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What happens when you don’t do any research? You attack on air personalities.

On air personalities not aware and not charged.

What happens when you don’t do any research? You attack on air personalities. Tenet Media was a U.S.-based media company founded in January 2022 by political commentator Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan.

Tenet Media shut down on September 5, 2024, after two Russian Nationals were charged. None of the on-air personalities knew where the money was coming from and none were charged. See below.

What the DOJ alleged
The Justice Department accused Russian state‑media employees of:

secretly funding Tenet Media

directing content strategy

using the company as a covert influence operation

But the indictment did not accuse the U.S. influencers of knowingly participating. Who was not charged?
No American influencers or Tenet Media on‑air personalities were charged.
The DOJ framed them as:
“Unwitting” participants
People who did not know the money came from Russian state media.

Why weren’t the Americans charged?
Based on the sources:
The indictment alleges the Russians concealed the funding.
The influencers were paid as if it were a normal media contract.
DOJ did not accuse them of knowingly participating in a foreign influence operation.

Bottom line
Yes — charges were filed.

Only the Russian operatives were indicted.

No Tenet Media hosts or U.S. influencers were charged.

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Maria Farmer’s Purported Vindication Is False.

Todays headlines. Nice News Photo

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Maria Farmer’s Purported Vindication Is False.

Below is a article that first appeared on Newsmax.

By Jim Thomas

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz forcefully rejected claims tied to Epstein accuser Maria Farmer during a Newsmax interview on Tuesday while urging full transparency as the Justice Department faces scrutiny over its redacted release of Epstein records.

Appearing on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” Dershowitz disputed assertions that Farmer was vindicated by newly released federal documents and challenged the credibility of allegations connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Responding to a claim that Farmer had been vindicated, Dershowitz said, “You said that the woman in 1996 was vindicated; she wasn’t vindicated. “This is Maria Farmer – she is a complete and total nutcase,” he continued.

“She believes the Holocaust didn’t occur. She thinks Jews control the world. She thinks that all Jews are pedophiles,” Dershowitz said.

“Of course, the FBI didn’t believe her in 1996. Nobody would believe her. She’s a complete nutcase except to CNN. CNN has her on every day.”

Dershowitz said Farmer claimed to have seen him at Epstein’s residence before he had ever met Epstein, disputing the account and questioning why such claims would be credited.

“Understand, Maria Farmer said she saw me once in Jeffrey Epstein’s house before I ever met Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, she sees ghosts. This is a completely non-credible nutcase that nobody should believe. Just because it’s in the files doesn’t make it true,” he said.

He added that the FBI would have evaluated such allegations at the time and rejected them, citing Farmer’s past statements.

“I’m sure the FBI looked into it and said, ‘Oh my God, this woman making a claim — what she said about Jews, what she said about people — of course we’re not going to believe her,'” Dershowitz said, characterizing the situation as “pure McCarthyism.”

Pressed on why the public cannot see unredacted files, Dershowitz argued that partial disclosures distort the record.

“A lot of these women who call themselves survivors, who call themselves victims — a lot of them were perpetrators, perjurers, liars. Lawyers got rich over this,” he said, while also stating that Epstein committed serious crimes and that “there are real victims.”

Dershowitz cited examples of allegations he said were fabricated, referencing claims later retracted, and warned that selective transparency harms legitimate victims.

“Partial transparency — that’s what Joseph McCarthy did,” he said, arguing that accusers and the accused should be subject to the same scrutiny.

He said he has studied the case for years and renewed the calls for prosecutions where warranted.

“Look, I know more about this case, probably, than any person around. I’ve been investigating this case since I became Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer in 2006 or something like that,” Dershowitz said.

“Many of these women — 20-year-olds, 21-year-olds, 23-year-olds — were making $250 a shot for bringing 14-year-olds to Jeffrey Epstein for sex. Let’s prosecute them. They’re within the statute of limitations.”

The remarks came after the Justice Department recently released redacted Epstein-related files.

According to CNN, the release was described as a breakthrough by Farmer and her sister Annie, who say Maria filed one of the earliest complaints against Epstein in the 1990s.

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Blast from the past. Student Designed US Flag & Received a B- For It.

