By Mike Huckabee
October 11, 2023
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BY MIKE HUCKABEE
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Mike Huckabee
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How did we (and Israel) not know? Part II
Yesterday, we mentioned that THE NEW YORK TIMES had written an editorial actually blaming Trump --- it never fails --- for the weekend massacre in Gaza, and that the piece had failed even to mention Presidents Biden or Obama, or the nation of Iran. Similarly, when Biden spoke briefly on Tuesday, he didn’t mention Iran, either.
There was not a word of condemnation for the #1 state sponsor of terrorism around the world, the state we know was helping Hamas and Hezbollah. And when John Kirby was asked about the relative importance of this threat on Tuesday by FOX NEWS’ Martha MacCallum, he agreed with Biden’s statement that “The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20, 10 years.” He said Biden stands by that statement, and that “climate change IS an existential threat; it actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over time. I mean, that’s --- I don’t know how [much] more existential you can get...”
Really?? As if that much warming were even happening (it’s not --- and 1600 climate scientists and scholars have said the climate is not an emergency: https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1600-scientists-and-other-scholars-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration/). In contrast, according to “Scientific Aspects of Nuclear Explosion Phenomena” by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, if a nuclear bomb goes off, “immediately after the explosion time, the temperature of the weapon material is several tens of million degrees and the pressures are estimated to be many million atmospheres.” In “Physics: Its Methods and Meanings” by Alexander Taffel, it says the explosion “reaches a temperature of millions of degrees Celsius.”
Presumably this might cause a wee bit of environmental damage. Now there’s some global warming we all ought to be more concerned about, on a scale we can’t even comprehend. Why, it might even be capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over not very much time at all. Isn’t that the very definition of an existential threat?
https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/SimonFung.shtml
It’s time to push back against having our intelligence insulted by politicians and their henchmen, over and over again.
Biden did manage to acknowledge that Americans have been taken hostage. (Sean Hannity reported Tuesday night that the family of one presumed hostage hadn’t received any communication at all from the White House.) As for the Americans who are alive and haven’t been taken hostage, they’re apparently stuck for now if they want to fly out, as commercial planes are not flying in.
(Actually, there was one airline out, at least at first, but you probably didn’t hear about it because it came thanks to former President Trump. Here’s the story of a man and his wife who were able to fly to Dubai then home to DC via Emirates Airlines, due to the historic Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE. He credits Trump, thanks him profusely and calls their departure “miraculous.” So that’s why you’ll never hear this story in the mainstream media.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/american-thanks-trump-bringing-wife-home-war-torn-israel
Let’s hope these Americans don’t have to stay there as long as the ones who were left in Afghanistan after our shamefully haphazard pull-out in August 2021. As of this March, there were about 175 Americans still left behind, some of them being held captive by the Taliban. That’s from Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony before Congress…
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/23/175-americans-are-still-afghanistan-some-held-tali/
Accounts differ as to whether the $6 billion (!!!) of frozen assets Biden has promised Iran access to in return for five American hostages can be re-frozen at this time. Apparently, it can be, though, because this move is being seriously discussed. That money should never have been part of any hostage deal in the first place and should stay FROZEN colder than a terrorist’s heart.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/09/biden-admin-iran-defense-payment/
But let’s get back to the question of how these monsters were able to slip up on Israeli and, it seems, American intel agencies for this slaughter of Jews. The NEW YORK POST reports that the mastermind was a man named Mohammed Deif; their headline offers some welcome unintentional humor (our favorite kind) on a day when we can really use some. Just read the POST’s headline…
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/who-is-mohammed-deif-palestinian-militant-behind-israel-attack/
“Palestinian militant behind Israeli attack is slippery, one-armed, one-legged former bomb maker,” it reads. Okay, we take our laughs where we can find them. Presumably this guy got out of bomb-making because after the first two attempts, he realized he just wasn’t very good at it.
He’s obviously better at planning. He’s got a reputation as a “psycho” and a “cat with nine lives” because he’s survived so many assassination attempts. We know he’s responsible for this massacre because he posted a video on Saturday announcing the start of the people’s “revolution.”
The name “Deif” means “guest” in Arabic and apparently refers to his habit of moving around a lot and staying with a variety of other operatives to avoid detection. As the POST reports, “Deif has remained in the shadows for decades despite Israel’s best efforts to take him out at least five times in assassination attempts.” Now this wheelchair-bound savage will be deified by Hamas, Hezbollah and their contemptible fans.
Col. Eyal Rosen of the Israeli army reserves said his “main goal is to destroy Israel. This is one of the first steps --- this is just the beginning.”
