Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East

Is conflict in the Middle East at an inflection point? It might seem so, given how international outrage over Israel’s lethal conduct in the Gaza Strip has become increasingly intense and widespread in recent weeks.

Several major Western countries that previously had declined to join most other members of the United Nations in formally recognizing a Palestinian state used the opening of the current session of the General Assembly as the occasion to take that step. Popular demonstrations in the West in support of the Palestinians have been as large and conspicuous as ever, and recent polls show a sharp decline in the American public’s support for Israel.

Such responses are the least that can be expected in the face of new lows in barbarous Israeli actions against the residents of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military assault on Gaza City has added to the rubble to which most of the city had already been reduced. The assault has given remaining inhabitants the choice of suffering and perhaps dying in place or fleeing once again to someplace else in the Strip with still no assurance of safety. The armed attacks and imposed starvation have seen the death toll of Gazans increase to what is now probably several times the officially reported figure of about 65,000.

The international responses, including diplomatic recognition of Palestine by Western governments, fall short of eliciting a constructive Israeli response. The recognition of a Palestinian state has been the target of criticism from some Palestinians who rightly point out that it does nothing to alleviate the immediate misery on the ground. Diplomatic moves and street demonstrations do not speak the only language that Israel appears to understand, which is one of force and compulsion.

The Israeli response to the latest diplomatic moves has been one of defiance and threats to inflict still more depredations on the Palestinians. The Israeli national security minister, right-wing extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, is pushing to make annexation of the West Bank the main Israeli response to Western recognition of Palestine.

Most Israelis, and not just their government or the extremists within it, see international pressure as just more evidence of bias against Israel and of the need for Israel to use force to protect itself, regardless of worldwide outrage. Survey research shows that most Israelis believe there are “no innocents” in Gaza and favor expulsion of residents from the Gaza Strip. An appeal to morality will not get a positive response from a government that has this population as its political base. Only the imposition on Israel of significant costs and consequences would lead it to change its policies.

Although we may not be at an inflection point regarding the Palestinian-Israeli tragedy, the thinking of Arab regimes in the region has reached an inflection point of sorts in recent weeks. The Israeli attack in early September on the territory of Qatar, in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Hamas leaders engaged in Gaza-related negotiations, shocked that thinking.

The attack in Qatar comes amid a fusillade of Israeli armed attacks against other regional states, including Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, in addition to the carnage in Palestine. These and other regional states (such as Iraq and Egypt) have been the targets of Israeli attacks — both overt military and clandestine — for many years, but it is the near-simultaneity of some of the attacks over the past month that has added to the shock.

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“You Pissed Off the Wrong Daddy!” – Father of College Coed Logan Federico Who Was Executed by Career Criminal GOES OFF on Democrats 

Steve Federico, father of Logan Federico, the young woman who was executed by a career criminal in a South Carolina home earlier this year, went off on Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies during a testimony on Monday morning.

As previously reported, a beautiful 22-year-old college student was fatally shot inside a Columbia, South Carolina, rental home earlier this year by a career criminal who was “on a spree of thefts, break-ins and credit card fraud,” the Columbia Police Department said.

In May, Logan Federico, a college student from Waxhaw, North Carolina, was spending the weekend at a rental home with friends in South Carolina when she was senselessly murdered by a career criminal.

After stealing firearms and credit cards from a nearby home, 30-year-old Alexander Dickey broke into the Columbia rental home, entered Logan Federico’s room, and executed her while she was on her knees begging for her life.

Dickey fled the scene in a stolen vehicle and allegedly used stolen credit cards taken from the nearby home.

Police pursued Dickey after he fled into the woods. He reportedly broke into another home and set it on fire before police took him into custody after a standoff in Gaston.

Dickey was charged with murder, two counts of first-degree burglary, weapons possession, and larceny.

Alexander Dickey is a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal rap sheet.

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Hakeem Jeffries ERUPTS on MSNBC After Trump Trolls Him with Mexican Meme: “It’s a Disgusting Video.. Bigotry Will Get You NOWHERE!”

President Donald Trump has once again proven why he’s the undisputed king of political warfare.

Trump has masterfully backed the hapless Democrats into a corner – and now he’s openly mocking them in their bitter, humiliating defeat.

As evidence of the Dems’ total collapse, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so distraught on Monday that she started dropping f-bombs during her NBC interview.