In 1958, a 17-year-old Bob Heft set out to complete an open-ended assignment for his American History class in Lancaster, Ohio. “Like a science fair” project, he would later explain, students could make whatever they wanted.

Blast from the past. Student Designed US Flag & Received a B- For It.

In 1958, a 17-year-old Bob Heft set out to complete an open-ended assignment for his American History class in Lancaster, Ohio. “Like a science fair” project, he would later explain, students could make whatever they wanted.

To hear him speak about it, it’s clear Heft has told this tale countless times.

Inspired by the Betsy Ross story — legend has it, the seamstress was called upon by George Washington himself to design the flag during the Revolutionary War — Heft set about ambitiously making his own. At the time, there were only 48 states in the union. But, working off a hunch that Alaska and Hawaii would soon join, Heft added an extra couple stars. The teacher was unimpressed.

“He said, ‘Why you got too many stars? You don’t even know how many states we have,’” Heft recalled. (Harsh, teach.)

He earned a B- for his efforts — which involved dissecting a 48-star flag his parents had received as a wedding gift and sewing it back together himself with the knowledge he’d gleaned by watching his mother. The whole process had taken over 12 hours, he later told The Houston Chronicle. He’d even asked his grandmother to help, but she’d refused, upset that he’d ruined a perfectly good flag.

“Now, a B-minus ain’t that bad of a grade,” Heft admitted. “However, a friend of mine, Jim, he’d picked up five leaves off the ground — he’s taping these leaves down to the notebook and labeling them elm, hickory, maple — and the teacher gave him the grade of an A. I was really — I was upset.”

An A for leaves taped to paper, and a B- for a hand-sewn emblem of our great nation. The teacher — who, at this point, may have simply had it out for young Bob Heft — said he’d bump up the grade if the U.S. government officially adopted his design. The sheer indignity of it all gave Heft the momentum he needed.

In August 1959, 21 letters and 18 phone calls later — not to his parents’ great pleasure upon seeing their phone bill — Heft got a call from then President Dwight D. Eisenhower, inviting Heft to see his creation hoisted up the flagpole. But Heft was working and didn’t know if his boss would let him take a quick vacation. So, to his boss’ horror, he put the president on hold. (It all worked out, of course.)

On July 4, 1960, the 50-star flag was officially raised over Fort McHenry in Maryland, with Heft standing proudly by. True to his word, Heft’s teacher gave him that hard-sought A.

Bob Heft later become a teacher himself. He kept a brisk schedule of motivational speaking engagements — over 200 in his last year — and died in December 2009. At the time of his death, his school project was safely tucked away in storage.

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A blast from the past. The Raid on Taranto

An Italian Pearl Harbor.

A blast from the past. The Raid on Taranto

An article Walter did back in 2020.

At approximately 20:40 (8:40 PM) local time, November 11, 1940, the first flight of 12 Fairey Swordfish lifted off the deck of HMS Illustrious (followed by a second flight some 90 minutes later) in the final action of a multi tasked operation dubbed, “MB8”.

The planning for MB8 began in the aftermath of the Munich Agreement September 30, 1938. Appeasement to Hitler’s Germany would lead many in the Admiralty to begin the long range planning for British Naval Supremacy in the Mediterranean.

The planning for MB8 came to the fore as Italy declared war in June 1940 and followed up with an invasion of Egypt in September. The conflict for control of the Mediterranean had begun.
With an Italian Army in Libya, a British Army in Egypt, convoys accompanied by war ships crossing and re-crossing one another’s course, factor in Italy’s alliance with Germany and conflict was considered a real possibility. Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Admiral Sir Arthur Cunningham was responsible for the orderly and safe operation of the convoys that supplied the British Army.
The Italian Navy followed a “Fleet in being” theory that sortied against the British convoys from their base at Taranto consisting of 5 operational battleships, 7 heavy Cruisers, 2 light cruisers and 8 destroyers. To that end Admiral Cunningham was responsible to see that Operation MB8 denigrate the effectiveness of the Italian Navy in interdicting supply convoys to the population of Malta and the British Army in Egypt.
The British were concerned should the Italian navy be successful, supply convoys to the British Army in Egypt be forced to round the African continent’s Cape of Good Hope and leave the badly needed British outpost of Malta with no reliable avenue of re-supply.

