Your reporting is the single most impactful that I have seen. And I know you must be heartbroken on a personal level. Just know that there are legions of still sane, reasonable people who could not agree more that this barbarism is different and must be shown for the evil it is. I am not Jewish, but I stand firmly and unequivocally with the Jewish people and Israel. Thank you for doing such an amazing job in a time of horrific turmoil. We need more good journalism if civilization is to survive.
I am with Israel, because the Jewish people are awesome and are wonderful friends to the USA. They also clearly will win this deep territorial conflict, and in fact they won it 50+ years ago. The main issue here is actually that the West and UN have never allowed Israel to take what it really already won. That is how you get a 150 year conflict instead of a much shorter one.
The real comparison here is the USA's westward expansion. Dirty hands on both sides, but overall driven by a natural conflict over territory not unlike the conflicts that already existed amongst Native American tribes. It's just that a new people arriving had the potential to drastically outcompete. I think that it's natural for peoples to compete for territory - if not a natural right, then at least effectively one. If they have the ability to do it, and you don't have the ability to stop them, regardless of the moral framework it's effectively a right. It's certainly natural - obviously animals in nature compete for territory constantly. The morality of individual actions becomes about winning allies and engendering sufficient fervor in one's people to win, or win faster in this case.
That's what we're seeing here. This is an act of barbarism, sure, as were Powhatan destruction of colonies in North America, but neither difficult to comprehend nor rooted in evil. Just lashing out of a people fated to lose the conflict. As the West Bank settlers reach nearly 30% of West Bank population, there's no future there for Palestinians, either, especially when Israeli GDP per cap is $55k and Palestinian is $6k. Slow, inexorable takeover by Israel will continue.
"Lashing out of a people" - I should note that clearly, Gazans have lived under military occupation (not by Israel, by Hamas) since 2007, so this is lashing out by an in-control, foreign-funded dominant military oligarchy rather than "a people". Easy for foreign money to foment that kind of takeover in a poor territory, unfortunately. Plus, of course, Israelis have assisted in that a bit given the appeals to Qatar to keep funding Hamas.
A lot of people seem to think the Gazan people "had their chance to run their country" and somehow continue to vote for Hamas. While in 2006 the Palestinians voted for Hamas overall, one can hardly make any conclusions about if Gazans would have voted differently in the decade and a half since. They simply got taken over by a faction that may or may not represent the current thinking of the populace overall. No elections since 2006, military oligarchy run by Hamas.
Agree completely as well. I stand with you all the way. Your reporting in the face of the horror, of all the hate, and the personal suffering is amazing. You are so courageous. Love and prayers, every day, all day.
I wholeheartedly support Israel. I also wholeheartedly support Ukraine. I think the war against Ukraine is the more serious of the two wars as the defeat of Ukraine will lead to a world war whereas if there is a victory for Hamas - which isn’t going to happen - the Jewish people will live on in the diaspora.
If Israel is eliminated - which Hamas defines as victory - it will entail another Holocaust, and millions of Jews will be killed...don't kid yourself that this wouldn't happen. After that, if Hamas controls the territory that is now Israel, it will be a dictatorial terrorist state and there will be no stability in the Middle East.
Both conflicts are fronts in World War 3, which is now well under way and getting hotter every day. Taiwan is most likely the next front, while it's quite likely that our home front will endure terrorist attacks from the cells established here because of Biden's open border fiasco.
That's simply never going to happen. You do realize that Israeli income is 10x Palestinian? Nobody is stopping Israel short of nuclear attack (which would look as you state and be terrible of course). Israeli settlers are now 30% of the West Bank population, and the Likud official party platform was adopted to officially state that they support full retaking of that land. No stopping it, only lots of handwringing over how and how many die in horrible ways on both sides. The end result is clear.
“Hold on, Jews. I know the Muslim world is arrayed against you right now like never before, but I think Putin is about to invade France for literally no reason according to Tom Nichols and Raytheon.”
On TFP supporting Ukraine is bad, waste of money, and is another neocon "forever war."
While there is no amount of money too much for Israel as they are the only ones with clean hands in the Middle East and somehow are perceived as a democracy.
Compost, of course, like all Jiha(D)is, wants us to destabilize Russia first because he knows where the stray nukes are going when that happens and he is tired of waiting for Obama/Iran’s nuclear program.