So, apparently this guy is so slippery that Israeli intelligence hasn’t been able to find him or know what he’s up to, even with the many people, including Iranians, who must have been helping him. One would think, though, that even if they didn’t know of his plan, they (and we) would have been extra-cautious around the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, with tensions rising and other factors that made the day significant. We hope to bring you more about the cause of this deadly intel failure very soon, but in the meantime, let’s look at the situation in our own country and the likelihood of a similar failure. JUST THE NEWS has done that.
Does the fact that the U.S. has 18 intelligence gathering agencies give you any peace of mind? Me, neither. Those agencies have been busying themselves targeting Trump supporters as dangerous domestic terrorists and didn’t pick up on the threat in Israel --- or didn’t move on that threat --- and probably don’t have a clue what thousands of potential terrorists, mostly young men, coming across our southern border are doing here.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke about this on Monday, saying, “Looking at our own intelligence failures, we have to look at our border....[This year] in my own state [California], we caught two from Yemen on the terror watchlist; [also some] from China and others. Why are they coming to America? What do they have planned and who are they communicating with?”
The NEW YORK POST has a good summary of the large number being apprehended.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/160-people-on-terror-watch-list-stopped-at-us-border-in-2023/
Of course, these are just the ones we apprehended. Do you think any terrorist working for a slippery eel like Mohammed Deif would let himself get caught?
Israel has (well, had) a border fence, but as part of their carefully plotted attack, Hamas broke it down to come through. Here, it’s been so much easier for young men from all over the world to slip in gradually, as the Biden administration has installed handy turnstiles in areas that have any barrier at all. Come right in! Feel free to mix in with the people pouring in from this hemisphere, and then go wherever you like. We won’t stop you.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a redacted threat assessment just a few weeks ago, on September 20, warning about Hamas and Hezbollah in the context of the Iranian regime. “Iran has growing intelligence and CI [aside: as in “confidential informant,” such as American Robert Malley and his associates] capabilities to advance its geopolitical objectives,” it says.
No kidding. We would add the phrase, “in large part because of this administration’s Iran policy.”
Update on the Biden financial scandal
Of course, no matter what else is happening in the world, information about this scandal continues to drip out. Thanks to an August 2022 Freedom Of Information Act request by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s organization America First Legal, we finally know that then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office exchanged nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca. (Of course, Joe Biden knew NOTHING about his son’s business affairs.) Details here…
Israel update
Once again, here is the link to Fox News’ continually-updated page of the latest news on the war in Israel.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hamas-attack-israel-war
The major developments over the past 24 hours are that the death toll has risen to at least 2100 people, including about 1200 killed in Israel. Israel is continuing its pounding of the Gaza Strip by air in preparation for a ground invasion of Hamas-controlled territory. The defense minister said he’s “eliminated every restriction” on the IDF and “we will eliminate anyone who fights us.”
President Biden said it’s been confirmed that Americans are among those who have been taken hostage by Hamas, but it’s not certain yet how many.
Another Iran-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah,1` launched an attack from the north from Lebanon, but Israel was prepared for it. There were also reports of rockets being fired at Israel from Syria, but Israeli troops reportedly destroyed the source.
With politicians from both parties demanding that the Biden Administration refreeze that $6 billion they unfroze for Iran, White House spokespeople are spinning like drunken ballet dancers as they try to deny and deflect. Here’s a round-up of several ways in which they’ve tried to insult our intelligence, including:
Insisting that the money could only be used for “humanitarian” purposes (but it frees up $6 billion elsewhere in their budget to fund terrorism)…Claiming that there’s no direct evidence that Iran used the money to fund this attack (So it can’t be true if we don’t have video of a mullah handing a big bag of money marked “$6 billion from Biden” to a Hamas terrorist? That’s the same argument they’re using to insist there’s no direct evidence that Joe got any of Hunter’s corrupt deal money)…And when all else fails, try to blame it on Trump. I’m not kidding, and you’ll never guess why they try to claim this is Trump’s fault.
You see, Trump withheld that money from Iran and let so much of it accrue. Well, in that case, I guess they had no choice but to free it up for the world’s #1 supporter of terrorism. There was just so much of it!
Personal note
To that end, I endorse giving Israel all the support it needs to eradicate Hamas once and for all. That includes sending special forces to advise and help with rescuing American hostages, but not as part of a boots-on-the-ground fighting force, and not to invade Iran.
I also support strong action against Iran for supporting these terrorists, but I have been saying that for years. It doesn’t mean sending in the Marines or bombing Tehran.
There are all kinds of ways to take action to contain Iran, like not lifting sanctions on them, keeping the US energy independent and an exporter of fossil fuels so that Iran doesn't have lots of oil money to fund terrorists, supporting the many brave Iranian dissidents who dare to stand up against the mullahs, preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and of course, NOT HANDING THEM $6 BILLION! In short, by doing the exact opposite of everything the Obama and Biden Administrations have done.
