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HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM RUTHFULLY YOURS

By on December 23rd, 2024

WITH ADMIRATION AND APOLOGIES TO CLEMENT CLARK MOORE WHO WROTE “TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS” IN 1822. RSK

TIS CHRISTMAS AND CHANUKA ON THE TWENTY FIFTH OF DECEMBER

NOT WITNESSED SINCE  2005 FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER.

STOCKINGS ARE HUNG AND LIGHTS SHINE BRIGHT ON CHRISTMAS TREES.

THE MENORAH IS LIT TO HONOR THE WAR ON WOKE BY THE MACCABEES.

KITCHENS WILL BE REDOLENT WITH TURKEY HAM AND BISCUITS.

JEWISH “PLAT DU JOUR” IS POTATO LATKES AND BRISKETS.

BUT THE DEMS WILL JUST SULK AND WHINE AND TOSS

ANGRY AND HUMILIATED BY ELECTORAL LOSS.

INSTEAD OF RANCOR THEY SHOULD APOLOGIZE

FOR SCHIFFSTORMS AND SUFFERING CAUSED BY THEIR LIES.

A SENSE OF TREPIDATION HANGS IN THE AIR.

FOUR YEARS OF DAMAGE, TOO MUCH TO REPAIR.

A CABINET AND APPOINTMENTS WERE FORGED IN RECORD TIME

TO FIX THE ECONOMY, FOREIGN POLICY, IMMIGRATION AND CRIME.

VIVEK AND MUSK ARE MARKING THE GLUT,

OF ALL THE WASTE THEY WILL HAPPILY CUT.

BUT I DESPAIR DAILY WHEN READING THE NEWS,

OF THE GROWING WAVE OF HATRED OF JEWS.

SO, I WAS DEEP INTO CHECKING INTERNET CHATTER

WHEN OUT ON THE STREET THERE AROSE SUCH A CLATTER.

TO THE WINDOW I FLEW LIKE A FLASH

TORE OPEN THE CURTAIN AND THREW UP THE SASH.

A HUGE RED TENT WAS RISING TO PROTECT EVERY COLOR, FAITH, AND RACE.

FOR THOSE WHO CHERISH OUR COUNTRY ARE THE REAL AMERICAN FACE.

I AM OPTIMISTIC WITH A GOOD DOSE OF CHEER

I WISH YOU ALL JOYFUL HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

RUTH KING

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NGOs Driving Antisemitism in Europe and around the Globe: Part I by Robert Williams

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21228/ngos-driving-antisemitism

Samidoun (“Steadfast”), a “Vancouver-based terrorist group,” was founded in 2012 — ostensibly to “assist Palestinian prisoners” — by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization in the United States, European Union and Canada. In practice, Samidoun is a front for the PFLP.

Who funds this terrorist-supporting madness? Samidoun, which does not publish any donor information, has a financial sponsor in the US, the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that reportedly works to bring about a communist revolution through building coalitions of organizations, many involved in pro-Hamas activity, and, according to its own website: “We also act as fiscal sponsor to over 90 economic, social justice and human rights projects around the world that do not have their own tax-exempt status.”

Who funds the Alliance for Global Justice? According to Influence Watch, several of the same megadonors that fund the Democratic Party in the US, such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and the Tides Foundation.

The Tides Foundation, which was once described as a “charitable money laundering” organization, and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also sponsors anti-Israeli groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, both of which are active in the ongoing protests. The Alliance for Global Justice also receives funds from the Arca Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, and the Brightwater Fund.

The support for groups such as Samidoun by the Alliance for Global Justice led to demands to revoke its tax-exempt status…. It is now six months later, and the IRS has done nothing.

Antisemitism in the West, which has risen to unprecedented levels since the October 7 attacks on Israel, is being deliberately driven by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with links to Palestinian terrorist organizations.

One of the most active NGOs, Samidoun (“Steadfast”), a “Vancouver-based terrorist group,” was founded in 2012 — ostensibly to “assist Palestinian prisoners” — by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization in the United States, European Union and Canada. In practice, Samidoun is a front for the PFLP. The PFLP is an active terrorist organization, which participated in the October 7, 2023 atrocities, including in hostage taking, and shared celebratory videos and other material of the massacres online.

