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THE ABSURD CONDEMNATIONS AND DISTORTED MEDIA COVERAGE OF ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON HAMAS LEADERSHIP IN DOHA “News” and Reality Often Have Little In Common Eric Levine

Posted By on September 13th, 2025

https://ericlevine3.substack.com/p/the-absurd-condemnations-and-distorted

There has been no shortage of professed outrage at Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to attack Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar. The more one parses through the criticism, the more one becomes convinced the decision to kill the 5-star-hotel-dwelling, jacuzzi-enthusiast terrorists was not just morally justified, but tactically brilliant.

Many critics on the radical progressive antisemitic left believe Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish State and therefore, has no right to defend itself. These voices are rightly ignored.

Equally irrelevant, however, are those, who like the Biden Administration, believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish State, but just as a matter of principal think it should never take an offensive posture in defending itself. For them, Israel has every right to protect its citizens but, unlike every other country in the world, should limit its defense to preventing ballistic missiles from falling on its cities. Of course, this strategy allows the terrorists to live and fight another day and ensures an October 7th like attack will occur again.

The alleged more nuanced criticism of the attack in Qatar is that it will make diplomacy with the Gulf Arab States and the expansion of the Abraham Accords more difficult, if not impossible. If this is the best argument critics can muster, Netanyahu clearly made the right call.

A “news article” in the September 12 edition of Wall Street Journal, written by Jared Malsin, Summer Said and Benoit Faucon, reported:

“The attack in a quiet embassy district of Doha, which killed several Hamas officials and a member of the Qatari security forces, punctuated an already growing realization that Israel has made a strategic decision to secure itself through force of arms even at the expense of its diplomatic ties…”

This purported piece of “news” is absurd on its face.

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Should the World be Shocked Over Israel’s Attack on Qatari Soil? Israel on the front lines – confronting the global jihad. by Christine Williams

Posted By on September 13th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/should-the-world-be-shocked-over-israels-attack-on-qatari-soil/

Israel’s attack on Qatari soil was indeed a shock to the world, but should it have been? Let’s first look at some reaction to Israel’s strike against senior Hamas leaders on Qatar’s soil, which is said to have killed five Hamas members but not its top leaders. The New York Times has wasted no time in an article that struck at the heart of America’s relationship with Israel, suggesting that America risks alienating Gulf “powers” over Israel’s actions. Once again, the leftist NYT prioritizes Islamic interests over American and Israel’s. “Israel’s Attack on Qatari Soil Leads Gulf Powers to Question U.S. Protection,” by Vivian Nereim, New York Times, September 10, 2025:

Qatar hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East, has bought billions of dollars worth of defense systems from the United States and recently gifted a luxury Boeing jet to President Trump.

Yet on Tuesday, none of that stopped Israel, a key U.S. ally, from launching a brazen military attack on Qatari soil. It was an attempt to assassinate senior Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss a cease-fire proposal to pause the war in Gaza — a deal that was backed by Mr. Trump.

“Qatar being unable to protect its own citizens with literally the U.S. Central Command on its territory has prompted locals to question the value of the American partnership,” said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a research group. “It’s a real problem for Gulf leaders. And it should worry the United States as well.”…..

It is high time that Muslim countries be more worried about their relations with America than the other way around.

Trump posted on his Truth Social account:

Donald Trump comments on Israel’s bombing of Qatar. pic.twitter.com/j6tTmnDovU

— Defence Index (@Defence_Index) September 9, 2025

Qatar is not a genuine ally and friend to the US. It is, along with Turkey, a leading supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). In fact, it is a financial backer of MB infiltration of America at the highest levels, as well as on campuses.

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Jews are now being persecuted all over Britain by Danny Cohen

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jews-are-now-being-persecuted-all-over-britain/ar-AA1Mqa8z?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=9809012558ec41b69160fac8398d0013&ei=6

Last week a survey showed that more than one in five Britons now hold or agree with anti-Semitic views. This number has doubled in less than five years.

