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@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer

.@JoeBiden PAVED THE WAY FOR IRAN-FUNDED ATTACK ON ISRAEL AND COMPROMISED US NATIONAL SECURITY. TIMELINE WHICH PROVES US-IRAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER JOE BIDEN IS TO BLAME FOR THE HAMAS ATTACKS ON ISRAEL June 29, 2023: Rob Malley, Joe Biden’s US special envoy on Iran was placed on leave without pay, which occurred after his security clearance was suspended earlier this year amid an investigation into his handling of classified information. September 10, 2023: The head of Mossad hinted that he had knowledge of an Iranian funded attack on Israel and warned that Israel would attack Iran if Jews were attacked. September 11, 2023: Joe Biden cleared the way for the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds as part of prisoner swap deal. September 14, @JoeBiden gave 3 pardons, his first pardons of the year. All 3 were Iranians who were part of a US-Iran prisoner swap. October 1, 2023: @tabletmag (a Jewish publication) reports “The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails." October 6, 2023: #Iranian funded HAMAS terrorists launch full scale attack on Israel, and head of HAMAS calls on the Islamic world to join HAMAS in destroying Israel.

@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer

September 10, 2023 Seems like the head of Mossad had reason to believe Israel would soon be attacked by Iranian backed Jihadists. Iran funds HAMAS and Hezbollah. And thanks to @JoeBiden, Iran just got a $6 BILLION payday. How many jihadists and rockets do you think could…

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻

Biden admin pushed through plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer aid to the Palestinians despite internal assessments that those plans could boost the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “We assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza. There is less but still some risk U.S. assistance would benefit other designated groups," the State Department wrote in a draft sanctions exemption request circulated internally.” https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-raised-concerns-palestinian-aid-would-boost-hamas-it-went-ahead-with-aid-anyway/

@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson

A 50th Anniversary War? Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead? And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands? a) Ostensibly, radical Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—the traditional source of much of their cash—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war”, especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. Iran likely was the driving force to prompt the war—given its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israeli rapprochement. b)  Arab forces have had only success against Israel through surprise attacks during Israeli holidays, as in the Yom Kippur War (i.e., was it any accident that the present attack began 50-years almost to the day after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War?). And so they struck again this Saturday during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot—in hopes that others will join in as happened in 1973. (So much for the Arab warnings not for Westerners to conduct war during Ramadan). c) Hamas may have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass leftist street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence. But, more importantly, in a larger sense the Biden administration has contributed both to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player, and to the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on the following inexplicable policies: 1) In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel). And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support. In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition: “We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” "All sides?" "Refrain from retaliatory attacks?” So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers? This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible. 2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s  increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack. 3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government. In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited for an official visit). Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel" is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis. In this regard is there not a pattern here? Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke military agendas, we saw the following: the complete humiliation of the U.S. in Kabul in its most shameful flight in 50 years and greatest abandonment of equipment in its history; followed by Vladimir Putin’s opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—with more to come unfortunately. And will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter and we too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels whose fentanyl exports kills 100,000 Americans a year? What to expect in Israel? Expect the following: the usual Hamas/terrorist selling and/or execution of Israeli hostages, the use of Israeli hostages as “human shields” in Gaza,  the bargaining/sale of the remains of Israeli dead, occasional killings of Jews inside Israel by Arabs who falsely believe there will be a winning Middle East-wide existential war against Israel. And finally, a devastating Israeli counter-response that will eventually earn a U.S. rebuke. What should the U.S. instead do? It should quit talking to Iran and restore full sanctions against it. It should cut off all aid immediately to all the Palestinians. It should undertake a 1973-like massive arms lift of key munitions to Israel and warn Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and others in the Middle East not to intervene or else, given that Israel will need several weeks to deal with Hamas and Gaza. And if it shows any hesitation or weakness, other terrorist groups will opportunistically jump in.

@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg

NEW: Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad tells the BBC that the terror group had direct backing for the attack on Israel from Iran. Three weeks ago, President Biden allowed for $6 billion in frozen funds to be delivered to Iran. The Biden admin “stressed” that the money could only be used for humanitarian purposes but Iran said they would use the money however they wanted. During an interview on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed Americans may have been killed in the Hamas attacks. "We have reports that several Americans were killed... There are reports of missing Americans." Maybe allowing billions of dollars to be transferred to a terrorist country wasn’t a good idea.

@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson

Israel, Our White-House Absurdities, and the Left’s Empire of Lies The Biden administration is furiously trying to contextualize its past, unsupportable policies that have sown global chaos, especially in the Middle East. But the more it spins, the clearer its culpability. Does it really believe that the long-agreed-upon U.S. green-lighting of $6 billion in sanctions relief to Iran has had no role in Iran’s terrorist support of Hamas, whether psychological or material or both? Do they think we are that stupid? Even a first-grader might surmise that if a terrorist state knows that an impending $6-billion bonanza will shortly arrive in its coffers, then it will more readily in the here and now send arms to Hamas—on the logical assumption that those costs soon will be more than covered, while making the additional assumption that the United States is complicit in its own fungible use of sanctions relief cash, and thus not innately hostile to Tehran’s self-professed agenda.  In short, Tony Blinken is either a naif, a fool, or to use his words “misinforming”. These administration's megaphones who deny such fungibility always end up mouthing the same arguments as the lying and murderous theocracy in Tehran. But then why not—given the Biden-appointed Robert Malley, previously known as Obama’s ISIS advisor (and we remember how that worked out in Iraq), and a self-declared expert on Hamas rapprochement, eagerly accepted the offer to restart the disastrous Iran deal and normalize Iranian-American relations? And Malley was indeed eagerly at work—until he was stripped of his security clearance for his alleged unlawful dissemination of classified documents, and in addition fell under further scrutiny allegedly for treasonous efforts to insert pro-Iranian activists into the State Department. What also was behind the initial, natural instincts of the State Department’s  “U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”? On news of the attacks, our State department in Pavlovian fashion immediately posted: “We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” Yes, as lots of us predicted, that insane virtue signal would eventually be taken down—but only in response to Americans outraged at its amoral inanity. Was our government’s first inclination to stop Israel’s counter-responses to systematic Hamas murdering? Should Israelis accept another 800, 1,000, or 2,000 dead women and children in the interest of abiding by the instruction of the American “Office of Palestinian Affairs” to avoid “retaliatory attacks”? For that matter, does the Biden administration admonish Ukraine to refrain from “retaliatory attacks”—since, in its logic, responding to Putin’s “terror” with Ukrainian counter “violence” would “solve nothing”? Or is it just Israel, a democratic ally, that deserves these sermons? Or do they not reflect the embarrassing reality that there is a core Democratic base—the toxic Squad, AOC's Democratic Socialists, the fusion media, and some of the identity politics caucuses—who are Hamas apologists, even if that bankrupt ideology descends into ignoring or condoning the abject slaughter of civilians in their homes? And are we really to believe, as told, that resumption of hundreds of millions dollars in aid to the Palestinians was also not fungible and used to aid the current murderous agendas of Hamas? But do not just believe supporters of Israel about that reality. Instead, read what dissidents in the State Department themselves warned at the time of the dangers of Biden’s resumption of aid to the radical Palestinians: “We assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza. There is less but still some risk U.S. assistance would benefit other designated groups.” The administration is, of course, back peddling furiously, given its prior appeasement of Iran and Hamas, if not an outright tilt against Israel—again policies that reflected the embarrassing core constituency of the Democratic Party. Americans should not listen to what Biden’s team now conveniently says, but instead to what it actually does in the upcoming weeks when it is under fire by its base in the new woke Democratic Party, as the Israelis have to go into Gaza, end this toxic death machine, and confront the Hamas global propaganda machine. A hard rain is soon going to fall abroad. And the United States better get its house in order, whether defined as standing with its few dependable allies left, securing its own oil and gas supplies, protecting its borders, un-woking and rebooting its suspect military, recalibrating its all too often incompetent and politicized intelligence bureaus—and thus preparing for a world turned upside down.

@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson

The Late, Great Hamas Finally Got Its Wish–And . . . ? Ever since Hamas was “elected” to run Gaza, and then followed the usual “one election/one time” Middle-East formula, it has bragged nonstop that its agenda was to erase Israel off the face of the earth (cf. the wall map in the office of our Representative Tlaib). Its unabashed nihilist boasts resonated throughout the Palestinian “movement.” Its fiery threats delighted the Arab street. Indeed, Hamas was soon celebrated as the most “authentic” of the radical Palestinian terrorist movements. Which cadre of thugs could top its end-of-days rhetoric, its assured and steady supply of money and weapons from Iran, its satanic eagerness to mutilate and dismember, and the sanctuary and financial wherewithal offered to it by our “ally” Qatar? None. Since it was viewed as the most “volatile” and creepy of the Palestinian factions, and the most useful to Iran, the Obama and Biden Administrations appeased its murderers. Was it not part of their hare-brained grand strategy of empowering theocratic Iran, and its Syrian, Hezbollah, and Hamas hirelings? Their campaign (remember the “they literally know nothing” media and the Obama “echo chamber” created by a boastful Ben Rhodes?) was to forge these disparate Islamists into a crescent of resistance to Israel and any “moderate” Arab regime (recall the Obama-Biden transitory hatred of the Gulf sheikdoms). The result would be “creative tension” —as well as payback for the Israeli election of Netanyahu. Through this formula, Obama believed he could always pressure Israel to grant concessions to radical Palestinians, thanks to the looming threat of an ever menacing (and soon to be nuclear) Iran, with help from Obama’s other friends—the then Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt and his pal, the neo-Ottomanist and anti-Semite Erdogan of Turkey, Obama’s self-described personal liaison to the Islamic world. Yes, of course, this was sheer madness—if perhaps characteristic of Obama’s well-known orneriness. Perhaps someday soon, a few disinterested historians might even record that the current nightmare in Israel is the logical end-result of what Barack Obama, John Kerry (remember his Trump-era Paris reconnaissance with the Iranians?), Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Robert Malley, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, and a host of other incompetent but otherwise haughty and dangerous people once conjured up. A defiant, and empowered murderous Hamas was one of the many dividends of their appeasement and grand Middle-East schemes—given the eagerness of the Obama and Biden administrations to send hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza, despite warnings from their own experts that such cash would enhance terrorism and abet the  evil work of Hamas with an American financial stamp of legitimacy. Hence, a soon to be nuclear Iran, freed from sanctions, had enough money  (remember the nocturnal cash pallets on the Tehran tarmac?) to fund its surrogate global death squads. Hamas has killed Jewish civilians for nearly two decades, always escaping the full wrath of Israel retaliation by appealing to the amoral consciousness of leftwing European and American governments. It counted on ample help from both Iran and Arab regimes, along with Turkey, which always screams “instability” at the first sign of Israeli retaliation. The blustering Hamas has now murdered 1,000 Jews in their homes, preferring especially to gun down children, reportedly behead babies, torture the doomed, rape the helpless, execute the elderly, and brutalize women—and topping the killing off in good SS fashion by gleeful dismemberment and desecration of Jewish corpses. So, they finally got their wish for their own version of the Holocaust, for what they had always bragged would be the “final” Israel-ending war—as their cowardly elders announced last Saturday from their protected enclaves. Yes, Hamas promised their mass killing of innocents would ignite the Muslim world, incite simultaneous attacks on Israel from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and perhaps Egypt—all as their planned anniversary replay of the Yom Kippur War’s first 48 hours. And it may—or may not. The ebullient people of Gaza seemed initially enthralled at videos of mutilated Jews, and showed their zeal by spitting on hostages carried back home for supposed Roman-like triumphs before their public sacrifices. Videos of the gruesome killings of Jews were hot downloads on Gaza mobile phones. Now mutilating dead Israelis, now boasting how brave their sons were in slaying unarmed jews inside Israel, Gazans assumed a shocked Israel would capitulate. Would not its megaphones in the West characteristically protect them and restrain Israel? Could not they themselves always ensure a few thousand of their own civilians be sacrificed as expendable human shields of their missiles pads, and thus become necessary fuel for their boilerplate accusations of “war crimes” that usually curtailed Israeli retribution? But now the Israeli retaliation seems oblivious to all that. It may not be like the past incursions into Gaza that were manipulated by a cowardly Hamas to gain media sympathy for “collateral damage” that they themselves had engineered. Predictably, as Israel ramps up the air attacks and prepares for the ground assault, the global media is showing a concern for civilian collateral damage in a way it never quite did for murdered Jewish innocents and beheaded infants. Western governments are terrified of Middle East killers who may return to their previous attacks on their European citizens. After all, Western leftwing suicidal immigration policies have  ensured large unassimilated Muslim populations. Millions have fled the self-created violence and tyranny of the Middle East only to cheer it on from a safe distance in their adopted Western homelands, whose welcoming of these “refugees” is now so often reciprocated with sheer contempt for the apologetic hosts. Nonetheless, the Gaza crowds of 48 hours ago who were boasting their sons murdering with impunity and spat on bound defenseless women, are now aggrieved. But they might as well be barking at the moon about the supposed “unfairness” of the Israeli air counterattack. Among the rubble of once Hamas high-rises they are weeping for media cameras, calling on a corrupt and anti-Semitic UN for accustomed relief, threatening on spec the West with who knows what (is it now infant beheading or body dismemberment?),  and in general suddenly quite unhappy about their “final” war they just recently boasted was all but won. Will the heroic legions of Hamas who beheaded and raped now pour out in the streets to fight the IDF and push them into the sea as promised? Perhaps not? Some final thoughts: Why has Iran gone from bragging three days ago about its training and tutelage of the Hamas killers suddenly to pleading that while it is certainly delighted about the beheadings, rapes, executions, and mutilations, it technically had no actionable role in ensuring them? The truth is that a Hamas right now is alternately threatening and begging Western governments, beseeching its suddenly mum Iranian suppliers, whining that Hezbollah and the PNA have not yet sufficiently shared the bloodletting of this war, and generally railing for more jihad from a few of its increasingly so-so, nonplused Middle-Eastern sponsors. Hamas fears it may have boxed itself in, with two American aircraft carriers between it and Iran, with private satisfaction from many Arab states that their nuisance Hamas might at last have committed suicide through its mass homicide, with even fanatic supporters hard-pressed to make their “moral” case for the beheading of babies, and with a half-million IDF soldiers headed their way to deliver upon them divine justice, perhaps in the Lincolnesque Second Inaugural sense of  “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” Translated, that means for the first time in its existence an unholy Hamas may not get out of its self-created rendezvous with what it has so duly earned, given there is now no assurance of third-party relief and thus no restraint on Israel. Even a shaken and shamed Biden administration—guilty of an open border and its de facto support for Hamas and Iran, but suddenly scared of a furious election-cycle American public—may for a while not call off Israel. The arrogant but half-educated Harvard crowd, the European Islamists, the woke and pampered anti-Semites on Western campuses, the AOC socialists, the pro-Hamas Squad, the BLM chorus who cheered on the Hamas glider death attack, of course CAIR, and all the usual suspects for now are as furious as they are impotent—petulant that for once, just this once, and for a while longer at least, no one is listening to their oh so tired amoral defense of the indefensible.

