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Voting against Genocide - How Gaza Defeated the Democratic Establishment

Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well.

 The ones who cost the Democrats the elections are the Democrats themselves. Their humiliating defeat on November 5 was due largely to their undeniable role in the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza. 

 Peter Beinart put it best in his November 7 op-ed in the New York Times, entitled "Democrats Ignored Gaza and Brought Down Their Party." 

Can Politics Merge With a Sane Future?

“America is for Americans – Americans only!”

The words are those of Stephen Miller, speaking last month at the infamous Madison Square Garden rally, but they define Donald Trump. This is the message – the cry from the mountaintop – he brought to the country . . . at least to approximately half of it. It’s the unifying force behind his campaign, both pragmatically and spiritually. It transcends politics and cuts to people’s deepest values and deepest fears.

It’s why he won: Donald the Outsider, standing up to the Washington status quo, opening the doors of the American government and letting its citizens flow in (legally this time, without breaking doors and windows). America is for Americans – sieg heil!

Donald Trump: The Ugly American

Global Warming:

The most damage will be done not to country but to the planet. Global Warming (renamed benignly as Climate Change) is already upon us in the form of Hurricane Helene flooding in the Appalachian mountains (Asheville, NC area), forest fire infernos in Maui, Hawaii and Paradise, California and the current fires in Santa Paula area of California. Epic flooding has occurred in Spain, Italy, Thailand, Bangladesh, Morocco and Algeria. Flooding in Africa has affected Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Typhoon Yagi struck China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It was the first Category 4 or stronger typhoon to make landfall in Vietnam.

No Bad Peace; No Good Wars

This week we observe the end of the `War to End All Wars,’ also known as World War I. The memorial week will be filled with the usual platitudes and patriotic guff designed to benefit the politicians who sent millions of young men to their deaths in this most stupid of all wars. I consider World War I as the greatest tragedy to befall civilization. World War II killed more civilians but World War I killed or wounded more soldiers and it destroyed much of Europe after a century of glittering civilization. We still feel the consequences of this brutal conflict today: the war in Ukraine, the butchery in Gaza, high tensions in the Balkans. WWI led to the collapse of the Russian Empire and the advent of Communism that killed millions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This included six million Ukrainians starved or shot by the Soviets. The rapacious Treaty of Versailles led directly to the rise of National Socialism in Germany and, in part, to fascism in Italy. Europe’s Jews became the main target of hatred after being blamed for the crimes and mass murder caused by Communism.

The Israeli soccer hooligans get what they deserve in Amsterdam

"The attack on the Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam was not because they were Jews but because they were thugs who started provoking everyone until they received their punishment. The ugly truth about the Amsterdam incident is the Western media has adopted and promoted the Israeli narrative that the attack was anti-Semitic and a pogrom against Jews. Even the Jewish Forward editorial today took issues with Israeli and global leaders today who denounced the attack on the hooligans as a modern-day pogrom. The editorial argued, "The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is more blatant. It defines a pogrom as 'an organized massacre of helpless people, specifically: such a massacre of Jews.'” Only five people reported being injured, and one of them refused to get medical treatment by saying, "I want to be treated in Israel."  62 suspects were arrested with 10 still in custody but they were not identified if they were local or Israeli fans. What really happened to the Israeli hooligans in Amsterdam? I first learned about it today through The Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) email.
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