I don't care if U.S. supports Ukraine or Israel, both or neither, or one and not the other...
Just so funny how YOU have constantly complained about U.S. tax dollars supporting "foreign wars" and Ukraine..but you're 100% on board with doing that in the Middle East.
The Ukraine conflict was started by dipshits in our State Department and is a money laundering operation that involves vacant farmland. Putin has had nukes for 20 years and can be negotiated with.
The Palestine conflict is 1500 years old and it is not something Robert Kagan brewed up in his basement. The instant Iran gets nukes they will set them off in urban centers because they are subhuman psychopaths who cannot be negotiated with.
Kevin Durant. I’m non Jewish but 100% support Zionist and State of Israel. I’m very concerned that Israel is going to now be an even bigger ‘way station’ for arms to Ukraine. This was already occurring before the Hamas attacks (US arms to Israel first, then flowed to Ukraine). Are you at all concerned about this occurring and now getting bigger? I sure am. If you don’t see this is happening just look at this Jan ‘23 WSJ op ed, where Israeli’s were lamenting at how low their US stocks of 155mm shells had become, because they had been shipped north from Israel stocks to Ukraine. Neocons are gonna play us all, you watch
One of my first comments I remember writing on The Free Press was about the Global Democrat Left’s quest to eradicate white supremacy, and the short version of that comment is
“Which white people do you think they will go after first?”
A bit off topic here: Kevin, I accidentally clicked on your avatar as I was scrolling, and I was surprised to see that you have your own Substack, because I don’t think I have EVER seen you link to yourself in the comments you make (as so many others do, mercilessly). Is that humility I see...despite your edgy humor? [Shhhhhh, it’s our secret.]
And now, back to the topic, Complot must’ve seen those ‘Gram pix of the former Miss Israel, Yityish “Titi” Aynaw. But according to Democrat Race Science, she is absolutely White (in fact, she is technically “super White”) because of her privilege. And lemme tell you, in our world, beauty is a REAL privilege.
Nope. But Bari and TFP commentors like BrammyMIA would disagree with you.
"Jews are white." Is actullay, a BIG part of Bari's book, "How To Fight Anti-Semitism" in which her complaint is that Jewish people, even American ones, are unfairly/incorrectly viewed as "white" and not a minority, which is an effort to make them culpable in "oppressing" others which makes them more open to being victimized without sympathy.
So, actually, Comprof parachuted in with a bunch of knowledge from having actually read the book of the author who started TFP, and the subsequent message board that I destroy you on regularly.
So, take it up with Bari, BrammyMIA, etc....or better yet, take a TFP poll and see how many agree with your claim that Jews are "white people."
No. Just mentioned two in particular, how those two would disagree with your claim that "Jews are white", how Bari wrote a whole book disagreeing with you - a book that I read and you haven't and then suggested you take a poll to get further feedback.
Hmmm. I read here a lot more than I comment, but I just gotta say I just haven't viewed you as a smart guy that comes in here and "destroys people" on the regular. I'm thinking more like what kind of personality disorder that guy must have. But yeah, self awareness is a thing--maybe start by reading your posts aloud to yourself before you publish?
Well, I do Susan. Notice how KevinDurant suddenly shut up when I asked him a yes/no question about his comment? When he starts bringing up his old, tired "$19 an hour" bit...he's done...and owned again.
Which is why in your statement you were unable to provide one single example of where I am wrong, have been bested, or any prediction I have made that has not come to pass.
Since you're a regular reader, please share those with the rest of the class :)
After 8 people were killed in the London bridge terrorist attack, police commissioner Cressida Dick stated she was proud of the diversity of the victims. Diversity is our greatest strength, even in death!
Yes, we are with Israel all the way. And yes, the Free Press is one of a handful of quality news sites.
I just wish the Free Press had been with us (Americans who truly believe in equally and justice) all the way when show trials and witch hunts ensued and only black lives mattered.
I am not Jewish but I would never turn my back on Israel. And I would have hoped that the Free Press hadn't turned their back on decency and the law and equality just because they were not conservatives.
It’s amazing to me how so many of you Free Press citizens are not critically thinking about the neocon ramifications resulting from this Hamas attack. I’m a Jewish and State of Israel supporter. But I’m not ‘with’ anyone all the way. That’s how you get manipulated very quickly. It occurred on 9/11 and we got the Patriot Act and a forever war in Iraq as a present. Are you all a bunch of young and naive people on this stack?
