost poetic, statement in support of Hamas, saying
{{Cquote|God damn any oppressor who defended and defends this criminal regime. They defended and do defend them, especially the leader of this global tyranny, America.<ref>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/quds-force-commander-none-can-disarm-gaza-resistance.html</ref>}}

==War with Daesh==
After the fall of Mosul in June 2014, Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Malaki asked Soleimani to take command of what was left of the Iraqi National Army in addition to the proxy militias Soleimani already was commanding in Iraq.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/iraq-maliki-us-strikes-air-isis-sunni</ref>

Suleimani was reported injured in December 2014 in combat with [[Daesh]], although official Iranian news outlets denied this. In March 2015 he was reported to be leading the effort to retake the city of Tikrit from Daesh occupation.<ref>http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/iranian-general-at-the-forefront-of-the-tikrit-offensive.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29</ref>

==Liberal and leftist reactions to Soleimani's death==
Despite all of his horrible crimes against humanity, the [[liberal media]] and [[leftists]] criticized [[President Trump]] for his quick act to save American souls.
* Democrat president candidate [[Joe Biden]] criticized President Trump for this act by claiming it will lead to massive war against Iran. Biden pretended that Soleimani was not an imminent threat to the United States, despite Soleimani's plans to attack the American embassy in Baghdad.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/07/biden-i-would-not-have-killed-quds-force-leader-qasem-soleimani/]</ref> In contradict of his policy to Iran, Biden is war-mongering against Russia and North Korea.
*In an idiotic and racist comment from former NFL player [[Colin Kaepernick]], he claimed this act was a "racist" and "imperialist" act against black and brown people. He refuses to recognize that Qasem Soleimani is responsible for killing hundreds of Americans from all races; he killed thousands Syrians and Iraqis, and he led various anti-Semite Quds militia.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/01/06/kaepernicks-disgraceful-ridiculous-racial-lens-on-soleimani-slay/ Kaepernick’s disgraceful, ridiculous ‘racial’ lens on Soleimani slay</ref>

==Vegas, 2022==
On Mar 12, 2022, Muslim Iranian woman, Nika Nikoubin, 21, who lured a man she met on dating site Plenty of Fish to Vegas hotel, had blindfolded him and stabbed him in the neck in retaliation for drone strike that killed General Qasem Soleimani.<ref>Gina Martinez, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10605959/amp/Woman-allegedly-stabbed-date-retaliation-drone-strike-killed-Iranian-leader.html Iranian woman, 21, 'lures man she met on dating site Plenty of Fish to Vegas hotel, blindfolds him and STABS him in the neck in retaliation for drone strike that killed General Qasem Soleimani in 2020'], Dailymail.Com, 12 Mar 2022.
<blockquote>
Police arrested Nika Nikoubin, 21, after she allegedly lured a man she met on the dating site Plenty of Fish in bed only to attack him with a knife

Police said Nikoubin and her date rented out a room at the Sunset Station Hotel where she blindfolded the victim as they began engaging in sexual activity

A few minutes later the victim said he 'felt a pain on the side of his neck' after Nikoubin allegedly pulled a knife out of her purse and stabbed him in the neck

The stabbing was allegedly done 'in revenge against US troops for the 2020 killing of Qasem Solemani,' according to a police report</blockquote></ref>
==Europe, N. America, 2026==
Soleimani's associate, [[Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi]] - an Iraqi national and senior commander of [[Kata'ib Hezbollah]], on May 15, 2026, the United States Department of Justice announced that Al-Saadi had been arrested and charged with multiple terrorism-related offenses connected to alleged attacks and plots targeting [[Americans]], [[Jews]], Israeli interests, and Western institutions in Europe and North America.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iraqi National Arrested and Charged with Providing Material Support to Iranian-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Directing Attacks Targeting U.S. Citizens and Interests |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iraqi-national-arrested-and-charged-providing-material-support-iranian-backed-terrorist |website=U.S. Department of Justice |publisher=Office of Public Affairs |date=May 15, 2026 |access-date=May 15, 2026}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Hassan Nasrallah]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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Psalms

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[[File:King David.jpg|thumb|250px|lright|The psalmist [[David]] wrote: "The [[fool]] says in his heart, 'There is no [[God]].'" - Psalms 14:1 (ESV)]]
'''Psalms''' (Greek "psalmos", meaning song), ''[https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16222 Tehilim]'' in [[Hebrew]], is one of the most popular books in the entire [[Bible]]. Many people read the Psalms in times of trouble and for spiritual consolation and comfort, for a deep sense of [[joy]], [[peace]], and strength. At 30,000 original words, it comprises nearly 2.5% of the entire Bible,<ref>
It is part of the [[Old Testament]], specifically in the third section of the Jewish [[Ketuvim]].</ref> and is quoted 116 times in the [[New Testament]].<ref>''See'' [[Psalms in New Testament]].</ref>
The Book of Psalms is widely used in [[prayer]]s, [[hymn]]s, and popular sayings. The [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] -- the cornerstone of the [[New Testament]] -- quotes ten Psalms (2, 8, 22, 40, 45, 95, 102, 104, 110, and 118), and attributes at least one of these Psalms (95) to the [[Holy Spirit]]: '''''"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."'''''<ref>{{bibleref|Psalms|95|7-8|ESV}} ([[ESV]]).</ref>

Psalms are soothing and healing to recite, and many people memorize them (See: [[Bible memorization]]). Psalms consist of 150 songs, [[poem]]s, and [[prayer]]s (psalms) written in [[praise]] to [[God]] by unknown authors, as an example of the [[best of the public]].<ref>The authorship of Psalms is considered anonymous, and the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] have indications that Psalms were a work-in-progress. The traditional belief views [[David]] as the author of half (73) of these psalms. Other authors were the sons of [[Korah]], Asaph, and [[Solomon]], among others. At least 48 Psalms are widely recognized as having completely unknown authorship.</ref>

Psalms is the source of the phrase "Peace be within you" {{bibleref|Psalm|122|8}},<ref>[[ESV]].</ref> and Psalms is commonly used as the basis for [[Christian]] hymns. Psalms also contain important [[Bible prophecy|Bible prophecies]].

The most popular Psalms, in this order, are Psalm chapters 23, 91, 1, and 139.<ref>https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2010/02/the-top-25-bible-passages-of-2009/</ref>

The book of Psalms is arranged into five smaller books, similar to the structure of the five books of the [[Pentateuch]] (or Written [[Torah]]):

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| Book One
| Psalms 1-41
|-
| Book Two
| Psalms 42–72
|-
| Book Three
| Psalms 73–89
|-
| Book Four
| Psalms 90–106
|-
| Book Five
| Psalms 107–150
|}

== Psalms, Christianity and prophecy ==

''See also:'' [[Psalms as Prophecy]] and [[Bible prophecy]]

The Psalms have an important role in [[Bible prophecy|biblical prophecy]] and quotations in the [[New Testament]]. When [[Jesus]] is on the cross, he quotes Psalm 22. In Christian circles, Psalm 22 is often regarded as a Psalm that foreshadows the future [[suffering]] of [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]].

See: [[Christianity|Christians]]' indicating [[Psalms as Prophecy]] and [[Bible prophecy]].
 
 
[[Image:David Christ on the Cross.jpg|center|200px|thumb|[[Jesus Christ|Christ]] on the [[Cross]] by [[Jacques Louis David]].]]

==As Music==

''See also:'' [[Singing]]

The [[Hebrew]] “''Book of Praises''” is the oldest song-book still in use. The term “psalm” is from the [[Greek]] for striking or plucking and came to mean a song accompanied by a stringed instrument. It was translated as such in the 3rd century [[Septuagint]]. Psalms have been an important part of Jewish [[liturgy]] throughout the world (they crossed the Atlantic to America in colonial times). The destruction of the temple at [[Jerusalem]] in AD 70 and the subsequent ban on Jewish instrumental music gave impetus to a tradition of unaccompanied vocal and choral [[singing]] in synagogues, especially of psalms, that has lasted with little change to this day.

The psalms have been at the musical center of [[Christian]] liturgy since the Church was created, in all the various orthodox rites, and into certain Protestant services. Their course has followed the traditions of western church music (see [[plainchant]], [[antiphon]], [[polyphony]] and the like.) Nearly every noted composer up to the 19th century, and many since, have set psalms to music representative of their times, either as “serious” music or popular congregational [[hymn]]s.

Psalm 23 is well known across religious lines and is often read at funerals. It begins "''The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want...''" Two notable 20th-century examples of psalm settings that are familiar in the concert hall are the “''Symphony of Psalms'' of [[Igor Stravinsky]] and [[Leonard Bernstein]]’s “''Chichester Psalms''”; the latter commissioned for use in a Christian [[cathedral]] from a [[Jewish]] composer.

==Psalm Headings==
Roughly half of the Psalms are attributed to [[David]] (e.g., “Of David”) in their headings or superscription, but the precise meaning of that is the subject of scholarly discussion.<ref>https://www.logos.com/grow/bsm-superscriptions-in-psalms/</ref> Other Psalms have superscriptions of “For the choirmaster,” and “According to the lilies.”

== Psalms and Isaiah ==
[[File:512px-Antonio Balestra - Prophet Isaiah.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Painting of [[Isaiah (prophet)|Isaiah]] by Antonio Balestra]]
''See also:'' [[Book of Isaiah]] and [[Isaiah (prophet)|Isaiah]]

The [[Book of Isaiah]] mirrors Psalms:
*[[Isaiah, Chapter 40|Isaiah 40:26]] and [[Psalm 100|Psalm 100:3]]
*[[Isaiah, Chapter 49|Isaiah 49:7]] and [[Psalm 22|Psalm 22:6]]
*[[Isaiah, Chapter 53|Isaiah 53]] and [[Psalm 22]]

== Trivia ==
Strictly speaking, as the Book of Psalms is a collection of songs, it doesn't have chapters (which are later divisions for easy reference).
However, counting the individual psalms as chapters, the following are true:
* Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible, with two verses, and also the middle chapter of the Bible.
* Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible with 176 verses. The verses are subdivided into 22 stanzas of eight verses each (one for each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet; some translations will show both the Hebrew letter and the English name for that letter).

== See also ==
*[[Ketuvim]]
*[[Psalm 9]]
*[[Psalm 146]]
*[[The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."]], Psalm 14:1
*[[Some of Psalms]]

== External links ==

*[https://www.bibleref.com/Psalms/ Survey of Psalms], Biblerefs.com
*[https://bibleproject.com/guides/book-of-psalms/The Book of Psalms], Bible Project website
*[https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/psalms/ Psalms], Biblestudytools.com

Videos:

*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjmSS6LZDGpmKZa9PpmLd_qhjASr4u7e Psalms - Video playlist], Video playlist

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Old Testament Books}}
[[Category:Psalms]]
[[Category:Bible]]
[[Category:Old Testament Books| a9]]
[[Category:Sacred Music]]

Psalm 1

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[[Image:King David.jpg|right|thumb|250px|King [[David]] playing the [[harp]] (Domenico Zampieri 1581–1641)
 
 
[[King David]] is traditionally credited with writing many of the [[Psalms]] in the [[Bible]]. ]]
<center><big>'''Book of Psalms</big> Psalm 1<ref>This is the first of 150 chapters of the [[Book of Psalms]], also called the "[[Psalter]]" (pronounced ˈsôl-tər, with a silence "p"). In Heb. ''Tehilim''.</ref>'''</center>

<center>''A contrast between the righteous and the wicked.''</center>

'''1''' Blessed ''is'' the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.<ref>[[Genesis, Chapter 5|Gen 5:24]], [[Job, Chapter 31|Job 31:5]], [[Psalm 81|Psa 81:12]], [[Proverbs, Chapter 4|Pro 4:14]]</ref>

'''2''' But his delight ''is'' in the [[Mosaic Law|law of the Lord]]; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

'''3''' And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.<ref>[[Genesis, Chapter 39|Gen 39:3]], [[Psalm 128|Psa 128:2]]</ref>

'''4''' The ungodly ''are'' not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

'''5''' Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

'''6''' For the Lord knoweth the way of the [[Righteousness|righteous]]:<ref>[[Nahum, Chapter 1|Nah 1:7]], [[John, Chapter 10|Joh 10:14]]</ref> but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

{{Poetical Books}}
{{Old Testament}}
[[Category:Conservapedia Study Bible]]

Pramila Jayapal

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'''Pramila Jayapal''' is a Neo-[[Nazi]] sympathizer, apologist, and warmonger<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/dems-wimp-out-retract-letter-on-ukraine</ref> elected as the [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]] representative from [[Washington]]'s 7th Congressional District in the [[U.S. House]] in 2016. Jayapal is chairthing of the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]], and sponsor of the [[totalitarian]] [[Green New Deal]], [[NATO war in Ukraine]], [[Medicare for All]], and [[Abolish ICE]] bills. During the 2021 intraparty squabbles over the alleged infrastructure bill (known as "BIF"), Jayapal was the chief negotiator for Progressive Democrats.

On Oct. 25, 2022, she withdrew in humiliation a letter she sent on behalf of progressives "calling on President Joe Biden to engage in direct diplomacy with [[Russia]], less than 24 hours after it sparked intense backlash from other [[Democrat]]s."<ref name="J">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/25/house-progressives-russia-diplomacy-00063338</ref> Jayapal reportedly had personally approved the letter the day before she retracted it.<ref name="J"/>

Jayapal has been involved with [[Liberation Road]] and [[Democratic Socialists of America]]-connected groups for many years and was trained in a Liberation Road aligned training school in 2010.<ref>https://keywiki.org/Pramila_Jayapal</ref> She was endorsed by [[Our Revolution]].

Following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Jayapal founded OneAmerica](initially named Hate Free Zone) and served as executive director of the organization for 11 years. OneAmerica describes its purpose as "organizing with and advocating for [[diverse]] communities" and was initially founded to "address the backlash, [[hate crimes]], and [[discrimination]] against [[immigrant]] communities of color, primarily [[Muslim]]s, Arab Americans, East Africans, and South Asians," according to its website.<ref>https://weareoneamerica.org/who-we-are/about-oneamerica/</ref>

==Abolish ICE Plan==
On July 12, 2018, Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (D-Wis.) introduced H.R. 6361, in the House to abolish [[ICE]]. Eight House Democrats signed on as cosponsors, Pramila Jayapal herself and [[D. Adam Smith]] of Washington; [[Adriano Espaillat]], [[José Serrano]], [[Nydia Velázquez]], and [[Yvette Clarke]], all from New York; [[Earl Blumenauer]] of Oregon; and [[James McGovern]] of Massachusetts.<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6361/cosponsors?r=4</ref> Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D-Mass.), [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] (D-N.Y.), [[Bernie Sanders]] (I-Vt.), New York City Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]], and other Democrats all rallied behind the “Abolish ICE” banner.

==Abortion==
In 2021, During a hearing Jayapal and two other communists admitted to having an abortion, which resulted in the death of a human.
<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92DkscSG4Ig&t</ref> In the hearing, Jayapal repeatedly referred to her first child with the plural "they" rather than the more grammatically correct "he" or "it."
==Palestinianism / Israelophobia==

At a "palestianism" dominated "progressive" event (''Daily Kos'' founder, moderated), after a tirade by [[Ilhan Omar]], Jayapal gave the "Palestine" demonstrators a bone of using the R word.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/boycott-divestment-sanctions-bds/bds-movement/23/7/16/302952/ After calling Israel ‘racist state,’ Rep Jayapal says ‘idea of Israel’ not racist], ''JNS'', July 16, 2023.<blockquote>
Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, moderated the discussion...</blockquote>
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/07/rep-pramila-jayapal-did-not-take-back.html?m=1#comment-6233279655 July/2023: Meeting at the squad (satire)]
<blockquote>
- Tlaib/Omar to PramilaJayapal:

- Hello "sister".

- Hello.

- How can I help in our "cause?" 
- 'IsrAIL- bashing always work. (By us it's a goal, not just a tool, anyhow).

- You two do that better.

- Well, we are known as Muslims, whereas you...

- So what's the strategy?

- Tlaib: "apartheid" calling! As you know, by now, our other Arab (anti-Jewish) activist, brother Omar Shakir, had already used the HRW for his campaign he began since 2010 at BDS, so it's by a "human rights org." (Not just Hitler's helper A. Shukeiri's 1961 invention). And please, do repeat it several times.

- Omar: I have got a far better idea. In the US, if you utter the R word, that's a bombshell, just say "racist."

- Tlaib: Shukran! (Thank you in Arabic).

- What is racist?

- You know...

- What?

- I see, you want me to say that the "occupation" is "racist?" But Israel is mufti ethnic?

- You're almost there...

- I see... I should just come out and offend all of them. Israel is racist ? No problem.
- Omar/Tlaib. Clapping.

- Omar/Tlaib: Allah Akbar! Fk da juuz. Shhh.. , out loud say: "zionists".</blockquote>
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/07/rep-pramila-jayapal-did-not-take-back.html?m=1#comment-6234106477].<blockquote>It's very racist to say that Arabs can't be racist: with its decades of targeting Jews to kill and injure, dehuminization hate sermons and celebrating en masses as a Jew is murdered. Not to mention the envisioned "Palestine" ethnic cleansed State.. by its oficial leaders.</blockquote></ref>

From [[Nikki Haley]]<ref>@NikkiHaley ([https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1682797543976050690 Jul 22, 2023]).</ref><blockquote>
Anti-Semitism is just as hateful as racism. We can’t let the progressive left get away with this.</blockquote>

Rep. [[Andy Ogles]] moved to censure Dem Rep Jayapal over ‘Antisemitic’ Remarks:<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/21/andy-ogles-censure-pramila-jayapal/ Rep. Andy Ogles Moves To Censure Dem Rep Over ‘Antisemitic’ Remarks] Daily Caller, July 21, 2023.</ref><blockquote>
The censure resolution also mentions Jayapal’s previous comments condemning Israel. She claimed in 2021 that Hamas fired rockets at Israel due to “the continued annexation that Israel has been undertaking for years.” The same year, Jayapal sought to block an arms deal between the U.S. and Israeli governments.</blockquote>

It triggered an effort to combat bigoted slander, in July 2023, "the US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning antisemitism and stating that Israel" is not so called "apartheid" or the R word.<ref>Elad Benari, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374353 House approves resolution: Israel is not a racist or apartheid state], ''INN'', 19/7/23 .<blockquote>
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning antisemitism and stating that Israel is not a racist state, NBC News reported.

The vote was 412-9, with 195 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting yes. Nine Democrats voted against the non-binding resolution, several of whom have previously denounced Israel as an “apartheid state”. One Democrat voted present.

The resolution was a Republican response to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who over the weekend called Israel a “racist state”, before walking back the comments and stating that she had directed them at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Before Tuesday’s vote, Jayapal declined to provide any lengthy comment about the GOP effort, only calling it “ridiculous” before the elevator doors closed.

Authored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), the resolution does not mention Jayapal by name but it clearly takes aim at her recent remarks, noted NBC News. It states that it’s the sense of Congress that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state,” that “Congress rejects all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia," and that “the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.”

“This is about an affirmation of support,” said Pfluger, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. “This is about a stance: 75 years after Israel became a nation, the United States was within minutes the first country to recognize ...</blockquote></ref>
Days later, as Israel's President Isaac Herzog, spoke,<ref>[https://www.jns.org/u-s-israel/u-s-israel-relations/23/7/19/303932/ Herzog hails Israel’s ‘greatest partner and friend’ in Congress address], ''JNS'', July 19, 2023.
<blockquote>
Israeli President Isaac Herzog had a “wonderful meeting” with U.S. President Joe Biden, whom he called a “huge friend of Israel.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday addressed a joint session of Congress, following a meeting the previous day with his U.S. counterpart at the White House.

“At this moment in my people’s history, gathering on Capitol Hill to celebrate 75 years of Israeli independence with our greatest partner and friend, the United States of America, my soul is overflowing with pride and joy. The people of Israel are grateful to no end for the ancient promise fulfilled and for the friendship we have formed,” said Herzog.

“When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the land which the Almighty promised to Abraham, to which Moses led the Israelites, the land of the Bible, of milk and honey, evolved into an exquisite land of democracy. Against all odds, the Jewish people returned home and built a national home, which became a beautiful Israeli democracy, a mosaic of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze and Circassians, secular, traditional and Orthodox, of all denominations and all possible views and lifestyles. A land which welcomed the ingathering of exiles from one hundred different countries,” continued Herzog.

“A land which became the Startup Nation—a bustling hub of innovation and creativity, social action and intellectual discovery, spiritual awakening and business ventures, scientific ingenuity and lifesaving medical breakthroughs. We built a nation-state which has faced relentless war, terror and delegitimization since its birth. A country fighting to defend itself from enemy and foe, yet whose citizens continue to greet each other with the word ‘peace,’ shalom.”

Herzog then shifted attention to Iran, calling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program “perhaps the greatest challenge Israel and the United States face at this time.

“Let there be no doubt: Iran does not strive to attain nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Iran is building nuclear capabilities, that pose a threat to the stability of the Middle East and beyond. Every country or region controlled or infiltrated by Iran has experienced utter havoc. We have seen this in Yemen, Gaza, in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. In fact, we have seen this in Iran itself where the regime has lost its people and is suppressing them brutally. ….

“Iran is the only nation on the planet publicly calling, plotting and developing means to annihilate another nation, a member of the family of nations, the State of Israel. … Allowing Iran to become a nuclear threshold state—whether by omission or by diplomatic commission—is unacceptable,” the Israeli leader said.

On the issue of peace, Herzog thanked the United States for its longstanding diplomatic efforts in the region.

“The peace which the United States brokered between Israel and its neighbors has revolutionized the Middle East. The historic peace treaties with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have demonstrated the many blessings of opting out of the cycle of war,” he said.

“Three years ago, the Abraham Accords realigned our imaginations and our region. Israel eagerly welcomed the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Morocco into an exclusive, warm peace between our peoples. … Israel’s hand is extended, and our heart is open, to any partner in peace—near or far.

“Israel thanks the United States for working towards establishing peaceful relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a leading nation in the region and in the Muslim world. We pray for this moment to come. This would be a huge sea change in the course of history in the Middle East and the world at large,” continued Herzog.

“My deep yearning is for Israel to one day make peace with our Palestinian neighbors. Over the years, Israel has taken bold steps towards peace and made far-reaching proposals to our Palestinian neighbors. Notwithstanding the deep political differences, and the numerous challenges that surround Israeli-Palestinian relations, and I do not ignore them, but it should be clear that one cannot talk about peace while condoning or legitimizing terror, implicitly or explicitly. True peace cannot be anchored in violence.

“Palestinian terror against Israel or Israelis undermines any possibility for a future of peace between our peoples. Israelis are targeted while waiting for buses, while taking a stroll on the promenade, while spending time with their family.

“At the same time, successful terror attacks are celebrated, terrorists are glorified, and their families are financially rewarded for every Israeli they attack. This is inconceivable. It is a moral disgrace. Terror is not a bump in the road. Terror is hatred and bloodshed. It contradicts humanity’s most basic principles of peace. Israel cannot and will not tolerate terror, and we know that in this we are joined by the United States of America,” added Herzog.

“We pray for the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”

With respect to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform initiative, Herzog expressed “great confidence in Israeli democracy.

“Although we are working through sore [painful] issues, just like you, I know our democracy is strong and resilient. Israel has democracy in its DNA,” he said.

“I will say to you, our friends, in English, what I have said to my people, to my sisters and brothers, in Hebrew back home: As a nation, we must find a way to talk to each other no matter how long it takes. As head of state, I will continue doing everything to reach a broad public consensus, and to preserve, protect and defend the State of Israel’s democracy,” added Herzog.

He proceeded to stress the importance of the Jewish state’s relationship with America.

“We are proud to be the United States’ closest partner and friend. We are grateful to the United States for the necessary means you have provided us to keep our qualitative military edge, and to enable us to defend ourselves, by ourselves,” he said.

“This reflects your ongoing commitment to Israel’s security. We are also tremendously proud that ours is a two-way alliance, in which Israel has been making critical contributions to the national security and interests of the United States in numerous ways. Thank you, dear members of Congress, for your support of Israel throughout history, and at this critical moment in time,” added Herzog.

The Israeli president invited a slew of guests to attend the speech, including Clifton Truman Daniels, grandson of former U.S. president Harry Truman, who recognized Israel 11 minutes after its declaration of independence in 1948.

Herzog is also being accompanied by Leah Goldin, whose son Lt. Hadar Goldin was killed in action during the 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza. His body is still being held by the Palestinian terror group....</blockquote></ref> there was "tremendous love for Israel in Congress."<ref>Uzi Baruch, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374408 Erdan to INN: We saw tremendous love for Israel in Congress'], ''INN'', Jul 19, 2023.
<blockquote>
Israeli Ambassador to the UN says President Herzog showed there is no crisis in US-Israel relations.</blockquote></ref>
===The rape...but===

'''The facts'''
[[File:IMG-20231204-WA0002.jpg|thumb|At the Swords of Iron, that followed the Oct 7 atrocities led by Gaza "Palestinian" regime Hamas, massacres and mass rape while laughing: radical Jayapal was slammed after (on Dec 3, 2023) demanding ‘balanced’ criticism when asked about Hamas rapes in heated interview. 'The rape ... but,' Jayapal twice hedges on Hamas sexual violence]]

At the [[Swords of Iron]], that followed the Oct 7 atrocities led by [[Gaza]] "Palestinian" regime [[Hamas]], massacres and mass rape while laughing.

Witness: "While they were raping and killing, they always laughed. I can't forget how they laughed."<ref>Andrew Tobin, [https://freebeacon.com/national-security/just-as-cruel-as-the-terrorists-many-ordinary-palestinians-joined-in-hamass-atrocities-against-israel/ 'Just as Cruel as the Terrorists': Many Ordinary Palestinians Joined in Hamas's Atrocities Against Israel], ''Free Beacon'', Oct 24, 2023</ref>

"Clips released by Israeli security bodies show terrorists who took part in October 7 onslaught describing orders to dismember victims, murder women and children."<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/kill-behead-rape-interrogated-hamas-members-detail-atrocities-against-civilians/ Kill, behead, rape: Interrogated Hamas members detail atrocities against civilians], ''TOI'', 24 October 2023.<blockquote>
Clips released by Israeli security bodies show terrorists who took part in October 7 onslaught describing orders to dismember victims, murder women and children.</blockquote></ref>

An inquiry<ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231202-activists-decry-silence-over-evidence-of-sexual-violence-in-hamas-attacks Activists decry silence over evidence of sexual violence in Hamas attacks]. ''AFP'', via France24, 02/12/2023 <blockquote>
Activists decry silence over evidence of sexual violence in Hamas attacks
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli women and legal activists have accused international rights groups of maintaining a conspiracy of silence over alleged rapes and other sexual crimes committed by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks.</blockquote></ref> has, so far, gathered "more than 1,500 shocking and difficult testimonies."

including:
"an apocalypse of corpses, girls stripped bare above the waist and below", and a grisly witness account of the gang rape, mutilation and murder of a young woman...

- wounds to the "genitals, abdomen, legs and buttocks" with some having their "breasts cut off" or sustaining "gunshot wounds".

- First responders described encountering bodies "with their hands cuffed behind their backs, a woman's corpse bleeding from the genital area".

- "...people were found naked, restrained with their hands behind their backs and tied to chairs."

From testimonies heard on Dec 4, 2023:

- "Everything was an apocalypse of corpses, girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some where beheaded."

- "A systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims."

- ...Body of one young woman arrived "with no legs, they had been cut off."
... "saw several severed heads. One with a large kitchen knife still embedded in the neck."

- "Nails and different objects in her female organs."

- A body they found that was so brutalized they "couldn’t even identify if it was a man or women."<ref>Catherine Thorbecke, [https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/sheryl-sandberg-on-hamas-attack-rape-should-never-be-used-as-an-act-of-war/article_c775ba65-49f6-5e33-b1e6-7768879f6ec1.html Sheryl Sandberg on Hamas attack: Rape should never be used as act of war].
By CNN Dec 4, 2023.<blockquote>
[...]
‘Systemic’ sexual violence
In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attacks, Israeli police are interrogating suspects and compiling evidence, including video, forensics and witness testimony, to investigate accusations of rape during the attacks. Witnesses to the aftermath of the attacks say women and girls were sexually assaulted, tortured and killed.

Hamas on Monday doubled down on its denial...

Organizers of Monday’s meeting refuted that by showing mounting evidence that rape occurred during the attacks on Oct. 7, including graphic video footage of bodies, videos of Hamas fighters admitting under interrogation that rape occurred and testimony from Israeli police officers and witnesses to the attack and its aftermath. Speakers who prepared bodies for burial described evidence that militants gang raped some victims, purposely shot or mutilated victims in genital regions and murdered victims with cruelty such as multiple gunshots wounds.

“A survivor from the Nova rave party testified, ‘Everything was an apocalypse of corpses, girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some where beheaded,” said Yael Reichert, a chief superintendent with the Israeli national police who is helping lead the investigation into sexual offenses committed on Oct. 7.

Moreover, there seemed to be “a systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims,” said Shari G. Mendes, who worked in an Israeli military reserve unit to prepare deceased female soldiers for burial after the attacks. She said she witnessed the body of one young woman arrived “with no legs, they had been cut off.”

Mendes said she “saw several severed heads. One with a large kitchen knife still embedded in the neck.”

Simchat Greyman, a volunteer for ZAKA Search and Rescue, which recovered bodies from Southern Israel near Gaza after October 7th, testified to seeing a murdered woman with “nails and different objects in her female organs.” He also recalled a body they found that was so brutalized they “couldn’t even identify if it was a man or women.”

World leaders speaking up

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also shared a video message at the event, calling on the global community to respond to "weaponized sexual violence where ever it happens with absolute condemnation."</blockquote></ref>

'''Jayapal'''

[[File:IMG-20231203-WA0007.jpg|thumb|Elaborated Dec.2.23 report in The Times (UK) on the mass rape of Oct 7: 'First Hamas fighters raped her. Then they shot her. The terrorists were ‘on a mission’ to carry out sexual attacks on October 7. Campaigners have asked why the UN stayed silent. “I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, 'Stop it — already I'm going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!' When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head..."' [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ten-hamas-fighters-were-raping-the-woman-she-begged-for-death-6ldlmh8sp First Hamas fighters raped her. Then they shot her in the head (Sunday Times, Dec 3, 2023)]]]

Radical Jayapal was slammed<ref>Allie Griffin, [https://nypost.com/2023/12/03/news/rep-pramila-jayapal-slammed-for-asking-for-balanced-criticism-in-response-to-question-on-hamas-rapes/ Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed after demanding ‘balanced’ criticism when asked about Hamas rapes in heated interview], 'NY Post'', Dec. 3, 2023</ref><ref>Elizabeth Elkind, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-progressive-jayapal-slammed-fellow-house-dems-downplaying-hamas-rape-accusations Top progressive Jayapal slammed by fellow House Dems for downplaying Hamas rape accusations], ''Fox News'', December 4, 2023.<blockquote>
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ritchie Torres blasted Rep. Pramila Jayapal for 'both sides' response.</blockquote></ref> after (on Dec 3, 2023) demanding ‘balanced’ criticism when asked about Hamas rapes in heated interview. 'The rape … but,' Jayapal twice hedges on Hamas sexual violence.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/the-rape-but-jayapal-twice-hedges-on-hamas-sexual-violence-on-cnn/ 'The rape … but,' Jayapal twice hedges on Hamas sexual violence on ‘CNN’], ''JNS'', December 3, 2023<blockquote>
[[Dana Bash]], of CNN's State of the Union, repeatedly pressed the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on anti-Israel bias on the left.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) twice hedged her condemnations of Hamas terrorists raping Israeli women during an interview on Sunday with Dana Bash of the CNN program State of the Union.</blockquote></ref>
Or as it was put in twisted Jayapal : "metoo for all women except if you’re a Jew who was raped by islamic terrorists.”<ref>Chaya Raichik:
<blockquote>
“#metoo for all women except if you’re a Jew who was raped by islamic terrorists.” @RepJayapal.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAcnKkLWwAA0SXX?format=jpg&name=small][https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAcnKk5XMAAvE-w?format=jpg&name=small] [pic.twitter.com/vtwDcjSVOL]</blockquote> — Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) [https://twitter.com/ChayaRaichik10/status/1731397787684688145 December 3, 2023].</ref>

==References==
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*[https://jayapal.house.gov/ Home - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal]

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

2026-11-05T23:08:26Z

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The '''Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine''' (PFLP) is a [[Communism|Marxist–Leninist]] terrorist organization and one of the main groups of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]]. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the [[United States]] and the [[European Union]].<ref name="kaufman">Kaufman, Joe (February 23, 2010). [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/51649/peace-partners-who-never-were-joe-kaufman THE “PEACE PARTNERS” WHO NEVER WERE]. ''FrontpageMag''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref> On its website the organization openly celebrates [[Hezbollah]] and calls for [[Gaza Strip]] to be turned into an Israeli "graveyard." It also declares that it won't respect any PLO agreements with Israel.<ref>[http://www.americansagainsthate.org/PFLP_website.html Americans Against Hate]</ref>

Notorious hijacker and admitted terrorist<ref>[https://sanfrancisco.adl.org/news/adls-statement-on-leila-khaled-at-sfsu/ Leila Khaled at SFSU], ADL. September 3, 2020.</ref> who has been still promoting violence 2014-16<ref>[https://www.adl.org/blog/leila-khaled-in-her-own-words Leila Khaled: In Her Own Words], ADL, October 2, 2020.</ref> Laila Khaled: "At first, I admired Hitler because I thought he was the enemy of the Jews. Later I found out he classified Arabs as sub-humans, only slightly above the gypsies and the Jews."<ref>Autobiography of Leila Khaled, edied by George Hajjar, 1973.</ref>

Arab MK, Aida Touma-Suleiman, who in 2021, was accused of racism and lying, spreading libels,<ref>[https://www.inn.co.il/news/430227 Naftali Bennett to MK Toma Suleiman: "You are a liar, antisemitic and...]", Channel 7, Mar 13, 2020. 
The defense minister attacked MK Thomas Suleiman, who claimed that the IDF was spraying Palestinians with unidentified material. "It is unbelievable that Boogie and Gantz are ready to form a government with you."

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett today (Friday) sharply attacked MK Aida Toma Suleiman from the joint list, who defamed the IDF and claimed that he was spraying "unidentified material" on Palestinians in the Qalandiya crossing.

''You're a liar, antisemitic and... These are not IDF forces. It is the Palestinian Authority that has decided to disinfect the checkpoint and is carrying it out. "It is unbelievable that Boogie, Yvette, Ganz, Gabi and Lapid are ready to form a government with your finger," Bennett said.''</ref> her embrace of paroled [[PFLP]] terrorist, in Sep/2021, sparked outrage<ref>Yori Yalon, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/09/27/arab-mks-embrace-of-paroled-pflp-terrorist-sparks-outrage/ Arab MK's embrace of paroled PFLP terrorist sparks outrage]," ILH, Sep 27, 2021.
 
Joint Arab List lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman shares a photograph in which she embraces Khalida Jarrar, a senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member, who was sentenced to two years in prison for involvement in a 2018 terror attack.</ref><ref>Adv. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner (@AttorneyNitsana) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/AttorneyNitsana/status/1442108256529358848?s=20 Sep 26, 2021]): 
MK Aida Touma Suleiman from the joint list writes in admiration of the release of Khaleda Jarrar, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was arrested in October 2019 as part of a wave of arrests of the organization's operatives following the assassination of Rene Shenrav.
https://t.co/dM295gFh1n</ref>
== History ==
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was established in 1967 by George Habash. It was originally backed by [[Egypt]]ian dictator [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. The PFLP perpetrated hijackings of airplanes and other terrorist attacks on civilians from its beginnings.<ref name="jvl">[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-pflp Palestinian Terror Groups: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)]. ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref> Throughout its history some factions splitted from the organization such as the PFLP-General Command. Habash retired from his post and was succeeded by Abū ʿAlī Muṣṭafā, who was killed by Israeli forces in 2001.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Popular-Front-for-the-Liberation-of-Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]. ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref>

In February 2010 a joint meeting with members of [[Hamas]] and [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] was held in the offices of the PFLP in order to fight [[Israel]] as a ''unified force''.<ref name="kaufman"/>

Its founder, George Habash, already as student, was ''founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel.''<ref name=latines-jan2008/>

In a July 1970 interview with LIFE magazine,
<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 LIFE Jun 12, 1970, p.32]</ref> meeting ''at night in the suburbs of Amman, in a building attached to a refugee camp,''
Habash "explained"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33 LIFE Jun 12, 1970, p.33]</ref> his targeting:
<blockquote>
Let me explain: the attacks of the Popular Front are based on quality, not quantity. We believe that to kill a Jew far from the battleground has more of an effect than killing 100 of them in battle; it attracts more attention. And when we set fire to a store in London, those few flames are worth the burning down of two kibbutzim...</blockquote>

Aftet it was published. There was an attempt to deny Habash's words by the propaganda wing from PFLP the time.
But journalist Oriana F. replied:
... ''interview with Dr. Habash was recorded on such a machine. The tape is at his disposal to refresh his memory if he has forgotten, or wants to forget. I would like to believe that Dr. Habash is not informed about this letter of his associates or he would have prevented them from writing so many useless idiocies...''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA19&dq=%22interview+with+Dr.+Habash+took+place+with+such+a+machine.+The+tape+is+at+his+disposal%22&hl=en LIFE - Jul 17, 1970, p.19][https://books.google.com/books?id=ys0aAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22evidently+ignores+the+existence+of+a+machine+known+as+a+tape+recorder%22& Life - Volume 69, Issues 1-5, p.98].<blockquote>
Oriana Fallaci replies:

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information (I say 'so-called' because it never showed up during my stay with the fedayeen) evidently ignores the existence of a machine known as a tape recorder. My interview with Dr. Habash was recorded on such a machine. The tape is at his disposal to refresh his memory if he has forgotten, or wants to forget. I would like to believe that Dr. Habash is not informed about this letter of his associates or he would have prevented them from writing so many useless idiocies and senseless insults. Dr. Habash knows .very well that what I wrote was said by him into a microphone.

The word "terrorism" might not have been used often by me. This was out of politeness which I now regret. But J did use the word, and I even commented that when we Europeans were fighting for our freedom we did not kill children or civilians. Dr. Habash did not react in anger; he explained his theory.

"I obviously edit my interviews. But I did not need to edit much in this one because it was good as it was. It opens as it opened. It ends as it ended and it reports faithfully, all that Habash said in a 90 minute interview in English.

The words on the tape are clear, the sound excellent. Mistakes are impossible, except for the pronunciation of the year 1957, which I might have understood as 1967, due to his slight lips. The only thing that the tape did not record is Dr. Habash's tears and his mouth's trembling , a human reaction that helped me to like him a lot. In this I might have been wrong.

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information also insinuates that I am a fascist. To such vulgarity I will only answer that when Dr. Habash was doing nothing against fascism, and his people were getting along very well with the Nazis, I was a little girl with pigtails fighting fascism in the resistance in Italy. I recall that there were no Palestinian journalists to interview us or to sympathize with us at the risk of their lives."</blockquote></ref>
In the aftermath of 1970 published admission of (racist) targeting Jews internationally, in 1975, an Arab author M. Hussain has still quoted Habash as the original quote .
Yet, by 1991, another one, J.R. Nassar has conveniently replaced the word 'Jew' with 'Zionist'. Nevertheless, an 'expert' on Arab-Palestinians, Abu-Lughod clearly acknowledged that Habash had been accurately transcribed by Fallaci.<ref>[https://thebulwark.com/the-protocols-of-the-euphemisms-of-zion/ 'The Protocols of the Euphemisms of Zion. What anti-Semites really mean when they complain about “Zionists.” ' Sreven Lubet, July 15, 2019] ...''The discrepancy between the actual quote and Nassar’s version was jarring, especially given some other passages in the interview. Remarking on the PLFP skyjacking of a flight from Rome, for example, Habash said, "The Arabs have a right to use Italy as a base against the Jews.... which Abu-Lughod clearly acknowledged had been accurately transcribed by Fallaci."''</ref> After Habash's death in Jan. 2008, a pro-[[Hezbollah]] propagandist professor tried to rewrite his history<ref>[http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259802 As'ad Abukhalil attempt to deny Habash's TRUE 1970 quote] Aug 2, 2020.</ref>

On G. Habash's, PFLP's hard-wired anti-Semitism, B. Cohen writes:
 
''...the rescue operation mounted by Israel to free around 100 hostages from an Air France plane that had been hijacked seven days earlier by Palestinian terrorists and diverted to Uganda, then under the boot of the brutal dictator Idi Amin. After a week of sheer hell, during which the German leftist hijackers separated the Jewish from the non-Jewish passenger...''
''If the Entebbe episode failed to convince outside observers of the PFLP's hard-wired anti-Semitism, then its bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris in October 1980 should have set aside any lingering doubts.''<ref>[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/opinion/fl-jjps-cohen-1126-20141124-story.html Overlooked Palestinian terror group returns with a vengeance, Ben Cohen, JNS.org] Sun Sentinel, Nov. 24, 2014</ref>

===Lion Cubs - Palestinian-Arabs===
PFLP's G. Habash was in founding and boasting about as an "achievement" is the Ashbal, '[[Palestinian Lion Cubs]]',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7jsoAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Ashbal%22 The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol.1, p. 1347. 1970]
''June 13, 1970.
George Habash His hard-bitten, ill-paid commandos call him “Hakim” —a term of honor that means both “doctor,” ...
One of the achievements Dr. Habash is proudest of is the beginning of the “ashbal,” or groups of young commandos, which he says will carry on the main fight in the future''.</ref> "Baby tigers",<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19690428&id=fkcpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EWgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=862,6891427 Arab Commando Attacks, by Henry J Taylor, Lewiston Evening Journal, Apr 28, 1969,3] ...''The Palestine Arabs can be mobilized only around the issue of fighting. Baby Tigers. The State Department finds that such leaders as Arafat, Shukairy and Habeche talk of "fighting for 20 or so years." They even have training camps for 12-year-old youths, a expanding cadre called Baby Tigers''</ref> child soldiers. Leading with [[Yasir Arafat]] and [[Ahmad Shukeiri]]. The young boys of Ashbal were taught to use ammunition and:
''During training the boys chant, ' Oh Zionists!, do you think you are safe ? Drinking blood is a habit of our men.' They undergo a Mau Mau - like hardening course in which each boy is required to tear apart a live chicken to develop a lust for killing.''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VrsLAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Chicken Fedayeen; the Arab-Israeli Dilemma, John Laffin, Free Press, 1973, pp.96-97].<blockquote>Propaganda And Indictrination

.. leader told me in Lebanon 'This is a morale - building and educational movement to prepare the well - rounded citizen of Palestine - equipped and trained to defend his nation but also to be a good, productive citizen.' During training the boys chant l, ' Oh Zionists!, do you think you are safe ? Drinking blood is a habit of our men.' They undergo a Mau Mau - like hardening course in which each boy is required to tear apart a live chicken to develop a lust for killing.

After their daily lessons in refugee camp schools the Ashbal run to parade and for several minutes their instructors drill them. The movements are simple but like everything else about Ashbal, highly political.