When it comes to Jew-hate in Britain much of the focus has been on London. You can understand why. It was in London that groups of men gathered to celebrate on 7 October even whilst the Hamas massacre of Jews was taking place. It was in London where mass marches have included those openly waving antisemitic signs and showing support for murderous terrorist organisations. It was in the capital too where Jewish children were advised to hide the insignia on their school uniforms.

Yet more focus is needed on Britain’s smaller Jewish communities dotted around the country. These communities are even more vulnerable and isolated when it comes to the rise of antisemitism.

In Bournemouth last month a Jewish child was shot in the head with an air-gun. Before firing the weapon the suspect is alleged to have shouted obscenities at the child as he walked to a synagogue wearing a skullcap.

Let that sink in for a moment. A child allegedly shot in the head for being Jewish. One might expect a violent incident like this to lead to serious national soul-searching, but it seems that antisemitism is becoming so embedded in British society that an attack of this nature causes little outcry and limited national reporting.

Just down the coast in Brighton, the Jewish community has been experiencing a persistent wave of antisemitic abuse. Local Jewish residents tell me of a poisonous litany of hate crimes and destruction, with a local memorial to victims of the 7 October pogrom under consistent attack.

The memorial has been vandalised over fifty times. Jews visiting the memorial have faced chants of “die die”, with gun gestures pointed at the back of their heads. Faeces has been left on the ‘book of the dead’. Swastikas and Holocaust denial graffiti have been plastered nearby. It is only due to the dedication of the local Jewish community that each time the memorial is destroyed it is re-built with love and care.

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Schools Are in Hooky Hell American children are skipping school in staggering numbers. By Larry Sand

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/12/schools-are-in-hooky-hell/

It’s early September, and children should be back at school, right?

Well, many aren’t. With data from 44 states and Washington, DC, the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) director of education policy, Nat Malkus, discloses that the chronic absenteeism rate—students missing more than 10% of school days each year—was an alarming 23.5% in 2024.

Malkus notes that the surge in absenteeism affects districts of all sizes, racial backgrounds, and income levels, but the data does reveal significant differences by race and ethnicity, with 39% of Black students, 36% of Hispanic students, 24% of white students, and 15% of Asian students chronically absent.

Additionally, while students from both low- and high-income families often miss school, the highest rates occur in low-income districts, where 30% of students are chronically absent. Still, the rate has gone up even in low-poverty areas, increasing from about 10% to over 15%.

High-achieving districts have also been affected by the new normal. Over 15% of students in the top third at those schools are chronically absent, compared to 10% before the pandemic.

States vary significantly in the number of student absences. While Alabama, New Jersey, and Virginia have a 15% rate, Alaska’s is 43%, Oregon’s is 34%, and Michigan’s is 30%.

The problem is particularly egregious in our big cities. According to a recent report, in Los Angeles, where over 32% of students were chronically absent in the 2023-2024 school year, 34 elementary schools have fewer than 200 students, and 29 use less than half of the building.

Even worse, in Chicago, the chronic absentee rate is 41%. The city’s dwindling enrollment has left about 150 schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity. One Chicago high school had just 33 students last year.

No matter. The district’s spending of taxpayer dollars appears to be unaffected. On August 28, Chicago Public Schools approved a $10.2 billion budget, and at the same time, it is facing a $743 million deficit. Before the budget was approved, three major credit rating agencies each rated CPS General Obligation Bonds as “non-investment grade speculative,” also known as “junk bonds.”

What are education leaders doing to stem the tide of student flight?