@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer

EXCLUSIVE: Source tells me that the reason why the US was blindsided by #HAMAS’s attack on Israel is because the US intelligence collection efforts were intentionally redirected from Hamas and Hezbollah activities. Source tells me the order to redirect came from Maher Bitar, @JoeBiden’s hand picked terrorist sympathizing Palestinian Director for Intelligence at the National Secueity Council. I exposed Maher Bitar as a pro-HAMAS, pro-BDS and anti- Israel Islamic infiltrator in the US Government in 2021 when he was first appointed by Joe Biden. I even tweeted my suspicions that he was involved in enabling Hamas back on 10/7/23. Now an intelligence source is confirming this to be true. The attack on Israel was enabled by Joe Biden’s Palestinian Director of Intelligence at the National Security Council. This is TREASON! Maher Bitar’s actions resulted in American citizens being murdered and kidnapped as hostages by HAMAS. @HouseGOP should call for Maher Bitar to be impeached and immediately investigated. Read my 2021 expose of Maher Bitar here: https://loomered.com/2021/01/30/bidens-appoints-terror-tied-muslim-to-top-national-security-council-role/

Biden Appoints Terror Tied Muslim To Top National Security Council Role - Loomered A full two weeks hasn’t even passed since Joe Biden was inaugurated, yet he has already endangered the entire nation by appointing a terror tied Palestinian Muslim, Maher Bitar, to the position of Senior Director for Intelligence at the National […] loomered.com

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

1/ A new investigation into Hamas' network in U.S. uncovers 17+ Islamist registered charities' subsidy of terror, & their fundraising of over $250 million through the 501(c) system, funded by dozens of major donors from Bill Gates Foundation to JPMorgan, Shell, Paypal and others.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

2/ Some examples. Take Rahma Worldwide in Michigan, which openly partners with designated Kuwaiti terrorist group RIHS (how has the FBI not noticed this?) and is part of their "Uprising in Palestine" campaign in Gaza.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

3) The Reach Education Fund in Illinois, whose leading official glorifies Nazism, posting a swastika and referring to himself as a follower of Hitler, celebrating the genocide of Jews

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

4) Baitulmaal in Texas, which funds an array of Hamas proxies in Gaza. It was officials include former Taliban fundraisers and hardline activists shared praise of "martyrs" who killed Jews

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

5) Islamic Relief in VA and CA, whose overseas branches openly fund Hamas proxies, and which the U.S. State Department has condemned for “blatant and horrifying anti-Semitism and glorification of violence exhibited at the most senior levels"

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

6) Islamic Relief franchise's founder, meanwhile, in an interview with Hamas's official radio station, urged cooperation between charities and the Hamas "government". And here's Islamic Relief's logo at a Hamas rally in Gaza:

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

7) ANERA, whose staff member in Gaza has venerated the Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin, posting pictures of the terrorist leader.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

8) American Muslims for Palestine, whose official Taher Herzallah, recently paused after talking about embracing anti-Zionist Jews only to remind his audience that "Jews" remain "enemy number one"

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

9) Pious Projects of America in Chicago, which admits openly to having handed Hamas's Ministry of Health $50,000

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

10) Heroic Hearts, whose “program coordinator,” Omar Hammad, is a unabashed supporter of Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

11) International Humanitarian Relief, whose founder praised the October 7th attacks and wished the resistance "victory"

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

12) Helping Hand for Relief and Development in Michigan, which funds a Hamas proxy and whose chief partner in Pakistan, Al-Khidmat, is a proud financier of Hamas.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

13) Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which advertises in Hamas newspapers and runs part of the Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza, which today Israel found housed “a Hamas ‘command and control center’ and may have been used to hold hostages.” Weapons caches were also found.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

14) Who is funding all these organizations? Our data shows as much as $100 million from the federal government through poorly managed @USAID programs, but an astonishing $260 million comes from ...

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

15) ... a huge assortment of major corporate foundations and major employee-giving and donation platforms. Here are the worst funders of these Hamas-aligned charities. Recognize any names?

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

16) There's lots more examples in our major new report here. Look out for other big corporations and their foundations, belonging to JPMorgan, Bank of America, Shell, Morgan Stanley, among others.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

17) This report has uncovered many more flagrant instances of U.S. Islamist charities funding Hamas proxies, employing staff who glorify Hamas's evil, and and working with designated terror groups directly. It's time for the FBI to act. It's time for Congress to act.

@samwestrop - Sam Westrop

18) Share this report. Retweet this thread. Place pressure on your representatives, and these corporation foundations and other big donors to stop subsidizing terror. They've been duped. Then let's shut down these terror subsidizers. https://islamism.news/research/investigations/revealed-the-funding-behind-the-u-s-charitable-network-that-subsidizes-hamas/

REVEALED: The U.S. Charitable Network That Subsidizes Hamas, and the Donors Behind It | Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) An FWI investigation has uncovered over 250 million dollars sent through the 501(c) system to Hamas-aligned charities in the United States, provided by corporate foundations, employee-giving schemes, partisan community groups and a powerful array of Islamist grant-making foundations that make use of a largely-unregulated nonprofit sector. FWI’s in-depth investigation has also uncovered new instances of islamism.news

@QuantumFlux36 - Quantum Flux

🔥 Red Pill for UN / UNRWA 🔥 ♦️ 1. UNRWA is a tool of jihad terror. Most of its employees are jihadists. $40 billion in "aid" went direct to leaders' pockets, tunnels, rockets, and hate indoctrination. UNRWA=Hamas=ISIS. ♦️2. UNRWA's primary goal is to develop terror states to spread jihad to Israel and beyond. It has adopted leftist ideological language as tactical camouflage. ♦️3. Under UNRWA/Hamas, all civic projects like hospitals and schools were militarized into weapons depots, rocket launchers, jihadist indoctrination centers, and 800 miles of terror tunnels. ♦️4. A terror-industrial complex enriched itself from this aid. Hamas leaders pocketed over $10 billion. Billions more went to 40,000+ bureaucrats. ♦️5. Your tax dollars are being used to pay ALL the Oct 7th terrorists. The Palestinian Authority (PA) spends millions annually on "pay to slay" terrorist welfare. All jihadist groups share similar goals. ♦️ 6. The UN itself largely serves despots and jihadists. It's agenda is shaped by the most repressive regimes, including Iran, Russia, China, and radical Islamic forces. ♦️7. The 57 OIC (Islamic) nations control most of the world's oil reserves, worth over $100 trillion. They wield undue influence in many global institutions. ♦️8. Arab/Islamic imperialism for 1400 years has used brutal physical and psychological tactics to try and ethnically cleanse the world. It has largely succeeded in the 99.7% of the Middle-East it controls. ♦️9. Israel is 0.3% of the Middle-East, and the only part where minorities have freedom. For its security, it must remove corrupt UNRWA from its territories, and take over its activities. ♦️10. All corrupt UN entities, including UNRWA, must be defunded and disbanded. A new platform for ethical global collaboration is desperately needed.

@QuantumFlux36 - Quantum Flux

https://x.com/QuantumFlux36/status/1724491087392411684?s=20

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

🧵The Ultimate Thread on Biden’s Betrayal of Israel The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard. This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon. Since Oct. 7th – a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas – despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden admin has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East. Now the Biden admin is going in for the kill shot: A push to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran -- threatening Israel's very existence in exchange for purported "normalization" with Arab powers. What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden admin's treachery towards Israel. This thread should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our adversaries with the blood of our countrymen on their hands.

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

10/7/23: The very day in which Hamas executes the most deadly and barbaric attack on Israel in its modern history – raping, murdering, burning, mutilating, beheading, and taking hostage innocents totaling 1,200 dead and approximately 240 abducted – including among them ~40 Americans – U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs urges “all sides” including Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” It quickly deletes the message, but this reflexive response will prove revealing

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

10/8/23: Sec. of State Antony Blinken likewise tweets and then quickly deletes post encouraging Turkey’s “advocacy for a cease-fire” https://x.com/RobbieGramer/status/1711366571665342603?s=20 State Dept. would reportedly issue a directive barring such rhetoric in public statements, but within months wholly obliterate that order https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-internal-emails-gaza-israel_n_65296395e4b0a304ff6ff95d

Leaked Emails Warn U.S. Diplomats Against Calling For Israeli ‘De-Escalation’ In Gaza As Israel escalates its offensive, U.S. diplomats are being discouraged from publicly using three phrases that would urge calm. huffpost.com

@RobbieGramer - Robbie Gramer

Looks like the Secretary of State deleted this tweet and replaced it with below, removing the reference to advocacy for a cease-fire

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

The U.S. announces it is moving a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean as part of a plan administration officials say aims to “deter[]…other states or non-state actors that might seek to widen this war” – not specifically Iran despite its menacing from the north. Nearly 100,000 Israelis will be displaced from the region. Meanwhile, evidence will suggest this show of force is as much about deterring Israel from striking Hezbollah and Iranian proxies, as those proxies from striking Israel, the U.S., and other allies and partners. Those proxies will launch an endless barrage of attacks undeterred in the coming months https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/was-bidens-speech-as-pro-israel-as-you-think At the same time, the U.S. will feverishly work to de-link Iran from the Oct. 7 attack, and the aggression of its proxies more broadly https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-america-october-massacre

Was Biden’s Speech as Pro-Israel as You Think? No. Because it was missing the only word that matters. tabletmag.com

Iran Sponsored the October 7 Massacre. America Paid for It. A chronicle of the Biden administration’s increasingly absurd attempts to hide its complicity in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust tabletmag.com

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10/10/23: Politico reports U.S. officials call for Israel to respond to Oct. 7 attack in a “proportionate” manner, with Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer stressing “It is our advice that this war be conducted based on principles of international law.” Officials will restate this and similar lines endlessly in the coming weeks. The implication is that Israel, which boasts perhaps the most ethical and humanitarian-focused army in the history of mankind, would violate such standards https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/us-israel-response-hamas-00120733

U.S. calls for ‘proportionate’ Israeli response while not openly setting red lines “We support Israel taking necessary and proportionate action to defend its country and protect its people,” says National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson. politico.com

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10/11/23: As WSJ will later report, with Israeli warplanes awaiting the order to strike Hezbollah as part of a multipronged attack, President Biden tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stand down.” Hezbollah will engage in numerous attacks subsequently, while again nearly 100,000 Israelis from the north will become refugees in their own land https://archive.ph/hNR9z

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10/12/23: Five days after Oct. 7, Biden admin emphasizes “it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians” https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1713234758841315362?s=20 In a thinly-veiled warning, Sec. Blinken says in remarks after meeting with PM Netanyahu “how Israel does this matters. We democracies distinguish ourselves from terrorists by striving for a different standard – even when it’s difficult – and holding ourselves to account when we fall short… That’s why it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-after-their-meeting-2/ During his visit to Israel, where Blinken will become a perpetual presence, he meets with Brothers in Arms, which had served as the military wing of the resistance to PM Netanyahu during the judicial reform fight, as well as opposition leader Yair Lapid https://www.jns.org/as-biden-turns-against-israel-netanyahu-must-stand-strong/ Blinken also says, in a line the admin will repeat ad nauseum that “We know Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations to live with equal measures of security, freedom, justice, opportunity, and dignity.” Beyond the fact Hamas was elected by Gazans, that Gazan civilians gleefully cheered on the Oct. 7 attack, and many were active participants in it, including holding hostages for months on end, polls will also show that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly support the Oct. 7 attack, genocide against the Jews, and favor Hamas over the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1712472034356453835?s=20; https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1749924165774086397?s=20;

Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu After Their Meeting - United States Department of State PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU:  Mr. Secretary, my good friend Tony, thank you for your important visit here today.  Thank you, thank President Biden, and thank you to the American people for your incredible support for Israel in our war against the barbarians of Hamas.  I thank you in English; I want to thank you in Hebrew […] state.gov

As Biden turns against Israel, Netanyahu must stand strong If Netanyahu fails to stand up to the United States, if he buckles, the pressure from Washington won’t stop. jns.org

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Jerusalem Oct 12, 2023 Secretary Blinken: "That’s why it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. And that’s why we mourn the loss of every innocent life, civilians of every faith, and nationality who have been killed." https://rb.gy/qv2ro

Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu After Their Meeting - United States Department of State PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU:  Mr. Secretary, my good friend Tony, thank you for your important visit here today.  Thank you, thank President Biden, and thank you to the American people for your incredible support for Israel in our war against the barbarians of Hamas.  I thank you in English; I want to thank you in Hebrew […] state.gov

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10/13/23: Six days after Oct. 7, State Dept. Spokesman Matthew Miller tweets that Sec. Blinken “reiterated that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights” – setting the stage for bolstering the PA to lead a future Palestinian state https://x.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1712816679745364115?s=20

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10/14/23: A week after Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stresses that Israel must act within rules of war and protect civilians https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1713298811962249286?s=20 WaPo will later report that after Sec. Austin’s visit to Israel, Biden NatSec and foreign policy team would become “increasingly concerned that a ground assault would turn into an open-ended quagmire” and begin to sour on a massive ground invasion https://archive.ph/ZkjnO#selection-985.99-985.182

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10/15/23: President Biden starts to set down desired outcomes for Israel-Hamas War, calling it a “big mistake” if Israel were to occupy Gaza, and suggesting “there needs to be a Palestinian Authority. There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state” post-war. https://archive.ph/n0y4w#selection-3895.219-3915.0 In a tweet, Joe Biden de-links “suffering” Palestinians from Hamas https://x.com/POTUS/status/1713525125478228437?s=20 Admin officials suggest they will insist that Israel permit humanitarian aid during the course of any coming invasion – de facto resupply for Hamas, while as @CarolineGlick notes, feeding the Hamas propaganda campaign that Israel rather than the jihadist group is responsible for the destruction in Gaza https://archive.ph/ZNv70; https://www.jns.org/as-biden-turns-against-israel-netanyahu-must-stand-strong/

As Biden turns against Israel, Netanyahu must stand strong If Netanyahu fails to stand up to the United States, if he buckles, the pressure from Washington won’t stop. jns.org

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10/16/23: @Tabletmag reports Biden admin calls on Israel not to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah despite its continued attacks on Israelis, in exchange for the U.S. committing assets if Hezbollah attacks first. Sec. Blinken also conveys to Israel that the U.S. “will find it difficult to support a military operation in Gaza that involves widespread harm to civilians” – a virtual impossibility given Hamas’ explicit use of civilians and civilian infrastructure to protect itself https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1714039148997226605?s=20 Biden admin announces the president will visit Israel, further delaying its ground invasion of Gaza https://x.com/JSchanzer/status/1714098497857679465?s=20 Sec. Blinken telegraphs Pres. Biden will “receive a comprehensive brief on Israel's war aims and strategy” and “hear from Israel how it will conduct its operations in a way the minimizes civilian casualties” and allows aid to flow https://x.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1714071658191863879?s=20

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10/17/23: In reporting on Biden’s trip to Israel, CNN reveals visit was conditioned on Israel opening Gaza to humanitarian aid https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/17/politics/inside-joe-biden-israel-trip-planning/index.html National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson John Kirby says, on eve of Biden’s visit, that POTUS “wants to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead. And he'll be asking some tough questions” https://x.com/mlakan/status/1714448929142497492?s=20

How Joe Biden got on board with a wartime trip to Israel – and what he hopes to accomplish | CNN Politics It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv. cnn.com

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10/18/23: During remarks in Tel Aviv, Biden tells Israelis that “Justice must be done,” but “don’t be consumed by [rage];” emphasizes that Israel “live[s] by the rule of law” and “law of wars;” that war “requires being deliberate…asking very hard questions;” while noting “The Palestinian people are suffering greatly as well,” and calling on the Israeli cabinet “to agree to the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/18/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-october-7th-terrorist-attacks-and-the-resilience-of-the-state-of-israel-and-its-people-tel-aviv-israel/ Despite knowledge purported “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza had been used to turn it into a mini-terror state in the first place – underwriting the Oct. 7 massacre – the Biden admin commits $100M in aid to Gaza and the West Bank https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1717412400142442852?s=20; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/18/u-s-announcement-of-humanitarian-assistance-to-the-palestinian-people/ Admin says “If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance…it will end.” The admin will not cease such aid, and will in fact demand ever-greater amounts of aid be surged despite ample evidence over the coming weeks it is being commandeered by the jihadist group https://x.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/1757459676751413261?s=20; https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-aid-trucks-stolen-by-gunmen-and-looted-as-convoys-start-crossing-from-israel/; https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1702285314-caught-on-camera-hamas-terrorists-steal-humanitarian-aid-beat-civilians; https://x.com/CarolineGlick/status/1751688519284584751?s=20 Biden also says “we must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution.” That day the Biden admin lets UN sanctions on Iranian ballistic missile, drone programs lapse.

Remarks by President Biden on the October 7th Terrorist Attacks and the Resilience of the State of Israel and its People | Tel Aviv, Israel | The White House 5:06 P.M. IDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  Please have a seat.  I come to Israel with a single message: You are not alone.  You are not alone. As long as the United States stands — and we will stand forever — we will not let you ever be alone. Most importantly, the — I know the recent terrorist… whitehouse.gov

U.S. Announcement of Humanitarian Assistance to the Palestinian People | The White House President Biden announced today that the United States is providing $100 million in humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. This funding will help support over a million displaced and conflict-affected people with clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, and other essential needs. The United States provides humanitarian assistance… whitehouse.gov

Gaza aid trucks stolen by gunmen and looted, as convoys start crossing from Israel Videos appear to show trucks carrying crucial supplies seized by Hamas, fallen goods taken by civilians; Red Cross official says 79 trucks entered Sunday via Kerem Shalom crossing timesofisrael.com

Caught on camera: Hamas terrorists steal humanitarian aid, beat civilians - I24NEWS Earlier in the day, the IDF said it found Hamas was using UNRWA-labeled bags to hide explosive devices, AK-47 rifles and an RPG - Click the link for more details. i24news.tv

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10/20/23: When asked why Israel permitted aid before Hamas released all hostages, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says “The Americans insisted and we are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gallant-we-cant-say-no-to-the-us-on-humanitarian-aid-given-how-much-they-do-for-us/

Gallant: We can’t say ‘no’ to the US on humanitarian aid given how much they do for us * * * timesofisrael.com

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10/21/23: Two weeks after Oct. 7, Joe Biden again signals his ultimate desire to effectively reward Hamas, tweeting, “As hard as it is, we cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.” https://x.com/POTUS/status/1715790062359593029?s=20 That same day the first shipment of “humanitarian aid,” which will be exploited by Hamas, enters Gaza. https://x.com/PowerUSAID/status/1715806009057329449?s=20https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/house-committee-unrwa-chief-philippe-lazzarini-aid-gaza-hamas/ Amb. Beth Jones reiterates at Cairo Peace Summit that “President Biden cautioned Israel not to become blinded by rage. Civilian lives must be protected, and assistance must urgently reach those in need. We will continue to work closely with our partners in the region to stress the importance of upholding the law of war, respect for international humanitarian law…” She also reiterates that “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people” https://eg.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-charge-daffaires-ambassador-beth-jones-at-the-cairo-peace-summit/

Remarks by Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Beth Jones at the Cairo Peace Summit October 21, 2023 – Cairo, Egypt As Delivered President El-Sisi, heads of state and government, ministers, colleagues: The United States is grateful for eg.usembassy.gov

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As hard as it is, we cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.

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10/22/23: Reports emerge that the Biden administration, led by Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security Amos Hochstein, is working to prevent Israel from striking Hezbollah. https://x.com/AcrossTheBay/status/1727426851683897799?s=20 That same day, NYT reports Biden admin is advising Israel to delay a ground invasion of Gaza “hoping to buy time for hostage negotiations and to allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/us/politics/us-hostages-israel-gaza.html POTUS also sends a “both-sides” tweet, indicating that while Israel “has a right to defend itself,” PM “Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can. We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace. That’s why I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. And we cannot give up on a two-state solution.” https://x.com/POTUS/status/1716084761184100418?s=20

U.S. Advises Israel to Delay Gaza Invasion, Officials Say The Biden administration has suggested that more time is needed for hostage negotiations, the delivery of aid to Palestinians and mapping out ways to avoid more civilian casualties. nytimes.com

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10/23/23: Report suggests President Biden tells PM Netanyahu to refrain from taking aggressive action against Hezbollah in the north during temporary ceasefire https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-biden-asked-netanyahu-to-seek-to-calm-northern-front-during-temporary-truce/

Report: Biden asked Netanyahu to try to keep north calm during temporary Gaza truce PM said to make no promises in conversation, but topic likely to come up in war cabinet meeting; US energy envoy briefs Israelis on talks in Lebanon amid efforts to contain war timesofisrael.com

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10/25/23: Now nearly three weeks removed from the worst attack against Israel in its modern history, Axios details that “President Biden, despite his full-throated support for Israel and its right to strike Hamas, has methodically and meticulously delayed the looming invasion of Gaza, U.S. officials tell us.” Consequently, he buys Hamas time to hunker down and move assets around in preparation for a coming incursion, eliminates Israel’s ability to seize the initiative with any sort of element of surprise, and allows international pressure to mount against Israel as casualties result from air strikes. This effort is largely built on the idea that delaying the invasion provides time for “hostage diplomacy.” The Biden admin will repeatedly seek to use the desire for releasing hostages as leverage to get Israel not to prosecute the war as needed to defeat Hamas. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/25/biden-israel-hamas-strategy-gaza-invasion Separately, in a joint press conference with PM Albanese of Australia, President Biden declares “There’s no going back to the status quo as it stood on October the 6th . . . When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next. And in our view, it has to be a two-state solution” https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1717471243132182839?s=20

Behind the Curtain: Inside Biden's slow-walking strategy on Israel and Gaza The slow-walking strategy flows from five strategic worries. axios.com

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10/26/23: WaPo reports that “The Biden administration is urging Israel to rethink its plans for a major ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and instead to opt for a more “surgical” operation using aircraft and special operations forces carrying out precise, targeted raids on high-value Hamas targets and infrastructure” https://archive.ph/ZkjnO#selection-583.0-583.289

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10/27/23: WaPo reports that three weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre, Biden admin officials begin exerting pressure on Israel to take a “humanitarian pause” from airstrikes to surge aid into Gaza https://archive.ph/1tpZN

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10/28/23: Israel begins ground invasion of Gaza https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/

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10/29/23: President Biden issues tweet indicating he does not want Gazans displaced to Egypt, keeping civilians amassed in Gaza and thereby making Israel’s war effort substantially more difficult – ultimately concentrating Palestinian Arabs in planned Rafah offensive to come https://x.com/POTUS/status/1718740437249245326?s=20 Readout of conversation between Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi confirms that they discussed “ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced to Egypt or any other nation.” That same day, U.S. successfully pressures Israel into restoring phone and internet comms in Gaza – after Israel had jammed internet and telecoms networks upon entering Gaza for its ground offensive https://archive.ph/eTZQk; https://archive.ph/KCSZ2 Axios’ Barak Ravid reports that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says that President Biden will speak to PM Netanyahu and “stress the need for the IDF to do every possible effort to distinguish between terrorists and Palestinian civilians during the ground operation in Gaza” https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1718623866463891500?s=20

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10/30/23: Sec. Blinken says Israel must be in “compliance with international humanitarian law” and “urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm,” indicating Israel understood “massive levels of civilian life and displace scale we saw in the north [could] not be repeated in the south” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/blinken-urges-israel-to-comply-with-international-law-and-spare-civilians-in-war-against-hamas

WATCH: Blinken urges Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians in war against Hamas U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israeli leaders to respect international law as Israel wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. pbs.org