Planning sessions made the case for the Italian Navy’s “Regia Marina” based at Taranto to be the prime target. The planning sessions also made the case for an obsolete biplane to be the prime asset to perform the attack. Designed in 1930s as a dive and torpedo bomber with night capabilities made the Swordfish the operational choice.
The Italian navy kept tabs on British movements principally by aerial reconnaissance; this made collecting the necessary assets for the attack on Taranto without alerting the Italians of prime concern. Regular British aerial surveillance of the base at Taranto by British medium bombers (Martin XA-22, named the Maryland by the British) kept tabs on the Italian Navy.

In a seemingly discordant series of mixed convoys, “Operation MB8” began November 4, concluding November 11 with the full on attack (Operation Judgement) of the base at Taranto consisted of 5 convoy elements (Operation Coat, Convoy MW3, ME3, Convoy AN6, Operation Crack) that would allow the assets necessary for the raid to be assembled near the Greek Island of Cephalonia (located approx. 170 miles South-East of The base at Taranto) without unduly raising concerns of the Italian Navy.
“Operation Judgement” was originally scheduled for October 21st (Trafalgar Day) but delayed by a fire aboard Illustrious that destroyed two of the Swordfish. A second British aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle was to join Illustrious but a fuel system failure eliminated her participation. In order that Illustrious be able to launch the attack alone, she took aboard five Swordfish from HMS Eagle bringing the number of Swordfish available for the attack to 21.

Several incidents contributed to the British success; first the complexity of Operation MB8 confused the Italians into thinking that it consisted of supply convoys not an offensive. Secondly the Italians had placed a number of barrage balloons to protect against low-flying aircraft, but a wind storm on November 6th had reduced the number of balloons to 27. Lastly but of greater importance was the lack of proper anti-torpedo nets for fully one third of the capital ships in harbor.

The first wave of aircraft consisted of six Swordfish armed with torpedoes, two with a combination of bombs and flares and the remaining four armed with bombs made up the first wave. This was inadvertently split into two sections as 4 aircraft strayed from the group while flying through some scattered clouds.
Eight aircraft approached the harbor at 22:58, one dropped flares, joined by another plane, the two attacked and set fire to a series of oil tanks. Three aircraft led by Lt. Commander Williamson attacked the battleship “Conte di Cavour” with a torpedo that tore a huge hole just below her water line; Williamson’s craft was shot down by the ship’s anti-aircraft batteries. The two remaining aircraft, dodging barrage balloons unsuccessfully attacked the battleship “Andrea Doria”. Three planes attacking from a northerly direction launched torpedoes at the battleships Littoria (hitting it with two torpedoes) while missing the battleship Vittorio Veneto.
The bomber force, led by Marine Captain Patch, although having difficulty identifying targets successfully bombed and scored hits on two cruisers and straddled a group of four destroyers.

Nine Swordfish made up the second wave, but a ship board collision damaged two Swordfish forcing one to abort and the final Swordfish to launch some 20 minutes behind the rest of the flight.
Lt. Commander Hale and his flight approached from a northerly direction with torpedoes, bombs and flares. The battleship Littoria was attacked by planes dropping torpedoes again, one torpedo striking her. One of the flight, despite taking heavy anti-aircraft aimed its torpedo at the battleship Vittorio Veneto but missed. Another craft would torpedo the battleship Caio Duillo, leaving a huge hole in her hull and her forward magazines flooded. Lt. Bayly was shot down by anti-aircraft fire from the Italian heavy cruiser Gorizia after successfully attacking the battleship Littorio; the only craft downed in the second wave. The late launch by the last of the attacking Swordfish arrived some 15 minutes made a dive bomb attack on one of the Italian heavy cruisers but was unsuccessful.

Out of the 20 Swordfish that participated in the attack, only two airplanes were lost. Lt. Commander Williamson and his crewman were taken prisoner, Lt. Hale and his crewman would die in the crash of their craft. The rest of the attacking aircraft returned safely to the Illustrious, the final plane landing on her deck at 02:39, November 12, 1940.