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PROVE ME WRONG: CHARLIE KIRK’S FINAL CHALLENGE JONATHAN TURLEY

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/11/prove-me-wrong-charlie-kirks-final-challenge-on-free-speech/

Yesterday, the United States entered a new and chilling stage of what I have called the “age of rage.” After two attempted assassinations of President Donald Trump, leading conservative leader Charlie Kirk, father of two, was gunned down at a campus event at Utah Valley University. I learned the news while I was in Prague to speak on my book,“The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” and the growing attacks on free speech around the world. I never imagined that I would be speaking about Charlie’s murder and what it represents for free speech.

I cannot claim to have been a close friend of Charlie Kirk, but I knew him and respected him. In his relatively short life, Charlie energized a generation of conservative college students at a time of intense liberal orthodoxy and intolerance.

Kirk came up with the brilliant idea of challenging liberals to simply debate issues from abortion to immigration.  His group would go to campuses and invite debate with signs reading “prove me wrong” and encourage liberals to engage in dialogue rather than violence.

The left had particular reason to hate Kirk.  Campuses have long been the bastions of the left, reinforced by faculties which now have few, if any, conservatives or Republicans. Higher education has long been an incubator for intolerance; shaping a generation of speech phobics who shout down or attack those with opposing views.

Kirk struck at the heart of that power base. Polls show that most students do not feel comfortable speaking about their values in our universities and many conservatives hide their views to avoid retaliation from faculty and students.

Kirk was changing that but showing students that they could be open and bold about their views. He told them that they did not have to yield to orthodoxy and the groupthink. Now he’s dead.

What is most chilling about the murder of Charlie Kirk is that it was not in the least surprising. Not anymore.

The response to TPUSA was all too often rage and violence. Liberals and anti-free speech groups like Antifa would trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police simply watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart and the tent carried off.

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Memos point to Red Cross knowledge of Hamas presence in Gaza hospitals David Isaac

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/memos-point-to-red-cross-knowledge-of-hamas-presence-in-gaza-hospitals/

Two Hamas documents found by Israeli forces in Gaza indicate that international organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders are well aware of the presence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip’s medical facilities despite obfuscating or outright denying it publicly, NGO Monitor revealed on Wednesday.

The internal Hamas memos were among a cache of documents declassified by the Israel Defense Forces. NGO Monitor translated the Arabic-language documents into English and released them to the public.

“While repeatedly echoing Hamas allegations and condemning Israel’s operations to end the exploitation of hospitals for terror, these groups clearly knew that Hamas exploited these facilities and chose to remain silent,” said Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor.

The documents, dated February and March 2020, not only show Hamas’s deliberate strategy of placing its fighters, leaders and terror infrastructure inside hospitals in Gaza, but reveal that NGOs worked right next to them, in at least one case in an adjoining office.

“The [International Committee of the] Red Cross chose a wing in Al-Shifa medical complex that is adjacent to the [Hamas] movement offices,” notes the February 2020 document.

The memo also notes that the French branch of Doctors Without Borders “chose the only room in Abu Yousef El-Najar Hospital that has a (safe) communication landline.”

The Hamas documents explicitly state the terror group’s position that medical facilities are not neutral spaces, but a critical part of its infrastructure.

“Furthermore, these health facilities are a place of gathering for numerous leaders of the [Hamas] movement and the government during times of escalation,” the February memo said.

The memos, which originate with Gaza’s Interior Security Mechanism (ISM), an official body in the Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security (MoINS), raise concerns about the Gaza Health Ministry authorizing NGO operations in Gaza without first consulting Hamas’s security apparatus.

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Al-Sharaa’s Damascus Regime: Is Sharaa Really Doing All He Can or Was President Trump Set Up?by Lawrence A. Franklin

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21898/sharaa-syria-regime

The Trump administration will likely pressure Sharaa’s regime not to threaten Syria’s Kurds, who make up a large portion of the pro-US Syrian Democratic Army in northeast Syria.

Sharaa might also have to count on the US to resist pressure from his benefactor Turkey, which may be urging him to target Syria’s Kurds.

The question, however, remains if Sharaa is actually doing all he can to “protect all minorities” as he promised, or did Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, in pressuring US President Donald Trump to give Sharaa a chance to govern, set Trump up?