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11/1/23: State Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller notes that in meetings in Jordan, Sec. Blinken will “reaffirm the U.S. commitment to working with partners to set the conditions for a durable and sustainable peace in the Middle East, to include the establishment of a Palestinian state that reflects the aspirations of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank” https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-november-1-2023/ In the start of something of a whisper campaign aimed at undermining if not toppling PM Netanyahu – something the admin had quietly supported dating back to the judicial reform crisis – Politico reports that “Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered,” with the expectation his tenure will end within months. According to a former official, reportedly “With an eye toward the future, U.S. officials are talking to Benny Gantz, a member of the current unity government; Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister; and Yair Lapid, an opposition leader and former prime minister, among other Israeli figures” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/biden-administration-thinks-netanyahu-may-not-last-politically-00124849 Also that day, @SenTomCotton tweets that “Biden is now secretly pressuring Israel to allow fuel into Gaza. Hamas has huge reserves of fuel that it could use for civilians, but instead stockpiles for its rockets and terror tunnels” https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1719815260851376426?s=20

Department Press Briefing - November 1, 2023 - United States Department of State 1:40 p.m. EDT MR MILLER: Good afternoon. Sorry for being late. Nice scarf, Matt. QUESTION: Thank you. MR MILLER: Let me start – QUESTION: Not a Steelers scarf, I’ll note. MR MILLER: Yes. For the record, Matt is wearing a Buffalo Sabres scarf. Correct? QUESTION: Yes. MR MILLER: As I informed Matt earlier in the […] state.gov

Netanyahu may not last, Biden and aides increasingly believe The Israeli prime minister’s political obituary has been written before. But U.S. officials are already gauging potential successors. politico.com

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11/2/23: President Biden calls for a “pause” in Israel’s ground offensive to “get the prisoners [hostages] out” of Gaza https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-special-edition-e8f NYT adds in report that Sec. Blinken “will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations of military operations in Gaza to allow for hostages to be released safely and for humanitarian aid to be distributed” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza-fighting-pause.html

What Happened Today, Special Edition: Israel at War Day 26 November 2, 2023 thedailyscroll.substack.com

U.S. to Press Israel for ‘Pauses’ in War With Hamas Brief cessations of military operations would allow food, water and other aid to reach Gaza and help with hostage releases, officials say. nytimes.com

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11/3/23: Reports emerge suggesting Sec. Blinken told Israeli counterparts of desire for a humanitarian pause, purportedly to buy it political cover from those demanding a ceasefire https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/israel-hamas-blinken-gaza-ceasefire

Blinken tells Israelis humanitarian pause will buy Israel time for Gaza operation The U.S. supports Israel's goal of destroying Hamas but it is under growing pressure to push for a ceasefire. axios.com

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11/4/23: NYT reports that U.S. officials press Israel to use “smaller bombs” in targeting Hamas, to “employ[]…ground forces to separate civilian population centers from where the militants are concentrated,” and for “a series of pauses to fighting to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the exit of foreign nationals” – all of which imperiled Israeli lives and may have prolonged the war. The Times writes: “Changing Israel’s approach is a critical priority for the Biden administration. Mr. Blinken’s public comments that ‘we provided Israel advice that only the best of friends can offer on how to minimize civilian deaths’ underscored the shift in the administration’s position. U.S. officials say their private messages to the Israelis have been more blunt.’” https://archive.ph/Fy9zh According to @kann_news, the U.S. presses “Israel to allow humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting to boost global legitimacy for war” https://x.com/IsraelRadar_com/status/1720882618248356304?s=20

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11/6/23: Report suggests U.S. conditions assault rifle delivery on weapons not being distributed to Jewish militias in Judea and Samaria – under purported fear of uptick in “settler violence” that will prove a false narrative. This is at the same time Palestinian Arabs are engaged in rampant terrorism against Jews in Judea and Samaria https://archive.ph/lhcjx https://archive.ph/BMpmS; https://www.jns.org/israeli-fm-condemns-settler-violence-narrative-as-blood-libel/; https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-myth-of-escalating-settler-violence/; https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/fraudulent-case-against-violent-settlers

Israeli FM condemns ‘settler violence' narrative as ‘blood libel' A Samaria Regional Council report found the U.N. massaged the numbers to present a false picture. jns.org

The myth of escalating settler violence – www.israelhayom.com israelhayom.com

The Fraudulent Case Against ‘Violent Settlers’ U.S. officials are using pro-Palestinian NGO sources to back a controversial effort aimed at punishing the Jewish state tabletmag.com

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11/9/23: Under pressure from Biden admin, Israel begins to implement humanitarian “pauses,” effectively flowing re-supply to Hamas, with Israel promising no military operations in relevant areas during said pauses. While acknowledging the challenge of Israel operating with Hamas using civilians as human shields, NSC’s Kirby says “At the same time, Israel has an obligation to fully comply with international law,” and “we believe these pauses are a step in the right direction” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/09/israel-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-00126355

Under pressure from Biden, Israel agrees to implement humanitarian ‘pauses’ “It’s taken a little longer than I hoped,” President Joe Biden told reporters of his discussions with Israel. politico.com

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11/10/23: Sec. Blinken says that “Far too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks…we’ll be continuing to discuss with Israel the concrete steps to be taken to advance these objectives [preventing civilian harm and maximizing aid]” https://www.yahoo.com/news/blinken-brings-notable-shift-us-191932122.html

Blinken brings a notable shift in US language toward Israel as pressure mounts at home and abroad When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the civilian death toll in Gaza on Friday, it marked a subtle but notable shift in US language toward the Israeli government. yahoo.com

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11/11/23: Sec. Austin “emphasize[s]” to Israeli Defense Minister Gallant the need to “contain the conflict to Gaza and avoid regional escalation” per a readout, also reportedly asking Gallant to explain “Israeli air strikes in Lebanon” and “avoid steps that could lead to an all out war between Israel and Hezbollah,” per an unidentified Israeli official https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-in-a-stunning-reversal-wheels-on-israel-seeking-to-restrain-its-counterattacks-in-lebanon-and-syria?newsletter-access&utm_source=MG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Evening%20Sun%20%202023-11-13; https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3586349/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-israeli-minister/

Biden, in a Stunning Reversal, Wheels on Israel, Seeking To Restrain Its Counterattacks in Lebanon and Syria Secretary Austin is ordered by the president to deliver to the Jewish state a warning against responding to the enemy in a war that is already close to… nysun.com

Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Israeli Minister of Defens Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to discuss Israel's war with Hamas. defense.gov

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11/12/23: Axios reports that “Some in the Biden administration are concerned Israel is trying to provoke Hezbollah and create a pretext for a wider war in Lebanon that could draw the U.S. and other countries further into the conflict, according to sources briefed on the issue” https://www.axios.com/2023/11/12/israel-lebanon-lloyd-austin-yoav-gallant-military

Scoop: Pentagon chief warned Israel about its military actions in Lebanon Austin's message reflected growing anxiety in the White House that Israeli military action in Lebanon is exacerbating tensions along the border. axios.com

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11/13/23: Sec. Blinken drafts memo emphasizing the desire for “Gaza unified with the West Bank,” calling for “No forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians from Gaza…No reoccupation of Gaza…Not attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza” – expressly setting conditions governing resolution to the war https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk21/?flat_pdf_quality=low&isShareViaLink=1&requestHash=5359b781479459d446d40498b032c1ca4099bea8ec2f56865ba8ec67f48380c6&lang=en&projectId=1394848376&loader=tips&MEDIUM_PDFJS=true&PAGE_REARRANGE_V2_MVP=true&richTextFormatting=true&isPageRearrangeV2MVP=true&jsf-page-rearrange-v2=true&LATEST_PDFJS=true&jsf-document-scroll-zoom=true&jsf-redesign-full=true&act-notary-pro-integration=false&jsf-dss-v2=false&routeId=e37b3329d6aefa4e48917b9e5c864e74#2a3681f7d06b4a4fac7529ff59beb665 Biden official leaks dissatisfaction with PM Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas-lite PA leading Gaza “the day after” war, with reports suggesting U.S. “has begun to ask about the possibility of a more moderate government being shuffled in.” It suggests “diplomatic umbrella” being provided by U.S. could collapse absent Israel bowing to desired policy https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-stances-frustrating-us-attempts-to-rally-arab-support-for-post-hamas-gaza/ That same day, WaPo reports of an emerging cease-fire-plus-hostages-for-terrorists exchange being mediated by the U.S.-supported Qataris between Israel and Hamas https://archive.ph/KWDPz Also, five weeks after Oct. 7, Biden sanctions Hamas-affiliated via terror designations that Sen. Ted Cruz national security advisor @omriceren says had been sitting “on the shelf” but left un-implemented “for ideological reasons” https://x.com/omriceren/status/1724468990225854788?s=20

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Netanyahu stances frustrating US attempts to rally Arab support for post-Hamas Gaza Biden administration sees Israel's opposition to PA rule in Strip shrinking diplomatic space for IDF to press fight, even among Gulf allies also backing the terror group's removal timesofisrael.com

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11/18/23: In a WaPo op-ed, Pres. Biden writes that “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.” https://archive.ph/AVy6H The PA is led by Hamas-lite Fatah, which refused to condemn the Oct. 7 attacks; will compensate the families of the jihadists who perpetrated the attacks; has members who reportedly participated in the attacks; and whose leaders would demonstrate an interest in forming a government incorporating Hamas. Relatedly, Biden indicates the U.S. is preparing to impose sanctions on Israeli “extremists [purportedly] attacking [Palestinian Arab] civilians in the West Bank” https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1725976743234683347?s=20

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11/21/23: NSC’s Kirby warns that Israel should not expand its operations into southern Gaza absent “a clearly articulated plan for how they’re going to protect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people that have now been added to the population [in the south] because they were asked to leave by the Israelis” https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-5d7

What Happened Today November 21, 2023 thedailyscroll.substack.com

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11/24/23: After weeks of effort and pressure from the Biden admin, Israel yields and agrees to multi-day war pause plus hostage exchange for three-times as many Palestinian Arab prisoners, many jihadists, plus surging of humanitarian aid to Gaza Separately, Biden says that conditioning military aid to Israel was a “worthwhile thought” https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4326184-biden-conditions-on-aid-to-israel-a-worthwhile-thought/

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11/26/23: Biden asserts he wants four-day pause in Israel-Hamas war to extend https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1701019872-biden-says-he-wants-the-truce-in-gaza-to-continue-past-original-four-days That same day, the British Daily Express reports that Israel’s Shabak knows where “many” of the then-240 hostages were located, but did not rescue them due to the threat of collateral damage – which according to @CarolineGlick would “risk U.S. resupply, which Israel cannot fight without” https://www.jns.org/biden-is-the-primary-obstacle-to-israeli-victory/

Biden says he wants truce in Gaza to continue past original four days - I24NEWS “It’s my goal and our goal to make sure this break continues” i24news.tv

Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view. jns.org

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11/27/23: @CarolineGlick reports that three weeks prior, the Biden admin “began demanding that Israel limit (or cancel entirely) its pre-ground battle aerial bombings. Consequently, in the week that preceded this week’s ‘humanitarian pause,’ the IDF’s battle losses were overwhelmingly the consequence of sniper fire from Hamas terrorists hiding in buildings that the air force did not destroy before the battles, due to U.S. pressure” https://www.jns.org/biden-is-the-primary-obstacle-to-israeli-victory/

Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view. jns.org

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11/28/23: Pres. Biden tweets “Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.” @TabletMag reports: The Biden administration is sending clear signals that it wants the current cease-fire to mark the beginning of the end of Israel’s major combat operations and plans to place additional conditions on any renewed Israeli offensive. On Monday, an anonymous administration official told reporters that “the Israeli campaign when it moves to the south must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons” and “conducted in a way that is maximally de-conflicted with humanitarian facilities.” Also on Monday evening, Biden reiterated his support for a two-state solution on X, while Senate Democrats met to discuss proposals to condition U.S. aid to Israel on Israel’s observance of international law (as The Wall Street Journal points out, Washington can already withhold aid on human-rights grounds, so the measure would amount to a specific rebuke to Israel’s conduct of the war.) https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-771

What Happened Today November 28, 2023 thedailyscroll.substack.com

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U.S. officials emphasize that “As Israel defends itself from terrorism, they have the obligation to do everything possible to prevent any civilian casualties and distinguish between terrorists and civilians;” also “We don’t support southern operations unless or until the Israelis can show that they have accounted for all the internally displaced people of Gaza;” said campaign “must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons. It cannot have the sort of scale of displacement that took place in the north replicated in the south” https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/white-house-reiterates-bidens-support-for-israels-war-against-hamas-amid-confusion-over-tweet/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20November%2029%202023&utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20November%2029%202023+CID_48831ae9ed3f4722a37ec6bef33bc702&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&utm_term=Read%20more%20here

White House reiterates Biden’s support for Israel's war against Hamas amid confusion over tweet A senior administration official said a tweet criticizing violence in the Middle East 'is not a change in policy' jewishinsider.com

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11/30/23: Sec. Blinken tells PM Netanyahu Biden admin will announce series of visa bans against Israelis in Judea and Samaria who allegedly attacked Palestinians. It will introduce no such measures against Palestinian Arab terrorists https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-tells-israel-it-will-announce-visa-ban-on-violent-settlers-in-coming-weeks-officials/ That same day, reports leak that in meeting with Israel’s war cabinet, Sec. Blinken told Israeli leaders that “You can’t operate in southern Gaza in the way you did in the north,” and that in response to Defense Minister Gallant’s comment that all of Israel “is united behind the goal of dismantling Hamas, even if it takes months,” quote “I don’t think you have the credit for that” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/blinken-said-to-tell-israel-to-change-strategy-for-southern-gaza-suggest-it-wont-have-months-to-win-war/