But President Trump wasn’t finished.

After their meeting today in the White House, Democrat leaders Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stopped to whine to their pals in the liberal media.

Someone took the video and rewrote the lines with what Schumer really meant to say. And President Trump tweeted this out on his Twitter page!

Chuck Schumer in the meme: Look, guys, there’s no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullsh*t. Not even Black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters.

If we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can’t even speak English, so they won’t realize we’re just a bunch of woke pieces of shit. At least for a while, they learn English and they realize they hate us, too.

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Trump’s Tylenol Cautions Are Just Common Sense

ot too long ago, the corporate media seemed interested in protecting Americans from potentially harmful medications, to the point of broadcasting fabricated stories about deadly ivermectin overdoses. Yet, with a different president in office, the media is now hard at work downplaying medication safety concerns brought up by the FDA. When it comes to acetaminophen, what can we believe?

To begin with, any medical professional who pretends not to understand the life-threatening dangers posed by Tylenol is lying to you. In my years spent training in the pediatric ICU, by far the most common — and most dangerous — overdoses we saw were of acetaminophen. If such ingestions are not treated very aggressively, with regular checking of blood Tylenol levels and continuous infusion of the liver-protecting antidote, serious injury and death can ensue. Every single ER and ICU doctor and nurse knows the Tylenol overdose protocol just as well as they know the stroke treatment or asthma attack protocols — these are common emergencies that medical staff regularly treat and train on.

Indeed, the data confirms Tylenol toxicity is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the country, while Tylenol overdoses cause tens of thousands of ER visits per annum, killing five hundred Americans yearly. That’s roughly 500 more Americans than are killed each year by ivermectin overdoses, by the way. So please, please think twice before posting reels of you downing acetaminophen in your handmaid outfits to stick it to bad orange man, ladies.

Does any of the above prove conclusively that Tylenol use in pregnancy is always dangerous? No. But think back to your or your loved one’s last pregnancy. Do you remember the long, long list of forbidden items? Pregnant moms aren’t even allowed to eat cold cuts, or medium rare steak. Why must expectant mothers chew shoe leather for 9 months? Have there been extensive randomized controlled studies of Swedish twins proving that second trimester salami is fatal? Of course not. But given that there’s a chance of undercooked meats carrying some germs, doctors play it safe and advise moms to avoid them. Now, consider that Tylenol kills significantly more people yearly than black forest ham — is it responsible for doctors to encourage pregnant moms to take it without good reason?

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Witch Who Participated in ‘Jezebel’ Hex of Charlie Kirk Before He Was Murdered, Now Expresses Regret

As the Gateway Pundit reported on September 10th, shortly before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the left wing outlet ‘Jezebel’ hired a group of witches to put a hex on Kirk and then published a story about it.

Last week, Megyn Kelly revealed some new details about the story. Charlie and Erika Kirk had heard about the story, and Erika was particularly ‘rattled’ by it. They invited a friend over, a priest, to pray with them and to pray over Charlie for God’s protection.

You know the rest of the story.

Now, it appears that one of the witches involved in the hexing is experiencing regret. That’s just too bad for her. You cannot unring that bell.

From The Blast, via Yahoo News:

The Witch Who Claims To Have Cursed Charlie Kirk Speaks Out With Regret

The shadowy world of witchcraft chillingly collided with American politics this month, after a spellcaster publicly admitted regret for her part in a curse said to target conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Speaking after Kirk’s shocking assassination at Utah Valley University, the self-proclaimed witch known as Priestess Lilin said she never intended to cause harm and wants to reach out to Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk.

Priestess Lilin, who described herself as one of the witches contacted by Jezebel before Charlie Kirk’s death, said she did not want the situation to spiral into tragedy.

She acknowledged the emotional toll the episode has had on Erika Kirk, offering to correspond privately to give her answers.

“We regret any distress experienced. What we do is done based on an impartial perspective and at a professional level,” Lilin said in a chat with the Daily Mail. “We respect the widow’s feelings and welcome a private conversation to address her concerns.”

It’s too late for all of this. The woman in this story should have thought of all of this before she decided to help put a hex on another human being.

Later in the article, she says something that should make the blood of every Christian run cold:

She said her main practices involve spells for “protection and healing.” At the same time, she defended more controversial rituals.

