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Leaders with any brains would admit to the original mistake of 1948, compounded by the blunder of 1967, and start creating conditions for a unitary Palestinian SECULAR state with equal rights for ALL.
Bibi and his small gang of thuggish cabinet colleagues are little more than a sideshow.
American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israel
June 18, 2024
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By Thomas L. Friedman
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On Nov. 4, 2022, just after the current far-right Israeli government coalition won election, I wrote a column with this headline: “The Israel We Knew Is Gone.” It was meant to be a warning flare about just how radical this coalition is. Many people disagreed. I believe events have proved them wrong — and the situation is now even worse: The Israel we knew is gone, and today’s Israel is in existential danger.
Israel is up against a regional superpower, Iran, that has managed to put Israel into a vise grip, using its allies and proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shiite militias in Iraq. Right now, Israel has no military or diplomatic answer. Worse, it faces the prospect of a war on three fronts — Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank — but with a dangerous new twist: Hezbollah in Lebanon, unlike Hamas, is armed with precision missiles that could destroy vast swaths of Israel’s infrastructure, from its airports to its seaports to its university campuses to its military bases to its power plants.
But Israel is led by a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has to stay in power to avoid potentially being sent to prison on corruption charges. To do so, he sold his soul to form a government with far-right Jewish extremists who insist that Israel must fight in Gaza until it has killed every last Hamasnik — “total victory” — and who reject any partnership with the Palestinian Authority (which has accepted the Oslo peace accords) in governing a post-Hamas Gaza, because they want Israeli control over all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including Gaza.
And now, Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet has fallen apart over his lack of a plan for ending the war and safely withdrawing from Gaza, and the extremists in his government coalition are eyeing their next moves for power.
They have done so much damage already, and yet not President Biden, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, nor many in Congress have come to terms with just how radical this government is.
Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson and his fellow G.O.P. mischief makers decided to reward Netanyahu with the high honor of speaking to a joint meeting of Congress on July 24. Pushed into a corner, the top Democrats in the Senate and the House signed on to the invitation, but the unstated goal of this Republican exercise is to divide Democrats and provoke shouted insults from their most progressive representatives that would alienate American Jewish voters and donors and turn them toward Donald Trump.
Netanyahu knows that this is all about domestic U.S. politics, which is why his acceptance of the speaking invitation is such an act of disloyalty to Joe Biden — who flew all the way to Israel to hug him in the days after Oct. 7 — that it simply takes your breath away.
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No friend of Israel should participate in this circus. Israel needs a pragmatic centrist government that can lead it out of this multifaceted crisis — and seize the offer of normalization with Saudi Arabia that Biden has been able to engineer. This can come about only by removing Netanyahu through a new election — as the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, bravely called for in March. Israel does not need a U.S.-sponsored booze party for its drunken driver.
You wonder if the “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of its government. This government is not your grandfather’s Israel and this Bibi is not even the old Bibi.
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Unlike any previous Israeli cabinet, this government wrote the goal of annexing the West Bank into the coalition agreement, so it is no surprise that it spent its first year trying to crush the ability of the Israeli Supreme Court to put any check on its powers. Bibi also ceded control over the police and key authorities in the Defense Ministry to Jewish supremacists in his coalition to enable them to deepen settlers’ control over the West Bank. They immediately proceeded to add settlement housing units in the heart of that occupied territory by record numbers to try to block any Palestinian state there.
This nightmare coalition is now in the process of ensuring that ultra-Orthodox young men will not have to serve in this war in equal weight with secular young men and women, who are exhausted by eight months of fighting. The army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, told soldiers in Gaza over the weekend that there “is now a clear need” to draft the ultra-Orthodox to be soldiers to spare another deployment for “many thousands” of less religious reservists.
Israel’s relatively small combat officer corps has been so ground down, I cannot imagine how it could sustain a war in Lebanon.
Add it all up and you see a reckless act of economic, military and moral overstretch — committing seven million Jews to control more than seven million Palestinians (including two million Israeli Arabs) between the river and the sea in perpetuity.
That would be madness in a time of peace. In a time of war — a low-grade three-front war that could become a high-grade three-front war any day — it is insane. Israel is increasingly alone, because what ally would want to partner with that agenda?
