Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Newsweek Writes: Fresh Evidence That UNWRA Isn't Helping Anyone—Not Even the Palestinians
There are countless unknowns and intangibles around what the Middle East will look like once the Israel-Hamas war ends: Who will control security and the civil administration in Gaza? Will borders be adjusted for Israeli security? What role will moderate Arab nations play in the new landscape?
But there is one very tangible outcome that will define success after this tragic war is over: UNRWA must be abolished.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established in 1949, just after Israel's independence, to provide aid to new Palestinian refugees, not just in Gaza but in Jordan, Lebanon, and across the Arab world. For the past 75 years, it has failed to help Palestinians build a stable future while actively perpetuating conflict. Recordings released this week provided further evidence of UNRWA workers' participation in the October 7 attacks. It's long past time for another entity to take over.
Start with the fact a refugee agency should be getting refugees off its rolls and reducing the number of people who need to be supported by the global community. If more refugees are coming onto the rolls year after year, that agency, by definition, is doing something very wrong.
"Rosh Hakahal" of the United Methodist Church Draws a Swastika on Leah Grossman's Package
L.A. - disturbing video footage captures Mark Nakagawa, President of the United Methodist Church, taking a marker and drawing a swastika on a Jewish woman's package of soda. pic.twitter.com/pMnmauW6z1
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 4, 2024
A West LA mother of two recalled an “ugly” incident with her neighbor, in which he allegedly drew a swastika on the grocery delivery order on her porch.
It happened back on Dec. 4, 2023. Leah Grossman said it was after 10 p.m. when she got an alert from her security system. The camera showed a man, who she identified as her neighbor, appearing to look around, before bending over and drawing something on a box of soda on her porch.
Grossman immediately left her home and confronted the man, who turned out to be a former president of the Methodist church, Mark Nagakawa.
“As soon as I looked at the box to see what he wrote, I said, ‘Is that a Nazi symbol,’” Grossman said. “He said ‘No.’ Right away, ‘no.’ And then I said, ‘What is it then? Can you just explain that to me? What am I looking at?’ And he really just kind of played dumb until I said, ‘You know I have a camera right there?’”
Grossman filed a police report, and said she was told by police that this was not a hate crime, but rather a hate incident. She said she also contacted the property managers and the homeowner’s association.
Grossman said relations with her neighbor turned chilly after she displayed an Israeli flag on her banister on Oct. 7, and he became angry.
“I didn’t put that flag up to be a fascist,” Grossman said. “I didn’t put that up to say I hate anyone. I put it up to support the people that were feeling the same as me, and that was it.”
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Michelle Obama FINALLY breaks her silence on whether she will be running for president in 2024
Michelle Obama has ruled herself out as a presidential candidate, putting to bed speculation that she would jump in at the last minute to give Democrats an alternative to aging Joe Biden.
The former first lady maintains a star power within Democratic politics, despite largely removing herself from the political scene in recent years.
'As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,' said Crystal Carson, director of communications for her office, told NBC News.
'Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' re-election campaign.'
A recent Rasmussen survey found that nearly 50 percent of Democrats support replacing Biden at the top of the ticket, and of them more Democrats would like to see Michelle Obama, 20 percent, than Vice President Kamala Harris, 15 percent.
Over 450 UNRWA Teachers Participated in Oct. 7 Massacre
I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” and “We have female hostages, I captured one” — just a few words, but with the impact of thousands of tons of explosives.
Israeli intelligence revealed Monday night (March 4) that more than 450 terrorists belonging to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, mainly Hamas, were — and in some cases still are — also employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) tasked with providing humanitarian aid and educational services to the Palestinian Authority and Gaza populations.
The IDF has revealed two recordings incriminating two UNRWA teachers who took part in the October 7 massacre.
The first recording is of a terrorist working as an Arabic teacher at an UNRWA school in ‘Deir al-Balah’ describing his entry into Israeli territory and stating that he is holding female Israeli hostages.
“We have female captives (sabaya). I caught one,” an UNRWA “teacher” says. “We entered. I saw… They shot them in the eyes. I saw two, me and another guy from our group… Wow, what they did. Listen, they did actions for liberation Inshallah (Allah willing).”
