Biden Red Robinette Gives a Hundred Million to the Palestinian Terrorists

Timothy Birdnow

Biden just called for a hundred million bucks for relif for Gaza. Not to protect Israel.

And he warned Israel not to take the fight to the terrorists, saying most Palestinians are not supporters of Hamas. They are.

This war has never ended in the region because nobody won. Biden talks about "pursuing peace" as if it's some sort of existential entity. It's not. It is a choice by people to either fight or not fight. The Palestinians chose this path. They elected Hamas to run their territory. They WANTED this fight. It will only end when they realize they are beaten, and that won't happen as long as they get international aid and we make Israel back down when they have the terrorists by the throat.

So Biden is pretending to stand with Israel but he's trying to go back to the status quo.

And he pretends there is parity between Hamas and Israel. There is not.

Why isn't Biden calling for the release of the hostages, both American and Israeli? He's sending aid to Palestine while they hold our people prisoner.

Remember when Iran seized the American embassy and held our people hostage? President Jimmy Carter sat paralyzed, unwilling to act and the whole spectacle dragged on on national television night after night - the show "America Held Hostage" was the most popular news program of the day (and eventually became Nightline, making Ted Koppel's career.) The hostage crisis ruined Carter's presidency. But now? The media barely mentions the American hostages and neither does Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (yes, that IS his real name!)

Red Robinette doesn't care about American hostages. But he does apparently care about Hamas terrorists and those who give succour to them.

What about the American Hostages Mr. Biden!? What are you doing to get them home!? I want answers to that, not money to bribe the terrorists.

We can't get this loser out of office soon enough. America must remember this. He has humiliated our country and sold us out at the same time.

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Hamas IS the Mainstream of Palestine

Greg Malakov

On every news station, even the must trusted journalists are saying crazy shit as in Hamas does not represent the Palestinians. If you watched the Palestinians and their supporters this week in America and around the world, everyone of them were fragrantly in 100% support of Hamas. WTF?

It couldn't be any more obvious/more plain to see, yet they all say the same total bullshit, that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians. That is total news to the Palestinians because they are totally dedicated to Hamas. Sure the PLO may not like Hamas killing their own people, but if it will lead to killing Jews, they can put up with it.

IDF contradicts 'Squad' tweets accusing Israeli military of bombing hospital
foxnews.com

Tim adds:

Polling shows that the "Palestinians" support Hamas over 50%, and in fact Hamas has beaten Fatah - the party of Yassir "he's our baby" Arafat in elections by over half. The Palestinians do indeed support Hamas and the drive to destroy Israel. This claim is a lie.

Hamas won the last election (in 2006) by huge margins and thus Palestine rejected the two state solution promoted by Fatah.

Hamas IS the mainstream of Palestinian thought, not an outlier.

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Most Dangerous City in America

Timothy Birdnow

St. Louis is the most dangerous city in America!

We're Number One!

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DeSantis Rescues Americans

Timothy Birdnow

Ron DeSantis just flew a couple of hundred Floridians home from the war zone in Israel. He didn't sit idly by while Biden dithered, he took action to get his own people out.

Democrat Rep. Adam Kenzinger sneered at DeSantis' Exectuve Order, calling it a campaign stunt. But Mr. DeSantis actually went and did it while the  President of the United States did nothing.

Joe Biden shows where he stands.

Who looks Presidential now Dementia Joe?

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Rising Consumer Spending Indicates Inflationary Economy

Timothy Birdnow

That happens in an inflationary period. Money is worth less and people spend it to get something of value rather than just watch it erode. It's why Keynsians used to argue that stagflation was impossible; inflation triggers economic activity. BUT it's possible to have both as Jimmy Carter showed. That is where this is heading too. The Fed keeps upping interest rates at the same time the value of money declines and the U.S. isn't increasing productivity.

Retail Sales Rise Solid 0.7% on Resilient Shoppers
newsmax.com

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They Admitted There is No Palestine in the Past

David Benjamin

Tim adds:

People have forgotten the United Arab Republic. It was a state that existed from 1958 until 1971and was the union of Egypt and Syria. The hope was to create a new Caliphate encompassing the whole Middle East. Egypt and Syria saw little difference between their two respective countries. (Syria pulled out after a coup.) At the time the UAR argued there was essentially little difference b etween the Palestinians and the rest of the UAR. Funny how we've all forgotten that.

