Conservative Drag Queen educates Queers for Palestine activist.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 4, 2024
“As a gay man I would be punished and or put in prison or killed if I was openly gay in Palestine. How would you react to that?”
๐ต๐ธActivist:
“I didn’t know that.”
๐ฅ @LadyMagaUSA
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Daniel Denan disappeared near Afula, and is considered to be in mortal danger due to the extreme heat that has pervaded Israel over the past few days.
The Israel Dog Unit, a nonprofit specializing in working dogs, is leading the search for him with their dogs and a variety of other equipment.
Anyone with information that could lead to his whereabouts is asked to urgently contact the IDU hotline at 0544876709.
It’s time for me to do something that pundits seldom do: Flat out admit I was wrong.
This is a rarity in the commentating world. But boy, was I.
Here goes: I was wrong about Sen. John Fetterman.
Writing in The Post on Valentine’s Day in 2023, I opined that Pennsylvania’s new US Senator lacked the mental and physical abilities needed to serve.
According to reports, he couldn’t understand voices, had trouble walking and generally wasn’t up to the job.
The mainstream press rallied to protect him (there was a D next to his name, after all), but even a New York Times puff piece admitted that to Fetterman, voices sounded like the adults in the “Peanuts” cartoons — indecipherable noise — and that his health problems had left him with “physical impairment and serious mental health challenges.”
But that was a rare concession. After NBC’s Dasha Burns interviewed him both live and on camera, she said Fetterman didn’t seem to be able to follow their conversation.
That revelation got Burns dogpiled by lefty activists and fellow journalists (to the extent there’s a difference nowadays) amid charges of “ableism” and the like. She was denounced on the air by her own network’s Savannah Guthrie and in the pages of the Times.
From all this, I concluded that Fetterman was just going to be a party tool — shepherded around by his staff, told how to vote by handlers, an institutionally pliable vote for the Democratic Party and the leftist activists who control it.
Basically, a Senate voting machine programmed by the apparatchiks.
Again: Boy, was I wrong.
Fetterman’s health has improved more and faster than expected, and in what may not be a coincidence, the more his brain damage recedes the less he agrees with lefty activists and the Democratic Party’s functionaries.
Speaking at Yeshiva University’s commencement, Fetterman dramatically stripped off his Harvard hood and announced he was “profoundly disappointed” at his alma mater’s refusal to address the antisemitism rampant on its campus, a discontent he extended to the entire antisemitism-enabling Ivy League.
Quoth Fetterman: “As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course, it was always a little pinko. But now, I don’t recognize it.”
“The Jewish community everywhere deserves our support,” he added. “And I promise you will always have mine.”
That’s not all. When pro-Palestinian protesters showed up at the senator’s house (no dogpiling in his defense from lefty activists over this) and told him he had “nowhere to hide,” Fetterman defiantly got on his roof with an Israeli flag.
Nor is his off-script behavior limited to Israel. When an environmental activist buttonholed him in a Senate corridor to harangue him about his support for pipeline construction, he pulled out his phone and recorded video of himself mocking her.
“I’ve talked to Republicans who were more friendly than that,” the activist sniffed afterward.
Fetterman has also broken with the Biden administration’s open-borders policy, taking a strong stand against illegal immigration.
He’s also disagreed with the White House on energy policy, expressing support for pipelines and liquid natural gas exports.
He’s called Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey a “sleazeball.”
And he’s undercut the Democrats’ lawfare attack on Donald Trump by saying that even as a senator, “I’m not even exactly sure what his trials are about.”
Overall, the progressive press complains, he’s adopted a newly caustic style that doesn’t spare the sacred cows of the left.
This isn’t playing well with Democrats. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose verbal attacks on Republicans are famous, now calls Fetterman a “bully.”
Fetterman seems unfazed. For the moment he’s still caucusing with the Democrats in the Senate, but there’s nothing to stop him from caucusing with the GOP if Democrats irritate him enough.