When ordered to stand at ease , they shout 'Asifa!' (Storm). When they stamp to attention they bellow' Fatah! The instructors are either former school - teachers or wounded guerrillas, men who are almost deified. Part of the training ritual is the frequent morale - building talk by a fedayeen supposedly just back from a mission. The boys are taught to dismantle, clean and reassemble rifles, pistols and machine guns and are allowed to fire live ammunition ...</blockquote></ref>

== Terrorist attacks ==
*His first known attack, is hijacking of El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968.<ref name=latines-jan2008>Kim Murphy, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-27-me-habash27-story.html Arab nationalist planned hijackings], ''Los Angeles Times,'' Jan. 27, 2008. ''He studied medicine at the American University of Beirut, founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel.
After Israeli forces crushed an Arab assault and moved into the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, Habash formed the PFLP to continue operations against Israelis. It became the second-largest faction within the PLO, after Arafat’s Fatah organization.
In one of its first operations, an Israeli El Al airliner was hijacked to Algiers in July 1968, forcing the Israelis to free 16 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the plane and its passengers.''</ref>

*On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.<ref>[https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/pflp-dflp-pflp-gc-palestinian-leftists PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestinian leftists. Last updated October 31, 2005] What terrorist activities has the PFLP undertaken? In its early years, the PFLP conducted hundreds of terrorist attacks. It is best known for pioneering the technique of international airplane hijackings in the late 1960s and 1970s—with consequences that rattled the Middle East:

*On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.

*In September 1970, the PFLP hijacked three passenger planes and took them to airfields in Jordan, where the PLO was then based; after the planes were emptied, the hijackers blew them up. In response, King Hussein of Jordan decided that Palestinian radicals had gone too far and drove the PLO out of his kingdom.

*In 1972, PFLP and Japanese Red Army gunmen murdered two dozen passengers at Israel’s international airport in Lod.

*In 1976, breaking a PLO agreement to end terrorism outside Israeli-held territory, PFLP members joined with West German radical leftists from the Baader-Meinhof Gang to hijack an Air France flight bound for Tel Aviv and landed the plane in Entebbe, Uganda. In a now-famous raid, Israeli commandos stormed the plane on the Entebbe tarmac and freed the hostages.

*During the Platestinian intifada, PFLP gunmen shot dead Ze’evi, Israel’s rightist tourism minister, in a Jerusalem hotel—the first assassination of an Israeli minister. The group has also claimed responsibility for several recent car bombings and shootings in Israel and the West Bank.

* In April 2002, Israeli officials foiled a PFLP attempt to blow up a Tel Aviv skyscraper with a car bomb—which could have caused massive casualties and would have marked a dramatic escalation in Palestinian terrorism.

*The group was responsible for a suicide bombing Christmas Day 2003, in which four people were killed and more than twenty were wounded.

*The PFLP and its current leader, Ahmed Jibril, were mentioned in the 2005 United Nations report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, for allegedly assisting senior Lebanese security officials who were implicated in the 2004 car bombing that killed Hariri.</ref>

*In 1969, it planted a bomb in a Jerusalem supermarket that killed 2 youths and wounded 20 other people. Also that year, Habash took responsibility for blowing up Tapline, a pipeline owned by the Arab-American Oil Co. that carried oil from Saudi Arabia.<ref>Edmund L. Andrews and John Kifner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/world/africa/27iht-obits.1.9523942.html George Habash, 82, founder of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine], ''The New York Times'', Jan. 27, 2008</ref>

*Hijacking of various airlines: September 6, 1970 by PFLP and other joined groups<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000901960026-3.pdf& Terrorist Hijacking. CIA.gov]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/hijacked-1970-hijackings/ 1970 Hijackings, Simultaneous Hijackings, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/people-involved-and-affected/ The People Involved and Affected, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.ict.org.il/Article/948/between-two-septembers#gsc.tab=0 Between Two Septembers: From the bargaining chip of Sept. 1970 to a strategic agent of Sept. 2001. 11/06/2006 | by Avihai, Hillel (Dr.) - ICT]</ref>
Some 2 weeks later, Reuters, NYTimes reported:
''Habash was reported to have been in North Korea on an unexplained mission before his men succeeded in hijacking four Western air liners two weeks ago. The Popular Front is still holding 54 or 55 airliner hostages somewhere in Jordan''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/jordanians-put-a-price-on-the-head-of-habash.html Jordanians Put a Price On the Head of Habash], ''The New York Times,'' Sept. 23, 1970</ref>

*In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref><ref>Jonathan Spyer, "[https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-hijackers-of-entebbe-the-full-story-636042 The hijackers of Entebbe - The full story]," The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2020
<blockquote>
The hijacking, famously included a separation of Israeli and Jewish hostages from non-Israeli and non-Jewish passengers.

In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages.

But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.</blockquote></ref><ref>Daniel S. Mariaschin, [https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-enduring-message-of-the-rescue-at-entebbe/ The enduring message of the rescue at Entebbe], JC, July 7, 2021.<blockquote>At Entebbe, 148 non-Jewish hostages were separated from the 94 Jewish passengers, most of them Israeli nationals, and the Air France crew. The non-Jewish hostages were released within two days; the terrorists made clear the Jewish passengers would be killed if their demands were not met. The Ugandan government, led by its infamous leader Idi Amin, announced its support for the hijackers, punctuated with an appearance by Amin himself in the airport terminal hall in which the hostages were being held.</blockquote></ref>

*1979 Nahariya attack. 

An assault on innocents Jews by the PLFP including the Lebanese monster Samir Kuntar (also spelt Kantar, Quntar, Qantar).

The squad carried out a home invasion of the apartment of the Haran family. They took the father, Danny Haran, hostage with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat Haran. The mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her 2-year-old daughter. As the terrorists searched for them, she struggled to keep the toddler quiet and accidentally suffocated her.

Meanwhile, the monster Samir Kuntar shot Einat's father dead in front of her, and he then smashed the 4 year old's head on a rock until she was dead.<ref>[https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/Article-518434 Reminder: The horrific attack carried out by Samir Kuntar in Nahariya 36 years ago], Maariv Online, Dec 20, 2015.<blockquote>

Reminder: The horrific attack carried out by Samir Kuntar in Nahariya 36 years ago

[Einat and Yael Haran, who were killed in the Nahariya attack in 1979 (Photo: courtesy of the website for the victims of the hostilities)]

Four terrorists arrived by sea. Officer Eliyahu Shachar was killed at the beginning of the incident. They then entered the Haran family home. Father Danny and daughter Einat were taken and murdered at the beach. Daughter Yael suffocated to death while hiding with her mother Smadar in the attic.

Terrorist Samir Kuntar was killed last night in Syria. He was imprisoned for 29 years following the murder of members of the Haran family in Nahariya in 1979, until he was released in 2008 in a body return deal for Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

On April 22, 1979, a squad of four terrorists belonging to the Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] led by Abu Abbas, south of Lebanon, arrived in Israel to carry out an attack. The four arrived by sea in a rubber dinghy.

After going down to the beach, the squad members tried to attack a private house, but were shot dead by the owner of the house, Amnon Sela. A police vehicle sensed the scene. In a shootout that took place, policeman Eliyahu Shachar was killed. The squad then entered an apartment building at 61 Jabotinsky Street, and broke into the apartment of the Harn (Hirschhorn) family before additional police reinforcements arrived. They took 31-year-old Danny Haran and his four-year-old daughter, Einat, hostage. The mother, Smadar, managed to hide in the attic above the bedroom, along with her two-year-old daughter and neighbor.

The father and daughter were taken to the beach, where a shootout ensued between the terrorist cell and IDF policemen and soldiers.

Two-year-old Yael was killed after she suffocated while her mother tried to silence her to prevent the terrorists from discovering them.

Two of Kuntar's squad members were killed in an exchange of gunfire on the beach. Kuntar and the fourth squad member, Ahmed Evers, were captured. Kuntar was sentenced to five life sentences and 47 years in prison. He was released in a prisoner exchange deal on July 16, 2008, as part of a deal to return the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who had been abducted two years earlier. Ahmed Evers was released by Israel in the Jibril deal in 1986.

At the funerals of the victims of the attack, then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin noted the cruelty in the murder of innocent children in a quote from Haim Nachman Bialik's "On the Slaughter": "Revenge of the blood of a little boy, Satan has not yet created."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://markhumphrys.com/israel.conflict.crimes.html?r=1&l=ri&fst=0The Israeli-Palestinian conflict], Mark Humphrys.<blockquote>The child killer Samir Kuntar

1979 Nahariya attack.

An assault on Jewish innocents by the anti-semitic "Palestine Liberation Front", including the Lebanese monster Samir Kuntar (also spelt Kantar, Quntar, Qantar).

The terrorists carried out a home invasion of the apartment of the Haran family. They took the father, Danny Haran, hostage with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat Haran. The mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her 2-year-old daughter. As the terrorists searched for them, she struggled to keep the toddler quiet and accidentally suffocated her. (Similar stories have come out of the Holocaust, where Jews tried to hide with crying babies from searching Nazis.)

Meanwhile, the monster Samir Kuntar shot Einat's father dead in front of her, and he then smashed the 4 year old's head on a rock until she was dead.</blockquote></ref>

*On February 16, 2002, it perpetrated a suicide bombing attack in a village in the [[West Bank]] which killed three Israeli civilians and wounded 25 more. On December 25, 2003, three Israeli civilians were murdered because of a suicide attack at a bus station in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name="jvl"/>
===1960's: With Nazis===

Nazi link with “Palestinian” terrorists including the PLO in the 1960s. 
François Genoud [Genaud] was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era; ally of Ibrahim Hafid - commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler. Motivated by Jew-hatred he became a passionate supporter of Arab "liberation" causes.<ref name=maariv19dec1969>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/mar/1969/12/19/01/article/190/ Maariv - מעריב, 19 December 1969].
<blockquote>
'The Spider: Francois.' By Hezi Kamel. 
[Dr. Abdul Yousufi (next to the microphone), chairman of the Arab Lawyers' Association, submits a statement regarding the attackers of an El Al plane in Zurich.
Yousufi, who is an ally of François Genoud, served during World War II as the deputy commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler.]
What is the connection between a neo-Nazi national organization called ''the Spider'' and the intelligence services of Arab countries and the legendary treasures of the Nazis smuggled into Germany before the end of World War II and the lost treasure of the FLN. Algeria?
And what is the connection between the members of the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" who are on trial at Winterthur and the former SS General Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina after World War II?

The connection exists.
His name: Francois Genoud.
Age: 51.
Citizenship: Swiss.
Profession: Banker.

The short man, always wearing gray suits and his thin hair pulled back carefully - looked like a gray clerk that no one would look at twice. But Francois Genoud, the neo-Nazi Swiss banker who was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era, is one of the greatest international adventurers of our time.
When I first met him about three weeks ago in the courtroom in Winterthur, I thought he was the legal correspondent for one of the Swiss newspapers. He sat and listened intently to hearings in the courtroom and made occasional remarks. Only then, when I saw him in the company of Algerian lawyer Yusufi, who serves as deputy chairman of the Arab Bar Association, did I decide to ask about him.
"The little man in the gray suit over there in the corner? Yes, of course I know him," a Swiss journalist answered my question. "This is a well-known Nazi, director of the Arab Commercial Bank in Geneva."

Ties with the Mufti

"It is not clear to me, the Swiss journalist added, what such a guy does here on Winterthur."
It was not clear to me either at that moment. However, a few days later, following a number of investigations I conducted in Switzerland, the whole affair became clear.
François Genoud - the little man in the gray suit - is one of the main thread pullers in all the major financial transactions of Arab countries and today one of the main funding channels of sabotage organizations in Europe.
His presence in the courtroom in Winterthur was not at all the presence of an observer - he came to the place as a capitalist to the place of investment. A considerable part of the expenses of the Arab side in the Winterthur trial and almost all the expenses of the various "leagues" for the Palestinians in Switzerland - are covered by Francois.

’’’Francois Genoud's love for Arabs is a love that depends on the thing. The "thing" in this case - his hatred of Jews.’’’

By 1936, at the age of 21, the young François had already joined the youth organization of the Swiss Nazi Party, the National Union Party, as a founding member.
I met in Switzerland some people who remembered him walking around in the "brown shirt" (of the Nazis) that had the swastika tag on a black ribbon tied around the sleeves of his shirt.
In 1940, François Genoud made his first contact with the Arabs. Together with a young Lebanese named Dauk (son of an influential Lebanese dignitary in Beirut) he opens a nightclub in Lausanne. This nightclub probably serves as a meeting place for the German spy service whose slave works Genoud.
His enlistment in the German intelligence service was made by the head of the town council of Tingen - a Swiss named Guttman - who served as a liaison between German intelligence and his Swiss agents. During his many travels to Germany - during World War II - he met with Hitler and Bormann and then also had first contacts with some figures of the Arab world.
He contacted the Mufti of Jerusalem, the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini, and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans. One of Hafid's aides at the time - a young Algerian named Yousufi - later became a well-known lawyer and one of Genoud's regular contacts.

The right to Hitler's writings

After World War II, Genoud was very active in providing aid to the Nazis who had fled Germany and tightening his ties with the SS General. Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina and established a Nazi organization there and helps absorb escaped SS men.
It was then rumored that Genoud had helped smuggle to Tangier - the center of international intrigue at the time - the vast art treasures looted by the Nazis from all over Europe..
His most important activity, however, was probably the organization of the smuggling of Nazi treasure into Switzerland and its deposit there in numbered accounts, which no government or foreign entity could afford to get their hands on.
For several years after World War II Genoud wandered from place to place with his actions carried out under the guise of almost complete anonymity.
In 1952, Genaud's name first appeared in the headlines when he went to war against a German publisher in Düsseldorf, who published a collection of Hitler articles entitled "Visible Things about War and Peace."
Genaud then appealed to the courts of Düsseldorf and Paris, claiming that he had all the rights to distribute the books of Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann! Indeed, Genoud won both sentences. It turns out that he has many documents in his hands and written material that was in the possession of Martin Borman, which raises the possibility that Genoud has been in contact with Bormann to this day (to accept the explanation, that Bormann is still alive).
In the ten years following World War II, he concentrated on providing assistance to smuggling Nazis fleeing to Latin America and the Middle East. In an article published in a Basel newspaper in 1964, entitled: "Search for Disappeared Nazis," the author of the article tells of a Nazi organization called "The Spider" which is the successor to another well-known Nazi organization: the "SS Odessa Expatriate Organization." The "spider" weaves its webs all over Europe when its operational center is in Switzerland, where the many millions plundered by the Nazis were also deposited.
According to the Basel newspaper, the man in charge of guarding this huge property was a Swiss resident of Lausanne. "His house is similar to the Hitler Museum," the author of the article wrote, "with swastikas everywhere and huge pictures of Hitler on every wall."
Of course many easily identified with the figure of the banker from Lausanne. - François Genaud...

Smuggling the treasure of the "FLN."

Genoud took advantage of his ties with the Mufti of Jerusalem to establish an extensive system of ties in Cairo that he used to get in touch with the heads of the Tunisian liberation organizations of North African countries.
In 1955, Genoud moved to Tangier, from where he began to develop ties with the whole of North Africa. In 1956 he maintained close contacts with Dr. Schacht, Hitler's Minister of Finance, and tried to interest him in large investments in Morocco. He also later organized after Algeria's independence, Dr. Schacht's visit to Algeria to advise the government Algerian in investment policy.
He then set up in Geneva (again under the advice of Dr. Schacht) the "Arab Commercial Bank" whose job it was to conduct financial transactions (mostly of a dubious and illegal nature) with the Arab world.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world.
A senior Arab diplomat also attended the bank's founding meeting. Thanks to Geno's ties with Ben Bella, he was able to win the post of director of the Algerian People's Bank and became financial adviser to the Algerian government. His main ties, however, were with Mohamed Khider, Ben-Bella's partner, who later became his great enemy.
On October 6, 1964, Genoud was arrested by the Ben-Bella government because of his ties to Khider, after being accused of smuggling the famous FLN treasure. Which was in the hands of Khider.
In February 1965, Genoud was freed by the Algerians after apparently agreeing with the Algerian authorities to transfer part of the PLN treasury. Estimated at the time at $ 20 million. (This treasure was collected during the underground period of the FLN. From donations by Algerian workers in Europe, who regularly paid taxes to F.L.N.).

The "affair" with the Palestinians

After Mohamed Khider was mysteriously murdered, the FLN's finance affair resurfaced. And the spotlight was once again on Genoud, who had many keys to the vanishing treasure affair. In the meantime, Genoud established new ties - through the Egyptians - with the Palestinian terrorist organizations, which began to emerge as the active factor of the Arab world. He began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.
The neo-Nazi aid to the Palestinian idea was so prominent that it began to upset pro-Palestinian left-wing circles in Switzerland. These circles - headquartered in Geneva - formed a rival organization and even began attacks against the neo-Nazi organization.
In an editorial published last week, in the Swiss Socialist Party newspaper, entitled: "Strange Observer: In a Winterthur Trial", one of the Socialist Party leaders writes of François Genoud.
And the author concludes: The question we ask ourselves is: "Is the ideology of the 'Popular Front' really fascist as its opponents claim or is the Nazis exploiting the Palestinian idea to purify their own name only?"
François Genoud certainly has more than one answer to this question.
</blockquote></ref>

He travelled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the grand mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut,<ref>Preston, David Lee (January 5, 1997). "[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-and-hitler.html Hitler's Swiss Connection]". The Philadelphia Inquirer.</ref> and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref>[http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/1705143/GENOUD,%20FRANCOIS_0029.pdf GENOUD, FRANCOIS_0029.pdf – CIA]</ref>

After the war, his close contact was Ibrahim Hafid's man, Abdul Yousufi. Genaud was very active in ''Die Spinne'' (German for "The Spider")<ref name=maariv19dec1969/> helping Nazi war criminals escape justice.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" - mostly of a dubious and illegal nature - was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world. Genoud began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/>
In the 1960s he began supplying arms for various "Palestinian" causes. His co founded Lausanne-based New European Order organisation, met in Barcelona in April 1969, there "Palestinian" groups received financial support and Genoud placed them in contact with former Nazis who would assist their military training, as well as pledged support designated for the [[PLO]].

Genoud was a close associate of George Habash and Jacques Vergès. In September 1969 he contributed finances for the legal expenses of three Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) following their attack on an El Al flight in Zurich, present at trial.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref name=leemartin1987>Lee, Martin A. and Coogan, Kevin (May 1987) "Killers on the Right: Inside Europe's Fascist Underground" Mother Jones. pp.45-52. [https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&q=Francois#v=snippet&q=Francois&f=false]</ref> Including among the prisoners to be exchange for the ''Achille Lauro'' hostages was one of West Germany's top neo Nazis.<ref name=leemartin1987/>

George Habbash was also close with former Belgian Nazi collaborator Jean Thiriart.<ref>Roots of violent radicalisation: nineteenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Vol. 1. Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee. The Stationery Office, Feb 6, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UiCRRtnmb10C&pg=RA1-PA100 p.100]</ref> He gave money to Thiriart's publication ''La Nation Européenne'', which in return supported Habbash in this magazine.
Pro-Arab and anti-Jewish themes were explicit in ''La Nation Européenne'', which included ads for ''The International Jew'', the infamous anti-Semitic screed by Henry Ford. ''La Nation Européenne'' also eulogized Roger Courdroy, a [[Belgian]] [[Waffen SS]] veteran who was killed fighting for the Palestinians in June 1968. Courdroy was a close collaborator with Thiriart.

German [[Wehrmacht]] officer in [[World War II]], Otto Ernst Remer was in contact with [[Yasser Arafat]], "I know Mr. Arafat quite well, natürlich," he asserted. "I saw him many times. He invited me to eat at his headquarters. I knew all his people. They wanted many things from us." For Remer, anyone who was an enemy of Israel was his friend, particularly when a profit could be turned. He claimed to have brokered several business deals between West German companies and the PLO.<ref>Lee, Martin A.. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181-182].</ref>

==Socialism to Jihadism==

Research paper:<ref>Sing, M. (2011). Brothers in Arms: How Palestinian Maoists Turned Jihadists. Die Welt Des Islams, 51(1), 1–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41105368</ref>
<blockquote>
At the beginning of the 1980s, the idea of armed jihad against Israel was not only promoted by renegades from the Muslim Brothers in the Gaza strip, but also by former Maoists of Fatah in Lebanon.

After the pull-out of most PLO-fighters from Beirut in 1982, a group around its spokesman Munir Shafìq formed the Brigades of Islamic Jihad which were subsequently responsible for attacks in Israel.

In a posthumously published booklet, two activists explained their reasons for their turn from Maoism to Islamism. The following article exposes the activists' trajectory and the stages of their ideological and religious conversion. According to their own narration, the former Maoists at first came to the conviction that Islam was a factor for mass mobilization and then individually adopted Islam to become practising Muslims...

Members of other Marxist groups (PFLP and PFLP-GC) also joined or formed jihad groups.</blockquote>
==The fascistic separating Jews from non-Jews==

*El Al Flight 426 hijacking - July 23, 1968.<ref>Naor, Mordechai. The war after the war. Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 1970. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ec1BAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1+%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D%22&dq=%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1+%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D%22 98].
<blockquote>
After the Boeing 707 plane took off from the Italian capital, it was taken over by two terrorists from the "Popular Front" and directed it to Damascus. When the plane landed in the capital of Syria, the passengers and crew hurried to leave through the escape hatches, because the hijackers threatened to blow it up immediately after landing. And indeed, a short time later, the plane crashed in its front part. The non-Jewish passengers were immediately released, followed by the 4 Israeli women who were among the passengers, two remained Prof. Shlomo Samolov and Mr. Saleh Moalem were held in a Syrian prison for 99 days...</blockquote ></ref>

*El Al Flight 253 attack - Dec 26, 1968, Athens.<ref>Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1987. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WwEMtRm6KVgC&pg=PA53 53].<blockquote>
On 26 December 1968, PFLP commandos stormed an El Al aircraft on the ground at Athens airport. Armed with hand grenades and machine guns, the terrorists attacked the plane carrying forty-one passengers and ten crew-members, screaming, "we want to kill Jews!" One passengers died in the attack and two stewardess were wounded.</blockquote></ref>

*Dawson's Field hijackings, September 1970.<ref>O'Connel, John F.l, ‎Williams, George. Air Transport in the 21st Century: Key Strategic Developments United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MVKoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT346].<blockquote>
Prior to the Dawson's Field hijackings, the PFLP had already achieved notoriety for several similar incidents, including the hijacking of an ... However, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, and kept 56 hostages..</blockquote></ref><ref>Berman, Esther Jane. Love Found Love Lost: The Adventures of a Love Struck Girl. United States: iUniverse, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WcUYf6inTwAC&pg=PT459].
<blockquote>
While the majority of the 310 hostages had been transferred to Amman and freed on September 11, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing the non-Jews.</blockquote></ref><ref>Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1987. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WwEMtRm6KVgC&pg=PA54 54].<blockquote>
On 6 September 1970, Khaled and several other PFLP members hijacked four planes...
Two days later, on 9 September, the PFLP took over a British airlines VC-10 flying to London from Bombay via Dubai and Bahrain; that plane joined the others at Jordan's Dawson Field...
All the hostages were released, except for 56 Jewish passengers...</blockquote></ref><ref>Sloan, Stephen., Anderson, Sean K.. Historical Dictionary of Terrorism. United States: Scarecrow Press, 2009. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aVcG7EkuPgAC&pg=PA539 539].<blockquote>Originally the hijackers held around 310 passengers and crew hostage to force the release of imprisoned terrorists elsewhere but released all but 56 who consisted of the flight crews and Jewish passengers...</blockquote></ref>

*Air France Flight 139. Entebbee, June 1976.<ref>Jonathan Spyer, [https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-hijackers-of-entebbe-the-full-story-636042 The hijackers of Entebbe - The full story], ''JPost'', July 23, 2020.<blockquote>
In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages.

But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.

In the event, almost all the hostages, Israeli and non-Israeli, were rescued. The long journey of Bose, Kuhlmann and their colleagues ended in their encounter with the IDF’s General Staff Reconnaissance Unit at the Entebbe Airport Terminal on July 4, 1976.</blockquote></ref>
<ref>Air Force Association. Air Force Magazine, Vol. 93, Iss. 7-12. United States: Air Force Association, 2010. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=27DhMudcNyYC&pg=RA5-PA64 64].<blockquote>
The terrorists collected passports and other documents and separated the Jewish passengers from the non-Jews...</blockquote></ref><ref>Ben-Natan, Asher. The audacity to live: chapters of life. Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2oltAAAAMAAJ&q=.+%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%90%C2%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D++%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA 290].
<blockquote>
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine conveyed to the French Foreign Israel - its demand to release forty terrorists, who were locked up in prisons in Israel... Next to that came news that the terrorists had separated the abductees: all the non-Jewish passengers, including the Air France flight crew members...</blockquote></ref><ref>Ben Porat, Yesha'yahu. Haber, Eitan. Schiff, Zeev. Flight 139: the complete and reliable description of the "Air France" hijacking: the human story of the hostages, the political struggles, the military preparations, and the rescue operation in Entebbe. Israel: Zmora Bitan Modan, 1976. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UmmgAAAAMAAJ&q=.+%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%90%C2%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D++%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA 54].
<blockquote>
A few hours later, the non-Jewish passengers were released and went outside the borders of Algeria. The Israelis were transferred to a military camp. In return, the kidnappers, members of the "Popular Front" organization headed by Dr. George Habash, demanded some terrorists, who were imprisoned in Israeli prisons at the time.</blockquote></ref><ref>Merav Halperin, G-Suit: Pages in Air pilots' writings. [Dapim beSefer haTisot shel Heil haAvir], Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 2000. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WdYhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A8%20%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8%20%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%20%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1%20,%20%D7%91%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%97%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D,%20%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%91%D7%94%20%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%94%22 255].
<blockquote>The plane later took off, on the order of the hijackers, to Entebbe in Uganda. The hijackers, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, released the non-Jewish passengers and left as hostages only the 105 passengers of Jewish origin..</blockquote></ref>

=="Palestinian" terroristic NGOs==

There is Overwhelming evidence of ties between Palestinian NGOs and the [[PFLP]] terrorists.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/overwhelming-evidence-of-ties-between-palestinian-ngos-and-the-pflp/ Overwhelming evidence of ties between Palestinian NGOs and the PFLP’], ''JNS'', Feb 1, 2023. 
Based on open-source materials, NGO Monitor's research identified at least 60 Palestinian NGO officials with links to the terror group...

According to NGO Monitor’s 85-page report, titled “Clear and Convincing: The Links between the PFLP and the European Government-funded NGO Network,” the E.U. position is “untenable.”

Based on open-source materials, NGO Monitor identified at least 60 Palestinian NGO officials with links to the PFLP, including some convicted for planning or executing terrorist attacks, such as the August 2019 murder of 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.

“Five of the NGOs have highly visible organizational links to the PFLP,” NGO Monitor said.

On Oct. 22, 2021, Israel listed six Palestinian NGOs as terror groups: Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees. A seventh NGO, Health Work Committees (HWC), was designated in January 2020.

“Those organizations were active under the cover of civil society organizations, but in practice belong and constitute an arm of the [PFLP] leadership, the main activity of which is the ‘liberation’ of Palestine and destruction of Israel,” announced then-Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.</ref>

== See also==
*[[Damour massacre]]
*[[Samidoun]]
*[[Al-Haq]]

== References ==
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Portland, Oregon

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[[Image:Portland 2.jpg|thumb|Portland, Oregon's largest city, offers big city amenities, along with spectacular views of [[Mount Hood]], the state's highest peak]]
'''Portland''' is the largest city in [[Oregon]], very [[liberal]] and overwhelmingly white. It is the county seat of Multnomah County. The city's population is 583,776, according to the 2010 Federal Census. Portland is located at the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River. The [[mayor]] is currently Ted Wheeler. It is notable for being the home of one of the most active [[Antifa]] [[terrorist]] contingents in the [[United States]]. This city was named after [[Portland, Maine]].

Portland had at least 84 in 2021; the previous record of 70 homicides occurred in 1987.

==Michael Strickland case==
[[File:Strickland assaulted by Fitzgerald.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Strickland assaulted by Fitzgerald]]
[[Michael Strickland]] is a [[journalist]] and [[Second Amendment]] activist who reported on [[far-left]]ist politicians and [[corruption]] in Portland.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/user/LaughingAtLiberals</ref> In 2015 Strickland was assaulted, robbed and seriously injured by an anti-gun activist named Skye Fitzgerald. Although the attack was caught on video,<ref>http://www.victoriataft.com/rewind-tape-da-refused-charge-anti-gun-filmmaker-vicious-videotaped-beatdown-strickland/</ref> [[Multnomah County]] refused to prosecute Fitzgerald. Strickland was unable to work for months due to his injuries.<ref>http://www.brettsanders.me/pro-gun-videographer-hospitalized-after-brutal-assault-by-anti-gun-filmmaker/</ref>

On July 7, 2016, Michael Strickland was [[assault]]ed in a pre-planned attack by a large [[Black Lives Matter]] mob on the streets of Portland. Strickland pulled a lawfully concealed handgun, warned his attackers to stay back, and made every effort to withdraw. Strickland was then arrested by Portland Police dressed in [[riot]] gear, charged with menacing, and released. The following day Strickland arrived in court for arraignment. The Multnomah County [[district attorney]] charged Strickland with 21 multiple felonies, and Strickland was hauled off to jail with a quarter of a million-dollar bail placed on him.<ref>https://www.oregonfirearms.org/vendetta</ref>
==Antifa==
[[File:D-RFLBYUIAUWxiG.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Liberal fascists beat [[Vietnam]]ese journalist Andy Ngo. ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' celebrated the racist attack.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/huffington-post-senior-reporter-mocks-journalist-andy-ngo-who-was-assaulted-by-antifa/</ref>]]
In September 2017, seven people were arrested after Antifa members threw "smoke and projectiles" at the police.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/10/antifa-throws-smoke-and-projectiles-at-police-at-portland-rallies-7-arrested.html Antifa throws smoke and projectiles at police at Portland rallies; 7 arrested]. ''Fox News''. September 10, 2017.</ref>

In July 2018, Antifa [[terrorist]]s attacked a [[Patriot Prayer]] rally in Portland and falsely accused the pro-Trump group of engaging in "violence and hatred", behavior which Antifa itself engaged in at the event.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/04/violence-breaks-out-as-antifa-patriot-prayer-clash-at-dueling-rallies.html</ref><ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/04/bloody-blows-as-antifa-clashes-with-patriot-prayer-rally-thugs-attack-cops-641179</ref> Several of the Antifa attackers were later arrested for disorderly conduct.

Anti-ICE protestors were emboldened by a stand-down order against local police by Democrat mayor [[Ted Wheeler]], violently protested in the city and threatened to kill the daughter of the owners of a mom n' pop food truck that serves [[ICE]] agents,<ref>https://youtu.be/myFoiDQsdmw</ref> while [[police]] refused to respond to 911 requests for assistance to protect ICE agents attacked and threatened by the anti-ICE mob.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/30/portland-police-ice-911-calls/</ref> Wheeler subsequently came under heavy criticism and was accused of violating the Constitution for giving the stand-down order and exposing ICE agents and the public to danger from the protestors, and the union representing ICE agents notified Wheeler:
{{quotebox|"your current policy forbidding Portland law enforcement agencies from assisting employees of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency ("ICE") who request [[law enforcement]] assistance while at or away from work is a violation of the [[United States Constitution]]'s [[Equal Protection Clause]]. As you are aware, the [[14th Amendment]] forbids the government from denying any person or persons equal protection of the laws...We understand that you have a difference of opinion with the current President of the United States, and some of his policies, but we fail to see why targeting the employees of ICE and leaving them vulnerable to [[violence]], [[harassment]] and even [[death]] furthers a legitimate government interest. Your policy has created a zone of [[terror]] and [[lawlessness]]. We ask that you end your policy of not responding to calls for police services from ICE employees immediately."<ref>https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-wordpress-client-uploads/wweek/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/30080248/National-ICE-Letter-to-Wheeler-Final-7_30.pdf</ref>}}.
[[File:Antifa-portland-attempted-stabbing-us-marine-vet-933x445 (2).jpg|right|300px|thumb|Portland riots: Antifa fascist (right in black hood) moves to stab a [[U.S. Marine Corps]] veteran (left in blue with bicycle).<ref>https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/shocking-raw-video-shows-attempted-stabbing-of-us-marine-veteran-domestic-terror-group-antifa-portland-riots-last-weekend/</ref>]]
In August 2018 there was more blood in the streets by Antifa riots.<ref>https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwVekdMPKB</ref>

In October 2018, [[Portland]] Democrat mayor Ted Wheeler mayor gave transparent excuses to defend his own decision to let Antifa block traffic and harass drivers and to block the police from intervening.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (October 14, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/14/ted-wheeler-portland-mayor-stands-decision-allow-a/ Portland mayor stands by decision to allow Antifa to block traffic, hassle motorists]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved October 14, 2018.</ref><ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (October 15, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/30334-portland-mayor-lets-the-goons-rule-as-anti-trump-violence-escalates Portland Mayor Lets the Goons Rule as Anti-Trump Violence Escalates]. ''The New American''. Retrieved October 15, 2018.</ref>

In June 2019, Antifa [[fascist]]s in an unprovoked attack, brutally beat [[Andy Ngo]], a Vietnamese-American journalist for '' Quillette''. Ngo was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage following the attack in Portland.<ref>Multiple references:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSGsaJ24wo
* https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OwxWkEzRWqxQ
* https://twitter.com/alx/status/1145086195497615360?s=21
* https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OwxWkEzRWqxQ
*Wong, Kristina (June 30, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/29/journalist-andy-ngo-assaulted-by-antifa-protesters-in-portland/ Journalist Andy Ngo Assaulted by Antifa Protesters in Portland]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
*Kirkwood, R. Cort (July 1, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32740-antifa-goons-attack-gay-conservative-journalist-cruz-mayor-permits-leftist-terror Antifa Goons Attack Gay, Conservative Journalist. Cruz: Mayor Permits Leftist Terror]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 1, 2019.</ref> He had previously criticized Antifa for its violence.<ref>Pentchoukov, Ivan (June 30, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/antifa-members-assault-journalist-known-for-exposing-groups-violence_2984149.html Antifa Members Assault Journalist Known for Exposing Group’s Violence]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 30, 2019.</ref> Ngo was first blinded in a milkshake attack. Police reported that quick drying cement, a caustic substance, had been mixed into milkshakes.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/06/30/should-antifa-be-designated-a-domestic-terror-group/</ref> "Journalist" wannabe Carlos Maza of Vox Media, an [[NBC]] subsidiary,<ref>https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1135387850453803008</ref> had previously called for "milkshaking" of conservatives and Trump supporters.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/30/maza-milkshake-twitter-policy/</ref> Maza was responsible for the "Adpocalypse", a massive purge of conservative YouTube contributors by the site weeks earlier,<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/32552-big-tech-thought-purge-continues-as-youtube-moves-to-ban-supremacist-content</ref> and attempted to escalate his vendetta to shut down all online opposing opinions he did not like (which began as, and mainly focused on, an attempt at getting revenge against Steven Crowder for the latter's commenting on his YouTube show about the openly homosexual Maza calling himself a "gay wonk", which happens to be Maza's Twitter handle), only to be fired by Vox in August 2019 after the site began to see Maza as a liability for his anti-Crowder vendetta and his childish behavior on his Twitter account. The editor of the [[Soros]]-funded [[Media Matters]] tweeted a joke about the milkshaking and violent attack on Ngo.<ref>https://twitter.com/trustrestored/status/1145138741352247299</ref> CNN's [[Chris Cuomo]] defended Antifa in August 2018, saying that “all punches are not equal morally.”<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/14/cnn_chris_cuomo_defends_antifa_attacks_on_police_journalists_not_equal_to_fighting_bigots.html</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' opinion writer Charlie Warzel blamed the victim.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/30/andy-ngo-antifa-journalists/</ref> Alleged “fact-checker” site [[Snopes]] attempted to excuse the violence.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/08/antifa-isnt-checked-beware-backlash-violence/</ref> The [[LGBTQ+]] centered [[Human Rights Campaign]] press secretary called Andy Ngo a "sniveling weasel" and said the Leftist attack was "the greatest thing that could have happened." At least two other people were reported injured in the Portland violence.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (July 1, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/1/two-more-oregon-men-left-bloody-antifa-attack-port/ Two more Oregon men left bloody after violent antifa attack at Portland protest]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved July 1, 2019.</ref> Only three Antifa activists were arrested,<ref>Bleau, Hannah (June 29, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/29/three-arrested-in-connection-with-violent-antifa-protests-in-portland/ Three Arrested in Connection with Violent Antifa Protests in Portland]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 30, 2019.</ref><ref>Richardson, Valerie (June 30, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/30/antifa-fueled-portland-protest-results-multiple-as/ Antifa-fueled Portland protest results in 'multiple assaults,' three arrests]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 30, 2019.</ref> while police stood by and watched people being beaten.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/03/left-amps-justifications-violence-political-opponents/</ref> After attacking an elderly man, Antifa falsely blamed him for the attack rather than themselves.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (July 7, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/7/antifa-blames-john-blum-baton-portland-attack/ Antifa blames older man for Portland fracas that left him bloodied]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved July 7, 2019.</ref>
[[File:Ellison Antifa.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|Minnesota [[Attorney General]] Keith Ellison with Luis Enrique Marquez, a notorious leader of the Portland ANTIFA.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/busted-keith-ellison-photographed-with-portland-antifa-leader-deletes-pro-antifa-tweet/</ref>]]
In Andy Ngo's own retelling of events, "I was suddenly slammed on the back of my head with something hard. Dazed and still hearing faint chants of ‘no hate,’ I was then punched and kicked by perhaps a dozen masked people in black. At an Antifa event meant to resist ‘fascist violence,’ I—a gay journalist of color—was beaten so badly that I was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/04/andy-ngo-lefts-expanded-definition-violence/</ref>

Portland [[progressive]] Mayor Ted Wheeler did nothing to stop the violent protests.<ref>Wong, Kristina (June 29, 2019). [ttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/29/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-under-fire-for-not-stopping-antifa-protests/ :*Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 30, 2019.</ref> Sen. [[Ted Cruz]] called on federal law enforcement to investigate Portland officials, including Wheeler himself, who ordered police to stand down as citizens were beaten.<ref>https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212985692119041</ref><ref>https://t.co/5xyCDARICl</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/30/andy-ngo-journalist-rally-injured/</ref> In a break with precedent, [[CNN]]'s Brian Stetler grudgingly reported the attack on Ngo, a [[conservative]] journalist, by a violent leftwing mob.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-brian-stelter-condemns-antifa-assault-of-independent-journalist-andy-ngo/</ref> At a [[White House]] conference on [[authoritarian]] domination and [[censorship]] by [[Big Tech]] and [[social media]], President Trump highlighted the case of Andy Ngo and the negative effect unchecked leftist ideology has on society.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyUW3SgVWQ</ref>

In August 2019, there was more Portland riots; innocent people attacked by liberal fascist Antifa mob.<ref>Murphy, James (August 19, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/33178-leftwing-antifa-terrorist-violence-erupts-in-portland-proud-boys-score-p-r-win Left-wing Antifa Terrorist Violence Erupts in Portland; “Proud Boys” Score P.R. Win]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 19, 2019.</ref> [[Leftist]] anti-Trump couple Leopold Hauser and Adebisi Okueye were both arrested on third-degree assault felony charges for assaulting a Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat in a Portland bar.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/angry-leftist-thugs-who-beat-maga-supporter-in-portland-bar-arraigned-on-felony-assault-charges/ Angry Leftist Thugs Who Beat MAGA Supporter in Portland Bar Arraigned On Felony Assault Charges] at the Gateway Pundit</ref><ref>Szabo, Richard (August 27, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/man-and-woman-arrested-after-punching-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat_3057432.html Man and Woman Arrested After Punching Trump Supporter Wearing MAGA Hat]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved August 27, 2019.</ref> Bucknell University hosted an Antifa leader who promotes political violence.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/09/bucknell-university-to-host-antifa-leader-who-promotes-political-violence/</ref> 50 Antifa goons attacked an ICE facility in Portland during Climate Strike rally and were arrested.<ref>https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1175161771457310720</ref>

In November 2019 six childish Antifa punks stalked and harassed Andy Ngo at his Portland home during Halloween, part of a campaign of criminal harassment (including doxing and death threats) by the hate group against him and his family.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/antifa-terrorists-stalk-journalist-andy-ngo-at-his-home-on-halloween-ringing-his-doorbell-and-banging-on-windows-in-andy-ngo-masks/ Antifa Terrorists Stalk Journalist Andy Ngo at His Home on Halloween] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> In typical cowardly fashion, the punks fled after Ngo called the police. Andy Ngo revealed in a Heritage Foundation speech that the ultimate goal of Antifa is Communism, and that violence and fascistic behavior are among their tools in achieving that goal.<ref>[https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/07/antifas-ultimate-goal-is-communism-journalist-attacked-by-adherents-says/ Antifa’s Ultimate Goal Is Communism, Journalist Attacked by Adherents Says] at the Daily Signal</ref>

A particularly vicious Antifa rioter, claiming to be a "professor", tried to act like an animal as she attempted to take a bite out of professional MMA fighter Tara LaRosa during an Antifa attempt to start a riot at a Veterans' Day rally in Portland.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/violent-anti-trump-protester-bites-female-mma-fighter-who-pins-her-to-the-ground-at-rally-in-portland-video/ Violent Anti-Trump Protester Bites Female MMA Fighter Who Pins Her to the Ground at Rally in Portland] at the Gateway Pundit ('''Warning:''' Contains video with foul language and violence)</ref> The Antifa punk was no match for LaRosa, who pinned her to the ground after she tried to attack another woman, and the punk was kept pinned until she was picked up and arrested by Portland police.