And that is why I agree with every word that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak wrote in Haaretz last Thursday: Israel faces “the most serious and dangerous crisis in the country’s history. It began on Oct. 7 with the worst failure in Israel’s history. And it continued with a war that, despite the courage and sacrifice of soldiers and officers, appears to be the least successful war in its history, due to the strategic paralysis in the country’s leadership.”
Israel, added Barak, a former army chief of staff, is “risking a multifront war that would include Iran and its proxies. And all this is happening while in the background the judicial coup continues, with its goal of establishing a racist, ultranationalist, messianic and benighted religious dictatorship.”
Barak warned that if the current government is allowed to remain in power, Israel will not only find itself stuck in Gaza — with Hamas still able to fight and no Arab partner to help Israel out of there — it will also most likely find itself “in an all-out war with Hezbollah in the north, a third intifada in the West Bank, conflicts with the Houthis in Yemen and Iraqi militias in the Golan Heights and, of course, conflict with Iran itself.”
Every American should worry about that. It is a prescription for the United States to be dragged into a Middle East war to help Israel — which would be a Russian, Chinese, Iranian dream come true.
Indeed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has made eight trips to Israel since Oct. 7, should not make another without Israel and Hamas agreeing to a clear war-ending plan. He is debasing his and U.S. power. This is ultimatum time. Biden should be telling Israel that it should accept Hamas’s key demand: Totally end the war now and withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages. Israel cannot think straight while Hamas holds its people.
If Israel can end the war in Gaza, it can lead to a U.S.-mediated deal with Hezbollah to quiet the northern border war — which has been terrible for civilians on both sides. It could enable Israelis and Lebanese along their countries’ border to return home while enabling the Israeli Army to recover and restock from a draining fight. It could halt the erosion in both Israel’s economy and its global moral standing and let the country do something it should have done on Oct. 8. That is: pause, rethink, strategize and not do exactly what Iran and Hamas wanted it to do — i.e., charge ahead just as America did after Sept. 11, 2001 — and sink into an endless war without any plan or partner for the morning after. And, as Barak argued, Israel must then hold new elections.
Yes, yes, I can hear the criticism from the war hawks right now: “Friedman, you would let Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, come out of his tunnel and declare victory?”
Yes, I would. In fact, I wish I could be at the news conference in Gaza when he does, so I could ask the first question:
“Mr. Sinwar, you claim this is a great victory for Hamas — a total Israeli withdrawal and a stable cease-fire. I just want to know: What existed on Oct. 6 between you and Israel, before your surprise attack? Oh, let me answer that: a total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a stable cease-fire. If you don’t mind, I’d like to stick around for a few days to watch you explain to Gazans how you started an eight-month war — causing the destruction of roughly 70 percent of Gaza’s housing stock and leaving, by your count, some 37,000 Gazans dead, many of them women and children — so you could get Gaza back to exactly where it was on Oct. 6, in a cease-fire with Israel and no Israeli troops here. Another Hamas victory like this and Gaza will be permanently unlivable.”
And to Israelis who would ask, “Friedman, are you crazy, you would let Sinwar run Gaza again?” my answer would again be — yes, for now. The alternatives — Israel running Gaza or Gaza becoming another Somalia — are far worse. Netanyahu’s idea that some perfect Palestinians — who are neither members of Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority — will run the place for Israel is a fantasy.
The only people who can defeat Hamas are the Palestinians of Gaza. They, too, need better leadership, and if they find it, we should help them rebuild. But until then, Israel would be crazy to want to stay in Gaza and be responsible for its reconstruction. That honor should go to Sinwar.
I believe that the morning after the morning after Sinwar emerges from his tunnel, many Gazans will want to pummel him for the disaster he has visited on them. And if not, Sinwar and Sinwar alone will be responsible when the water doesn’t flow, when the building materials don’t arrive, when the sun doesn’t shine — not Israel. And if he is so foolish as to restart the war with Israel or attempt to smuggle in weapons instead of food and housing for his people, it will all be on him.
