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What's amazing is you believe media reports. That's what's astounding
Link boy. So what link is valid and not valid? I agree that video is bull shit, but that's CNN. What's real and fake anymore?
I really don't think anyone here realizes how 1984'd you all are.
Worrying about cognitive dissonance while dismissing the God who both created and yet defies all logic is rich. Even for Richard Wicks. Before you worry about dismissing certain beliefs, everyone better double check that they haven’t dismissed the most important truths.
We are involved because we facilitated the agreement* by which Israel gave up the Sinai Peninsula they captured after kicking Egypt's (and Soviet's) ass in 1967 and 1973. This is why both Israel and Egypt are getting yearly security assistance from the US.
I'm surprised you don't know any of that.
*) Camp David Accords of 1978
The New York Times ran a swelling story yesterday headlined, “Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police.” You’ve probably been waiting impatiently for this development; and now, your waiting is over, the summer of protest finally begins! At least the kids are doing something, you know, productive.
And it’s spreading faster than gonorrhea during Spring Break. “Patient Zero” was Columbia University, which was taken in the rear, by surprise, and has now been occupied so fully and so intensely that the school recently canceled all in-person classes through year’s end.
Columbia’s massive pro-Palestine protest is well-organized and well-funded. At Columbia, and at most of the subsequent occupations, the protestors arrived on campus outfitted with expensive tents and camping supplies, since they clearly intend to hang for around a long time...
This protest season sort of blends Occupy Wall Street with Seattle’s CHAZ/CHOP, and a stationary version of George Floyd’s “covid-immune” parades and protests during 2020’s Summer of Love. Masks appear optional this time and the dress code is grunge chic. Riots TBA.
Not all states are rolling over like pleasant pussycats this time. Some learned their lessons last election season. Texas quickly cleared University of Austin’s campus, with jackbooted anti-protestors cracking a few skulls full of mush, and de-squatting the tent-bearing occupiers who were dashing toward the school’s commons area. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the police moved in just before lunchtime yesterday to shove off an expanding encampment of about 100 protesters preparing to squat amidst the formerly-peaceful center of campus, which USC apparently required for other, non-protest purposes.
Whomever is behind this national rampage hasn’t yet tried setting up any tent cities in Florida, and I suspect it won’t go well for them if they are dumb enough to try it.
But in all the predictable locales, stinky protestor tent cities are cropping up like diseased daisies after a nuclear meltdown. At Harvard, woke school administrators pretended to stop it, but quickly raised their flabby, pale, limp arms in useless surrender—what, after all, can they really do at the end of the long protest day?
The pro-Palestine encampment drama could prove a disaster for the Left. Let me explain why, and how the Right can exploit it.
Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or how it relates to the United States, but for good reason, most support Israel over Hamas. In this context, left-wing protestors will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd. Ultimately, the spectacle of masked Antifa-style protestors occupying campuses over a foreign conflict and supporting Hamas-style “decolonization” does not offer a clear and significant upside.
But there is a significant potential downside.
This encampment escalation divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it. The correct response from the Right is to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses. If these protests become more volatile and go all the way to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, we could see a 1968 scenario. That didn’t work out too well for the Democrats.
In other words: make the Left own its pro-Hamas faction, or, alternatively, force the Left to deal with it – by breaking up the encampments, punishing wrongdoers, and restoring order, at whatever political cost this may exact. Let Ivy League presidents discover the consequences of their actions (or inactions)—and gently increase pressure from the outside.
If the Right can successfully keep order in its regions, as Florida governor Ron DeSantis has done so far, and keep the focus on the disorder overrunning left-wing jurisdictions – culminating, perhaps, in coalitional discord at the Democratic convention – it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics, after all, is shifting problems to your opponents—and capitalizing on them.
They hate gay people therefore it's morally right to bomb their apartment buildings and drive them out of their land?
That's not the point. The pic shows the irony of LGBT types that give support to a group that would exterminate them.
Looks like a member of the faculty, or a professional Leftist who probably started in the 70s.
Far-Left Rep. Rashida Tlaib Suggests Voting Against Biden in November, Calls Him an ‘Enabler’ of Genocide
Far-Left Rep. Rashida Tlaib Suggests Voting Against Biden in November, Calls Him an ‘Enabler’ of Genocide
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For the survival of humanity, it is imperative that the Democratic Party be split. What are the wedge issues that would do this most effectively?
One that pops to mind is Israel. A lot of Democrats hate Israel and are for the Palestinians, but most Jews are Democrats.
So a rational person wanting humanity to survive the devastation of Democrat rule would find a way to increase this split. How might that be done?