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Honest questions: How many Palestinian dead is an acceptable figure and what exactly did President Biden mean by standing “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel?

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While the President accuses Israel of what would have been considered a war crime in World War II, completely and totally botching the historical reality of US policy in the process, he and others who insist Israel is killing too many civilian refuse to provide any number of acceptable casualties of their own. Immediately after… Continue reading Honest questions: How many Palestinian dead is an acceptable figure and what exactly did President Biden mean by standing “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel?

The White House Christmas video says it all

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The promise was that Joe Biden represented a return to normalcy and competence, but his administration lacks even the normalcy or competence to produce a Christmas video without politicizing the holiday season.  In a sane world, producing a holiday video at the White House should not be either difficult or controversial.  Conservatives might well demand… Continue reading The White House Christmas video says it all

Honest Question: Why are the Palestinians so special?

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Globally, 828 million people go to bed hungry.  Some 700 million live in poverty. 72% of the population, lives under authoritarian rule while some 5 billion do not have access to adequate medical care. Why do a relative handful on a small strip of land matter so much? To many progressives, the fate of Palestine seems to… Continue reading Honest Question: Why are the Palestinians so special?

Palestine, Hamas, Israel, and antisemitism: Good faith is hard to find

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Remember when the Tea Party movement that formed under President Barack Obama was maligned as a racist haven for white supremacy by many of the same people who are now studiously avoiding a discussion of the rampant antisemitism in their midst? In principle, it is possible to be a supporter of Palestine without being an… Continue reading Palestine, Hamas, Israel, and antisemitism: Good faith is hard to find

Biden cannot continue to be at war with himself over Israel and Hamas, or Russia and Ukraine

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Clarity of purpose in war is essential.  The enemy must understand and believe you will do whatever it takes to achieve your objective.  How is a war supposed to end when your enemy doesn’t even know what you want in the first place? Last week, President Joe Biden said what most needed saying about the… Continue reading Biden cannot continue to be at war with himself over Israel and Hamas, or Russia and Ukraine

The media applies the impossible Biden standard of evidence to Israel

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Underground tunnels beneath a hospital? Hostages taken through a hospital? Weapons caches inside a hospital? Where have we seen this impossible standard of evidence before?  When no evidence of any kind is ever enough? The big news over the past few days as been the humanitarian pause or cease-fire if you prefer in exchange for… Continue reading The media applies the impossible Biden standard of evidence to Israel

A few honest questions for supporters of Palestine

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My view is simple:  October 7 changed everything, Hamas needs to be destroyed, and an invasion, which will necessarily be brutal and bloody, is the only means to do that.  Someone, somewhere might have a superior plan that would achieve the same objective with less loss of life.  It would be helpful, however, if they… Continue reading A few honest questions for supporters of Palestine

Israel: The Biden Administration appears to understand the dynamics and the stakes, but somehow refuses to accept what that actually means in the real world

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The Secretary of State admitted that Hamas uses their own people as human shields and doesn’t care about their well being, but fails to explain how Israel can minimize civilian casualties when their enemy wants to maximize them, much less how a “humanitarian pause” would do anything except help Hamas itself. “Hamas doesn’t care one… Continue reading Israel: The Biden Administration appears to understand the dynamics and the stakes, but somehow refuses to accept what that actually means in the real world

Mitch McConnell has officially lost it, slamming his own party while repeating Democrat talking points

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The Senator from Kentucky recently endorsed the idea that war is actually stimulus, bomb someone half a world away to make more bombs here at home, perhaps the most cynical and reprehensible framing in decades. In doing so, he’s opposing the newly minted Speaker of the House and taking other unwarranted shots at his fellow… Continue reading Mitch McConnell has officially lost it, slamming his own party while repeating Democrat talking points

Intersectionality leads directly to the hatred we see on college campuses and other progressive enclaves

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There seems to be a sense of shock and sadness at the sudden rise in hate, as if this were entirely unexpected, but there shouldn’t be.  This is the logical outcome of dividing the world into the oppressed who can do no wrong and the oppressors who are never right. “The rats need to be… Continue reading Intersectionality leads directly to the hatred we see on college campuses and other progressive enclaves