I hope you will cover the Hamas supporters' US Capitol Insurrection today. I am sure they will be imprisoned for years, no bail and no trial. You know, like Insurrectionists deserve right?
True. This is (D)ifferent. So, the usual: some arrested, some not arrested, light charges, charges to be dismissed later after some time has passed. The 2020 Rioter plan.
I don’t like for a moment what those Hamas/Palestinian protesters support, at Capitol or any other US city. But it’s their 1st Amendment right to speak their vile, garbage without repercussion. Be fucking consistent in your values, even if Left is not.
I state this under premise that I believe the Jan 6 prosecutions and jailings are totally wrong and should be reversed. And yes, the FBI is corrupt as hell. All that said, the Left protests/sit ins @ Capital steps and rotundas we see since Hamas murders are not the same as Jan 6. Jan 6 the establishment thought the vote would be overturned or delayed, movement of people towards the House floor. These recent protests did not attempt to disrupt a vote count. They were organized sit ins. I don't agree with them, but I hope we can stay intellectually honest about the differences and respect everyone's 1st Amendment Right to speak and assemble
Sam Harris recently said, “There are not many bright lines that divide good and evil in our world, but this is one of them.”
Sam Harris also said that he would happily support Biden if there were children's corpses in his basement. Did that bright line also divide good and evil?
I find that these defining battles are only halfheartedly fought if a full renunciation of the ideology that does the equivocating isn't on the table.
JDFree when I read the Sam Harris comment- Sam has lost so much credibility. Seems like all the things everyone was so scared of Trump- NONE of them happened during his administration and ALL of them happening during Biden's.
Bari gushes As my friend Sam Harris recently said, There are not many bright lines that divide good and evil in our world, but this is one of them.”
Perhaps the one truism that the hapless Mr. Harris has discovered. Our Bari needs to lose the schoolgirl crushes on self-reverential shitheads such as Harris. Plain and simple, Harris is an apologist for the senile, corrupt imbecile who rules us. Making Harris, if possible, worse than Biden, himself. Because Harris is ostensibly smart enough to know better but still makes excuses for this evil charlatan. The Israeli tragedy has saddened and chastened us all Please don't cheapen it by pushing silly, self-delusional atheistic nitwits on us.
Right on Bruce - Sam Harris is gonna Sam Harris i.e., be a hypocritical dirtball depending on the day and the issue. But muh, muh Trump gonna destroy democracy...something something
By far the best thing about Sam Harris is that the first reason he pointed to when asked why Trump was unfit to serve was Trump University being a scam.
Sam Harris doesn't deserve an ounce of benefit because his wasn't a clumsy argument. His point was; I'll do whatever it takes to avoid a Trump presidency. What Sam and others like him will not understand is that language such as his is exactly WHY so many people are alarmed. If Sam will look away from dead children in a basement, what's a little ballot stuffing? Why not bribe people counting the votes? To be clear, I believe Trump lost (and he deserved to lose) but there was plenty of disgraceful conduct on the left; the suppression of the laptop story, government violation of the First Amendment with social media companies, the unprecedented changes to voting procedures, etc.. When mild-mannered Sam says such hysterical bullsh!t, it destroys his reputation which is where I find myself today; with no respect for a man I once thought respectable.
I hear you. It was a choice between a narcissist and a most likely corrupt ex-VP.
I'm in commercial real estate, and it's very interesting that virtually no one in my circle supported Trump. He's not respected in our industry.
But more to the point. I think we need to figure out how to encourage the best of us to run for office. I will argue that grace (even for Sam Harris), is a good place to start.
Sorry world, I have no sympathy for the Gazan Palestinians. Please, no more pictures of Palestinians mourning and wailing over the bodies and graves of dead family members. Even though Hamas is responsible for the planning and execution of the attack, it is the people in Gaza who assent to this tactic. Any society that teaches children in schools to hate and murder Jews does NOT deserve the benefit of the doubt. Their fate is in their own hands that are covered in blood by proxy.
I am NOT calling for genocide, even though these people are doing so in respect to Jews, but I AM calling for a "come to Mohamad" moment where they fully realize their own complicity in this murder spree, and the continued brain washing that they are assenting to, similar to what German citizens had to face after WW II.