Is Sharaa truly on a path to joining the Western alliance, or is he really just a terrorist in a suit and tie?

One of the most unheralded geopolitical developments in the Middle East, following Israel’s military victories over regional enemies, is Israel’s diplomatic reaction to the new regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) in Syria. Recent meetings in Paris between high-level Israeli and Syrian diplomats have reportedly resulted in a de-escalation of tensions as well as in establishing significant security improvements for Israel along its border with Syria.

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer was apparently successful in extracting a promise from the Sharaa regime not to dispatch Syrian military forces south of Damascus. This agreement exists in large part to safeguard Druze communities in Syria’s Suweida Province. Syria’s concession was in keeping with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated intention to defend the Druze against any repeat of July massacres by regime-affiliated terrorists and Bedouin tribesmen. An estimated 1,300 people were killed in the attacks, many of whom were Druze civilians, including women and children. Netanyahu’s pledge of protection to the Druze was possibly given to thank so many of Israel’s Druze citizens who have loyally been serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Just as significant was the Syrian regime’s agreement to demilitarize two of its provinces, Quneitra and Dara, both of which lie along Israel’s border. Now, evidently, no heavy weapons will be permitted in these Syrian provinces.

Damascus apparently did not challenge Jerusalem’s recent move into a new area in the Golan Heights that had been administered by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force since 1974. The new area is now being safeguarded by the IDF as a buffer zone between Israel and Syria.

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We Need More Charlie Kirks Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a chilling attack on free speech, but his legacy will inspire new generations to defend faith, freedom, and America First values. By Fred Fleitz

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/12/we-need-more-charlie-kirks/

I didn’t realize how good I had it when I was a conservative undergraduate student in the 1980s. Although liberals dominated my campus, the professors generally tolerated the free exchange of ideas. I helped co-found a College Republican club at my undergraduate school, Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, without worrying that this would harm my academic standing. I also learned to avoid the few far-left professors who abused their classes to indoctrinate students in socialist and anti-American ideologies.

I was a political science major at St. Joe’s. Fortunately, most of the political science professors were either conservatives or classic liberals who admired U.S. politicians like John F. Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. They loved their country and encouraged open debate in their classes. I was gratified in the early 1980s when the St. Joe’s Political Science Department fired a new professor who was using his international relations classes to teach Marxism and penalize conservative students.

Sadly, things changed for the worse in the decades following my graduation. Conservative and classic liberal political science professors retired and were replaced by far-left radicals who implemented classes in globalization, anti-capitalism, “anti-fascism,” anti-Israel and antisemitic ideologies, radical societal change, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), gender politics, and intersectionality. This far-left ideology spread across every college discipline, even the sciences.

Colleges and universities became radical left and extremely hostile to conservatives. Conservative students could not risk revealing their political views on campus because they feared this would hurt their grades and lead to harassment from fellow students.

Charlie Kirk believed this was unacceptable. This is why, in 2012, at the age of 18, he co-founded Turning Point USA to counter liberal politics and intolerance in U.S. high schools and colleges. Turning Point became a powerful national grassroots movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of America First, free markets, and limited government.

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Horror in Queens By Dan McLaughlin

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/horror-in-queens/

As if this week has not been horrible enough, a particularly dreadful crime in Bellerose, Queens, had the whole area of eastern Queens and central Nassau County in a panic the past 48 hours until the perpetrator was, mercifully, captured in Times Square late yesterday afternoon. Jamel McGriff, a 42-year-old out on parole with a long, violent rap sheet (including being required to register as a sex offender), went from door to door in leafy Bellerose in broad daylight at 10 a.m. knocking on doors until he found a target of opportunity — a couple in their late seventies whom he tormented and killed before setting their house on fire:

The suspect had earlier knocked on other doors in the neighborhood asking to charge his cell phone but was turned away before Frank Olton was seen on surveillance footage apparently allowing him in his backyard around 10:18 a.m., authorities said. The footage showed the owner apparently letting his killer in the rear door, according to cops. When the maniac left hours later, he was carrying a paper bag and one dark color bag, cops said…Once the fire was under control, police and firefighters made a grisly discovery. Frank Olton was found bound with a bungee cord in the basement and stabbed multiple times, while his wife’s body had been set on fire.