British Admirals Cunningham and Lyster wanted to strike the base again the next night, but bad weather intervened.
With the loss of half its capital ships, the Italian navy moved its base of operations to Naples. Contrary to British hopes, five days after the raid, the Italians returned to actively sortie against British supply convoys but were constrained by the added steaming times to interdict the British convoys.

The damaged battleships would undergo substantial repairs. The Conte di Cavour was so severely damaged that she never returned to service. The Caio Duillo was run aground in order to save her and seven months later was returned to service. The Littorio required four months of repair before she too was returned to service.
A modified drop of the torpedoes allowed the British to successfully use torpedoes in the shallow waters of Taranto harbor. A drum with a roll of wire attached to the nose of the aircraft kept the torpedo from nose diving into the water, keeping the torpedo in a flat trajectory as it entered the water.

Lt. Commander Takeshi Naito of the Imperial Japanese Navy was flown to Taranto to investigate the successful attack; this inspection confirmed for the Japanese that they could successfully attack the American base at Pearl Harbor in spite of the harbor’s shallow depth.

This raid on Taranto confirmed for the British the aircraft carrier was of greater value than the battleship due to its ability to attack from ranges that even the big bore guns of the battleship could not reach.

Walt Mow 2020

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Admin Announces New Medicaid Drug-Pricing Program. Let’s see if this works.

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Admin Announces New Medicaid Drug-Pricing Program. Let’s see if this works.

If the drug companies go along, this would be awesome. Let’s see.

The U.S. government on Thursday announced a new program aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for Medicaid patients by linking prices to those paid in other countries.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the program, called the GENEROUS Model, will allow states to buy certain medications at prices similar to those in select other countries. The program is set to begin in 2026.

“Drug prices in the U.S. remain far too high,” said Abe Sutton, director of the CMS Innovation Center. The program aims to ensure Medicaid pays prices on par with other developed nations, he said.

This article first was reported by Newsmax.

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1,565 Clemency Actions in One Day — But Who Signed Them?

Where am I? What day is it? Who's the President?

1,565 Clemency Actions in One Day — But Who Signed Them?

THE CONCERN
Was President Biden mentally competent when 39 pardons were issued on Dec 22, 2024? Reports suggest aides may have used the autopen — without his direct approval.

THE LAW
Only the President can grant pardons. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives this power exclusively to the President. It cannot be delegated — not even to a Chief of Staff or Cabinet Secretary.

AUTOPEN ≠ INTENT
The autopen is legal only if the President gives contemporaneous, knowing approval. If that didn’t happen? Those pardons are constitutionally void.

THE SCALE
1,565 clemency actions in one day. That’s more than any President in modern history — and it happened during a period of reported cognitive decl

THE INVESTIGATION
The House Oversight Committee is probing:

Unauthorized autopen use

Lack of documentation

Concealment of Biden’s condition

WHY IT MATTERS
If aides issued pardons without Biden’s approval, it’s not just a scandal — It’s a constitutional cris

CALL TO ACTION
The world deserves answers. Demand a full review of every December 2024 pardon. The rule of law depends on it.

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Trump Wins Again: 9th Circuit Says He Can Send National Guard to Portland.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that President Donald Trump has the authority to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, reversing a decision by a district judge earlier this month. AP Photo

Trump Wins Again: 9th Circuit Says He Can Send National Guard to Portland.

This article first appeared on Breitbart.

By Joel B. Pollak

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that President Donald Trump has the authority to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, reversing a decision by a district judge earlier this month.

It was the second time the Ninth Circuit — despite its reputation as a liberal bastion — overruled lower courts and allowed Trump to exercise his constitutional powers as commander-in-chief; the first case was California.

National Public Radio reported:

A divided federal appeals court for the 9th Circuit today overturned a temporary restraining order put in place by a federal judge in Portland – removing the legal impediment that was preventing the Trump Administration from sending National Guard troops to Portland.

“After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3), which authorizes the federalization of the National Guard when ‘the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,’” the majority wrote in their decision.

…

On Oct. 16, a federal appeals court upheld an earlier district court ruling in Illinois, temporarily blocking the president’s federalization and deployment of the National Guard deployment there. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

Much had been made, earlier, of the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a first-term Trump appointee, to block the deployment. Liberal commentators relished in her grandiose declaration: “This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.” The Ninth Circuit has since decided: it is, indeed, a nation of constitutional law, but not of rule by judges against law and order, or over the Constitution itself.