That doesn’t take going to war, it just takes not being an idiot.
A Much-Needed Lesson
Watch an Israeli mom give MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell a much-needed lesson in the difference between Israel defending its homeland and its people and vicious Hamas terrorists murdering innocent people, including children.
Former New York Times editor Bari Weiss had to perform the same basic service for Joe Scarborough and crew.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/a-word-from-bari-weiss.php
As Scott Johnson notes at that link, “Current events have flushed out the many Nazis in our midst.” It’s genuinely disturbing to see how many people in allegedly civilized nations, from Europe to Australia to the US, are loudly siding with the anti-Semitic, genocidal terrorists of Hamas.
They’re even in our own Congress...
https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/10/dem-lawmaker-colorado-hamas-rape/
Some claim to be merely expressing sympathy for the oppressed Palestinians, but many don’t even bother to hide their sick hatred anymore and are openly cheering murder, rape and brutal torture of innocent Jews, even babies and children, as if it were a justifiable form of protest.
For instance, I find it hard to believe that BLM has any credibility left to lose at this point, but if so, they burned it to the ground with their public statements that were clearly in support of brutal terrorism.
The Chicago BLM chapter deleted its tweet celebrating Hamas by showing a sick graphic of terrorists paragliding into Israel, but the Internet is forever, and we will not forget.
Related: None of the ten top celebrities on Instagram have shown support for Israel, but many of them bent over backwards to genuflect before BLM.
Some commentators have also asked why we aren’t hearing a peep out of Antifa. That radical group claims to have taken its name from being “anti-fascist.” They call everyone Nazis and fascists, from Trump voters to police to people who don’t want men in girls’ bathrooms, but they say nothing about the return of actual, 1930s-style anti-Semitic thugs who want to kill Jews?
I’m not surprised, nor am I surprised at any of these far-left extremists taking the side of genocidal anti-Semites. It’s long been established that the left attacks the right by falsely accusing them of what the left is actually doing. Ever since “Antifa” appeared, I’ve been pointing out that they are in reality the biggest fascist threat in America. They didn’t even try to disguise it. How much more obvious can they get about being fascists than dressing in dark clothes, hoods and masks and physically assaulting anyone who dares to voice a political opinion they disagree with?
Well, they finally found a way: not saying a word about fellow violent radicals who are trying to exterminate the Jews. As so many people are suddenly saying these days, “When someone tells you what they are, believe them.”
A Huck’s Heroine
Here’s a Huck’s Heroine salute to Inbal Lieberman, a 25-year-old Israeli woman who is the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am. She immediately realized that the sounds she was hearing were different from “the usual rocket attacks” on the kibbutz. She ran from home to home, opened the armory and passed out guns, and placed 12 men on the kibbutz fence. When the terrorists arrived to attack, all 25 of them were killed.
This article explains why Israel has distributed 10,000 “assault rifles” to civilian security teams since the attack.
But it doesn’t explain why the initial victims were unarmed and unable to fight back. Many people don’t realize that Israel, despite its reputation for self-defense, has strict gun control. The horrifying numbers of victims could be ascribed to the same idea as that behind the saying of Second Amendment defenders: “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.” They had to wait for security forces to arrive and save them.
Those forces acted with stunning bravery, even making themselves human shields to protect civilians, but the terrorists were still able to kill hundreds of people because, unlike the residents at the kibbutz, they were unarmed.
This thought-provoking article from a gun rights website argues that this attack should put an end to all demands for more gun control, but of course, it won’t. The left will just keep saying, “It can’t happen here,” even as they open up the border and allow unvetted people from who-knows-where to come streaming in.
And by the way, the argument that “it can’t happen here” is moronic rubbish. News flash: 9/11 happened HERE.
Harvard’s speech problems
Kudos to Harvard President Claudine Gay. It only took her a couple of days and two tries to arrive at the almost correct response to over 30 Harvard student groups signing a letter supporting Hamas’ murder, rape and torture of innocent Israelis as legitimate and justifiable forms of protest.
After the university first issued a wishy-washy statement condemning vague violence and endorsing compassion, which was greeted with legitimate and justifiable fury and outrage, Gay finally stated that while the groups have a right to speak, they don’t speak for Harvard, and that the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas are “abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.” There, was that so hard?
Now, as for the claim that they have a “right to speak” these abhorrent thoughts, I will throw back at her the same argument that leftist university groups have made for several years while threatening, canceling and shouting down conservative speakers: that they don’t have a right to be free of consequences for their “hate speech.” I think I can make a pretty good case that voicing support for the wholesale slaughter of Jews is more “hate speech” than calling for separate sports teams for men and women. Alan Dershowitz, who was a distinguished Harvard law professor for decades, told Sean Hannity that he’s not allowed to speak on campus in support of Israel anymore, but leftist professors who back Palestinian terrorists are allowed to speak there. Maybe that's why the students are so painfully ignorant, immoral and uninformed.
