Is Europe Gone? Is America Next? Part II

Gaza, and America.  We still have people here who have a love of this country.  Count me among them.  Retired Four Star General Jack Keane is a frequent guest on Fox.  His knowledge of world affairs is incomparable.  On a recent episode of Fox, he mentioned having viewed some of the body camera film of Hamas terrorists from 10/7.  (Today being the 3 year anniversary of that terrible day.)  This 4 Star General described what he saw as "pure horror."  I don't know how else one might define the rape, torture and murder of men, women and children.  He said that he saw the joy and celebration of the Hamas fighters as they were killing Jews and committing their atrocities.  In the midst of it, one terrorist called his mother and said "I just killed 10 Jews - men, women and children."  His mother replied:  "Kill 10 more Jews."

With his contacts throughout the government, General Keane said that, according to the CIA, the people of Gaza are either Hamas fighters, or supporters of Hamas fighters.  (A word here.  There are insufficient words in the English language to describe the atrocities committed by Hamas.  But then we have much of the Western world, and even those in America, celebrating that evil.  And Americans have elected some of those people (Mamdani for example), and are poised to possibly elect more in November.  It's one thing to hate Trump.  I know many do.  But who are you punishing by electing America hating and Jew hating Leftists and Islamists.  Trump will be out in 2 years.  The Democrats are now dominated by Leftists and Islamists.  Is that who you want running the country?  America haters and Jew haters?)    

The U.K.  The Green Party passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism.  In other words, having a belief in the existence of a Jewish state is racist.  I doubt that they feel the same way about the many Muslim countries.  The Greens want to see a Palestinian state in place of Israel (exactly my point).  But they add that there should be "equal rights for all."  Is that a joke?  Just how seriously sick is that party?  The Palestinians are to make sure there should be equal rights for the Jews, a group that the Palestinians seek to annihilate?  This is insanity.  And it lacks all moral clarity.  That would be like putting Hitler in charge of the safety and security of the Jewish people of Germany.  

Canada, the U.K. and France.  All three decided to restrict or completely ban the import of goods produced or grown in the West Bank.  They join Norway, Denmark Ireland, Finland and Spain in this boycott.  (Note.  Right about now I am sorry that American soldiers gave their all to save the feckless Europeans from Nazi totalitarianism.  About 250,000 American soldiers died fighting to free Europe.  What a shame.)  

America.  Who is responsible for the events of 9/11?  Don't say it was Muslims.  At least not within the Fairfax, Virginia, City Schood District.  Because they put out a 6 page guide on the "25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11."  Teachers are instructed:  "Don't associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims."  And:  "don't center the extremists or the acts of the extremists," whatever that means.  Does it mean that good guys carried out 9/11?  While the first responders are mentioned 1 time, and the military is mentioned 3 times, there are 30 references to Islam, including:  "Muslim families," "Muslim students," "anti-Muslim racism," "anti - Middle Eastern," "Islamophobic rhetoric," and "Middle Eastern students."  

And this, my dear readers, is how history gets rewritten to serve a political agenda.  In this case, a leftwing agenda.  I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before students start blaming the Jews for 9/11, as many conspiracy theorists have already done.  After all, it is only natural for students to ask who committed those acts on 9/11.  Teachers are not allowed to say Muslims did it.  Because Muslims must be protected at all costs.  I recall that shortly after 9/11, the mainstream media acted as if Muslims were the victims and not the perpetrators.  (For those interested, the tiny number of Jews in this country are still the victims of religious hate crimes over 50% of the time.)

The U.K.  It is a story that occurred over many years.  In Rotherham.  Where Muslim men raped over a thousand girls.  In a detailed article by Mike Burke in the June, 2026 issue of Commentary magazine, Burke described the situation this way:  "For decades, authorities possessed irrefutable evidence of the repeated gang rape and forced prostitution.  The suffering of the victims was meticuously documented, discussed, and then systematically incinerated by the system meant to protect them.  They were overwhelmingly white, working class, and deemed expendable human collateral...Officials weighed the continued sexual exploitation of children against the scandal of being called racist, the disturbance of their self-serving fiction of community cohesion, and chose the atrocity."

That is how a society relinquishes its belief in truth and justice and replaces it with politically correct wokeness.  It turns out to be pretty easy to do.  Whether in the U.K. or Fairfax, Virginia.  Or in Michigan, where Muslim candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed now has the support of the Democratic Party.  So what if El-Sayed has said inappropriate things.  Such as saying Israel does not have the right to exist as a Jewish state.  So what if his buddy, Hasan Piker, who helped him win the Democratic nomination, openly admits that he hates America, and by his comments (cheering for Hamas) demonstrates a hatred for Jews and Israel.  As the election nears, El-Sayed refers to Piker as a "streamer in California," pretending that he has had nothing to do with him.  Pictures tell us otherwise.    

The point, my dear readers, is that is how easily a country gives up on itself and its values.  How easy it is to allow a takeover by Islamists, socialists, and communists - without a single shot being fired.  By the way, who is responsible for the most mass murder?  That would be communists, socialists and Islamists.

      

Is Europe Gone? Is America Next? Part I

(Note.  I was advised by a friend that this is not the cheeriest topic.  And he was wondering if I was again going to pick on our fellow Jews, as he is also Jewish.  That is not the intent of what will be a multi-part post.  Rather, the question at hand is whether or not Western Civilization, and the leaders of the Western world, have the wherewithal to defend the greatest civilization ever created.  Or, will they stand by and watch, and even assist, in the fall of the West.  Obviously, this topic could easily fill a book.  I will try to keep it to no more than three parts, maybe two.  And please excuse me if I jump around from country to country, and from Europe to America.  My purpose is to let you see just how far off the rails America has gone in joining Europe.)

Let's start with America.  Angie Nixon is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida.  She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.  Her social media manager had been Sara Mahmoud.  Here are a few of Mahmoud's posts.  "Glory and honor to our freedom fighters (in Hamas).  Praying for their safety and success."  That was posted in November, 2018, after Hamas sent 400 rockets into Israel.  Israel vacated Gaza in 2005.  Since then Hamas has launched tens of thousands of rockets and missiles into Israel, usually aimed at civilian populations.  Mahmoud:  "Can Zionists die already?"  And:  "Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die."  

And, like most Leftists who know no history but are filled with an abundance of hatred for Jews, she posted this:  "Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate."  Palestine was first known as Judea and Samaria, Jewish land. Then it was Israel.  Not just modern Israel, but ancient Israel under Kings Saul, David and Solomon.  The Jewish people have thousands of years of history in that land.  

(A word here.  Israel, and support for Israel, and for the Jewish people, has been a turning point for the leftwing political parties here and in Europe.  A conscious decision has been made by many in the West.  Accept the Islamic takeover of their countries, and ignore the Jews.  Jewish people have integrated into the countries in which they have lived.  Radical Muslims have no intention of assimilating.  Because assimilation is not their goal - domination is.  All you have to do is look around the world to see the evidence for that.)  

Ireland.  Arguably the most antisemitic country in Europe.  Here was the Irish Prime Minister, Michael Martin:  Israel's response to October 7 was "absolutely disproportionate."  Years ago I discussed the idiocy of the "disproportionate" argument.  When the Germans were trying to level London, would he say the English response was "disproportionate?"  And, as I have shown, there was no genocide in Gaza.  Martin:  "we want humanitarian aid going into Gaza.  There's not enough humanitarian aid going in."  Such a moron.  Tons of aid have gone in.  And only Israel is expected to feed an enemy population that is making war on them.  But Israel does it.  Then Hamas steals much of the aid for their fighters.

The Netherlands.  This country imposed a nationwide ban on the "import, purchase and sale of goods produced in Israeli settlements," by which they mean the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.  In other words, anything beyond the so-called 1967 borders.  Let's recall, again, that the 1967 borders were so sacrosanct, that in June, 1967, when Jordan controlled the West Bank and Jerusalem, and Syria controlled the Golan, the Arabs nevertheless attacked Israel within those 1967 borders, because they wanted to kill all the Jews.  They lost.  But even when they had the 1967 borders, they still wanted to kill the Jews.  

Here's a fun fact.  Anyone who violates the import prohibition faces fines and imprisonment.  Imprisonment!  An intentional violation can get you up to 6 years in prison.  An unintentional violation can get you up to a year!  The ban applies to any part of a product originating in the so-called settlements.  The likely effect will be that companies refuse to import any products from Israel, lest any part of it might originate in a prohibited area.  Because, somehow, it's Israel's fault that the Palestinians have turned down numerous offers of a state, preferring to continue their hundred years war against Israel and the Jews. That's right.  The Arabs were killing Jews in the 1920's in the British Mandate area before there was a state of Israel.  

The UK.  British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called for a "reset" in relations with Israel.  And he too has called for a ban on importing goods from the West Bank.  I wonder how that would work out for them.  According to the NY Post, 1 out of 7 pills dispensed by the Brit's National Health Service comes from an Israeli company, Teva.  Not to mention the military technology Israel provides to the UK.  And, of course, the significant intelligence given to the Brits.  Israel should end all intelligence sharing and technology sharing with these cowards.  Yes, cowards.  Because many of these Western countries have become the land of the weak and the home of the cowards.  

A Few Words About The Blog...And Me, Part II

Strident, yes.  But I try to not be nasty.  But it is frustrating to see so many fall for all the lies about Israel.  And to refuse to acknowledge that Trump has done even one positive thing.  Just recently, Trump negotiated a deal with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland, giving the US greater access to Greenland for additional military bases.  The waterways around Greenland are significant naval routes.  Trump succeeded in locking out our two major adversaries - China and Russia.  Do not expect any kudos from the mainstream media.

