[WIRE] Qatar, the country that funds Hamas and harbors its leadership, has paid U.S. universities nearly a billion dollars since 2021 — including many of the same universities that have turned a blind eye as their faculty and staff take the side of terrorists attacking Israel.
Qatar has only 300,000 citizens, making it half the size of the District of Columbia. Yet, rich with oil money and intent on shaping global politics, it showered more money on American universities than any other country, according to a Daily Wire analysis of disclosures that colleges are required to make to the U.S. government.
Its funding totaled $842 million between 2021 and April 2023, vastly outpacing interests linked to mammoth countries like Germany, China, Japan, and England.
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Qatar's support of Universities, combined with such orgs as MESA, have allowed extreme anti Israel scholars to colonize and then occupy entire academic departments
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/\ Yes, a oncogenesis or tumorigenesis enabler as it were.
[[Breitbart] Liberals used to decry the influence of money in politics. But in Joe Biden’s America, we have seen the rise of a noxious new generation of left-wing donors. I identify some of the biggest power players in Joe Biden’s American in my book New York Times bestselling book Breaking Biden.
Joe Biden is the quintessential oligarch. He has empowered America’s moneyed elite, and they have empowered him. Biden’s 2020 campaign was the first to raise over $1 billion. Democrats raised $600 million more in “dark money” than Republicans in 2020. Look for those numbers to explode even higher in 2024.
It is important to understand a key principle in modern Democratic politics: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Today, it’s Joe Biden’s table, and he’s happy to provide the entertainment.
Remember, unlike Joe Biden, all of these oligarchs are good with money. They aren’t giving away tens of millions of dollars out of the goodness of their heart. They want something in return. In each and every case, Joe Biden serves a purpose for them — maybe many purposes.
Let’s meet Joe’s billionaire cabinet:
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Dustin Moskovitz (net worth: $11.6 billion) - a cofounder of Facebook. Moskovitz gave roughly $50 million total in the 2020 election cycle, including $20 million to the Future Forward PAC, one of the main committees supporting Biden.
Eric Schmidt (net worth: $26.2 billion) - spent 20 years heading Google and its holding company, Alphabet, holding titles like CEO and executive chairman. Google has given more than $11 million to mostly Democrat political causes and has a $75 million lobbying record. Since its founding, Alphabet has given $59 million, again to mostly Democrats, and lobbied the government with upward of $119 million. Schmidt left the Alphabet in 2020 and has turned his focus to his philanthropic foundation, Schmidt Futures, which paid the salaries for two employees in Joe Biden’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Jeffrey Katzenberg (net worth: $900 million)
The Democrats’ man in Hollywood. Keen on holding fundraisers to glean donations from libs/progressives among the monied members of the film production crowd.
Laurene Powell Jobs (net worth: $13.7 billion) - Apple cofounder Steve Jobs’s widow is one of the richest women in the world and one of the most powerful people in Democrat politics and media. The heiress’s primary vehicle for spreading her wealth around is the Emerson Collective, which is a core subject of my first book, Breaking the News. Through the Emerson Collective, she gives lavishly to globalist social justice causes and candidates, funds establishment and alternative left-wing media, and provides jobs for Biden and Obama administration officials. Jobs’ Emerson Collective is a major backer of Galvanize Climate Solutions, where John Podesta was an advisor.
Reid Hoffman (net worth: $2.1 billion) - made his billions from helping launch PayPal and cofounding LinkedIn. Hoffman’s venture capital firm, Greylock Partners, has made eight-figure contributions to Democrat PACs and interest groups in recent elections. Hoffman was responsible for a “false flag” operation in Alabama that planted the idea that the Roy Moore U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 “was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” according to an internal report on the scheme reviewed by the New York Times. Hoffman apologized for the deception after it had become public knowledge. Hoffman funds Courier Newsroom and ACRONYM with Laurene Powell Jobs as well as the Good Information Foundation with George Soros, all of which are organizations that push left-wing ideology on social media.
Tom Steyer (net worth: $2.1 billion) - A San Francisco–based former hedge fund manager and climate activist, he spent $73 million on left-leaning causes during the 2020 cycle.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov
[RIA] Who can stop Israel? Everyone is looking at the States - it is believed that only they can do this: if only because, having lost the carte blanche they issued, Israel will be forced to behave more carefully and stop escalation, stop bombing Gaza and preparing for war with the Lebanese Hezbollah. However, there is another country whose influence on what is happening should not be underestimated - if only because just a hundred years ago the Palestinian-Israeli lands were part of it, and it itself was a caliphate, that is, the highest form of state education for all Muslims. We are talking about Turkey, the heir to the Ottoman Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Her position is now becoming extremely revealing.