“Summoning demons and communicating with spirits were not inherently ‘evil acts,’” she argued. “The spiritual community views demons as multi-faceted Spirits and not one-dimensional big bad evils. Mediumship is also perceived as an ethically neutral practice. Is it effective? Yes.”

Summoning demons is not inherently evil? Is she for real?

Whether you are a believer or not, this entire story should repulse you. These people tried to use spiritual forces to do harm to another person. It’s a sick commentary on where we are as a society right now.

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Catherine Herridge reveals what fake news media won’t admit about Comey’s indictment…

The propaganda press is already hard at work trying to save James Comey. CIA-friendly “reporters” like Ken Dilanian from MSNBC are twisting themselves into pretzels to paint the charges against him as flimsy, political, or just plain ol’ “Trump’s revenge.”

Here’s how the fake news media is trying to downplay what’s happening. Ken Dilanian suggests the indictment is built on words Comey never actually said… spoiler alert: he said them.

This is the same tired routine we see time and time again. Run cover for the Deep State, smear Trump, and pretend the walls aren’t closing in. Wash, rinse, repeat.

But as you can imagine, the truth is much different than the fairytales the regime media is pumping out.

The real story is coming from journalists who don’t carry water for our crooked intelligence agencies. Catherine Herridge just dropped the receipts that show what the media won’t dare tell you… this indictment wasn’t shaky, it was locked, loaded, and ready to go.

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Denmark Bans Civilian Drone Flights Ahead of EU Summit

Denmark banned civilian drone flights on Sept. 28 ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders in the country later this week.

The move comes after unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were observed at several military facilities on Sept. 28. Other drone activity forced the temporary closures of several Danish airports on Sept. 22.

Copenhagen Airport itself was shut for almost four hours.

The ban barred civilian drones from Danish airspace from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3, when Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU for the second half of this year, will be hosting European leaders.

Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.

“We are currently in a difficult security situation, and we must ensure the best possible working conditions for the armed forces and the police when they are responsible for security during the EU summit,” Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Sept. 28.

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West at war with Russia – Polish PM

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is also the West’s war, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. The most important task for EU leaders is to make people aware of the threat that Russia supposedly poses, he told the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.

Tusk has taken a particularly hardline stance on the conflict, in which Warsaw has been a key supporter of Kiev. Earlier this month, he complained that fellow Poles have developed “antipathy” towards Ukraine, which he blamed on Russia, while urging Polish politicians to “stem this tide.”

On Monday, he said, “the biggest and most important task for European leaders today is to make Western societies aware” that the Ukraine conflict is the most serious risk they face in the 21st century.

“This war is also our war,” Tusk stated, claiming that it is “of our fundamental interest,” as a defeat would affect all of Western civilization from Poland to the US. He called for “solidarity and unity” within the EU and NATO to counter this.

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FBI Suspects Michigan Church Shooter Hated People of the Mormon Faith

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Sept. 29 that the man accused of killing at least four people and injuring eight more at a church in Michigan hated Mormons.

“From what I understand, based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith, and they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note, all of those questions have yet to be answered but certainly will be answered by the FBI,” she told Fox News in an interview on Sept. 29.

Leavitt said that search warrants are being executed at the home of the suspect, Thomas Jacob Sanford, to “get to the bottom of why he would commit such an act of evil.”

Sanford’s family is cooperating with the FBI, according to Leavitt. She did not provide more details about the suspect, who was killed by police during the incident.

Sanford, 40, allegedly drove a truck into a chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Grand Blanc before opening fire and setting the structure on fire during a Sunday service, officials said. The attacker allegedly used gasoline to start the fire and also had explosive devices, but it wasn’t clear whether he used them, according to James Dier of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Investigators were searching Sanford’s residence. Authorities did not say what they found or provide any additional details, including whether he was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church.

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FBI’s Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.

The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands Patel presented to at least three senior New Zealand security officials in July. Patel, the most senior Trump administration official to visit the country so far, was in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand.

Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license. Law enforcement agencies didn’t specify whether the officials who met with Patel held such permits, but they couldn’t have legally kept the gifts if they didn’t.

It wasn’t clear what permissions Patel had sought to bring the weapons into the country. A spokesperson for Patel told the AP Tuesday that the FBI would not comment.

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