I watched Netanyahu's address to the UN General Assembly a short while ago.  So many delegates got up and walked out before he began speaking.  Why?  Because every last one is a Jew hater.  The tiny country of Israel, about the size of New Jersey, has been fighting a multi-front war since October 7, 2023.  October 7, when Hamas terrorists raped, tortured and murdered 1200 people (mostly Israelis), became the worst day in the history of Israel.  Who were some of the people brutally raped, tortured and murdered?  Israelis who befriended Palestinians.  Who would provide jobs to them.  Who would transport them to doctors and hospitals within Israel when needed.  All slaughtered.  As we are coming up on the third anniversay of 10/7, "strident" does not begin to cover all of my feelings.  Outrage, fury, heartache - those are some of the things that I feel.

No surprise that many of the Hollwood crowd (morons) blamed Israel for October 7.  And they accused Israel, while defending itself, of committing genocide.  No surprise that many in the mainstream/leftwing media also blamed Israel and accused Israel of genocide.  Sadly, some of my fellow Jews have joined in the false attack.  Hamas attempted a genocide of the Jewish people by killing and kidnapping civilians.  And then promised to commit another event like 10/7 over and over and over again.  Yet, Hamas gets a complete pass.  (See my 8/5/26 post "The Jew Haters Keep Repeating The 'Genocide' Lie.")

Need any more proof that those accusing Israel of genocide are simply Jew haters?  Have you heard anything from these people about the Muslims in Nigeria killing thousands of Christians?  Of course not - because no Jews are involved.  How about all the people killed by Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine?  Not a peep out of the Jew haters.  But when Trump did what every president since Bill Clinton said had to be done - not to ever allow Iran to get nukes - the Left and the Democrats went beserk.  Constantly asserting it was an illegal war because Congress did not declare war.  Yes, the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war.  When it does so, that country faces certain consequences beyond military action.

But the Constitution did not use the words "make war."  That power, in my opinion, remains with the Commander in Chief.  (Feel free to check out discussions about "declare war" vs. "make war" during the Constitutional convention.)  Regardless, I am amazed - no, shocked - that there are Americans who actually side with Iran.  Including the Democrats in Congress.  Do they really want Iran to obtain nuclear weapons?  Clinton and Obama and Biden all agreed that cannot be permitted to get nukes.  So what is the problem?  The problem is that Trump is doing it.  Therefore, TDS comes into play.    

A Palestinian journalist recently made a confession.  After Hamas kidnapped 250 people on 10/7, and brought them into Gaza, he said that "people got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed.  But I did not publish those videos."  Hamas decides what can be published.  He also said that for the two years before 10/7, "it wasn't really a siege.  Something eased... the country's standard improved.  A lot of new projects opened.  Travel got easier."  But I've said it multiple times.  With all the billlions of dollars in aid pumped into Gaza, Hamas could have made Gaza the equivalent of the UAE.  Office towers, hotels, homes.  And being on the Mediterranean, attracted business and tourism.  Instead, Hamas built 350 miles of underground tunnels, in order to sneak into Israel to kill and kidnap Israelis.  

Hamas has made it clear time after time that they do not give a you know what about the number of Palestinians who die because of their wars.  They use them as human shields.  They want more deaths, because they know that their "useful idiots" in the West will blame Israel.  I'll end with a story out of Ontario, Canada.  A 29 year old shot at the Sons of Jacob synagogue on the evening of Yom Kippur.  A police officer was wounded.  Religious sevices had to be canceled on Yom Kippur day.  Here is what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said:  "Jewish people must be able to worship safely.  To live free, open, proud Jewish lives."  

Empty words.  It is no surprise that antisemitism and Jew hatred has been growing in Canada.  Carney's government gave recognition to a non-existent Palestinian state.  And Carney condemned Israel's self-defense in Lebanon against Hezbollah, calling it an "illegal invasion."  Was Israel just supposed to absorb thousands of rockets and missiles and do nothing?  And now, just recently, Carney joined the cowards in the UK and France, by pledging Canada's participation in a trade embargo on goods from the West Bank (Judea and Samaria).  I've got news for you, Carney.  Your constant blaming of Israel is what puts the Jewish citizens of Canada at risk.  Because there are those who will get the message that Israel is no good, and conclude that therefore Jews are no good.  So your superficial and hypocritical words of support are completely meaningless.  

Actually, I want to make one more point.  So often we hear talk of going back to the "1967 borders."  As if that would bring peace.  If the 1967 borders are so sacred, if the 1967 borders are the path to peace, then answer this.  In 1967, when Jordan controlled the West Bank, and Syria controlled the Golan Heights, and Egypt controlled Gaza, why did the Arab countries make war on Israel in an effort to wipe Israel off the map?  It's just more B.S. propaganda from the Arabs that so many in the West fall for.  How about if all those falling for the nonsense move to Gaza.  Too strident?     

A Few Words About The Blog...And Me, Part I

Recently, I had lunch with a good friend who reads my blog.  He noticed a trend in the blog - that I have become more strident in my posts.  My reply was:  "guilty as charged."  If you look up "strident" on Google, AI will tell you that it means expressing opinions in a forceful way (guilty), aggressive way (guilty again), and annoying way (I leave that up to my readers).  I replied to my friend - why wouldn't I be more strident?  Between the ever increasing Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), as well as the Israel hatred and Jew hatred, well...just when might being strident become the preferred way to be?  I understand that gentle suasion might be preferable.  But what do we do when that doesn't work?

You think TDS is not out of control?  If you haven't yet read my 9/4/26 post ("I Almost Don't Know What To Say"), please read it.  A September poll by the leftwing Center for Strategic Politics (and Liberal Currents), asked about the ways Trump might be removed from office.  The poll was of Democrats, with a 3.75 MOE.  87% favor Trump's impeachment and subsequent conviction by the Senate.  84% favor using the 25th Amendement to get him out of office.  And a shocking 59% (with 43% very positive and 16 somewhat positive) favor a military takeover.  

I thought that the Dems were all about democracy.  Look at the crop of candidates Dem leaders are supporting for the House and the Senate - it's all about getting power.  55% favor Trump dying in his sleep.  And somewhere between 23% and 32% favor his assassination.  

Remember Hasan Piker?  Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed appeared to be best buddies with Piker.  Until it was no longer politically expedient.  But he will not completely disavow Piker, who freely admits to hating America.  Here's another gem from Piker, from his podcast:  "This connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions, okay, is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic and this is a dangerous, it is a very, cause look, it is a very dangerous mode of propaganda and you want to know why - because people don't fuck with Israel any longer, and if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is gonna come around and take action, not against the State of Israel mind you but against American Jews."  

Listen up, you Jew hater.  Zion is part and parcel of Judaism.  It is in our Bible.  It is Jerusalem.  It is Israel.  Jews of all political persausions, and all levels of observance, identify with Zionism - the land of Israel.  (Yes, there are those Jews who do not, which is increasingly disturbing to me.)  The point is, it is NOT propaganda.  It is as important to Judaism as Mecca and Medina are to Islam.  Every Jew who believes in Israel is a Zionist.  But there you are, Piker, always ready to blame the Jews if they become victims of some evil idiot's actions.  

Then again, your buddy El-Sayed is guilty of the same thinking.  After all, back in March, when another Jew hater rammed his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township in Michigan, El-Sayed tried to justify it.  The perpetrator had lost family members in Lebanon during an Israeli airstrike.  He used that as justification to attempt to murder American Jews here in the USA.  And El-Sayed then agreed, when he said that "hurt people hurt people."  El-Sayed then had to take back his comment, which, in my opinion was done soley for political expediency.  But do hurt people hurt people?  In other words, do people tend to seek revenge when something bad happens to them?  No doubt a few do.  But the vast majority of people do not.  Most people do not take the law into their own hands.  So shame on El-Sayed for suggesting that, and seeming to justify the attack on innocent American Jews.

I could go on and on, with news story after news story (which I will do) about the Left, the Islamist sympathizers, and the leftwing Jews.  All of which have increasingly caused me to become more strident in my posts.  But unlike Piker, El-Sayed and the Michigan truck driver, I won't use my frustration as an excuse to cause harm to others.  But leftwing ideology is impervious to facts, logic and reason.  I'll end this post with this comment.  A fellow attorney, also Jewish, and very leftwing, with a huge case of TDS, constantly sends me anti-Trump articles to my email.  I told him long ago that I blocked him.  So all his emails go to my spam folder and then I delete them.  

My guess is, he believes that because he sees all these anti-Trump articles in his news feed, that there is nothing good that Trump has done.  But that is how social media works.  If you search out anti-Trump articles, or read all the anti-Trump articles you see, then the social media algorithms will keep feeding you more and more anti-Trump articles.  I'll never forget that a few years ago my wife and I went looking at furniture.  Immediately upon returning home, I had one furniture store ad after the next on my cell phone.  This attorney claims to support Israel.  Yet, he hasn't sent me one article or Op-Ed in support of Israel.  His sole focus is on Trump, as he appears to be unaware of the rise in Israel hatred and Jew hatred worldwide.  If I were to email him back, you bet that I'd be strident.  And maybe even throw in a few gratuitous choice words.  