===2020 Antifa riots===
[[File:Communists destroy Thomas Jefferson statue.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Communists tore down a statue to Thomas Jefferson.]]
:{{see also|2020 Antifa riots}}
In September 2020 Portland marked 100 consecutive nights of protests marred by vandalism, chaos, looting, and even killing. Those bent on violence regularly started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. Numerous law enforcement officers, among others, suffered injury. Shootings increased by more than 140% in June and July 2020 compared to the same period last year. In the midst of this violence, the Portland City Council cut $15 million from the police bureau, eliminating 84 positions. Crucially, the cuts included the Gun Violence Reduction Team, which investigates shootings, and several positions from the police team that responds to emergency incidents. In August 2020, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler sent a letter to President Trump expressly rejecting the Administration's offer of federal law enforcement to stop the violent protests.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-identifies-new-york-city-portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting</ref> The [[Democrat]] [[Attorney General]] Ellen Rosenblum sued the [[Trump administration]] on behalf of the [[riot]]ers.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/oregon-attorney-general-loses-court-motion-restrain-feds-stopping-rioters-portland/</ref>

[[Antifa]] broke into the Portland, Oregon Justice Center,<ref>https://streamable.com/1j6fof</ref> housing the central police precinct and the sheriff's office, and set a room on fire with occupants still inside the building.<ref>https://streamable.com/avcfq0</ref> A man carrying an American flag was beaten by white Antifa terrorists.<ref>https://youtu.be/hpVj4658Zvc</ref> Small businesses were vandalized and looted.<ref>https://streamable.com/bfs08c</ref><ref>https://streamable.com/adfxxt</ref> Stolen cars were driven into stores.<ref>https://streamable.com/o1w92j</ref> A Chase Bank branch was attacked<ref>https://streamable.com/o1wtom</ref> and set on fire.<ref>https://streamable.com/nanakz</ref> Virtually all offenders in these incidents were white. Antifa terrorists attempted to blind police with laser lights. Communist protesters tore down a statue of [[Thomas Jefferson]], author of "all men are created equal."<ref>https://www.kptv.com/news/demonstrators-pull-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portland-high-school/article_73436e00-aecc-11ea-9077-d733d2846650.html</ref> Antifa terrorists toppled the [[George Washington]] statue. Washington is commonly referred to as the "father of the nation."<ref>https://youtu.be/_fgK3a2JDN0</ref>

Portland has been the hotbed of [[subversive]] [[Anti-American]] communist and [[anti-Trump]] activity since 2017. More than 100 fires were set in and around downtown.<ref>https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/470191-380568-nearly-100-arson-fires-in-portland-under-investigation</ref> After the Minneapolis George Floyd riot, Portland was under siege by leftwing white supremacists nightly for over a month.<ref>https://youtu.be/WXnT7Iolmt8</ref> More than 100 people were injured and over $20 million in damages. Oregon Democrat governor [[Kate Brown]] did absolutely nothing to stop the violence. Police recovered a bag, loaded with rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails in a park near the protest area. A gunshot victim arrived at a hospital believed it is connected.<ref>https://www.9and10news.com/2020/07/27/portland-police-discover-a-bag-with-rifle-magazine-and-molotov-cocktails/</ref>

A white Antifa racist, Blake David Hampe, stabbed a [[gay]] [[Black]] Trump supporter.<ref>https://twitter.com/SpaceForceUSA_</ref> Hampe the assailant, a leftwing racist and [[homophobe]], previously was convicted of child pornography.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/antifa-terrorist-accused-of-stabbing-trump-supporter-had-once-been-indicted-for-child-porn/</ref> The Antifa [[white supremacist]] stalked and menaced the Black man for several blocks before the stabbing. The victim believes that ANTIFA fascists doxxed his identity and posted his location on social media before he was stabbed.
[[File:Democrat riots.png|right|300px|thumb]]
===Defund the Police===
:{{See also|Defund the Police}}
In June 2020 the Portland City Council defunded the Portland Police by $15 million, eliminating 84 positions.<ref>https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/defunding-portland-police-city-council-budget-15-million-cuts/283-239c5e3a-cfed-4dce-8775-d2c52a9df9aa</ref>

In the first two months of 2021 Portland saw 20 homicides and 208 shootings. In comparison, 2020 saw only a single homicide during the same period, despite the year ending with a 26 year high in overall homicides.<ref>https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/03/mayor-ted-wheeler-seeks-2-million-to-bring-back-uniformed-police-team-to-address-spike-in-shootings.html</ref>

In June, 2021, the entire Portland Police crowd control unit, consisting of approximately 50 officers, resigned after an officer was indicted on an alleged protest assault charge, stemming from an unruly Antifa rioter being struck to bring the rioter under control.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/entire-portland-police-riot-squad-quits-en-masse-da-beings-criminal-investigations-officers-conduct/ Entire Portland Police Riot Squad Quits En Masse, As DA Begins Criminal Investigations Into Officers’ Conduct] at the Gateway Pundit</ref><ref>Jeffrey Cook, Meredith Deliso, "[https://abcnews.go.com/US/entire-portland-police-crowd-control-unit-resigns-officer/story?id=78342360 Entire Portland Police crowd control unit resigns after officer indicted on protest assault charge]," ABC News, June 17, 2021.</ref>

==Portland train stabbing==
On May 26, 2017, Jeremy Christian, [[2017 Portland train murders|stabbed three men to death]] on the city's mass transit train. Christian made anti-Muslim remarks to two teenage girls who appeared to be Muslim. He made other "anti-everything" and "anti-religious" remarks. The three men were stabbed as they attempted to defend the girls.

The left-wing media was quick to label Christian as "racist," "right-wing," "anti-Muslim," and a "white supremacist." Christian's Facebook posts paint a different picture. He claimed to be a registered [[Libertarian]] who voted for [[Bernie Sanders]] and expressed support for [[Jill Stein]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential election]]. His posts show him to be left-wing in many opinions, such as supporting atheism, marijuana use, and opposing controversial oil pipelines, and to hate all "monotheists," including Jews and Christians. A month before the stabbing, he was at a Free Speech Rally organized by [[Patriot Prayer]]. Video shows him calling Trump supporters "facists" and "fake Christians" and doing a [[Nazi]] salute.<ref>Hunter, Derek (May 28, 2017). [https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/28/portland-killer-is-an-anti-circumcision-bernie-sanders-supporter/ Portland Killer Is An Anti-Circumcision, Bernie Sanders Supporter]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved May 31, 2017.</ref><ref>Carter (May 27, 2017). [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/update-portland-killer-voted-bernie-reported-trump-supporters-police-nothing-video/ REPORT: Portland Killer Voted for Bernie, Reported by Trump Supporters to Police, Who Did Nothing (VIDEO)]. ''The Gateway Pundit''. Retrieved May 31, 2017.</ref>

==Public health and safety==
Portland, which [[Joe Biden]] won in the [[2020 presidential election]] with 79% of the vote to [[Donald Trump]]'s 18%, was reported to have an outbreak of the highly contagious [[shigella]] bacteria in 2023. According to Multnomah County authorities, "Shigella spreads when one person’s infected poop gets into another person’s mouth through food or water."

In December 2023 Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties reported over 45 infections of the deadly bacteria with nine distinct strains identified in Portland since October. Since the beginning of the year, 218 cases have been documented in the region. “Local disease patterns suggest that fecal-oral spread through sexual contact may account for between half and more than two thirds of all cases without international travel. The rest are typically attributed to other types of person-to-person spread including outbreaks among populations with lack of hygiene, shelter, and sanitation, and among people who use illicit substances,” county officials told local KOIN 6 television news.<ref>https://dailypresser.com/doug-g/portlands-human-feces-crisis-triggers-bacteria-outbreak-normally-found-in-third-world/</ref>

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

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The '''Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine''' (PFLP) is a [[Communism|Marxist–Leninist]] terrorist organization and one of the main groups of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]]. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the [[United States]] and the [[European Union]].<ref name="kaufman">Kaufman, Joe (February 23, 2010). [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/51649/peace-partners-who-never-were-joe-kaufman THE “PEACE PARTNERS” WHO NEVER WERE]. ''FrontpageMag''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref> On its website the organization openly celebrates [[Hezbollah]] and calls for [[Gaza Strip]] to be turned into an Israeli "graveyard." It also declares that it won't respect any PLO agreements with Israel.<ref>[http://www.americansagainsthate.org/PFLP_website.html Americans Against Hate]</ref>

Notorious hijacker and admitted terrorist<ref>[https://sanfrancisco.adl.org/news/adls-statement-on-leila-khaled-at-sfsu/ Leila Khaled at SFSU], ADL. September 3, 2020.</ref> who has been still promoting violence 2014-16<ref>[https://www.adl.org/blog/leila-khaled-in-her-own-words Leila Khaled: In Her Own Words], ADL, October 2, 2020.</ref> Laila Khaled: "At first, I admired Hitler because I thought he was the enemy of the Jews. Later I found out he classified Arabs as sub-humans, only slightly above the gypsies and the Jews."<ref>Autobiography of Leila Khaled, edied by George Hajjar, 1973.</ref>

Arab MK, Aida Touma-Suleiman, who in 2021, was accused of racism and lying, spreading libels,<ref>[https://www.inn.co.il/news/430227 Naftali Bennett to MK Toma Suleiman: "You are a liar, antisemitic and...]", Channel 7, Mar 13, 2020. 
The defense minister attacked MK Thomas Suleiman, who claimed that the IDF was spraying Palestinians with unidentified material. "It is unbelievable that Boogie and Gantz are ready to form a government with you."

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett today (Friday) sharply attacked MK Aida Toma Suleiman from the joint list, who defamed the IDF and claimed that he was spraying "unidentified material" on Palestinians in the Qalandiya crossing.

''You're a liar, antisemitic and... These are not IDF forces. It is the Palestinian Authority that has decided to disinfect the checkpoint and is carrying it out. "It is unbelievable that Boogie, Yvette, Ganz, Gabi and Lapid are ready to form a government with your finger," Bennett said.''</ref> her embrace of paroled [[PFLP]] terrorist, in Sep/2021, sparked outrage<ref>Yori Yalon, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/09/27/arab-mks-embrace-of-paroled-pflp-terrorist-sparks-outrage/ Arab MK's embrace of paroled PFLP terrorist sparks outrage]," ILH, Sep 27, 2021.
 
Joint Arab List lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman shares a photograph in which she embraces Khalida Jarrar, a senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member, who was sentenced to two years in prison for involvement in a 2018 terror attack.</ref><ref>Adv. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner (@AttorneyNitsana) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/AttorneyNitsana/status/1442108256529358848?s=20 Sep 26, 2021]): 
MK Aida Touma Suleiman from the joint list writes in admiration of the release of Khaleda Jarrar, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was arrested in October 2019 as part of a wave of arrests of the organization's operatives following the assassination of Rene Shenrav.
https://t.co/dM295gFh1n</ref>
== History ==
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was established in 1967 by George Habash. It was originally backed by [[Egypt]]ian dictator [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. The PFLP perpetrated hijackings of airplanes and other terrorist attacks on civilians from its beginnings.<ref name="jvl">[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-pflp Palestinian Terror Groups: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)]. ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref> Throughout its history some factions splitted from the organization such as the PFLP-General Command. Habash retired from his post and was succeeded by Abū ʿAlī Muṣṭafā, who was killed by Israeli forces in 2001.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Popular-Front-for-the-Liberation-of-Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]. ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref>

In February 2010 a joint meeting with members of [[Hamas]] and [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] was held in the offices of the PFLP in order to fight [[Israel]] as a ''unified force''.<ref name="kaufman"/>

Its founder, George Habash, already as student, was ''founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel.''<ref name=latines-jan2008/>

In a July 1970 interview with LIFE magazine,
<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 LIFE Jun 12, 1970, p.32]</ref> meeting ''at night in the suburbs of Amman, in a building attached to a refugee camp,''
Habash "explained"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3FUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33 LIFE Jun 12, 1970, p.33]</ref> his targeting:
<blockquote>
Let me explain: the attacks of the Popular Front are based on quality, not quantity. We believe that to kill a Jew far from the battleground has more of an effect than killing 100 of them in battle; it attracts more attention. And when we set fire to a store in London, those few flames are worth the burning down of two kibbutzim...</blockquote>

Aftet it was published. There was an attempt to deny Habash's words by the propaganda wing from PFLP the time.
But journalist Oriana F. replied:
... ''interview with Dr. Habash was recorded on such a machine. The tape is at his disposal to refresh his memory if he has forgotten, or wants to forget. I would like to believe that Dr. Habash is not informed about this letter of his associates or he would have prevented them from writing so many useless idiocies...''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA19&dq=%22interview+with+Dr.+Habash+took+place+with+such+a+machine.+The+tape+is+at+his+disposal%22&hl=en LIFE - Jul 17, 1970, p.19][https://books.google.com/books?id=ys0aAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22evidently+ignores+the+existence+of+a+machine+known+as+a+tape+recorder%22& Life - Volume 69, Issues 1-5, p.98].<blockquote>
Oriana Fallaci replies:

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information (I say 'so-called' because it never showed up during my stay with the fedayeen) evidently ignores the existence of a machine known as a tape recorder. My interview with Dr. Habash was recorded on such a machine. The tape is at his disposal to refresh his memory if he has forgotten, or wants to forget. I would like to believe that Dr. Habash is not informed about this letter of his associates or he would have prevented them from writing so many useless idiocies and senseless insults. Dr. Habash knows .very well that what I wrote was said by him into a microphone.

The word "terrorism" might not have been used often by me. This was out of politeness which I now regret. But J did use the word, and I even commented that when we Europeans were fighting for our freedom we did not kill children or civilians. Dr. Habash did not react in anger; he explained his theory.

"I obviously edit my interviews. But I did not need to edit much in this one because it was good as it was. It opens as it opened. It ends as it ended and it reports faithfully, all that Habash said in a 90 minute interview in English.

The words on the tape are clear, the sound excellent. Mistakes are impossible, except for the pronunciation of the year 1957, which I might have understood as 1967, due to his slight lips. The only thing that the tape did not record is Dr. Habash's tears and his mouth's trembling , a human reaction that helped me to like him a lot. In this I might have been wrong.

"The PFLP's so-called Department of Information also insinuates that I am a fascist. To such vulgarity I will only answer that when Dr. Habash was doing nothing against fascism, and his people were getting along very well with the Nazis, I was a little girl with pigtails fighting fascism in the resistance in Italy. I recall that there were no Palestinian journalists to interview us or to sympathize with us at the risk of their lives."</blockquote></ref>
In the aftermath of 1970 published admission of (racist) targeting Jews internationally, in 1975, an Arab author M. Hussain has still quoted Habash as the original quote .
Yet, by 1991, another one, J.R. Nassar has conveniently replaced the word 'Jew' with 'Zionist'. Nevertheless, an 'expert' on Arab-Palestinians, Abu-Lughod clearly acknowledged that Habash had been accurately transcribed by Fallaci.<ref>[https://thebulwark.com/the-protocols-of-the-euphemisms-of-zion/ 'The Protocols of the Euphemisms of Zion. What anti-Semites really mean when they complain about “Zionists.” ' Sreven Lubet, July 15, 2019] ...''The discrepancy between the actual quote and Nassar’s version was jarring, especially given some other passages in the interview. Remarking on the PLFP skyjacking of a flight from Rome, for example, Habash said, "The Arabs have a right to use Italy as a base against the Jews.... which Abu-Lughod clearly acknowledged had been accurately transcribed by Fallaci."''</ref> After Habash's death in Jan. 2008, a pro-[[Hezbollah]] propagandist professor tried to rewrite his history<ref>[http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259802 As'ad Abukhalil attempt to deny Habash's TRUE 1970 quote] Aug 2, 2020.</ref>

On G. Habash's, PFLP's hard-wired anti-Semitism, B. Cohen writes:
 
''...the rescue operation mounted by Israel to free around 100 hostages from an Air France plane that had been hijacked seven days earlier by Palestinian terrorists and diverted to Uganda, then under the boot of the brutal dictator Idi Amin. After a week of sheer hell, during which the German leftist hijackers separated the Jewish from the non-Jewish passenger...''
''If the Entebbe episode failed to convince outside observers of the PFLP's hard-wired anti-Semitism, then its bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris in October 1980 should have set aside any lingering doubts.''<ref>[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/opinion/fl-jjps-cohen-1126-20141124-story.html Overlooked Palestinian terror group returns with a vengeance, Ben Cohen, JNS.org] Sun Sentinel, Nov. 24, 2014</ref>

===Lion Cubs - Palestinian-Arabs===
PFLP's G. Habash was in founding and boasting about as an "achievement" is the Ashbal, '[[Palestinian Lion Cubs]]',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7jsoAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Ashbal%22 The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol.1, p. 1347. 1970]
''June 13, 1970.
George Habash His hard-bitten, ill-paid commandos call him “Hakim” —a term of honor that means both “doctor,” ...
One of the achievements Dr. Habash is proudest of is the beginning of the “ashbal,” or groups of young commandos, which he says will carry on the main fight in the future''.</ref> "Baby tigers",<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19690428&id=fkcpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EWgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=862,6891427 Arab Commando Attacks, by Henry J Taylor, Lewiston Evening Journal, Apr 28, 1969,3] ...''The Palestine Arabs can be mobilized only around the issue of fighting. Baby Tigers. The State Department finds that such leaders as Arafat, Shukairy and Habeche talk of "fighting for 20 or so years." They even have training camps for 12-year-old youths, a expanding cadre called Baby Tigers''</ref> child soldiers. Leading with [[Yasir Arafat]] and [[Ahmad Shukeiri]]. The young boys of Ashbal were taught to use ammunition and:
''During training the boys chant, ' Oh Zionists!, do you think you are safe ? Drinking blood is a habit of our men.' They undergo a Mau Mau - like hardening course in which each boy is required to tear apart a live chicken to develop a lust for killing.''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VrsLAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Chicken Fedayeen; the Arab-Israeli Dilemma, John Laffin, Free Press, 1973, pp.96-97].<blockquote>Propaganda And Indictrination

.. leader told me in Lebanon 'This is a morale - building and educational movement to prepare the well - rounded citizen of Palestine - equipped and trained to defend his nation but also to be a good, productive citizen.' During training the boys chant l, ' Oh Zionists!, do you think you are safe ? Drinking blood is a habit of our men.' They undergo a Mau Mau - like hardening course in which each boy is required to tear apart a live chicken to develop a lust for killing.

After their daily lessons in refugee camp schools the Ashbal run to parade and for several minutes their instructors drill them. The movements are simple but like everything else about Ashbal, highly political.

When ordered to stand at ease , they shout 'Asifa!' (Storm). When they stamp to attention they bellow' Fatah! The instructors are either former school - teachers or wounded guerrillas, men who are almost deified. Part of the training ritual is the frequent morale - building talk by a fedayeen supposedly just back from a mission. The boys are taught to dismantle, clean and reassemble rifles, pistols and machine guns and are allowed to fire live ammunition ...</blockquote></ref>

== Terrorist attacks ==
*His first known attack, is hijacking of El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968.<ref name=latines-jan2008>Kim Murphy, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-27-me-habash27-story.html Arab nationalist planned hijackings], ''Los Angeles Times,'' Jan. 27, 2008. ''He studied medicine at the American University of Beirut, founding a series of radical student organizations that called for unifying the Arabs’ military might to annihilate Israel.
After Israeli forces crushed an Arab assault and moved into the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, Habash formed the PFLP to continue operations against Israelis. It became the second-largest faction within the PLO, after Arafat’s Fatah organization.
In one of its first operations, an Israeli El Al airliner was hijacked to Algiers in July 1968, forcing the Israelis to free 16 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the plane and its passengers.''</ref>

*On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.<ref>[https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/pflp-dflp-pflp-gc-palestinian-leftists PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestinian leftists. Last updated October 31, 2005] What terrorist activities has the PFLP undertaken? In its early years, the PFLP conducted hundreds of terrorist attacks. It is best known for pioneering the technique of international airplane hijackings in the late 1960s and 1970s—with consequences that rattled the Middle East:

*On July 22, 1968, the PFLP hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.

*In September 1970, the PFLP hijacked three passenger planes and took them to airfields in Jordan, where the PLO was then based; after the planes were emptied, the hijackers blew them up. In response, King Hussein of Jordan decided that Palestinian radicals had gone too far and drove the PLO out of his kingdom.

*In 1972, PFLP and Japanese Red Army gunmen murdered two dozen passengers at Israel’s international airport in Lod.

*In 1976, breaking a PLO agreement to end terrorism outside Israeli-held territory, PFLP members joined with West German radical leftists from the Baader-Meinhof Gang to hijack an Air France flight bound for Tel Aviv and landed the plane in Entebbe, Uganda. In a now-famous raid, Israeli commandos stormed the plane on the Entebbe tarmac and freed the hostages.

*During the Platestinian intifada, PFLP gunmen shot dead Ze’evi, Israel’s rightist tourism minister, in a Jerusalem hotel—the first assassination of an Israeli minister. The group has also claimed responsibility for several recent car bombings and shootings in Israel and the West Bank.

* In April 2002, Israeli officials foiled a PFLP attempt to blow up a Tel Aviv skyscraper with a car bomb—which could have caused massive casualties and would have marked a dramatic escalation in Palestinian terrorism.

*The group was responsible for a suicide bombing Christmas Day 2003, in which four people were killed and more than twenty were wounded.

*The PFLP and its current leader, Ahmed Jibril, were mentioned in the 2005 United Nations report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, for allegedly assisting senior Lebanese security officials who were implicated in the 2004 car bombing that killed Hariri.</ref>

*In 1969, it planted a bomb in a Jerusalem supermarket that killed 2 youths and wounded 20 other people. Also that year, Habash took responsibility for blowing up Tapline, a pipeline owned by the Arab-American Oil Co. that carried oil from Saudi Arabia.<ref>Edmund L. Andrews and John Kifner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/world/africa/27iht-obits.1.9523942.html George Habash, 82, founder of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine], ''The New York Times'', Jan. 27, 2008</ref>

*Hijacking of various airlines: September 6, 1970 by PFLP and other joined groups<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000901960026-3.pdf& Terrorist Hijacking. CIA.gov]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/hijacked-1970-hijackings/ 1970 Hijackings, Simultaneous Hijackings, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/people-involved-and-affected/ The People Involved and Affected, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.ict.org.il/Article/948/between-two-septembers#gsc.tab=0 Between Two Septembers: From the bargaining chip of Sept. 1970 to a strategic agent of Sept. 2001. 11/06/2006 | by Avihai, Hillel (Dr.) - ICT]</ref>
Some 2 weeks later, Reuters, NYTimes reported:
''Habash was reported to have been in North Korea on an unexplained mission before his men succeeded in hijacking four Western air liners two weeks ago. The Popular Front is still holding 54 or 55 airliner hostages somewhere in Jordan''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/jordanians-put-a-price-on-the-head-of-habash.html Jordanians Put a Price On the Head of Habash], ''The New York Times,'' Sept. 23, 1970</ref>

*In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref><ref>Jonathan Spyer, "[https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-hijackers-of-entebbe-the-full-story-636042 The hijackers of Entebbe - The full story]," The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2020
<blockquote>
The hijacking, famously included a separation of Israeli and Jewish hostages from non-Israeli and non-Jewish passengers.

In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages.

But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.</blockquote></ref><ref>Daniel S. Mariaschin, [https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-enduring-message-of-the-rescue-at-entebbe/ The enduring message of the rescue at Entebbe], JC, July 7, 2021.<blockquote>At Entebbe, 148 non-Jewish hostages were separated from the 94 Jewish passengers, most of them Israeli nationals, and the Air France crew. The non-Jewish hostages were released within two days; the terrorists made clear the Jewish passengers would be killed if their demands were not met. The Ugandan government, led by its infamous leader Idi Amin, announced its support for the hijackers, punctuated with an appearance by Amin himself in the airport terminal hall in which the hostages were being held.</blockquote></ref>

*1979 Nahariya attack. 

An assault on innocents Jews by the the PLFP including the Lebanese monster Samir Kuntar (also spelt Kantar, Quntar, Qantar).

The squad carried out a home invasion of the apartment of the Haran family. They took the father, Danny Haran, hostage with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat Haran. The mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her 2-year-old daughter. As the terrorists searched for them, she struggled to keep the toddler quiet and accidentally suffocated her.

Meanwhile, the monster Samir Kuntar shot Einat's father dead in front of her, and he then smashed the 4 year old's head on a rock until she was dead.<ref>[https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/Article-518434 Reminder: The horrific attack carried out by Samir Kuntar in Nahariya 36 years ago], Maariv Online, Dec 20, 2015.<blockquote>

Reminder: The horrific attack carried out by Samir Kuntar in Nahariya 36 years ago

[Einat and Yael Haran, who were killed in the Nahariya attack in 1979 (Photo: courtesy of the website for the victims of the hostilities)]

Four terrorists arrived by sea. Officer Eliyahu Shachar was killed at the beginning of the incident. They then entered the Haran family home. Father Danny and daughter Einat were taken and murdered at the beach. Daughter Yael suffocated to death while hiding with her mother Smadar in the attic.

Terrorist Samir Kuntar was killed last night in Syria. He was imprisoned for 29 years following the murder of members of the Haran family in Nahariya in 1979, until he was released in 2008 in a body return deal for Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

On April 22, 1979, a squad of four terrorists belonging to the Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] led by Abu Abbas, south of Lebanon, arrived in Israel to carry out an attack. The four arrived by sea in a rubber dinghy.

After going down to the beach, the squad members tried to attack a private house, but were shot dead by the owner of the house, Amnon Sela. A police vehicle sensed the scene. In a shootout that took place, policeman Eliyahu Shachar was killed. The squad then entered an apartment building at 61 Jabotinsky Street, and broke into the apartment of the Harn (Hirschhorn) family before additional police reinforcements arrived. They took 31-year-old Danny Haran and his four-year-old daughter, Einat, hostage. The mother, Smadar, managed to hide in the attic above the bedroom, along with her two-year-old daughter and neighbor.

The father and daughter were taken to the beach, where a shootout ensued between the terrorist cell and IDF policemen and soldiers.

Two-year-old Yael was killed after she suffocated while her mother tried to silence her to prevent the terrorists from discovering them.

Two of Kuntar's squad members were killed in an exchange of gunfire on the beach. Kuntar and the fourth squad member, Ahmed Evers, were captured. Kuntar was sentenced to five life sentences and 47 years in prison. He was released in a prisoner exchange deal on July 16, 2008, as part of a deal to return the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who had been abducted two years earlier. Ahmed Evers was released by Israel in the Jibril deal in 1986.

At the funerals of the victims of the attack, then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin noted the cruelty in the murder of innocent children in a quote from Haim Nachman Bialik's "On the Slaughter": "Revenge of the blood of a little boy, Satan has not yet created."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://markhumphrys.com/israel.conflict.crimes.html?r=1&l=ri&fst=0The Israeli-Palestinian conflict], Mark Humphrys.<blockquote>The child killer Samir Kuntar

1979 Nahariya attack.

An assault on Jewish innocents by the anti-semitic "Palestine Liberation Front", including the Lebanese monster Samir Kuntar (also spelt Kantar, Quntar, Qantar).

The terrorists carried out a home invasion of the apartment of the Haran family. They took the father, Danny Haran, hostage with his 4-year-old daughter, Einat Haran. The mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her 2-year-old daughter. As the terrorists searched for them, she struggled to keep the toddler quiet and accidentally suffocated her. (Similar stories have come out of the Holocaust, where Jews tried to hide with crying babies from searching Nazis.)

Meanwhile, the monster Samir Kuntar shot Einat's father dead in front of her, and he then smashed the 4 year old's head on a rock until she was dead.</blockquote></ref>

*On February 16, 2002, it perpetrated a suicide bombing attack in a village in the [[West Bank]] which killed three Israeli civilians and wounded 25 more. On December 25, 2003, three Israeli civilians were murdered because of a suicide attack at a bus station in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name="jvl"/>
===1960's: With Nazis===

Nazi link with “Palestinian” terrorists including the PLO in the 1960s. 
François Genoud [Genaud] was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era; ally of Ibrahim Hafid - commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler. Motivated by Jew-hatred he became a passionate supporter of Arab "liberation" causes.<ref name=maariv19dec1969>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/mar/1969/12/19/01/article/190/ Maariv - מעריב, 19 December 1969].
<blockquote>
'The Spider: Francois.' By Hezi Kamel. 
[Dr. Abdul Yousufi (next to the microphone), chairman of the Arab Lawyers' Association, submits a statement regarding the attackers of an El Al plane in Zurich.
Yousufi, who is an ally of François Genoud, served during World War II as the deputy commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler.]
What is the connection between a neo-Nazi national organization called ''the Spider'' and the intelligence services of Arab countries and the legendary treasures of the Nazis smuggled into Germany before the end of World War II and the lost treasure of the FLN. Algeria?
And what is the connection between the members of the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" who are on trial at Winterthur and the former SS General Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina after World War II?

The connection exists.
His name: Francois Genoud.
Age: 51.
Citizenship: Swiss.
Profession: Banker.

The short man, always wearing gray suits and his thin hair pulled back carefully - looked like a gray clerk that no one would look at twice. But Francois Genoud, the neo-Nazi Swiss banker who was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era, is one of the greatest international adventurers of our time.
When I first met him about three weeks ago in the courtroom in Winterthur, I thought he was the legal correspondent for one of the Swiss newspapers. He sat and listened intently to hearings in the courtroom and made occasional remarks. Only then, when I saw him in the company of Algerian lawyer Yusufi, who serves as deputy chairman of the Arab Bar Association, did I decide to ask about him.
"The little man in the gray suit over there in the corner? Yes, of course I know him," a Swiss journalist answered my question. "This is a well-known Nazi, director of the Arab Commercial Bank in Geneva."

Ties with the Mufti

"It is not clear to me, the Swiss journalist added, what such a guy does here on Winterthur."
It was not clear to me either at that moment. However, a few days later, following a number of investigations I conducted in Switzerland, the whole affair became clear.
François Genoud - the little man in the gray suit - is one of the main thread pullers in all the major financial transactions of Arab countries and today one of the main funding channels of sabotage organizations in Europe.
His presence in the courtroom in Winterthur was not at all the presence of an observer - he came to the place as a capitalist to the place of investment. A considerable part of the expenses of the Arab side in the Winterthur trial and almost all the expenses of the various "leagues" for the Palestinians in Switzerland - are covered by Francois.

’’’Francois Genoud's love for Arabs is a love that depends on the thing. The "thing" in this case - his hatred of Jews.’’’

By 1936, at the age of 21, the young François had already joined the youth organization of the Swiss Nazi Party, the National Union Party, as a founding member.
I met in Switzerland some people who remembered him walking around in the "brown shirt" (of the Nazis) that had the swastika tag on a black ribbon tied around the sleeves of his shirt.
In 1940, François Genoud made his first contact with the Arabs. Together with a young Lebanese named Dauk (son of an influential Lebanese dignitary in Beirut) he opens a nightclub in Lausanne. This nightclub probably serves as a meeting place for the German spy service whose slave works Genoud.
His enlistment in the German intelligence service was made by the head of the town council of Tingen - a Swiss named Guttman - who served as a liaison between German intelligence and his Swiss agents. During his many travels to Germany - during World War II - he met with Hitler and Bormann and then also had first contacts with some figures of the Arab world.
He contacted the Mufti of Jerusalem, the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini, and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans. One of Hafid's aides at the time - a young Algerian named Yousufi - later became a well-known lawyer and one of Genoud's regular contacts.

The right to Hitler's writings

After World War II, Genoud was very active in providing aid to the Nazis who had fled Germany and tightening his ties with the SS General. Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina and established a Nazi organization there and helps absorb escaped SS men.
It was then rumored that Genoud had helped smuggle to Tangier - the center of international intrigue at the time - the vast art treasures looted by the Nazis from all over Europe..
His most important activity, however, was probably the organization of the smuggling of Nazi treasure into Switzerland and its deposit there in numbered accounts, which no government or foreign entity could afford to get their hands on.
For several years after World War II Genoud wandered from place to place with his actions carried out under the guise of almost complete anonymity.
In 1952, Genaud's name first appeared in the headlines when he went to war against a German publisher in Düsseldorf, who published a collection of Hitler articles entitled "Visible Things about War and Peace."
Genaud then appealed to the courts of Düsseldorf and Paris, claiming that he had all the rights to distribute the books of Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann! Indeed, Genoud won both sentences. It turns out that he has many documents in his hands and written material that was in the possession of Martin Borman, which raises the possibility that Genoud has been in contact with Bormann to this day (to accept the explanation, that Bormann is still alive).
In the ten years following World War II, he concentrated on providing assistance to smuggling Nazis fleeing to Latin America and the Middle East. In an article published in a Basel newspaper in 1964, entitled: "Search for Disappeared Nazis," the author of the article tells of a Nazi organization called "The Spider" which is the successor to another well-known Nazi organization: the "SS Odessa Expatriate Organization." The "spider" weaves its webs all over Europe when its operational center is in Switzerland, where the many millions plundered by the Nazis were also deposited.
According to the Basel newspaper, the man in charge of guarding this huge property was a Swiss resident of Lausanne. "His house is similar to the Hitler Museum," the author of the article wrote, "with swastikas everywhere and huge pictures of Hitler on every wall."
Of course many easily identified with the figure of the banker from Lausanne. - François Genaud...

Smuggling the treasure of the "FLN."

Genoud took advantage of his ties with the Mufti of Jerusalem to establish an extensive system of ties in Cairo that he used to get in touch with the heads of the Tunisian liberation organizations of North African countries.
In 1955, Genoud moved to Tangier, from where he began to develop ties with the whole of North Africa. In 1956 he maintained close contacts with Dr. Schacht, Hitler's Minister of Finance, and tried to interest him in large investments in Morocco. He also later organized after Algeria's independence, Dr. Schacht's visit to Algeria to advise the government Algerian in investment policy.
He then set up in Geneva (again under the advice of Dr. Schacht) the "Arab Commercial Bank" whose job it was to conduct financial transactions (mostly of a dubious and illegal nature) with the Arab world.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world.
A senior Arab diplomat also attended the bank's founding meeting. Thanks to Geno's ties with Ben Bella, he was able to win the post of director of the Algerian People's Bank and became financial adviser to the Algerian government. His main ties, however, were with Mohamed Khider, Ben-Bella's partner, who later became his great enemy.
On October 6, 1964, Genoud was arrested by the Ben-Bella government because of his ties to Khider, after being accused of smuggling the famous FLN treasure. Which was in the hands of Khider.
In February 1965, Genoud was freed by the Algerians after apparently agreeing with the Algerian authorities to transfer part of the PLN treasury. Estimated at the time at $ 20 million. (This treasure was collected during the underground period of the FLN. From donations by Algerian workers in Europe, who regularly paid taxes to F.L.N.).

The "affair" with the Palestinians

After Mohamed Khider was mysteriously murdered, the FLN's finance affair resurfaced. And the spotlight was once again on Genoud, who had many keys to the vanishing treasure affair. In the meantime, Genoud established new ties - through the Egyptians - with the Palestinian terrorist organizations, which began to emerge as the active factor of the Arab world. He began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.
The neo-Nazi aid to the Palestinian idea was so prominent that it began to upset pro-Palestinian left-wing circles in Switzerland. These circles - headquartered in Geneva - formed a rival organization and even began attacks against the neo-Nazi organization.
In an editorial published last week, in the Swiss Socialist Party newspaper, entitled: "Strange Observer: In a Winterthur Trial", one of the Socialist Party leaders writes of François Genoud.
And the author concludes: The question we ask ourselves is: "Is the ideology of the 'Popular Front' really fascist as its opponents claim or is the Nazis exploiting the Palestinian idea to purify their own name only?"
François Genoud certainly has more than one answer to this question.
</blockquote></ref>

He travelled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the grand mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut,<ref>Preston, David Lee (January 5, 1997). "[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-and-hitler.html Hitler's Swiss Connection]". The Philadelphia Inquirer.</ref> and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref>[http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/1705143/GENOUD,%20FRANCOIS_0029.pdf GENOUD, FRANCOIS_0029.pdf – CIA]</ref>

After the war, his close contact was Ibrahim Hafid's man, Abdul Yousufi. Genaud was very active in ''Die Spinne'' (German for "The Spider")<ref name=maariv19dec1969/> helping Nazi war criminals escape justice.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" - mostly of a dubious and illegal nature - was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world. Genoud began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/>
In the 1960s he began supplying arms for various "Palestinian" causes. His co founded Lausanne-based New European Order organisation, met in Barcelona in April 1969, there "Palestinian" groups received financial support and Genoud placed them in contact with former Nazis who would assist their military training, as well as pledged support designated for the [[PLO]].

Genoud was a close associate of George Habash and Jacques Vergès. In September 1969 he contributed finances for the legal expenses of three Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) following their attack on an El Al flight in Zurich, present at trial.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref name=leemartin1987>Lee, Martin A. and Coogan, Kevin (May 1987) "Killers on the Right: Inside Europe's Fascist Underground" Mother Jones. pp.45-52. [https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&q=Francois#v=snippet&q=Francois&f=false]</ref> Including among the prisoners to be exchange for the ''Achille Lauro'' hostages was one of West Germany's top neo Nazis.<ref name=leemartin1987/>

George Habbash was also close with former Belgian Nazi collaborator Jean Thiriart.<ref>Roots of violent radicalisation: nineteenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Vol. 1. Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee. The Stationery Office, Feb 6, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UiCRRtnmb10C&pg=RA1-PA100 p.100]</ref> He gave money to Thiriart's publication ''La Nation Européenne'', which in return supported Habbash in this magazine.
Pro-Arab and anti-Jewish themes were explicit in ''La Nation Européenne'', which included ads for ''The International Jew'', the infamous anti-Semitic screed by Henry Ford. ''La Nation Européenne'' also eulogized Roger Courdroy, a [[Belgian]] [[Waffen SS]] veteran who was killed fighting for the Palestinians in June 1968. Courdroy was a close collaborator with Thiriart.

German [[Wehrmacht]] officer in [[World War II]], Otto Ernst Remer was in contact with [[Yasser Arafat]], "I know Mr. Arafat quite well, natürlich," he asserted. "I saw him many times. He invited me to eat at his headquarters. I knew all his people. They wanted many things from us." For Remer, anyone who was an enemy of Israel was his friend, particularly when a profit could be turned. He claimed to have brokered several business deals between West German companies and the PLO.<ref>Lee, Martin A.. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181-182].</ref>

==Socialism to Jihadism==

Research paper:<ref>Sing, M. (2011). Brothers in Arms: How Palestinian Maoists Turned Jihadists. Die Welt Des Islams, 51(1), 1–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41105368</ref>
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At the beginning of the 1980s, the idea of armed jihad against Israel was not only promoted by renegades from the Muslim Brothers in the Gaza strip, but also by former Maoists of Fatah in Lebanon.

After the pull-out of most PLO-fighters from Beirut in 1982, a group around its spokesman Munir Shafìq formed the Brigades of Islamic Jihad which were subsequently responsible for attacks in Israel.

In a posthumously published booklet, two activists explained their reasons for their turn from Maoism to Islamism. The following article exposes the activists' trajectory and the stages of their ideological and religious conversion. According to their own narration, the former Maoists at first came to the conviction that Islam was a factor for mass mobilization and then individually adopted Islam to become practising Muslims...

Members of other Marxist groups (PFLP and PFLP-GC) also joined or formed jihad groups.</blockquote>
==The fascistic separating Jews from non-Jews==

*El Al Flight 426 hijacking - July 23, 1968.<ref>Naor, Mordechai. The war after the war. Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 1970. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ec1BAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1+%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D%22&dq=%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1+%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D%22 98].
<blockquote>
After the Boeing 707 plane took off from the Italian capital, it was taken over by two terrorists from the "Popular Front" and directed it to Damascus. When the plane landed in the capital of Syria, the passengers and crew hurried to leave through the escape hatches, because the hijackers threatened to blow it up immediately after landing. And indeed, a short time later, the plane crashed in its front part. The non-Jewish passengers were immediately released, followed by the 4 Israeli women who were among the passengers, two remained Prof. Shlomo Samolov and Mr. Saleh Moalem were held in a Syrian prison for 99 days...</blockquote ></ref>

*El Al Flight 253 attack - Dec 26, 1968, Athens.<ref>Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1987. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WwEMtRm6KVgC&pg=PA53 53].<blockquote>
On 26 December 1968, PFLP commandos stormed an El Al aircraft on the ground at Athens airport. Armed with hand grenades and machine guns, the terrorists attacked the plane carrying forty-one passengers and ten crew-members, screaming, "we want to kill Jews!" One passengers died in the attack and two stewardess were wounded.</blockquote></ref>

*Dawson's Field hijackings, September 1970.<ref>O'Connel, John F.l, ‎Williams, George. Air Transport in the 21st Century: Key Strategic Developments United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MVKoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT346].<blockquote>
Prior to the Dawson's Field hijackings, the PFLP had already achieved notoriety for several similar incidents, including the hijacking of an ... However, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, and kept 56 hostages..</blockquote></ref><ref>Berman, Esther Jane. Love Found Love Lost: The Adventures of a Love Struck Girl. United States: iUniverse, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WcUYf6inTwAC&pg=PT459].
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While the majority of the 310 hostages had been transferred to Amman and freed on September 11, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing the non-Jews.</blockquote></ref><ref>Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1987. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WwEMtRm6KVgC&pg=PA54 54].<blockquote>
On 6 September 1970, Khaled and several other PFLP members hijacked four planes...
Two days later, on 9 September, the PFLP took over a British airlines VC-10 flying to London from Bombay via Dubai and Bahrain; that plane joined the others at Jordan's Dawson Field...
All the hostages were released, except for 56 Jewish passengers...</blockquote></ref><ref>Sloan, Stephen., Anderson, Sean K.. Historical Dictionary of Terrorism. United States: Scarecrow Press, 2009. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aVcG7EkuPgAC&pg=PA539 539].<blockquote>Originally the hijackers held around 310 passengers and crew hostage to force the release of imprisoned terrorists elsewhere but released all but 56 who consisted of the flight crews and Jewish passengers...</blockquote></ref>

*Air France Flight 139. Entebbee, June 1976.<ref>Jonathan Spyer, [https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-hijackers-of-entebbe-the-full-story-636042 The hijackers of Entebbe - The full story], ''JPost'', July 23, 2020.<blockquote>
In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages.

But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.

In the event, almost all the hostages, Israeli and non-Israeli, were rescued. The long journey of Bose, Kuhlmann and their colleagues ended in their encounter with the IDF’s General Staff Reconnaissance Unit at the Entebbe Airport Terminal on July 4, 1976.</blockquote></ref>
<ref>Air Force Association. Air Force Magazine, Vol. 93, Iss. 7-12. United States: Air Force Association, 2010. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=27DhMudcNyYC&pg=RA5-PA64 64].<blockquote>
The terrorists collected passports and other documents and separated the Jewish passengers from the non-Jews...</blockquote></ref><ref>Ben-Natan, Asher. The audacity to live: chapters of life. Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2oltAAAAMAAJ&q=.+%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%90%C2%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D++%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA 290].
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine conveyed to the French Foreign Israel - its demand to release forty terrorists, who were locked up in prisons in Israel... Next to that came news that the terrorists had separated the abductees: all the non-Jewish passengers, including the Air France flight crew members...</blockquote></ref><ref>Ben Porat, Yesha'yahu. Haber, Eitan. Schiff, Zeev. Flight 139: the complete and reliable description of the "Air France" hijacking: the human story of the hostages, the political struggles, the military preparations, and the rescue operation in Entebbe. Israel: Zmora Bitan Modan, 1976. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UmmgAAAAMAAJ&q=.+%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%90%C2%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D++%D7%94%D7%97%D7%96%D7%99%D7%AA 54].
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A few hours later, the non-Jewish passengers were released and went outside the borders of Algeria. The Israelis were transferred to a military camp. In return, the kidnappers, members of the "Popular Front" organization headed by Dr. George Habash, demanded some terrorists, who were imprisoned in Israeli prisons at the time.</blockquote></ref><ref>Merav Halperin, G-Suit: Pages in Air pilots' writings. [Dapim beSefer haTisot shel Heil haAvir], Israel: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 2000. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WdYhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A8%20%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8%20%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%20%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1%20,%20%D7%91%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%97%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D,%20%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%91%D7%94%20%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%94%22 255].
<blockquote>The plane later took off, on the order of the hijackers, to Entebbe in Uganda. The hijackers, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, released the non-Jewish passengers and left as hostages only the 105 passengers of Jewish origin..</blockquote></ref>

=="Palestinian" terroristic NGOs==

There is Overwhelming evidence of ties between Palestinian NGOs and the [[PFLP]] terrorists.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/overwhelming-evidence-of-ties-between-palestinian-ngos-and-the-pflp/ Overwhelming evidence of ties between Palestinian NGOs and the PFLP’], ''JNS'', Feb 1, 2023. 
Based on open-source materials, NGO Monitor's research identified at least 60 Palestinian NGO officials with links to the terror group...

According to NGO Monitor’s 85-page report, titled “Clear and Convincing: The Links between the PFLP and the European Government-funded NGO Network,” the E.U. position is “untenable.”

Based on open-source materials, NGO Monitor identified at least 60 Palestinian NGO officials with links to the PFLP, including some convicted for planning or executing terrorist attacks, such as the August 2019 murder of 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.