For that reason, many people are calling for the names of the students who signed this letter to be made public, so that future employers or companies offering them internships can rescind those offers. If you can’t have someone in your company who wrote a non-PC tweet ten years ago, then why would you hire someone who openly endorses anti-Semitic genocide?
After all, in their own words: Hate speech should have consequences.
Related: Townhall.com has already started ferreting out the identities and backgrounds of some of the student leaders of these groups, and I’m not at all surprised by some of the other people and groups they’re associated with.
Making it official
Kari Lake announced that she will run for Democrat Krysten Sinema’s Arizona Senate seat.
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-kari-lake-announces-decision-us-senate-run
And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he’s leaving the Democratic Party (even more than Reagan, he could say, “The Party left me!”) to run as an independent, Third Party campaign for President.
This has both sides worried, since it isn’t clear whether he would take more votes away from Biden or Trump. I suspect his effect on the race might be less than expected by the time the actual election arrives. But liberals are having meltdowns (even his own family is attacking him, their loyalties obviously being to the Party first.) They're also accusing Fox News of propping RFK Jr. up until he made this announcement, then having Sean Hannity confront him on his long history of leftwing positions, like opposing fracking and fossil fuels and supporting Obama, Kerry and Biden.
Seems to me that Hannity was just doing his job, which is to ask tough questions and make politicians explain themselves. The liberal outlets should try that with Biden sometime.
I had RFK Jr. on my TBN show, but not to promote his candidacy. I made it clear that he’s a liberal, and we disagree on most issues, but at least he had the guts to come on my show and have a civil discussion, which is something most Democrats refuse to do, despite the standing invitation. I respect him, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for him. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? I guess if you’re obsessed with nothing but maintaining political power at all costs, it’s hard to focus on nuances.
https://youtu.be/WzzmBkYLV-o?si=Ohujgz3ksPaOjCMe
New Santos indictments
Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York filed a 23-count indictment against Republican Rep. George Santos, adding 10 more counts to a previous indictment. The new charges include wire fraud, falsifying FEC records and aggravated identity theft.
As tempting as it might be to put this into the “two-tiered justice” story bin, the charges aren’t the kind of stuff other prosecutors have had to torture torts and strain credulity to come up with. They include actual crimes, like allegedly inflating his fundraising numbers with fabricated or stolen contributions and charging expenses on his donors’ credit cards without authorization. I’ll defend anyone’s right to the presumption of innocence, but the fact that his campaign treasurer pleaded guilty to related charges last week might make that problematic.
It's a shame that when New Yorkers finally elected a Republican, it turned out to be this guy. But on the bright side, between him and Sen. Bob Menendez, we finally know just how corrupt a Congress member has to be before someone finally arrests them.
Economy update
I don’t want to be constantly negative about the economy, so I’ll share this story from a conservative site, Breitbart Business Digest, that argues that the high jobs numbers in recent months are actually solid and not just part time jobs replacing fulltime jobs, as some commentators suggest.
Unfortunately, I also have to note that our politicians have screwed things up so badly that even good news is bad news, and strong hiring could convince the Fed to raise interest rates again to try to bring down inflation.
And before the Democrats try to give Biden credit for the good jobs numbers, I’ll repeat something I’ve been saying since Obama was in: The US economy is like an Olympic swimmer: so strong that he can stay afloat even with a concrete block tied around his neck. But giving Obama or Biden’s policies credit for that feat is like giving credit to the concrete block instead of the swimmer.
4 Million
Not that anyone else in DC is keeping count, but a report by Congressional Republicans found that from the time Biden took office in January 2021 to March 2023, roughly four million illegal migrants were allowed to cross the border, and at least 2,148,738 were released into the US. Add to that another 205,473 aliens released “through illegal categorical parole programs,” plus more than 1.7 million known “gotaways” that evaded Border Patrol entirely and escaped into the US.
Altogether, that’s about 4 million illegal immigrants coming in over 26 months. So New York, Chicago and LA, you’d better start building more public housing.
Good to see
It's always good to see a state pass laws to protect election integrity, even if they have to override a Democrat Governor’s veto to do it.
I love the Gov’s argument that by establishing bipartisan local election boards instead of boards packed with appointees from the Governor’s party, this law poses a “threat to democracy.” Once again, that’s the new definition of “Democracy,” meaning, “Anything that keeps Democrats in power.”
Update on the Biden financial scandal
Of course, no matter what else is happening in the world, information about this scandal continues to drip out. Thanks to an August 2022 Freedom Of Information Act request by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s organization America First Legal, we finally know that then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office exchanged nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca. (Of course, Joe Biden knew NOTHING about his son’s business affairs.) Details here…
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