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“Spain Shouldn’t Apologize for Conquering America, But for Leaving It”: Alfonso Borrego Challenges the Black Legend.

“Spain Shouldn’t Apologize for Conquering America, But for Leaving It”: Alfonso Borrego Challenges the Black Legend.

“Spain Shouldn’t Apologize for Conquering America, But for Leaving It”: Alfonso Borrego Challenges the Black Legend.

In a powerful statement at Foro La Región in Spain, Alfonso Borrego—a direct descendant of the legendary Apache leader Geronimo—sparked international debate by declaring that “Spain should not apologize for conquering America, but for leaving it.”

Borrego’s comments aim to dismantle the long-standing Black Legend , a historical narrative that unfairly portrays Spain’s role in the Americas as purely oppressive and violent.

During his presentation, Borrego emphasized that the Spanish conquest was not an act of barbarism but a complex cultural process that brought with it education, religion, architecture, and a shared language that still unites the Hispanic world today.

He argued that the Black Legend—a term coined to describe anti-Spanish propaganda spread mainly by English and Dutch rivals—has distorted centuries of history to favor Anglo-American dominance .

Borrego also highlighted that many Indigenous nations collaborated with Spain during the conquest, and that the true tragedy came not from the arrival of the Spaniards, but from their eventual withdrawal.

Spain should not apologize for conquering America, but for having left. Alfonso Borrego, a descendant of the Apache Geronimo, challenges the black legend at the La Región Forum, highlighting Spain’s positive influence on education and health. Find out more here:
According to him, Spain’s exit left much of Latin America vulnerable to foreign exploitation and ideological manipulation, erasing centuries of shared cultural development.

His remarks come amid a growing global movement to reassess Spain’s colonial legacy, with scholars and historians urging a more balanced understanding of the era.

Rather than being defined by conquest alone, Borrego said, the Hispanic legacy should be seen as a civilizational bridge that connected Europe and the Americas in faith, language, and culture.

The indoctrination against Spain in the schools of the United States… By Alfonso Borrego, Hispanist, and descendant of the Apache leader Gerónimo.#ImperioEspañol, #Hispanic .
Alfonso Borrego’s words echo deeply in today’s polarized debates over history, identity, and colonialism. His message goes beyond politics—it’s a call to reclaim the truth about the Hispanic world’s shared roots.

Spain should not apologize for bringing civilization, education, and culture to the Americas. It should, however, reflect on why it allowed its legacy to be replaced by historical distortion and cultural amnesia.

Recognizing the truth about the Hispanic past is not about pride or guilt—it’s about understanding who we are and defending the legacy that unites millions across both sides of the Atlantic.

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What the COVID Vaccine did to children.

What the COVID Vaccine did to children.


Henry Ford Health System, Detroit MI
Department of Public Health Sciences1
Division of Infectious Diseases2
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit MI3

Corresponding Author:
Lois Lamerato, PhD
Senior Scientist
Public Health Sciences

Henry Ford Health System
1 Ford Place
Detroit, MI 48202

Financial Disclosure: This study had no external funding.

Abstract
Objective: To compare the short and long-term health outcomes, within a captured payer environment, of
children exposed to one or more vaccines to those unexposed.
Design: Birth cohort study
Setting: Integrated healthcare system in Michigan.
Participants: 18,468 children born between 2000 and 2016 enrolled in the health system insurance plan.
Main Outcome Measures: Development of a chronic health condition over time.

Results: A total of 18,468 consecutive subjects met eligibility criteria for the study, of which 1,957 had no
exposure to vaccination and 16,511 had received at least one vaccine during their enrollment in the plan
with various levels of exposure. After multivariate adjustment, Cox proportional hazards modeling
demonstrated that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an increased risk of
developing a chronic health condition (HR 2.53, CI 2.16-2.96). Of the chronic health conditions, exposure
to vaccination was independently associated with an increased risk of asthma (HR 4.25, CI 3.23-5.59),
autoimmune disease (HR 4.79, CI 1.36-16.94), atopic disease (HR 3.03, CI 2.01-4.57), eczema (HR 1.31,
CI 1.13-1.52), and neurodevelopmental disorder (HR 5.53, CI 2.91-10.51). There were no chronic health
conditions associated with an increased risk in the unexposed group. The overall probability of being free
of a chronic health condition at 10-years of follow up was 43% in the group exposed to vaccination and
83% in the unexposed group.