“Five of the NGOs have highly visible organizational links to the PFLP,” NGO Monitor said.

On Oct. 22, 2021, Israel listed six Palestinian NGOs as terror groups: Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees. A seventh NGO, Health Work Committees (HWC), was designated in January 2020.

“Those organizations were active under the cover of civil society organizations, but in practice belong and constitute an arm of the [PFLP] leadership, the main activity of which is the ‘liberation’ of Palestine and destruction of Israel,” announced then-Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.</ref>

== See also==
*[[Damour massacre]]
*[[Samidoun]]
*[[Al-Haq]]

== References ==
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Polish Americans

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'''Polish Americans''' are Americans of total or partial Polish descent. Their community is often called '''Polonia.''' The major immigration of Polish Catholics came to the U.S. 1890-1914. Some returned but most stayed. They were unskilled farm workers but did not enter farming in America. Instead they took unskilled manual labor jobs in burgeoning heavy industry, especially coal mining (in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois), meatpacking (in Chicago), steel (Pittsburgh, Gary), construction (in many large cities). The favorite destinations were large industrial cities near the Great Lakes, especially Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Cleveland, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Other destinations they commonly went to included New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Kansas City, St. Louis, and New England cities, such as Boston, Hartford, and Providence. Most Polish Americans are [[Roman Catholic]].

==Immigrants==
Immigration occurred in three waves. The largest group came before 1929, mostily 1900–1914, and comprised peasant farmers who immigrated for economic reasons; the second group consisted of post-World War II displaced persons and was more likely to be urban and educated. The third group contained more recent urban, educated immigrants who were escaping a Communist government. The first generation became unskilled industrial laborers. Few became farmers (but many became home owners in industrial cities.) By the second generation, after 1940, social-occupational mobility turned upward.<ref>Celia Berdes, and Adam A. Zych, "Immigration Incarnate: Elderly Polish Immigrants and Ethnics Demonstrate the History of an Immigration and its Effects on Social Class." ''Polish American Studies'' 2005 62(1): 43-51. Issn: 0032-2806</ref>
==Media==
Chicago's Polonia sustained diverse political cultures, each with its own newspaper. In 1920 the community had a choice of five daily papers - from the Socialist ''Dziennik Ludowy'' [People's daily] (1907–25) to the Polish Roman Catholic Union's ''Dziennik Zjednoczenia'' [Union daily] (1921–39) - all of which supported workers' struggles for better working conditions and were part of a broader program of cultural and educational activities. The decision to subscribe to a particular paper reaffirmed a particular ideology or institutional network based on ethnicity and class, which lent itself to different alliances and different strategies.<ref>Jon Bekken, "Negotiating Class and Ethnicity: the Polish-language Press in Chicago." ''Polish American Studies'' 2000 57(2): 5-29. Issn: 0032-2806</ref>

==Politics==
Wincenty Michal Barzynski, born in Poland, served as a Roman Catholic missionary to the new Polish communities in Texas in 1866 before beginning a 25-year-long tenure as pastor of Saint Stanislaw Kostka parish in Chicago in 1869. One of the most important and controversial individuals in late-19th century Polonia, his work provides insight into the reaction of Polish immigrants to the world of modern industrial capitalism. While working-class Poles generally felt that capitalism strained and ruptured familial and social ties, they nonetheless rejected radicalization and socialism, thanks in large part to the leadership and opposition to socialism of priests like Barzynski. For pastors such as Barzynski, the issue of labor versus capital was less important than the greater struggle to build a lasting Polish community in the United States. By 1900 the priests allowed the workers to join labor unions, at least those controlled by conservative Irish Catholics.<ref>John Radzilowski, "Rev. Wincenty Barzynski and a Polish Catholic Response to Industrial Capitalism." ''Polish American Studies'' 2001 58(2): 23-32. Issn: 0032-2806</ref>

Polish Americans kept a low profile in politics after 1900. The urban machines tried to minimize the number of voters before 1928 (so they could control local elections), but reversed course in 1928, so that big city majorities could carry the state's electoral votes. Poles started voting, but few became politiians.<ref>Edward R. Kantowicz, ''Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 1888-1940'' (1975)</ref>

===Schools===
During the [[Progressive Era]] (1890–1932) Chicago's public school system offered English-language basic adult education and literacy classes to Lithuanian and Polish immigrants. Lithuanian and Polish immigrant community leaders - parish priests, newspaper editors, and the professional elite - called on members of their communities in various immigrant publications to attend these classes. They agreed with the Yankee and Irish Catholic educators who maintained that immigrants needed English-language skills to advance in society, but they also wanted their own ethnic groups to outshine other groups. In addition to the Chicago public schools, Lithuanian organizations like the Lithuanian Women's Educational Society and the Aurora Society, and Polish organizations, such as the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Women's Alliance, established classes for their respective immigrant groups. Neither Lithuanians nor Poles responded to their leaders' calls for involvement in literate activities to the degree hoped. Workers cited a lack of time and energy, and yet they found the time to pursue amusements like dancing and playing poker.<ref>Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. "Together and Apart: Lithuanian and Polish Immigrant Adult Literacy Programs in Chicago, 1890-1930." ''Polish American Studies'' 2000 57(2): 31-44. Issn: 0032-2806</ref> The Catholic school system operated Polish-language elementary schools, but the Catholic high schools and colleges were English-language and multi-ethnic, which speeded assimilation and intermarriage with other Catholic ethnics.

A wave of Polish immigrants after 1980 put new pressure on both the public and parochial school systems of Chicago and other large cities to institute bilingual education programs, similar to those for Spanish-speaking students. After many years of uneven results, Chicago in 2003 had Polish bilingual programs in 19 elementary schools and five secondary schools. The Catholic schools prefer the immersion approach with non-English speaking pupils placed in regular classrooms, sometimes with help from volunteers. Another change in Chicago education has been the development of Saturday schools that offer specialized language and cultural classes that are unavailable in the regular school systems. These Saturday schools are found in the suburbs as well as in Chicago itself and allow Polish Americans to encourage their children to learn and appreciate their heritage.<ref>Geraldine Balut Coleman, "Educating Polish Immigrants Chicago Style: 1980-2002." ''Polish American Studies'' 2004 61(1): 27-38. Issn: 0032-2806</ref>

Among notables:
Anne Wojcicki, founder of ''23andme''.

== See also ==
*[[Ethnic Groups Gallery]]
*[[Tadeusz Kosciuszko]]

==External links==
* [http://pma.prcua.org/homeen.html The Polish Museum of America], based in Chicago; includes Archives of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
==Bibliography==
* Anders-Silverman, Deborah. ''Polish-American Folklore.'' U of Illinois Press, 2000.
* Brozek, Andrzej. ''Polish Americans, 1854-1939'' (1985)
* Bukowczyk, John J. ''A History of the Polish Americans'' (2007)* Bukowczyk, John J. ''And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans'' (1987)
* Bukowczyk, John J., ed. ''Polish Americans and Their History.'' U of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
* Bukowczyk, John J. ''Poletown: Urban change in industrial Detroit : the making of Detroit's east side, 1850-1990'' (1991)
* Erdmans, Mary Patrice. ''Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990.'' (1998). 267 pp.
* Greene, Victor. ''For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910.'' (1975). 202 pp.
* Galush, William J. ''For More Than Bread: Community and Identity in American Polonia, 1880-1940,'' (East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press; 313 pages; 2007). Explores competing versions of Polish identity in Polish-American communities during the period.
* Gladsky, Thomas S. ''Princes, Peasants and Other Polish Selves: Ethnicity in American Literature.'' (1992), ISBN 0870237756. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7575521 online version]
* Jackson, David J. "Just Another Day in a New Polonia: Contemporary Polish-American Polka Music." ''Popular Music and Society.'' 26#4 (2003) pp: 529+. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002441510 online version]
* Kantowicz, Edward R. ''Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 1888-1940'' (1975) 267 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=dt1hXjPYgxAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:polish+intitle:american&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3&sig=6Z7WrXBU_esVtXrI_7qJiDtCugE excerpt and text search]
* Lopata, Helena Znaniecka, ''Polish Americans: Status Competition in an Ethnic Community'' (1976), ISBN 0136864368. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91961334 online version]
* Mcginley, Theresa Kurk. "Embattled Polonia Polish-Americans and World War II." ''East European Quarterly.'' 37#3 2003. pp: 325+. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002566052 online version]
* Majewski, Karen. ''Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939,'' (2003) - 248 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=qUODHd5UVtMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:polish+intitle:american&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3&sig=5RH4o0GULxLjv_0bf0DE_9bOlSQ excerpts and text search]
* Nowakowski, Jacek. ''Polish-American Ways'' (1989)
* Pacyga, Dominic A. ''Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1920.'' (1991). 322 pp. [https://www.amazon.com/Polish-Immigrants-Industrial-Chicago-1880-1922/dp/0226644243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198664960&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Parot, Joseph John. ''Polish Catholics in Chicago, 1850-1920: A Religious History.'' (1982) 298 pp.
* Pula, James S. ''Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community'' (1995)
* Pula, James S. "Image, Status, Mobility and Integration in American Society: The Polish Experience." ''Journal of American Ethnic History'' 16 (1996): 74–95.
* Sadler, Charles. "Pro-Soviet Polish Americans: Oskar Lange and Russia's Friends in the Polonia, 1941-1945," ''Polish Review'' 22, (1977), 4: 30+
* Silverman, Deborah. ''Polish-American Folklore'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Polish-American-Folklore-Society-Deborah-Silverman/dp/0252025695/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198664222&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]
* Wytrwal, Joseph A. ''Poles in American History and Tradition'' (1969),
* Zurawski, Joseph L. ''Polish American History and Culture: A Classified Bibliography'' (1975)

===Primary sources===
* Mostwin, Danuta. ''Testaments: Two Novellas Of Emigration & Exile'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/Testaments-Novellas-Emigration-American-Studies/dp/0821416073/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198664084&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Thomas, William, and Florian Znaniecki. ''The Polish Peasant in Europe and America.'' 2 vol 1920, ISBN 0252010922 (1984 printing). ; famous classic [https://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC11633316&id=zaUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PR7&lpg=RA1-PR7&dq=Thomas+and+Florian+Znaniecki++Polish online edition]

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Peter Baker (journalist)

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'''Peter Baker''' is an American journalist, born on July 2, 1967, in Falls Church, [[VA]].
He is of [[Greek]] decent.

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Pete Hegseth

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'''Peter Brian Hegseth''' (born June 6, 1980) is the 2025 [[United States Secretary of War]]. He has no significant education, training, or experience in military strategy, and appears unaware of what constitutes a [[War crimes|war crime]]. Many speculate that his admission to [[Princeton University]] was as a recruit to play basketball, as its team is prominent at the university and would have had influence over admissions. The fact that Hegseth played in dozens of its basketball games, including as a freshman, strongly implies that he was a sports team recruit for admissions purposes.

On March 13, 2026, Hegseth responded dismissively to valid questions about [[Iran]]'s control of the [[Strait of Hormuz]]: "It's something we're dealing with, we have been dealing with it, and [you] don't need to worry about it," Hegseth said. He insisted that the [[U.S.]] would not allow this essential shipping channel to "remain contested."<ref>https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-worry-strait-hormuz-us-time-counter-irans/story?id=131036790</ref> Shortly before the [[2026 midterm elections]], Hegseth announced that he ordered the livestreaming of the upcoming execution of the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, a decision Trump reversed after overwhelming disapproval.

Hegseth is a former co-host of ''Fox & Friends Weekend'' cable show, which is how Trump began to admire him. Hegseth also served as [[CEO]]/executive director of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), an organization funded by the [[Koch]] [[oligarch]]s that advocated for [[privatizing]] VA health care, limiting eligibility (e.g., to service-connected disabilities only), and reducing overall government-provided benefits to redirect funds toward “[[war]]-fighting capability.”

Hegseth's books: “Battle for the American Mind” (June, 2022) – spent over twelve weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including four straight weeks at #1. Two of Pete's previous books – “American Crusade” and “Modern Warriors” – were also best-sellers.<ref>[https://petehegseth.com Petehegseth.com]</ref>

In 2016, Trump considered Hegseth for [[VA]] Secretary.<ref>Morgan Chalfant, [https://freebeacon.com/issues/trump-considering-brown-hegseth-va-secretary/ Trump Considering Brown, Hegseth for VA Secretary]. ''Free Beacon'', November 30, 2016</ref> Hagseth said regarding the [[Pentagon]], "First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the [[Joint Chiefs]]...Any general, any admiral, whatever, who was involved in [[diversity, equity and inclusion]] programs or [[woke]] sh*t has got to go."<ref>[https://archive.is/QceFX#selection-509.0-649.17 Pete Hegseth has said exactly how he will shake up the Pentagon], By Missy Ryan, Dan Lamothe, John Hudson and Alex Horton, ''[[Washington Post]]'', November 12, 2024.</ref>

==Secretary of Defense==
===Feb 12, 2025 Brussels speech===

In a speech to [[NATO]] representatives in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]] on February 12, 2025, shortly after taking office, Hegseth said,
{{Cquote|We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.

Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the [[war]] and cause more suffering.

A durable peace for Ukraine must include robust [[security guarantee]]s to ensure that the war will not begin again.

This must not be [[Minsk Accords|Minsk 3.0]].

That said, the [[United States]] does not believe that [[NATO]] membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.

Instead any security guarantee must be backed by capable [[European]] and non-European troops.

If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to Ukraine at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission. And they should not covered under [[Article 5]]. There also must be robust international oversight of the line of contact.

[...]

The [[United States]] faces consequential threats to our homeland. We must – and we are – focusing on security of our own borders.

We also face a peer competitor in the [[Communist Chinese]] with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national interests in the [[Indo-Pacific]]. The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with [[China]] in the [[Pacific]], recognizing the reality of scarcity, and making the resourcing tradeoffs to ensure [[deterrence]] does not fail.

Deterrence cannot fail, for all of our sakes.

As the United States prioritizes its attention to these threats, [[European]] allies must lead from the front.

Together, we can establish a [[division of labor]] that maximizes our comparative advantages in Europe and Pacific respectively.<ref>[https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/ Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (As Delivered)], Feb. 12, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Brussels, Belgium. defense.gov</ref>}}
In late September 2025 as international tensions [[escalated]], Hegseth summoned all active duty generals and admirals to an urgent meeting in [[Quantico]], [[Virginia]] for an undisclosed meeting. Speculation abounded the purpose of the meeting. Many of the high-ranking officers were contact with each other to find out why Hegseth has ordered such an unprecedented gathering that will upend the schedules of hundreds of them.<ref>https://www.twz.com/land/war-secretarys-emergency-meeting-a-mystery-to-hundreds-of-top-officers-ordered-to-attend</ref> A consensus emerged that the order for all top military officers to meet in one place was for critical [[domestic]] reasons, as they would not be put in one place to plan [[war]] on a [[foreign]] country where they could wiped out with a single [[missile]] strike.

===Iran war===
{{See also|Iran war}}
Hegseth hid from the [[American]] public the number of [[U.S.]] casualties from [[Iranian]] retaliatory strikes after [[U.S.]] strikes on [[Iranian]] [[civilian]] [[infrastructure]].<ref>https://archive.is/rytER#selection-8059.0-8059.62</ref>

==Views==

Hegseth rightfully criticized [[Turkey]]'s membership of [[NATO]], saying Turkish [[Islamism|Islamist]] president [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] "openly dreams of restoring the [[Ottoman empire]]" and is "an [[Islamist]] with Islamist visions for the [[Middle East]].<ref name="dm">(Nov 25, 2024). [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123927/pete-hegseth-critical-nato-alliances-trump-pentagon.html Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth believes NATO should be 'scrapped' and remade]. ''Daily Mail''.</ref>

Hegseth believes, [[NATO]] should be 'scrapped' and remade.<ref name="dm"/>

From a written testimony, submitted to [[Congress]] ahead of (Jan/2025) confirmation vote:<ref>[https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/hegseth-china-russia-nukes-policy What Hegseth thinks of Russia and China as he takes the Pentagon reins], ''Axios'', Jan 29, 2025</ref>
<blockquote>
*[[China]]: The potential seizure of [[Taiwan]], a "fait accompli," should motivate U.S. military modernization. [[Guam]] is a linchpin for [[Indo-Pacific]] success. Collaborating with [[Japan]] will pay deterrence dividends.

*[[Russia]]: Despite sanctions and other constraints, its war machine still packs a punch. [[Moscow]]'s digital subterfuge and [[Arctic]] ambitions "are particularly acute." The invasion of [[Ukraine]] is "settling into a [[war of attrition]]."

*[[Iran]]: The regime, which props up [[violent]] [[proxies]], creeps closer to [[nuclear weapon]]s. Its [[missile]] and [[drone]] arsenal demands countermeasures. The [[U.S.]] should help [[Israel]] defend itself.

*[[North Korea]]: An "intense focus" on [[missile]] development, hacking gains and [[nuclear arms]] is concerning. Its "space capabilities" must be monitored. [[Missile defense]] needs beefing up closer to home.

*[[Nuclear weapon|Nukes]]: A triad is a necessity. Full stop. And full steam ahead on the Sentinel nuclear missile, B-21 Raider and the Columbia-class [[submarine]]. Partnering with the National Nuclear Security Administration is of highest priority. NNSA labs, plants and sites want for dramatic renovations.

*Doing business: The [[Pentagon]] is thinking too narrowly; it should look beyond [[Cold War]] suppliers. Places like the Office of Strategic Capital and Defense Innovation Unit are oases. Delayed, over-budget projects require a "thorough review."

*Army upgrades: [[War]]s abroad underline the value of cyber, autonomy and precision fires. </blockquote>

[[File:Netanyahu with Pete Hegseth.2.5.25.jpg|thumb|[[Netanyahu]] with Pete Hegseth.2.5.25]]

At the Reagan National Defense Forum in December 2025 Hegseth outline [[Trump 2.0]] administration [[foreign policy]]:<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5637405-hegseth-speech-border-security-china/</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/LAQbqbhVsdc Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum.] [[Department of War]]. Dec 6, 2025.</ref>
{{Cquote|The [[War Department]] will not be distracted by [[democracy]] building, [[interventionism]], undefined [[war]]s, [[regime change]], [[climate change]], [[woke]] [[moral]]izing and feckless [[nation-building]]...We will instead put our [[nation]]'s [[pragmatic|practical]], concrete interests first...Out with [[idealistic]] [[utopia]]nism...In with hard-nosed [[realism]].}}

== Personal background ==

Hegseth served in the US Army and did tours in [[Guantanamo Bay]], [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-nominates-pete-hegseth-serve-defense-secretary Trump nominates Pete Hegseth to serve as defense secretary]. By Louis Casiano, ''Fox News'', November 12, 2024</ref> He is [[Princeton]] and [[Harvard]] educated. He has been married three times: during his first marriage he engaged in an affair with a woman who would become his second wife; and in his second marriage he engaged in an affair with a woman who would become his third wife (she became pregnant with his child during the affair).

==External links==
*[https://petehegseth.com/ Petehegseth.com - official page]
*[https://x.com/PeteHegseth Hegseth on X, formerly Twitter]
*[https://youtu.be/HFKEmV7rI0U Hitler phones Hegseth]

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Pele

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[[File:Pelé.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Pelé]]
'''Pelé''' (1940–2022) (born Edson Arantes do Nascimento<ref>http://who2.com/pele.html</ref>) was a [[Brazil]]ian [[soccer]] player who spent time late in his career in the [[U.S.]] with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. Most, including [[FIFA]], consider him the greatest soccer player ever. His career "record of 1,281 goals in 1,363 games is still unsurpassed."<ref name="G">https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/dec/24/another-night-together-pele-fights-with-faith-in-hospital-as-family-gather</ref>

Pelé led Brazil to [[World Cup]] championships in 1958, 1962 and 1970 - three out of the four tournaments when Pele was in his prime. In the 1958 tournament, Pelé (at the age of 17) scored six goals in the final three games, including a goal in the finals that is considered one of the greatest ever.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6209210/pele-1958-world-cup-sweden/</ref> In the 1970 tournament, Pelé led what is considered, to have been the finest soccer team ever. One list of his 10 greatest goals includes a bicycle-kick goal by Pele.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/pele-soccer-star-most-memorable-goals-cf87bb393b76985ef610ab68b070a612</ref>

Upon winning the 1970 World Cup final, Pelé did not rejoice with his teammates immediately. Instead, Pelé went off alone to give thanks to [[God]]. He explained that his team prayed together before winning the finals also, "But never that we might win. We prayed for the poor, the crippled, the sick, the innocent in wars and for the health of loved ones."<ref>https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-05/04/pele-interview-football-messi-fifa-racism/viewall</ref>

Pelé also played on the Brazilian World Cup team in 1966, but was injured due to the disgraceful violence of opposing team members from the Bulgarian and Portuguese national teams.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jul/24/1966-world-cup-final-conspiracy-refereeing-50-years</ref>

For the most of his career, he played in Santos Futebol Clube, a soccer team of Santos, in the state of São Paulo. He joined the New York Cosmos in 1975 and played for them until his retirement from soccer following a sold-out exhibition game between the Cosmos and his old club Santos at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on October 1, 1977.

God fearing Pele was careful to mention, thanking God.<ref>For example [https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42751517.amp Pele: Brazil football legend dies aged 82. ''BBC'', 29 December 2022] At clip, Timestamp 1:45.</ref> However, during his life he had multiple sexual liaisons, both inside and outside of marriage, resulting in more than one child born out of wedlock (though he did recognize all of his children as his and supported them).

[[File:FlLgbJeXkAID4K8.jpg|thumbnail|Pelé with a T-shirt sent to Jair Bolsonaro.]]
Apparently close to the end of his life on December 23, 2022, one of his daughters posted a picture and message on Instagram, "fighting and with [[faith]]," from his bedside.<ref name="G"/>
==Quotes==
{{cquote|I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from [[God]]. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'<ref>https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/pele_531369</ref>}}
== See also ==
*[http://www.mahalo.com/pele/ Description of Pelé's achievements]
*[[Greatest Achievements by Teenagers]]

== External links ==

Videos:

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmrwHwxiKc Pele's skills]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0030YClQQ Pele ● Highlights ● The Best Goals & Skills of the King]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2D_uVetdz4 Pelé | The Greatest Football Player Of All Time | King Of Football | Full Documentary]

==References==
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Pam Bondi

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'''Pamela Jo Bondi''' (born November 17, 1965) was the ineffective first [[Attorney General]] of the [[Trump 2.0|Second Trump Administration]], serving until she was fired by President [[Donald Trump]] on April 2, 2026. She was nominated by Trump after his reelection in November 2024, and was chosen after enough Senate Republicans opposed Trump's first choice, Matt Gaetz, to force him to withdraw.<ref>[https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/trump-says-he-will-nominate-former-florida-ag-pam-bondi-to-be-us-attorney-general-after-first-pick-matt-gaetz-withdrew/ Trump says he will nominate former Florida AG Pam Bondi to be US Attorney General after first pick, Matt Gaetz, withdrew], ''The Associated Press'', Nov 21, 2024</ref><ref>BreitbartNews ([https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1886940038874673405 Feb 4, 2025]):
<blockquote>BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has confirmed @PamBondi as President Trump's Attorney General — she has reached 51 yea votes
(Ben Curtis/AP)</blockquote></ref> A Republican, Bondi previously served as the 37th [[Florida]] attorney general from 2011 to 2019, as the first woman elected to that office, and after that as a paid lobbyist.<ref name=tcth>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=pam+bondi [https://web.archive.org/web/20241122151033/https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/21/president-trump-nominates-pam-bondi-for-u-s-attorney-general-the-deep-swamp-smiles/].</ref>

She was refreshingly colorful in her rebukes of [[liberal]] senators during her confirmation hearing in mid-January 2025. “I'm not here to do your homework for you,”<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2025/01/im-not-here-to-do-your-homework-for-you-pam-bondi-crushes-u-s-senators-during-confirmation-hearing/</ref> was one of her many retorts to [[Democrat]] senators.

In 2016, Bondi was active in "Women for Trump."<ref>Conway, K. (2024). Here's the Deal: A Memoir. United States: Threshold Editions, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8yUmEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA351 p.351]</ref> And she has defended him ever since.

She is known especially as being tough on crime.

In the past, some conservatives<ref name=tcth/> have criticized her, especially regarding the 2012 [[Trayvon Martin]] case and prosecution of "[[white Hispanic]]" [[George Zimmerman]] for exercising his legal right to "Stand Your Ground" when [[violent]]ly assaulted.

Bondi's DOJ Day 1 directives in February 2025: "Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift death penalty ban."<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondis-day-one-doj-directives-renew-focus-death-penalty-combat-weaponization-justice-cartels Bondi's DOJ Day 1 directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift death penalty ban].
"Bondi ends moratorium on federal executions, warns prosecutors about working against DOJ mission." Feb 5, 2025. ''Fox News.''</ref>

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Palestinian terrorist ramming attack (Jerusalem February 2023)

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'''Palestinian terrorist ramming attack (Jerusalem February 2023)''':

[[File:Palestinian.ramming.attack.Feb.10.23.jpg|thumb|"Palestinian" ramming attack (Feb.10.23)]]
On February 10, 2023, at around 1:27 p.m., Hussein Qaraqe [Hossein Karaka / Qaraqa] [حسين كركة], a 31-year-old Arab [[Islamism|Islamist]] "[[Palestinian]]" resident of the Issawiya [العيساوية] neighborhood, accelerated his car and crashed into a bus stop at then entrance to the Ramot neighborhood in [[Jerusalem]], while many passengers were waiting there.<ref>David Rosenberg, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367260 2 dead, 5 injured in Jerusalem terror attack], ''Israel National News'', Feb 10, 2023.<blockquote>
Ramming attack at Ramot, Jerusalem bus stop, leaves two dead, one a 6-year-old boy, five people injured.
Two people were killed and five more injured in a terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem Friday afternoon.
 
The attack occurred at 1:27 p.m. Friday at a bus stop in the Ramot neighborhood of the capital.

According to preliminary reports, the terrorist rammed his car into a group of pedestrians who were waiting for a bus on Golda Meir Boulevard, on the edge of Ramot near the Tomb of Samuel (Nebi Samuel National Park).

Witnesses say the terrorist, who has been identified as 31-year-old Issawiya resident Hussein Karaka, has been eliminated.

Emergency first responders from MDA and United Hatzalah were dispatched to the scene to treat the injured.

Two children injured in the attack were initially listed in critical condition, with two other victims listed as being seriously injured, and two in moderate condition.

Two of the victims, including a six-year-old boy, later succumbed to their injuries.

"A car hit the people at the bus stop. Volunteers are currently performing CPR on a young boy approximately eight years old," said United Hatzalah CEO Eli Pollack. "Another man in his late 20s is in critical condition. We treated three other three people who were hurt in the incident."</blockquote></ref> The Islamist targeted Haredim who overwhelminly do not even serve in the IDF. Most of the victims are members of one ultra-Orthodox family who got off a bus at the station shortly before the attack.<ref>[https://www.kikar.co.il/haredim-news/437900 Most of the victims in the attack: members of an ultra-Orthodox family who got off at the station], Kikar haShabbat, Feb 10, 2023. 
Members of an ultra-Orthodox family got off the bus at the last stop of the Ramot neighborhood - and a few minutes later, several of them were injured in the severe trampling attack on Shabbat Kodesh eve.</ref>
Murdering three, two children and a newlywed young man<ref>[https://www.jns.org/child-killed-five-others-injured-in-jerusalem-car-ramming/ Three killed, three wounded in Jerusalem car-ramming attack], ''JNS'', Febb10, 2023. 
The fatalities were identified as six-year-old Yaakov Israel Paley and his eight-year-old brother Asher Menachem, and 20-year-old Alter Shlomo Lederman.
</ref> and injuring five.

[[File:Children.murdered.by.Palestinian.Arab.Islamist.rammimg.terror.Feb.10.23.jpg|thumb|An article read: "Why should I lose both of you in one day?” (Genesis 27:44) Holy and pure: the holy brothers of the Pali family who were murdered in Ramot.<ref>[https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1501818 Why should I lose both of you in one day?” Holy and pure: the holy brothers of the Pali family who were murdered in Ramot], Bhol, Feb 11, 2023.</ref>]]

A mother lost two of her sons. Children.<ref>Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1625253715836825632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw February 13, 2023]):<blockquote>The mother of Asher and Yaakov z"l.
Another Jewish mother who will not be able to kiss her children, read them a bedtime story or play with them. Only because she raised her children in the Jewish homeland of Israel. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo4PpHCWcBczK3y?format=jpg]</blockquote></ref><ref>Kobi Ettinger, [https://www.kikar.co.il/haredim-news/437926 Crying for her sons Her two sons were murdered in front of her eyes - The mother after the identification: "What is there to say? I sent the victim back"], Kikar haShabbat, Feb 11, 2023. 
"The mother looked at me and asked - 'Is he alive?' Inside my heart I was broken, I knew the truth but she didn't know the condition of her children", the volunteer who took care of the scene of the attack recounts the inhuman moments in front of a mother who lost two of her sons | The mother responded: "Thank you very much to God that I received the child for 5 years, I sent a sacrifice back" (Dayan haEmet).</ref><ref>Haim Golditch, Liran Tamari, Einav Halabi, [https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bkxbhqhas Two children were murdered in the attack in Jerusalem: 8-year-old Asher was pronounced dead, and his brother was also run over to death], ''YNet'', Feb 11, 2023.<blockquote>
The number of victims of the attack in the Ramot neighborhood rose to three: less than a day after 6-year-old Yaakov Israel Pelli was laid to rest, his brother Asher, who was mortally wounded in the run-over attack, was pronounced dead. Their father was injured. The terrorist was released from a psychiatric hospital before carrying out the attack. 10 members of his family and those around him were arrested, six of them have already been released.
The number of those murdered in the attack in the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem rose to three: today, during Shabbat, the death of 8-year-old Asher Menachem Pelli, who was mortally wounded in the attack, was determined at Shaare Zedek Hospital. His younger brother Jacob Israel (6), who was also murdered, was laid to rest before the Sabbath.
It was reported from Shaare Zedek that the boy who arrived in critical condition during CPR and many teams from the trauma unit, from the ER, children's intensive care, surgery and children's neurosurgery fought for many hours for his life.</blockquote></ref>

"The terrorist was standing at the traffic light and was just waiting for there to be many people at the station".<ref>Liran Temari, [https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b1qhc6mpj The testimonies: "The terrorist waited for the station to fill up - and ran over" | Documentation: This is how he was neutralized], ''YNet'', Feb 10, 2023.<blockquote>
People who witnessed the attack at the Ramot intersection in Jerusalem say that it took a while for the terrorist to be neutralized with gunfire. Medic Yehuda stood up: "The shocking sights brought me back to the attack in the Ramot neighborhood where I was injured." A student who passed by: "The terrorist was standing at the traffic light and was just waiting for there to be many people at the station".</blockquote></ref>

A noted Lt. Col. asked:<ref>Lt. Col. Richard Hecht @LtColRichard Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/LtColRichard/status/1624019829471444992 Feb 10, 2023]):
<blockquote>
What kind of person runs over children waiting at a Bus Station with a car?</blockquote></ref><blockquote>
What kind of person runs over children waiting at a Bus Station with a car?
</blockquote>
==Jihadism==
In August 2022, the terrorist praised Jihadism.<ref>[https://t.me/torahidf/9872 Combat Theory, Feb 10, 2023]<blockquote>
The terrorist who carried out the attack, Hossein Karkake..., wrote in a post he published on Facebook last August: "Long live our brave resistance, led by the free national leader Abu Tarek (Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Ziad al-Nakhla) and the Jihad movement, (Al [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades|Brigades]] Al-Quds".
So why did he walk free?
Why did he live among us until he decided to murder Jews with complete freedom?
So why did he walk free?
Why did he live among us until he decided to murder Jews with complete freedom?</blockquote></ref>

The terrorist called the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad ([[PIJ]]) "the national leader."<ref>Ynet @ynetalerts: ([https://twitter.com/ynetalerts/status/1624049697974280195 Feb 10, 2023]):<blockquote>
Forces raid the house of the terrorist Hussein Karake, who called the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad "the national leader."</blockquote></ref>

It is suspected that some of his family members knew about the terrorist's intention.<ref>Alon Hachmon, Shahar Berdichevsky, [https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/Article-979736 Holder of a blue ID card from East Jerusalem: this is the terrorist who carried out the attack], ''Maariv'', 10/02/2023.<blockquote>
The terrorist who carried out the murderous attack is Hussein Karaka [Qaraqe], a 31-year-old Israeli Arab from Issawiya in East Jerusalem. In the meantime, police and security forces raided his house and arrested 10 of his family members. It is suspected that some of them knew about the terrorist's intention.</blockquote></ref>

==Gloating about massacre - cult==
"Palestinians" viciously praised the cold blooded murder, including [[Hamas]] and the [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades|Al-Aqsa Brigades]].<ref>Yisrael Lefkowitz, [https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1501652 The Palestinians welcome the trampling attack in Ramot], Bhol, 19th Shevat 5783, (10/02/2023). 
Hamas and the welcome the stampede attack in Jerusalem: The Al-Aqsa Brigades praised the attack.</ref>
[[Abu Mazen]]'s [[Fatah]] praised the murderer for "continuing the path" of other terrorists.<ref>[https://palwatch.org/page/32643 Fatah praises child killer for "continuing the path" of other terrorists], ''Palwatch'', Feb 14, 2023. <blockquote>Fatah praises child killer who murdered 2 brothers aged 6 and 8 and a young man aged 19 for “continuing the path” of other terrorists.
Fatah in the Deheisheh refugee camp “eulogized” child killer “through the loudspeakers of the camp’s mosques”.
The PA, Fatah, the PFLP terror organization, and the PA-funded Prisoners’ Club call child killer a “Martyr.”</blockquote></ref>

Hamas put up a huge poster in Gaza City with the picture of the terrorist who ran aground in Jerusalem Hossein Qaraqe praising the attack.<ref>[Journalist & orientalist, political strategy, intelligence, terrorism, lecturer on M.E and communication] Yoni ben menachem @yonibmen ([https://twitter.com/yonibmen/status/1624300680306458626 Feb 10, 2023]):<blockquote>
Hamas put up a huge poster in Gaza City with the picture of the terrorist who ran aground in Jerusalem Hossein Qaraqe praising the attack.</blockquote></ref>

[[File:Arabs.handing.out.sweets.to.express.joy.at.bloody attack.Feb.10.2023.jpg|thumb|The Arabs started handing out sweets in Gaza following the severe attack in Jerusalem. (Feb.10.2023)]]
Racist Arabs began handing out sweetes to express sick 'joy.'<ref name=algemeiner-10feb23/><ref>@Israel_yamin Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/Israel_yamin/status/1624050636336648203 Feb 10, 2023]):<blockquote>
The Arabs started handing out sweets in Gaza following the severe attack in Jerusalem.</blockquote></ref>

[[File:Bahaa.Yassin.Hamas.jpg|thumb|Bahaa Yassin with Hamas leader<ref name=memri-yasin>Following Vehicular Terror Attack In Jerusalem, Hamas-Identified Cartoonist Publishes Antisemitic Cartoon Praising Murder Of Jews.
''MEMRI'', February 13, 2023 <blockquote>
The February 10, 2023 vehicular terror attack in Jerusalem, in which three Israeli civilians were killed and four were wounded, sparked gleeful responses from many Palestinians. An especially callous response was an antimesitic cartoon published by Gazan cartoonist Bahaa Yasin, who is known for his connections to Hamas. Yasin's cartoons have been published in Hamas' mouthpiece Al-Risalah, and his brother, Rashad Yasin, was an operative in Hamas' military wing and was killed in the 2014 round of fighting between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.

Yasin's cartoon, posted on his social media accounts, shows the head of one of the victims of the terror attack, Shlomo Alter Lederman, resting on a plate of maqlouba, a traditional Palestinian dish. The Palestinian family sitting around the plate, about to enjoy the meal, says "A wonderful Friday and a great Palestinian maqlouba."

The cartoon, which was later deleted from Yasin's accounts, evoked responses and inspired imitations on social media. A Gazan Twitter user posted a short video showing a dish of maqlouba with a photo of the murdered Israeli leaning against it, with the comment "The Palestinian maqlouba has left Jerusalem. How far will it go?"

This is not the first time Yasin has published cartoons extoling the murder of Jews. In November 2021 he posted a cartoon praising Hamas terrorist Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, who had perpetrated a shooting near the Western Wall in Jerusalem earlier that month in which one Israeli civilian was killed and four were wounded. That cartoon showed Shkhaydam, who worked as a schoolteacher, pointing to a drawing of a gun on a blackboard and saying, "That's the way."</blockquote></ref>]]
[[File:Hamas cartoonist Bahaa Yaseen Nazi drawing & cannibalism Feb 2023.jpeg|thumb|Hamas cartoonist Bahaa Yaseen (بهاء ياسين) Nazi drawing & cannibalism Feb 2023: victim of Islamist ramming terror attack, visibly orthodox-Jew with distinct wardrobe - being eaten by "Palestinians" of all ages: Title: ''"The best blessed Friday and the best Palestinian Maqluba" (dish)'']]
A horrifying anti-Semitic cartoon, published on Hamas channels, viral among "Palestinians," following deadly car-ramming attack reads: "A great Friday, and a great Palestinian Maqluba (a regional food)" The Maqluba in question is one of the young Jewish victims murdered.<ref>AbuAliEnglish @AbuAliEnglishB1 Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/AbuAliEnglishB1/status/1624147167383326748 Feb 10, 2023]):<blockquote>
A horrifying anti-Semitic cartoon, published on Hamas channels, following today's deadly car-ramming attack in Jerusalem: "A great Friday, and a great Palestinian Maqluba (a regional food)" The Maqluba in question is one of the young Jewish victims killed in the attack.</blockquote></ref><ref name=memri-yasin/><ref>[Director @AJCTAI. Former Wall Street Journal opinion writer. Focus on Israel, Iran, wider Middle East, EU, transatlantic relations, terrorism. RT≠ endorsement.]
Daniel Schwammenthal @DSchwammenthal Tweeted Feb 11, 2023:<blockquote>
The world looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and confuses the loosers with blameless victims. But it is the evil expressed in the image below or in Palestinians handing out sweets to celebrate the murder of children that has caused the conflict and continues to fuel it.</blockquote></ref><ref>Ellie Cohanim @EllieCohanim Tweeted (2:31 PM · Feb 12, 2023)
<blockquote>Palestinian terrorist murders two Israeli children & an Orthodox man. Palestinians celebrate terrorist-murders with this cartoon depiction of a Palestinian family eating (!!!) the head of a Jewish man. Palestinian society is a hate-filled & sick one not yet ready for peace.</blockquote></ref><ref>@Torat_IDF Tweeted (Feb 11, 2023):<blockquote>A sickening caricature of Baha Yassin Yamash, a Hamas supporter, following the attack on Friday: "Friday is great, and a Palestinian shack is bad." Pure hatred and anti-Semitism like no other - eating the flesh of the murdered Jews hy"d. This is what the whole world needs to see.</blockquote></ref><ref>Brooke Goldstein @GoldsteinBrooke [Warrior to EndJewHatred. Mom of 3 Boys. Exec Dir @LawfareProject. Civil Rights Lawyer. Author. Filmmaker. Drummer.: @WashingtonPost, @Newsweek, @FoxNews] Tweeted (Feb 11, 2023):<blockquote>The depravitity of Islamist incitement knows no limit. This is a cartoon going viral in Palestinian social media circles depicting a Palestinian family eating the head of one of the victims of the Palestinian terror attack in Jerusalem.</blockquote></ref>

==CNN / NYT==
[[File:NYT.and.the.bloody.murderous.Palestinian.attack.Jerusalem.Feb.10.23.jpg|thumb|Fixing terrible NYT coverage, language<ref>SrandWithUs @standwithus Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1624089448571973654 Feb 10, 2023]):
<blockquote>We fixed it for you, @nytimes. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FonsvyMXsA4hKuX?format=jpg&name=small]</blockquote></ref>]]
[[File:CNN NYT and ramming terror attack Feb.10.23.jpg|thumb|CNN, NYT Refuse to Call Ramot Ramming Attack Terrorism]]
Of the sickening lefty media: [[CNN]], [[NYT]] refused to call Ramot ramming attack Terrorism.<ref>[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2164698/sickening-cnn-nyt-refuse-to-call-ramot-ramming-attack-terrorism.html SICKENING: CNN, NYT Refuse to Call Ramot Ramming Attack Terrorism], YWN, Feb 10, 2023.
</ref>

[[File:CNN.and.the.bloody.murderous.Palestinian.attack.Jerusalem.Feb.10.23.jpg|thumb|CNN & the bloody murderous Palestinian attack, Jerusalem, Feb.10.23<ref name=aviva/>]]
Per CNN's wording, the car "did" it.<ref name=aviva>Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1624052399068381185 Feb 10, 2023]):<blockquote>
Fixed your headline @CNN
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FonLCTCXoAELLMa?format=jpg&name=medium]
Was the car responsible or perhaps the Palestinian driver who intentionally ran down people standing at a bus stop?</blockquote></ref><ref name=algemeiner-10feb23>Dion J. Pierre, [https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/10/palestinians-celebrate-murder-of-israeli-child-in-terrorist-attack-media-headlines-call-victims-settlers/ Palestinians Celebrate Murder of Israelis in Terrorist Attack, Media Headlines Call Victims ‘Settlers’], ''Algeneiner'', February 10, 2023.<blockquote>
Man filming himself overseeing distribution of sweets celebrating terror attack in Jerusalem that killed an Israeli child and 20 year old newly-wed on Friday. Photo: Screenshot. [https://www.algemeiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/image-61.png]

Images on social media circulated Friday of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza celebrating a terrorist attack in Jerusalem that left two Israelis dead on Friday morning, just hours before the beginning of Shabbat.

In a video posted to Twitter, a man instructs children in Gaza to hand out pastries to passerby in honor of 31-year-old Hussein Qaraqe, who rammed his car into a bus stop in the East Jerusalem in an attack that killed six-year-old Yaakov Pelli and twenty-year-old newly-wed Alter Shlomo Liderman while injuring five others. Images also purported to show members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Khan Yunis, Gaza, distributing sweets...

In the United States, a headline by CNN said “Two dead including child as car rams people at Jerusalem bus stop,” prompting criticism from the Israel Foreign Ministry.