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Akopov is on the pipe. Turkey and Russia are two nations wherein its producers are trying to escape. Heirs to the Ottoman Cliphate and The tsarist Peter the Great? Laughable!
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CBS keeps stressing that Johnson is anti-gay, pro-life, pro-Trump and an election denier. Never mind the $32 trillion debt, the border and election integrity.
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[NYP] If it weren’t taken for granted by now that everything that comes out of the Biden administration is a colossal screw up, it would be shocking that anyone shaping foreign policy for the White House is still employed there.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s embarrassing 7,000-word drivel at Foreign Policy magazine should leave no doubt.
"The Middle East is quieter than it has been in decades," read his piece — which went to press just days before Hamas’ savage attack on innocent Israelis.
President Joe Biden’s "disciplined approach frees up resources for other global priorities, reduces the risk of new Middle Eastern conflicts, and ensures that U.S. interests are protected on a far more sustainable basis."
Yes, "challenges remain," particularly in the West Bank, Sullivan conceded. But "we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence."
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It's frightening to think that a guy like Sullivan has actual power in our government. Hell, he might even be a member of the politburo that pulls Biden's strings.
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[JohnHelmer] The Palestinian strategy against Israel is aimed at destroying Israel’s capacity to survive in its present state in a long war.
This means attacking the invincibility of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and theur so-called Iron Dome defence; this began with the cross-border offensive on October 7, and continues with daily drone and artillery attacks on targets inside Israel, as well as resistance to IDF incursions in Gaza.
The plan also means exposing the weakness of the state’s infrastructure and economy; extending the battlefield across all of Israel’s territory – the ports, power plants and electricity grid, communications, and financial markets — making the cost of occupation of the Arab territories unendurable. In a long war, two of Israel’s leading exports earning more than 40% of the state’s trade — diamonds and tourism — face ruin.*
“The Israelis cannot withstand one year of fighting in a war,” Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein told his general staff in 1983 during a discussion of planning for a regional war of the Arabs against Israel.** In the forty years since then, the evolution of military technology and tactics has expanded the power of small national liberation armies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, of proxy principals like Iran, and of the strategic balancing role of Russia and China. Their combination now has shortened the Zionist state’s endurance in a long war, and that of its proxy principal, the US.
The Israelis and the Jewish diaspora comprehend this reluctantly. For them, the short war must be correspondingly shorter. This means the genocide of at least a million Palestinians in lives and displacement.
The war to do that has now become an international war – and this is a war the US cannot sustain. As a Pentagon insider said publicly this week, “because there are so many draws on the logistics and support infrastructure of the Pentagon, we’re not prepared to go in in a concerted way. What we are seeing right now is death by a thousand cuts. Our adversaries know we are stretched so they are going to make us stretch even more, so we can respond even less.”
The longer the war continues, the plainer the evidence is on the battlefield that the single-state scheme of Israel and the US is no longer possible. Whether Israel and the US can be compelled to withdraw to the 1967 borders and a new Palestinian state created with partition, demilitarisation, and international security guarantees – the basis of the Russian position announced again on Thursday in Moscow — remains to be fought over.
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[REGNUM] What began on October 7 and continues to this day is being called by many observers and experts, including the Israelis themselves, an unprecedented Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Some call what happened a well-prepared and brilliantly carried out sabotage and reconnaissance raid from a military point of view.
But this is not entirely true, since both the first and second have a very limited and clearly defined goal, upon achievement or failure of which the act or raid is terminated. In addition, for various reasons, the resources and resources allocated for such actions are quite limited.
In this case, Israel was faced with a completely new phenomenon for itself, namely the escalation of terrorism into a full-scale insurgency . Back in 1960, a book by the Russian military theorist Evgeniy Messner entitled “Rebellion is the name of the third world war” was published in Buenos Aires, in which he gave a detailed description of this phenomenon and made his prediction that classical terrorism will evolve into a rebellious war with all the negative consequences for those against whom it will be directed. Obviously, in the near future this will be one of the ways to develop military and military-political thought and practice.
Natalya Melentyeva gives a very important and in its own way significant definition of terrorism in her article “Reflections on Terrorism”: “Terrorism is the conscious use of illegitimate violence (most often with a deliberate focus on a spectacular, dramatic nature) on the part of some minority group thereby striving to achieve certain goals that are obviously unattainable in a legitimate way . ” “From this definition it follows that the violence carried out by terrorists is directly related to the limitation of socio-political means to achieve the goal,” she further writes.