Conclusion: This study found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall
2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, when compared to children
unexposed to vaccination. This association was primarily driven by asthma, atopic disease, eczema,
autoimmune disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. This suggests that in certain children, exposure
to vaccination may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, particularly for one of
these conditions.

What another study showed.

Dr. Thomas studied 3,324 children and found unvaccinated kids had fewer doctor visits and better health outcomes.

Here’s what his data showed:

• Fever – 9.1× higher in vaccinated

• Ear Pain – 3.4× higher

• Otitis Media (Ear Infections) – 2.9× higher

• Conjunctivitis – 2.4× higher

• Eye Disorders (Other) – 1.8× higher

• Asthma – 5.2× higher

• Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever) – 6.9× higher

• Sinusitis – 4.3× higher

• Breathing Issues – 2.9× higher

• Anemia – 5.5× higher

• Eczema – 4.5× higher

• Urticaria (Hives) – 2.1× higher

• Dermatitis – 1.4× higher

• Behavioral Issues – 4.1× higher

• Gastroenteritis – 4.7× higher

• Weight/Eating Disorders – 2.5× higher

• ADHD – 0 cases in the unvaccinated group

(Data based on how often children visited the doctor for each condition)

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Ten Reasons to Stand by Israel.

Allies.

Ten Reasons to Stand by Israel.
This article first appeared on Newsmax.

Turmoil, hatred and violence erupted against Jews in the aftermath of the barbaric Hamas massacre against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. This perverse response reveals something of the moral crisis in the West.

It’s also a moment for reiterating the essence of Jewish peoplehood and modern Jewish nationalism, recalling the basics of the Muslim-Jewish conflict and reaffirming resolve in standing by Israel.

Thus, it’s imperative to avoid the pitfalls of leftist indoctrination, historical falsification, antisemitism, Zionist demonization and Islamic dhimmi subjugation. Here are reasons to clarify and justify your stand.

WHO ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE?

1. The ancient four millennia story of the Jewish people encompasses Torah truth and faith, a vast legal, ethical, scientific, and prophetic heritage, crowned with the Hebrew language and the covenant with the Land of Israel, all of unique longevity as a Jewish treasure bequeathed to the human race.

WHAT DEFINES THE JEWISH PEOPLE?

2. The Jewish ethos uniquely combines a national identity with a universal mission, drawing upon the model of Abraham who in his person and profile was the biblical father of the Hebrews and the teacher of love and responsibility for all people. This is the inherited Jewish spirit and inspiration until today.

WHAT DID THE JEWISH PEOPLE ENDURE?

3. Despite Jewish suffering over the ages — from the Italian ghetto, the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian/Ukrainian pogroms, Muslim massacres, the German-afflicted Holocaust, and Palestinian barbarism — Jewish survival demonstrated resilience, pride, and hope for the eternity of Jewish peoplehood.

WHAT IS THE ZIONIST NARRATIVE?

4. After the long exile from their homeland, dispersed and powerless but forged with memory and determination, Jews under the banner of Zionism organized and mobilized for the return home and miraculously reestablished the Jewish state of Israel in 1948.

DID THE WORLD ACCEPT THE JEWISH STATE?

5. The modern Jewish national liberation movement earned recognition from the international community — the League of Nations in 1920 and the United Nations in 1947 — legitimating Israel’s unqualified political sovereignty in the eyes of the powers and nations of the world.

WHAT WAS THE ARAB RESPONSE TO ISRAEL?

6. Arab and Muslim countries violated Israel’s sovereignty and flouted the United Nations Charter by scandalously denigrating the Jewish state, carrying out aggressive assaults over the decades, infiltrating Israel’s borders, and murdering its people, terrorizing its society and threatening to overrun, conquer, and destroy Israel with the purpose to annihilate the Jews and their state. In recent years, Israel was contending with missiles fired from Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen against its civilian population; terrorism in Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; and threats against Israelis and Israeli installations around the world.