“This wasn’t a self driving car @CNN,” the Ministry said [https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1624052456039542785] on Twitter. “The driver a Palestinian terrorist *intentionally* rammed into a bus stop packed with children and families traveling before Shabbat.”</blockquote></ref>

[[File:CNN.clip.of.interviewing.Mrs.Paley.jpg|thumb|The CNN's (Feb.13.2023<ref name=cnn-13feb2024/>) report focused on Devorah's immense faith and her acceptance of her sons’ deaths as Hashem's will, without looking for anyone to blame.
Of course, CNN, Hadas Gold couldn't help but include its agenda in the report, such as failing to identify the attack as a "terror attack" – rather choosing to say "what Israeli authorities call a terror attack” and calling the recent wave of terror attacks a clouded term: "a wave of violence" without identifying the perpetrators of it.'']]
==In contrast: Faith and love==
Mother of the children, Mrs. Paley expressed immense faith and her acceptance of her sons’ deaths as Hashem's will, without looking for anyone to blame. And that God took them with love, just as he gave them to her with love.<ref name=cnn-13feb2024>[https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/02/13/jerusalem-bus-stop-terror-attack-mother-children-killed-mourning-gold-pkg-ovn-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn CNN.com Video: Hear a mother's emotional appeal after children die in terror attack.](Feb.13.2023)</ref>

<blockquote>Ushi and Jacob were good children, full of giving, doing mitzvot [good deeds] with a full sack of mitzvot in heaven. Angel children. They received an education that the best thing to do is Chessed [acts of kindness], mitzvot and Torah study. It was deep and rooted in them. They had an amazing character... these children are holy in the way that God decided to gather them to Him. Our message is to be united under faith, that everything is for the best and under divine providence. The shatter is great, but the judgment is accepted with love.<ref>Yori Yalon, [https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/local/article/13689817 Shiva at the Paley family home: "These children are holy in the way that God decided to gather them to Him"], ''ILH'', Feb 13, 2023.</ref></blockquote>

==References==
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Palestinian

2026-11-05T11:43:01Z

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The term '''Palestinian''' refers to an admixture of several ethno/linguistic groups from [[Asia]], [[Africa]], the [[Middle East]], and [[Europe]] who emigrated to the geographical region of [[Palestine]] during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The term came into modern usage in the [[English]] speaking world by creation of the Palestinian Mandate in 1919, and has no native origins among residents of the geographic region. Jews at the time of the [[Mandate of Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] were also classified as "Palestinian".

==The shift: since the 1960's ==

The modern use of the term "Palestinian" to describe Arabs in the region is a relatively recent development, popularized only in the mid-20th century—particularly after 1964 with the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization ([[PLO]]). Far from being an indigenous national identity rooted in ancient ties to the land, this label was largely constructed for political purposes, often as a tool in the broader Arab effort to delegitimize Israel's existence.

The first chairman of the PLO, [[Ahmad Shukeiri]], was not a native of the land in question but born in southern [[Lebanon]]. He became infamous for statements rationalizing the [[Holocaust]] shortly after the atrocities became widely known, even testifying that they all were praising Hitler, and "foresaw" annihilating the Jews in his June 1967 "none of them will survive" —revealing early on the radical and hateful ideology that would underpin the Palestinian cause.
His successor, Yasser Arafat, widely considered the father of modern terrorism, was born in Cairo, [[Egypt]]—not in any part of what is today Israel or the disputed territories. Arafat pioneered the cynical tactic of using its very civilian populations as [[human shields]], a method that has tragically continued under Hamas and other Palestinian factions.

This leadership—foreign-born, ideologically extreme, and committed to violence rather than coexistence—illustrates a movement more focused on the destruction of the Jewish state than on building a peaceful future for its own people. In contrast, Israel, with its deep historical and ancestral ties to the land and its commitment to democracy and innovation, has remained steadfast in its pursuit of peace, even in the face of relentless hostility.

Anti-Israel propagandists have long attempted to rewrite history by conflating the ancient geographic term “Palestine” with relatively recent waves of Arab immigration to the region. This rhetorical sleight of hand is designed to manufacture a sense of ancient, indigenous identity—when in truth, the vast majority of so-called “Palestinians” are descendants of Arab migrants who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by the economic opportunities created by early Jewish development.

Even the founding figures of the Palestinian nationalist movement didn't pretend otherwise. Aforementioned Ahmad Shukeiry, the first chairman of the PLO—before suddenly “discovering” a Palestinian identity in the 1960s—openly declared in 1956 that the land was “Southern Syria.” His statement reflects the reality that, prior to the Arab world's failed attempt to destroy Israel in 1948, there was no serious movement calling for a separate “Palestinian” state or identity.
Early on, their first leader, [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]] (infamous now as Hitler's mufti), initially viewed Palestine as part of a larger Pan-Arab federation, envisioning it as a southern province within a Greater Syria centered in Damascus. His early nationalist efforts focused on this concept of a unified Arab state encompassing the Levant, including what would become Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

This sudden shift was never about national liberation. It was—and remains—a political tool, designed not to build a future for Arabs in the region, but to deny the Jewish people their rightful, historic, and legal homeland. In stark contrast, the Jewish people are the only group with an unbroken, 3,000-year connection to the Land of Israel—religiously, culturally, and historically.

The creation of a “Palestinian” identity in the mid-20th century was not an act of self-determination—it was a calculated move to undermine the Jewish state's legitimacy and fuel ongoing rejectionism and terror. Recognizing this truth is essential to cutting through decades of misinformation and standing firmly with Israel's right to exist, defend itself, and thrive.

Per (2025 [https://archive.is/h6bQy]) Google search of newspapers:
The term 'Arabs' -- related to -- Palestine - was the traditional 1920 / 1930s / 1940s... before the 1960s.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=Arabs+palestine&sca_esv=&hl=en&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s]
Whereas:
Term "palestinians" is only recent: [https://www.google.com/search?q=palestinians&sca_esv=&hl=en&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s]

During the 2012 Gaza conflict and border closure, a [[Hamas]] boss in Gaza remarked in a public statement, "half of the Palestinians are [[Egypt]]ians and the other half are [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]]s."<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-minister-interior-and-national-security-fathi-hammad-slams-egypt-over-fuel-shortage Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad Slams Egypt over Fuel Shortage in Gaza Strip, and Says: 'Half of the Palestinians Are Egyptians and the Other Half Are Saudis']. ''MENRI'',
April 9, 2012. [https://palwatch.org/page/35270 Hamas leader: No such thing as Palestinians - we are just Arabs]. ''PMW'',
Mar 23, 2012</ref>

Activist: "Palestine may exist in the minds of those who seek to do Israel harm. But in the real world, it is nothing more than a mirage. And a malevolent one at that."<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-779964 Palestine, a state under occupation, is a myth - opinion]
By Michael Freund. ''JPost'', December 39, 2023.</ref>
{{Cquote|An uninformed observer scrolling through X (formerly known as Twitter) could be forgiven for assuming that there is an entity called Palestine that is under occupation and is clamoring to be released.

On a daily basis, Palestinians and their supporters flood social media, and a lot of public thoroughfares too, with demands, declarations, and disinformation, repeating ad nauseam their insistence to “free Palestine” as though it is the central issue on the international agenda.

This mantra has been harped on for so long, and so often, that many people believe it to be urgent and even true; some out of ignorance, others out of willful disregard for history or reality.

And that is why it often comes as such a surprise to some to learn that they have been hoodwinked.

After all, Palestine is the equivalent of political science fiction, an entity invented with the sole aim of delegitimizing Israel and undermining its existence.

Six centuries before the advent of Islam, when Jews rose up in the first revolt against the Romans in the years 66 CE to 70 CE, they minted coins that read “Judea,” not “Palestine.”

The latter term came into use only after Rome quelled the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE and sought to negate the Jewish connection with the Land of Israel.

And while it may have been adopted as a geographical term by Israel’s adversaries, Palestine was never an independent state.

Hence, calling for a “free Palestine” is logically absurd, if only because there is no such thing as an occupied state of Palestine in the first place.

It is akin to demanding liberty for the Loch Ness monster or autonomy for the Abominable Snowman.

And just because many people believe it, in no way lends it credence.

Indeed, prior to the 1947 UN partition plan, even Palestinian Arab leaders denied that Palestine existed.

Take, for example, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, who testified in 1937 before the Peel Commission, which the British government established to investigate the outbreak of Arab violence in the British-ruled Land of Israel.

Abdul-Hadi told the commission that “there is no such country as Palestine! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.”

A decade later, in May 1947, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee told the UN General Assembly much the same.

When did Palestinian nationalism come about?

WHAT CAME to be known as Palestinian nationalism was born in subsequent decades, as the Arab states found it to be a useful tool in their attempt to destroy Israel.

This led them to promote the creation of a Palestinian identity in order to forge a [[narrative]] of Arab victimhood and Israeli aggression, which suited their agenda.

With the help of the media and Israel’s foes, the Palestinians’ claims to the Land of Israel became amplified and even accepted by a large number of people around the world – many, if not most, of whom do not know the first thing about the Middle East.

Sadly, many Jews are also no longer familiar with the historical record and have come to accept Palestinian assertions as true, even though there has never been a free Palestine.

And yet, not that long ago, this was a widely recognized and accepted fact.

Consider remarks made by prime minister Golda Meir. In an interview with The Sunday Times on June 15, 1969, Meir said, “There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?”

Furthermore, she noted, “It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people, and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”

Such assertions may sound unsettling because they run counter to what is now considered to be conventional wisdom. But that is merely because we have succumbed to decades of pro-Palestinian propaganda and indoctrination that have virtually drowned out dissenting voices.}}

Indeed:
{{Cquote|Trouw [Dutch newspaper] March 3, 1977: Statement by Zuheir Mohsein, Member of the Supreme Council of the PLO: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian identity in contrast to Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity.”

Statement by [[Ahmad Shukairy|Ahmed Shuqeiri]] [Shukeiri / Shukairy / Shuqayri], to the UN Security Council in 1949: “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.”

Hamas [“Islamic Resistance Movement”] was formally established in December 1987 by Sheik Ahmad Yassin, after the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising, known as the first Intifada. The following year, Hamas declared that liberating Palestine from Israeli occupation was every Muslim’s religious duty.

Yassin was a Palestinian cleric, who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood after dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo. During the late 1960s, Yassin preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza, both of which Israel occupied, following the 1967 War. Enter General Ariel Sharon.

The Washington Post provided an unusual biography of Sharon, “What’s Needed from Hamas” by Henry A Kissinger on February, 2006. A key observation by Kissinger is as follows:

Under Sharon, Israel seemed prepared to withdraw from close to 95% of West Bank territory, to abandon a significant percentage of the settlements—many of them placed there by Sharon—involving the movement of tens of thousands of settlers into pre-1967 Israel, and to compensate Palestinians for the retained territory by some equivalent portions of Israeli territory. Significant percentages of Israelis are prepared to add the Arab part of Jerusalem to such a settlement as the possible capital of a Palestinian state.

Until the Oslo agreement in 1993, Israel refused to deal with the PLO because its charter required the elimination of Israel and its policies included frequent recourse to terrorism.

Kissinger asserts “A serious process assumes reciprocal willingness to compromise.” And if this is not possible? Hamas represents the mind-set that prevented the full recognition of Israel’s legitimacy by the PLO for all previous decades, kept Yasser Arafat from accepting partition of Palestine at Camp David in 2000, and produced 2 intifadas and consistently supported terrorism. What would be needed from Hamas is an evolution comparable to Sharon’s.

The magnitude of that change is rarely adequately recognized.”
Hamas was convinced there is no alternative strategy—-a much harder task since the Sharon view was, in its essence secular, while the Hamas view is fueled by a religious conviction.

A diplomatic frame work is needed within which Israel can carry out those parts of the road map capable of [[unilateral]] implementation, and the world community could strive for an international status that ends violence while leaving open the prospect of further progress towards permanent peace.

Perhaps something as fundamental as Arutz 7’s “Anti-Semitism is enshrined in the Quran” posted on Nov 13, 2013 by Shari Goodman might prove helpful. It commences with, “Many Americans have been led to believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over land when indeed it is a religious conflict with its origin rooted in the Quranic doctrine consumed with Jew hatred throughout its numerous passages.”

The formation of Islam began with Mohammad in 610 A.D. in the city of Mecca where he attempted to convince the local population what he perceived to be divine messages. In 627, a mere 5 years after Muhammad arrived in medina, he ordered and oversaw the beheading of approximately 900 Jewish men on trumped up charges of conspiring with the enemy . The Jewish women became sex slaves, and their children were taken into slavery.

Thus, the refusal of Jews some 1400 years ago to accept Mohammad as a prophet has “enshrined Islam with contempt and Jew hatred for all of eternity.” It is clear within Islam, Jews are to be loathed and murdered. They are referred to as “apes and pigs, disbelievers, cowards, liars, and they are set up as a target who can run and hide but cannot avoid the sword of the Islamic warrior.

While abhorrent to most Westerners when viewed through the lens of Quranic doctrine, Hamas massacre of Jewish civilians [babies beheaded, women raped and mutilated, the elderly and infants burned alive, and men beheaded] is totally justified in the name of Allah.

The notion of the Palestinian Arabs as a nation is a recent invention. Palestine’s Arabs are indistinguishable from the Arabs in neighboring countries, especially the Arabs in Jordan, which is in effect a Palestinian-Arab state. Creating a second Palestinian state would be the 22nd Arab state is unjustified.

MIDA published Judith Bergman’s “Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People” on Nov/09/2017. She wisely introduces her essay, “When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. I was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn’t listening.”

Apparently, as Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said on March 2012: ‘Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Damietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians–”

“Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835.

In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s monumental “Fighting Terrorism” on Page 103, we find,” Over the years, Gaza has become a symbol to Israelis as a lair of some of the most rabid Jew-haters in the Middle East. Despite a rich Jewish history, Gaza has become a byword for a hostile and alien place, one of the few bits of land taken by Israel in the Six Day War of which many Israelis would be pleased to rid themselves.”<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/now-more-than-ever-absolutely-no-to-a-two-state-solution/ Now more than ever: Absolutely no to a two-state solution Now more than ever: Absolutely no to a two-state solution]. Alex Rose, ''Times of Israel'', Nov 24, 2023</ref>}}

This fact was reiterated widely, including by authors, [[Newt Gingrich]], [[Mike Huckabee]] and others.<ref>[https://en.mida.org.il/2017/11/09/arab-historian-admits-no-palestinian-people/ Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People]
Judith Bergman, ''Mida'', 09/11/2017.

*[https://www.politico.com/story/2011/12/gingrich-palestinians-are-an-invented-people-070207 Gingrich: Palestinians are an “invented’ people].
By Emily Schultheis, ''Politico'', 12/09/2011.

* [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/column-one-the-eternal-liberation-movement Column One: The eternal liberation movement].
By Caroline B. Glick, ''JPost'', April 5, 2012.

*Shpak Lissak, R. (2021). ''When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel-Period of British Rule, 1918-1948: Volume Two''. XLIBRIS US,

*Official Records. (1973). United States: United Nations, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VkrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22no%20such%20thing%20as%20palestinian%22 p.2].
"..interview with The Sunday Times of London on 15 June 1969 : " There was no such thing as Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out , and took their country."].

*''New Outlook'': Middle East Monthly. (1986). Israel: Tazioth,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=yNVtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22no%20such%20thing%22 p.16].

*Laor, E. (2012). ''The Invention of the ''Palestinians'': 27 Theses They Won’t Let You Hear Argued at the University on Israelophobia, Judaism, the Middle East, and Related Matters''. United States: Xlibris US,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=WS9QAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 p.153].

*Shoher, O. (2006). ''Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict''. Israel: Lulu.com, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ASBPX8BWqU4C&pg=PA238 p.238].

*Gilder, G. (2012). ''The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy.'' United States: Encounter Books,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=hGOnMJ2gc-8C&pg=PA171 p.171].

*''The American Spectator''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XWcEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22no%20such%20thing%20as%20palestinian%22 Vol.37]. (2004). United States: American Spectator.

*[https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mike-huckabee-palestinian-comments-trump-israel-ambassador/index.html Mike Huckabee once said that ‘there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian’].
By Andrew Kaczynski, ''CNN''. November 12, 2024</ref>

Since 1948 the term generally has come to refer mostly to ethnic [[Arab]]s, who originated from other Middle Eastern countries. Some seek to create a state in parts or all of the geographic region. Those advocating the latter view often advocate the destruction of the state of [[Israel]]. Most reside in [[Gaza]], the [[West Bank]], or [[Jordan]]. The King of Jordan has refused to grant citizenship to Arab refugees from "Palestine", in part due to political pressure from other Islamic countries.

Author:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6cTjSenp5loC&pg=PA154 Ten Great Lies That Threaten Western Civilization], Barry Howard Minkin ([ISBN: 9780979290404] 2007), pp. 154-155.</ref>
<blockquote>
'''Palestinian UN Status'''
 
There are numerous occupied people around the world seeking statehood or national liberation, including Kurds, Tibetans and Turkish Armenians. The only group that has received official recognition by the UN, including observer status and the right to speak and participate in committed work, is the same group that invented modern international terrorism – namely the Palestinians. 
These rewards were first granted in the 1970's, when the PLO, committed to the destruction of a UN member state, was invited to speak before the UN General Assembly. By rewarding the PLO for such policies, the UN made it possible to adopt terrorism as a means of protest.
 
The Tibetans, whose land was brutally stolen from them and
occupied for a longer period then the Palestinians, never practiced terrorism and cannot even get a hearing with the UN.
The UN has refused to condemn terrorism unequivocally, and has instead upheld "the legitimace of the struggle for national liberation movements against occupiers.
In other words, the use of terrorism against innocent civilians to resist occupation is legitimate.
 
The UN routinely allows Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists to use UN-sponsored refugee camps as terrorist bases. Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, a Canadian UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon by an IAF missile strike on his post, wrote an e-mail only six days before he was killed to his former commander in the Canadian army.
He said that Hezbollah was using the UN post as a human shield. Kruedener added in the email that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes near the UN post prior to his death were "necessary," and that the IDF fire was not intentionally targeting the post. In the past a UN vehicle was used as a cover to capture an Israeli soldier who was then tortured to death.
 
'''Arabian Fables Myth – the Palestinians'''
 
The concept of a Palestinian people is a fundamental lie. And the most successful manipulation of the media in modern history. This lie that caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people is continually and libelously spread by a media that is malicious, naïve, and uniformed, and by anti-Semitic Left-wing groups.. Jimmy "toxic peanut syndrome" Carter, revisionist Middle East professors and PLO propagandists.
 
Until 1948, the Jews Were the Palestinians! In reality, the concept of Palestinians is one that did not exist until about 1948, when the Arab inhabitants of what was to become Palestine wanted to differentiate themselves from the Jews...</blockquote>

Book, 'When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel-Period of British Rule, 1918-1948: Volume Two':<ref>Rivka Shpak Lissak, [https://books.google.com/books/about/When_and_How_the_Arabs_and_Muslims_Immig.html?id=_b2PzgEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel-Period of British Rule, 1918-1948: Volume Two].
XLIBRIS US, Jul 30, 2021, ISBN: 9781664179967.</ref>
<blockquote>
The Palestinian National Movement and its Palestine Authority aim to rewrite the history of the Land of Israel. They have developed several agendas about the history of the country. One agenda claims that they are the ancient population of the country they call Falstin (Palestine). The other claims said they settled in the country in 640; they have a history of 1,381 years. The Jews, they say, have no historical claim on that country; but another agenda claims that Jews did populate the country, but the Romans conquers never exiled the Jews two thousand years ago. The Jews converted to Islam during the Arab-Muslim occupation of the country (640-1099) and that the Palestinians are the descendants of these Jews and, therefore, the rightful heirs of the country. But the historical facts tell a different story.
This book is the second volume of When and How the Arabs and Muslims Immigrated to the Land of Israel. The first volume deals with 640-1914 and brings evidence that most Palestinians are descendants of immigrants who came to the country from Arab and Muslim countries in small numbers during a slow process over hundreds of years; and between the end of the nineteenth century and First World War, their number grew by immigrant workers.
This volume brings evidence that under the British Mandate rule (1918-1948), waves of Arab/Muslim immigrant workers entered the country illegally because of the British policy to ignore illegal immigration. The British mandate government actually ordered the Transjordan army responsible for controlling the borders to ignore illegal immigration. Also, the British Army brought Arab workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to build and work in their camps. The economic and employment opportunities created by the Zionist Movement, Jewish investors and immigrants, Christian organizations, and the British Mandate in the Land of Israel drew an increasing number of Arab immigrant workers. These opportunities were much better than those they had in their home countries.</blockquote>

==Origins==
[[File:Ramallah woman.jpg|left|140px]]
Over 100,000 or at least 150,000 (to some estimates, such as the testimony given in the U.S. Congress in 1939) immigrated during the [[Mandate of Palestine|British Mandate]] as job seekers due to the prosperity [[Zionist]]s brought to a barren land after several millennia. Immigrants included Arab - Egyptians [[Syria]]n, [[Algeria]]n, [[Sudan]]ese, and South Arabians. At least 50,000 or more immigrated from Hauran, Syria alone. Other Muslims from [[Bosnia]] during the and [[fascist]] [[Nazi]] [[Slav]]ic-[[Muslim]]s after [[World War II]].

So-called "Palestinians," who, up to the 1960s were referred to as South Syrians prior to the 1920s, later as 'Arabs" or more specifically Palestine Arabs,<ref>after the [[French]] removed Emir Faisal, from [[Damascus]] in 1920.</ref> since the late 1960s have adopted this moniker and comprise a mixture of: Syrian Arabs, Saudi Arabs, Sudanese [Afro-]Arabs, Egyptian, [[Turkish]], [[Kurd]]ish, Bosnian, Algerian and others (which explains their surnames - telling of their origin/original land). Yet, this 'mixture' was never cohesive, nor did it ever before consider itself as a "nation."

==Christians==
{{Main article|Palestine#Christians}}

==Diaspora==
The Palestinian community in [[Chile]] is the largest outside the Middle East, having a football team called Club Palestino, businesses and descendants on many political parties from different views.<ref>[https://www.newarab.com/opinion/chile-coup-class-divided-palestinian-chileans-over-pinochet]</ref> Those immigrants that went to Chile were Christians and went during the Ottoman rule, thus, called originally "Turks" by many Chileans. [[Checho Hirane]] has been a center-right political commentator in Chile, his family is Arab-Palestinian.

500,000 Palestinians are Christians around the world, they form and estimated 6-7% of the global Palestinian population. 48% are [[Greek Orthodox]], 38% [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] and 4% are Evangelicals and Protestants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newarab.com/analysis/how-palestinian-christians-are-being-driven-out-jerusalem|title=How Palestinian Christians are being driven out of Jerusalem|date=January 13, 2022|publisher=The New Arab}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Palestinian Authority]]
*[[Two-state solution]]
*[[Arab-Israeli conflict]]
*[[Palestinian Arabs]]
*[[Israel's security needs]]
*[[Jordan]], sometimes considered a "Palestinian homeland"
*[[Arab Palestinian–Linked Terrorism Targeting the United States]]
*[[Omar Shakir]]
*[[IslamoChristian]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Christian victims of Palestinians}}
{{Arab-Israeli conflict}}
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[[Category:Misnomers]]
[[Category:Palestine]]

Palestine Liberation Organization

2026-11-05T11:42:22Z

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The '''Palestine Liberation Organization''' ('''PLO''') is an umbrella organization attempting to represent "Palestinian" Arabs in the disputed territories ([[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]]). They have used violence and [[terrorism]] to achieve their goals such as in the [[Achille Lauro]] hijacking. The organization is considered a terrorist organization by the [[United States]] government.<ref>http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/22C61.txt</ref><ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sec_22_00005201----000-.html 22 U.S. Code § 5201 - Findings; determination]</ref> Significant PLO factions or those associated with it are the [[Fatah]], the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP), the [[Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (DFLP), and [[al-Ṣāʿiqah]].<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Palestine-Liberation-Organization</ref> Its current leader is [[Mahmoud Abbas]].

== History ==
The PLO was created in 1964 when the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were not under the control of [[Israel]]. Its original purpose was to “push the Jews into the sea,”<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/242943/palestine-river-sea-always-call-annihilation-not-liberation/ ‘Palestine From the River to the Sea’ Has Always Been a Call for Annihilation Not Liberation] M. Danzig, JJ, Dec 3, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382342171/ The Los Angeles Times, December 28, 1966, p. 1].
<blockquote>The Palestine Liberation Organization, which was set up two years ago to drive the Israelis into the sea, announced a second objective:: the liberation of Jodan from its present rulers. </blockquote></ref> and the complete destruction<ref name=golda-1976/> of the Jewish state.

PLO 1964 charter explained:<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-original-palestine-national-charter-1964 Palestine Liberation Organization: The Original Palestine National Charter (1964)]</ref>
<blockquote>
This Covenant was written by the first PLO Chairman, Ahmed Shukeiry. This version reflects the Pan-Arab nationalism which can be clearly seen in the emphasis on the view of Palestine as part of an Arab collective homeland. The pan-Arab objective in the Arab-Israeli conflict is rather pervasive – the destruction of Israel. However, noticeably missing is the call for a Palestinian state and the subordinate position of the Palestinians in what is expressed as a battle for their rights and homeland.</blockquote>

Its first leader was leftist, Jihadi [[Ahmed Shukairy]] (Ahmed Shukairy / Shukeiri).<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/47754873/ The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia, June 13,1967, p.4]: ''Palestine Liberation Group Badly Mauled. By Michael Goldsmith, Beirut, Lebanon (AP). The Arab defeat in the Middle East war leaves a big question mark over the future of the Pafestine Liberation Organization and its '''firebrand leader -leftist Ahemd Shukairy'''. Shukairy narrowly escaped capture by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and many of his "Liberation Army" are now prisoners of the Israelis. "We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," Shukairy declared two days before the war broke out June 5. He vowed to lead the vanguard of his troops into the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and set up a "purely Arab government" there for all of Palestine.''</ref>

Only in the 1960s did the PLO come forward with the demand that Arab refugees be renamed a homeless "Palestinian people."
<ref>"Like all the nations?: the life and legacy of Judah L. Magnes." William M. Brinner, Moses Rischin eds. SUNNY Press, 1987. [http://books.google.com/books?id=OzaSXCyV1JQC&pg=PA117 p.117]
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First, let me dispose of a current canard. As evidence of her egregious lack of sensibility, she has been repeatedly charged with denying the existence of Palestinians. Her actual words were: "There is no Palestinian people; there are Palestinian refugees." In the 1980s, such a distinction is damning; within its historic context it is not at all so. When Golda arrived in Palestine , the only avowed Palestinians were Jewish pioneers. Arab nationalists stridently rejected the designation of "Palestinian" as an attempt to fragment an ideal Arab unitary state. From the Versailles Conference until the Partition debate at the United Nations, Arab spokesmen insisted that Palestine was southern Syria and that to confer independent status on this territory, cherished in Jewish history, infringed on the Arab nationalist vision. As late as 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, argued at the Security Council that "it is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." Golda took her adversaries at their word.
Only in the 1960s did the Palestine Liberation Organization come forward with the demand that Arab refugees be renamed a homeless Palestinian people. Since that time, the distinction has become archaic.</blockquote></ref>

From Golda Meir's OpEd in the NYTimes, January 14, 1976:<ref name=golda-1976>
[https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/oped40/CONFLICTMeir.pdf Published: January 14, 1976] [https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Golda-Meir-on-the-Palestinians.html "Golda Meir on the Palestinians," Aish, Jan 13, 2018] [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1976/01/22/01/article/33/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1 "Israel and the Palestinians." Golda Meir. The Sentinel⁩⁩, 22 January 1976]</ref>
<blockquote>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 came to Palestine – until the end of World War I a barren, sparsely inhabited Turkish province – we, the Jewish pioneers, were the avowed Palestinians. So we were named in the world. Arab nationalists, on the other hand, stridently rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land we had cherished for centuries was, like Lebanon, merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations.

When the Arab historian Philip K. Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history,” it was left to David Ben-Gurion to stress the central role of Palestine in Jewish, if not Arab, history.

As late as May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” In view of this, I believe I may be forgiven if I took Arab spokesmen at their word.

Until the 1960’s, attention was focused on the Arab refugees for whose plight the Arab states would allow no solution though many constructive and far-reaching proposals were made by Israel and the world community.

I repeatedly expressed my sympathy for the needless sufferings of refugees whose abnormal situation was created and exploited by the Arab states as a tactic in their campaign against Israel. However, refugee status could not indefinitely be maintained for the original 550,000 Arabs who in 1948 joined the exodus from the battle areas during the Arab attack on the new state of Israel.

When the refugee card began to wear thin, the Palestinian terrorist appeared on the scene flourishing not the arguable claims of displaced refugees but of a ghoulish nationalism that could only be sated on the corpse of Israel.

I repeat again. We dispossessed no Arabs. Our toil in the deserts and marshes of Palestine created more habitable living space for both Arab and Jew. Until 1948 the Arabs of Palestine multiplied and flourished as the direct result of Zionist settlement. Whatever subsequent ills befell the Arabs were the inevitable result of the Arab design to drive us into the sea. Had Israel not repelled her would-be destroyers there would have been no Jewish refugees alive in the Middle East to concern the world.

Now, two years after the surprise attack of the Yom Kippur War, I am well aware of the potency of Arab petrobillions and I have no illusions about the moral fiber of the United Nations, most of whose members hailed gun-toting Yasir Arafat and shamefully passed the anti-Semitic resolution that described Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, as racist.

But though Israel is small and beset, I am not prepared to accede to the easy formula that in the Arab-Israeli conflict we witness two equal contending rights that demand further “flexibility” from Israel. Justice was not violated when in the huge territories liberated by the Allies from the Sultan, 1 percent was set aside for the Jewish homeland on its ancestral site, while in a parallel settlement 99 percent of the area was allotted for the establishment of independent Arab states.

We successively accepted the truncation of Transjordan, three-fourths of the area of historic Palestine, and finally the painful compromise of the 1947 partition resolution in the hope for peace. Yet though Israel arose in only one-fifth of the territory originally assigned for the Jewish homeland, the Arabs invaded the young state.

I ask again, as I have often asked, why did the Arabs not set up a Palestine state in their portion instead of cannibalizing the country by Jordan’s seizure of the West Bank and Egypt’s capture of the Gaza Strip? And, since the question of the 1967 borders looms heavily in the present discussions, why did the Arabs converge upon us in June 1967, when the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Sinai, the Gaza Strip and old Jerusalem were in their hands?

These are not idle questions. They go to the heart of the matter – the Arab denial of Israel’s right to exist. This right is not subject to debate. That is why Israel cannot by its presence sanction the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization at the Security Council, a participation in direct violation of Resolutions 242 and 338.

We have no common language with exultant murderers of the innocent and with a terrorist movement ideologically committed to the liquidation of Jewish national independence.

At no point has the P.L.O. renounced its program for the “elimination of the Zionist entity.” With startling effrontery P.L.O. spokesmen admit that their proposed state on the West Bank would be merely a convenient “point of departure,” a tactical “first stage” and finally, a combatant “arsenal” strategically situated for the easier penetration of Israel...</blockquote>

===Perpetuating the refugee problem===
In 1966, [[Ahmad Shukairy]], the [[PLO]] said: We will force our people to remain refugees against their will - or else there is no Palestinian cause. Another PLO representative said then: "If they try to leave. We will stop them, by force if need be."<ref>Thomas F. Brady, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/04/archives/arabs-adamant-against-absorption-of-refugees.html Arabs Adamant Against Absorption of Refugees]", ''The New York Times'', April 4, 1966. p. 14. (qtd in: [https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-plo-in-1966-said-it-we-will-force.html?m=1 The PLO in 1966 said it: We will force our people to remain refugees against their will - or else there is no Palestinian cause. EoZ. Wednesday, October 17, 2018])
<blockquote>
JERUSALEM (Jordanian Sector), March 30 "'''The Arab states will not integrate the Palestine refugees because integration would be a slow process of liquidating the Palestine problem,"''' Ahmed Shukairy, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared in an interview today.

“Consequently. the refugees don’t want to be integrated.” he continued. “'''If there are no Palestinian people. there is no Palestinian cause. We can't conceive of a Babylonian cause today because there are no Babylonians'''. But we start from the premise that we will achieve the liberation of Palestine soon."...
Hamdi Hizrallah, 40 years old, a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was at the intetview... he said with great intensity: “I will tell you something. And I wish you would quote me. If they try to leave. We will stop them, by force if need be.”</blockquote></ref>

===Shukairy to Arafat===

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Even the Right could be Right.PNG|[https://books.google.com/books?id=k5eyAAAAIAAJ&q=%22the+right%22 Proggressives admit: 'Right cound be right']
Shukairy push the Israelis into the sea.PNG|[https://books.google.com/books?id=k5eyAAAAIAAJ&q=%22shukairy%22 Shukairy meant it when called for the Jews to be 'thrown into the sea']
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Stressing, Ahmad Shukairy made sure he really meant his genocidal calls and only realizing the PR disaster and military defeat of '67 is when the following [[PLO]], [[Arafat]] tried to camouflage its real aims: progressives admitted that ''This once even the Right could be Right'':<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k5eyAAAAIAAJ&q=%22shukairy%22 In Search of Facts, Ideas and Challenges], Vol. 5, Iss. 80. Vol. 8, Iss. 159. ''Institute for the Study of Relevant Progressivism''. 1976.</ref>
<blockquote>
The P.L.O. - What Sort of Precedent?

This Once Even the Right Could be Right

...professing its genocidal ambition openly, without hiding it in any disguise whatever. Its leader, Ahmed Shukairy, kept making a point of it that the Arabs were absolutely literal when speaking of pushing the Israelis into the sea. Following the military disaster Israel that year inflicted on the Arabs, they were internationally overheard discussing the public relations error of their past genocidal candor. Heads of Arab states and Palestinian leaders were voicing this tactical self-criticism in newspaper interviews and articles, in radio and television broadcasts, in speeches before parliaments.

The adjustments made in the aftermath of this self-criticism included the replacement of the undiplomatic Ahmed Shukairy with the highly diplomatic Yassir Arafat as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization . Also included was a new semantic formula which, incorporated in the Charter of the PLO, for the first time provided however thin and tortuous a camouflage of the genocidal ambition. What used up until that point to be loudly and proudly advertised was now being pro forma denied whenever necessary, accompanied by a meaningful wink of an eyelid.
</blockquote>

===With Communists, guerillas===

[[Palestinian]] [[Ahmad Shukeiri]] visited China, under dictator [[Mao]], in 1965.

[[File:Survey of China Mainland Press, Issues 3406-3428, 1965, p 35.PNG|thumb|"Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmad Shukairy president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (praising [[Mao]]'s cadets in Wuhan, March 24, 1965)<ref name=book-socmp1965/>]]
On March 24, 1965, visiting Mao's cadets in Wuhan, Shukairy declared: "Our common target is US imperialism." <ref name=book-socmp1965>[https://books.google.com/books?&id=X74zAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Shukairy+praised Survey of China Mainland Press. Hong Kong: American Consulate General, 1965. p. 35].
<blockquote>
Delegation of Palestine Liberation Organization Visits Military Academy in Wuhan

(NCNA-English, Wuhan, March 24, 1965)

"Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmed Shukairy president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.</blockquote></ref>
He praised the cadets for their superb skills. and said that Mao was the creator of an independent military theory. His army build up from nothing had become a mighty revolutionary army. Going along the same parh, the Palestine Liberation Army would be founded.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MqkcAQAAMAAJ&q=Ahmad+Shukairy+praised+the+cadets+for+their+superb+skills News from Hsinhua News Agency: daily bulletin. United Kingdom: n.p., 1965. p. 57].<blockquote>
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1965.

032456 -- "Delegation of palestine liberation organization visits military academy in Wuhan"

Wuhan, March twenty fourth (hsinhua) -- "Our common target is US imperialism" said Ahmed Shukairy president of the palestine Liberation organization. When he and the delegation visited he is leading visited a military academy of the cChinese people's Liberation army here and watched a drill by cadets today.

Founded by chairman mao tse-tung, the great leader of the Chinese people .

...history of the academy and its classrooms. they were warmly welcomed by cadets who gave them a demonstration of shooting, bayonet practice and other skills.

Ahmed Shukairy praised the cadets for their superb skills. He said that Chairman Mao Tse-tung was the creator of an independent military theory. His army build up from nothing had become a mighty revolutionary army. Going along the same parh, the Palestine Liberation Army would be founded.</blockquote></ref>

Syria's fascist [[Ba'ath]] Party has appealed to China for help in the "liberation" of Palestine from the Jews. Following Shukeiri's visit to Peking, the PLO opened its office in [[Peking]], the first one of its kind on non-Arab soil.<ref>Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan. Pakistan: Pakistan Herald Publications., 1965. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=CX46AQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Non-Arab%22 p. 24].
<blockquote>
Recently Syria's Bath Party has appealed to China for help in the liberation of Palestine from the Jews. Following Syrian President Mr. Ahmed Shukeiri's visit to Peking recently, the Palestine Liberation Front opened its office in Peking, the first one of its kind on non-Arab soil.</blockquote></ref>

A year before the [[Six-Day War]], Shukeiri had declared his support for the Viet Cong.<ref>Irving Louis Horowitz (1974) "Israeli Ecstasies/Jewish Agonies". Oxford University Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cb9tAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Landowner p. 11].
<blockquote>ARAB POLICIES.
In the 1930's Arab terrorists and "guerrillas" waged a continuous war against Jewish settlements in Palestine: arson, destruction of wells and pipelines, and murder. Then as now, they were part of the apparatus of "Arab liberation."
It was with the active propaganda and financial support of the Nazis and Fascists that Haj Amin El Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi propagandist, advocated mass murder of the Jews. '''Ahmed Shukeiri, present head of the so-called Palestine Liberation Organization, is a large landowner, an unmistakable heir of the revanchist chauvinism of the pro-Nazi Arab, who dares to proclaim himself leader of a national liberation struggle and offer "support" to the Vietnamese Liberation Front'''.
One day the head of the reactionary Syrian delegation to the United Nations, another day leader of the Saudi Arabian delegation , on yet another day he heads "guerrilla war" against Israel, a war against individual citizens, with "guerrillas" who never dare attack a military force, a "guerrilla force" which is, in fact, not a guerrilla force at all but a band of mercenaries in the pay of a foreign power, Egypt.</blockquote></ref>
And has threatened the [[United States]] with an alliance with the Vietcong.
<ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.05.26.001/3 The Detroit Jewish News, May 26, 1967.]
"Fear for Israel May Avert Third World War".
By Philip Slomovitz.
''... To have permitted him to function, while he was threatening the United States with an '''alliance with the Vietcong''', was viewed by many as a grave danger.
Now Shukeiri and his PLO have come home to roost—and they could well instigate the Arab peoples who are unaware of the existing dangers to involve Israel and the entire free world in a third world conflict.''</ref>

In June, 1966, Shukairy defiantly declared that the Palestine Liberation Army was receiving military assistance as well as training from the Chinese [[Communists]]. In the same month, as a corollary, PLO announced, in programs broadcast over Radio Cairo, that it was preparing to intervene in the Vietnam war.
According to Shukairy, the PLO had decided to send its soldiers "to fight alongside the Viet Cong."

Explaining that by serving with the Viet Cong, troops of the PLO would gain valuable experience in guerilla warfare "which will be used in the inevitable war to liberate Palestine."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxDAQAAIAAJ&q=In+June,+1966,+Shukairy+defiantly+declared ''Facts'', Volume 16, B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League, p. 425].
<blockquote>
In June, 1966, Shukairy defiantly declared that the Palestine Liberation Army was receiving military assistance as well as training from the Chinese Communists. In the same month, as a corollary, PLO announced, in programs broadcast over Radio Cairo, that it was preparing to intervene in the Vietnam war. 
According to Shukairy, the PLO had decided to send its soldiers "to fight alongside the Viet Cong."

He said that by serving with the Viet Cong, troops of the PLO would gain valuable experience in guerilla warfare "which will be used in the inevitable war to liberate Palestine."</blockquote></ref>

In November 1966, Shukairy stated that his guerrillas would soon begin an expanded terrorist offensive in Israel modeled partly on the methods of the Vietcong.

He also let it be known that many of his men are being trained in Communist China His plan is to send these guerrillas into the two bulges. He already has some 10,000 troops under his command in the Gaza trip.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1966/12/02/01/article/164 Behind The Scenes At The United Nations By David Horowitz], B'nai B'rith, Dec 2, 1966.
<blockquote>
THE GREAT danger for Israel, despite King Hussein's disclaimer of any involvement, lies in the Arab refugee problem in these bulges who have sworn allegiance to the modern Antiochus Ahmad Shukairy who is arming them to the teeth in preparation for an all-out offensive.

Interviewed by a New York Times corresponding in Cairo last week. Shukairy stated that his guerrillas would soon begin an expanded terrorist offensive in Israel modeled partly on the methods of the Vietcong.

He also let it be known that many of his men are being trained in Communist China His plan is to send these guerrillas into the two bulges. He already has some 10,000 troops under his command in the Gaza trip.

These facts were not unknown to the Security Council members when they voted to condemn Israel.

The question arises: should Israel wait until this happens? Should Israel remain silent and allow Shukairy's Peking and Viet-cong-trained guerrillas to organize and strengthen themselves into the two bulges in readiness for their eventual offensive?

THIS WRITER believes waiting would be suicidal...</blockquote></ref>

===With Nazis===
Since the 1960s, the PLO has maintained contact with neo-Nazi and other extremist right-wing groups, providing training, smuggling arms and distributing propaganda.<ref>Tal, Eliyahu. PLO., WZO, 1982. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AXCgAAAAMAAJ&q=fatah 69].<blockquote>
... since the late 1960s, the PLO has maintained contact with neo-Nazi and other extremist right-wing groups, providing training, smuggling arms and distributing propaganda.

Concerned that exposure of such cooperation might damage its image and standing in "progressive circles," the PLO takes care to conceal those ties and frequently denies they exist.

Despite the PLO's efforts to appear to be "only anti-Zionist, and not anti-Jewish;" it has manifested its hatred for Jews time and again through its activities and propaganda. PLO hijacker Lila Khaled stated in her autobiography:
"At first I admired Hitler because I thought he was the enemy of the Jews..."

"Carry the warfare of the Palestinians to Europe"

This was the resolution of a special conference Al-Fatah held in Beirut on August 14, 1981 with Arafat in the chair. It was decided to cooperate with underground organizations in Europe, as well as to launch attacks against Jewish institutions (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 3, 1981, in a report of the attack on the synagogue in Vienna on the same date.)...

The first manifestation of this help was the recruitment of a former SS officer to command a PLO training camp at Basra, in Lebanon.

In September of the same year, Jean Tireault, secretary of the neo-Nazi movement, was arrested in Brussels in connection with PLO terrorists acts in Belgium.

At another meeting held in Paris, March 28, 1970, Jean Robert Debbaudt, a Belgian exofficer in Hitler's [[Waffen SS]], leader of the neo-Nazi rexist Party, offered to place his group at the service of the PLO.

In Munich on September 16, 1972, 10 days after the massacre of the Israeli athelets, a Nazi fascist rally, "the First National European Congress of Youth," was held. The 600 delegates cheered Black September to the rafters.

Delegates also extolled Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who killed Senator Robert Kennedy.

...extreme right-wing Whersportsgruppe of Karl-Heinz Hoffman, who was charged with the terrorist explosion at the Munich Oktoberfest (September 28, 1980). Leroy and other members had trained at the PLO's Bir Hassan camp in Lebanon. Hoffman himself told Bild am Sonntag he visited Beirut in July 1980 in connection with supplies to the PLO.

..... L'oeuvre Francaise, an extreme right - wing group operating in France , agreed to carry out terrorist operations at the PLO's request as early as 1977.

The Swiss director of the Arab Bank in Geneva, Francois Genoud, was suspected of of being connected with the "Spider" network responsible for the transfer of Nazi booty to Swiss bank vaults. His appearance at the trial of El Al plane hijackers in Zurich in 1970 uncovered the complex financial cooperation between the neo-Nazis and the PLO.

The public prosecutor in Karlsruh, West Germany, investigated a case of arms smuggling to Europe from Arab countries through a PLO affiliate. Three of those arrested were members of the "Adolf Hitler Free Corps" (January 1978)...

A director of the West German Anti-Crime Burea stated in a seminar held in Rome (February 1982) that neo-Nazis were being helped and financed by the PLO.

According to FBI reports American neo-Nazis (led by Harold Covington) and Fatah personnel trained together in a camp in North Carolina (Ma'ariv, August 7, 1981).