"Someone Needs To Knock Some Sense Into Him"

That's an expression that I recall from my childhood.  I probably heard some of the neighborhood fathers say it - perhaps about all of us boys.  It's certainly not a politically correct phrase; nor is it a phrase that would be acceptable to younger generations.  But we understood what it meant - get your act together, think smarter, don't do stupid stuff.  

Brad Lander (also mentioned in my July 5 post) defeated fellow Democrat, and fellow Jew, Dan Goldman for the right to run as the Democratic candidate for the House from NY's 10th district.  He is a sure winner in November in the heavily Democratic district.  Goldman was the incumbent.  But Lander accused Israel of genocide, and said he would never take money from AIPAC.  While Goldman was critical of Netanyahu, he did not accuse Israel of genocide.  Nor did he refuse campaign contributions from AIPAC.  And unlike Lander, Goldman did not support Mamdani.  Lander's more extreme anti-Israel positions enabled him to defeat the incumbent - by 30 percentage points.

Just recently, Lander was outside Madison Square Garden, where there was a rally protesting a Hindu nationalist event.  People recognized him.  And his leftwing progressivism did not protect him.  Here are some of the comments directed at him.  "You look like a wicked ballsack.  You look like a scrotum, you filthy ballsack."  And another yelled:  "Fuck you ballsack Zionist."  Another got in his face and yelled:  "Get the fuck out!  Get the fuck out!  Get the fuck out!"  

Another yelled:  "There's no such thing as a good Zionist...The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist."  It is understood that Jew haters use "Zionist" interchangeably with "Jew."  Recall from my July 5 post that Scott Weiner, a gay member of the California State Senate, attended a trans led pride Shabbat in San Francisco.  Notwithstanding his criticisms of the Israeli government, he was also yelled at.  With:  "we fucking hate you."  And:  "you do not belong here."  And:  "you stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of shit."

In my August 23 post, "From Fed-up to Disillusioned and Disenchanted, Part I," I discussed an article by Bret Stephens.  He talked about the "October 8 Jews."  Jews who woke up after the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, and came to the realization that no matter how much support they gave to leftwing groups and causes, that support was not given to us in our time of great need.  We were still just Jews or Zionists or pieces of shit.  But I asked this question:  "how many American Jews never became 'October 8' Jews?"  And I asked:  "For how many American Jews did October 7 never even register?"

I suspect Brad Lander is one of those Jews.  The question is - what did he take away from his experience outside Madison Square Garden?  Did he learn anything?  Did he get the message that he needs to stand with Israel and his fellow Jews?  Because he will always be seen as just an evil Zionist Jew by his fellow Leftists.  And he will be hated for it.  If he learned nothing, then, if I may borrow that old expression, someone needs to knock some sense into him.  No, not literally.  I oppose all political violence.  But maybe he needs to be screamed at again and again until he wakes up.  Distancing yourself from Israel and from your fellow Jews did not serve you well, Mr. Lander.

As the New York Post wrote about Lander and Weiner, "They thought they were choosing between irrelevance and dishonor, chose dishonor, rendered themselves irrelevant in the process and truly earned the contempt of everyone - from the Jews they betrayed to the radicals they appeased - in the process."  Amen to that.      

I Almost Don't Know What To Say

I take no joy in writing this post.  In fact, it pains me to have say this about some of my fellow Jews.  We all know that some Jews supported, and continue to support, Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City.  We know that some Jews support Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan.  There are probably some Jews who even support Ilhan Omar, US Representative from Minnesota.  Either these Jews unwittingly, or knowingly, turned on their own people.  

Jewish Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told us the reason for supporting El-Sayed - he wants the Democrats to take back the Senate, and assumes he will then be selected as Senate Majority Leader.  It is not as if Schumer does not know all the anti-American and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish ideas connected to El-Sayed.  He knew about the Nazi SS tattoo sported by Graham Platner, who was running for Senate in Maine.  But he supported him anyway, at least until all the allegations of sexual harassment against women came up.  Because women, and blacks and Hispanics and gays and every other group, are more important than Jews.  If Hitler was running for that seat, would Schumer support him?  I'd be afraid to ask him.

Now along comes the Democratic Attorney General of the State of Michigan, Dana Nessel.  AG Nessel is Jewish.  She recently spoke to the Michigan Democratic Party's Jewish Caucus.  She told the Jewish Democrats that they have a "moral imperative to place the needs of the world above our own self-interest."  Then this:  "It is perhaps up to us now to follow in her (referencing Queen Esther from the Jewish Bible) path and sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity."  

First, Queen Esther risked herself in support of the Jewish people - not in an effort to get rid of the Jewish people.  Second, it was clear to me that Nessel wanted Jewish Democrats to support El-Sayed so that the Democrats take back the Senate, and can block Trump his last two years in office.  Here is how she put it:  "What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors (Israel) and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist (El-Sayed does not acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state) if the planet uopn which it rests is no longer inhabitable."  You know, climate change, and whatever other threats she perceives.

As much as I was reluctant to write this post, I think the underlying message is extremely important for all to hear.  Here is a Jewish woman willing to see the end of her fellow Jews, why?  The clear implication is that as long as Jews exist the world is not safe.  As long as Jews exist the world may come to an end.  Jews may be singularly responsible for the end of the world if they don't vote for El-Sayed.  Hence, the title of this post.  There are certain words I don't use in the blog.  I could say she is a perfect example, par excellence, of a self-hating Jew.  Jews must either support El-Sayed (or what, die?) for the world to continue to exist.

This is sheer lunacy.  It is insanity.  It is way beyond self-loathing.  To be clear, every other group (racial, ethnic, religious) can continue to exist and not threaten the future of the world.  Do I have that right?  What is wrong with you, AG Nessel?  You are seriously sick.  You should immediately seek counseling.  I get it - you have an extreme case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).  It is so extreme that anything and everything must be done to block Trump from exercising any power his last two years in office.  Otherwise, the world will come to an end during those two years.  

I can't believe Ms. Nessel is the Attorney General of a state.  I can't believe she is even an attorney, given her complete inability to engage in logical thinking.  What about this, AG Nessel?  The world does not end within the next two years, a Democrat wins in 2028, and reverses everything that Trump has done (G-d forbid).  Trump has already been in office for nearly six years.  Has the world ended?  Where is your evidence that the world will end in the two years after this election if the Democrats don't take back the Senate?  Before suggesting that the Jewish people need to cease to exist, did you consider any of the above?  Did you consider any other scenarios?  

Suggesting that the Jewish people need to cease to exist because of the need to support some leftwing candidate or cause, is beyond sick.  It is evil.  And it is the type of evil that the Jewish people have seen (from multiple nations and peoples) throughout our long history.       

From "Fed Up" to Disillusioned and Disenchanted, Part II

When I said in the last paragraph of Part I that I blame the Democrats for any similarities between America today and 1930's Germany, I was neither kidding nor exaggerating.  You see, the Democrats do not push back against the rampant Jew hatred sweeping our country.  They endorse it.  Think I'm wrong?  

Everyone remember Graham Platner?  The Senate candidate in Maine who sported a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo.  Did that stop Democrats from supporting him?  Of course not.  Bernie Sanders (an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats), Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse and Ruben Gallego - all United States Senators who supported Platner.  Who else supported him?  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.   Because, hey, why not support an apparent Nazi lover if it helps the Dems to take back the Senate.  Platner was forced to drop out following allegations of sexual harassment.  The Nazi tattoo was just fine.

Let's be realistic.  Who do you think the socialists vote for - Democrats or Republicans?  How about the Antifa crowd?  Or the intifada supporting Jew haters?  How about the Democratic Socialists of America?  They all vote Democrat.  What about the Islamists?  Isn't it obvious?  Mamdani ran as a Democrat.  El-Sayed ran as a Democrat.  Which brings me to another member of the extended family.  This family member would support the Islamist El-Sayed in order for the Demcorats to take back the Senate.  I need to be very clear about this - supporting an apparent Nazi sympathizer, supporting an Israel hating (and in my opinion Jew hating) Islamist is justified, because Trump is worse than the Nazis and the Islamists?

These people are out of their minds!  I am not going to suggest that they do not know what the Nazis did.  That they do not know about the Holocaust.  Do they know about the Islamists?  How could they not?  The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up.  The 3rd anniversary of 10/7 is coming up.  How could they not know about these things?  Do they not know anything about El-Sayed, or does it not matter?  That he does not believe that Israel has the right to exist as the one Jewish state in the world.  I never heard him object to the multitude of Islamic run states.

I do know that El-Sayed supports Sharia law.  And he claims that those who favor legislation banning Sharia law do so because of white supremacy; and because they fight Muslims like they did with every other minority fighting for their rights.  Which is nonsense, because those other minorities wanted to simply participate in the American system on an equal footing with others, under our laws and Constitution.  Sharia law opposes our system of government and does not provide the same rights given by our Constitution.  

I did discuss El-Sayed in my August 12th post.  But it seems that many of his family members have ties to radical Islamist organizations.  We know El-Sayed is buddies with Hasan Piker.  Among other things previously mentioned in my posts, Piker is to have said "motherfuck the Constitution and motherfuck this country."  And, "I wipe my ass on the Constitution."  And El-Sayed will be speaking at the annual Islamic Society of North America convention, meeting September 4 through Sptember 7.  Speakers will include a Holocaust denier.  And a cleric who forced his 13 year old niece to marry; and who says others should do the same.  And who also advocates for men deciding if their wives can go to college.  Not to mention saying that the Quran condemns Jews.