This is the objective-subjective basis, the ideological foundation of terror, practiced for many years by radical Palestinian groups. They argued (and now continue to argue) that, firstly, the state of Israel is illegitimate by definition, since it was created by the political will of the powers that be on their land, and the state promised to them has not yet been created, which in itself is extremely unfair . Secondly, the Palestinians live so poorly because Israel exists in its current form. Finally, thirdly, they do not have a state, which means they have no legitimate armed forces, no money to equip them, and, therefore, the only way to fight illegitimate Israel, blatant injustice and double standards can only be terrorism.
A number of experts, confirming Melentyeva’s thesis, directly say: why is Arab and radical Muslim terrorism not widespread in the United States, although there are a sufficient number of both, including followers of orthodox views and sympathizers of Palestine? Because they have socio-political means, in their opinion, sufficient to achieve vital goals. But the Palestinians don’t have those.
On October 24, this was partly confirmed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, saying at a UN Security Council meeting: “It is also important to recognize that Hamas attacks did not occur in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to a suffocating occupation for 56 years.” And on October 25, the leader of the NATO member country Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the same thing. In his speech at the Grand National Assembly to widespread applause, he said that Turkey does not consider the Palestinian movement Hamas a terrorist organization, calling its members “a group of mujahideen (fighters for a just, sacred cause) defending their lands.”
But terrorism, even when it spread beyond the region, notably when Palestinians kidnapped Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, did not bring the results expected by its organizers and minority groups.
The USSR's war in Afghanistan gave terrorism a new, state-based content. Western countries led by the USA, Pakistan and Maoist China actively participated in comprehensive support of the Mujahideen. These were not only supplies of everything in the world, from weapons to intelligence and communications equipment, but also active work among the terrorists by intelligence officers, diplomatic, information and PR support and accompaniment. Terrorism has risen to a qualitatively new level of equipment and preparation, and also, which is very important, has begun to be partially legitimized in the eyes of the public. All this experience counted.
Then there was the experience of Al-Qaeda*, Taliban* and the Islamic State*. Terrorism has undergone a qualitative transformation. He became more intellectual and structurally highly organized. In 2016, the World Bank published the results of its research, from which it follows that the level of education of members of the terrorist group "Islamic State" * is on average higher than that of their fellow countrymen from the countries from which they came. “Poverty is not a reason for radicalization and the adoption of extremist ideas,” analysts came to this conclusion.
In addition, those militants who became suicide bombers also had a high level of education, the study emphasized. The actions of Islamic terrorists have ceased to have the character of classical terror. These were already well-planned, calculated almost military operations, developed at a professional staff level. Terrorists have become proxy groups of countries with a vested interest in them. In the Islamic environment, the Americans, the British, the Turks, and the Iranians have acquired such. A number of these groups have been reformatted, rebranded and have become quite respectable, like Hamas, which transformed itself into a political party and won elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006, receiving a majority of votes there. Having strengthened politically and ideologically, Hamas, with the active support of Iran, apparently began to actively prepare for a new type of war, one not against Israel.
Actually, a rebellion as a form of protest is quickly stopped and either resolved peacefully, as was the case with the Wagner PMC, or suppressed by force, as was the case in Kronstadt in 1921. Rebellion is a completely different matter. This is not a separate act, not an operation, it is precisely the continuation of the policy by other means, with weapons in hand. And politics is a long-term process with its own tactical and strategic goals and objectives, prolonged over time, in this case continuously saturated with new military, economic, informational, diplomatic and PR components.
For example, on October 24, Hamas militants freed two old women from captivity, drank tea with them on camera, and handed over the captives to humanitarian organizations. Against the backdrop of the daily massive and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, the piles of corpses of children and entire families, demonstrated by all news agencies of the world, this is an almost win-win move, switching the compassionate reflex of ordinary people in other countries from Jews to Palestinians. In the logic of the modern news flow, which daily erases past news episodes from memory, such moves are a necessary political and informational component of rebellion. After such stories, the average person gradually becomes emotionally discolored by the images of the atrocities of Hamas militants on October 7–8.
Thus, we see that rebel designers are people of “long” will. They threw into battle not suicide bombers and partisans in slippers, but superbly trained, well-equipped and armed rebel fighters, each of whom had his own task and could act either alone or as part of a unit, which, in turn, within the framework of the overall strategic plan. The goal of this insurgency unleashed by Hamas, apparently, is not to defeat the enemy in the sense of a classical war, but to force him to carry out the will of the winner.
In tactical terms, rebellion has much in common with the so-called network-centric wars, when small detachments independently operate over vast territories, uniting if necessary to accomplish a common task.
This war is experimental in many ways and for many of its participants. Now both Israeli and Western military-political analytics are trying to find options for an adequate response to this challenge.