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"Merely Abnormal an Understatement"

Nikki Grace

United States District Judge Aileen Cannon keeps having to throw socialist Biden Regime prosecutors out of her court over their outrageous tactics to harm President Trump—but as it pertains to Marxist radical United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan, today it sees her allowing socialist Biden Regime prosecutors to argue that President Trump must be silenced by a gag order to keep him from speaking—and beyond all belief, it sees socialist Biden Regime prosecutors demanding that Trump lawyers not be allowed to interview potential jurors, which even leftist legal experts note about: "To call this merely abnormal would be an understatement,

since jury studies are almost always used by litigants in major criminal and civil cases without any involvement or supervision by the court whatsoever”.

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Why the Speaker Fight is Healthy for America

Timothy Birdnow

I was chatting with Anne, a friend, who is not happy with the contention in the GOP over the Speakership. She asked my thoughts. I say:

I believe this is healthy Anne; our system in action. What does the House do that is so critical that it can't wait a few days, or possible couple of weeks? It did come at a bad time because nobody expected this crisis in Israel just this moment.

But beyond that I don't see any real problem here. It'll get sorted out soon. And if not it will primarily be the refusal of the RINO wing to support anyone other than a milksop Establishment Republican (such as Scalise).

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America Rescue Plan Funded Hamas

Diane Kimura

Biden administration funded the Palestinian invasion.

"The $1.9 TRILLION American Rescue Plan was supposed to be about helping *Americans* recover from idiotic COVID lockdowns," Charley Kirk said. "But for some reason, $500 million of that deficit spending went to the State Department to 'resettle refugees'."

"$33.7 million went directly to Gaza via the UNRWA, an organization that’s been described as 'effectively a branch of Hamas'," he added. "In total, Biden has given this branch of Hamas $730 million since 2021, making the US taxpayer its largest donor in the world."

"UNRWA employees in Gaza belong to the Hamas-linked trade union and a number of employees are actual Hamas fighters," he added. "UNRWA schools teach kids to hate Jews and glorify terrorism. UNRWA facilities are often used to store rockets, munitions, and serve as human shields for Hamas."

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Making America Safe Again

Timothy Birdnow

With apologies to the African American community for the acronym.

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Shaking Nuts from the Biden Family Tree

Timothy Birdnow

The Biden Family Tree: How Investigations are Exposing the Bidens’ Influence-Peddling Dynasty
jonathanturley.org

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Vampire Health Guidelines

Timothy Birdnow

If you plan to kill a Jewish vampire, do you use a pork steak rather than a boneless ribeye?
If a Catholic do you use a fried catfish?
A potato for a Russian orthodox?

And does a Star of David scare away the Jewish vamp? Does a crescent moon scare Muslim blood suckers?

if vampires hate sunlight are they Bohemians? Do they drink coffee in houses and listen to jazz music?

And will a vampire be healthy if he just drinks plasma and not whole blood? Do they get fat if they do nothing but whole and not 2%?

What of Hindu vampires? Can they suck cow blood?

Vegan vampires are in serious trouble, methinks! A Buddhist vamp would struggle to remain healthy and productive as he would probably not be able to touch circulatory fluid. I guess he could drink beet juice or something.

I would add black vampires would have a rough go too; black skin is evolved to block out sunlight, so they take in less vitamin D than do white folks. A black vampire would require a lot of vitamin D in his diet. An ordinary person needs 20 milligrams per milileter in their blood.

We need to consider these things if we are to have a more inclusive society and guarantee all have equal access to the benefits of a multicultural nation!

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Chamber of Commerce Wants More Aliens

Timothy Birdnow

Despite the millions of aliens flooding into America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is STILL calling for more - and for the legalization of invaders who managed to stay here.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/10/13/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-cheerleading-migrant-invasion-at-southern-border-n1734895

What will it take before these greedy misanthropic robber barons realize America will fall from this - and that their profits will fall with her?

They live here too. Why would anyone think eight million aliens invading the country is a good idea?

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Alito, SCOTUS Temporarily Reinstate Biden Censorship

Timothy Birdnow

WTF!


Supreme Court Issues Another Temporary Pause On Injunction Against Biden Admin Censorship Efforts

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday issued another stay of an injunction blocking the Biden administration from encouraging social media companies to censor speech.