But, give El-Sayed a break.  He says he does not necessarily endorse other speakers or what they say.  Sure, I buy that.  At what point does what someone else says become so offensive to you that you refuse to appear with them?  And, let's be honest.  If these speakers were condemning blacks the way they were condemning Jews, would El-Sayed go anywhere near them?   

While my family members and other Leftists focus on Trump, their narrow vision prevents them from seeing the true threat to America and the Jewish people.  I wonder if they have any idea how so many college kids came to hate Israel and the Jews.  One organization (AISH, although AI reports similar numbers) tells us how much money Arab countries have "invested" in US universities.  Here's a breakdown of their "donations" from 2000:  Qatar, donated close to $5 billion; Saudi Arabia, about $3 billion; the UAE, over $1 billion; Kuwait, over $1 billion; Egypt and Oman, over $100 million each; and even the non-existent State of Palestine, donated over $10 million.  You know, Palestine, which has no money to feed their people.

Who thinks these countries, often setting up Middle Eastern studies departments at American universities, are promoting American values?  Things like respect for the Constitution, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal rights for all people, including women.  Yet, these are the people many on the Left prefer over Trump.  As readers know, I've had my own complaints about Trump.  But there is simply no comparison to the harm being caused, and which will continue to be caused, by the Leftists/Socialists/Islamists vs. Trump.  

So, we have one of the two major parties in this country, the Democrats, siding with those who hate America, hate Israel and hate the Jews.  So, if America today bears any resemblance to 1930's Germany, it is not because of Trump.  It is because the Leftists and Islamists are discriminating against Jews, harassing Jews and attacking and even killing Jews.  Just like in 1930's Germany.  With rank and file Democrats going along with their leadership.  Other than John Fetterman, I've seen precious little pushback against the Leftists and Islamists.  So, in case anyone was wondering why I might be disillusioned and disenchanted. 

     

From "Fed Up" to Disillusioned and Disenchanted, Part I

Lately, I'm just beside myself.  When I wrote the recent 3 part post "I'm Fed Up!  Why Aren't You?" I was, well, fed up.  But it is draining to maintain that level of intensity.  A long time friend recently texted me to say:  "Unlike you, I am not energized by current events; I am exhausted by them...(but) I admire your energy on this stuff."  But, honestly, sometimes I, too, feel drained.  This is one of those times.

What am I to make of a member of my extended family, who said I never asked how they were feeling after Trump won (I know this person is on the Left), and after the Palisades and Altadena fires (I had no idea they had any connection to those areas other than living in LA County).  Conspicuous by its absence was how this Jewish family member felt after the events of October 7.  When Hamas carried out the brutal rape, torture and murder of approximately 1200 Israeli Jews - the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.  So maybe everyone did not react the way I did, with tears and anger and many sleepless nights.  But no reaction at all?

I don't get it.  Within a single lifetime after the creation of the modern state of Israel, Israel means nothing to you?  You have it so good here in America (a country which many of you do not even appreciate), that you are free to support one leftwing cause after the next.  Bret Stephens is a very bright Op-Ed writer, but is also a Never-Trumper.  Here is what he wrote in the November, 2024 edition of Commentary magazine:  "The resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States has begun to force a fundamental rethink of the way in which at least some American Jews contemplate their place in society:  I call them "October 8 Jews" - those who woke up the day after the attack with a clear understanding of who our friends are not."  He is talking, of course, about how much of America and the world turned on not just Israel for daring to fight back, but on all Jews everywhere. 

Then Stephens said this:  "So many institutions in American life that were once welcoming places for American Jews have turned bad:  elite private schools; human-rights organizations; the literary world; social work; Mideast-studies departments; public school curriculum - the list is long.  In every one of these fields or institutions, October 8 Jews have a clear choice:  Reject, reform, or reinvent them.  What's no longer possible is to pretend that what we have now is acceptable, or that indifference and inaction are viable options."  Here's my problem with that:  how many American Jews never became "October 8" Jews.  For how many American Jews did October 7 never even register?  Because all they care about is Trump.  Trump got rid of abortion, right?  No, he didn't.  

Stephens is not exaggerating when he says so many institutions have turned against the Jews.  The head of the American Jewish Medical Association, Eveline Shekhman, testified on May 20, 2026, before the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.  If you want to see just how bad things are in just this one sector of our society, you should Google her name and request the actual text of her testimony.  Here's one snippet:  "Immediately folowing Hamas's October 7th attacks, a coordinated cmpaign of celebration and funding of "resistance" to Israel's existence was unleashed.  Unbelievably, the healthcare sector was designated as fair game for the promotion of a campaign of demonization and distortion, in particular around the notion that any Jewish healthcare professional was "complicit" in genocide."  

Need a few examples?  A nurse in Portland said she would refuse to treat Jewish patients because she does "not take care of animals."  At a different hospital doctors and nurses were chanting "long live the intifada."  Never to be outdone, in California an antisemitic flyer was circulated with this language:  "We do not want any Zionists or former IDF soldiers who support or have participated in this genocide, taking care of our families."  How about asking Jewish healthcare professionals that they need to renounce Israel if they expect to be accepted in the workplace.  Allow me to ask all readers, Jews and non-Jews alike - do you feel safer with a Jewish healthcare professional, or one who supports the terrorist group Hamas?   

But Trump is the new Hitler, right?  Because what's happening in our country is no different from what happened in 1930's Germany.  But it's not because of Trump.  It is because of the Democrats and the Leftists and the Islamists.  As John Podhoretz wrote, also in Commentary magazine:  "The analogy to 1933 is there, because the mob is there, because the Jew-haters are there, because the genociders are waiting for their chance.  But miraculously - and I think I mean that literally, that "miraculously" there is a force staying their hand.  And it isn't the monster of their nightmares.  It's the president himself, who has empowered his Justice and Education Departments to fight for the rights of Jewish students on campus.  It's the president himself, who targeted the worst anti-Semite in Congress for defeat in the Arkansas primary.  It's the president himself, who has become the best friend the Jewish state has ever had."  To which I would add - it's the president who is doing his best to keep America the best place in the world (outside of Israel) for the Jewish people.         

The Real Abdul El-Sayed

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for the US Senate from the state of Michigan on Tuesday.  He will be running against Republican Mike Rogers in the November general election.  What do we know about El-Sayed?  Like all progressive/Leftists, he does not think much of Israel.  He accuses Israel of genocide (which is nonsense - see my 8/5/26 post "The Jew Haters Keep Repeating The 'Genocide' Lie").  And, of course, he wants to cut all aid to Israel, even for defensive systems such as Iron Dome, which saves Israeli lives.  But who cares about them, right?  

Nor does he believe that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.  But I have not found anything to suggest he opposes countries governed by Islamic or Sharia law.  In fact, he has strongly opposed states that have banned Sharia law.  I wonder how many Leftists would make excuses if their daughters had to live under Sharia law.  

Has anyone else listened to El-Sayed's victory speech?  I can best describe it as mean and mean-spirited.  In addressing the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, here is what El-Sayed had to say.  "I know you're going to say no because you're a coward.  Five debates.  All right?  You and I both know that you will wither in front of your own crimes, but I'm gonna make sure all Michiganders know about them.  By the time we're done, you are not going to have safe quarter from people holding you accountable for what you've done."  No safe quarter?  Really?  You looking to have a violent mob act as judge, jury and executioner?  What crimes has Rogers committed?  El-Sayed doesn't say.  But like all good Leftists, the accusations alone prove guilt.  Then punishment follows.  Think Communist Russia (the USSR).

So who are the people in El-Sayed's circle?  Well, his father was the president of the Michigan chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), and a founding member of the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America).  CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorism trial.  El-Sayed's wife is a psychiatrist.  It has been reported that her practice does not accept Medicare, Medicaid or even private insurance.  Ironic, in that El-Sayed advocates for universal health insurance coverage.  Maybe not a surprise.  El-Sayed has mocked Mike Rogers for owning property in Florida, while El-Sayed owns property in Dubai and India.  

We also know that El-Sayed is buddies with Hasan Piker, the America-hating and Israel-hating current king maker in the Democratic Party.  Recall that Piker is the guy who said that America deserved 9/11.  El-Sayed excused that by saying it was a dumb statement, and that Piker said he could have phrased it better.  I don't see any better phrasing of "America deserved 9/11."  Especially from someone who has a framed picture of the burning Towers hanging in his home/office.  And, Piker said "it doesn't matter if rape happened on October 7th (2023, during the Hamas attack on Israel).  As for those Democrats who voted for El-Sayed's opponent in the primary, Haley Stevens, Piker said those voters were "unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of shit."  I'd say Mr. Piker does a good job of making people fearful of Muslims.  

What else has El-Sayed said?  Well, he has supported defunding the police.  And, I've noticed that Leftists and Islamists have much in common.  Such as not having fun.  El-Sayed:  "Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture."  Would he want to ban football?  Probably, in my opinion.  During a 2018 run for governor, he told a filmmaker who was taking pictures in his home, to not take any pictures of his bookshelves.  One book on the shelf was apparently "Cutting The Fuse" (2010).  That book takes the position that suicide terrorism is caused by foreign military occupation, not by Islamic fundamentalism/extremism.    

The Washington Free Beacon reported that El-Sayed, on his podcast, pushed for people to get a book called "Let This Radicalize You:  Organizing in the Revolution of Reciprocal Care."  The Free Beacon says the book tells people they should not think that violent protests are bad.  As an example, they talk about the George Floyd protests (riots really).  After noting that many people supported supported the protests, the authors say "many fewer people defended the rights of protesters who were arrested for acts of property destruction and funneled into the racist carceral system."  Maybe that is because normal people do not want to see their businesses, their neighbors' businesses and their communities destroyed.  