It is obvious that rebel warfare will continue to evolve. In what direction, it is still difficult to say. Apparently, the conflict in Ukraine and the experience of aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are already forcing military theorists to begin to reconsider military doctrines and conceptual approaches to possible armed confrontations, to the continuation of politics with arms in hand. After all, everyone was preparing for the wars of the future, high-tech, targeted, fleeting, humane, which will be fought by small, gadgetized professional armies. What did you get in Ukraine? The First World War with drones. The main weapons are guns made in 1949, trench seats and bloody gnawing off each other over a hundred meters of territory.
Israel, apparently, was also preparing for the wrong war. I didn’t pay attention to the current Ukrainian experience. Therefore, the Merkavas turned out to be defenseless from drone strikes (only now they have started hastily welding anti-drone visors - “barbecues”). And the Iron Dome, which performed well in 2011–2014, shooting down about 1,200 Qassam and BM-21 Grad missiles, has not coped with the current raids nearly as successfully. Just look at the severe destruction in Israeli cities. The readiness and actions of a number of even senior officers in the face of the sudden appearance of the enemy also turned out to be not at the highest level. It is obvious that such introductions, when the enemy unexpectedly appears at the unit’s location, attacks from the rear while moving along internal communications, with various means of destruction from several directions at once, were either not practiced at all, or this was done to an insufficient extent. There were facts of confusion, loss of control of entire units and panic, which was not typical of the IDF before.
Apparently, Hamas is currently ready for a ground operation by the Israeli army. All of Gaza is covered with tunnels, underground warehouses, hospitals with everything necessary, and so on. Now the Israeli military leadership obviously realizes that the IDF is waiting in Gaza for a “second Terrible,” which the Minister of Defense of that time, Pavel Grachev, was going to take with one parachute regiment.
As a result, the Israeli leadership is playing for time and testing the waters for compromise, while making bellicose statements for internal use, as Israeli society seeks revenge. After a terrorist attack or even a reconnaissance and sabotage raid, nothing like this happens. This only happens during a war. In this case, rebel warriors.
This experience will also be very important and useful for us, and we need to start studying it right now. In particular, how and why one of the best armies in the world went wrong in the first days of the “Palestinian blitzkrieg”. How were its weaknesses identified? How was the selection of forces and means for attacks on these weak points carried out? How effective was this from a purely military point of view? What new elements of attack and combat were applied? Which types of weapons and technical support proved to be the most productive, and which, on the contrary, did not live up to expectations? And on both sides.
The final, or perhaps intermediate, stage in the form of freezing this new rebellious war will be a time for rethinking many, not only purely military aspects. After all, any war is a political matter, and after it, many things change in their politics.
Palestinian terrorism based on 3 echelons.
(1) Hamas members who carry out attacks and fire rockets.
(2) Gazukan population with their well rehersed shows of victimhood on demand.
(3) Western degenerates screaming about human rights & civilian casualties.
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So, if I get the gist of that "speech" correctly, the "Paleostinian state" was the US prexident's to give. So, it would be the US prexident's to take away...
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[ColonelCassad] The video shows the projectile streaking across the dark sky over the Gaza Strip and exploding in mid-air. A few seconds later another explosion is seen on the ground.
The video footage became widely cited evidence as Israeli and US officials presented evidence that an errant Palestinian rocket malfunctioned in the sky, fell to the ground and caused a deadly explosion at Al Ahly Arab Hospital in Gaza City.
But a detailed visual analysis by The New York Times
...yes, well the New York Times. They get frissons for all the wrong reasons...
concluded that the video clip taken from Al Jazeera's live camera on the night of October 17 shows something different. The missile shown in the video likely did not cause the explosion at the hospital. It actually exploded in the sky about two miles away, The Times has learned, and is unrelated to the fighting that took place that night on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The Times' findings do not answer the question of what actually caused the explosion at Al Ahly Arab Hospital or who was responsible. The claim by Israeli and US intelligence agencies that a failed Palestinian missile launch was to blame remains plausible. But the Times' analysis casts doubt on some of the most publicized evidence Israeli officials have used to make their case, and complicates their straightforward case.
U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that the agencies believe the video shows a Palestinian rocket launched from Gaza suffering a “catastrophic engine failure” before part of the rocket fell onto hospital grounds. The senior intelligence official said authorities could not rule out new information that would change their assessment, but said they were very confident in their conclusions.
The hospital bombing was a searing and controversial episode in the war that began Oct. 7 after Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, invaded Israel. who were taken back to Gaza. Israel responded to the Hamas attack with a relentless artillery and bombing campaign that has killed 5,700 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli military prepares for a ground invasion.