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Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America Douglas Murray

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-things-worth-remembering-winston-churchill-christmas-message-america

As we near Christmas, I am reminded of the wonderful, 393-word speech delivered by the inimitable Winston Churchill on Christmas Eve of 1941. He spoke from the South Portico of the White House, in the midst of war.

You may recall that I opened the second year of “Things Worth Remembering” with the eulogy given by Churchill on the occasion of his political rival Neville Chamberlain’s funeral, in November 1940.

I am returning to Churchill now because he’s simply the best English-speaking orator of the last century, and because his words and his sense of moral urgency feel especially necessary, as the multipronged war for Western civilization that we find ourselves in grinds on like an acephalous beast. There have been moments in this civilizational struggle—which extends from the Ukrainian forests to the tunnels of Gaza to the Christmas markets of Europe—when I have wondered whether we would prevail. If only, I’ve thought, we had our own Churchill to lead us.

The story behind Churchill’s Christmas Eve speech perfectly captures something essential about the man. Two days earlier, the British prime minister stepped off a plane at an airfield near Washington, D.C., where he was warmly greeted by the American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “I clasped his strong hand with comfort and pleasure,” Churchill later recalled.

It had been just over two weeks since Imperial Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, leaving nearly 2,400 Americans dead. Within days, the United States, along with Britain, was officially at war with the Japanese and Nazi Germany.

Churchill’s visit to the United States was meant to be for strategizing: Should the Allies prioritize defeating Japan or Germany? Where should they focus their manpower? And so forth.

But the British prime minister was also keen on solidifying the alliance between the U.S. and Britain, and he obviously wanted to signal to the whole world—starting with Adolf Hitler—that the Western democracies were now united in their mission to crush the Axis.

There was, as always with Churchill, a subtle psychology at work—an awareness of the emotions and competing interests preying on those around him. He had a knack for harnessing those emotions and interests in a constructive way—one, in this case, that might save civilization.

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No Daniel Pennys: Migrant sets woman on fire in New York subway as cops bumble and Gov. Hochul touts making subway ‘safer’ By Monica Showalter

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/no_daniel_pennys_migrant_sets_woman_on_fire_in_new_york_subway_as_cops_bumble_and_gov_hochul_touts_making_subway_safer.html

In a grotesque confluence of all the horrid doings in wokester New York City, a Guatemalan migrant brazenly set a woman on fire in broad daylight in the New York subway just to watch her burn, and no Daniel Pennys came forward to stop the barbaric crime.

According to the New York Post:

A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”

The savage killing — which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station — shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime “took the life of an innocent New Yorker.”

“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a press conference.

Patrolling cops smelled and saw the smoke, then followed it to the flame-covered woman, the commissioner said. 

They extinguished the blaze, but the victim died at the scene.

Horrifying video obtained by The Post showed the suspect calmly looking on as flames consumed the still-unidentified woman, who stood inside the open subway car door.

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Harry Stein Don’t Expect Media Apologies—Ever—for the Duke Lacrosse Case The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the obvious: it was all lies.

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.city-journal.org/article/dont-expect-media-apologies-ever-for-the-duke-lacrosse-case

For the legacy media, the recent admission by Crystal Mangum, the accuser in the infamous 2006 Duke lacrosse case, that she had fabricated accusations of rape against three players on the university’s team, was at best a one-day story. While Mangum, a deeply troubled woman serving a long stretch at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women for killing a boyfriend five years after the Duke case, was clearly sincere in her contrition, opining on the podcast Let’s Talk with Kat that “saying that they raped me when they didn’t . . . was wrong” and “I made up a story that was wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God,” it hardly qualified as stop-the-presses news. That the allegation was false had long ago been established beyond question. The boys were fully exonerated and had reached a financial settlement with Duke for the school’s appalling response to the allegation. The hyper-ambitious rogue district attorney who in his zeal to nail them withheld key evidence of their innocence had been disgraced and disbarred.

So in that regard, it makes sense that in most accounts of the belated confession, it would come across as an out-of-the-blue footnote to a half-forgotten story, with a paragraph’s review of the case providing background for the uninitiated. The New York Times’s brief story, by Jenna West of The Athletic, does not even appear in the pages of the paper, just online.