Here is what else the authors of that book say:  "There is no greater purveyor of violence in the world than the US government.  From war to policing to incarceration to border violence to the slashing of the social safety net, the US government kills untold millions.  The violence of the rebellion is infinitesimal smaller by comparison...The maintenance of global capitalism necessitates mass death."  Now, it's true that the producers of El-Sayed's podcast, those funding it, may have insisted on him pushing this book.  But he maintained the ability to say "no, I will not advocate for such a book."  He did not do so. 

Does anyone not see El-Sayed, and others like him (think Zohran Mamdani), as wolves in sheep's clothing?  As a Trojan horse being offered up as a gift by the Left who support these extremists, with offers of all kinds of free stuff.  In case you were wondering, the so-called mainstream Democrats are on board with these America haters.  Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said:  "I'm very confident we're going to win in Michigan."  Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI):  "I am going to be working very hard to get a Democratic majority in the United States Senate."  

And California Governor, and likely 2028 presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom, who couldn't wait to congratulate El-Sayed on his victory:  "Congratulations Abdul El-Sayed on a hard fought victory.  Trump and the GOP are trying everything to rig the rules and silence voters - but they can't stop a Democratic Party united around working people and accountability."  Ah yes, the "big tent" party - filled with Jew haters and Israel haters and America haters. After all, as Piker said, "it doesn't matter if rape happened on October 7th."         

"As an American Jew, my first political loyalty is to American democracy."

That was the title of an Op-Ed by Jon King in a site called "Michigan Advance," following the victory of Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for US Senator in Michigan.  After reading the article, I thought it was a perfect example of those 45% of secular Jews who said they felt no connection to Israel.  But words tell the story far better than a statistic.  (See the 7/21/26 post "I'm Fed Up!  Why Aren't You?  Part I" for a discussion of the 45%.) 

King:  "I'm an American Jew, and my political loyalty is not to Democrats or to Republicans.  It is to American democracy.  Full stop."  Nowhere in this Op-Ed did King happen to mention the name Donald Trump.  But his numerous references to American democracy and a strongman seizing power, made it quite clear he was talking about Trump.  I agree with his sentence, although I would have not thought to add the word "democracy" at the end.  

King goes on to tell us that he was raised in a Jewish household, and celebrated the usual Jewish holidays, such as Passover and Hanukkah.  Then he makes this incredible statement:  "Israel matters to millions of Jews for reasons that are deeply personal and entirely understandable."  Except, he does not appear to share the view of those millions of Jews.  He explains:  "But the United States is the nation whose institutions protect my rights, my neighbors' rights and my children's future."  Okay.  But is he unable to have feelings for more than one entity at a time?  I'd bet he has feelings for more than one family member at a time.  More than one friend at a time.  Could that really be the issue?  Or is he hiding something?

He then expresses his surprise that some Michigan Jews say that they will vote for the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, over El-Sayed, because of El-Sayed's views on Israel and the war with Gaza.  Finally, he tells us his true concern:  "Jewish history is replete with examples of what happens when strongmen seize power."  There it is - the not so subtle reference to Donald Trump.  Trump was elected.  Trump did not seize power.  If King has Hitler in mind as the comparison to Trump, I don't even know what I might say to him.  But I'd start with:  "are Jews being rounded up and sent to concentration camps?"  It is not an answer to say people here illegally are being detained for deportation.  If I recall correctly, wasn't Obama called the "Deporter-in-chief?"  Did Mr. King ever complain about Obama being a "strongman?"  I doubt it.  (As an aside, leftwing Jews are always surprised that any Jew would ever vote for a Republican.  They literally cannot comprehend it.)  

Here's the rest of Mr. King's concerns.  After referring to his "Jewishness," which appears to be more cultural than religious, he says that it should not "obligate Jewish Americans to feel loyalty to a country they likely never lived in and increasingly may not represent the values they were raised with."  And there's the rest of it.  I have zero doubt that, as with many liberal Jews, King equates Netanyahu to Trump.  And hates them both.  Again, without mentioning Netanyahu by name.  What values do you find objectionable, Mr. King?  Does he accuse Israel of committing genocide?  Of being an apartheid state?  Is he upset by Israel defending itself after October 7, 2023, when Hamas committed the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust?  Maybe he objects to Israel having to fight a multi-front war against Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and Iran, all at the same time, and blames Israel for all of it.  Because he appears to be indifferent to the survival of Israel.   

Clearly, Mr. King feels no religious connection to Israel.  Notwithstanding the thousands of years of connection of the Jewish people to that land.  Notwithstanding that Jerusalem is where the two great Temples stood.  Notwithstanding that is where our patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and our matriarchs (Sarah, Rebecca and Leah) are buried - in the Cave of the Patriarchs.  Notwithstanding the frequent reference to Jerusalem in our prayers.  Okay, let's skip all that.  

Let's talk about Israel being a safe haven for the Jewish people.  Let's talk about how the Jewish people around the world celebrated the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.  Because, unlike you, they knew how significant a Jewish state was for the Jewish people.  Israel has taken in Jewish people, not just from Europe after the Holocaust.  But from all over - when the Jews faced persecution and expulsion from other countries.  From all the over the Middle East, when the Arab countries either made life difficult after 1948, or expelled them.  The tiny state of Israel also took in the Ethiopian Jews.  They took in the Russian Jews.  Not sure why I have to explain this, but when Palestinian terrorists hijacked a French airliner filled with Jewish passengers and flew it to Entebbe in Uganda, it wasn't the French who rescued those Jews.  Nor the United States.  It was the tiny state of Israel.  

It isn't that you just feel nothing special for Israel.  You said it yourself.  "I wish the people who live in Israel and the territories it occupies ("occupies" is a telling comment right there) - Jews, Palestinians, Muslims, Christians and everyone else, peace, safety, and dignity, just as I wish those things for people anywhere."  It appears that Mr. King not only feels nothing special for the land of Israel, but also feels nothing special for the Jewish people.  Which is ironic given his earlier statement about "strongmen seizing power."  If that should happen here, where would you propose that the Jewish people flee to for safety, Mr. King?  Not Israel, because in your world there is no Israel.  Then where?  

The Jew Haters Keep Repeating The "Genocide" Lie

In the prior post, I mentioned how the DSA wants to prosecute Americans and Israelis for genocide.  I previously explained that genocide is not an applicable term for the war with Gaza, when the Gazan population has nearly doubled.  How is that a genocide?  I also discussed the hundreds of tons of food and medical supplies sent into Gaza by Israel during the war.  Who does that?  Who takes care of the civilian population like that if they are trying to annihilate them?

In much earlier posts, I discussed how the Israeli Defense Forces (the IDF) would warn people before dropping bombs.  They would drop leaflets from planes.  They would drop dud bombs on the roofs of buildings about to be bombed.  They would even make phone calls to warn people.  All of that would also give the Hamas terrorists a chance to escape, as they embed themselves in civilian homes, schools, medical facilities and mosques.  But that's what Israel would do.

I just recently watched an interesting talk by Federal Judge Roy Altman.  He discussed how the Israeli Military Advocate Generals (MAGS, but JAGS here) oversee Israeli military operations.  A pilot or drone operator may have located a Hamas target.  But if a MAG officer sees any chance that a civilian may be injured or killed, they prevent the operation from going forward.  Why would Israel have these MAGS if the goal was to eliminate the civilian population.  

The Judge also discussed the High Level Military Group (HLMG), consisting of high level retired military officers from NATO countries and other democracies.  They comment on how armies conduct themselves in modern warfare, including in urban settings.  It turns out, that the HLMG actually submitted an amicus curiae brief (friend of the court brief) to the ICC on behalf of Israel.  They said there was no credible evidence of civilians being targeted, or civilians being starved by Israel.  Unsurprisingly, the known fact that Hamas uses civilians to protect their fighters, by hiding in schools, homes, hospitals and mosques, is ignored by those who simply want to find the Jews guilty of something.   

The HLMG also argued that Israel did its best minimize civilian casualties, and to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.  The Judge also mentioned that there had been rumors of a polio outbreak in Gaza.  What did Israel do?  They sent vaccines and refrigeration equipment into a war zone, and even paused the fighting, to make sure that the children of Gaza got vaccinated.  Anyone think the Nazis would have cared about vaccinating Jewish children, knowing the intent was to kill them all.  If that is your intent, you don't care about vaccinations.

A look at AI says that the average civilian to combatant death ratio in modern urban warfare is 9 to 1.  In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ratio was estimated to be between 3 to 1 and 5 to 1.  In Gaza, Israel says the ratio is 1 to 1.5.  Even the anti-Israel sources have said 4 to 1, with the worst being 8 to 1.  In other words, all estimates are below the average.  That is not a very convincing argument for a genocide.

So, the lies about Israel committing a genocide will continue.  It was just repeated by Abdul Al-Sayed, the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary for the US Senate.  And, as more Leftists and Islamists win elections here, you will continue to hear those lies more frequently.  And others, like the Democrats, will use the lie to support their vote to cut off military aid to Israel.  Israel is fighting America's enemies.  We share the same enemies.  Doesn't matter.  And those like Mamdani will continue to press for the arrest and prosecution of Netanyahu.  But don't forget that the Democratic Socialists of America also advocate for the prosecution of Americans who they claim have supported Israel's so-called genocide.