Alito’s administrative stayblocks the injunction originally issued by District of Louisiana Judge Terry A. Doughty until Oct. 20, giving the justices more time to consider the Biden administration’s request for a longer stay on the injunction and to take up the case. Alito has issued short stays against the injunction twice, with the last one expiring Sept. 27.

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Islamic Ethics in a Nutshell

Bob Clasen

This is the sort of logic that justifies suicide bombing and killing of innocent women and children, if it is perceived to help Islam.

Islamic ethics in a nutshell. ANYTHING that benefits Islam is good; anything that harms Islam is bad.

"In other words, whatever sin the Nakhla raiders had committed in violating the sacred month was nothing compared to the Quraysh’s sins. Ibn Ishaq elucidated the rationale, as explained to Muhammad by Allah: "They have kept you back from the way of God with their unbelief in Him, and from the sacred mosque, and have driven you from it when you were with its people. This is a more serious matter with God than the killing of those whom you have slain.” Once he received this revelation, Muhammad accepted Abdullah’s booty and prisoners, much to Abdullah’s relief. It was a watershed event, establishing a utilitarian morality that runs through Islamic theology: anything that benefits Muslims and Islam is good, and anything that harms them is evil. The twentieth century jihad theorist Sayyid Qutb accordingly explained that "Islam is a practical and realistic way of life which is not based on rigid idealistic dogma.” Islam "maintains its own high moral principles,” but only when "justice is established and wrongdoing is contained”—i.e. , only when Islamic law rules a society—can "sanctities be protected and preserved.” 7 In other words, Muslims need not feel themselves bound by those "high moral principles” until Islamic law is established in the society where they live.”

The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran (Complete Infidel's Guides) by Robert Spencer

Tim adds:
And the Koran has the concept of Taqqiya, which says any oath may be violated, any alliance broken, any pledge dissolved when something better comes along.

Qur'an 2:225: "Allah will not hold you accountable for unintentional oaths, but for what you intended in your hearts."

SAHIH BUKHARI, BOOK 78: Oaths and Vows

" If I take an oath to do something and later on I find something else better than the first one, then I do what is better and make expiation for my oath."

In other words you can lie with impunity in Islam if it works for you and the faith.

No treaty or agreement is worth the paper it is written on when dealing with Islamic nations.

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Sub Leak Story a Hoax

Cindy Schumacher

Commissioner Jack Brewer (@JackBrewerBSI) / X

Tim adds:

See, they know most won't read the retraction and will continue to believe these lies told about Trump. They are tying a Gordian Knot. The truth of the matter is largely immaterial; it's the PERCEPTION that counts.

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Squakers and Hawkers

Timothy Birdnow

A friend named Anne asks what I think about the Speaker's issue vis-a-vis Israel (I always wanted to use vis-a-vis in a sentence!).  Here is the exchange:

Anne says:

Mr. Birdnow replies:

I believe this is healthy Anne; our system in action. What does the House do that is so critical that it can't wait a few days, or possible couple of weeks? It did come at a bad time because nobody expected this crisis in Israel just this moment.

But beyond that I don't see any real problem here. It'll get sorted out soon. And if not it will primarily be the refusal of the RINO wing to support anyone other than a milksop Establishment Republican (such as Scalise).

The media talks about this as the conservatives refusing to support Scalise, and of course McCarthy before him, but is it not equally true the RINO Republicans simply refused to support Jim Jordan, or anybody else who won't "reach across the aisle" meaning give the store away?

An ne, while the House can't do any new business, meaning no new legislation can pass (and hence no aid to NEW aid to Israel can be raised) the Biden Administration can indeed divert funds for Israel from other projects. The fact is our government is so bloated we can send a LOT of aid on an emergency basis. Even with the War Powers Resolution of 1973 the President has enormous leeway in this regard. And of course we have an enormous amount of leeway in protecting our own citizens under the laws passed during the W. Bush Administration.

So I don't see this as the problem that many are making it out to be.

It will become a problem if this were to drag on for months, but that seems unlikely by any metric. Eventually they will find someone. They can look outside of the current House. Newt Gingrich comes to mind (although he was booted by the GOP because of his ADD approach to running things.)