US tells Israel it will announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials * * * timesofisrael.com

Blinken said to tell Israel to change strategy for southern Gaza, suggest it won’t have months to win war * * * timesofisrael.com

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@CarolineGlick 12/1/23: “Temporary pause” ends https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/the-truce-broke-down-over-the-details-of-further-hostage-and-prisoner-exchanges-israeli-officials-say.html#:~:text=But%20the%20two%20Israeli%20officials,the%20sensitivity%20of%20the%20discussions

The truce broke down over the details of further hostage and prisoner exchanges, Israeli officials say. nytimes.com

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12/2/23: Sec. Austin delivers speech noting “I have personally pushed Israeli leaders to avoid civilian casualties, and to shun irresponsible rhetoric, and to prevent violence by settlers in the West Bank,” and warning that Israel could suffer “strategic defeat” otherwise https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/defense-secretary-austin-warns-of-risk-for-israel-over-civilian-deaths-in-gaza?embedded-checkout=true

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@CarolineGlick 12/4/23: Politico reports that Biden admin officials have since mid-October been planning post-war scenario envisioning a “revitalized” PA in charge of Gaza. This represents an attempt to box PM Netanyahu, who resists telegraphing post-war plans https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/04/biden-gaza-israel-hamas-war-00130000#:~:text=Key%20parts%20of%20the%20plan,advising%20Palestinian%20security%20forces%2C%20the

How the Biden team is planning for a postwar Gaza Strip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not like the ideas, but he also may not get a say. politico.com

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12/5/23: Sec. Blinken announces visa restrictions on Jews targeting those “involved in or meaningfully contribution to actions that undermine peace, security, and stability” in Judea and Samaria https://x.com/SecBlinken/status/1732093745380659342?s=20 That same day, report drops indicating U.S. wishes for Israeli invasion to be over by the first week of January https://x.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1732055439607582817?s=20

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@CarolineGlick 12/6/23: Report indicates WH seeking to broker deal between Israel and Lebanon that according to senior Israeli officials aims to “prevent[] Israel and the IDF from engaging in a military campaign along the northern border” https://x.com/Nadav_Eyal/status/1732458034448720281?s=20; https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1732468165068603417?s=20

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Read @AcrossTheBay on the maritime deal that the U.S. apparently sees as the model for the next Hezbollah-Israel pact. To what extent is Biden forcing this on Bibi? https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/in-lebanon-israel-america-opposite-sides

The Role of the U.S. in Lebanon and Israel Relations Discover how Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Hezbollah threats with Israeli defense force officials regarding US and Lebanon relations. tabletmag.com

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12/7/23: Report suggests Biden admin is going around Israel to work with PA on a plan to run Gaza post-war – with PA calling for Hamas to join it in coalition government https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-08/palestinian-authority-working-with-us-on-postwar-plan-for-gaza?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email That same day Sec. Blinken criticizes Israel for its southern Gaza offensive, noting there is a “gap…[between] the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blinken-says-gap-remains-between-israels-intent-protect-civilians-results-2023-12-07/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Dec%207%20(Reuters),been%20happening%20on%20the%20ground. A report also circulates suggesting U.S. directed Israel not to respond to Houthi attacks despite being under de facto blockade https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-tell-israel-it-will-handle-houthi-attacks-but-is-eschewing-strikes-for-now/; https://www.jns.org/standing-up-to-the-american-colossus/

US said to tell Israel it will handle Houthi attacks, but is eschewing strikes for now Washington reportedly worried Israeli action against Iran-backed Yemeni rebels could ignite broader conflict amid ongoing war against Hamas timesofisrael.com

Standing up to the American colossus Why is the United States leveraging its position as Israel’s ally to compel an Israeli defeat at the hands of Iran and its proxies? The answer is politics. jns.org

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12/10/23: @carolineglick reports that Hochstein reportedly seeking to broker Israel-Lebanon plan whereby Israel would withdraw from strategically significant sovereign territory, with Hezbollah proclaiming it will abide by the UNSC Resolution it has been violating – thereby imperiling Israel https://www.jns.org/israels-survival-clashes-with-americas-lebanon-delusions/

Israel’s survival clashes with America’s Lebanon delusions With regard to Lebanon, U.S.-Israel relations are on a collision course. jns.org

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12/12/23: At a fundraiser with prominent Jewish Democrats, Pres. Biden suggests he lectured PM Netanyahu, with respect to the Israel-Hamas War, “Don’t make the same mistakes we made [after] 9/11. There was no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan [after] 9/11,” falsely claiming Israel had been engaging in “indiscriminate bombing,” and also indicating that “I think he [Netanyahu] has to change.” Biden warns Israel is “starting to lose…support” internationally. He also criticizes conservative national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-netanyahu-needs-to-change-coalition-israel-is-starting-to-lose-support-around-world/

Biden: PM shackled by hardline coalition partners; Israel losing world support ‘by indiscriminate bombing’ * * * timesofisrael.com

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12/13/23: Axios reports Biden admin delays sale of rifles to Israel “over concerns about attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank” – again a canard used to smear and slander Israeli opposition to desired two-state plan https://www.axios.com/2023/12/13/us-israel-rifle-sale-delay-west-bank-violence

Scoop: U.S. delaying sale of M16 rifles to Israel over settler violence "This deal isn't moving anywhere at the moment." axios.com

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12/14/23: Axios reports NSA Sullivan told PM Netanyahu et al. that Israel needs to “transition to the next lower intensity phase [of the war] in a matter of weeks, not months,” contrary to what Israeli officials were saying they needed in terms of time https://www.axios.com/2023/12/14/jake-sullivan-netanyahu-israel-meeting; https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/israel-united-states-jake-sullivan-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%2015%202023&utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%2015%202023+CID_7e184a663d92ff56e78d0bbbdd7f95eb&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&utm_term=Jewish%20Insider%20Washington%20correspondent%20Gabby%20Deutch%20reports That same day Politico reports U.S. has gathered intelligence that could allow it to make assessments about whether Israel is abiding by the laws of war https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/israel-conduct-war-intel-tactic-00131868

Israel must move to "lower intensity phase" of war in weeks not months, Sullivan tells Netanyahu "The high intensity kinetic campaign needed to transition to the next lower intensity phase." axios.com

White House sharply diverges from Israel in long-term goal of war In a visit to Israel, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan laid out new terms for what Washington wants to see in Gaza. It looks different from what Israel wants jewishinsider.com

US has collected intel it could use to judge Israel’s conduct of war The U.S. has been gathering information about Israel’s tactics in Gaza since the start of the war and provided those reports to lawmakers. politico.com

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12/15/23: Times of Israel reports various Israeli leaders have urged the Biden admin to stop talking about a “two-state solution” – pleas that will go ignored https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-urging-us-not-to-talk-publicly-about-two-state-solution-officials/ NSA Sullivan tells reporters while in Tel Aviv that the Hezbollah “threat can be dealt with through diplomacy,” undermining potential Israeli military action https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-778166 That same day, reports emerge suggesting U.S. wishes to ensure not only humanitarian aid but commercial goods be allowed into Gaza strip https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/with-kerem-shalom-to-reopen-us-sets-sites-on-re-entry-of-commercial-goods-into-gaza-officials-tell-toi/

Israel urging US not to talk publicly about two-state solution — officials Request not just being made by PM, but Herzog, Gantz and Lapid as well, who argue that framework has no support post Oct. 7; US official says Washington in no position to heed call timesofisrael.com

US: Hezbollah's threat against Israel best dealt with through diplomacy Jake Sullivan stressed that deterrence is an important element of the kind of diplomacy needed to bring security to north. jpost.com

With Kerem Shalom to reopen, US sets sites on re-entry of commercial goods into Gaza — officials tell ToI * * * timesofisrael.com

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12/16/23: Reports indicate U.S. military leaders press Israel to limit its war effort to “prevent a wider regional war,” the indication being that Israel must cease intense operations – necessitated by the attack perpetrated by Iran proxy Hamas – to get Iran’s proxies to stop attacking https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-major-combat-operations-austin-b201d682a10735c0bc6847359edeca8b

US military leaders press Israel to shift from major combat as Iranian-backed ship attacks escalate The top two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition from major combat operations against Hamas in Gaza to a more limited and precise campaign. apnews.com

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@CarolineGlick 12/22/23: U.S. abstains in the face of UNSC resolution calling “for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-acts-boost-aid-gaza-after-us-abstains-2023-12-22/

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@CarolineGlick 12/28/23: Reports emerge suggesting Biden admin is unhappy with and pressing Israel to release tax revenue it is withholding from the PA https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/biden-netanyahu-call-palestinian-authority-tax-revenue

Scoop: Biden in "frustrating" call told Bibi to solve Palestinian tax revenue issue It's a sign of the growing tensions between the two leaders. axios.com

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1/2/24: State Dept. calls “inflammatory and irresponsible” comments of Israeli national security minister Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calling for Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza and pressing for Israelis to return https://archive.ph/r7JjL#the-state-department-rebukes-israeli-ministers-pushing-for-gazans-to-leave-the-enclave That same day, Israel allegedly assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon, prompting Biden administration officials to claim, per @rich_goldberg, they had advised against the attack https://x.com/rich_goldberg/status/1742271226339377239?s=20

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1/8/24: President Biden says, in the face of protestors, “I’ve been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza. And using all that I can to do that” https://x.com/karol/status/1744426829300068444?s=20 Jake Tapper tweets that a Biden admin official indicates PM Netanyahu will have to choose between Israeli conservatives, and Biden and the U.S. https://x.com/jaketapper/status/1744397998904275048?s=20

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1/9/24: In remarks in Tel Aviv, Sec. Blinken holds Israel responsible for the “acute food insecurity” of Gazans, demanding “Israel needs to do everything it can to remove any obstacles from crossings to other parts of Gaza. Improving deconfliction procedures to ensure that the aid can move safely and securely is a critical part of that” – this regarding aid distributed primarily by a captured entity of Hamas, UNRWA. Despite lamenting how “the daily toll on civilians in Gaza…is far too high,” Blinken says “the United States unequivocally rejects any proposals advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-press-availability-45/#:~:text=And%20then%20once%20they're,a%20critical%20part%20of%20that. @CarolineGlick’s analysis suggests Biden admin officials are working behind the scenes to topple PM Netanyahu with a left-wing Israeli alternative that will make massive land concessions in connection with establishment of a Palestinian state https://www.jns.org/victory-is-more-important-than-us-support/

Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability - United States Department of State SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good evening.  This is my fourth trip to Israel since the horrific Hamas attacks of October 7th, so I’m here just over three months – 95 days – since those attacks occurred. We know that for the people who were most affected by the attacks and the conflict that’s followed, time moves differently.  Immediately before […] state.gov

Victory is more important than US support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers must remember that Israel is not an American vassal state. jns.org

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1/10/24: Following meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas – currently serving in the 20th year of a four-year term – Sec. Blinken declares Abbas “committed” to reforming the PA https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-seeks-palestinian-reform-as-he-tries-to-rally-region-behind-postwar-vision/ As WSJ reports, this comes amid recent news the PA would extend its “pay for slay” compensation to families of Hamas terrorists killed after Oct. 7 https://archive.ph/Ls6sJ

In Ramallah, Blinken tells Abbas US supports ‘tangible steps’ toward Palestinian state As he tries to rally region behind postwar vision for Gaza, top US diplomat reportedly holds 'tense' meeting with PA leader while hundreds outside protest 'unwelcome' visit timesofisrael.com

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1/14/24: “The president’s patience is running out” with the continuing Israeli war on Hamas, a U.S. official leaks to Axios. Also leaked, Sec. Blinken’s view that Israel’s plan for post-war Gaza was “pie in the sky.” Notably, Blinken met with both war cabinet minister Gantz, opposition leader Lapid, and Defense Minister Gallant, all cast as potential PM Netanyahu successors in the press https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war-tensions NSA Sullivan says on “Face the Nation” that “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-14-2024-3af5b75f744b92c5517b287baf20b55b

Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days "The situation sucks and we are stuck," one U.S. official said. axios.com

White House says 'it's the right time' for Israel to scale back Gaza war as fighting hits 100 days The White House's comments come even as Israeli leaders vow to intensify their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group. apnews.com