The DSA And Their Supporters

The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) has been running an increasing number of candidates for federal, state and local office.  They generally run as Democrats.  Others, not formal members of the DSA, are backed by them.  Google/AI says there are about 250 office holders nationwide who belong to the DSA.  I suspect countless more Democrat office holders support the DSA platform.  

Megan Romer is the co-chair of the DSA and was recently interviewed on Fox.  Here is what she said the DSA positions are:  abolish the Senate, replace the presidency, replace the Supreme Court, abolish our borders and abolish our prisons.  Researching further into the DSA we see these positions:  expand the House and abolish the Senate.  Then have the House select the President and the Supreme Court.  And, no surprise, abolish the Pentagon.  This sound democratic to anyone?  Or does this sound like anarchy?  If there are no police, no prisons, no borders and no defense department, I would have to suggest that people buy as many guns as they can possibly afford.  

But wait a minute.  Many Democrats oppose the private ownership of guns.  Will you still feel that way if there is no one else to defend you and your family?  But isn't this what Obama hoped for - a fundamental transformation of America.  Kamala Harris may again be the Democrat's nominee for President.  Is she on board with fundamentally transforming America?  She does want to "revisit the electoral college."  She has previously supported DC statehood, on the assumption that DC would give the Democrats an additional House seat and two more Senate seats.  If she believed Republicans would win in DC, I guarantee she would oppose DC statehood.  The same rationale now applies to her talking about statehood for Puerto Rico.  

What does Harris think about the Supreme Court?  "We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts."  She's a little confused.  We have 94 federal district courts.  We do have 13 federal circuit courts of appeal.  She does not explain why the number of justices has to match up with the number of circuits.  But it should be clear.  The expansion would only occur if the Democrats won the House and the Senate and the presidency.  There is no way Harris or any other Democrat would be pushing for an expanded Supreme Court unless the Democrats controlled the  Congress and the presidency.  Then, they could pass legislation expanding the size of the Court and have the president sign it.  After that, they would nominate four leftwing people to sit on the high court.  At that point, they would probably stop talking about term limits for the justices.  The Republicans currently control the House, the Senate and the presidency.  Yet, I haven't seen them push for greater control over the Supreme Court.  Wasn't it the Republicans who are supposed to be the threat to our democracy?    

I'm tempted to say that the Constitution prevents these radicals from doing whatever they want.  But I suggest we not underestimate them.  The Constitution sets up the Electoral College.  The Constitution sets up the Senate.  Getting rid of those institutions would require a constitutional amendment.  As would getting rid of the presidency as know it (the DSA plan).  I'm not sure how the Democrats would deal with Article V of the Constitution, which says that "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."  I suppose if there is there is no Senate, then each state having zero Senators would amount to equal suffrage.  

The DSA also supports a "Free Palestine."  Of course.  And they want to prosecute both American and Israeli office holders for genocide.  Abdul El-Sayed is running to be the Democrat candidate for Senator from Michigan in today's primary.  Asked if he would support El-Sayed, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave the same answer as he did with regards to Graham Platner, who was forced out of the Maine Senate race.  Schumer:  "Bottom Line, we are going to win Michigan and take back the Senate and have a majority."  As for the DSA, Schumer said:  "Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness."

I agree.  The Democrats are a big tent party.  They have plenty of room for America hating, Israel hating and Jew hating candidates.  Isn't that special?

I'm Fed Up! Why Aren't You? Part III

I'm not going to waste time talking about the so-called Squad.  You can imagine what I think about them.  A bunch of Leftists/socialists/communists and antisemitic Jew haters.  I think that covers it.  

But I do want to finish my rant with the Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.  I've discussed this Islamist sympathizer multiple times in the blog.  He won't condemn "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."  Even though that means no Israel.  Because he won't accept Israel as the one Jewish state in the world.  He won't even condemn "globalize the intifada."  Shame on anyone who makes excuses for that, as the two intifadas were nothing other than the murders of Jewish civilians in Israel on buses, in cafes, at malls and even at a Passover Seder.  So, you know what I think of this piece of garbage, Mamdani.  

Anyway, a main campaign platform of his was that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he dared to step foot within New York City.  He has repeatedly said he would have Netanyahu arrested after becoming Mayor.  Now, he knew he had no authority to do that.  First, he's just the Mayor of a city.  It may be our biggest city, but it's a city.  You're a Mayor.  That's it.  Not to mention that the United States wisely never signed onto the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court.

Mamdani never stopped calling Netanyahu a "war criminal."  And he accused Netanyahu of being the "architect of a horrific genocide."  He doesn't seem to care much about what happened to the Jewish people on October 7, 2023.  Only the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.  And Hamas saying they want to carry out an October 7 type of attack over and over again in order to kill all the Jewish people does not, in my opinion, bother him.

Netanyahu will likely be traveling to NYC in September for the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.  Now, all of a sudden, after doing much consulting with law enforcement and legal counsel, Mamdani says he does not actually have any authority to arrest Netanyahu.  As younger people would say:  Duh!  Then what was this whole campaign to arrest Netanyahu really all about?  I would bet that he knew all along that he had no authority to arrest a foreign head of state.  Even while he was promising to do so during his campaign for Mayor.

Here's what I think.  As the Mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world of any city outside of Israel, I believe he was trying to gin up hatred of Jews.  We know he has no problem with intifadas.  We know he has spent his time in office doing his best to make life more difficult for the Jews of New York City.  And we've seen it in the way Jews have been harassed and assaulted under his watch.  And I'm really sick of his phony smile.  If anyone thinks he is sincere, shame on you.

For those of you, Jews and non-Jews, who still don't get my concern with the growing antisemitism and Jew hatred, I'll end with this quote from an article in the Algemeiner:  "Violence against Jews rarely begins with calls to murder to Jews.  It begins with arguments explaining why this specific hatred is understandable...Every expulsion, pogrom, massacre, and genocide in history targeting Jews started with an intellectual class constructing exceptions for Jews...The hatred stops being hatred as hatred and starts being treated as understandable.  Understandable soon becomes justifiable.  And, from there, the violence:  inevitable."

For all those I just ranted on, do me a favor.  Do yourself a favor.  Wake up!    

I'm Fed Up! Why Aren't You? Part II

Of course there are other people with whom I am fed up.  Let's take a look at some.  James Fishback is a Republican candidate for governor in Florida.  As the Jew hatred has spread across party lines, it is no surprise that he opposes aid to Israel.  Here's what else he has to say:  "If you want kids to fail, if you wanted to set our kids up for failure, you would feed them the absolute goyslop in our cafeterias."  "Goy" is a Yiddish term for a non-Jew.  So, Fishback seems to be suggesting that, among other things Jews are said to control, we also control the food supply.  And we intentionally want non-Jews to fail because...who knows why.  But no surprise, inasmuch as the "groypers," the followers of racist, antisemite Nick Fuentes, support this guy Fishback.  Here's what I think of you, Fishback...(readers will have to use your imagination for that, as I do not use curse words in the blog).  

How about the Governor of California.  Gavin Newsom should be embarrassed for what has happened to California under his watch.  But that's another story.  Like many of the prospective 2028 Democrat candidates for President, he has said that he will not accept money from AIPAC.  Wow!  Such a brave statement coming from a Democrat these days.  But, he joins many other Democrats who say that.  Instead of standing for our ally, Israel, instead of being a true leader and telling your base that Israel is one of our best allies in the world and deserves our full support, what do you say?  You say that consideration needs to be given to cutting aid to Israel.  You accuse Israel of being an apartheid state.  I don't care that you subsequently took back the apartheid comment.  You know you said that just to show the base that you are with them.  I am sure my readers can imagine what I think of Newsom.  

I think it goes without saying that I am fed up with all the Democrat Senators and Congress members who voted against continuing aid to Israel.  So brave to bow to your antisemitic base.  Then we have the other potential Democrat candidates for President in 2028 who use AIPAC as their boogeyman to show how much they are distancing themselves from Israel.  NJ Senator Cory Booker, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, and big disappointment - Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.  The biggest (you fill in the blank) may be former Congressman and former Chicago Mayor and former Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.   

Emanuel has basically said that Israel somehow tricked President Trump into going to war with Iran.  I don't see Trump as doing anything that he doesn't want to do.  Emanuel says the era of the US's "rubber stamp" of approving aid to Israel is over.  Rubber stamp?  Liar.  Just going to ignore the pressure brought to bear on Israel by Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush?  No rubber stamp.  Do you love Nancy Pelosi?  Why?  She voted in favor of the Massie Amendment cutting all military aid to Israel.  Then she made this incredulous comment:  "The American people are rightfully demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu government cannot maintain its current course."   Got it.  Blame Israel for having to fight for its very existence in war after war after war for its entire 78 years in existence.  Because the Arab countries and the Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezbollah all decided long ago that having a productive state for their people is less important than killing all the Jews.  Let's raise a finger for Pelosi.   

Okay, I was never a fan of JD Vance.  He was definitely not my choice for VP.  His approach to foreign affairs seemed to be contrary to Trump's.  Recently, Vance was on Joe Rogan's podcast.  No surprise, Vance blamed Israel for blowing up his peace deal (the MOU) with Iran.  Sure, Tucker Carlson is your buddy, and he blames Israel for everything.  Except, as the President said, Iran blew up the deal by firing on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.  After which Trump referred to the Iranian leaders as liars and scum and sick people.  Vance also asserted that Israel wanted "to keep the war going on indefinitely."  I'm trying to hold back from saying what I really think of that.  Again, Israel has been fighting non-stop wars since the founding of the country in 1948.  Everyone serves in the military in Israel.  You think the people aren't tired of non-stop wars?  Then at least do what President Trump has done - threaten Iran and their proxies and follow it up with action.  Stop blaming our ally Israel! 