In brief, the coverage conveyed not even a fleeting sense of what the Duke case meant at the time, how fully the story gripped the nation, dividing Americans by race and class; how, indeed, it anticipated much of what was to follow in the Trayvon Martin case; in Ferguson, Missouri; in the furious aftermath of the death of George Floyd; and, hardly least, in exposing the rot at the heart of two of America’s key institutions that has since become ever more apparent—academia and journalism.

All these years later, the media’s perfunctory coverage of Mangum’s admission is telling precisely because of what, given the calamitous mis-coverage of the original story, it so conspicuously lacks: self-awareness and accountability.

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Study: Most Cable Networks’ Coverage of Trump’s Cabinet Nominees are ‘Uniformly Negative’ By Eric Lendrum

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/20/study-most-cable-networks-coverage-of-trumps-cabinet-nominees-are-uniformly-negative/

A new study by a right-wing media watchdog group has found that the overwhelming majority of the coverage of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees by major cable news channels has been “almost uniformly negative.”

As Fox News reports, the report was released by the Media Research Center (MRC), detailing the coverage of President-elect Trump’s personnel picks by ABC, CBS, and NBC. Within the timespan of December 1st to December 14th, Trump’s nominees – including FBI Director nominee Kash Patel, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard – received approximately 60 minutes and 47 seconds of coverage. Of this coverage, 96% was negative.

“Across all three networks, the coverage of Gabbard, Patel, and the handful of other nominees mentioned was entirely negative. Only Pete Hegseth, who received the lion’s share of the airtime, enjoyed a scant four positive evaluative statements, all of which cited his mother describing him as ‘redeemed’ and ‘a changed man,’” said MRC senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino in the report.

“To reiterate: the only positive commentary any Trump nominee received on the broadcast networks was from his own mother,” D’Agostino continued. “In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to Cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking.”

Of the three channels, CBS spent the most time talking about President-elect Trump’s nominees, with just under 25 minutes; of those 25 minutes, 14 minutes were spent on Hegseth alone. Of that coverage, 96.7% was negative. NBC had the second-highest amount of coverage, with 21 minutes; 94.7% of their coverage was negative. ABC spent 19 minutes on the Cabinet nominees, with 90% of that coverage being negative.

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Fixing the Biden Border President Biden’s border policies created a humanitarian, economic, and legal crisis that dismantled immigration enforcement and overwhelmed American communities. By Victor Davis Hanson

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/23/fixing-the-biden-border/

Joe Biden, to the degree he was cognizant, has always reflected the Obama-era utopia dream of a borderless world, and thus millions of poor have illegally entered the United States. On numerous occasions, he offered clear warnings of what he would do if he ever had power over immigration policy.

Do we remember this 2020 Biden boast to let in millions and offer blanket amnesties?

“But I will send to the desk immediately a bill that requires the access to citizenship for 11 million undocumented folks, number one. Number two, in the first 100 days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all. From that point on, the only deportations that will take place are commissions of felonies in the United States of America.” In Biden’s world, if no illegal alien is ever to be deported unless a criminal, then there is at last no border.

Earlier Biden had also bragged, “We could afford to take in a heartbeat another two million. The idea that a country of 330 million people cannot absorb people who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression is absolutely bizarre.”

After 2020, we found out what Biden really meant was that a few thousand privileged and rich people in Martha’s Vineyard, Malibu, and Rehoboth, Delaware, certainly could not absorb even a few hundred in “desperate need”—but the millions of poor in inner-city Chicago, in the Rio Grande Valley, and the Central Valley of California most certainly could absorb “another two million” illegal aliens.

Most infamously, in 2019, Biden gave explicit outlines of the very open border that he has now institutionalized: “I would, in fact, make sure that there is, that we immediately surge the border all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard. That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says if you want to flee, and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come. (emphasis added).”

Again, Biden assumed that “you should come” applied to downtown New York, South Central LA, or El Paso, but under no circumstances to Kalorama, Kailua, or the empty summer dorm rooms of Stanford or Harvard.

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POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

By on December 23rd, 2024

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com

Can one name a single example of a democratic nation beset by a war against its existence on almost every front that continues its 24/7 outsize research and technology to benefit all humanity? Here, thanks to Michael Ordman, is a handful of examples of one week’s science and medicine that illustrate how Israel does it.