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1/17/24: NBC News reports of growing rupture between Biden admin and PM Netanyahu, with U.S. officials leaking that Netanyahu “will not be there forever” – again part of a whisper campaign against him suggesting a desire to see him toppled. “The officials said the Biden administration is trying to lay the groundwork with other Israeli and civil society leaders in anticipation of an eventual post-Netanyahu government. In an attempt to work around Netanyahu, Blinken also met individually with members of his war Cabinet and other Israeli leaders, including opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, officials said.” Blinken also conveys, per NBC, that there is “no military solution” to Hamas https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/frustrations-biden-israeli-pm-netanyahu-mount-rcna134263 That same day in conversation with NYT admin mouthpiece Thomas Friedman, Blinken puts onus on Israel to make peace, noting “Arab countries and Muslim countries…are prepared to have a relationship with Israel in terms of its integration, its normalization, its security” in exchange for a Palestinian state. “When in previous times we came close to…getting a Palestinian state…the view then…was that Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders, had not done enough to prepare their own people for this profound change. I think a challenge now, a question now: Is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions?” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-conversation-with-thomas-friedman/

Frustrations between Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu mount WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken dialed up pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday over the future of the Gaza Strip, laying bare the Biden administration’s growing frustrations with the Israeli prime minister’s rejection of a proposal last week. nbcnews.com

Secretary Antony J. Blinken At a Conversation with Thomas Friedman - United States Department of State MR FRIEDMAN:  Klaus, thank you.  And Mr. Secretary, it’s great to be with you here this morning.  I want to begin with a real black-and-white contrast in the morning news, reading the papers.  One – on one side you read about the power these days, Mr. Secretary, of the – these small units, Houthis who […] state.gov

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1/19/24: After several weeks of reported silence, President Biden and PM Netanyahu speak, during which Biden presses Netanyahu to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state post-war. John Kirby tsk-tsks Netanyahu for saying “I shall not compromise on full Israeli security control of the entire area west of Jordan River,” responding “It’s not a phrase that we recommend using because of that [‘from the river to the sea’] context” https://archive.ph/rneca

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1/21/24: WSJ reports on U.S.-Egypt-Qatar plan to essentially force Israel to end the war with an Israeli loss by leveraging a hostage-for-terrorist exchange during a freeze that would ultimately lead to the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the ending of surveillance, flooding of Gaza with aid, followed by “talks for a permanent cease-fire, normalization of relations between Israel and Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and the relaunching of a process to create a Palestinian state.” In such a scenario, Hamas would not be destroyed, and hundreds if not thousands of freed jihadists could be re-deployed from a newly established Palestinian terror state. These U.S.-supported talks persist to this day https://archive.ph/2sxO2

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@CarolineGlick 1/22/24: Politico telegraphs Biden admin will seek to pressure Israel to de-intensify/halt war to get Houthis to stand down https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/22/how-to-stop-the-houthis-00137030

How to stop the Houthis President Joe Biden and his team's current thinking: there’s no single thing that will pressure the militants to cease launching missiles. politico.com

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1/26/24: State Dept. announces “temporary pause” on UNRWA funding after organization is found to be brimming with Hamas members and colluders. But the freeze only comes after 99.8% of the $121M in UNRWA funding earmarked has already been delivered https://archive.ph/5XSul Separately, with Israeli protestors preventing aid at Kerem Shalom border crossing from entering the Gaza strip until hostages are freed, White House reportedly pressures Israel to ensure aid moves unabated https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-third-day-running-protesters-block-gaza-aid-at-kerem-shalom-crossing/

For third day running, protesters block Gaza aid at Kerem Shalom crossing Hundreds more expected at border crossing to demand all humanitarian aid entering Strip be cut off until Hamas frees all remaining hostages timesofisrael.com

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1/28/24: NBC News reports Biden admin “is discussing using weaponry sales to Israel as leverage to convince the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to heed long-standing U.S. calls to scale back its military assault in the Gaza Strip.” A Biden official leaks “There’s a lot more that needs to be done and they [Israel] need to be more careful about.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-discussing-slowing-weaponry-deliveries-israel-pre-rcna136035 Shin Bet Director reports vast majority of humanitarian assistance goes to Hamas https://x.com/CarolineGlick/status/1751688519284584751?s=20; https://jewishinsider.com/2024/02/daily-kickoff-the-growing-u-s-israel-divide-over-gaza-aid/

Biden administration discussing slowing some weaponry deliveries to Israel to pressure Netanyahu U.S. officials are considering pausing or slowing some U.S. arms shipments to Israel to convince the government to heed U.S. calls to scale back its military assault in Gaza. nbcnews.com

Daily Kickoff: The growing U.S.-Israel divide over Gaza aid jewishinsider.com

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1/31/24: Axios reports State Dept. is reviewing options on “possible U.S. and international recognition of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza” on heels of meeting between Sec. Blinken and Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer – a move that if done unilaterally would violate Oslo Accords https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war That same day, WSJ reports that U.S. is “pushing for a cease-fire deal that could stop the war in Gaza long enough to stall Israel’s military momentum and potentially set the stage for a more lasting truce,” beginning with a six-week cease-fire and hostage-for-terrorist exchange in which “Hamas has demanded the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners for each female Israeli soldier set free” https://archive.ph/O5Clz Comments from Hamas officials suggest they believe the U.S. is effectively on its side in negotiations https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/january-31-the-terms-of-israels-hostage Also that day, NYT’s Friedman previews a coming “Biden Doctrine” involving forcing a Palestinian state on Israel to gain the “global legitimacy, the NATO allies and the Arab and Muslim allies it needs” to “take on Iran in a more aggressive manner” https://archive.ph/oFphP

Scoop: State Department reviewing options for possible recognition of Palestinian state While U.S. officials stress there has been no policy change, the fact State is considering options signals a shift in thinking. axios.com

January 31: The Terms of Israel’s Hostage Deal Are Getting Worse U.S. floats recognition for Palestine; ICE meets with “abolish ICE” activists; Fani’s swag thedailyscroll.substack.com

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2/1/24: Biden issues executive order sanctioning, de-banking Jews living in their biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria should they challenge the White House’s desired “two-state solution” based on fraud claim of an uptick in “settler violence.” EO is meant to draw equivalence between vastly more lethal and pervasive Palestinian Arab jihadist threat and Israelis, undermine cause of Jews in Judea and Samaria who will most fervently oppose two-state plan and who are suffering disproportionate casualties fighting in war. “Exceptional” response, as PM Netanyahu terms it, applies not only to those detained by police but supportive NGOs and government officials. Leaks indicate Biden admin considered applying sanctions to ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. UNRWA officials colluding with or found to be members of Hamas, among other Palestinian Arabs not slapped with such sanctions https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1753069501472764293?s=20; https://x.com/EVKontorovich/status/1753406644011008097?s=20

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@CarolineGlick 2/2/24: Report indicates Biden admin is pressuring Israel not to recruit foreign workers for construction industry in bid to force Israel to re-open itself to Palestinian Arab workers https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/us-leaning-on-israel-to-drop-foreign-manpower-providers-keeping-pa-workers-option-open/2024/02/02/

US Leaning on Israel to Drop Foreign Manpower Providers, Keeping PA Workers Option Open It may only a matter of time before Netanyahu gives in to pressures from contractors and the US and ignores his right-wing ministers who object to letting in PA Arab workers. jewishpress.com

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2/3/24: Israel Hayom reports Biden admin threatens to invoke Leahy Law – restricting funding of military aid to foreign units over purported human rights violations – in response to Israeli security counter-terrorism operations aimed at neutralizing pervasive jihadist threat in Judea and Samaria https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/02/03/934807/

Exclusive: US makes implicit threat to invoke Leahy Law over West Bank incidents – www.israelhayom.com The Biden administration has been pressing Israel to provide answers regarding a series of incidents in which, it claims, IDF units operating in Judea and Samaria violated the so-called "Leahy Law", a set of legal amendments that restrict the funding of military aid to units over human rights concerns, Israel Hayom has exclusively learned. Follow […] israelhayom.com

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@CarolineGlick 2/4/24: Politico reports Pres. Biden has called PM Netanyahu a “bad fucking guy,” though a spokesperson denies the claim https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/04/biden-third-party-peril-00139380

Forget No Labels. Biden’s Third-Party Peril is on the Left. Young Democrats find U.S. support for Netanyahu’s war effort is untenable, potentially costing the president millions of liberal votes. politico.com

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2/5/24: @CarolineGlick writes that “the IDF has been compelled to conserve its ammunition on the ground due to shortages in supplies, indicating that the United States is slow-walking its supply of key armaments to Israel.” Glick also reports on another visit from Hochstein to Israel as he pursues a purported diplomatic solution to the Hezbollah threat from the north – one that will see the jihadist group continue to menacingly threaten northern Israel while Israel is expected to cede sovereignty to strategic significant lands therein https://www.jns.org/360-degrees-of-hostility-the-biden-administration-and-israel/

360 degrees of hostility: The Biden administration and Israel Why is the United States continuing to hamper the ability of the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza? jns.org

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2/6/24: Left-wing Israeli outlet Haaretz reports that a new Biden admin policy aims to target Israeli “executives, investors and maybe even employees at companies producing offense cybersecurity technologies” by causing them “to lose their visas to the United States if the spyware their firms sell is misused and deployed against political activists, human rights defenders or journalists” in a bid to create leverage over Israel and PM Netanyahu to bend to the Biden admin’s favored war plans https://archive.ph/5XSul

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@CarolineGlick 2/7/24: Sec. Blinken says “Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7th. The hostages have been dehumanized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-press-availability-46/#:~:text=Israelis%20were%20dehumanized%20in%20the,a%20license%20to%20dehumanize%20others

Secretary Antony J. Blinken At a Press Availability - United States Department of State SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Good evening.  This is my fifth visit to the region and seventh visit to Israel since October 7th.  I’m back first and foremost to consult directly with our partners on the joint efforts to bring all of the remaining hostages home.  I’ve met with families of the hostages multiple times during prior visits, […] state.gov

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2/8/24: Biden issues national security memorandum conditioning military aid broadly on recipients providing “credible and reliable written assurances” they are acting in “compliance with international humanitarian law” – targeting Israel, which will have to produce such assurances within 45 days, the due date coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Purim https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1755769385698857227?s=20; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/08/national-security-memorandum-on-safeguards-and-accountability-with-respect-to-transferred-defense-articles-and-defense-services/

National Security Memorandum on Safeguards and Accountability With Respect to Transferred Defense Articles and Defense Services | The White House NATIONAL SECURITY MEMORANDUM/NSM-20 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE               THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE               THE ATTORNEY GENERAL               THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND                 BUDGET               THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE… whitehouse.gov

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That same day reports circulate suggesting State Dept. has issued “strident warnings” against a Rafah offensive, with U.S. State Dept. deputy spokesman Vedant Patel challenging Israel’s plans by noting admin had “yet to see any evidence of serious planning for such an operation” and that “To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in a[] [densely populated] area” would be a “disaster.” The Rafah offensive is imperative to crippling Hamas https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-rafah-as-us-warns-major-offensive-would-be-disaster/ NYT reports, in leak undermining war effort, that U.S. intel officials had told Congress Israel “was not close to eliminating” Hamas, and that officials “raised doubts about whether the destruction or elimination of Hamas is a realistic objective” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/09/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#us-intelligence-officials-tell-congress-that-israel-is-not-close-to-eliminating-hamas @Eluttwak details – in piece in @tabletmag countering that on the contrary Israel is winning the war going away – how it has succeeded despite U.S. demands hampering Israel’s ability to expedite the war in Gaza, particularly in limiting actions of the Israeli air force https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-winning-gaza

Israel ramps up strikes on Rafah as US warns major offensive would be ‘disaster’ Egypt reiterates concerns Israeli campaign in Gaza's southernmost city could cause mass Palestinian effort to flee Strip; officer says Hamas forces in Khan Younis largely destroyed timesofisrael.com

Middle East Crisis: Netanyahu Asks Military for Plans to Evacuate Rafah, Where 1.4 Million Are Sheltering Israel’s prime minister asked the army to draw up plans to “evacuate the civilian population and topple the brigades” of Hamas in Rafah, the border city where displaced Gazans have sought shelter. nytimes.com

Why Israel Is Winning in Gaza The tactical victory that Hamas achieved on October 7, with all its scenes of unimaginable horror, has become a leading driver of its strategic defeat tabletmag.com

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2/9/24: President Biden tells reporters “I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been over the top” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-calls-israels-response-in-gaza-to-hamas-october-7-attack-over-the-top/ NYT reports that in closed-door meeting with Arab American leaders in Michigan, Deputy NSA Finer undermines Netanyahu-led government in asking, “Will Israel be willing to do the hard thing that’s going to be required of them, which is meaningful steps for the Palestinians on the question of two states? I don’t know if the answer to that is yes. I do not have any confidence in this current government of Israel.” He also expresses regret for not rebuking Israeli officials over their fiery rhetoric regarding Hamas https://archive.ph/AfJjJ#selection-4683.127-4683.394

Biden: ‘Conduct of response in Gaza has been over the top’; unclear remarks seen as critique of Israel, may refer to Hamas ceasefire proposal * * * timesofisrael.com

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

2/11/24: WaPo reports “Biden’s patience is wearing thin over how Israel has conducted its military campaign” in article detailing that the president “and his top aides are closer to a breach with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than at any time since the Gaza War began” https://archive.is/lRe9b#selection-985.4-985.88 In call, Biden reportedly directs Netanyahu to find a way to “close the gaps with Hamas” in ceasefire negotiations https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/february-12-2024-a-black-weekend?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=680918&post_id=141615528&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dqwj3&utm_medium=email U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells NPR that under current conditions an Israel military operation “cannot proceed” in Rafah