Anne, our problem has always been that our side caves to the RINO wing of the party for the sake of unity. They never cave to us. Until we get control of the party nothing will be done, we will not roll back the red tide swallowing America. This is do or die time. That's something that the holdouts understand.

Kevin McCarthy was business as usual. And if you do not change nothing will change. As Einstein pointed out, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That is what conservatives were doing, and that is what the GOP was doing. The whole party needs a head shrink.

So my view is that this is healthy. If nothing else it weeds out the rot. Yes, it would have been better had this happened at another time, but I'm not unhappy about it. I think this will illustrate just how bloated our government is, and how less than vital it is. And it will help to shake up the complacency of the GOP, who have been more interested in what they can grab than what they can actually accomplish for the People. And it is exactly how the system was designed.

Remember Anne the Founding Fathers purposely designed the American system to be adversarial so as to prevent any one person or group from attaining too much power. Congress has the purse strings and the House the power to originate spending precisely for that reason. The House is designed to be the largest body and have the most power. It was supposed to be diverse and contentious and gridlocked. What is happening now is entirely what the Founding Fathers wanted. Those who want big government and to gobble up the goodies of office are now under pressure by those who seek to roll the power of the government back. That is exactly how James Madison and company designed the system.

This idea that gridlock is bad and that we must have unity is quite modern and is endemic to an imperial style government. The Federal Government was never supposed to be the primary governmental body, nor the center of all life in America.

So I think this is a healthy fight and I don't think it's the end of the world, even during this big explosion. Let Joe Biden use money he's wasting on promoting transgenderism, or green energy, and use THAT to aid Israel until we can choose a new Speaker. He had too much money anyway thanks to Kevin McCarthy and his predecessors.

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Doxxing the Hamas Apologists

Diane Kimura

Let them stand by their beliefs!

NEW: Harvard students are freaking out after a truck is driving around the school, displaying names of students who allegedly signed a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ terror attacks.

Say it with me: Hamas Harvard.

The digital screen on the truck says "Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” and named the 34 students who claimed Israel was "entirely responsible” for the Hamas attacks.

The truck was launched by Accuracy in Media who said it’s "incredibly important to know who the hateful antisemites are in our society. And it’s important for people to know that their actions have consequences.”

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No Such Thing as Palestinians

James Doogue

Only idiot Muslims would deny that the Jewish claim to Israel doesn't pre-date the UN partitioning of the British mandate. A partitioning which dramatically favoured Arabs.

Many people forget that Trans Jordan, and Iraq were part of the British Mandated Palestine. They only look at the area after Trans Jordan and Iraq are extracted.

Nevertheless, the Israeli representatives, accepted the UN's partition (UN was League of Nations) at the time.

The Arabs have never accepted any partitioning proposal which included the creation of a Jewish state, simply because they refuse to accept a Jewish state - ever.

Neither the Arab League, nor indigenous Arabs in Transjordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, objected to the ceding of those areas to non-indigenous Arabs.

The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British and French administration of the territories of Palestine conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918.

So even if we forget the proof of thousands of years of Jewish connection to the British Mandated Palestine and particularly the area of the mandate not included in Transjordan and Iraq, we have to agree that the Ottoman empire, which had previously ruled over the areas, lost the land fairly and squarely because the Ottomans backed the wrong side in WWI.

It was entirely up to the victors in that war to decide what to do with the area taken from the Ottoman empire.

How come the indigenous Arabs who left or remained in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Transjordan, and their children and grandchildren are not considered Palestinian refugees, yet those in Israel, The West Bank, and Gaza are?

The answer is obvious of course. That is the refusal of Arabs to accept any claim in any area for a Jewish state. Simple, fundamentalist bigotry.

It was not necessary for Arabs to leave their homes in Israel, (save for some isolated incidents), because even before the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the Jewish leaders had made it clear that Arad's were encouraged to stay and become equal citizens in Israel.

Those Arabs who did choose to stay, who now represent 21%. Of the Israeli population, on average enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East, and enjoy equal citizenship and the full freedom to practice their religion openly. The same cannot be said for any Jew who chose to remain in an Arab country.

So whether you put your faith in the proof of thousands of years of occupancy of Israel by Jews, (discussed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/jewish-history-israel.html), or the virtue of more recent conquests of Israeli territory from the Ottoman Empire in WWI, or from the 5 Arab nations who tried to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth in 1948 and 1967, you cannot logically deny Israel's right to exist.