Detecting 250 genetic diseases. 

Decoding rare brain disease. 

 US & Europe approve focused ultrasound scanners. 

Transporting greener vegetables. 

 Recycling organic waste. 

How iron dome tech extinguishes fires

More integrated data for farmers. 

Read it all….rsk

 

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
Thousands help farmers rebuild. The HaShomer HaChadash (“The New Watchman”) agricultural volunteer organization aims to bring at least 100,000 volunteers to help farmers in the north repair hundreds of acres of orchards. The nonprofit has already mobilized some 300,000 volunteers to help farmers in the south.
https://www.jns.org/seeds-of-hope-volunteers-help-farmers-rebuild-northern-israel/
 
Eyeglasses for soldiers & evacuees. Since Oct 7 2023 Israeli nonprofit RE-SPECS has assisted thousands of evacuees from southern and northern Israel as well as soldiers with subsidized corrective eyewear. RE-SPECS takes inquiries via WhatsApp and after processing, the spectacles are sent to a local volunteer for collection.
https://www.jns.org/re-specs-helping-israeli-soldiers-evacuees-see-light-after-darkness/
https://www.respecsframes.com/english
 
Mother of two IDF soldiers, enlists. (TY Yanky) Liora Lubovitz Batan has a daughter and a son in the IDF.  Instead of sitting home and worrying, she enlisted in the IDF reserves, decades after completing her army service. she has since served 14 months in logistics positions and in combat support in the northern sector.
https://haipo.co.il/en/item/549196
 
Religious Zionist towns lead reserve duty. The IDF has reported that residents from religious Zionist towns in Judea, Samaria, and The Golan were leaders in the average number of days of military reserve duty served in 2023. Moshav Ramat Magshimim in the Golan Heights led with 53.94 days per resident on average.
https://www.jns.org/religious-zionist-towns-lead-in-idf-reserve-duty/
 
Finding hi-tech jobs for wounded IDF soldiers. Israeli nonprofit Atidim (see here previously) has established the “Warriors for High Tech” program to help IDF veterans transition to technology careers. It is especially attentive to the employment requirements of ex-soldiers who have suffered physical injury or trauma.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/y3zcammov  https://atidim.org/en/ 
 
NIS 200 million for victims of Hamas. Israel’s Merit Spread Foundation has raised over NIS 200 million in US-tax-exempt donations since the Oct 7 2003 Hamas invasion. It advertises as having unprecedented zero cost overheads and the fund has financed various projects covering multiple social benefit causes relating to the war.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400602  https://meritspread.com/
 
Teen Oct 7 survivors play basketball in LA. 15 Israeli high-schoolers from Gaza envelope kibbutzim went on a week-long trip to Los Angeles to watch NBA games, tour Universal Studios and play against a local Jewish day school. The program was organized by Project 24, connecting Israeli and North American communities.
https://www.jns.org/they-survived-oct-7-now-theyre-playing-basketball-in-los-angeles/
https://www.project24israel.org/
 
Baby shower for 40 pregnant army wives. Forty wives of IDF reserve soldiers gathered in Modi’in, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, recently for a collective baby shower (pre-birth party). They received hundreds of gifts from companies and individuals, including essentials for the hospital. Most of all, they made new friends.
https://www.jns.org/our-jewish-revenge-pregnant-army-wives-throw-massive-baby-shower/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Detecting 250 genetic diseases. The non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) technology from Israel’s IdentifAI (see here previously) can detect any of 250 hereditary genetic disorders from a maternal blood sample. It isolates and performs full genetic sequencing of fetal DNA as early as nine weeks of pregnancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj8wgtmnkx
 
Decoding rare brain disease. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an research model to decode the mechanism underlying a severe and rare neurological disease. A mutation in the protein TIMM50 causes epilepsy, developmental delay, and intellectual disability. It could lead to new treatments for many diseases.
https://english.tau.ac.il/research/decoding-brain-disease
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/99914#tab-content
 