Sadly, if all this war does is buy Israel another long timeout with Hamas, well, maybe that’s all that’s possible. After all, up to now, the real history of Jews and Palestinians, going back to the early 20th century, has been: war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout. And the real difference is what each side did in the timeouts.
Maybe one day that will change, but for now Israel needs to get the hell out of Gaza and back into a timeout.
(I am working on a book this summer and am not writing regularly.)
Its amazing how often Netanyahu publicly embarrasses Biden and Biden just bends over and says 'I don't need lube'.
Its really weird that Biden is destroying his legacy and reelection for Netanyahu's genocide but its just as fucked that Netanyahu and Israel prefer rump and his connections to actual nazis and white supremacists.Leaders with any brains would admit to the original mistake of 1948, compounded by the blunder of 1967, and start creating conditions for a unitary Palestinian SECULAR state with equal rights for ALL.
Bibi and his small gang of thuggish cabinet colleagues are little more than a sideshow.
American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israel
June 18, 2024
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By Thomas L. Friedman
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On Nov. 4, 2022, just after the current far-right Israeli government coalition won election, I wrote a column with this headline: “The Israel We Knew Is Gone.” It was meant to be a warning flare about just how radical this coalition is. Many people disagreed. I believe events have proved them wrong — and the situation is now even worse: The Israel we knew is gone, and today’s Israel is in existential danger.
Israel is up against a regional superpower, Iran, that has managed to put Israel into a vise grip, using its allies and proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shiite militias in Iraq. Right now, Israel has no military or diplomatic answer. Worse, it faces the prospect of a war on three fronts — Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank — but with a dangerous new twist: Hezbollah in Lebanon, unlike Hamas, is armed with precision missiles that could destroy vast swaths of Israel’s infrastructure, from its airports to its seaports to its university campuses to its military bases to its power plants.
But Israel is led by a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has to stay in power to avoid potentially being sent to prison on corruption charges. To do so, he sold his soul to form a government with far-right Jewish extremists who insist that Israel must fight in Gaza until it has killed every last Hamasnik — “total victory” — and who reject any partnership with the Palestinian Authority (which has accepted the Oslo peace accords) in governing a post-Hamas Gaza, because they want Israeli control over all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including Gaza.
And now, Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet has fallen apart over his lack of a plan for ending the war and safely withdrawing from Gaza, and the extremists in his government coalition are eyeing their next moves for power.
They have done so much damage already, and yet not President Biden, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, nor many in Congress have come to terms with just how radical this government is.
Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson and his fellow G.O.P. mischief makers decided to reward Netanyahu with the high honor of speaking to a joint meeting of Congress on July 24. Pushed into a corner, the top Democrats in the Senate and the House signed on to the invitation, but the unstated goal of this Republican exercise is to divide Democrats and provoke shouted insults from their most progressive representatives that would alienate American Jewish voters and donors and turn them toward Donald Trump.
Netanyahu knows that this is all about domestic U.S. politics, which is why his acceptance of the speaking invitation is such an act of disloyalty to Joe Biden — who flew all the way to Israel to hug him in the days after Oct. 7 — that it simply takes your breath away.
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No friend of Israel should participate in this circus. Israel needs a pragmatic centrist government that can lead it out of this multifaceted crisis — and seize the offer of normalization with Saudi Arabia that Biden has been able to engineer. This can come about only by removing Netanyahu through a new election — as the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, bravely called for in March. Israel does not need a U.S.-sponsored booze party for its drunken driver.
You wonder if the “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of its government. This government is not your grandfather’s Israel and this Bibi is not even the old Bibi.
E
Unlike any previous Israeli cabinet, this government wrote the goal of annexing the West Bank into the coalition agreement, so it is no surprise that it spent its first year trying to crush the ability of the Israeli Supreme Court to put any check on its powers. Bibi also ceded control over the police and key authorities in the Defense Ministry to Jewish supremacists in his coalition to enable them to deepen settlers’ control over the West Bank. They immediately proceeded to add settlement housing units in the heart of that occupied territory by record numbers to try to block any Palestinian state there.
This nightmare coalition is now in the process of ensuring that ultra-Orthodox young men will not have to serve in this war in equal weight with secular young men and women, who are exhausted by eight months of fighting. The army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, told soldiers in Gaza over the weekend that there “is now a clear need” to draft the ultra-Orthodox to be soldiers to spare another deployment for “many thousands” of less religious reservists.