WHAT IS ISRAEL’S GEO-STRATEGIC SITUATION?

7. The width of the state of Israel in its pre-1967 borders was a mere 9 miles from the Mediterranean Sea (Netanya) eastward to Bat Hefer. It is to these “Auschwitz borders,” in the words of Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban, that countries demand Israel return to for peacemaking and a so-called two-state solution. The conquest of Judea and Samaria [West Bank] after the Six Day War now provides Israel from the sea to the Jordan River with just an implausible 50 miles in width.

HOW DO ARABS IN ISRAEL RELATE TO THE STATE?

8. Arab citizens in Israel, enjoying rights and opportunities along with Jewish citizens, overwhelmingly reject in principle the state’s Jewish identity, refrain from military service, show solidarity with Israel’s enemies, and participate far beyond their proportion in the population in criminal and illegal activities.

WHAT IS ISLAM’S POSITION TOWARD ISRAEL?

9. The religion of Islam from its founding dedicates itself to holy war (jihad) as a permanent campaign to convert, expel, or destroy the Jews, commanding Muslims to uproot the Israelis from so-called Palestine and assure the superiority and rule of Islam by enforcing Sharia Law as the will of Allah.

WHAT DO ISRAEL AND MINORITY PEOPLES SHARE?

10. Israel is the bastion of inspiration and assistance for minority peoples in the Middle East, such as Kurds, Druze, Kabyle, and Christians. Their common challenge is in facing Islam and Arab peoples as hegemonic forces that smother pluralism and diversity on the ethno-religious regional map. Israel beams a light in their dark skies.

COMMENTARY

Mark Twain (1835-1910) celebrated the immortality of the Jew “exhibiting no decadence and no slowing of his energies.” Winston Churchill (1874-1965) considered the Jews “the most formidable and remarkable race.” These accolades, which characterize the start-up nation in science and technology, medicine, and agriculture, are jarringly divorced from the harsh realities that afflicted Jews and the existential threats and dangers Israel faces.

An especially insightful comment regarding the menace and its ramifications came in a 1968 essay from author Eric Hoffer (1902-83) after Israel successfully extricated itself from the traumatic peril prior to the June 1967 war: “I have a premonition … as it goes with Israel so it will go for all of us. Should Israel perish the Holocaust will be upon us.” These words should resonate thunderously in the West in 2025.

In 1979, Hoffer again linked the past while prophetically peering toward the future:

“A world which did not lift a finger when [Adolf] Hitler was wiping out six million Jewish, men, women and children is now saying that the Jewish state of Israel will not survive if it does not come to terms with the Arabs [and Muslims].

“My feeling is that no one in this universe has the right and the competence to tell Israel what it has to do in order to survive. … It is Israel that can tell us what to do.

“It can tell us [the West] that we shall not survive if we do not cultivate and celebrate courage [and not] bargain with terrorists, court enemies and scorn friends. … The world feels no shame when it betrays Jews. It is as if fate has placed the Jews outside the comity of mankind.”

Europeans and others, in a new political constellation that recalls an earlier one, now set the scene for the murder of the Jewish state by recognizing and establishing a Palestinian state, which is code language and battle plan to bring the Jews to their knees, break their back, and annihilate stage by stage the indefensible shriveled Jewish state.

A De-Christianized Europe would offer the sacrificial Israeli lamb on the altar of pagan enlightenment. Symbolically, Rome succumbing to Mecca will abandon Jerusalem without an ounce of remorse.

LAST WORD

Whatever spurious and acquisitive ambition motivated colonialist Spain to go to Mexico, Portugal to Mozambique, Britain to Kenya, France to Algeria, and the Netherlands to Java — it is not a mystery why the Jews set out and returned to the Land of Israel. They bonded with the land of their ancestors after wandering the globe.

The indigenous sons and daughters of the Land of Israel are not foreigners in a strange land — unlike those mentioned above — but the descendants of the native Hebrew-Israelite-Jewish inhabitants from time immemorial.

Dr. Mordechai Nisan taught Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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