Israeli officials and Palestinian militants blame each other for the al-Ahli Arab bombing. Multiple videos collected and analyzed by The Times show militants fired dozens of rockets from southwest of the hospital minutes before the explosion, and a fiery explosion at the hospital consistent with a failed rocket with unspent fuel falling far short of its target.
The footage also suggests that an Israeli bombing took place and that two explosions near the hospital can be seen within two minutes of the explosion. Major Nir Dinar, an Israeli army spokesman, told The Times that military forces did not strike “at a distance that could endanger the hospital,” but declined to say how far away the closest strike was.
A week after the tragedy at the hospital, much remains in question.
The death toll, initially estimated by Hamas at 500 and later lowered to 471, is believed by Western intelligence agencies to be significantly lower, but no figures have been confirmed. The hospital itself was not directly hit; Whatever caused the explosion actually hit the hospital courtyard, where people had gathered for safety, and several parked cars.
Moreover, the crater left by the impact was relatively small, a fact Israel relied on when claiming that none of its munitions caused an explosion, and could correspond to a number of different munitions. Hamas did not present Israeli ammunition remains or any physical evidence to support its claim that Israel was responsible.
Asked about The Times' findings, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said The Times and U.S. intelligence agencies had different interpretations of the video.
Understanding what happened is especially difficult because Israel and Hamas have been shooting at each other since the start of the war.
According to video evidence and the hospital's official Facebook page, Israel fired more than 8,000 rounds of ammunition into the Gaza Strip in what was a brutal attack, and even hit Al Ahly Arab Hospital with a flare shell three days earlier.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to fire deadly rockets at Israel from hidden launch sites inside the Gaza Strip. Palestinian rockets have malfunctioned in the past, with one estimate saying 15 percent of rockets launched by militant groups in Gaza fail.
An hour after the explosion in the hospital, an information war began. Hamas immediately blamed Israel for the airstrike, and the Israel Defense Forces soon denied any responsibility and blamed it on a faulty Palestinian rocket.
Israeli officials released an account of the Oct. 18 bombing and also released one conversation they said was intercepted between Hamas militants blaming Islamic Jihad for the blast. Israel also provided several other pieces of evidence that have not been made public, including logs of military activity, information obtained from radar systems, other audio intercepts and other video recordings.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials have pointed to the Al Jazeera video in media interviews and on social media.
The Al Jazeera video was published three times by the Israel Defense Forces on the X site, formerly known as Twitter. In reports, the Israeli military identified the moving aerial object as a "missile aimed at Israel" that "misfired and exploded" almost simultaneously with the explosion at the Al-Ahly Arab hospital. Israeli military officials also directly referred to the munition as a misfired missile that caused the explosion in interviews with CNN and BBC on October 18 and in an interview with India Today on October 19.
Numerous media outlets showed the footage, and some cited it as evidence that a Palestinian rocket hit the hospital.
But The Times concluded that the rocket in the video was never near the hospital. It was launched from Israel, not the Gaza Strip, and appears to have exploded over the Israel-Gaza border, at least two miles from the hospital.
To track the object in the sky to Israeli territory, The Times synchronized the Al Jazeera footage with five other videos filmed at the same time, including footage from the Israeli television channel Channel 12 and security cameras in Tel Aviv. These different videos show the rocket from the north, south, east and west. Using satellite imagery to triangulate the launch point in those videos, The Times determined that the projectile was fired toward Gaza from near the Israeli city of Nahal Oz shortly before the deadly hospital explosion. The results match the conclusions reached by some online researchers.
In addition, the video shows that the projectile in the Al Jazeera footage was launched after a Palestinian rocket attack, which, according to Israeli officials, caused the hospital explosion.
The video shows that from 18:59 on October 17, Palestinian rockets are fired from two positions southwest and northwest of Al Ahli Arab Hospital. The flames of Palestinian rockets can be seen in the night sky as their engines propel them northeast towards Israel. More than 25 seconds elapse between the last Palestinian rocket and the hospital explosion.
The Times could not independently determine the type of projectile fired from Israel, although it was fired from an area known to have an Iron Dome defense system. The Israeli military says it does not fire Iron Dome interceptors into the Gaza Strip, and indeed the missile shown in the video may not have crossed into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said Iron Dome did not fire at the interceptors at the time or area stated.
As the United States says, we believe that this is Hamas and that is enough. An international investigation is not needed.
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Here, in Middle East, we say "Dogs bark, but the caravan keeps going". It's sad that Russians, who out to know better, join with the cannibal Eloi of "Western World".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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