Seen Him? Iran Sent Him To Assassinate Former Trump Officials in Revenge For Killing the Butcher Soleimani
FBI has issued an alert regarding an Iranian official wanted in connection to a plot to assassinate current and former U.S. officials "in revenge"
The FBI is on a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence officer allegedly overseeing a plot to assassinate current and former federal government officials as revenge for the Trump administration's 2020 airstrike killing of an Iranian military official.
Last Friday, the agency's Miami field office issued an alert that Majid Dastjani Farahani "is wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States." Those operations, the alert adds, include the assassinations of "current and former United States Government officials as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani."
Chesed Shel Emes x 1000
Watch this. It’ll remind that humans are GOOD. Grab a tissue. pic.twitter.com/6T8T5nJetn
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) March 4, 2024
A Texas husband moved in with his wife’s critically disabled ex and devoted himself to helping care for him — even to changing him and giving him baths.
James Armstrong, 36, married wife Kris in 2016, but their relationship came with an unusual arrangement.
Kris, 38, is the legal guardian of her high school sweetheart and ex-husband, 38-year-old Brandon, who suffered severe brain damage in a car accident two years after their 2006 wedding.
As a result, Brandon was left with dramatically reduced mental and physical capacity, and unable to care for himself.
After years of caring for Brandon as his wife, Kris decided she needed to move on with her life — but did not want to give up on him. So she divorced him, then filed paperwork to become his legal guardian.
When James met Kris, he knew Brandon would be a part of their lives, but was more than happy to welcome him into his life — and assume with his wife all the responsibility of caring for her ex-husband.
“He needs us. He needs people that love him.”
Together the couple do everything with Brandon — from changing and bathing him, to feeding him and bringing him to medical appointments. Kris and James are with Brandon every step of the way.
“I think in the physicality of him helping Brandon, that’s one piece. The fact that we change Brandon together, I can do it by myself but it’s very, very hard,” Kris said.
“James helps me, that is such a gift of love,” she added.
The blended family also includes James and Kris’ kids, who dote on Brandon and refer to him as their “uncle.”
Despite the life they’ve created together, James said he would give it all up in a moment if there were an opportunity for Brandon to recover.
“He said if some miracle treatment happens for people with a brain injury and Brandon can be healed, he said, ‘I would want you to be with him, you were with him first,'” Kris said.
“And I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but just the fact that, you’re a very special person, you really are,” she told James in the interview with “CBS Mornings.”
James maintains he’s just doing what he thinks is right.
“I do what my heart tells me to do,” he said.
James’ love for Brandon is so profound, he said, he would still take care of him even if Kris were no longer around to do so herself.
“I also told her if anything happens to her or she passes away, I will fight for guardianship. He will have another advocate,” James said.
Brandon lives in a nursing home, but Kris and James regularly drop in to visit and take care of him, and document their life with him on their TikTok account.
Europe will soon face a direct Arab invasion
In the month of April in the year 711, the governor of Tangier, Tariq ibn Ziyad, with only 9 thousands of his soldiers landed in Iberia. By 719, the Arabs were already standing near Toulouse, and in 720 – they were at the Rhone delta. The Iberian Peninsula was captured in less than 10 years. This was a stunning success; medieval Europe was not ready for anything like this.
Arabs are excellent psychologists. They “feel their enemy”, analyze his weaknesses and strengths, draw conclusions from their victories and defeats - at different times and in different places. And they are infinitely faithful to their dream: the revival of the Caliphate. This aim justifies all means.
The key event that changed the collective consciousness of the Arab world was the victory in Afghanistan over the Soviet army. A powerful totalitarian superpower that had neither moral doubts, nor reflections was defeated by irregular formations of the “Mujahideen.” That was the first turning point. If the “Mujahideen” were able to win the Soviet army, then what would prevent them from coping with the loose, insecure, notorious, and confused West?
This gave impetus to Islamic ambitions, the consequences of which were 9/11, mass terror, al-Qaeda, ISIS.
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