With the Senate divided 51-49, that has to give Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) heartburn.
Is it just a coincidence that Fetterman’s views have shifted to the right as his brain has repaired itself?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say no.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.
A secret Israeli plan to persuade a Gazan clan to rule the Gaza Strip after the war abruptly ended after Hamas beheaded its leader, the UK’s Telegraph reported, based on an Israeli intelligence source.
The same source related a similar incident that occurred two months ago when Israel encouraged the Doghmush clan to assist Israel in distributing humanitarian aid. Hamas terrorists promptly entered the clan’s compound and beheaded its leader. The next day, all clans in Gaza made a joint statement announcing their support for Hamas.
The incidents prove the fact that contrary to the pressure exerted by the US on Israel, it’s impossible for the war cabinet to make decisions for the “day after” before Hamas is eliminated.
According to Israeli media reports, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has consulted with rabbis, to discuss whether he should withdraw from PM Netanyahu’s coalition. Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Monday that over the last day, Smotrich held discussions with several rabbis linked to his Religious Zionism party to discuss the party’s future in Netanyahu’s Likud-led government, if the controversial hostage deal announced by President Biden actually comes to fruition.
On Motzei Shabbos, Smotrich said he informed Netanyahu that he would resign, should the proposal be accepted. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir issued a similar warning, threatening to “dismantle the government”.
Kan News reported that Smotrich is considering withdrawing even before the deal is finalized if he feels that things are progressing toward such a deal.
Biden said his new proposal would “bring all the hostages home, ensure Israel’s security, create a better day after in Gaza without Hamas in power, and set the stage for a political settlement that provides a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike,” although he did not specify how Hamas would be removed from power.
According to reports, Netanyahu planned to meet with Ben Gvir Monday to present him with the blueprint of the deal, to disprove his accusation that the deal would end the war against Hamas.
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Jack Lew told a news outlet that a two state solution would be a defeat for Hamas. The US Ambassador to Israel, an orthodox Jew and former Obama Treasury Secretary and Chief-of-Staff, made the controversial and difficult-to-comprehend comments in an interview with the Jerusalem Post.
“I don’t think Hamas wants two states,” Lew said. “The only time they indicate they want two states is when they’re trying to put a little bit of a patina of legitimacy around their real strategy, which is the elimination of the State of Israel.”
Lew has been involved in intense negotiations, trying to broker an agreement that includes a Washington-Saudi defense pact, Israeli-Saudi normalization, and a pathway to Palestinian statehood.
On the flipside, PM Binyamin Netanyahu and his government believe Palestinian statehood rewards terrorism and legitimizes that brutal style of attack in which people were tortured burned alive.
Lew said he believed that the opposite is true, particularly if Palestinian statehood is achieved through the framework of a larger Saudi deal, which would place Israel within a regional alliance against Iran.
“I think it’s a defeat for Hamas to talk about a two-state solution, which is why I think even out of the pain of October 7, there is a way to have this conversation, but it takes leadership,” Lew said.
A Saudi deal “would be a strategic move that would be transformative in terms of isolating Iran, with its proxies on one side and Israel with the moderate Arab world and the Western world on the other side,” he explained.
While Lew is certainly correct that Hamas would prefer a one state solution that eliminates Israel, as is clear from their “From the river to the sea” doctrine, it is very difficult to comprehend that a two state solution would be a win for Hamas.
Prior to October 7, the notion of a two-state solution was virtually dead. President Trump had successfully defunded and marginalized the Palestinians, and Hamas had zero influence on policy.
However since October 7, the proposal has been heavily revived. As absurd and sickening as it seems, committing atrocities has given Hamas enormous leverage. As such, Lew is clearly incorrect, as a two state solution would be a massive win for Hamas. Lew is simply trying to push the Biden agenda, which seems to care more about winning Michigan than destroying Hamas.