Israel’s relatively small combat officer corps has been so ground down, I cannot imagine how it could sustain a war in Lebanon.
Add it all up and you see a reckless act of economic, military and moral overstretch — committing seven million Jews to control more than seven million Palestinians (including two million Israeli Arabs) between the river and the sea in perpetuity.
That would be madness in a time of peace. In a time of war — a low-grade three-front war that could become a high-grade three-front war any day — it is insane. Israel is increasingly alone, because what ally would want to partner with that agenda?
And that is why I agree with every word that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak wrote in Haaretz last Thursday: Israel faces “the most serious and dangerous crisis in the country’s history. It began on Oct. 7 with the worst failure in Israel’s history. And it continued with a war that, despite the courage and sacrifice of soldiers and officers, appears to be the least successful war in its history, due to the strategic paralysis in the country’s leadership.”
Israel, added Barak, a former army chief of staff, is “risking a multifront war that would include Iran and its proxies. And all this is happening while in the background the judicial coup continues, with its goal of establishing a racist, ultranationalist, messianic and benighted religious dictatorship.”
Barak warned that if the current government is allowed to remain in power, Israel will not only find itself stuck in Gaza — with Hamas still able to fight and no Arab partner to help Israel out of there — it will also most likely find itself “in an all-out war with Hezbollah in the north, a third intifada in the West Bank, conflicts with the Houthis in Yemen and Iraqi militias in the Golan Heights and, of course, conflict with Iran itself.”
Every American should worry about that. It is a prescription for the United States to be dragged into a Middle East war to help Israel — which would be a Russian, Chinese, Iranian dream come true.
Indeed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has made eight trips to Israel since Oct. 7, should not make another without Israel and Hamas agreeing to a clear war-ending plan. He is debasing his and U.S. power. This is ultimatum time. Biden should be telling Israel that it should accept Hamas’s key demand: Totally end the war now and withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages. Israel cannot think straight while Hamas holds its people.
If Israel can end the war in Gaza, it can lead to a U.S.-mediated deal with Hezbollah to quiet the northern border war — which has been terrible for civilians on both sides. It could enable Israelis and Lebanese along their countries’ border to return home while enabling the Israeli Army to recover and restock from a draining fight. It could halt the erosion in both Israel’s economy and its global moral standing and let the country do something it should have done on Oct. 8. That is: pause, rethink, strategize and not do exactly what Iran and Hamas wanted it to do — i.e., charge ahead just as America did after Sept. 11, 2001 — and sink into an endless war without any plan or partner for the morning after. And, as Barak argued, Israel must then hold new elections.
Yes, yes, I can hear the criticism from the war hawks right now: “Friedman, you would let Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, come out of his tunnel and declare victory?”
Yes, I would. In fact, I wish I could be at the news conference in Gaza when he does, so I could ask the first question:
“Mr. Sinwar, you claim this is a great victory for Hamas — a total Israeli withdrawal and a stable cease-fire. I just want to know: What existed on Oct. 6 between you and Israel, before your surprise attack? Oh, let me answer that: a total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a stable cease-fire. If you don’t mind, I’d like to stick around for a few days to watch you explain to Gazans how you started an eight-month war — causing the destruction of roughly 70 percent of Gaza’s housing stock and leaving, by your count, some 37,000 Gazans dead, many of them women and children — so you could get Gaza back to exactly where it was on Oct. 6, in a cease-fire with Israel and no Israeli troops here. Another Hamas victory like this and Gaza will be permanently unlivable.”
And to Israelis who would ask, “Friedman, are you crazy, you would let Sinwar run Gaza again?” my answer would again be — yes, for now. The alternatives — Israel running Gaza or Gaza becoming another Somalia — are far worse. Netanyahu’s idea that some perfect Palestinians — who are neither members of Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority — will run the place for Israel is a fantasy.
The only people who can defeat Hamas are the Palestinians of Gaza. They, too, need better leadership, and if they find it, we should help them rebuild. But until then, Israel would be crazy to want to stay in Gaza and be responsible for its reconstruction. That honor should go to Sinwar.