The Austrian police arrested a neo-Nazi leader Herald Angelke for giving shelter to PLO members who had infiltrated into Austria with forged passports (October 1973).

Security sources in Bonn reported that Otto Albrecht, a neo-Nazi arrested ...</blockquote></ref>

Nazi link with “Palestinian” terrorists including the PLO in the 1960s. 

Ideological Linkage: The PLO with the far-right shared an ideological animosity toward Israel.<ref>"Nazi Antisemitism & Islamist Hate.
A review of recent scholarship on the shaping of the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and how Islamist hate has roots in Nazi antisemitism." ''Tablet Magazine''. July 6, 2022
[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/the-nazi-roots-of-islamist-hate]</ref>
François Genoud [Genaud] was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era; ally of Ibrahim Hafid - commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler. Motivated by Jew-hatred he became a passionate supporter of Arab "liberation" causes.<ref name=maariv19dec1969>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/mar/1969/12/19/01/article/190/ Maariv - מעריב, 19 December 1969].
<blockquote>
'The Spider: Francois.' By Hezi Kamel. 
[Dr. Abdul Yousufi (next to the microphone), chairman of the Arab Lawyers' Association, submits a statement regarding the attackers of an El Al plane in Zurich.
Yousufi, who is an ally of François Genoud, served during World War II as the deputy commander of the Arab Legion who fought in the service of Hitler.]
What is the connection between a neo-Nazi national organization called ''the Spider'' and the intelligence services of Arab countries and the legendary treasures of the Nazis smuggled into Germany before the end of World War II and the lost treasure of the FLN. Algeria?
And what is the connection between the members of the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" who are on trial at Winterthur and the former SS General Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina after World War II?

The connection exists.
His name: Francois Genoud.
Age: 51.
Citizenship: Swiss.
Profession: Banker.

The short man, always wearing gray suits and his thin hair pulled back carefully - looked like a gray clerk that no one would look at twice. But Francois Genoud, the neo-Nazi Swiss banker who was one of the founders of the Nazi party in Switzerland during the Hitler era, is one of the greatest international adventurers of our time.
When I first met him about three weeks ago in the courtroom in Winterthur, I thought he was the legal correspondent for one of the Swiss newspapers. He sat and listened intently to hearings in the courtroom and made occasional remarks. Only then, when I saw him in the company of Algerian lawyer Yusufi, who serves as deputy chairman of the Arab Bar Association, did I decide to ask about him.
"The little man in the gray suit over there in the corner? Yes, of course I know him," a Swiss journalist answered my question. "This is a well-known Nazi, director of the Arab Commercial Bank in Geneva."

Ties with the Mufti.

"It is not clear to me, the Swiss journalist added, what such a guy does here on Winterthur."
It was not clear to me either at that moment. However, a few days later, following a number of investigations I conducted in Switzerland, the whole affair became clear.
François Genoud - the little man in the gray suit - is one of the main thread pullers in all the major financial transactions of Arab countries and today one of the main funding channels of sabotage organizations in Europe.
His presence in the courtroom in Winterthur was not at all the presence of an observer - he came to the place as a capitalist to the place of investment. A considerable part of the expenses of the Arab side in the Winterthur trial and almost all the expenses of the various "leagues" for the Palestinians in Switzerland - are covered by Francois.

’’’Francois Genoud's love for Arabs is a love that depends on the thing. The "thing" in this case - his hatred of Jews.’’’

By 1936, at the age of 21, the young François had already joined the youth organization of the Swiss Nazi Party, the National Union Party, as a founding member.
I met in Switzerland some people who remembered him walking around in the "brown shirt" (of the Nazis) that had the swastika tag on a black ribbon tied around the sleeves of his shirt.
In 1940, François Genoud made his first contact with the Arabs. Together with a young Lebanese named Dauk (son of an influential Lebanese dignitary in Beirut) he opens a nightclub in Lausanne. This nightclub probably serves as a meeting place for the German spy service whose slave works Genoud.
His enlistment in the German intelligence service was made by the head of the town council of Tingen - a Swiss named Guttman - who served as a liaison between German intelligence and his Swiss agents. During his many travels to Germany - during World War II - he met with Hitler and Bormann and then also had first contacts with some figures of the Arab world.
He contacted the Mufti of Jerusalem, the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini, and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans. One of Hafid's aides at the time - a young Algerian named Yousufi - later became a well-known lawyer and one of Genoud's regular contacts.

The right to Hitler's writings.

After World War II, Genoud was very active in providing aid to the Nazis who had fled Germany and tightening his ties with the SS General. Hans Rudel, who fled to Argentina and established a Nazi organization there and helps absorb escaped SS men.
It was then rumored that Genoud had helped smuggle to Tangier - the center of international intrigue at the time - the vast art treasures looted by the Nazis from all over Europe..
His most important activity, however, was probably the organization of the smuggling of Nazi treasure into Switzerland and its deposit there in numbered accounts, which no government or foreign entity could afford to get their hands on.
For several years after World War II Genoud wandered from place to place with his actions carried out under the guise of almost complete anonymity.
In 1952, Genaud's name first appeared in the headlines when he went to war against a German publisher in Düsseldorf, who published a collection of Hitler articles entitled "Visible Things about War and Peace."
Genaud then appealed to the courts of Düsseldorf and Paris, claiming that he had all the rights to distribute the books of Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann! Indeed, Genoud won both sentences. It turns out that he has many documents in his hands and written material that was in the possession of Martin Borman, which raises the possibility that Genoud has been in contact with Bormann to this day (to accept the explanation, that Bormann is still alive).
In the ten years following World War II, he concentrated on providing assistance to smuggling Nazis fleeing to Latin America and the Middle East. In an article published in a Basel newspaper in 1964, entitled: "Search for Disappeared Nazis," the author of the article tells of a Nazi organization called "The Spider" which is the successor to another well-known Nazi organization: the "SS Odessa Expatriate Organization." The "spider" weaves its webs all over Europe when its operational center is in Switzerland, where the many millions plundered by the Nazis were also deposited.
According to the Basel newspaper, the man in charge of guarding this huge property was a Swiss resident of Lausanne. "His house is similar to the Hitler Museum," the author of the article wrote, "with swastikas everywhere and huge pictures of Hitler on every wall."
Of course many easily identified with the figure of the banker from Lausanne. - François Genaud...

Smuggling the treasure of the "FLN."

Genoud took advantage of his ties with the Mufti of Jerusalem to establish an extensive system of ties in Cairo that he used to get in touch with the heads of the Tunisian liberation organizations of North African countries.
In 1955, Genoud moved to Tangier, from where he began to develop ties with the whole of North Africa. In 1956 he maintained close contacts with Dr. Schacht, Hitler's Minister of Finance, and tried to interest him in large investments in Morocco. He also later organized after Algeria's independence, Dr. Schacht's visit to Algeria to advise the government Algerian in investment policy.
He then set up in Geneva (again under the advice of Dr. Schacht) the "Arab Commercial Bank" whose job it was to conduct financial transactions (mostly of a dubious and illegal nature) with the Arab world.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world.
A senior Arab diplomat also attended the bank's founding meeting. Thanks to Geno's ties with Ben Bella, he was able to win the post of director of the Algerian People's Bank and became financial adviser to the Algerian government. His main ties, however, were with Mohamed Khider, Ben-Bella's partner, who later became his great enemy.
On October 6, 1964, Genoud was arrested by the Ben-Bella government because of his ties to Khider, after being accused of smuggling the famous FLN treasure. Which was in the hands of Khider.
In February 1965, Genoud was freed by the Algerians after apparently agreeing with the Algerian authorities to transfer part of the PLN treasury. Estimated at the time at $ 20 million. (This treasure was collected during the underground period of the FLN. From donations by Algerian workers in Europe, who regularly paid taxes to F.L.N.).

The "affair" with the Palestinians.

After Mohamed Khider was mysteriously murdered, the FLN's finance affair resurfaced. And the spotlight was once again on Genoud, who had many keys to the vanishing treasure affair. In the meantime, Genoud established new ties - through the Egyptians - with the Palestinian terrorist organizations, which began to emerge as the active factor of the Arab world. He began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.
The neo-Nazi aid to the Palestinian idea was so prominent that it began to upset pro-Palestinian left-wing circles in Switzerland. These circles - headquartered in Geneva - formed a rival organization and even began attacks against the neo-Nazi organization.
In an editorial published last week, in the Swiss Socialist Party newspaper, entitled: "Strange Observer: In a Winterthur Trial", one of the Socialist Party leaders writes of François Genoud.
And the author concludes: The question we ask ourselves is: "Is the ideology of the 'Popular Front' really fascist as its opponents claim or is the Nazis exploiting the Palestinian idea to purify their own name only?"
François Genoud certainly has more than one answer to this question.
</blockquote></ref>

He travelled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the grand mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut,<ref>Preston, David Lee (January 5, 1997). "[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-and-hitler.html Hitler's Swiss Connection]". The Philadelphia Inquirer.</ref> and an Arab of Tunisian descent, Ibrahim Hafid, who was the commander of the Arab Legion fighting in the service of the Germans.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref>[http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/1705143/GENOUD,%20FRANCOIS_0029.pdf GENOUD, FRANCOIS_0029.pdf – CIA]</ref>

After the war, his close contact was Ibrahim Hafid's man, Abdul Yousufi. Genaud was very active in ''Die Spinne'' (German for "The Spider")<ref name=maariv19dec1969/> helping Nazi war criminals escape justice.
The "Arab Commercial Bank" - mostly of a dubious and illegal nature - was established by: François Genoud in partnership with Hans Reichenberg - former S.S. Officers - and with various factors in the Arab world. Genoud began to finance in Switzerland the activities of the "Friends of the Palestinians Organization" founded in Lausanne by neo-Nazi circles who saw helping the Palestinians as a way of expressing their anti-Jewish feelings.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/>
In the 1960s he began supplying arms for various "Palestinian" causes. His co founded Lausanne-based New European Order organisation, met in Barcelona in April 1969, there "Palestinian" groups received financial support and Genoud placed them in contact with former Nazis who would assist their military training, as well as pledged support designated for the [[PLO]].

Genoud was a close associate of George Habash and Jacques Vergès. In September 1969 he contributed finances for the legal expenses of three Palestinians from the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) following their attack on an El Al flight in Zurich, present at trial.<ref name=maariv19dec1969/><ref name=leemartin1987>Lee, Martin A. and Coogan, Kevin (May 1987) "Killers on the Right: Inside Europe's Fascist Underground" Mother Jones. pp.45-52. [https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&q=Francois#v=snippet&q=Francois&f=false]</ref> Including among the prisoners to be exchange for the ''Achille Lauro'' hostages was one of West Germany's top neo Nazis.<ref name=leemartin1987/>

-German [[Wehrmacht]] officer in [[World War II]], Otto Ernst Remer was in contact with [[Yasser Arafat]], "I know Mr. Arafat quite well, natürlich," he asserted. "I saw him many times. He invited me to eat at his headquarters. I knew all his people. They wanted many things from us." For Remer, anyone who was an enemy of Israel was his friend, particularly when a profit could be turned. He claimed to have brokered several business deals between West German companies and the PLO.<ref name=martin2013>Lee, Martin A.. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181-182].</ref>

-The W German neo-Nazi Karl von Kyna, fighting for "Palestinians" against Israel, fell in a commando raid on the Suez front in September 1967.

-A handful of W Germans subsequently joined the ''Hilfskorp Arabien'' (Auxiliary Corps Arabia), which had been advertised in Gerhard Frey's Deutsche National-Zeitung in 1968. 
-''Two years later, West German police arrested Udo Albrecht, founder and leader of the Freikorps Adolf Hitler, who was founded carrying an identification card linking him to El Fatah, the largest PLO faction, led by Yasser Arafat. Albrecht and twelve other neo-Nazi militants had fought alongside the Palestinians against Jordan's King Hussein during the battle of Black September,'' 1970.<ref name=martin2013/>

-Albrecht, who boasted of direct access to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, is believed to have used PLO facilities in Lebanon to train West German neo-Nazis.<ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/criminal-linking-neo-nazis-plo-believed-to-be-in-east-germany Criminal Linking Neo-nazis, PLO Believed to Be in East Germany], JTA, July 30, 1990.
<blockquote>
A violent criminal suspected of being the main link between West German neo-Nazis and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s El Fatah faction is believed to be hiding somewhere in East Germany, according to the federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe.
Federal sources said Sunday that the East German authorities were cooperating in the search for Udo Albrecht, who is wanted for a series of violent crimes, including bank robbery.
According to the prosecution, he fled West Germany in 1981 and found haven in East Germany, which was governed by a Communist regime until earlier this year.
Albrecht, who has boasted of direct access to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, is believed to have used PLO facilities in Lebanon to train West German neo-Nazis.
If the suspicions of the Karlsruhe prosector prove correct, it will be the first conclusive proof that the former East German secret police, the Stasi, not only helped Palestinian terrorists but knowingly protected neo-Nazis.
The media has carried reports in recent years indicating that the old East German regime initiated neo-Nazi incidents in West Germany to prove the Federal Republic was a haven for unrepentant Nazis and anti-Semites.</blockquote></ref>

1980–1, the PLO -Neo Nazi links confirmed.
.<ref>"Links Between P.L.O. And Neo-Nazis Seen; Bavaria Regime Cites Suspicions of Munich Paramilitary Group."
The New York Times. Oct 1, 1980.
[https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/01/archives/links-between-plo-and-neonazis-seen-bavaria-regime-cites-suspicions.html]</ref><ref>"Germans Link P.L.O. To Domestic Terror." By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times. ''The New York Times''. May 27, 1981. [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/27/world/germans-link-plo-to-domestic-terror.html]</ref><ref name=jta-11aug81>"Report Confirms Cooperation Between Neo-nazis and PLO." ''JTA'', Aug 11, 1981
[https://www.jta.org/archive/report-confirms-cooperation-between-neo-nazis-and-plo]</ref>
====Hate====
Author, historian:<ref>Wistrich, Robert S.. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group, 2010. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT895].</ref>
<blockquote>
''Mein Kampf'' was required reading in some Fatah training camps; Nazis were recruited for Fatah and for the PLO, including Erich Altern, a key figure in the Jewish affairs section of the Gestapo, and Willy Berner, an SS officer in Mauthausen death camp. Among the neo-Nazis on the PLO payroll were the German Otto Albrecht and two Belgians, Karl van der Put and the secretary of the fascist La Nation Européene, Jean Tireault.</blockquote>

===Terror===
The PLO has been attacking Israeli civilians while using its own civilians as human shields.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SvudKjsiDxAC&pg=PA131 United States Policy Toward Lebanon-relief and Rehabilitation Assistance ... By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. 1983. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. p.131]
THE PLO THREAT
Israel has found in Lebanon enough PLO weapons to equip a massive army and to supply untold numbers of terrorist cadres...
Arafat boasts of PLO terrorists serving in El Salvador, Angola and ...
In two ways however, the PLO was different from conventional armies. First, the PLO consciously attacked only civilians and, secondly, the PLO used civilians as human shields to protect itself. Anyone who has been to the small country of Israel knows that there are many military targets to be easily found. ..
Yet, the PLO could only find those “military" targets disguised as kibbutz nurseries, school buses, marketplaces or passenger airplanes.
And the second factor that differentiates the PLO terrorist army from conventional armies is its hiding in the midst of civilian centers.
Israeli troops uncovered PLO arsenals, emplacements and bases in schools, mosques, and apartment basements. According to Newsweek, June 14, Israeli soldiers in one engagement, were attacked by PLO fighters disguised as hospital patients.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YVkqfJ0UYoUC&pg=PA101 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 1997. Yoram Dinstein, Fania Domb. 1998. p.101]</ref> A tactic continuing by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian Arab groups.

Asides from its war on Israel, at least during the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the PLO was ''at the heart of the international terrorist network.''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_HgMAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22will+be+utilized%22 Midstream, Volume 30, 1984, p.6]
The PLO was, and to a certain extent still is, at the heart of the international terrorist network. Final proof of this was provided by the documents that the Israelis during their offensive in Lebanon in the summer of 1982 captured from the PLO. These documents revealed that the PLO had sometimes directly intervened in the internal affairs of countries far from the territory it is trying to "liberate." The documents clearly proved that the PLO in West Beirut constituted the world headquarters for the terrorist war against the free world.
One document, for example, recorded that meetings had taken place between the PLO and the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization conspiring against parliamentary democracy in Japan.
In a meeting with the PLO, the Japanese Red Army promised to provide the PLO leadership with "information on the crises and the international situation in Japan" and also informed the PLO that they would give the “ addresses of several Asian solidarity committees which will be utilized.
Other documents captured from the PLO showed its involvement in Libyan - led subversive activities in Niger and Mali.
Some 10,000 terrorists and subversives from all over the world , including small and peaceful Holland, have received training in PLO camps in Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Libya, and South Yemen. And among those who have received training are Nicaraguan Sandinistas and Basque terrorists (ETA), who, because they speak the same language , have been cooperating.
Most of these details became known after 1975.</ref>

*Early 1980s 
At the [[PLO]] headquarters, found at drawer, a 'Parabellum' gun. The eagle and the swastika were stamped on the pistol.<ref>
[https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/274873 The Nazism behind Palestinian murder], ILH, Apr 16, 2015.
<blockquote>
The extermination of the Jews and the establishment of the State of Israel are regularly used as fuel for the Palestinians

[Swastika in a demonstration in support of the Palestinians]

During a social reconnaissance Operation Peace for Galilee for a paratrooper force from the 202nd Battalion that entered the PLO headquarters in Beirut. In one of the drawers I found a 'Parabellum' gun. As the son of Holocaust survivors, my heart skipped a beat. The eagle and the swastika were stamped on the pistol. The Nazi killing tool created for me a crushing mental encounter between the nightmares of my father, who lost his family in the Holocaust, and the murderous Palestinian-Islamic ideology that the gun in my hand turned into a blow.

This murderous ideology has been used regularly in the writings and speeches of senior Palestinian Authority officials since then, and is reflected in both the Hamas Charter and the platform of other Islamic organizations and is a platform for Iran and Hezbollah war preparations.

This legacy includes the masterpiece of the extermination of the Jews in Khyber by Muhammad as a role model and as an injunction to exterminate the Jews. Beyond the need to eliminate the buds of Jewish settlement and curb Jewish immigration to Israel, it was the ideological-religious meeting point of the Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, a sustainable Palestinian icon, with Nazi German leader Hitler. The Hajj, which founded the "Nazi Scout Movement" as early as 1936, is to this day an exemplary figure of the Palestinian national movement in the national and religious context.

In the years 1944-1941 the Mufti lived in Berlin and served as a close adviser (on salary) to Adolf Eichmann ... Historical reports indicate a conclusion reached, according to which when the Germans conquered Israel, an extermination camp would be built in the Dotan Valley for the Jews of the land and the Islamic lands, and the Mufti would serve as the leader of Palestine after it was conquered (by Rommel).

Courtesy of Memri, every Israeli can see that the extermination of the Jews and Israel and the establishment of "Palestine" on its ruins are regularly used as fuel to incite the Palestinian public. The Jews, after all, as the propagandist Goebbels puts it: the end of a frequent lie that will eventually become a reality. , Demands that Israel "Hashem" settle the "peace-loving refugees" in its territory as part of the "right of return."

Meanwhile, the Arabs and Palestinians are killing each other in the Middle East, as well as in the Gaza Strip and especially in the al-Yarmouk suburb. This high-rise district in Damascus, whose Palestinian residents have long since become Syrians, is not at all like the tents in which millions of real Arab refugees are currently languishing from cold and famine as part of the "Arab Spring."

The Palestinians murdered and betrayed their hosts in Kuwait and Jordan, Syria and Beirut and cannot live with each other in peace even in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. And it is precisely now that the publicist Odeh Bisharath is proposing that, like Jordan, we should receive "as a gesture" Palestinian "refugees" from Syria. Someone here really loves us.

There is a habit among "those who were" to gather at a "Parliament" table and discuss hourly issues. When the memory of the Holocaust is raised as a warning sign in a hostile environment for Jews, the faces of some of the "intellectuals" at the table, who cynically claim that it is the "contempt" of the Holocaust and manipulative, anachronistic, emotional to the point of collapse, become obsolete. While some try to forget the Holocaust of the Jews, the Palestinians deny the Holocaust and try to make fun of us in the "Nakba" narrative. As for myself, the feeling of "Parabellum" will remain in my hands forever.</blockquote></ref>

*1982. 
A picture of Arafat and the Nazi swastika are among the wall decorations of a room in the UNRWA school in Siblin (Seblin) - South Lebanon, which was turned into a terrorist training center by the [[PLO]].<ref>Ben Gad, Yitschak. Politics, Lies, and Videotape: 3,000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zRyAT5qNtjQC&pg=PA165 p. 165].
<blockquote>UNRWA SCHOOL HOUSES ARAFAT'S SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE:
A 1982 picture of Arafat and the Nazi swastika are among the wall decorations of a room in the UNRWA school in Siblin (South Lebanon) which was turned into a terrorist training center by the PLO that year. (Rahamim Israeli).</blockquote></ref>

During the 1993 [[Oslo Accords]] the PLO under [[Yasser Arafat]] agreed to revise the covenant which had called for “the liquidation of the Zionist presence”. However, in a speech given to the Palestine Legislative Council he justified this step by referring to [[Muhammad]]’s Treaty of Hudaybiyah with the Koresh tribe. This peace pact was used by Muhammad to muster enough military strength to conquer the Koresh who would surrender without a single fight.<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/177041/why-israel-victim-david-horowitz 'Why Israel Is The Victim,'] Feb 11, 2013, FPM, David Horowitz</ref>

In 2018 the PLO wanted to bring charges against Israel for war crimes to the [[International Criminal Court]]. Critics emphasize that this step is a subterfuge to avoid negotiations with Israel.<ref>Puder, Joseph (September 17, 2018). [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271344/trump-administration-shutting-down-plo-mission-joseph-puder TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHUTTING DOWN PLO MISSION IN WASHINGTON]. ''FrontpageMag''. Retrieved September 17, 2018.</ref> Consequently, on September 10, 2018, the [[Trump Administration]] announced it would close the Palestine Liberation Organization's mission in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>O'Reilly, Andrew (September 10, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/10/trump-administration-closing-plo-mission-in-washington.html Trump administration closing PLO mission in Washington]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved September 10, 2018.</ref>

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{{See also|State of Palestine}}
[[File:Map of the Holy Land.jpg|thumb|Map of the Holy Land Divided into the XII Tribes of Israel, by Emanuel Bowen, PUBLISHED 1752.]]
'''Palestine''' (from Latin: Palaestina; פלשתינה Palestina; Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filastīn, Falastīn) is a name sometimes given to part of the land that generally comprises the [[Holy Land]], known as the in the Old Testament [[Promised Land]] given to the [[Israelites]] / [[Jews]] in that part of the [[Bible]]. Though historically [[Jews]] did reside there, it is not directly associated with the Jewish promise, as it is a geopolitical designation more than a religious one. Palestine was a later name for the province of Judea in the [[Roman Empire]], who ruled the Jewish people at that time.<ref>http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_name_origin.php</ref> The Romans also renamed Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.

After the [[Romans]] renamed Israel as Syria Palestina in 132-135 AD, Palestine is one of many names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Many different definitions of the region have been in usage in the past three thousand years. It was never an Arab state, and much of its history has been falsified by the "Palestinian" movement and its sympathizers in order to create a new identity to give the Arab nations a new weapon to use to fight against the nation of [[Israel]].

==Ancient==
: ''Main Article: [[Israel#History|History of Israel]]''

The Hebrew scriptures call the region Canaan when referring to the pre-Israelite period,(Hebrew: כּנען‎) and afterwards Israel (Yisrael). The name "Land of the Hebrews" (Hebrew: ארץ העברים‎, Eretz Ha-Ivrim) is also found. The wide area appears to be the habitat of the ancient ethnic Hebrews, though perhaps shared with other ethnic groups. The land of Canaan is part of the land given to the descendants of Abraham, which extends from the Nile to the Euphrates River (Genesis 15:18). Already in Genesis 12:6 and 7 we can read: ''And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land.'' This land is said to include an area called Aram Naharaim, which includes Haran in modern Turkey.

In the Koran, the term الأرض المقدسة ("Holy Land", Al-Ard Al-Muqaddasah) is mentioned at least seven times, once which claims [[Moses]] proclaims to the Children of Israel: "O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin." (Surah 5:21). But never is the term "Palestine" mentioned.<ref>Vikram Sood @Vikram_Sood ([https://twitter.com/Vikram_Sood/status/1711964879605948680?lang=en Oct 11, 2023]):<blockquote>
The Quran does not mention Palestine even once.
Quote:
Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد
@BrotherRasheed ·
Oct 10, 2023.
Many Muslims do not know that their Quran never mentions Palestine even once, and mentions the name Israel 43 times (Bani Israel, sons of Israel), and clearly says that Allah has ordained the holy land for them! 👇👇👇
Let’s see how they spin this [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8G9r01XMAApwwd?format=jpg&name=large].</blockquote></ref>
In addition, it actually also mentioned that it was given to the Jews.<ref>Esor Ben-Sorek, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mohammeds-support-of-the-jewish-claim-to-israel/ Mohammed’s Support of the Jewish Claim to Israel], ''TOI'', May 6, 2017</ref>

Originally inhabited by a loose bonding of [[Canaan]]ite tribes, the Israelites settled into the area after [[the Exodus]] from [[Egypt]] and were partially successful in driving out the Canannites and making it their home. Migrations from the "Peoples of the Sea" led to a strong [[Phillistine]] presence on the coastline, but they were generally subdued by [[King David]] and [[Solomon]] during the height of ancient Israel. The kingdom was subsequently divided into the [[Northern Kingdom]] and [[Judea]] upon the death of Solomon. The Northern Kingdom, and the remnants of the Philistine kingdoms, were conquered by the [[Assyrian]]s in the late 8th century B.C. and the kingdom of Judea fell under [[Babylonian]] control in the late 7th century and lost their independence completely in 586 B.C. with the fall of [[Jerusalem]], their capital. The Jews were allowed to return under the [[Persian Empire]] and the entire area was conquered by [[Alexander the Great]] around 330 B.C. When his empire broke apart at his death and consolidated into four different regions, it was the [[Ptolemies]] centered in Egypt who controlled the region for the better part of the next two centuries, but conquest by the [[Seleucids]] led to a harsh religious persecution on the Jews in the region. The Jews revolted and had their independence for almost 100 years before a civil war courted Roman intervention and the area came under Roman control and eventually became the province of Palestine. Byzantine rule was forcefully removed by the great Islamic waves of the 7th century A.D. Portions of Palestine were reclaimed under Crusader control from the late 11th century until the mid 13th century under the Catholic [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]], but the overall region was under Islamic control for over 1000 years. Worth mentioning that the Philistines who at one time lived in part of the area were completely conquered by [[King David]].

There is no linkage to ancient inhabitants among the current Arabs.

In the mid-1200s, Mamelukes, originally soldier-slaves of the Arabs based in Egypt, established an empire that in time included the area of Palestine. Arab-speaking Muslims made up most of the population of the area once called Palestine. Beginning in the late 1300s, Jews from Spain and other Mediterranean lands settled in Jerusalem and other parts of the land. The Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamelukes in 1517, and Palestine became part of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish Sultan invited Jews fleeing the Spanish Catholic inquisition to settle in the Turkish empire, including several cities in Palestine.<ref>[http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm Israel and Palestine: A Brief History.]</ref>

==Modern History==
The breakup of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after their defeat in [[World War I]] saw the region come under the control of [[Great Britain]]. While there was always a Jewish remnant who never left, Jewish re-emigration to the area increased under the tolerant eyes of the British. This increased after the atrocities of World War II and the areas were given their independence with Palestine being divided into separate Jewish and Arab nations, the Jewish nation being called Israel and the Arab Palestine.

[[File:Six Day War Territories.svg.png|thumb|"Six Day War" Territories.]]
A war broke out in which the Jews expanded their borders and the self-claimed Arab nation of "Palestine" was absorbed by Jordan. Hostility between the Arabs and Jews continued and in 1967 Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan, taking the bulk of the Jewish land that had been the "Palestinian state". UN resolution 242 called for the Israeli removal from that land, but it did not occur. Attempts to hold Israel accountable were vetoed in the Security Council by the United States. Although the land was part of Jordan, Jordan relinquished its rights in the 1980s telling the Israelis to speak with the "Palestinian" Arabs directly. The 1967 Israel borders have no popular support among ordinary "Palestinian" residents. What most people call the 1967 Israel borders is really a cease-fire line (armistice) dating back to 1949; this armistice agreement was never a permanent treaty between Israel and any Arab country.<ref>[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2011/05/21/talk/1967-israel-borders-have-no-basis/ 1967 Israel borders have no basis.]</ref>

In 1988, the Kingdom of Jordan renounced all claims to the territory known as Judea and Samaria within Israel, and "The West Bank" to the rest of the world.<ref name=renounce>"[http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_periods9.html Jordan, History of: Disengagement from the West Bank]," from the official histories of Jordan. Retrieved April 8, 2012. Cited in Hurlbut TA, "[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/04/02/news/world-news/settlements-israel-legal/ Settlements in Israel: Legal or Not]?" ''Conservative News and Views'', 2 April 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.</ref> In 1994 Jordan made that renunciation permanent. It negotiated a permanent treaty of peace with Israel. That treaty set the boundary along the Jordan and Yarmouk Rivers, through the Dead Sea, then southwest along the ''Emek Ha’arava'' (or ''Wadi Araba'' in [[Arabic]]) line to the Gulf of Aqaba.<ref name=jordantreaty>"[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/Israel-Jordan%20Peace%20Treaty Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, October 26, 1994]," Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Israel. Retrieved 8 April 2012. Cited in Hurlbut TA, "[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/04/02/news/world-news/settlements-israel-legal/ Settlements in Israel: Legal or Not]?" ''Conservative News and Views'', 2 April 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.</ref> For that reason, the Judea-Samaria region is ''not'' an occupied territory at all as anti-Semitic liberals claim it to be, but a territory under military administration, the civilian population of which (with key exceptions) have leaders desiring secession and independence.

Today's "Palestinian" Arabs are descendants of late 19th century and early 20th century [[Arab]] immigrants from surrounding nations such as Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Sudan.<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269039/big-palestinian-lie-daniel-greenfield The Big Palestinian Lie].
End the “Palestinian” occupation of Israel.
January 19, 2018 by [[Daniel Greenfield]]</ref><ref>http://www.peacefaq.com/palestinians.html</ref><ref>http://www.meforum.org/article/522</ref>
[[File:Gaza War 18 07 2014.jpg|thumb|left|East of [[Gaza City]], 18.07.2014]]
The "Palestinian" [[Intifada]] from the late 1980s tried to regain Arab control of the West Bank region of Israel. While first clamping down harshly, Israel did sign an accord to grant the "Palestinian" Arabs autonomy in the West Band and the Gaza Strip, but not full independence. The borders of a future "Palestinian" state has been a stumbling block to a final solution with the Arabs wanting to control all of the area captured in the 1967 War and Israel claiming part of the land for the Jewish people. A continuing series of violent actions on the part of the "Palestinian" Arabs and an inability to find a comprise has prevented any type of permanent solution. The short-term solution is bleak. With [[Hamas]], a terrorist entity that does not even recognize Israel's right to exist in its own land (it seeks ethnic cleansing of all Jews in the area and create a radical oppressive Islamic state) having the majority of the control in the "Palestinian" legislature, its head in Damascus, Osama Hamdan, supports Ahmadinejad's genocidal call to "wipe off Israel off the map" <ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm</ref> and Hamas Cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita said: "The Annihilation of the Jews in Palestine is One of The Most Splendid Blessings for Palestine".<ref>http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD208708</ref>

<blockquote>
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is an autonomous national entity comprising the territories of Gaza (formerly under Egyptian sovereignty) and West Bank (formerly under Jordan sovereignty), which were occupied by the Israeli Defense Forces in Jun 1967. As provided by the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles signed on 13 Sep 1993 and upon the Agreement signed on 4 May 1994, the PNA was inaugurated on 5 Jul 1994 as a transitional status including "Palestinian" interim self-governing and a phased transfer of powers and territories (towns and areas of the West Bank). Negotiations on the permanent status, which could end in a "Palestinian State", are under way. Headquarters: Ramallah, Chairmen of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): [[Mahmoud Abbas|Mahmoud Ridha Abbas]]<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Palestinian_National_Authority.htm Palestinian National Authority.]</ref>
</blockquote>

===Christians===
[[File:Catholics in the West Bank.jpg|thumbnail|Maronite Catholics in the West Bank on Good Friday of 2012.]]
[[File:Orthodox Christians in Gaza Strip.jpg|thumbnail|[[Greek Orthodox]] [[Christians]] in the Gaza Strip.]]
[[File:Catholic Church in Gaza.jpg|thumbnail|Maronite Catholic Church in [[Gaza City|Gaza]] which has direct line with the [[Pope]].]]
While Arab-Palestinians are overwhelmingly Muslim and grandchildren of Arab immigrants, there are also between 3 (in Gaza) - 9 (in West Bank) percent who are Christians. An estimated 50,000 Christian Palestinians live in the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to the U.S. State Department's international religious freedom report for 2022. Approximately 1,300 Christians lived in Gaza. Many Palestinian Christians live in diaspora communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/jerusalem-palestinian-christians-observe-scaled-down-good-friday-rituals|title=In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday rituals|date=March 29, 2024|publisher=Fox News}}</ref> [[Pope Francis]] affirmed in 2024 that he calls the "church in Gaza every day".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240523-pope-francis-i-call-the-church-in-gaza-every-day/|title=Pope Francis: 'I call the church in Gaza every day'|date=May 23, 2024|publisher=Middle East Monitor}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-francis-contacts-only-catholic-church-gaza-carnage-continues|title=Pope Francis contacts only Catholic Church in Gaza as carnage continues|date=October 10, 2023|publisher=Fox News}}</ref>

500,000 Palestinians are Christians around the world, they form and estimated 6-7% of the global Palestinian population. 48% are Greek Orthodox, 38% Catholic and 4% are Evangelicals and Protestants. "The Palestinian Christian presence in Jerusalem is under threat due to institutionalised discrimination, attacks by radical Israeli groups, and systematic attempts by settler organisations to take over church property in the Old City". According to International Christian Concern: "In Israel, both Jewish (Messianic) and Arab Christians experience pressures for their faith from radical Jewish groups and can sometimes be treated as second-class citizens in the Jewish state".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.persecution.org/2023/10/12/hamas-and-israel-war-leaves-christians-in-the-crossfire/|title=Hamas and Israel War Leaves Christians in the Crossfire|date=10 December 2023|publisher=Persecution.org}}</ref>

The lefty Times of Israel argues on the topic: "The picture of safe coexistence painted by Israeli officials is starkly at odds with the experiences Jerusalem’s Christian leaders themselves describe. While they readily acknowledge that there is no organized or governmental effort against them, Christian clergy in the Old City tell of a deteriorating atmosphere of harassment, apathy from authorities, and a growing fear that incidents of spitting and vandalism could turn into something far darker".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-attacks-on-christians-become-more-frequent-a-crisis-looms-for-israel/|title=As attacks on Christians become more frequent, a crisis looms for Israel|date=March 30, 2023|publisher=The Times of Israel}}</ref>

Christian Dr. [https://walidphares.com Walid Phares] (vilified by Islamists and leftists who are duped by them <ref>[https://emetonline.org/vilifying-walid-phares%E2%80%8E/ Vilifying Walid Phares‎] Sarah Stern, Emetonline, November 22, 2016.</ref>
"Walid Phares was born in 1957 to a Maronite Christian family in Beirut. By ‎the time Phares was in his 20s, Lebanon, which has always been more of a ‎mosaic of various religions and communities than a unified nation, had ‎plunged into a bloody civil war. Naturally, Phares supported his own Lebanese ‎Maronite Christian community’s efforts to defend itself in this brutal, ‎existential struggle against Syrian occupation on the one hand and Palestinian and Lebanese Sunni and Shiite terror on the other.‎"<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/in-praise-of-professor-walid-phares-473912 In praise of Professor Walid Phares]. By Yair Ravid, The Jerusalem Post, November 8, 2016.
"It is unfortunate that a segment of our own academic and media elite has fallen for the games of Iranian and Islamist propagandists."</ref>) :<ref>[https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2003/10/09/symposium-the-muslim-persecution-of-christians/ Symposium: The Muslim Persecution of Christians]. By Dr. Walid Phares, October 9, 2003.</ref> "The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has, on the Palestinian side, moved from largely nationalist to largely Islamist rhetoric giving the conflict a religious caste that makes it even more intractable. if persecution continues to drive out Christians from the Middle East (where they were a quarter of the population a century ago) then conflict will be largely Israeli/Jew vs Arab/Muslim with no intermediates."

Not that under Palestinian Authority the situation is any good, but [[Hamas]] is worse. 'Hamas terror organization charter targets Christians and US service organizations.'<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/hamas-terror-organization-charter-targets-christians-us-service-organizations Hamas terror organization charter targets Christians and US service organizations].
Hamas charter targets civic groups in US heartland. By Eric Shawn. Fox News. November 22, 2023</ref>

A number of Christians are indigenous to "Palestine", and many of these are descended from the first Christians- the first Jews who chose to follow Christ and recognize him as the messiah. Also many Arameans, another Semitic group native to the area, accepted Christ very early on in the history of Christianity, and thus contribute a lot to the genetics of today's Christians in the Palestinian Authority, later joined over thousand years later by surviving European crusaders and their families after their defeat at the hands of the Islamic armies,<ref>http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2045/palestinian-christianity-myth</ref> when they blended into the native, Semitic Christian population.

[[File:Bethlehem, Church of the Nativity.JPG|thumb|The Church of the Nativity in [[Bethlehem]].]]
There are Catholic and Orthodox Churches in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza]].
The Iraqi-born, Assyrian Australian prelate, [[Mar Mari Emmanuel]], visited Gaza once.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADINB5AJYLM I WENT TO GAZA STRIP AND THIS IS WHAT I FOUND - theChristianCommunity]</ref>

Many of the Christians have taken on "Palestinian" nationalism promoted by the nearby Arab states, regardless of the fact that "Palestinian" nationalism is heavily rooted in both Islamism and pan-Arabism, which reject human rights for Christians or recognition of the distinct non-Arab Semitic ethnicities, mainly Aramean or Jewish, to which most of them belong, mainly due to [[taqiyya]] or propaganda to advance an Islamic cause. Israel-hatred runs very deep for these Christians because of their loyalty to this Arab identity, and many of them even hate Jewish people as a whole regardless of the ethnic, and to a lesser extent, cultural, origins of many of their own. Additionally many of these Christians will take sides with people who express a deep hatred for their fellow Christians around the Middle East.<ref>[http://unitedwithisrael.org/poll-palestinians-greatest-supporters-of-isis-in-middle-east-2/ addref]</ref>
In many cases, the self-declared "Palestinian" government encourages demographic shifts in areas inhabited by minorities<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians#Persecutions</ref> (an example of this is the [[Samaritan Genocide]], a result of which only 300 [[Samaritans]] remain today in their traditional homeland in Samaria, the southern part of the West Bank) in one village (Kiryat Luza), in which there is an Israeli presence, responsible for protecting them from Arab ethnic cleansing. In [[Bethlehem]], Christians have become a small minority of the population under control of the Palestinian Authority.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem#Demographics</ref> In Israel, however, ethnic and religious minorities, in villages in which they historically formed the majority, have retained their status as the majority of the population in the vast majority of cases, a trend which shows no indication of changing in the future. Christians in Israel can even form their own political parties.<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/israeli-christians-moving-new-direction-joseph-puder/ Israeli Christians Moving in a New Direction].<blockquote>
Recognizing the only country in the region that protects its Christian minority.</blockquote>
October 20, 2013 by Joseph Puder. ''FPM''.
</ref>

The [[Israeli-Arab Conflict]] is sometimes presented as a clash of civilizations. Arab-Palestinians are supposedly part only of the Muslim civilization, Israel, the state of the Jews, is part of Western, Judeo-Christian civilization. Christians themselves are not presented to be part of the conflict. If they are talked about in a broader Middle Eastern context, mostly in terms of oppression by Muslims. It therefore seems logical that Christians would be presented as allies only of Israel and, together with it, defend their civilization from the Muslims, represented supposedly by the Palestinians. Christians are and have been part of the conflict from the beginning. Palestinians are not only Muslims, Christians are also part of the Palestinian Arab identity of a nation.
Important to note Christians' fear of criticizing authorities, as a relative small minority, residing in that non-free society.

'Reporters' say they suppressed Biden's decline because 'right-wing media' WAS reporting it.
'It is a telling admission.'
Bob Unruh By Bob Unruh, July 4, 2024.
https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/reporters-say-suppressed-bidens-decline-right-wing-media-reporting/
Christy Anastas is a "Palestinian" Christian who speaks about persecution of Christians by the Palestinian Authority,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzCAqXrBGtU</ref> an issue largely ignored by the western liberal media.

Though the Christians in the PA avoid saying so publicly, many of them fear – with good reason – that Muslim aggression against them will only escalate.<ref name=jp25dec2019/>

The situation of Christians in [[Bethlehem]] has deteriorated dramatically in the last century, and especially since the PA took control of the city in 1995. In 1947, Christians comprised about 85% of the city's population, but that figure had actually plunged to 16% by 2016, and is estimated since then.<ref name=jp25dec2019/><ref>“The Mayor of Bethlehem is Christian, but it is Hamas that’s in charge.” [http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/44202%26eng%3Dy.html], Dec 2005</ref>

Christian-Arab author: "Arafat's Islamo-fascist storm troopers have shown nothing but contempt for Christians and their holy sites."<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2003/02/17513/ The truth about Christians in 'Palestine'], By Joseph Farah. ''WND'',
Published February 28, 2003.</ref>

2019 report cited "Islamic oppression" as the main source of persecution at Christian small minority of Arab Palestinians.<ref name=jp25dec2019>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/the-christian-crisis-612032 A Christian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank], The Jerusalem Post, Dec 25, 2019.
 
In the Gaza Strip, the Christian population has plummeted from about 3,000 a decade ago to an estimated 1,000 today, most of them Greek Orthodox.

<blockquote> ...
“Though the Christians in the PA avoid saying so publicly, many of them fear – with good reason – that Muslim aggression against them will only escalate,” wrote Edy Cohen, a researcher at the center. “Such fears are all the stronger in light of the thunderous silence of the Western [and Israeli] media, in the face of the Christian minority’s ongoing disappearance from the PA and Islamic lands in general.”

He added, pointedly, that “the ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule can only lead to the vanishing of Christianity from the place where it emerged.”

In the Gaza Strip, the Christian population has plummeted from about 3,000 a decade ago to an estimated 1,000 today, most of them Greek Orthodox...

The situation of Christians in Bethlehem has deteriorated dramatically in the last century, and especially since the PA took control of the city in 1995. In 1947, Christians comprised about 85% of the city’s population, but that figure had plunged to 16% by 2016, and is estimated since then.

Bethlehem’s mayor at the time said that, “Due to the stress – either physical or psychological – and the bad economic situation, many people are emigrating: either Christians or Muslims, but it is more apparent among Christians because they already are a minority.”