Vance also referred to the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah as a "chicken and egg problem."  Are you nuts, Vance?  Do you have any idea how many rockets and missiles Hezbollah has fired into Israel?  Do you even know that Hezbollah killed 241 of our troops at the Beirut Barracks in 1983?  Plus those killed in the 1983 embassy bombing in Beirut.  Learn something!  And stop being friends with Carlson.  I hope you are not the Republican nominee for President in 2028.   

Who else do I want to rant about?  How about American Muslims?  (Don't start accusing me of racism.  I have friends who are Muslim.  And I've already picked on my fellow Jews, so why shouldn't Muslims also be fair game?)  Based on a Reuters poll from May of this year, 44% of American Muslims have a favorable view of Hamas.  Are you kidding me?  What's wrong with you?  Go live in Gaza if that's what you think.  Why don't you think Hamas should have used the billions of dollars in aid they received to build a productive society for their people, instead of hundreds of miles of tunnels built underground so they could sneak into Israel and kill Jews.  You must be so proud of yourselves supporting a terrorist organization that celebrates the rape, torture and murder of civilians.  What's the matter with you?

I will end my ranting with a short Part III.

I'm Fed Up! Why Aren't You? Part I

Every once in a while I feel like I'm fed up.  And I need to let it out.  Fed up with who?  Lots of people.  I'll start with my fellow Jews.  An AP-NORC poll conducted last month found that 45% of secular Jews feel no connection to Israel.  What's the matter with you people?  Did you not learn any of the history of our people?  Do I need to start with the Babylonians?  The Romans?  The murders, the persecutions, the exiles?  Do you not know any of it?  How about the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290?  Or from Spain in 1492?  Not even the Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century?  At least the Holocaust?  And you think nothing bad can happen to you because you live in (fill in the blank)?  Or because you are a secular Jew?  It's time to wake up!  Start defending Israel and your fellow Jews now!

Then we have the leftwing Jews.  You know, they hate AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), because AIPAC actually supports candidates for Congress who will (hopefully) support Israel.  They hate AIPAC because their cherished leftwing candidates hate Israel.  And they are Leftists before they are Jewish.  Well, wake up!  Did you not see that Hamas slaughtered 1200 Jews and kidnapped another 250, on October 7, 2023, in the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust?  And did you fail to see that all the leftwing groups and causes that you supported didn't give a damn about the slaughter of your fellow Jews.  In fact, they turned on the Jewish people.  What is your problem?  You have a death wish?  You hate Trump so much that's all you can talk about?  You refuse to acknowledge all the good he's done for Israel and the Jewish people?  Fine.  But why does your hatred of Trump blind you to the ever increasing Jew hatred going on all around you?  Wake up!

While I'm getting my fellow Jews mad at me, I don't want to forget the ones who say they are too old, or retired, or too busy playing golf and spending time with their families.  Or, it's too stressful to deal with it.  No, you're not too busy.  And too bad if it's stressful.  Living through another Holocaust would be more stressful.  And you're not too old.  When the Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, arguably the most influential Rabbi of the twentieth century) was told by some advisers that he should retire upon reaching 70 years old, he refused.  He said not only would he not retire, he would dedicate himself to opening 70 new Chabad centers in honor of his 70th birthday.  Regardless of how busy you are with (fill in the blank), don't tell me that you don't have the time to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people.  If not for yourself, then for your children and grandchildren.  Wake up!  

Who else can I pick on?  Notice how the Left wing Jew haters and the Right wing Jew haters have that in common?  We know the Leftists in Congress who hate Israel.  Now, Right wing candidates are joining them.  Not to mention much of the mainstream media and Left wing pundits and Right wing pundits.  Isn't that nice how they can all coalesce around one issue - "We hate the Jews."  Of course, most of them deny being antisemitic.  We're not antisemitic, we just have a problem with Israel.  Or Gaza.  Or with Zionism.  And, of course, what about the genocide, apartheid and colonialism?  Who actually falls for any of that nonsense?  If you agree with any of that, you are antisemitic at best, and a Jew hater at worst.

Apartheid?  Then how is it that Arabs are in every sector of Israeli society?  Not just lawyers and doctors and in the universities.  But on the Courts and in the legislature (the Knesset).  Genocide?  Those claiming genocide mostly mean that not enough Jews died compared to Palestinians.  They mean that (some anyway) Israel has the right to defend itself, but not actually fight back.  I already explained in a prior post that the Palestinian population has grown, not decreased.  But what about starving the Gaza population?  You mean ignore the hundreds of tons of food and medical supplies that Israel has allowed into Gaza?  Who else does that?  Who else takes such good care of an enemy they are fighting while in the middle of a war with them?  

And, you can always ignore the fact that Hamas takes the food and supplies for their fighters.  Because if you were honest about it, you would acknowledge that Hamas does not give a damn about the people of Gaza.  If you were honest about it, you would admit that Hamas has used all the billions of dollars in aid to buy weapons and to build tunnels into Israel.  All for the sole purpose of killing Jews.  They even admit it.  They don't try to build a productive society for the people they rule over.  They start war after war, knowing full well that thousands of Gazans will die.  But some of you want to blame Israel for having the nerve to fight back.  Wake up!

But doesn't Israel starve the people?  No, they don't.  Here's a statement from the UN:  "Humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distribution after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities (that would be Hamas) forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, North Gaza."  And:  "These incidents are not isolated.  They are completely unacceptable and reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction."  What about colonialism?  Jews are the colonizers of the land they have been kicked out of time after time?  Really?   

How does anyone in their right mind support a terrorist organization that brutally rapes, tortures and murders civilians?  And then blame the victims.  What is the matter with you people who do that?  I've got others to complain about.  See Part II.    

How Do We Know When It's Time?

(I hope that all my readers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, read this post.  Because it is not just about Jews in America.  It is about America.)

I know that I am not alone among my fellow Jews in asking this question:  why didn't more German Jews and other European Jews, leave in the 1930's?  Did they not see the handwriting on the wall?  Were there not enough signs?  Of course, this is not meant in any way to blame the Jews of Europe for all the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.  But, could more have left and survived?  

Now, I'm seeing the same question being raised about the Jews in America.  Of course, today's European Jews have been asking that question for some time.  And an ever increasing number have been leaving their homes in Europe and moving to Israel.  But what about America?  No, contrary to the assertions by many on the Left, we do not have a Nazi in the White House.  But are there any events that should give us pause, and cause us to ask:  "Is it time?"  Is it time to leave this country that has given so much to the Jewish people?

We know about all the Leftists and Islamists who are already serving in Congress.  Israel haters and Jew haters and America haters.  We know about the Leftists and Islamists and apparent Jew haters who have been winning primaries across the country.  Most of us likely recall the firebombing of the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion on April 13, 2025, while Governor Josh Shapiro (Dem. and strong supporter of Israel)  and his family were inside the residence.

But is everyone aware of all the other violent, and potentially violent, threats against those who support Israel.  I shouldn't have to say this, but it's where we are as country now.  People are entitled to their own opinions.  They are allowed to disagree with you.  In America, differences are supposed to be resolved by debate and by votes.  Let's take a look at some other threats to the American way of life.

In May of this year, Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said threatening messages had been left on his voice mail, threatening himself and his family.  In June, Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said he was advised by the FBI that it broke up "a potentially large scale attack on pro-Israel members of Congress."  (As reported in the Algemeiner, an online Jewish magazine.)  Both Moskowitz and Gottheimer are strong supporters of Israel.  Potentially large scale attack?  How large?

Most recently, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is no fan of Israel, proposed a resolution that would end all aid to Israel.  All the House Republicans, except Massie, opposed the resolution.  But nearly one-half of the Democratic members of the House (103 out of 212) voted in favor of the resolution.  10 members voted "present."  This vote comes on the heels of the Senate resolution seeking to cut various types of aid to Israel, with 40 of the 45 Senate Democrats voting in the affirmative.  2 Independents who caucus with the Democrats, also voted in the affirmative.  With the Republicans opposed, the Senate measure failed.  As to the House resolution, because the Republicans all voted against the resolution (except for Massie), it failed to pass, 104 to 314.

Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) is not Jewish.  He had announced that he was not inclined to vote in favor of Massie's resolution cutting all aid to Israel.  But Smith reported that he and his family "were subjected to an unrelenting campaign of intimidation by anti-Israel activists," including "vandalism, arson, and an assault on a staffer."  (As reported by the Algemeiner.)  Congressman Smith ended up voting for the Massie resolution.  Did the threat have anything to do with him changing his mind?  It was more than threats.  His home was vandalized, a fire was set in his driveway, some of his town hall meetings were shut down.  And, again, a staff member was physically assaulted.  Is this how anyone wants to see America being run?  By threats and intimidation and violence?  

Of course, threatening a member of Congress in order to change their vote is a violation of Federal law.  (18 USC 115.)  But the threats and intimidation and violence are not limited to Congress, which is bad enough.  The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, has indicted 8 people on charges of conspiracy to threaten University of Michigan leaders, law enforcement officers, businesses, and the Jewish Federation of Detroit.  4 of those indicted have Muslim sounding names.  It was unclear if they, or the 4 others, were Muslims.  