I believe that the morning after the morning after Sinwar emerges from his tunnel, many Gazans will want to pummel him for the disaster he has visited on them. And if not, Sinwar and Sinwar alone will be responsible when the water doesn’t flow, when the building materials don’t arrive, when the sun doesn’t shine — not Israel. And if he is so foolish as to restart the war with Israel or attempt to smuggle in weapons instead of food and housing for his people, it will all be on him.
Sadly, if all this war does is buy Israel another long timeout with Hamas, well, maybe that’s all that’s possible. After all, up to now, the real history of Jews and Palestinians, going back to the early 20th century, has been: war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout. And the real difference is what each side did in the timeouts.
Maybe one day that will change, but for now Israel needs to get the hell out of Gaza and back into a timeout.
(I am working on a book this summer and am not writing regularly.)
Meanwhile, zionists are acting more and more like nazis themselves.
zionism is the problem
Nazis and KKK align with Palestinians
David Duke, antisemites, Israel-haters find common cause at failed Detroit rally
Former grand wizard united with fellow antisemites and anti-Israel personalities Nick Fuentes, Jake Shields, and Nicolas "Sneako" Kenn De Balinthazy in Detroit
Antisemites and anti-Israel activists rallied in Detroit to protest a conservative political convention. They also attempted to hold a conference of their own over the weekend, seeing the likes of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white nationalist Nick Fuentes in attendance.
Fuentes and mixed martial artist Jake Shields were denied access to Turning Point Action’s the People’s Convention (TPUSA) on Friday when they attempted to attend, Shields told social media content creator Nicolas “Sneako” Kenn De Balinthazy on his Rumble stream the same day. Shields claimed that TPUSA security gave no reason for the expulsion from the event, suggesting that it was because Fuentes was an anti-Israel activist.
“Should I pull up to TPUSA this year?” Fuentes asked followers on social media, before updating shortly after, “I got kicked out.”
Fuentes was set to hold his own event – the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) – on Saturday, but said on Saturday on X, “We finished setting up our stage and then the venue called the cops to kick us out 24 hours before the event.”
Danish physician and anti-Israel influencer Anastasia Maria Loupis, who said on X on Friday that it was great to be “with the f**k Israel movement in Detroit,” responded to the cancellation by proclaiming on social media, “Nick was right. America is Israel-occupied territory. America is a banana republic. Jews have no power.”
Anti-Israel commentator Sulaiman Ahmed said that the AFPAC was canceled a second time at another venue, which saw a scuffle with security.Loupis did post a video of a flashpoint between AFPAC attendees and a guard. A security guard told the group to leave, and when they started to film him, he told them to cease doing so, calling them “sluts” and “whores” in the process, and started dancing while presenting them with his two middle fingers. When De Balinthazy flipped off the guard’s hat, the security man proceeded to perform a flying punch on the streamer. Ahmed later showed in a video that De Balinthazy received a chipped tooth as a result.
Shields said that Fuentes being escorted out of TPUSA and the cancellation of AFPAC twice showed how “feared and banned he is from society.”Fuentes returned to TPUSA’s convention, according to Shields, giving an impromptu speech as a Muslim-American supporter shouted, “Down with Israel.”“Jesus Christ is the king of the United States of America,” said Fuentes, who went on to critique former US president Donald Trump for his relationship with philanthropist Miriam Adelson.
“I will never vote for Joe Biden. But I cannot pledge to support Donald Trump until he becomes America first again,” said Fuentes. “We only voted for Donald Trump because we didn’t want any more wars in the Middle East, and we don’t want a war with Iran now. I will not vote for Donald Trump until he can give a commitment that we will not go to war with Iran.”
Fuentes alleged that Israel, “through war, through revolution, through subterfuge, is destabilizing the Middle East to carve out a path for ‘greater Israel.’ It’s always been their plan. And right now in order to accomplish that they are committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
Loupis said on social media that alt-Right activists, who often call themselves Groypers, had made a significant showing in Detroit in support of Fuentes.
One of the personalities that attended the protest at TPUSA’s convention was Duke, according to journalist Cam Higby.