A study by the Pew Research Center found that the decline in the Arab Christian population was both a result of a lower birth rate among Christians compared to Muslims and the fact that Christians were more likely to emigrate than any other religious group. A statistical analysis of the Christian exodus cited a lack of economic and educational opportunities among a community known for its middle-class status and higher education.</blockquote/></ref>

89% of Christians in Gaza are Greek Orthodox while 9.3% are Catholic and 1.52% belongs to other denominations.<ref name=GreekReporter>{{cite web|url=https://greekreporter.com/2014/08/11/struggling-christian-minority-in-gaza/|title=Struggling Christian Minority In Gaza|date=August 11, 2014|publisher=Greek Reporter}}</ref> Since the 2007 Israel blockade of Gaza, Christians have not being able to visit Holy Sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, having the same struggle as other Gaza inhabitants. This has led many to hold extreme positions "which does not differentiate between race and religion", warns a report from the Young Men's Christian Association.<ref name=GreekReporter/>

In [[Holy Week]] of 2023, due to Islamic violence, the Israeli police limited the number of worshippers from 8,200 attenders in 2022 to 1,800 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during Orthodox Easter ceremonies angering the Church leaders not willing to cooperate - though it was for their protection. In a joint statement, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Custody of the Holy Land and the Armenian Patriarchate said: "We shall continue to uphold the Status Quo customs, and the ceremony will be held as customary for two millennia and all who wish to worship with us are invited to attend".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2023-04/israel-orthodox-easter-jerusalem-security-limitations.html|title=Israel seeks to limit Orthodox Easter celebrations in Jerusalem|publisher=Vatican News|date=April 2023}}</ref>

Note: Jewish access to some holy sites are also barred, frequently, when Islamist violence erupt.

[[File:366px-2010-08 Ramallah 59.jpg|thumbnail|250px|A Church at [[Ramallah]] ]]

Note, the spitting thing is related to an old phenomenon against any images being worshipped. Not anti-Christian people per se. And based on Deuteronomy 7:26.

On October 4, 2023, 5 Orthodox Jews were arrested on the West Bank for spitting at in East Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-arrested-for-spitting-at-christians-in-jerusalem-police-minister-its-not-criminal/|title=5 arrested for spitting at Christians in Jerusalem; police minister: It's not criminal|date=4 October 2023|publisher=Times of Israel}}</ref> And were condemned by all Rabbinical as well as Israeli government leadership. According to the Times of Israel, [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]] justified spitting toward Christians as "an ancient Jewish custom". Rabbis and other Orthodox Jews were incensed by that claim.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnaibrith.org/israels-missionary-problem-jns/|title=Spitting in God's eye (JNS)|date=October 5, 2023|publisher=B'nai B'rith International}}</ref>
Neverherless, there have been lies spread as well. Such as by infamous fake news chief Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman - Islamist bigot) who has been spreading invented lies. Including
Oct 9, 2023, only after inciting some 800,00 users, he admitted he lied about Church supposedly "bombed."<ref>After inciting 800K views, Sulaiman Ahmed finally admitted (the spreading a false libel) about a church. That 'the church is fine.' (Oct 9, 2023) [https://archive.ph/QIiml]</ref>
The same liar was the source for [[Ilhan Omar]] and [[AOC]] into sharing a 2013 photo of Syrian children and claiming they're "Palestinian." Exposed.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/ilhan-omar-falsely-claims-photo-is-of-dead-palestinian-kids/ Ilhan Omar falsely claims photo is of dead Palestinian kids].
By Jesse O’Neill. ''NYPost'', Oct. 16, 2023</ref>
Then weeks later: Ahmed lied on settlers too as if they attacked Christians, while in fact, the Armenian Patriarchate accuses two developers being behind the attack, against whom they previously filed a lawsuit to cancel a controversial land deal.<ref>Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom ([https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1740611455517704322 Dec 29, 2023]):<blockquote>
We can hear them speaking Arabic you liar.
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Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman ·
Dec 28, 2023.
ISRAELI SETTLERS ATTACK ...

Readers added context:

There is no evidence of Israeli settlers in this attack.
The Armenian Patriarchate accuses two developers being behind the attack, against whom they previously filed a lawsuit to cancel a controversial land deal.
[https://en.armradio.am/2023/12/28/armenian-priests-studens-injured-in-new-jerusalem-attack/].
The Police could not confirm the accusations.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-779881]</blockquote></ref>

Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite leader:<ref>Off The Record - Tucker Carlson, Israel, and the Questions That Weren’t Asked.
ILTV Israel News.
Feb 24, 2026.
<blockquote>
Shadi Khalloul is an Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite. He served as a lieutenant in a paratrooper division in the IDF. He is the chairman of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association, an organization that works to advance legislation in the Knesset focused on strengthening Christian integration and ensuring equal civil rights and basic community within the state of Israel.

Interviewer:
>>So you publicly invited Tucker Carlson to meet with local Christian Israeli leaders during his visit. Did you receive any response direct or indirect?

Shadi:
>>Unfortunately, we invited him many time and this time actually when we knew that he's coming to Israel indeed we invited him by letter from February 2nd dated February 2nd a week before and he never responded unfortunately.

Interviewer:
>> What conversations do you think he missed out on by not engaging with you and other Christian leaders on the ground?

Shadi:
>>It's his loss actually his loss of knowing the truth and as Christian as he claim he is a Christian believer uh he missed the opportunity of knowing the truth and speaking the truth ..he missed this opportunity to know the truth and speak the truth.

Interviewer:
>> If you had sat down with him, what was a misconception that you would have challenged immediately?

Shadi:
>>First of all, as I said, he would know better about

Khalloul is an Israeli Aramaic Christian Maronite. "our thriving community and life in Israel as native Christians in the Galilee, as Israeli citizens living in proper Israel..
living here with Jewish majority, how our people enjoying life, how our homes are so beautiful ..the freedom we enjoy as a Christian.
Life in Israel is for Christians are the best actually life that Christian can ever imagine in the Middle East compared with other Christians in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. Here in Israel, we live in a safe country with order of law with democratic regime and state that allow us equality, freedom of speech, movement of worship of any other movement and and and freedom that we that you actually enjoy in Western societies, we have it here in Israel..

Our community to tell you exactly how it lives here in the gallery is first of all is like any other Arab and non Arab or Jews or non-Jews. We as Aramaic Christians, we live here in a very beautiful life. We enjoy the high education that Israeli system allow us. We have many people involved and integrated within the education system. We have a deacon of the University of Haifa. She's a Maronite Christian. Actually, her name is Mouna Maroun. We have the first judge of the Supreme Court. His name is Salim Juban is also from our community. We have people uh professors and doctors in high levels and positions in different institutions and hospitals and as well as we have many officers ladies and uh females and male in the IDF and in security services that are managing Jews actually and not the opposite as a Christian minority of 2% sent 188,000 Christians. We have so many high level and high rank positions in the IDF as well from the Christians who are willing to defend this state of Israel because it is a freedom and because it allow them the security and safety that they don't enjoy in any other Arab and Islamic regime....

[About bigoted commentators:]

These commentators that are actually talking about us, about our society as a Christian native people in the land and the holy land in Israel [are] actually harming us and destroying the beautiful coexistence that we enjoy here in Israel and they are endangering the Christian actually in Arab countries and inside Israel too, because while we are living here in a beautiful life in Israel, thriving Christian community, the other persecuted Christian under is under Arab and Islamic regime are actually needing this voice ... to speak for them and he's not doing so and he's exposing only so-called people who got paid to speak propaganda and lies against Israel and not exposing the danger and the persecution and the oppression and the silent genocide that Christians are facing under Islamic and Arab regimes in Lebanon, in Syria and Iraq, in Egypt, in Jordan, under Palestinian authority, in Bethlehem and others that are controlled by Arab Islamic regime of the Palestinian Authority. That's what Tucker Carson should expose and that's what they need him to expose if you want to help the Christians in the Middle East.

Interviewer:
>>Shadi, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate all of your insight...</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>"our thriving community and life in Israel as native Christians in the Galilee, as Israeli citizens living in proper Israel...living here with Jewish majority, how our people enjoying life, how our homes are so beautiful ..the freedom we enjoy as a Christian.
Life in Israel for Christians are the best actually life that Christian can ever imagine in the Middle East compared with other Christians in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. Here in Israel, we live in a safe country with order of law with democratic regime and state that allow us equality, freedom of speech, movement of worship of any other movement and and and freedom that we that you actually enjoy in Western societies, we have it here in Israel..

Our community to tell you exactly how it lives here in the Galilee, is first of all like any other Arab and non Arab or Jews or non-Jews. We as Aramaic Christians, we live here in a very beautiful life. We enjoy the high education that Israeli system allow us. We have many people involved and integrated within the education system. We have a deacon of the University of Haifa. She's a Maronite Christian. Actually, her name is Mouna Maroun. We have the first judge of the Supreme Court. His name is Salim Juban is also from our community. We have people uh professors and doctors in high levels and positions in different institutions and hospitals and as well as we have many officers ladies and uh females and male in the IDF and in security services that are managing Jews actually and not the opposite as a Christian minority of 2% sent 188,000 Christians. We have so many high level and high rank positions in the IDF as well from the Christians who are willing to defend this state of Israel because it is a freedom and because it allow them the security and safety that they don't enjoy in any other Arab and Islamic regime...
While we are living here in a beautiful life in Israel, thriving Christian community, the other persecuted Christian under is under Arab and Islamic regime are actually needing a voice... exposing the danger and the persecution and the oppression and the silent genocide that Christians are facing under Islamic and Arab regimes in Lebanon, in Syria and Iraq, in Egypt, in Jordan, under Palestinian authority, in Bethlehem and others that are controlled by Arab Islamic regime of the Palestinian Authority.</blockquote>

Palestinian Christians in Gaza fear for the future of their tiny community from the Muslim population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/gaza-christians-fear-for-future-of-tiny-community|title=Gaza Christians fear for future of tiny community|date=July 25, 2012|publisher=Fox News}}</ref> This sentiment of fear of disappearing grew after the Israel-Gaza War that started in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-10/interview-with-custos-of-the-holy-land-fr-francesco-patton-ofm.html|title=Holy Land Custos: Fear is growing that Gaza's Christians will disappear|date=October 10, 2023|publisher=Vatican News}}</ref>

In January 2024, on the night between 14 and 15, an Arab-Palestinian mob caused extensive damage to a Christian holy site in Nablus (Shechem) known as Jacob's Well, causing concern, as "we know of no arrests that are made in such cases, nor do we see the P.A. placing any guards in those sensitive locations under regular attack."<ref>Sveta Listratov, [https://www.jns.org/palestinian-attack-on-christian-holy-site-raises-concern/ Palestinian attack on Christian holy site raises concern], ''JNS'', January 19, 2024.<blockquote>
“We know of no arrests that are made in such cases, nor do we see the P.A. placing any guards in those sensitive locations under regular attack.”
A Palestinian mob caused extensive damage to a Christian holy site in Nablus (Shechem) known as Jacob’s Well on Sunday night.</blockquote></ref>

[[File:Christian woman from Bethlehem describes how Palestinian Muslims treat Christians as second-class citizens while subjecting them to torture and brutal oppression for being non-Muslims.jpg|thumb|Christian woman from Bethlehem describes how Palestinian Muslims treat Christians as second-class citizens while subjecting them to torture and brutal oppression for being non-Muslims]]

Once in a while, brave Christians overcome fears and admit. Such as: 'Christian woman from Bethlehem describes how Palestinian Muslims treat Christians as second-class citizens while subjecting them to torture and brutal oppression for being non-Muslims.'<ref>Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000 ([https://twitter.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1801864832964010244 Jun 15, 2024]):<blockquote>
Watch: Christian woman from Bethlehem describes how Palestinian Muslims treat Christians as second-class citizens while subjecting them to torture and brutal oppression for being non-Muslims. She explains that since the first day they took control of the city, the Palestinian… ..
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQF_hq5XIAALkdF?format=jpg&name=small]</blockquote></ref>

The mayor of [[Ramallah]] Issa Kassis is Christian.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/21437|title=Holy Land: Christian leaders support Palestine's membership of UN|publisher=Independent Catholic News|date=November 14, 2012}}</ref> The mayor of Ramallah expressed to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, his willingness to deepen the collaboration between the municipality of the city and the Church, especially with regard to possible Palestinian Christian cultural projects. Members of the parish council also stressed the importance of this kind of initiatives, recalling their desire to increase the visibility of Christians in the Holy Land, not only locally but also abroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.abouna.org/content/holy-land-patriarch-pizzaballa-makes-pastoral-visit-ramallah|date=May 10, 2023|title=Holy Land: Patriarch Pizzaballa makes a pastoral visit to Ramallah|publisher=Abouna}}</ref> The mayor of [[Bethlehem]], Hanna Hanania, is also Christian.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scenenow.com/ArtsAndCulture/Christian-Palestinians-Are-Facing-Memoricide-And-Possible-Extinction|title=Christian Palestinians Are Facing Memoricide…And Possible Extinction|date=December 25, 2023|publisher=Scene Now}}</ref>

But while in Palestinian towns among Muslims, the Christian population only dwindled, (earlier, approximately more than a half the population of Ramallah was Christian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ramallah|title=Ramallah|publisher=Britannica}}</ref>) as "the Christian population is beleaguered due to the intolerance of the majority,"<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/christians-in-the-palestinian-territories Palestinian Authority: Christians in the Palestinian Authority]. ''JVL''.</ref> in Israel, Christian population grew.<ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/1067093/israel-palestine-population-religion-historical/ Population of the region of Israel-Palestine (west of River Jordan) by religious affiliation in select years between 0 and 2000 CE]. Statista.</ref>

===Islamization===

[[File:⁨⁨The Sentinel⁩, 27 May 1937.PNG|thumb|Swastikas Fly As Arabs Mark Muhammad's Birthday]]

It's important to bear in mind, many Arabs were heavily influenced by the surrounding [dominant] Islamic culture. For example, in 1937, Arab-Christians joined the Arab-Muslims in celebrating, [[Muhammad]]'s birthday by displaying
pictures of [[Hitler]] & [[Mussolini]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html All Arabs Celebrate ''pro-phet'''s Birthday]. ''The New York Times'', May 23, 1937.
<blockquote>Palestine Arabs outdid themselves today in celebrating Mouled el Nebi, the birthday of the .. Mohammed. Never before have there been such elaborate festivities, decorations and processions as throughout the country today…
Several days prior to the festival all buildings in Arab quarters were elaborately decorated, and pictures of Hitler, Mussolini and Fawzi el Kaoukgi, an Iraqian who came to Palestine during the disturbances last Summer to organize an “Arab revolt” were displayed. The government immediately ordered the removal of Fawzi el Kaoukgi’s picture.
At Jaffa, the swastika was hoisted by Arabs over several building.</blockquote></ref>

[[File:Issa-Nakhleh-Islam.jpg|thumb|Though born into a Christian family, Arab Palestinian Issa Nakhleh was a fan of Islam - his book about Islam advertised on one of his linked neo Nazi groups.]]

The classic Issa Nakhleh example: born a Christian, a Hitler fan, obsessed to glorify [[Islam]].

Issa Nakhleh [عيسى نخلة] (who, in July 1939 had defended, justified the "Arab propaganda centre in Berlin," Nazi Germany.<ref>The Palestine Post, 13 July 1939</ref>), [[Mufti al-Husseini|Mufti Al Husseini]] linked, was part of emissaries [teamed with Nazi collaborator Akram Zuaiter] to Latin America in order to invoke, inflame antisemitism among Catholics, sent by Arab League programs which began in 1947.<ref name=arablobby-1944-7>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742384 The Arab League’s Propaganda Campaign in the U.S. Against the Establishment of a Jewish State - 1944-1947]. Rickenbacher Daniel. Israel Studies. Volume 25, Issue 1. Spring 2020.</ref>
- He glorified the Hitler regime, in the 1950s through his publication in Argentina.<ref>[https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/anti/ANTI-JEWISH%20ACTIVITIES%20OF%20THE%20ARABS%20IN%20ARGENTINE%20APRIL%201958.pdf Anti-Jewish Activities of the Arabs in Argentine], Daia, April 1958. [https://www.bjpa.org/search-results/publication/18118]</ref>

At the time, Nov 1953, he invited Islamist Ahmad Shukeiri for propaganda and fund raising in S. America.<ref>
Herut, 29 November, 1953. [https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/hrt/1953/11/29/01/article/20].</ref>
(That would be some 8 years before Shukeiri would endorse the Neo-Nazi Tacuara from that country Argentina, at the UN).]
- At those years, Nazi-Arab cooperation in South America grew dangerously. One of the most important centers for the publication of pro-Nazi newspapers and antisemitic literature were there in Argentina. But also in many other Latin American countries.<ref>'Nazi-Arab cooperation endangers the Jews of South America.' Shalom Yedidya. [https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/haretz/1952/02/03/01/article/23 Haaretz, February 3, 1952, p. 2]</ref>
- Under his activity in the "Palestinian delegation", its postage meter was used to mail material for neo-Nazi advertising that had previously carried the headline: "Adolf Hitler: the George Washington of Europe."<ref name=uscongress-1967>Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Vol. 113, Pt 17. United States Congress, 1967, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-vkIqvwa-tUC&pg=PA22718 p. 22718].
*[https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP69B00369R000200300040-7.pdf ARAB AGITATORS MEDDLE IN U.S. POLITICS] Palestine Arab Delegation also maintains relations with the Neo-Nazi ...</ref>
- Long articles by the "delegation" have been reprinted in ''Common Sense,'' ''The Cross and the Flag.'' The 'Palestine Arab Delegation' also maintained relations with the Neo-Nazi ''National Renaissance Party.''<ref name=uscongress-1967/>
- On December 30, 1963, Nakhleh wrote to infamous fascist "Canadian Fuhrer" Adrien Arcand.<ref>Jean-Francois Nadeau , "The Canadian Fuhrer: The Life of Adrien Arcand," (Lorimer, 2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=D630umvXNKoC&pg=PA351 p. 351].</ref>
-Nakhleh was featured speaker at the March 7, 1969 Arab propaganda meeting, Invitations to the meeting were sent to persons on the mailing lists of prominent neo Nazis, supremacists.<ref name=adl-1968-p482>''Facts'', vols. 18-22, Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith., 1968, p. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=zdc3AQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22nakhleh%22 482].</ref>
- In March 1971, Nakhleh peddled a so-called Jewish supposed "plot" at a meeting.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/133144942/ The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida, Monday March 15, 1971, Page 45]
[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/133143996/ The Palm Beach Post, Wednesday, March 17, 1971, Page 3].</ref>
- As head of 'Palestine Arab Delegation,' on Nov 14, 1972 Nakhleh denied the [[Holocaust]], flat out, publicly.<ref>Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, Vol. 21, (William Samuel & Company Limited, 1972), [https://books.google.com/books?id=4AENAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nazi+extermination p. 7].</ref> In his cruelty also to hurt millions of survivors just 27 years after, he uttered the words "the millions are alive."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52360169/ The Times from San Mateo, California], November 14, 1972. Page 10.
<blockquote>
Arab Says Hitler Didn't Kill Jews</blockquote></ref>
- He worked with Neo [[Nazis]] and revisionists in the 1970s,<ref>(1979) National front reverse, Patterns of Prejudice, 13:2, 26-27, DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1979.9969498</ref> 1980s<ref>[http://www.nizkor.com/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/ihr//nakhleh Shofar FTP Archive File: orgs/american/ihr//nakhleh]</ref><ref>Ian Barnes, 'Propaganda Spurs Invitation to Join Rising "white army." '
The Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Greater Hollywood, October 29, 1982. [https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/01/43/07/00309/00511.txt p.7-b]. Ian Barnes, 'Propaganda Spurs Invitation to Join Rising "white army." '
 [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/austjewishtimes/1983/04/07/01/article/50 The Australian Jewish Times, 7 April 1983].<blockquote>Whitewashisng Hitler.
...</blockquote> [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/ajnm/1983/01/07/01/article/73 The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne) 7 January 1983]. [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=is&oid=ajnm19830107-01.2.73&type=snippetimage&e=-------en-20--61--img-txIN%7ctxTI-Nakhleh-------------1]</ref> including as: "Legal Adviser to the World Muslim Conference."<ref>The American Spectator, Vol. 19, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUSAQAAMAAJ&dq=&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nakhleh p. 20], Saturday Evening Club, Publisher, American Spectator, 1986 "One of the World Muslim Congress's representatives at the symposium was Issa Nakhleh"</ref><ref>Gill Seidel, "The Holocaust denial: antisemitism, racism... ," 1986, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VMksAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+previous+year+the+conference+had+been+addressed+by+Mr%C2%A0Issah+Nakhleh%22 p.28]. The previous year the conference had been addressed by Mr Issah Nakhleh, who describes himself as "Legal Adviser to the World Muslim Conference"...</ref><ref>Pierre-André Taguieff, Fayard, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=2PCQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT339 Les Protocoles des sages de Sion: Faux et usages d'un faux]", Oct 6, 2004.
<blockquote>... ainsi qu'à l'intervention très significative du président de la Délégation arabe palestinienne aux Nations Unies, également conseiller juridique au Congrès mondial musulman, Issa Nakhleh, auprès du procureur général de Stockholm, Thorsten Jonsson, et demandant à celui - ci par un télégramme officiel la mise en liberté de Ditlieb Felderer.</blockquote></ref>
- At a convention of the ''Federation of Islamic Associations in the United States and Canada'' Inc. (FIA), on July 29, 1984, in [[Detroit]], Hajji Abdullah Ahmad of Philadelphia distributed literature denying that six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Nakhleh delivered a speech in which he praised the anti-Semitic father Charles Coughlin (1891–1979) who worked in the area as well as the anti-Semitic propaganda that Henry Ford distributed there in his book. He praised [[Farrakhan]].<ref>Alan Abrams, "Lifting the Veil." Detroit Jewish News, Aug. 3, 1984, [https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1984.08.03.001/14 p.14] Alan Abrams, Lifting The Veil</ref>

Indeed, the Islamization has intensified to this day.<ref>[https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/197106 Islamo-"Christian" anti-Jewish "Palestinian" Hannan Ashraw], at DPipes</ref>

===Before 1948===

[[File:Palestine flag 1939 Star of David.jpeg|thumb|The original flag of Palestine from 1939 was Jewish - Star of David]]

The original flag of Palestine from 1939 was Jewish - Star of David. The Palestine Post was a Zionist Jewish paper and so on and so forth.

At the Nazi rise in Germany, Jews were told to go to Palestine by Antisemites.

=== State of Palestine ===
{{Main article|State of Palestine}}
[[File:Flag of Palestine.jpg|thumbnail|Flag of the State of Palestine.]]
Currently, the Arab Palestinians living in disputed territories are trying to consolidate the state called "Palestine", there has not been an independent country called "Palestine" before<ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/02/there_was_never_a_country_called_palestine.html There Was Never a Country Called Palestine] at American Thinker</ref><ref>[http://nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.ca/2011/08/there-is-no-such-thing-as-palestine-nor.html There is no such thing as "Palestine" nor "Palestinian people" ]</ref><ref>[http://www.targetofopportunity.com/palestinian_truth.htm The Truth About the "Palestinian" People]</ref> other than the demonym of the British Mandate of Palestine and the name given to the province during Roman times. The State was established in May 1994 after the [[Oslo Accords]].with the name of Palestinian National Authority, run by the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], and was renamed to the "[[State of Palestine]]" in 2013. It is recognized by 148 of 193 United Nations member states, the [[Arab League]], and the United Nations.

{{See also|List of States which recognize Palestine as an independent state.}}
In November 2012, Palestine was granted the status of a non-member observer state by the [[United Nations General Assembly]]. This move was applauded by the [[Holy See]]<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/vatican-palestinian-state_n_2215307.html?&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009]</ref> which recognized the "State of Palestine" in 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/vatican-palestine-accord-gives-backing-to-two-state-solution/|title=Vatican formally recognises 'state of Palestine'|date=May 14, 2015|publisher=Catholic Herald}}</ref> and supports a [[two-state solution]] in the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-04/pope-francis-appeals-general-audience-peace-myanmar-ukraine.html|title=Pope prays for peace and for a two-state solution in Palestine and Israel|date=April 24, 2024|publisher=Vatican News}}</ref>

In April 2024, the [[Biden regime]] vetoed the State of Palestine request for full United Nations membership at the Security Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/18/state-dept-u-s-will-veto-palestinian-statehood-at-united-nations/|title=State Dept.: U.S. Will Veto Palestinian Statehood at United Nations|publisher=Breitbart|date=April 18, 2024}}</ref>

====Arab Palestinian leader [[Yassir Arafat]] rejected a Palestine State====

Arab Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat rejected a Palestine State.

[[Bill Clinton]]: "Young Americans shocked to learn Arafat turned down Palestinian state."<ref>(December 5, 2024). "[https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-young-americans-shocked-to-learn-arafat-turned-down-palestinian-state/ Bill Clinton: Young Americans shocked to learn Arafat turned down Palestinian state]." ''Times of Istael''.</ref>
If ‘you walk away from once in a lifetime peace opportunities, you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors aren’t all still open,’ he said.

====Timing and rejection====
Though some Israelis are in favor of a Palestine state, the [[Swords of Iron#Arab-Islamist .22Palestinian.22 attack.2C atrocities|Oct 7 atrocities]] changed this to be in a small minority.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/israelis-peaceful-coexistence-palestinian-state-poll-two-state-1906224 Most Israelis Can't See Peaceful Coexistence With a Palestinian State—Poll], ''Newsweek'', May 30, 2024</ref> Even those who supported it pre Oct 7, "oppose Palestinian statehood due to security Threats."<ref>[https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/02/06/majority-of-israelis-oppose-palestinian-statehood-due-to-security-threats/ Majority Of Israelis Oppose Palestinian Statehood Due To Security Threats], ''FDD'', Feb 6, 2024</ref>

The criticism of the three lefti governments of: Spain, Norway, and Ireland is about the timing,<ref name=allisrael>[https://allisrael.com/no-prizes-for-terrorism-visiting-israel-spanish-opposition-leader-condemns-spains-recognition-of-palestine 'No prizes for terrorism' - Visiting Israel, Spanish opposition leader condemns Spain’s recognition of Palestine], ''All Israel News'' Staff, May 30, 2024</ref>
<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/three-more-nations-roll-out-red-carpet-hamas-opinion-1905380 Three More Nations Roll Out the Red Carpet to Hamas | Opinion], ''Newsweek'', May 28, 2024. By Aviva Klompas,
co-founder of Boundless.<blockquote>
Spain, Norway, and Ireland then went one step further and announced plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state. That decision came even though two of those nations had seen their citizens murdered or kidnapped by Hamas.</blockquote></ref>
and the government of Ireland extremist stand post Oct 7. Notably the strange
statement when little Enily Hand was freed.<ref>Jacob Magid, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/irish-pm-says-he-is-relieved-emily-hand-has-been-found-after-she-was-lost/ Irish PM says relieved Emily Hand has been ‘found’ after she was ‘lost’; is slammed over wording], ''TOI'', 26 Nov 2023</ref>
Or the extreme anti Israel statements by a high-ranking Spanish official declaring in a video statement following the country's recognition of Palestine as a state: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."<ref>[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/spanish-official-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free/ Spanish official: 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'], ''JewishNews'', May 23, 2024.<blockquote>
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a high-ranking Spanish official declared in a video statement following the country's recognition of Palestine as a state. Yolanda Diaz, Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, was heard saying the controversial phrase in a video on X.</blockquote></ref><ref name=allisrael/>
Ugly was especially the May 30, 2024 stand, at the UN, "Norway, Belgium, Ireland and Slovenia refused to support a proposed Israeli resolution calling for the immediate release of the hostages."<ref>[Now 14 @Now14Israel ([https://twitter.com/Now14Israel/status/1796241621593235737 May 30, 2024]):<blockquote>
It is hard to believe: Norway, Belgium, Ireland and Slovenia refused to support a proposed Israeli resolution calling for the immediate release of the abductees.
@MaggieTabibi @NatiLang32.</blockquote></ref>
(Slovenian liberal 2023/4 government, is probably the most anti-Israel in Europe after Ireland. In Jan/2024, it was the first European government to join a 2022 petition against Israel in The Hague.<ref>[https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001467781 Slovenia joins the petition against Israel in The Hague, which is not the South African petition]. Asaf Oni | Globes | 15.01.24.</ref> Days later, Iranian Slovenian foreign ministers met in Davos on Jan 17, 2024.<ref>[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401157927 Controversy Erupts Over Iran's Davos Invite], Iran Intl., 01/15/2024.
And Islamic Republic announced on Jan 18 that Iranian Slovenian foreign ministers met there and the Slovenian govt. said they discussed Gazans..</ref> It even was extra warm to offer condolences after butcher Raisi died.
In contrast, in 2021, the then conservative government of Slovenia was very pro Israel, and supported it strongly during [[Guardian of walls]] op.<ref>Shlomo Rizel , [https://www.93fm.co.il/radio/721615/?id=10100 The Foreign Minister hosted his Slovenian counterpart: "Slovenia is a true ally and friend."]. Radio Kol Chai, Aug 23 2024.

-Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/lapid-to-slovnia-fm-end-9-year-freeze-of-eu-israel-association-council-677503 Lapid to Slovenia FM: End 9-year freeze of EU-Israel Association Council], ''JPost'', Aug 23 2024.<blockquote>
“Slovenia has become a trusted friend and a trusted ally,” Lapid told Logar during a joint press conference in Jerusalem marking the signing of a memorandum of understanding on cybersecurity.</blockquote></ref>).

Even liberal France's Macron who supports the act said the time isn't ripe, that he is "ready to recognize a Palestinian state if the PA makes reforms."<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/632384 Macron: Ready to recognize a Palestinian state if the PA makes reforms], ''INN'', May 30, 2024</ref>

[[Australia]] rejected recognition of a Palestinian state.
<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/world/australia-rejects-recognition-of-a-palestinian-state-ssjle7c5 Australia rejects recognition of a Palestinian state].
By JC reporter, ''The JC'', May 30, 2024.<blockquote>Parliament voted down the proposal – tabled by the Greens – by 80-5.</blockquote></ref>

So did [[Denmark]]
Danish parliament rejected proposal to recognize Palestinian state.<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkhszimea Danish parliament rejects proposal to recognize Palestinian state], ''YNet'', May 28, 2024.<blockquote>
Denmark's parliament on Tuesday voted down a bill to recognize a Palestinian state, after the Danish foreign minister previously said the necessary preconditions for an independent country were lacking. Ireland, Spain and Norway on Tuesday formally recognized a Palestinian state, after their announcement last week that they would do so angered Israel which called the move a "reward for terrorism" and recalled its ambassadors.</blockquote></ref>

"Multiple polls have shown that the [https://www.jns.org/three-in-four-palestinians-support-hamass-massacre/ majority of Palestinian civilians support] Hamas’s [https://www.conservapedia.com/Swords_of_Iron#Arab-Islamist_.22Palestinian.22_attack.2C_atrocities Oct. 7 massacre] and the idea of a Palestinian state in the 1948 borders, meaning the destruction of Israel."<ref>Israel Kasnett, [https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/who-wants-a-two-state-solution-not-israelis-or-palestinians/article_ec51d597-c1a7-5dc4-9443-e1a336d09706.html Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians], '''JNS'', Mar 22, 2024</ref>

=== Protesters 2011 ===
Each year, "Palestinians" throughout the region mark the ''Nakba'' (or catastrophe) ''Day'' with demonstrations; they use the term "nakba" to describe their defeat and displacement in the war that followed Israel's founding on May 15, 1948, when hundreds of thousands of "Palestinians" were uprooted. But never before have marchers descended upon Israel's borders from all directions. The Syrian incursion in May 2011 was especially surprising. The events carried a message for Israel: Even as it wrestles with the "Palestinian" demand for a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war — there is a related problem of neighboring countries that host millions of "Palestinians" with aspirations to return.

International Protesters in the United Kingdom, led by Dave Randall, released a song in May 2011 as support for the "Palestinians".<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28HnPTYz-I</ref> This has brought about huge criticism from Glenn Beck.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj02pJKI9NI About Freedom for Palestine single!]</ref>

==Trump Peace Plan (2020)==
{{Main article|Two-state solution}}
[[File:Trump Peace Plan 2020 Israel-Palestine.jpg|250px|thumbnail|Trump Peace Plan for Israel & Palestine (2020) involving a [[two-state solution]].<ref name=PtP>[https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/peacetoprosperity/ Peace to Prosperity]</ref>]]
In 2020 [[President Trump]] proposed a plan involving the establishment of new frontiers between Israel & Palestine and the mutual recognition of the countries.<ref name=PtP/>

The January 2020 American peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sometimes called the Trump plan, is a set of political and economic proposals presented on January 28, 2020, by the President of the United States Donald Trump as the path to peace between Israelis and Palestinians and a basis for negotiations in the peace process.

The plan proposes a fifty billion dollar international effort to enable the development and definitive establishment of the Palestinian state, when the Israelis would retain Jerusalem as their indivisible capital, with the Palestinians establishing theirs on a fraction of East Jerusalem.

The Israelis would keep the Israeli settlements in the West Bank but the Palestinian territory would remain equivalent in size to that of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip before the Six-Day War, through additions of territory from the Negev Desert for purposes economic and residential.

==Culture of "Palestine"==
"Palestine" is claimed by its supporters to be part of a region of the Middle East known as the [[Levant]] and is claimed to have cultural similarities to actual Levantine countries such as [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]] and [[Jordan]]. The signature dish of the "Palestinians" is musakhan, a chicken dish.<ref>http://www.cliffordawright.com/caw/recipes/display/recipe_id/804/</ref>

==See also==
*[[State of Palestine]]
*[[Yasser Arafat]]
*[[Neturei Karta]]
*[[List of States which recognize Palestine as an independent state.|List of states which recognize "Palestine" as an "independent state"]]

==External links==
*[http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1468wmv&ak=null Graduation Ceremony in a Hamas Kindergarten], Al-Aqsa TV (The Palestinian Authority), May 31, 2007. Children vow to die for [[Allah]].
*[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56241 Christians warned: Accept Islamic law], 'New Hamas rule means real changes,' missionaries to be 'dealt with harshly', By Aaron Klein, ''WorldNetDaily.com'', June 19, 2007.
*[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2011/05/21/talk/1967-israel-borders-have-no-basis/ 1967 Israel borders have no basis.]
*[http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_christians.php What about Christians in Palestine?]
*[http://jdl-uk.blogspot.mx/2012/02/jewish-settler-plans-to-run-against.html A "Jewish Settler" plans to run against Netanyahu.] Who has a proposal to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza regions.
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/01/state-palestine-play-into-israeli-hands A State of Palestine would backfire on its own people.]

== References ==
<references/>

==Backgrounders==

* [http://mythsandfacts.com Myths & facts]
* [http://palestinefacts.org Palestine facts]
* [http://peacefaq.com Peace dictionary]

[[Category:Disputed Territories]]
[[Category:Palestine]]

PGNL

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'''PGNL''': ''Palestijnse Gemeenschap In Nederland'',<ref>[https://archive.is/3XG1B/6ad0eda4dcb8650f98d3ebb52f0c4d82f4192415.jpg PGNL screenshot]</ref> is a [[Hamas]] affiliated [[Racism|racist]] [[Arab]] [[Islam|Islamic]] group, in The [[Netherlands]], one of major groups behind the 'hunt the Jews' [[Amsterdam Pogrom by Arab Muslims (2024)]] post a spccer match.<ref name=jp>Ohad Merlin[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-828450 Did a former UNRWA teacher help organize the Amsterdam pogrom?], ''JPost'', 11/10/2024.<blockquote>
([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_428,w_640/633320].
Ayman Nejmeh's Facebook profile - before and after removing his involvement in UNRWA)

Reports found one of the main protest organizers to be PGNL, a prominent member of the extensive Hamas-affiliated network in the Netherlands, led by a self-described former teacher at UNWRA.

The organized violent antisemitic rampage which took place in Amsterdam Thursday night shocked many in the European continent and beyond. Now, several days later, more and more information regarding the events and the organizers began to flow, with findings pointing to a PGNL, a Hamas-affiliated group active in the Netherlands, as a main organizer of the anti-Israel protests in the country.</blockquote></ref> It was organizing event ahead of the match.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmaSssdGRhI&t=1m52s Mossad’s Warning to Dutch Police Ignored by the Netherlands | Aaron Cohen], ''Fox News''. Nov 9, 2024.
<blockquote>
...a group called PGNL a Palestinian Hamas group that was planning to have a major gathering outside of that soccer game,
it was shut down by authorities however
they ignored Israeli intelligence's requests to put in maximum security after the event to escort the Israelis to their hotels the moment they got out of the soccer match, law enforcement had disappeared going back though October October of
2024 the Jerusalem Post put out an
article talking about how the Dutch
police are not interested in protecting
Jewish communities because they feel
it's a conflict of interest and so they
ignored the intelligence and look what happens...</blockquote></ref>

"Palestinian" Islamist Hamas member in the Netherlands, Amid Abu rashid has established many organizations there, including PGNL.

His organizations are part of an elaborate Network that enables Hamas to promote its agenda and to fundraise under the smoke screen of "humanitarian charities." This method of working for "civilian" causes to advancethe Islamist ideology is consistent with the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood
of which Hamas is a branch which emphasizes 'Dawah' or promoting Islam through Social Services PGNL is one of
the largest among Palestine
organizations in the Netherlands.

PGLN was oncorporated in 2016 and is the leading organization for anti-Israel activities
and events in the Netherlands Amin Abu
Rashed held an important roles in the
organization since its inception in 2016.

Currently, PGLN is led by Aymen Nejmeh a former UNRWA teacher.

PGLN is has hosted the annual conference of European Palestine conference or EPC including in 2007 when
Hamas leader at the time [[Ismail Haniyeh]]
participated in the event.

PGLN's Ahmed Skineh received in 2022 a diploma of appreciation from Sheikh Najeh Bkeirat, a Jerusalem-based Islamist preacher and
cleric, a Hamas activist involved in terrorist activities.

On October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas's massacre against Israel and as Hamas terrorists were still targeting innocent civilians, Skineh published an invitation to join PGLN for a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4TjzwVix88 ELNET War Briefing: November 11 2024 - The Amsterdam Pogrom].
ELNET European Leadership Network.
Nov 11, 2024.

"Like in Germany eight decades ago, the Jews were blamed for being the target of a pogrom in Amsterdam.
This pogrom had been planned in advance by PGNL, an organization recently exposed by ELNET's report of Hamas 's activities in Europe."
<blockquote>
As we commemorate Kristallnacht Jews were the victims of a [pogrom] on the streets of Amsterdam and like in Germany 86 years
ago the Jews are blamed for being the target of hatred this is how Anti-semites tried to rationalize their hatred first they demonize and defame the Jews eight decades ago the Jews were accused of causing the defeat of Germanny in World War I of being responsible for hyperinflation and of plotting a Communist Revolution how can such people not deserve the fire vience directed at
them ... same thing today...
The reality is that Muslim migrants had planned this pogram and that the Palestinian
community in the Netherlands or PGNL
coordinated the anti-israel incitement
on social media ahead of the soccer game
the misdeeds of PGNL in the Netherlands were recently revealed by an Elnet report on Hamas's activities in Europe the main Hamas Affiliated individual identified in Emet's report for the Netherlands is Amid Abu rashed who is an active Hamas member living in the Netherlands is Amin Abu Rashed has established many organizations in the Netherlands, including PGLN.

Abu Rashed's organizations are part of an elaborate Network that enables Hamas to promote its agenda and to fundraise under the smoke screen of "humanitarian charities." This method of working for "civilian" causes to advancethe Islamist ideology is consistent with the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood
of which Hamas is a branch which emphasizes 'Dawah' or promoting Islam through Social Services PGNL is one of
the largest among Palestine
organizations in the Netherlands.

Incorporated in 2016 PGNL is the leading
organization for anti-israel activities
and events in the Netherlands Amin Abu
Rashed held an important roles in the
organization since its inception in 2016.

PGLN is currently led by Aymen Nejmeh a former UNRWA teacher in Amsterdam, where PGLN is
incorporated has hosted the annual conference of European Palestine conference or EPC including in 2007 when
Hamas leader at the time Ismail Haniyeh
participated in the event.

PGLN activist Ahmed Skineh received in 2022 a diploma of
appreciation from Sheikh Najeh Bkeirat,
a Jerusalem based Islamist preacher and
cleric described by Israeli authorities as a Hamas activist involved in terrorist activities.

On October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas's massacre against Israel and as Hamas terrorists were still targeting innocent civilians, Skineh published an invitation to join PGLN for a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza.

We call upon the Dutch government to act
swiftly against Hamas related organizations such as PGNL.</blockquote></ref>
[[File:UNRWA teacher Ayman Nejmeh PGNL and 2024 Arab-Islamic Amsterdam pogrom.jpg|thumb|UNRWA teacher Ayman Nejmeh PGNL and 2024 Arab-Islamic Amsterdam pogrom]]

Apparently former [[UNRWA]] teacher, Ayman Nejmeh, helped organize Islamo-Arab Amsterdam pogrom by PGNL.<ref name=jp/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Racism]]
[[Category:Antisemitism]]
[[Category:Immigration]]
[[Category:Eurabia]]
[[Category:Arabs]]
[[Category:Muslims]]
[[Category:Jews]]
[[Category:Terrorism]]

Organization of Islamic Cooperation

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The '''Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)''' operates as a powerful bloc that promotes [[Islam]]ic interests on the global stage, often aligning itself with agendas that prioritize the expansion of [[Islam]]ic influence. As the second-largest intergovernmental organization after the United Nations, the OIC has become a significant force in shaping global policy, frequently leveraging its collective voice to push for a [[narrative]] that supports Islamic solidarity and promotes the interests of Muslim-majority nations.

In doing so, the OIC's influence often extends beyond mere social, economic, and cultural coordination. It has increasingly positioned itself to control key aspects of international discourse, including on issues like human rights, terrorism, and the treatment of minorities in the West. Its agenda frequently intersects with, and sometimes overrides, the broader goals of the United Nations, particularly in areas where Islamic principles and policies are emphasized.

The OIC's efforts to dominate global dialogues on security, religious freedom, and governance often come at the expense of countering extremist ideologies such as jihadism, which it has failed to fully confront within its ranks. Instead, the organization has been criticized for prioritizing the political and ideological agenda of certain Muslim-majority countries, sometimes even obstructing efforts to challenge the growing threat of jihadist extremism worldwide. Through its significant influence, the OIC seeks to sway international institutions like the [[UN]] and Human Rights org. toward policies that align with its members’ interests, making it a key player in shaping a global environment increasingly shaped by its ideological and political preferences.

[[File:Within hours of "Palestinian" savagery Oct 7, OIC (controlling UN) on Hamas side.jpg|thumb|The [[OIC]], which controls the UN, hours after Hamas atrocities Oct-7, condemned rather Israel. Called the savages "martyrs."]]

==Hypocrisy==
While all of the 57 Islamic nations vote as one vote against [[Israel]] (under the guise of just "pro palestine") and [[India]], however, when it comes to genocide of Muslim Uighurs by [[China]]. Not so much.