US & Europe approve focused ultrasound scanners. Israel’s Insightec has received both FDA approval and the CE mark for its Exablate Prime focused ultrasound system integrated with MR scanners from medical equipment giant Philips. It extends Insightec’s treatment of essential tremor and Parkinson’s patients.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/insightec-secures-fda-approval-and-ce-marking-for-exablate-prime-on-philips-mr-systems
 
New private medical school. (TY Atid-EDI) The Council for Higher Education in Israel has granted approval to the independent Reichman University in Herzliya to establish a Medical School.  Eighty medical students will be enrolled in the first four-year program, which will begin in February 2025.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-medical-school-approved-for-reichman-university-1001493862
 
First-ever MedEx LA event. Dozens of Jewish doctors, many planning to make Aliyah in the near future, gathered in Los Angeles for the inaugural MedEx LA fair. It follows recent MedEx events in London, Paris, Buenos Aires, and New Jersey, addressing Israel’s shortage of doctors plus easing the Aliya process for them.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400544

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German Interior Minister: Magdeburg Vehicular Attacker was ‘Obviously Islamophobic’ There’s a sinister method to this madness. by Robert Spencer

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.frontpagemag.com/german-interior-minister-magdeburg-vehicular-attacker-was-obviously-islamophobic/

The man who plowed his car at top speed into the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday, killing and injuring numerous people, was a curious case. Taleb al-Abdulmohsenhad lived in Germany for years, all the while presenting himself as an ex-Muslim and cultivating connections with high-profile critics of Islam. This led numerous media outlets to present him as an “anti-Islam” terrorist, and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who for years has ignored and denied any connection of Islam with terrorism and smeared critics of Islam and mass Muslim migration in Germany as “Nazis,” said (no doubt gleefully) that “we can only say with certainty that the perpetrator was obviously Islamophobic.” 

There are numerous reasons why that is an absurd conclusion, as I outlined here. Another is a fact that Faeser didn’t bother either to point out, much less to explain: if Abdulmohsen carried out his attack because he was “Islamophobic,” why did he choose to target a Christmas market, which Muslims would have been unlikely to frequent in any significant numbers, instead of, say, a mosque or some other place where Muslims congregate? Wasn’t it counterproductive of this “Islamophobe” to go after the people he ostensibly wanted to defend from Islam and jihad, rather than those from whom the perpetrators of jihad violence emerge?

The question of why Faeser would take refuge in such a ridiculous conclusion, and why the media would trumpet the idea that Abdulmohsen was an embittered ex-Muslim who was possibly even “radicalized” by his “Islamophobic” friends and associates, is as interesting in itself as the question of who he really was and what he was trying to do when he committed mass murder. What is Faeser trying to do? The answer is as obvious as she thinks Abdulmohsen’s “Islamophobia” is.

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“Police Made No Effort to Find Her”: The Persecution of Christians, November 2024 by Raymond Ibrahim

By on December 23rd, 2024

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21236/persecution-of-christians-november

“The [US State] department’s annual reports on human rights and human trafficking do not mention Coptic women in their sections on Egypt…. the secretary of state should raise the issue directly with Sisi at their next meeting.” — “Egypt’s Disappearing Women,” Washington Examiner, November 14, 2024.

“Under U.S. law, a portion of the $1.3 billion in military aid that Egypt receives each year is contingent on Cairo’s efforts to improve its record on human rights. When the next review of Cairo’s record begins, the safety of Coptic women should be front and center.” — “Egypt’s Disappearing Women,” Washington Examiner, November 14, 2024.

“Migrant youths” have been terrorizing a small Swiss town, Soyhières… “sowing terror” in the small village of 433 people…. the “same group of migrant youths has been seen in the night roaming with knives and carrying a small axe….” The police, apparently, are powerless: “due to their age, the youths cannot be prosecuted.” — rmix.news, November 27, 2024.

A court sentenced Tomaj Aryankia, an Iranian convert to Christianity, to 10 years’ imprisonment for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic through promoting Christianity.” Iranwire.com, November 18, 2024, Iran.

According to a November 14 report on Egypt, “Coptic Christians remain a target of persecution; hundreds of young women have been kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and coerced into marriage.” Pictured: Christian women pray during the Good Friday procession at the Church of St. George in the city of Mahalla in the north of Egypt, on April 14, 2017.

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of November 2024.

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