Also, given how Israel's neighbours have continually attacked and threatened them, Israel has won the right to determine their borders beyond what the UN designated in 1947, to ensure the security of their country.

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Palestinians? What Palestinians!

Timothy Birdnow

Since this is being banned by Google and Bing and can no longer be easily found I decided to run this article again. It appeared originally in Canada Free Press:

Who owns Palestine?

This is no idle question; the region has been the source of wars through all of history. Men have been fighting over that tiny strip of land since the Chaldeans, and the concept of ownership remains hazy in the minds of modern men. Today the Jews hold large segments of it, and they are being challenged by the "Palestinians", Muslim peoples who claim Israel "stole" it from them. Who has the more valid claim?

I am not going to get into religion here; that is a topic for another essay. I can't exactly avoid religion, either; it is at the crux of the warfare in Palestine, at least since 70 a.d. and actually long before. What I want to do is examine the claims, and decide who has the stronger case.

There once was a land called Canaan. A relatively fertile strip surrounded by desert, this land was watered by a large creek called the Jordan river with a freshwater lake in the north and a sunken salt lake in the desert lands to the south. What made Canaan important was that it was a way-station between two great civilizations; Egypt and Mesopotamia. There were harbors, so sea-faring peoples could trade. The inhabitants made their living as traders and in hospitality.

Largely Hamitic peoples, the original Canaan produced the Phoenicians, a sea-faring people on the coast who would settle in North Africa and create the city of Carthage, queen of an empire that rivaled Rome for centuries.

The early history is murky, but Canaan was inhabited by numerous peoples. That was to be expected for a land at the crossroads. Egypt ruled the land between 1990 and 1790 b.c. A string of invaders troubled the region over this period; Amorites invaded around 2000 b.c. from the fertile crescent, Hyksos, Hurrians, and Hittites all invaded during the Egyptian period and after. The Hysksos conquered Egypt, and ruled for a while. Then around 1600 b.c. the Egyptians overthrew them and reasserted control of the region. Their power waned by 1400 and a collection of independent city states sprang up.

In the 13th century the Israelites advanced into Canaan from Egypt. There they joined their "brothers" the Semitic Edomites (children of Esau, the brother of Jacob) and began the conquest of the region. A century later the Greek Philistines invaded, and established their coastal kingdoms.

It was Israel that would prosper. The Israelites never completely conquered the region, but under Kings David and Solomon they would hold dominion. After the kingdom split in two the enemies of Israel reasserted themselves. The Assyrians would tire of duplicity in this important region (it was the road to Egypt, remember) and could not tolerate an alliance between Israel and Egypt, so invaded the northern kingdom and took the inhabitants away - at least the ruling class of Israelites. They stopped at the gates of Jerusalem, preferring to leave the kingdom of Judah as a buffer to Egypt.

When Babylon conquered Assyria the Jews (Judah-ites) made the same blunder, trusting in Egypt to protect them. Babylon conquered Judah, and took most of the inhabitants away. Many of the remaining Jews fled to Egypt, where they were swallowed by the Egyptian culture. But the Jews, unlike their northern brothers in Israel, kept themselves apart from the Babylonians (who tried very hard to enculturate them, even giving their nobility Babylonian names and titles) and, when Persian finally conquered Babylon, the King allowed them to resettle back in Canaan. (This was Persian policy; let exiled peoples return to their homelands in return for allegiance to the empire.)

The Assyrians and Babylonians had settled other peoples here, and these peoples were an amalgamation of exiles from different lands. They adopted quasi-Jewish practices, and became known as Samaritans, because they settled around the capital of the kingdom of Israel - Samaria. They are virtually extinct today.

What must be understood is that the Israelites absorbed the indigenous peoples through the centuries, and what we call Jews are the admixture of the original Hebrew tribe with the inhabitants of the land. They are the Canaanites, Phoenicians, Philistines, Egyptians, Romans, etc. Their relationship to Abraham was spiritual more than physical (although through intermarriage they would wind up with common ancestry.)

They would remain in this land until 70 a.d. when the Romans would send some 6them into exile.