As Joe Marino, Georgett Roberts, and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon of the New York Post reported, McGriff “was still on parole after being released from a 17-year state prison sentence in 2023, had been arrested for a sex attack of a worker at knifepoint inside a store in 2005 and other violent crimes. He had a criminal history dating back 30 years, including multiple robberies. The fiend had failed to register as a sex offender in November 2024 and he was wanted by the NYPD as a suspect in two recent robberies. Yet, he was not slapped with a parole violation, according to officials.” On Wednesday, the NYPD issued an alarmed warning: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that McGriff was “armed and dangerous” and “The suspect’s MO is to go door to door, asking for some kind of assistance until he can gain entry.” The local police departments around Nassau were on heavy alert. The closest one could find to a motive for this brutality was robbery: McGriff was apprehended after “he used his victim’s charge cards at Macy’s and then to see a movie at the Regal Cinema in Times Square on Wednesday afternoon after he had pawned off two cell phones in the Bronx a day earlier.”

We have a serious under-incarceration problem when it comes to this sort of nihilistic predator. At least with his capture, multiple neighborhoods could go back to answering their doors and working in their yards.

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Charlie Kirk was a better anti-fascist than most of the left His rage against Hamas and its barbarous Jewphobia was moral clarity in action. Brendan O’Neill

Posted By on September 12th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-was-a-better-anti-fascist-than-most-of-the-left/

There was a clip doing the rounds a few months ago from Charlie Kirk’s clash with students at the Cambridge Union. It featured Kirk going head to head with a fidgeting posh oddball whose ginger bouffant defied gravity. Anyone who’s ever visited Cambridge will be familiar with this kind of kid: woke, pompous, his arrogance entirely out of proportion to his intellect. Tell me this, said Kirk: ‘In the conflict of Israel vs Hamas, who’s the good guy?’ His diminutive adversary twitched and stuttered, then finally spoke. ‘Both Hamas and the Israeli government are evil’, he said, giving perfect voice to that bourgeois pusillanimity that falsely calls itself ‘activism’.

I was reminded of that clip today as lowlifes online branded Kirk a ‘Nazi’ in the wake of his brutal slaying in Utah. In the sewer of the internet, the seventh circle of woke, they’ve openly celebrated the savage killing of this young father of two. The more mainstream left, and the ‘liberal’ press, have played it safer, merely hinting that Kirk was ‘hard right’ and not averse to stirring up animosity himself. The Oxford Student – another university he visited on his trip to the UK – called him a ‘far-right influencer’ following his death. It’s a shameful piece that could have been headlined: ‘A fascist dies.’

Here’s what is so galling about the tarring of Kirk as a crypto-Nazi: he was a better anti-fascist than most of the left. It would have been absurd at any time to call him ‘far right’. You don’t have to share his views – he was anti-abortion, pro-gun rights, sceptical about climate change, worried about mass immigration and dubious that you can have a dick and be a woman – to recognise that they all fall within the realm of legitimate opinion. Millions of Americans think this way. But for the left to call him ‘far right’ now, in the post-7 October moment, after they’ve spent two years making excuses for the fascistic murder of Jews while Kirk raged against it, is risible. It is a sinister inversion of truth.

Kirk was enraged by the pogrom of 7 October. In that clash at Cambridge, with the student so well trained in the moral relativism of the modern campus that he couldn’t even draw a moral distinction between a neo-fascist army and the democratic state it attacked, he reminded his overeducated jeerers of what happened that day.