Duke said in a clip published by Higby that he was there to support Fuentes and all those working “to save our country and save us from Jewish supremacism because we’re being genocided just like the Palestinians, just [in] a different form.”
Higby remarked on X, “This is the most obscenely insane and disgusting event I’ve ever seen.”
Ahmed and De Balinthazy announced on Sunday that Duke sat down with them for an interview.
Shields responded to an interviewer by saying that he was a “freedom of speech absolutist” and believed “everyone has a right to be heard.”“I want to listen and decide for myself if he’s really the vile man that they claim he is,” Shields said of Duke.
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David Duke, antisemites, Israel-haters find common cause at failed Detroit rally
Former grand wizard united with fellow antisemites and anti-Israel personalities Nick Fuentes, Jake Shields, and Nicolas "Sneako" Kenn De Balinthazy in Detroit
Antisemites and anti-Israel activists rallied in Detroit to protest a conservative political convention. They also attempted to hold a conference of their own over the weekend, seeing the likes of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white nationalist Nick Fuentes in attendance.
Fuentes and mixed martial artist Jake Shields were denied access to Turning Point Action’s the People’s Convention (TPUSA) on Friday when they attempted to attend, Shields told social media content creator Nicolas “Sneako” Kenn De Balinthazy on his Rumble stream the same day. Shields claimed that TPUSA security gave no reason for the expulsion from the event, suggesting that it was because Fuentes was an anti-Israel activist.
“Should I pull up to TPUSA this year?” Fuentes asked followers on social media, before updating shortly after, “I got kicked out.”
Fuentes was set to hold his own event – the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) – on Saturday, but said on Saturday on X, “We finished setting up our stage and then the venue called the cops to kick us out 24 hours before the event.”
Danish physician and anti-Israel influencer Anastasia Maria Loupis, who said on X on Friday that it was great to be “with the f**k Israel movement in Detroit,” responded to the cancellation by proclaiming on social media, “Nick was right. America is Israel-occupied territory. America is a banana republic. Jews have no power.”
Anti-Israel commentator Sulaiman Ahmed said that the AFPAC was canceled a second time at another venue, which saw a scuffle with security.Loupis did post a video of a flashpoint between AFPAC attendees and a guard. A security guard told the group to leave, and when they started to film him, he told them to cease doing so, calling them “sluts” and “whores” in the process, and started dancing while presenting them with his two middle fingers. When De Balinthazy flipped off the guard’s hat, the security man proceeded to perform a flying punch on the streamer. Ahmed later showed in a video that De Balinthazy received a chipped tooth as a result.
Shields said that Fuentes being escorted out of TPUSA and the cancellation of AFPAC twice showed how “feared and banned he is from society.”Fuentes returned to TPUSA’s convention, according to Shields, giving an impromptu speech as a Muslim-American supporter shouted, “Down with Israel.”“Jesus Christ is the king of the United States of America,” said Fuentes, who went on to critique former US president Donald Trump for his relationship with philanthropist Miriam Adelson.
“I will never vote for Joe Biden. But I cannot pledge to support Donald Trump until he becomes America first again,” said Fuentes. “We only voted for Donald Trump because we didn’t want any more wars in the Middle East, and we don’t want a war with Iran now. I will not vote for Donald Trump until he can give a commitment that we will not go to war with Iran.”
Fuentes alleged that Israel, “through war, through revolution, through subterfuge, is destabilizing the Middle East to carve out a path for ‘greater Israel.’ It’s always been their plan. And right now in order to accomplish that they are committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
Loupis said on social media that alt-Right activists, who often call themselves Groypers, had made a significant showing in Detroit in support of Fuentes.
One of the personalities that attended the protest at TPUSA’s convention was Duke, according to journalist Cam Higby.
Duke said in a clip published by Higby that he was there to support Fuentes and all those working “to save our country and save us from Jewish supremacism because we’re being genocided just like the Palestinians, just [in] a different form.”
Higby remarked on X, “This is the most obscenely insane and disgusting event I’ve ever seen.”
Ahmed and De Balinthazy announced on Sunday that Duke sat down with them for an interview.