Now, it must be understood; the Romans did not take all the Jews, and there remained Jews in the land who maintained an unbroken succession. There simply were other settlers who lived alongside them.

In 637 Jerusalem fell to Muslim Caliph Umar the Great. It remained in Muslim hands (sometimes benevolently, sometimes not - in 1077 Emir Atsiz ibd Uvaq slaughtered the inhabitants for rebelling against his rule, for example) until 1099 when the First Crusade attempted to reopen the pilgrimage roads to Jerusalem and the Latin Kingdoms were established. They lasted 70 years.

It must be understood that Islamic kings of various sorts ruled over the land, but it was still the same indigenous peoples living there - Jews, Christians, and some Muslims. The Jews never left. This is important to understanding their claim to the land; they never relinquished it.

There is no mention of a "Palestinian Peoples" by ancient historians.

And this land did not flourish under Islamic rule; Mark Twain, upon visiting the region in 1867, described it as:

"….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”

And the Jews outnumbered the non-Jews the entire time. See this graph.

Once the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the region came under British control, the population began skyrocketing - the population of both Jews and non-Jews. The Palestinians came because the Jews developed what had been largely a wasteland, and they came to find employment. The standard of living was far better in Jewish Palestine than in the Arab lands.

But the Jews were always present, and that strengthens their claims to the land. The old legal saw "possession is 9/10ths of the law" applies here.

In 1948 the United Nations created the state of Israel, and Trans-Jordan was supposed to be the Palestinian state. The Jordanian government was distrusted by the other Arab powers and realized the problems involved, so threw their western peoples to the wolves, dumping a problem population onto the Israelis (most of these settlers were new to the area, and were generally uneducated. Many were illegal immigrants.) When the first war broke out between Israel and the Arabs. The Arabs sought to "drive Israel into the sea" yet Israel won - and continued winning as the Islamic world paused just long enough to reload their guns after every peace accord. (It should be pointed out that most "refugees" left voluntarily to avoid the war zone, believing they would triumphantly return as the rulers of the region. In short, the abandoned their claims to the property.)

That is the key here; the Jews never left, and the "Palestinians" voluntarily left.

Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence (and Palestine was under British rule) says that possession and use of a property makes one the owner. There is a thing called adverse possession, in which someone can use another person's property "openly and notoriously" for a period of time (generally seven years) and he then gains title to it. The Jews never left, never abdicated their claim, while many of the "Palestinians" did. They were the newcomers. They are not decedents of the Philistines as they claim - those would be the Jews. They abandoned their claims to the land in 1948 (and, in the process, have destroyed the unique Christian culture of Lebanon, turning that once exemplary country into another Islamic hell-hole.) They have no legal claim to this land.

Their only claim is the assertions by Muhammad that Jerusalem is sacred, and the long-standing control of the region by the Turks. The Turks were essentially imperialists, holding the region under control by force of arms. Palestine was a colony, as much as India was a colony of Great Britain. Nobody would argue that English expatriates have the right to possess India, yet we are told Muslims have the right to possess the ancestral lands of the Jews.

This is about Islamic visions of manifest destiny, the view that Islam rightly owns the world. They have conquered the land and they will not be moved from it. Muslims routinely call Israel a crusader state, trying to give it some sort of illegitimacy. That is the crux (pun intended) of their claim. They have zero credibility from a legal or moral position.

That is why Barack Obama's position on a return to the 1967 borders is so ludicrous; the Palestinians really hold no claim to these borders, and Israel has offered land for the promise of peace in the past - with disastrous results. Every acre ceded to Palestinians has been used as ground to attack Israel. Israel is under no obligation to give this land up, yet they have done so repeatedly, only to be betrayed by the Muslims who find Taqqiya - that is, lying for Allah - eternally effective. Israel cannot be expected to fall for the same trick again.

Obama holds the easy, feel good solution. Is that the brilliance his liberal friends ascribe to him?

There is no chance of anything good coming from such a move; war would be inevitable, and it would likely be worse than any we have yet witnessed.

But Obama could say he did something about the problem, yessiree!

Israel is the front line of a worldwide struggle between a resurgent, expansionistic belief system, one bent on world domination, and the defenders of freedom. We cannot afford to lose there. Too bad Obama doesn't understand this.

Update; Here is the link to the CFP article. I had a terrible time finding it but finally did.

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