==See also==
*[[NIAC]]
*[[CAIR]]
*[[FIA]]

==Notes==


* EU Challenges the UN and OIC on Press Freedom. (''American Thinker'').
Jun 18, 2013 — The OIC has endorsed "blasphemy laws" --
[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/06/eu_challenges_the_un_and_oic_on_press_freedom.html]

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*The OIC and the Caliphate
By Andrew C. McCarthy.
February 26, 2011 (''NRO'').
The Islamic agenda is not coexistence, but dominion
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/02/oic-and-caliphate-andrew-c-mccarthy/]

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*The OIC's Double Standard.
By Jacob Mchangama. (''NRO'').
January 17, 2011
The West must confront the Organization of the Islamic Conference about its failure to protect Christians and moderate Muslims.
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/01/oics-double-standard-jacob-mchangama/amp/]

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* The OIC vs. Freedom of Expression.
Apr 7, 2011. (''NRO'').
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/04/oic-vs-freedom-expression-jacob-mchangama/]

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* DOJ Followed Obama-Clinton U.N. Resolution Against Negative Speech About Islam. (''NRO'').
Jun 20, 2016 — The joint Obama-OIC Resolution 16/18 effectively imposes sharia blasphemy standards on American law
[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/doj-followed-obama-clinton-un-resolution-against-negative-speech-about-islam/]

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* Islamic Countries Buying Out UN Agencies
Advancing global Sharia..
April 17, 2023 by Christine Williams. (''FPM'')
Giulio Meotti warns in Israel National News that after the European Parliament, “the UN is easy prey. Funding has allowed Islamic countries to form the most powerful bloc in UNESCO.” Money equals power, and the UN is virtually being bought out by Islamic countries which are promoting the Sharia. Take, for instance, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism's donor list: “Qatar and Saudi Arabia hold it tight with their dollars. It doesn’t matter that Qatar has donated 1.5 billion to Hamas, that in Syria Qatar has supported the Al Nusra terrorists or that Qatar is accused by the parents of an American journalist assassinated by ISIS of ties to terrorism.” In normative Islam, terrorism does not include jihad by the sword. “Terrorism” refers to anything that opposes the imperative to impose Sharia, and is also routinely used as an accusation against dissidents to arbitrarily detain and jail them. The advance of Islam into the UN has been an insidious process of the stealth jihad, and the ongoing process of its buyout is being credulously aided by America, which gives the single largest annual donation to the UN.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamic-countries-buying-out-un-agencies/]

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* Israel And Kashmir: A Replay From The Islamist Dissimulation Playbook. (''American Thinker'').
Jun 9, 2022 — Human Rights Organization, under the influence of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)...
[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/israel_and_kashmir_a_replay_from_the_islamist_dissimulation_playbook.html]

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* Comments for: Forget the Marxists: Here's the Real Enemy of America. (Comment at ''American Thinker''.)
May 25, 2022 — The next biggest entity is the 57 member group, the Organization of Islamic Countries. The OIC vote as a single vote and use itself to censure Israel on a weekly basis.

The UN is working lock step with the WEF and to start dealing with the WEF one must cut the head off the snake, the UN.

The next Republican president should make it a priority to punt the UN and then advocate for an Organization of True Democracies- there are about 27 of those out of 201 UN members.
[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/forget_the_marxists_heres_the_real_enemy_of_america_comments.html?ht-comment-id=6416838]

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* Research project.
Book: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights.
(''HumanRights.dk'').
... The OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is an intergovernmental organization, established in 1969 with the purpose of strengthening solidarity among Muslims. Headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC today consists of 57 states from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The OIC is powerful bloc in the UN human rights system, most famous perhaps for its promotion of the so-called ‘defamation of religions’ agenda in the 2000s, but more recently also as an advocate of Russia's ‘traditional values’ resolutions, and a co-sponsor of the 2011 Resolution 16/18, Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief. At the same time, human rights are, if not in practice then in rhetoric, increasingly part of the OIC's internal activities, witnessed not only in the establishment of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission, but also more broadly in the work of the OIC in areas such as humanitarian aid, conflict resolution, refugee policy and minority affairs. These developments testify to the role of the OIC as an increasingly active organisation in the field of international human rights, but also show that its human rights involvement is inconsistent, contradictory, and at times counterproductive to the promotion and further development of certain human rights....
[https://www.humanrights.dk/research-project/book-organisation-islamic-cooperation-human-rights]

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* Muslim Nations Endorse China's Uighur Crackdown | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
(''Firstpost'').
Aug 24, 2023.
Delegates from 26 Muslim nations visited Xinjiang, a province where China has been accused of committing genocide against the Uighur Muslim minority. The Muslim nation envoys reportedly said that China is committed to development and stability in Xinjiang.

What explains this hypocrisy by Islamic countries who claim to stand up for the rights of Muslims elsewhere? Palki Sharma tells you.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Umq3TIfnxFo]

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* Sharia as a Weapon Against the West. (''American Thinker'')
Dec 8, 2024 — Since 1999, the OIC's primary objective has been to criminalize Islamophobia in the West, equating any criticism of Islam with hate speech.
[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/sharia_as_a_weapon_against_the_west.html]

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* Global Political Islam.
OIC Has UN Platform on Internationalization of Combatting "Islamophobia." (OIC Watch).
[https://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/global_political_islam/filter/oic-watch]

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* OIC and UN concluded their coordination meeting in Geneva with a strong commitment to reinforce cooperation in the political, economic, social, humanitarian, cultural and scientific spheres.
Date: 21/07/2022 (OIC).

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* International forum on June 9 to mobilize media support for recognition of Palestine State. (''Saudi Gazette''), June 5, 2024.

RIYADH — An international media forum aimed at bolstering the drive for the global recognition of an independent Palestine State will be held on Sunday, June 9.

The Assistant Secretariat for Institutional Communication at the Muslim World League and the Union of News Agencies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (UNA-OIC) will jointly organize remotely the event titled: “Media and the Palestinian right: Practical steps to build initiatives to recognize Palestine.”

The participants at the forum include officials of the news agencies from Islamic countries, international media unions, representatives of international media, a number of international organizations, and diplomatic, cultural and religious figures.

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* [[Iran]] Calls on Islamic Nations to Sever Ties With Israel. (''FPM'').
May 10, 2024 — The 15th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation got underway on Saturday in the Gambian capital, Banjul..
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-calls-on-islamic-nations-to-sever-ties-with-israel/]

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* [[Trump]] Administration Considers Immigration Ban on Muslim Brotherhood and Other Islamic Groups.
A long overdue step toward confronting MB infiltration. August 18, 2025. by Christine Williams. (''FPM'').
... Sharia-supporting Muslims invariably lsupport the central cause of the Muslim ummah, as declared by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): the Palestinian “resistance.” They are encouraged and emboldened by powerful Islamic lobbies, which were identified in the Holy Land Foundation trial for their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-administration-considers-immigration-ban-on-muslim-brotherhood-and-other-islamic-groups/]

[[Category:Islamism]]
[[Category:Islamic lobbies]]
[[Category:UN]]

Operation Warp Speed

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'''Operation Warp Speed''' ('''OWS''') was a [[Trump Administration]] era project conceived, initiated, resourced, and largely executed under Trump Administration leadership that enabled for the swift development, production and delivery of vaccines that were to be used to inoculate the population against the [[COVID-19]] "China Virus" pandemic that struck the [[United States]] in 2020. OWS was conceived by [[Department of Health and Human Services]] secretary [[Alex Azar]], a former pharmaceutical company executive who understood the motivations, risk tolerance and complexities of drug development, manufacturing and distribution. It was immediately embraced by [[President Trump]], who ensured the financial resources, attention, talent, and government support required to achieve success of the projects initiatives.<ref>Paul Mango | ''National Review'', The Truth about Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-truth-about-trumps-operation-warp-speed/, May 4, 2021</ref>

Officially announced on May 15, 2020, President Trump unveiled details of a "warp-speed" public-private effort to create a [[Coronavirus]] vaccine by the end of the year.<ref>U.S. Dept. of Defense, Coronavirus: Operation Warp Speed, https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Operation-Warp-Speed/</ref>
Trump stated, "That means big and it means fast. A massive scientific, industrial and logistical endeavour unlike anything our country has seen since the [[Manhattan Project]]." The program promoted the fast-track development and mass production of vaccines with multiple vaccine developers for distribution throughout the United States. At the time of his announcement, Trump indicated OWS aimed "to have substantial quantities of a safe and effective vaccine available for Americans by January 2021."<ref>Gabe Kaminsky | ''The Federalist'', MSNBC And CNN Anchors Perpetuate Lies About Operation Warp Speed, Refuse To Give Trump Due Credit, https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/29/msnbc-and-cnn-anchors-perpetuate-lies-about-operation-warp-speed-refuse-to-give-trump-due-credit/, April 29, 2021</ref> However, at the onset, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases warned, "There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective," in testimony to Congress.<ref>David Smith | The Guardian, Trump unveils 'warp-speed' effort to create coronavirus vaccine by year's end, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/15/trump-coronavirus-warp-speed-vaccine-white-house, May 16, 2020</ref> During the summer of 2020, the U.S. government began financing the manufacturing of up to 3 billion vaccines, months prior to any vaccine being granted an Emergency Use Authorization.<ref>Paul Mango | ''National Review'', The Truth about Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-truth-about-trumps-operation-warp-speed/, May 4, 2021</ref>

During the Trump Administration - from May 2020 to January 2021, the project was headed by Dr. Moncef Slaoui.<ref>Karen Zraick | ''The New York Times'', Meet the key members of Biden's Covid-19 response team, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/bidens-covid-19-response-team.html, February 24, 2021</ref> A number of other noteworthy leaders joined Slaoui in the efforts, including Carlo de Notaristefani, a distinguished pharmaceutical manufacturing expert, Dr. [[Francis Collins]] of the [[National Institutes of Health]], who oversaw the clinical trials, Generals Perna, Ostrowski, and Sharpsten from the Army Logistics Command and Dr. Anita Patel of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), who together organized the distribution and administration of vaccines and [[Jared Kushner]], who served as [[White House]] liaison. These pivotal role leaders, along with private-sector partners, played a major role in the tasked goal of developing, manufacturing, and delivering over 300 million safe and effective vaccines ''in less than one year'' to the American people.<ref>Paul Mango | ''National Review'', The Truth about Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-truth-about-trumps-operation-warp-speed/, May 4, 2021</ref>

Through unprecedented efforts and removal of obstacle procedural hurdles, multiple vaccines were developed, distributed and administered within months of the first discovered case of the virus in the United States. The vaccines developed at "warp-speed" were eventually deemed to be safe and effective, and were provided to the public "free-of-charge."

==Outbreak and Response==

The first discovered/confirmed case of the novel coronavirus outbreak SARS-COV-2, aka COVID-19 in the United States, was documented on January 21, 2020.<ref>TEGNA | WUSA 90, US hits 6 months since first reported COVID-19 https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-for-6-months-in-us/507-a1e04038-1bab-4f6c-8d77-440c3004619b, July 21, 2020</ref> Announced on January 31, 2020, and later enforced on February 2, 2020, Trump advocated for a complete ban on travel from mainland China<ref>''Snopes'', Did Trump Ban All Travel From China at the Start of the Pandemic?, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-ban-travel-china-pandemic/, September 22, 2020</ref> and barred foreign nationals who had recently visited China from entering the United States, as his administration continued to assess the growing threat of a potential coronavirus outbreak.<ref>''The New York Times'' | Katie Rogers, Trump Defends Closing Borders to Travelers to Fight Coronavirus, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/us/politics/trump-super-bowl-interview-coronavirus.html, February 2, 2020</ref>

Project "MP2", which was later announced as ''Operation Warp Speed'' on May 15, 2020, was soon established and multiple companies were financed for the development of vaccines. Under Trump's guidance, the U.S. government purchased initial batches of vaccines from ''Moderna'', ''GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi'', ''Pfizer'', ''Novavax'', ''Johnson & Johnson'' and ''AstraZeneca'' before knowing whether they would be safe or effective.<ref>''Axios'' | Bob Herman, Trump administration buys 100 million doses of Moderna's vaccine, https://www.axios.com/moderna-vaccine-coronavirus-trump-690017d1-6348-4312-bc61-06d8b783b7ca.html, August 11, 2020</ref><ref>HHS.gov
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Trump Administration purchases additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 investigational vaccine from Pfizer, https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/12/23/trump-administration-purchases-additional-100-million-doses-covid-19-investigational-vaccine-pfizer.html, December 23, 2020</ref>

The Research Vaccine Testing and Approval Process was complete by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. The FDA issued Emergency Use Authorization's and the initial distribution of two approved vaccines was accomplished during the final months of President Trump's presidency. In December 2020, the first vaccine was authorized for distribution, just days immediately following the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>Isobel Whitcomb | Science World, U.S. Authorizes First Vaccine for Covid-19, https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/pages/news/2020-21/us-authorizes-first-vaccine-for-covid-19.html, December 11, 2020</ref>

American pharmaceutical company ''Pfizer'' and German biotechnology company ''BioNTech'' collaborated and developed the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine<ref>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/pfizer/index.html</ref> and American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company ''Moderna'' developed the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.<ref>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/moderna/index.html</ref> Both vaccines, based on messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) technology, were authorized by the FDA, shortly after the 2020 Presidential election was held.<ref>Adrianna Rodriguez | USA Today, Two COVID-19 vaccines are now authorized in the US; here's what we know about them, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/12/21/covid-vaccine-pfizer-biontech-moderna-everything-know-them/3955331001/, December 21, 2020</ref> Following FDA approval, distribution began immediately via prearranged methods organized by the Trump Administration's COVID-19 task force.

Distribution and administration of vaccines was accomplished by initially partnering with private-sector companies that included, ''McKesson'', ''UPS'', ''FedEx'', ''CVS Health'', and ''Walgreens''. ''Tiberius'', a sophisticated vaccine-tracking system was developed. Over 40,000 pharmacy locations, thousands of Community Health Centers, and thousands of hospitals across the U.S. were eventually enrolled, and electronically linked.<ref>Paul Mango | ''National Review'', The Truth about Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-truth-about-trumps-operation-warp-speed/, May 4, 2021</ref> Distribution and administration of the vaccines was initially hindered and/or rejected by some local state electorate engaged in political opposition to the Trump Administration's objectives. [[New York State]] Gov. [[Andrew Cuomo]] vowed to work with other governors to block Trump's COVID-19 vaccine distribution, "before it does damage".<ref>Jordan Davidson | The Federalist, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Vows To Block COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Says It’s Bad That Vaccine Came During Trump Admin, https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/09/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-vows-to-block-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-says-its-bad-that-vaccine-came-during-trump-admin/, November 9, 2020</ref>

In October, 2020, (then candidate) [[Kamala Harris]] was hesitant and skeptical about taking the Trump's Warp Speed - COVID vaccine, stating in part, "if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it."<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-says-she-wont-take-covid-vaccine-just-on-trumps-sayso-020511962.html In debate, Kamala Harris says she won't take a COVID vaccine just on Trump's say-so], ''Yahoo News'', Crystal Hill, October 7, 2020
<blockquote>Sen. Kamala Harris of California said during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence that she does not trust the administration’s push to rush a coronavirus vaccine into production.</blockquote></ref>

The COVID-19 vaccines were administered by a variety of healthcare professionals that included: doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physicians assistants, and pharmacy technicians. These professionals received training on how to administer the vaccine and how to manage the very rare side effects of the vaccines.<ref>Fran Kritz | Very Well Health, Who Can Administer COVID-19 Vaccines?, https://www.verywellhealth.com/who-can-administer-covid-19-vaccines-5094165, January 4, 2021</ref> The first U.S. vaccinations for COVID-19 were administered on December 14, 2020. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse was the first inoculated, via the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in New York during a livestreamed event with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<ref>Ivan Pereira | ABC News, US administers 1st doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-administer-1st-doses-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/story?id=74703018, December 14, 2020</ref>

In December 2020, Admiral Brett Giroir, who was on the White House COVID-19 task force, reported that the country was on track to distribute 20 million vaccine doses, at least, by the first week of January 2021 and that approximately 30 million more doses were projected for the rest of January and another 50 million in February 2021. Additionally, it was reported that a third single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, developed by ''Johnson & Johnson'' / ''Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson'', could be approved for distribution as soon as January 2021.<ref>Jackie Salo | New York Post, Third COVID-19 vaccine may be approved in January, task force official says, https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/third-covid-19-vaccine-may-be-approved-in-january-official/, December 20, 2020</ref><ref>Dillon McConnell | Columbia VA Health Care System, Janssen COVID 19 Vaccine Trial, https://www.columbiasc.va.gov/features/2020/Janssen_COVID_19_Vaccine_Trial.asp, November 16, 2020</ref> The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine was ultimately issued Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA in February 2021 and began shipping immediately, with plans to deliver more than 20 million doses in the U.S. in March 2021.<ref>Jaimy Lee | Market Watch, J&J plans to deliver 20 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. in March, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jj-plans-to-deliver-20-million-doses-of-its-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-us-in-march-2021-02-23, February 23, 2021</ref><ref>Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Authorized by U.S. FDA For Emergency Use - First Single-Shot Vaccine in Fight Against Global Pandemic, https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-authorized-by-u-s-fda-for-emergency-usefirst-single-shot-vaccine-in-fight-against-global-pandemic, February 27, 2021</ref><ref>Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | CNBC, FDA approves Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot Covid vaccine for emergency use, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/27/fda-approves-jjs-single-shot-covid-vaccine-for-emergency-use.html, February 27, 2021</ref>

By the day Trump left office in January 2021, 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccine shots had already been administered, as cited by the CDC. On January 28, 2021, it was revealed that the Trump Administration had indicated in a report that "there are at least one billion vaccine doses under contract as of January 2021... [M]oreover, the government may acquire additional doses through the exercise of options or execution of new agreements." As of April 29, 2021, it was reported that 331 million doses had been distributed.<ref>Gabe Kaminsky | ''The Federalist'', MSNBC And CNN Anchors Perpetuate Lies About Operation Warp Speed, Refuse To Give Trump Due Credit, https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/29/msnbc-and-cnn-anchors-perpetuate-lies-about-operation-warp-speed-refuse-to-give-trump-due-credit/, April 29, 2021</ref>

In the final days of the Trump Administration, conservative radio talk-show host and journalist Howie Carr acknowledged and thanked President Trump for the effort, stating, in part, in an open letter published in the ''Boston Herald'':

{{quotebox-float|'''''"Thank you, Mr. President, for everything you’ve done... Thank you for Operation Warp Speed, an amazing achievement for which you will never receive the appropriate credit."'''''<ref>Howie Carr | ''Boston Herald'', Howie Carr: Thanks for everything, President Trump, https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/01/18/trumps-presidential-report-card-by-howie-carr/, January 18, 2021</ref>}}

''Operation Warp Speed'' was active through February 24, 2021, for a total of 285 days, disbanded and then transferred into the responsibilities of the so-called ''White House COVID-19 Response Team''.<ref>Karen Zraick | ''The New York Times'', Meet the key members of Biden's Covid-19 response team, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/bidens-covid-19-response-team.html, February 24, 2021</ref>

Many members of the propagandist [[mainstream media]] attributed the success of OWS to some sort of miracle, a [[deus ex machina]] that was introduced merely to unravel the mysteries of vaccine development and manufacturing. Some in the media, [[Joe Biden]] and members his junta administration engaged in deceiving the public about Trump's successful OWS vaccine project. However, it was indicated by Paul Mango, the Trump administration's deputy chief of staff in the [[Department of Health and Human Services]], that "In fact, the success of OWS was a function of exceptional leadership, a deliberate strategy, and exacting execution."<ref>Paul Mango | ''National Review'', The Truth about Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-truth-about-trumps-operation-warp-speed/, May 4, 2021</ref>

On May 25, 2021, in a message posted on the "Save America" web [[blog]] ''From the Desk of Donald J. Trump'', the former President acknowledged the effort and continuing progress:

{{quotebox-float|'''''"New United States COVID cases, because of the record-breaking development of the vaccine and its early purchase and distribution by the Trump Administration, has hit its lowest level in more than one year, and falling fast. I want to thank all within the Trump Administration who pushed so hard for a vaccine and got it done in less than nine months when everybody was saying it would take at least 3-5 years, and probably not happen. Without the vaccine the world would be a much different place right now. Thank you also to the U.S. Military for its incredible distribution and logistical planning. Operation Warp Speed and our decision to purchase billions of dollars of vaccine before it was even approved, has been “One of the greatest miracles of the ages,” according to many. Thank you!"'''''<ref>SAVE AMERICA, ''From the Desk of Donald J. Trump'', https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/desk-gffudcrhxj/, May 25, 2021</ref>}}

===Biden response===

For almost an entire year, [[Joe Biden]] refused to even mention, much less recognize publicly Trump's great achievement.

Only on Dec 21, 2021, Biden offered complimenting Trump for operation to speech up vaccine.<ref>Maegan Vazquez and Nikki Carvajal, "Biden offers rare praise of Trump during Covid speech." https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/biden-trump-covid-vaccine-booster/index.html ''CNN'', Dec 21, 2021</ref>

Reacting to Biden's rare and surprising statement, Trump was 'very appreciative' and 'surprised.'<ref>Brooke Singman, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-appreciative-biden-acknowledged-administrations-covid-vaccine-success Trump 'very appreciative' and 'surprised' Biden acknowledged his administration's COVID vaccine success], Fox News, Dec 21, 2021. 
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Trump said Biden's comment would help the 'process of healing'
</ref>

==External links==
*https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Operation-Warp-Speed/#, U.S. Dept. of Defense
*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Warp_Speed.png, US DoD Logo/seal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Operation Summit Of Fire

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'''Summit of Fire''' was a military operation carried out by the Israel Defense Forces ([[IDF]]) and Shin Bet on September 9, 2025, targeting senior [[Hamas]] leadership in Doha, [[Qatar]]. The operation aimed to eliminate key Hamas figures who were directly responsible for orchestrating the genocidal [[Islamism|Islamic]] Arab "[[Palestinian]]" [[Oct 7 War|October 7, 2023]], massacre in southern [[Israel]], accompanied by mass rape, murder via suffocation of families hiding in shelters, burning people alive, etc., which resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israeli civilians. The targeted individuals also played a significant role in directing Hamas's ongoing operations against Israel.

[[File:Hamas leaders Khaled Mashal, Nizar Awadallah & Zaher Jabarin killed in Doha.jpg|thumb|Hamas leaders Khaled Mashal, Nizar Awadallah & Zaher Jabarin killed in Doha. 9.9.25]]
== Background ==

Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, has long operated with relative impunity from Qatar, which has provided a safe haven for its senior leadership and been a supporter of its violent agenda. Qatar's hosting of Hamas leaders, including the political bureau, and its facilitation of the group's media arm, [[Al Jazeera]] and on its backed ''Middle East Eye'' (MEE), has been a point of contention for Israel and the international community. Qatar's support of Hamas has allowed the organization to continue its campaign of terror, promoting genocidal rhetoric and coordinating acts of violence against Israel and its citizens.

== Operation Details ==
The ''Summit of Fire'' operation focused on eliminating the leadership of Hamas in Qatar, including Khalil al-Hayya, one of the organization's top commanders. Al-Hayya and other senior Hamas leaders had been instrumental in planning and executing the October 7 massacre, as well as managing Hamas's long-term strategy to destroy the State of Israel. The operation was carried out with precision-guided munitions, minimizing collateral damage and civilian casualties. The IDF and Shin Bet worked closely together to ensure that the strike was as accurate as possible, relying on extensive intelligence and surveillance. The airstrike took place at a high-security site in Doha, which is considered the heart of Hamas's global operations.

Among the likely targets were some of the most influential Hamas officials, including:

*Mohammed Darwish, Deputy to the architect of the October 7 massacre, who had ties to Iran and had taken over after the assassination of Sinwar.

*Khalil al-Khayya, a former political bureau head who survived a prior Israeli assassination attempt.

*Zaher Jabarin, the so-called "economic brain" of Hamas.

*Razi Hammad, Izzat al-Risheq, and other key figures of Hamas' overseas leadership, whose removal is critical for further disrupting the group's operations and ideology.

== Timing ==
The operation comes as the Hamas leaders objected any ceasefire negotiations.

The operation, a direct response to mounting threats against Hamas, follows clear warnings from both U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] and Israeli defense officials, signaling Israel's determination to dismantle Hamas' terror infrastructure. In the days leading up to the strike, Trump issued a "final warning" to Hamas, demanding they accept a proposed hostage exchange deal or face severe consequences. Meanwhile, Israel's Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir made it clear that Hamas' senior leaders would not be safe, no matter where they were.

Also, the 'immediate' timing:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the decision to strike the Hamas leadership in Doha was a direct response to the deadly terror attack in Jerusalem [[Ramot Junction Shooting Massacre (2025)]] a day earlier, and Hamas's claim of responsibility for it.

== Justification for the Strike ==

Israel has repeatedly condemned Qatar for providing sanctuary to Hamas and other terrorist groups, facilitating their operations against Israel. The ''Summit of Fire'' was framed by Israeli officials as a necessary and justified response to Qatar's enabling role in Hamas's ongoing terrorism. Israel emphasized that Hamas's continuous attacks on Israeli civilians, including the October 7 massacre, were the direct result of the group's leadership being allowed to operate freely in Doha. The Israeli government stated that the ''Summit of Fire'' was part of a broader strategy to dismantle Hamas's infrastructure and leadership, sending a strong message to other state actors that provide sanctuary to terrorists. Israeli officials asserted that Hamas's actions pose an existential threat to Israel, and as such, the Jewish state reserves the right to take action wherever these leaders are located.

== International Reactions ==

The ''Summit of Fire'' operation received varying reactions from the international community. The United States, having been briefed prior to the strike, expressed support for Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism and recognized the precision of the operation. The U.S. Embassy in Doha issued a shelter-in-place order for American citizens in the region following the attack. However, human rights groups raised concerns over the potential for civilian casualties, although the Israeli government emphasized its efforts to minimize harm to non-combatants. Qatar, which has long been accused of harboring Hamas operatives, has yet to comment on the strike. The operation's timing and location underscore Israel's commitment to targeting Hamas leadership, regardless of their geographical location, particularly in countries that have historically provided support to the group.

Qatar, upset as its Hamas hosting is exposed further.

As it was put: "If Hamas is the octopus, then Qatar has been the reef where it camouflaged itself - hiding in plain sight while extending its reach."

For its relationship with Qatar, the WH removed itself from being tied to the operation, but it was noted: "Israel would not have carried out such a dramatic strike without a green light from Washington. Its planes could not have entered Doha’s airspace without US forces stationed there detecting them – which means this operation was very likely one of the consequences Trump had in mind when he issued that warning."

== Aftermath ==

While the precise outcome of the operation remains unclear, Israeli sources confirmed that multiple senior Hamas leaders were struck in the raid, with [[Khalil al-Hayya]] among the key targets. The operation marked a significant escalation in Israel's efforts to dismantle Hamas's leadership, both in Gaza and internationally. The attack is part of Israel's broader strategy to counter Hamas's terror network, which includes airstrikes, intelligence operations, and diplomatic efforts to pressure states that harbor terrorist organizations. The Israeli government has repeatedly stated that it will continue to take aggressive action to protect its citizens from terrorist threats, regardless of where those threats originate.

== Strategic Impact ==

Operation Summit of Fire not only serves to decapitate Hamas' leadership but also sends a powerful message to all terrorists around the world: Israel will not hesitate to go after its enemies, wherever they may be. With the removal of key extremists, the hope is that negotiations for hostage releases may become more flexible, as those with rigid, uncompromising stances are removed from the equation. Ultimately, Israel is demonstrating its unwavering commitment to both protecting its citizens and bringing a decisive end to Hamas' reign of terror.

This operation, coordinated with the U.S., is a clear demonstration of the shared resolve between Israel and its allies in defeating terrorism. It sets the stage for Israel to reassert control over the future of Gaza and the Middle East as a whole.

== Conclusion ==
The ''Summit of Fire'' operation serves as a reminder of Israel's unwavering commitment to eradicating terrorism and protecting its people from the ongoing threat posed by Hamas and its supporters. As long as nations like Qatar continue to provide refuge to terrorist organizations, Israel will not hesitate to take decisive military action against those who seek its destruction.

==Notes==

*"[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-866899 Israel strikes Qatar in attempt to assassinate Hamas officials]." JPost, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-idf-releases-name-of-fourth-soldier-who-fell-in-gaza-live-blog IDF confirms strike on Hamas senior leadership in Doha, Qatar | LIVE BLOG]."
i24News, 2025-09-09
*"[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/israel-strikes-hamas-qatar BREAKING: Israel attacks Hamas leaders in Qatar | WATCH]." JFeed, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.memri.org/countries/qatar Qatar Monitor Project], [https://www.memri.org/tv/countries/qatar Qatar Clips]." Memri.
*"[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/netanyahu-hamas-qatar-strike Breaking Point: Israel Reveals the Single Reason They Struck Hamas in Qatar]". JFeed, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj8bx3pcll These are the senior Hamas figures Israel targeted for assassination in Doha]." Ynet, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkk7tttqxg Zamir's hint, Trump's 'final warning': The threats that preceded attack on Qatar]." Ynet, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/bkkmz66qlx A step forward in decapitating Hamas leadership | The meaning of the attack on Qatar]." Ynet, 2025-09-09.
*"[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-866927 Hamas leaders will find no sanctuary, not even in Qatar, Israel strike signals - analysis]". JPost, 2025-09-09.

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Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury

2026-11-05T11:38:13Z

DavidB4-bot: clean up, typos fixed: islamist → Islamist, succesful → successful, ’s → 's (4)

'''Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury'''

'''Operation Roaring Lion [Lion's Roar]''' (Hebrew: מבצע שאגת הארי), also known as '''Operation Epic Fury''' (United States designation), was a joint [[United States]]–[[Israel]] military operation launched on 28 February 2026 targeting the genocidal [[Islamism|Islamist]] fascist Republic of [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump To Iranians: 'US is supporting you, seize control of your destiny' |url=[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423108](https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423108) |website=Israel National News |date=28 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Full text of Netanyahu’s message as Israel, US strike Iran: We will remove ‘existential threat’ |url=[https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-netanyahus-message-as-israel-us-strike-iran-we-will-remove-existential-threat/](https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-netanyahus-message-as-israel-us-strike-iran-we-will-remove-existential-threat/) |website=The Times of Israel |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The operation targeted Iranian nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile capabilities, military leadership, and command-and-control systems. Iran retaliated with missile and drone strikes against Israel, United States bases in the Middle East, and several Gulf states.<ref>{{cite web |title=At least 5 dead after Iran retaliates with strikes in 9 countries and US naval base |url=[https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/](https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/) |website=New York Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The Islamist Mullahcracy "[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-798405 Iran's main goal: Destroy the world as we know it, impose Shia Islam globally. Iran’s leaders want to destroy the world as we know it. They want to dominate the Middle East, overthrow Western-style democracy, wipe out Israel, and impose Shia Islam on the world]".<ref>JPost, 4.24.24</ref>

[[File:Iran proxies.png|thumb|Islamic fascist Republic of Iran's proxies]]

[https://www.inss.org.il/publication/lions-roar-data/ Dashboard: The Military Campaign Against Iran].

The Data Analytics Center at the Institute for National Security Studies presents a real-time situation report on the military campaign against Iran.

The report includes a dedicated dashboard featuring selected data, accompanied by an interactive map depicting the situation on the ground.

The data is updated continuously and as accurately as possible, based on intelligence assessments, open-source information, and media reports.

== Background ==

It comes after 47 years of a regime striking terror across the Middle East. During that time, it has built and armed lethal proxy forces in **Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza, and Yemen**, using them to expand its influence, destabilize governments, and wage indirect war. Its leaders have repeatedly called for the annihilation of Israel and promoted hostility toward the United States.

Among the most notorious anti-American attacks attributed to its network and aligned forces are:

* The **444-day U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in 1979**, when American diplomats were held captive in Tehran.
* The **1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut**, which killed 241 American service members.
* The **1996 Khobar Towers bombing** in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel.
* Numerous deadly attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq carried out by Iran-backed militias.

For nearly five decades, these actions have shaped regional instability and defined one of the most enduring confrontations in modern Middle Eastern history.

Most dangerous of all have been its nuclear ambitions.

In recent years, its expanding arsenal of missiles and armed drones has become an escalating threat in its own right—projecting power far beyond its borders and increasing the risk of wider regional conflict.

===Recent===
The strikes followed weeks of failed negotiations and rising tensions over Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Israeli officials described the operation as preemptive and coordinated with the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. and Israel strike hundreds of Iranian targets in operation Roaring Lion |url=[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide) |website=i24NEWS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The Iranian "negotiators" were using the time to stall, to rebuild.

{{Cquote|Iranian officials couched their proposal in maximalist terms - not the language of a party intent on genuine breakthrough agreements but one of a regime intent on extracting breathing room. For months now, Western capitals have clung to the hope that Iran’s return to the negotiating table represents a genuine opportunity for a durable nuclear agreement. Yet, as the latest round of talks in Geneva concludes, it is increasingly clear that Tehran’s priority is not a deal but delay. The regime in Tehran has mastered the art of diplomacy as a stalling tactic, using negotiations not to reach closure but to buy time to rebuild its capabilities, entrench its strategic assets, and rebuff meaningful constraints on its ambitions.
The Jerusalem Post’s own coverage of the third round of indirect US–Iran talks underscores this dynamic. Tehran’s submission of a “new nuclear proposal” was heralded in some quarters as a breakthrough. But read closely, and the contours of this packet of paper are less about concession and more about preservation.
Iranian officials couched their proposal in maximalist terms, insisting on guarantees of their right to maintain a full fuel cycle and demanding sanctions relief as a precondition for any real compromises. This is not the language of a party intent on genuine breakthrough agreements but one of a regime intent on extracting breathing room.
This is not an isolated pattern. History tells us – both in Tehran’s own conduct and in Western diplomatic experience – that Iran has rarely, if ever, negotiated with real intent to curb its strategic programs. As the Post reported last year, every time Iranian authorities face credible pressure, they pivot to “negotiations – not to reach an agreement but to buy time.”..<ref>{{cite web |title=Iran does not want a lasting deal but time to rebuild its capabilities and strength - editorial.|url=[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-888177](https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-888177)|website=The Jerusalem Post|date=27 February 2026}}</ref>}}

==Historic , Biblical remembered==
The launch coincided with the Jewish reading of Parashat Zachor, which references the biblical command to "blot out the memory of Amalek," a comparison invoked in some Israeli commentary.<ref>{{cite web |title="Blot out the memory of Amalek": Israel and US launch war against Iran |url=[https://www.instagram.com/p/DVTvphjDNcb/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVTvphjDNcb/) |website=Flash News |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

From Israeli ambassafor at UN:{{Cquote|<ref>{{cite web |title=FULL REMARKS: Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon Defends Strikes On Iran At Security Council Meeting |url=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnwleH5DzE]|website=''Forbes News'' via YouTube |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Mr. President. This week, Jewish families all around the world celebrate Purim. Many Israelis will do so now in a bomb shelter. The story of [[Purim]] happened more than 2,500 years ago. In the same place in ancient Persia, an evil minister by the name of Haman sought to wipe out the Jewish people. And it began with words, with chants. It became a decree. It could have become a a genocide. But Queen [[Esther]] refused to remain silent. She stepped forward. She spoke up. She acted before it was too late. That is the lesson we learned.

It is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one. Last week I stood at the gates of Auschwitz with dozens of UN ambassadors. We stood in a place that shows what happens when radicalism and extremism grows and no one stops it in time. Before the Holocaust, some leaders, serious leaders believed that they could come aggression with concess concessions. They were completely wrong. Giving in did not stop evil. It strengthened it.}}

== Objectives and Targets ==

=== United States targets ===

The United States focused primarily on strategic military and nuclear infrastructure, including:

* Nuclear facilities such as Fordow, Natanz, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. is carrying out strikes on Iran |url=[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide) |website=i24NEWS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Ballistic missile production, storage, and launch infrastructure.<ref>{{cite web |title=At least 5 dead after Iran retaliates |url=[https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/](https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/) |website=New York Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval assets and bases.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. and Israel strike hundreds of Iranian targets |url=[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide) |website=i24NEWS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Command and control facilities associated with the IRGC and Iranian air defenses.<ref>{{cite web |title=IDF confirms Iranian defense minister, IRGC chief among officials killed |url=[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/w2wiyeqhr](https://www.ynetnews.com/article/w2wiyeqhr) |website=Ynetnews |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

=== Israeli targets ===

Israel focused on leadership decapitation strikes and tactical military threats:

* The Tehran compound and offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ali Khamenei found dead under rubble |url=[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888283](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888283) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Senior IRGC commanders, intelligence officials, and members of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders killed |url=[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide) |website=i24NEWS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Iranian integrated air defense systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel plunges Iran into darkness with largest cyberattack in history |url=[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-888271](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-888271) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>
* Missile launchers in western and central Iran.<ref>{{cite web |title=IDF shares video of missile strikes on Iranian launchers |url=[https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390175578112](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390175578112) |website=Fox News |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== Cyber operations ==

Israeli sources reported a large-scale cyberattack accompanying the airstrikes, allegedly disrupting Iranian critical infrastructure, official news sites, and security communications systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel plunges Iran into darkness with largest cyberattack in history |url=[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-888271](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-888271) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The Mossad launched a Farsi-language Telegram channel appealing to Iranian civilians and encouraging documentation of anti-regime activities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mossad launches Farsi Telegram channel for 'Iranian brothers and sisters' |url=[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888254](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888254) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== Iranian retaliation ==

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched waves of ballistic missiles and drones targeting Israel, U.S. bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as sites in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as civilian targets.<ref>{{cite web |title=At least 5 dead after Iran retaliates with strikes in 9 countries |url=[https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/](https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/iran-strikes-near-us-navy-base-in-bahrain-harrowing-video-shows/) |website=New York Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

In Israel, one woman was killed and over 120 people were injured during the first day of missile attacks, according to Magen David Adom.<ref>{{cite web |title=1 dead, 121 others injured in Israel amid war with Iran: MDA |url=[https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-us-launch-attack-on-iran-amid-escalating-protests#post-e4cc27a](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-us-launch-attack-on-iran-amid-escalating-protests#post-e4cc27a) |website=Fox News |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Missile and drone strikes were also reported in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other Gulf states, with casualties reported in Abu Dhabi.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iran fires missiles at Gulf Arab states, one killed in Abu Dhabi |url=[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888277](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888277) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

*Israel (Primary target of retaliation)
*[[Bahrain]] (Target: U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters, civilians)
*Qatar (Target: [[Al Udeid Air Base]])
*[[United Arab Emirates]] (Target: Al Dhafra Air Base, with debris falling near Dubai, a luxury hotel)
*[[Kuwait]] (Target: Ali Al Salem Air Base, civilian airport)
*Jordan (Target: [[Muwaffaq Salti Air Base]])
*[[Saudi Arabia]] (Target: Explosions reported in [[Riyadh]], likely targeting Prince Sultan Air Base)
*[[Iraq]] (Target: U.S. base in Erbil)
*[[Syria]] state news agency (SANA) confirmed the missile strike in Sweida.

== At least 40 senior Iranian officials eliminated==
IDF Confirmed "40 Top Iranian Officials Wiped Out - Including Head of IRGC".
<ref>{{cite web |title=IDF Confirms 40 Top Iranian Officials Wiped Out - Including Head of IRGC |url=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1i9OMA3_1I] |website=New York Post via Youtube |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== Reported death of Ali Khamenei ==

[[File:Khamenei Dead.jpg|thumb|Khamenei Dead]]

Multiple media outlets reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli strikes on Tehran.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ali Khamenei found dead under rubble |url=[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888283](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888283) |website=Jerusalem Post |date=28 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead |url=[https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202602288143#202602280738](https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202602288143#202602280738) |website=Iran International |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Reports of his death prompted celebrations among some Iranian civilians, according to media footage and eyewitness accounts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iranians cheer US strikes in street |url=[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/28/iranians-cheer-us-strikes-in-street/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/28/iranians-cheer-us-strikes-in-street/) |website=The Telegraph |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== International reactions ==

European leaders from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes and urged a return to negotiations.<ref>{{cite web |title=France, Germany, U.K. Condemn Iranian Retaliatory Strikes |url=[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/france-germany-u-k-condemn-iranian-retaliatory-strikes-2z7VeAyNtClYmQm5MJ4C](https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/france-germany-u-k-condemn-iranian-retaliatory-strikes-2z7VeAyNtClYmQm5MJ4C) |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The European Union condemned Iranian threats while calling for diplomatic efforts.<ref>{{cite web |title=EU Condemns Iran Threats, Urges Diplomacy |url=[https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/02/28/TU3VEVNNJZDLXC43KRYBGJ53GA/](https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/02/28/TU3VEVNNJZDLXC43KRYBGJ53GA/) |website=Chosun |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Saudi Arabia condemned Iranian missile attacks on Gulf states and pledged logistical and military support.<ref>{{cite web |title=Saudi Arabia condemns Iranian strikes |url=[https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/saudi-arabia-condemns-iranian-strikes-on-us-bases-in-bahrain-kuwait-uae-and-qatar-offers-full-logistical-and-military-support-to-those-nations/](https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/saudi-arabia-condemns-iranian-strikes-on-us-bases-in-bahrain-kuwait-uae-and-qatar-offers-full-logistical-and-military-support-to-those-nations/) |website=OpIndia |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Canada and Australia publicly supported the U.S. and Israeli strikes, while the EU placed blame on Tehran for escalation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canada, Australia support Iran strikes, EU blames Tehran |url=[https://www.jns.org/canada-australia-support-iran-strikes-eu-blames-tehran](https://www.jns.org/canada-australia-support-iran-strikes-eu-blames-tehran) |website=JNS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== Domestic response in Israel ==

Israeli opposition figures expressed unity with the government during the conflict.<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel’s opposition leader: ‘We stand together, win together’ |url=[https://www.jns.org/israels-opposition-leader-we-stand-together-we-win-together/](https://www.jns.org/israels-opposition-leader-we-stand-together-we-win-together/) |website=JNS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

Emergency measures included airspace closure and restrictions on public gatherings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Summary of events |url=[https://www.mako.co.il/pzm-soldiers/liveblog-82cd69fdd556c91027.htm](https://www.mako.co.il/pzm-soldiers/liveblog-82cd69fdd556c91027.htm) |website=Mako |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee deployed mental health and emergency response teams in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=JDC deploys mental-health specialists |url=[https://www.jns.org/jdc-deploys-mental-health-specialists-emergency-supplies-amid-war/](https://www.jns.org/jdc-deploys-mental-health-specialists-emergency-supplies-amid-war/) |website=JNS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

== Casualties ==

In Israel, one civilian fatality and more than 120 injuries were reported during Iranian missile attacks on the first day of hostilities.<ref>{{cite web |title=1 dead, 121 others injured in Israel |url=[https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-us-launch-attack-on-iran-amid-escalating-protests#post-e4cc27a](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-us-launch-attack-on-iran-amid-escalating-protests#post-e4cc27a) |website=Fox News |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

One Pakistani national was killed in UAE due to Iran strike.

Iranian state media claimed over 200 killed and more than 700 wounded in U.S.–Israeli strikes across multiple provinces.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iranian media report 201 people killed |url=[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-israel-launches-preemptive-military-operation-against-iran-emergency-situation-declared-nationwide) |website=i24NEWS |date=28 February 2026}}</ref>

However, a social media posted a month ago about IRGC's led school, foreseeing, the regime will claim a school was hit.

==Updates / sources==

*[[Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury - updates]]

*[[Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury - sources]]

==May 3, 2026==
On May 3, 2026, Trump announced: [[Operation Project Freedom]].
On May 5, Rubio announced Epic Fury to be over.

A devastated Iran military by successful US/Israeli operations, with no nuclear deal yet, the Islamic fascist totalitarian Republic has been holding world economy hostage by threatening freedom of movement in the Strait of Hormuz.

See: *[[Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+]] / [[Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources|sources]]

== See also ==

* [[Islamism]]
* [[Iran]]
* [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]]
* [[2026 United States F-15E rescue operation in Iran]]

== References ==

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