However, their motivation was apparent.  They were demanding a "full and complete divestment" from Israel and any business that supports Israel.  The indictment alleges that the co-conspirators discussed how to "torment," "terrorize," and even "kill" their intended targets.  (A reminder.  An indictment is a charge.  It is neither an admission of guilt nor a finding of guilt.)  The indictment further alleges that the co-conspirators "damaged and defaced homes and businesses with spray painted messages, threats, and symbols" targeting people for death.  The graffiti included "Divest Now," "Fuck You," and "Fuck the IDF" (the Israeli Defense Forces).  

(Is it time for all Jews to update their passports - just in case.  It appears to be past time for all Jews to arm themselves.  In my next post, I want to discuss further the seeming alliance of the far Left and the far Right in their Jew hatred, as more and more run for office, and are often winning.  And, I want to discuss the seeming alliance of our Vice President with the right-wing Israel hater Tucker Carlson.  And we need to consider when anti-Jewish talk leads to assaults on Jews and even the killing of Jews.  Because we have already seen the too frequent killing of Jews in America and around the world.  Lastly, I want to discuss the analysis given by our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is well aware of the dangers of this Jew hatred.)

      

These Latest Democratic Primaries Should Have Removed All Doubt - You Can Even Beat Other Progressives As Long As You Hate Jews

A brief recap is in order.  Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic Senatorial primary.  By a large margin.  He is an admitted communist, hates law enforcement and celebrated the killing of IDF forces by Hamas.  (See more on Platner in Part II of my May 4, 2026 post.)  Abdul El-Sayed will likely be the victor in the August 4, 2026 Democratic primary in Michigan for a seat in the U.S. Senate.  He has the usual leftwing talking points.  And is highly critical of Israel and AIPAC (the American Israel Political Affairs Committee).  (See Part I of my 6/4/26 post for more about El-Sayed.)  And let us not forget that Adam Hamawy won his Democratic primary for the House in NJ.  Again, with the leftwing views accompanied by intense criticism of Israel.  (See Part I of my 6/4/26 post.)

In New York City there was a trifecta of socialist, Jew haters winning their Democratic primaries for seats in the House.  All supported by the socialist, Jew hater Mamdani.  Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Adrian Espaillat, the Chair of the House Hispanic Caucus.  Chevalier wants to abolish the police and abolish prisons and get rid of our borders.  She has talked about seizing private property and nationalizing industries.  She has called the U.S. a "fucking disgrace," and once posted that "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me (followed by a happy face)."  On the day after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, she attended a pro-Palestinian (pro-Hamas in my opinion) rally.  I guess the rape, torture and murder of Jewish women did not offend her.  Chevalier also wants to end funding for the Israeli military (which provides significant benefits to the U.S.). 

Claire Valdez was another NYC Democratic primary winner for a U.S. House seat.  She wants to abolish ICE, supports a federal job guarantee and a four-day work week.  And in one quote she managed to get in all the leftwing lies about Israel:  "I will continue to call for Palestinian liberation.  We will stand up to genocide and refuse to abide by apartheid..."  How about calling for Palestinian liberation from Hamas?  That might actually accomplish something.  

The third NYC Democratic primary winner for a seat in the House was Brad Lander.  Yes, he has the usual leftwing talking points, such as defund the police.  Lander is Jewish.  Yet he supported Mamdani for Mayor of NYC.  And he doesn't support Israel much.  He has called for the end of giving a "blank check" to Israel (never was) as the Israeli government is "increasingly authoritarian."  And, he said that Democrats should stop obeying AIPAC (whatever that means).   

Let's not forget that Chris Rabb won his Democratic primary for the House in Pennsylvania's 3rd district.  This guy has called for a Palestinian right of return to the land of Israel.  People who call for that mean that millions of descendants of Palestinians who fled during Israel's war of independence (1948-1949) should be able to return to what is the land of Israel. In other words, Rabb wants to see the end of Israel as the world's only Jewish state.  And James Talarico won the Democratic primary for a House seat in Texas.  He tries to balance his support for Israel getting aid for defensive weapons such as the Iron Dome, versus denying aid for offensive weapons.  Of course, that makes no sense.  It is akin to saying "you can defend yourselves and hope for the best, but don't you dare fight back."  Sorry, but that is, quite simply, stupid.

Let's take a little trip further west to Colorado.  In another win for a Democratic Socialist of America candidate, 29 year old Melat Kiros defeated 30 year incumbent Diana DeGette.  Yes, Kiros has the leftwing talking points, such as abolish ICE.  But she also wants to end all aid to Israel.  If we go a little further west to Los Angeles, guess what we find.  Incumbent Karen Bass was unable to win the primary in June with a majority of the vote.  Therefore, she will be in a runoff election in November against Nithya Raman.  While initially expressing sympathy for Israel after the Hamas terroist attack of October 7, 2023, Raman has learned what it takes to win as a Democrat.  While the Mayor's seat is considered nonpartisan, it is no secret that Bass and Raman are Democrats.  Now, Raman spouts the leftwing talking points about Israel committing genocide and being an apartheid state. 

So, what is going on with all this Jew hatred?  As one writer opined:  it appears that the ticket to winning office in the U.S. is to not only be anti-Israel, but vehemently anti-Israel.  Scott Weiner is a Democratic member of the California State Senate.  And he is gay.  He was attending a trans led pride Shabbat in San Francisco.  Something he has done for 22 years.  He has been critical of the Israeli government.  But not enough.  This time, he was harassed and screamed at with things like "we fucking hate you."  And "you do not belong here."  And, the best one:  "you stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of shit."

I recall how after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Los Angeles Times ran a front page story with interviews of one Jewish person (mostly young) after the next, finding out that all the leftwing groups they supported did not support them in their time of need.  Leftists did not support Jews they knew, even after the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.  I have recently heard a number of leading Democrats, when asked about this Israel-hating and Jew-hating trend in their party, claim that the party is a "big tent" party.  Really?  A big tent should include Jew haters?  Unless whatever more mainstream Democrats that may be left start speaking out against these Jew haters, this trend will continue.  And, unless rank and file Democrats - especially Jewish Democrats - stop supporting this party, the Jew hatred will not end.  Or, will you be like Jewish Chuck Schumer, who hopes that the Nazi tattoo sporting Graham Platner wins a Senate seat in Maine, because even a Nazi is better than Trump? 

Trump's MOU With Iran - Part IV (This Is Still Not Acceptable)

(Note.  A word first.   I received some criticism from other conservatives regarding Parts I and II of this continuing post about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran.  Basically, the complaints were that I should not be criticizing Trump.  I disagree.  It is no secret that I voted for him three times.  And I have not piled on with criticisms over every little thing as the Democrats and mainstream media have done.  But we are talking about a matter of national security.  As I stated previously, I have been following this issue of Iranian nukes since about 2003.  And I've seen the tactics used by Iran - stalling and deception and continuing to call for "Death to America."  So I will not stay silent with regards to such an important issue - even with Trump in the White House.) 

In Paragraph 6 of the MOU, the U.S. "undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran."  Details to be finalized within 60 days.  What's the problem, Mike?  Didn't we have the Marshall Plan after World War II to help rebuild Europe?  Yes we did.  But the Nazis were gone.  Germany was split in two.  And West Germany became a Western oriented democracy, even joining NATO.  And Japan?  Their leadership was gone, with new leaders operating under a US imposed constitution.  Notice that this MOU provides for the reconstruction of the "Islamic" Republic of Iran.  

That is completely unacceptable.  There is no requirement, at least in this preliminary agreement, that the government return to what it was before the Islamic revolution of 1979 - a pro-Western country.  There is no requirement that the IRGC be disbanded.  Perhaps worst of all, there is no requirement that Iran cease its support for terrorism.  There is nothing to stop Iran from using these funds for the purpose of continuing to support Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, and other terrorist groups.  But Trump said the money will be disbursed in a way that requires Iran to buy food from American farmers.

Aside from Iran saying they did not agree to that, money is fungible.  If, for example, Iran would have needed to set aside $300 billion for food and reconstruction, but now that money is being given to them, that frees up $300 billion to develop their own ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and provide missiles to their terrorist proxies.  Money is money.  

Paragraph 10 may be even worse.  It provides for the "immediate" termination of sanctions, with the US Department of Treasury to "issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc."  Well isn't that special?  Iran gets to start making billions of dollars immediately.  Just who won this war?  It appears to this writer that the West has given up on actually winning wars ever since FDR and Eisenhower were determined to win WWII.  

I have another problem with all of this.  Three problems actually - Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and JD Vance.  We have a knowledgeable and experienced Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who happens to be the chief diplomatic officer of the United States.  Yet he seems to not be involved.  Why?  I do not like that Kushner runs a multi-billion dollar venture capital fund, Affinity Partners, which has received substantial backing from Middle Eastern Arab countries, including Qatar.  Qatar has been known to back Hamas, a terrorist organization.  At a minimum, this has the appearance of impropriety, the appearance of a conflict of interest.  Meanwhile, the Trump sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have invested in this company called Powerus, involved in the development and manufacturing of drones.  As we know, drones are increasingly being used in warfare, including in the Middle East, and they compete for government contracts.  Another appearance of impropriety, if not an actual conflict of interest.  

Based on recent comments by Trump and Vance, it appears that I will need a Part V, in order to make it clear that Israel is not the problem.  I guarantee that the US military and the CIA do not want to see an end to our country's close relationship with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Mossad (Israel's CIA), both of which have proven to be invaluable to the United States.