February 12, 2024: A Black Weekend for the Hamasniks The Rafah psyop; State Dept vet joins anti-Israel NGO; Autogynephilic Mass Shooters for Palestine thedailyscroll.substack.com

@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten

2/12/24: President Biden declares U.S. is pushing for a six-week pause in Israel-Hamas war with the intent to extend towards a longer ceasefire https://archive.ph/iR4MB Biden also says “A major military operation in Rafah should not proceed without a credible plan for ensuring the safety and support of more than 1 million people sheltering there” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/foreign-secretaries-and-diplomats-try-to-persuade-netanyahu-to-call-off-rafah-offensive During remarks with the King of Jordan – who bashed Israel without any response from the president – Biden quotes Hamas-sourced casualty figures, ones he himself had called unreliable months prior only to recant in the face of Muslim activists. NSC’s Kirby says “We have consistently conveyed our concerns to our Israeli counterparts, including the prime minister…about moving forward in Rafah in a major way without due consideration of civilians,” adding “there’s been too many [civilian casualties]” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240213-us-conveyed-concerns-to-israel-about-moving-forward-in-rafah-white-house/ NBC News reports that Biden has in recent weeks been disparaging PM Netanyahu, referring to him as an “asshole” as he “has been venting his frustration in recent private conversations…over his inability to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in the Gaza Strip…nam[ing] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the primary obstacle” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/biden-disparages-netanyahu-private-hasnt-changed-us-policy-israel-rcna138282 That same day, in response to an Israeli hostage rescue, NSC’s Kirby says that while “pleased” about the operation, of potential associated Palestinian deaths “the proper number of civilian casualties is zero” and “We certainly mourn any loss of innocent life as the result of those operations” https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786613?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

Biden joins international calls for Israel to halt planned Rafah offensive Politicians say Palestinians sheltering in the southern city in Gaza have nowhere else to go theguardian.com

US conveyed concerns to Israel 'about moving forward in Rafah': White House The US has communicated concerns to Israel about a possible Israeli assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Anadolu Agency reports. middleeastmonitor.com

Biden disparages Netanyahu in private but hasn’t significantly changed U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza As the reported Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 28,000, Biden continues to believe that unequivocally supporting Israel is the right policy. nbcnews.com

WH praises hostage raid, bemoans Palestinian deaths amid tension The Biden administration was “pleased to hear the news of two Israeli hostages freed last night by Israeli Defense Forces in Rafah after 128 days” Kirby said. jpost.com

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2/13/24: Word leaks that contrary to NSC Kirby remarks from one month prior, the Biden admin has “been assessing possible international law violations by Israel for months…and…[is] continuing to do so” https://sg.news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-investigating-israels-possible-155307310.html In a perhaps unprecedented de facto ask, the U.S. says “Any credible plan” for Rafah invasion must account for “physical movement, safe movement, as well as proper sustenance for them – food, water, medicine, access to healthcare” of civilians there https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/kirby-says-us-has-not-seen-israels-plan-for-rafah-praises-idf-efforts-to-protect-civilians/#:~:text=Speaking%20at%20a%20White%20House,of%20an%20operation%20in%20Rafah. https://x.com/Jewtastic/status/1757479681132216527?s=20 Axios reports Pres. Biden says in any new hostage deal, Israel may have to release a greater multiple of Palestinian jihadists for hostages than in the initial ceasefire/hostage trade https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1757485702432817209?s=20 Biden officials reportedly express outrage for Israel holding grain from being delivered to Gaza by way of Hamas-captured UNRWA https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385148

The Biden Administration Is Investigating Israel's Possible War Crimes — Despite Public Claims To The Contrary White House spokesman John Kirby said last month such probes are not occurring, but sources tell HuffPost U.S. officials have been assessing Israel's possible international law violations for months. sg.news.yahoo.com

Kirby says US has ‘not seen’ Israel’s plan for Rafah, praises IDF efforts to protect civilians * * * timesofisrael.com

Report: Smotrich stopping US grain from going to UNRWA American officials reportedly furious after Finance Minister blocks aid shipment from going to UN refugee agency proven to have close ties to Hamas terrorist organization. israelnationalnews.com

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2/14/24: WaPo reports Biden admin is “rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” which would include “the withdrawal of many, if not all, settler communities on the West Bank; [and] a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.” Report asserts that “under consideration [is] early U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state” https://archive.ph/Kj7xN Axios reports Sec. Austin discusses with his counterpart Defense Minister Gallant “the importance of safeguarding civilians and ensuring the movement of and access to humanitarian assistance before any operations against Hamas in Rafah” WSJ also reports U.S. is probing Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon https://archive.ph/rJ1Un While Israelis and Judea and Samaria are threatened with sanctions, President Biden issues a waiver for deportable Palestinians in the U.S., shielding them from deportation for 18 months https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/14/memorandum-on-the-deferred-enforced-departure-for-certain-palestinians/

Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Palestinians | The White House MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:       Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Palestinians Following the horrific October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel, and Israel’s ensuing military response, humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territories, and primarily Gaza, have significantly deteriorated.  While I remain focused on improving the… whitehouse.gov

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2/15/24: WSJ reports that: “The U.S. has communicated that it wouldn’t—under any circumstances—support a plan for a full-scale invasion of Rafah, and that it would prefer to see targeted operations, U.S. officials said. The Biden administration has asked the Israeli military to produce a ‘credible plan’ that included both a military and humanitarian component if it decides to disregard Washington’s advice and invade the city, U.S. officials said.” https://archive.ph/pSocs#selection-2275.0-2279.397 In a separate report, a U.S. official says that “in recent days, the Biden administration has handed Israel a list of demands that must be met before any operation in Rafah” https://www.jns.org/in-a-rafah-op-israels-most-pressing-concern-isnt-the-us-but-egypt/?_se=YWdsaW5jaGVyQG5peG9ucGVhYm9keS5jb20%3D&utm_campaign=Morning+Syndicate+Thursday+02152024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=brevo Claiming “There’s no indication Biden” will take any such measures, Politico lays out a series of punitive actions it might take to the extent Israel undertakes a Rafah offensive the administration disapproves of https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/02/15/bidens-options-to-prevent-catastrophic-rafah-invasion-00141485 A readout of a call between Biden and Netanyahu released that evening notes Biden “reiterated his view that a military operation should not proceed without a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the civilians in Rafah.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/15/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-12/ As @TabletMag reports, halting the Rafah operation and thereby throwing Hamas a lifeline will lead to preserving its: leadership and at least some of the terror group’s organizational and military strength and to incorporate this "deradicalized" remnant into the government of a Palestinian state, where it can reconstitute itself with international aid, constantly exert pressure on Fatah to take more radically anti-Israel stances, and serve as a permanent Iranian foothold on Israel’s eastern border, in addition to the footholds Iran already has on Israel’s northern and southwestern borders. But even if the PA doesn’t incorporate Hamas, as the PA prime minister says he hopes to do, Israel would still have problems. As The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday: An investigation by Palestinian Media Watch, the nonprofit watchdog based in Jerusalem, documented at least 55 attacks by PA security forces against Israeli soldiers or civilians since 2020, including four in the past month alone. In each case, the PA or its ruling Fatah party has eulogized the attacker as one of their own "soldiers." WSJ separately reports Biden admin had considered punitive action the month prior “includ[ing] a reversal of two Trump-era policies: one that allows products made in Jewish settlements in the Israel-occupied West Bank to be labeled as being ‘Made in Israel,’ and another that upended longstanding U.S. policy that the West Bank settlements violate international law” https://archive.is/wBbUA#selection-2765.45-2765.325

In a Rafah op, Israel’s most pressing concern isn't the US but Egypt “There is a nightmare dream in Egypt: The fear that hundreds of thousands of Gazans will threaten to break through the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt,” a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University told JNS. jns.org

Biden’s options to prevent ‘catastrophic’ Rafah invasion We dug through some of the administration’s past actions to consider what might be on the table. politico.com

Readout of President Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel | The White House President Joseph R. Biden spoke today with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. The President and the Prime Minister discussed ongoing hostage negotiations. The President reaffirmed his commitment to working tirelessly to support the release of all hostages as soon as possible, recognizing their appalling situation after 132 days in Hamas captivity. The President and… whitehouse.gov

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Congressman Brian Mast Says All The Quiet Parts Out Loud - We’re funding Atheism overseas - We’re directly funding the Taliban - No one can account for the money being sent overseas - Falsely labeling money being sent overseas - None of the aid has made it to the people of Gaza - Out of 144 partners receiving tax payer money only 65 even respond to the Inspector General “about where the US taxpayer dollars were being spent” and so much more, this is absolutely INSANE “We should not be giving you one more dollar. And I think the proof for why that is the case is in how, in far too many circumstances, you all really have no idea where the money is going. And I'm not saying it's easy to figure out where it's going in every circumstance, but that can't be the situation. I'm gonna reference a few different places. Uh, you have Nas sitting behind you here. We had a hearing for a couple hours here in this very room where we discussed, uh, just a $1,500,000 grant to expand atheism in Nepal. — I'm not gonna hash it all out, but it's one example of you all didn't know where the money that you sent out there from the US taxpayer was going. I was reading over the last 24 hours the special investigation into Afghanistan reconstruction, the SIGAR report, and looking at the amount of money that has gone directly to the Taliban. It's not a it's not a mystery. It's not something to argue about. It is a fact, money going directly to the Taliban that's gone out through all of these agencies that state works with, and specifically, a 144 partners were referenced in this SIGAR report. And when it talks about it, it talks about the 144 partners and the questions that they were asked. But of those partners, only 65 of them actually chose to answer to the inspector general about where the dollars were going. The other 79 didn't even feel like they had to answer questions about where the US taxpayer dollars were being spent. We saw it from the Pentagon just in the last day that, on this massive pier that was built, that was worked on by you all, that, uh, none of the aid has yet made it to the to the people of Gaza yet. It's sitting in warehouses and other places. And, again, it's just to the point that there's not nearly enough accountability, and we should be receiving every grant, every sub grant, every awardee, every solicitation that should be sent through this body for review whether in a classified or unclassified setting. Now I do have a couple of questions on that. I spoke about the the 79 grantees in part that did not respond to the CGuard report, and I have a question about them. Uh, since that time, have you frozen any of the bank accounts of those 79 entities? Um, congressman, we've looked, uh, very hard at the, uh, the SIGAR report. I think it's important to note that money does not go directly to Taliban. It goes to the UN, NGOs. We've dedicated about $2,000,000,000 so they could build an appetite. Now you're literally telling lies to the American people. These these state dollars went directly to, uh, to those that were solicited to do it. These, implementing partners as it's referred to, and they paid directly money to the Taliban. Sometimes they labeled it taxes. Sometimes they labeled it value added taxes. Sometimes they labeled it a host of different things, but do not pretend that money did not go directly to the Taliban.“ I can’t transcribe it all due to X’s text limits but this is an insane listen

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

Behind the scenes, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew had pushed Blinken to trust the Israelis, who promised to help facilitate aid — even though Lew's own staff at the embassy had repeatedly told him that wasn't the case.

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

“No other nation has ever provided so much humanitarian assistance to their enemies,” Lew told them

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

If they had heeded their own experts on the ground and in Washington, the government would have been required to cut off arms sales. But they didn't. Blinken's statements to congress, one former official said, "will haunt us."

@AssalRad - Assal Rad

“the U.S. is committed to helping those in need”

@StateDept - Department of State

Whether helping Ukraine sustain its economy amid Russia’s brutal war or ensuring food security for people in dire circumstances, the U.S. is committed to helping those in need. @PowerUSAID discusses the impact of U.S. humanitarian assistance: https://share.america.gov/how-us-assistance-improves-lives/

How U.S. assistance improves lives U.S. assistance boosts development and addresses humanitarian crises. Learn more about USAID's efforts around the world. share.america.gov

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Today, President Biden attempted to pat himself on the back and gave a speech outlining his foreign policy legacy. 🧵 Here’s the real legacy he will leave behind:👇

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal: The Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster and resulted in the loss of 13 U.S. service members. We continue to pay the price for this national security failure. U.S. taxpayer dollars continue to flow to the Taliban and an “over-the-rainbow” counterterrorism strategy. Here is a clip from April 2023 where the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) shined a light on how Biden Administration has been hiding information on Afghanistan from SIGAR. https://t.co/WPlXoip78V

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Liquified Natural Gas Pause: To appease environmentalists, the Biden Administration halted the approval of future LNG exports to non-FTA countries, threatening to undermine the energy security of our allies. As the threat of global conflict continues to rise, this shortsighted, politically-motivated decision by the Administration was the wrong move for the U.S. geopolitically and for the future of international energy security. In May 2024, Rep. Pat Fallon exposed the progressive politics behind the decision. https://t.co/H8bfaicCWi

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

SPEC: Under the leadership of John Kerry and then John Podesta (both unconfirmed by the Senate), the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) allowed “off the record” meetings and conversations with leftist environmental groups to influence U.S. foreign policy, energy policy, and national security policy. SPEC staff identities, titles, and payroll information were shielded from the American people, leaving questions about State Department connections to outside groups and foreign governments unanswered.