Shields responded to an interviewer by saying that he was a “freedom of speech absolutist” and believed “everyone has a right to be heard.”“I want to listen and decide for myself if he’s really the vile man that they claim he is,” Shields said of Duke.
David Duke, antisemites, Israel-haters find common cause at failed Detroit rally
Former grand wizard united with fellow antisemites and anti-Israel personalities Nick Fuentes, Jake Shields, and Nicolas "Sneako" Kenn De Balinthazy in Detroit
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What's with these Afgan attacks in Europe, they leave a Taliban run country and go to Europe and start killing themselves.
German police shoot to death an Afghan man who killed a compatriot, then attacked soccer fans
BERLIN (AP) — German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in eastern Germany, police said Saturday.
The 27-year-old Afghan citizen first attacked a 23-year-old compatriot with a “knife-like object” in Wolmirstedt, a small town about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, on Friday evening, police said. The victim later died of his wounds.
The man later attacked a group of people watching the soccer game between Germany and Scotland in the yard of private house, injuring three German men, two of them seriously, police said.
Police said the assailant, still armed with the same object, also attacked officers called to the scene. Two of the officers shot and wounded the man, who died soon after in a hospital.
Police said the motive for the attacks was unclear. The Interior Ministry in Saxony-Anhalt state, which includes Wolmirstedt, said police had increased their presence across the state. The soccer tournament is taking place in cities across Germany and runs through July 14.
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German police shoot to death an Afghan man who killed a compatriot, then attacked soccer fans
BERLIN (AP) — German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in eastern Germany, police said Saturday.
The 27-year-old Afghan citizen first attacked a 23-year-old compatriot with a “knife-like object” in Wolmirstedt, a small town about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, on Friday evening, police said. The victim later died of his wounds.
The man later attacked a group of people watching the soccer game between Germany and Scotland in the yard of private house, injuring three German men, two of them seriously, police said.
Police said the assailant, still armed with the same object, also attacked officers called to the scene. Two of the officers shot and wounded the man, who died soon after in a hospital.
Police said the motive for the attacks was unclear. The Interior Ministry in Saxony-Anhalt state, which includes Wolmirstedt, said police had increased their presence across the state. The soccer tournament is taking place in cities across Germany and runs through July 14.
German police shoot to death an Afghan man who killed a compatriot, then attacked soccer fans
German police say they shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in a town in the east of the country.
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(June 17, 2024 / JNS)
Around half of Hamas’s battalions in its last bastion of Rafah in southernmost Gaza have been dismantled during the current military operation there, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday.
Furthermore, soldiers from the Armored Corps’ 162nd Division have killed at least 550 terrorists and destroyed some 200 tunnel shafts since tanks first rolled into Rafah in early May, taking control of the border crossing with Sinai and the eastern section of the city, before expanding activities to other areas, eventually securing the entire Gaza border with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor.
IDF has destroyed half of Hamas's fighting forces in Rafah - JNS.org
Around half of Hamas’s battalions in its last bastion of Rafah in southernmost Gaza have been dismantled during the current military operation there, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday.
Furthermore, soldiers from the Armored Corps’ 162nd Division have killed at least 550 terrorists and destroyed some 200 tunnel shafts since tanks first rolled into Rafah in early May, taking control of the border crossing with Sinai and the eastern section of the city, before expanding activities to other areas, eventually securing the entire Gaza border with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor.
IDF has destroyed half of Hamas's fighting forces in Rafah - JNS.org
They were there to support trump.
Trump is aligned with the neo-nazis and white supremacists as well as with the Jewish supremacist zionists.
How is it that team zionism is down to vinson and canadaman?
Is it this?
theintercept.com
Is it this?
“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Riley Livermore joins a burgeoning wave of dissent within the Biden administration and the military over U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
theintercept.com
Another Palestinian Dr Murdered in Israeli Custody
Zionists are trying to get the cops here to act like the IDF.
breachmedia.ca
Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto
A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement
breachmedia.ca
How is it that team zionism is down to vinson and canadaman?
Is it this?
“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Riley Livermore joins a burgeoning wave of dissent within the Biden administration and the military over U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Why are you quoting from a pro Putin website?