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UNRWA: The Biden administration increased funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees without demanding accountability. Come to find out, Hamas had deeply embedded itself within UNRWA. It’s time for real oversight of the UN and its agencies to ensure taxpayer funding doesn’t support terrorism.

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

U.S. Hostages Still in Gaza: Seven Americans are still being held by the terror group Hamas, yet the Biden Administration has never demonstrated that their release is a priority. Their families deserve better. America deserves better. Enough is enough.

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Removal of Houthi Terror Designation: The Biden Administration's reckless decision to remove the Houthis from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list emboldened their Iran-backed attacks, destabilizing the region and endangering global trade. This disastrous miscalculation forced a humiliating reversal, exposing the administration's failure to confront a growing threat.

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Iran: President Biden’s Iran policy has been dangerous and disastrous. His top Iran envoy held secret nuclear discussions with Iran and has been under investigation for providing classified information to the regime. His top aide was part of an Iranian foreign ministry-led program and is – incredibly – still in the administration as a senior DoD advisor, with access to the nation’s most sensitive information.

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🇨🇳 CCP: A government-wide investigation into 25 sectors of the federal government found that the Biden-Harris Administration lacked a cohesive strategy to identify, counter, and deter the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the political, economic, psychological, and many forms of warfare it is waging in its cold war against the United States. The Committee’s final report scored each agency on key metrics—including strategy, knowledge and expertise, transparency and outreach to the American people, and collaboration with relevant partners and stakeholders.

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

World Health Organization: Despite the WHO’s attempts to shield China from accountability and place the interests of the CCP ahead of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Administration continued to show support for strengthening the organization. President Biden and his team also failed to hold the WHO accountable for assisting the Chinese in covering up the pandemic’s origin.

@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee

Embassies: Dozens of embassies and consulates suspended operations under the Biden Administration – impacting national security, limiting consular services for citizens abroad, and reducing diplomatic engagement. America needs to protect its interests abroad with a strong, diplomatic presence globally.

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

🧵How the Biden administration weaponized USAID: 1.Abortion One of the first things that Joe Biden did after assuming office was to revoke the Mexico City policy, which was supposed to prevent the federal government from using our tax dollars to fund overseas abortions. He did this, even though 73% of Americans strongly oppose using taxpayer funding to support overseas abortion. That includes 59% of people that are actually pro-choice. He resumed funding to the United Nations population fund and dramatically expanded the scope of programs that are authorized to pay for abortion services. Joe Biden tied taxpayer funded abortion services internationally to the United States efforts to advance, gender quality globally and respond to gender based violence and to confront challenges such as HIV aids, tuberculosis and malaria. That means that grants given through ID that go towards malaria or other diseases include paying for abortions on demand in those countries. As a result of these abortion driven objectives in 2022 the US Department of state and USA ID budget was 12% higher than previous years and totaled 70 Billion dollars.

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2.Identity Ideology In 2021 the national gender strategy was implemented for foreign aid and started using an intersectional approach that considers barriers and challenges faced by those who have intersecting in compounding forms of discrimination. That’s a fancy way of saying Marxist victimhood in order of priority. In the Biden administration intersectionality dictated the manner in which US AI ID designed its programs and designed who received its funding.

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3.Global DEI Representatives of the UN who discussed for an aid frequently mentioned the 1619 project and said that slavery is an original sin of America. The Biden administration made accepting and requiring communities of color to adopt to DEI a condition of receiving foreign aide.

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4.Global Climate Change By reentering the Paris climate accords USAID was mobilized into action to fight climate change across the country and force the United States of America to underwrite this climate change overseas. In 2021 USAID announced that it would mobilize $150 billion in public and private climate finance by 2030 with the majority of funding coming from private service actors in collaboration with the United States Taxpayer dollars. There was an integration with the WHO‘s initiative on climate, resilient health systems and sustainable, low carbon health systems and the US national oceanic atmosphere administration. When they say malaria, they mean through climate change hysteria, and green energy policies. For instance, South America needs $26 billion to transform its power system and the United States and Europe under Joe Biden committed to $8.5 billion each to help the country make that transition. That money would be facilitated through USAID.

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5.Perpetual need for foreign aid There is no better example of the insidious relationship between foreign aid and nation building then that of Afghanistan. Even after we pulled out of Afghanistan, USA ID was used to continuously fund the nation. 6. UNRWA and terrorism The moment President Trump left office and Biden restored to this organization and removed the Hootie rebels in Yemen from a US list of designated terrorists. Removing them from this designation meant that funds flowed to them in foreign aid and were misappropriated to attack and occupy the US Embassy in Sana.

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7.USAID has been used to fund leftist progressive causes exclusively: If you look at 50 USAID employees chosen at random, which the heritage foundation did 48 of them donated to Democratic candidates and causes, and only two of them donated to Republicans. Following the Floyd riots, 1000 USAID employees demanded the agency make a public statement, affirming Black Lives Matter and accused USAID of structural racism by not designing plans to combat systemic racism, injustice, colonialism, and police brutality, all around the world. The Rockefeller Center, one of the most leftist organizations signed an agreement to be in a strategic partnership with USAID and all of the individual political contributions went to progressive campaigns. The international rescue committee received hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund its highly partisan causes. The former cochair of this committee was Obama’s treasury secretary. The Board of Directors has every single one of the founders of the Democratic Party and support progressive policy goals. Another major recipient of foreign aid is CARE international. This is probably one of the most partisan groups who has people like Valerie Jared, Nancy Pelosi, and Hilary Clinton carve out its policy. What once started out as an agency that was about helping to end global poverty in world, and hunger and has become an organization that is solely aligned with radical progressive Democrat agendas. And that is not even touching the vast censorship arm that USAID controls and funds. If anyone is curious about the rabbit hole that exists as it relates to censorship from USAID, I would suggest that you subscribe to @MikeBenzCyber

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@merissahansen17 - Merissa Hansen

USAID gave nearly $15 million to George Soros' Open Society Foundation over Obama's last four years in office alone, which conducts extensive work in the West Bank / Palestine region - however the funding was primarily for Soros operations in Albania and Macedonia. https://t.co/jxasKRYqC0

@shaunmmaguire - Shaun Maguire

I’d love to know what USAID’s $2.1B to Gaza was used for https://t.co/4kJ020fX3T

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

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@TheChiefNerd - Chief Nerd

🚨 TED CRUZ: “USAID was flowing money to Gaza, that was going straight to Hamas and they were doing everything they could to hide that.” https://t.co/nan0F5NPpe

@DC_Draino - DC_Draino

It is absolutely NOT a coincidence that after Trump dismantled USAID and froze foreign funding, Hamas stopped their terrorist payment system Your tax dollars were indirectly funding terrorism And look who is upset that money laundering was stopped: Democrats https://t.co/r2Vj9gX4G9

@ivan_8848 - Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

USAID is an edless pit of corruption: https://t.co/qRoNXBpqbL -USAID funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Soros-linked nonprofits -The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan,Yeman and Syria. -USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion -USAID gave money from US taxpayers to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. -USAID gave money from US to a transgender clinic in India. -USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group -USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world -They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations -USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas -$2 million USAID gave money for sex changes in Guatemala -$20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq -$4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan -$7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language) -USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica -They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem -They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus -Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia - $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal -USAID, gifted in 2016, $310 million of taxpayer money to start a Palestinian cement factory project. -USAID's biggest contract recepient of over $17 billion over years CHEMONICS connected to the Clintons, Podesta. -USAID funneled money to BLM -USAID funded Epoch Times -USAID funded Politico -USAID funded the BBC -USAID funded gain of function -USAID has given over $2,000,000,000 to GAVI, the front organization for Bill Gates -UK taxpayers were charged £100 MILLION for USAID -USAID funded 707 Media organizations, 279 "NGO" media outlets, and 6,200 propagandists. Including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine. -USAID paid Hollywood stars to travel to Ukraine. -USAID and the CIA secretly worked to impeach Donald Trump from office in 2019 -USAID were spending $40 billion dollars a year This USAID corruption is just the start of exposing these cabal money laundering agencies, wait until we get to the likes of the Red Cross.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

USAID said it was a charitable group. It wasn't. It was a tool for regime change. After 2016, it turned its guns inward. In 2019, a front group it created fabricated the evidence used by the CIA, moles in the White House, and House Democrats to impeach Trump. That's treason. https://t.co/u7oYXNkCA6

@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

How USAID Spends YOUR Tax Dollars: 🔴 Ukraine: Funded NGOs & media to help overthrow a pro-Russia govt in 2014. 🔴 Syria: Funneled $15B+ into the civil war, backing opposition forces under “humanitarian aid.” 🔴 Brazil: Pushed propaganda ahead of the 2022 election to oust the incumbent President Bolsonaro in favor of far-left Lula. 🔴 Poland & Hungary: Targeted conservative political parties. Time to cut off this corrupt slush fund. We must pass my bill to permanently abolish USAID!

@Real_RobN - 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸

And here it is: Terrorism disguised as foreign aid — all in the name of “children are starving. Rep. Tim Burchett: “Are you aware that we are sending $40 million a week to the Taliban? • USAID: paid $2 billion to Gaza after October 7th, with 90% of those funds going to Hamas. • USAID: paid $3 million to a rapper in Gaza to produce antisemitic rap songs. • “Samantha Power, the terror administrator for USAID, was intent on preventing Israel from defending itself.” • USAID: funded the Taliban $40 million per week. Including terror organizations such as. • Al-Shabab (Somalia / Ilhan Omar’s ties) • Hamza Network (Sudan) • Hamas (Gaza) • Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Gaza) • Hezbollah (Lebanon) • Kata’ib Hezbollah (Iraq) • Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria) Many of these organizations have killed U.S. troops and allied forces. And—USAID effectively self-funds its own external lobbying network, which then funnels money back to Congress to bribe members — all under the false pretense of “feeding starving children.”

@MJTruthUltra - MJTruthUltra

OH. MY. GOD. There it is… from his mouth 🚨 Netanyahu Funded Hamas $35M a Month via Qatar, using U.S. Tax Dollars, and tells Investigators: “This is confidential and can’t be leaked, okay? We have neighbors here, sworn enemies. I’m constantly passing them messages. I confuse them, mislead them, lie to them, and then HIT them over their heads.” • Netanyahu worked to keep GAZA under the control of HAMAS. And keep the West Bank under the control of the Fatah with the goal of preventing them from ever being united. • Netanyahu arranged for Hamas to receive $35 Million Dollars every month from Qatar —— suitcases of $35M in American currency, every single month. “Because the Qatar knew him, they made him put the request in writing because they knew he was going to lie in the future.” 🤯 The result? $1+ BILLION went into the hands of Hamas… fast forward — October 7. Clip https://rumble.com/v77q23w-netanyahu-funded-hamas-35m-a-month-via-qatar-with-us-tax-dollars-and-tells-.html The Bibi Files https://tuckercarlson.com/the-bibi-files-film

@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson

A 50th Anniversary War? Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead? And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands? a) Ostensibly, radical Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—the traditional source of much of their cash—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war”, especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. Iran likely was the driving force to prompt the war—given its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israeli rapprochement. b)  Arab forces have had only success against Israel through surprise attacks during Israeli holidays, as in the Yom Kippur War (i.e., was it any accident that the present attack began 50-years almost to the day after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War?). And so they struck again this Saturday during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot—in hopes that others will join in as happened in 1973. (So much for the Arab warnings not for Westerners to conduct war during Ramadan). c) Hamas may have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass leftist street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence. But, more importantly, in a larger sense the Biden administration has contributed both to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player, and to the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on the following inexplicable policies: 1) In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel). And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support. In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition: “We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” "All sides?" "Refrain from retaliatory attacks?” So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers? This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible. 2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s  increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack. 3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government. In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited for an official visit). Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel" is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis. In this regard is there not a pattern here? Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke military agendas, we saw the following: the complete humiliation of the U.S. in Kabul in its most shameful flight in 50 years and greatest abandonment of equipment in its history; followed by Vladimir Putin’s opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—with more to come unfortunately. And will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter and we too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels whose fentanyl exports kills 100,000 Americans a year? What to expect in Israel? Expect the following: the usual Hamas/terrorist selling and/or execution of Israeli hostages, the use of Israeli hostages as “human shields” in Gaza,  the bargaining/sale of the remains of Israeli dead, occasional killings of Jews inside Israel by Arabs who falsely believe there will be a winning Middle East-wide existential war against Israel. And finally, a devastating Israeli counter-response that will eventually earn a U.S. rebuke. What should the U.S. instead do? It should quit talking to Iran and restore full sanctions against it. It should cut off all aid immediately to all the Palestinians. It should undertake a 1973-like massive arms lift of key munitions to Israel and warn Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and others in the Middle East not to intervene or else, given that Israel will need several weeks to deal with Hamas and Gaza. And if it shows any hesitation or weakness, other terrorist groups will opportunistically jump in.