It is tragic what they have had done to them/done to themselves. What chance do children have when taught this from birth? That said, trying to take any sort of reasoned approach is futile. The project of the Left (insert particular cause here) is DESTRUCTION. You cannot reason with it. You can only defeat it.
Elizbeth, the sad thing is that excizing the Hamas Death Cult will necessarily mean disfiguring the Israeli people as well. There is no world where destroying evil does not exact a terrible cost. If Hamas IS destroyed, Jews for generations will mourn for their lost humanity.
Realistically the only ways out of that dilemma are a full court press by the Anglosphere and Europe to peaceably evacuate Gaza to Egypt or to incorporate it back into Egypt as is. I'd suggest, since Britain owns a considerable part of the making of this mess at our apogee of Empire and our lamentable and demented scuttle from said Empire, that we stump up a considerable part of the costs of making it worthwhile to Egypt. Who really, really, really love the Muslim Brotherhood and all its' offshoots, and so are guarenteed to sit on them properly.
But, again realistically, that won't happen because it is a far too sensible idea to gain traction with the mutton-heads who govern us.
Elizabeth, Lynne got it quite succinctly! Just consider the ferment of the Viet Nam war, how the nation was changed and damaged for two generations now. Think WW II, where the so-called Greatest Generation remained mute about their experiences and the mental and emotional cleansing we had to go through, and even today, agonizing about the use of The Bomb. Also, if you are a fan of Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's emotional response to war in Europe, and how the characters were changed forever by the conflict. Everyone is a victim in war! But only the victors achieve any sense of accomplishment, such as it is, and a poor one at THAT!
Beyond furious that Biden has promised aid to the Palestinians (again!) without any demands for the release of kidnapped victims. The Marshall plan was great, but it was after the surrender of Germany not during the Blitzkrieg or when trains were depositing Jews into concentration camps. 6 Billion to Iran and a 100 million to Palestine. Kidnapping, rape, and murder appears to be a very profitable business deal for terrorist.
Biden actually said, when talking today about this new aid to the Palestinians, something along the lines of: "if Hamas steals this aid, we'll really know for sure now that they are bad guys who don't care about the Palestinian people." I was astonished..."if Hamas steals this aid..."; how clueless can a person be????
Of course he preceded that stupid statement with his tag line, "let me be clear", as if this conveys strength and seriousness.
What does it take to assure Biden that Hamas is the for sure bad guy? Americans dead, babies killed, and/or gunning down concert goers is insufficient evidence to suggest that these are evil people?
Hamas has been stealing aid money sent to Gaza ever since they seized control of that desolate piece of sand.
And, the United States has known that Hamas has defied all attempts to control the funds going allegedly to help the citizens of Gaza. The leaders of Hamas are exactly like Sadam Hussien and Bashar al-Assad...the sleep in cushy mansions or comfortable compounds with an AK-47 close at hand and company of armed guards at the gates and doorways.
I seriously question the operations of our security operation where, it is becoming aparent, we have to learn the same lesson over and over again because we chose NOT to listen to what criminal regimes are saying and doing.
Passing billions to people wanting nothing but the worst for us and absorbing millions of people who want their piece of the action while turning wherever they land into the types of ghettos that they left.
It's the same group of knot-heads leading our decline that we talk about daily on these pages.
Stop voting for them, people! They are not thinking of what might be best for you and for me.
Yet the left & western media grotesquely serve Hamas by posting pictures of Palestinians pulled from the rubble after a bomb strike. They lap it up KNOWING those people are dead because Hamas was hiding behind them.
Precisely; how quickly did the NYT jump on that story? With the third correction to the story, there was a collective shrug like, "How were we supposed to know Hamas would lie to us?"
And there has been such minimal effort to correct the blood libel they broadcast! I was reading BBC this morning, and the haven't even committed to believing it was a failed Hamas rocket that crashed into a carpark next to a hospital, not an Israeli strike ON a hospital. You can be sure if the Israelis intended to hit the hospital, they would have.
Not just that, the hospital wasn't even hit. It landed in a parking lot next to the hospital. It's so gross that I can only hope this will be the point when history turns away from the mainstream media entirely. That the NYT was once a respectable "paper of record" doesn't mean they get to keep that prestige while doing nothing to earn it.
The only time you can negotiate with enemies, whether that's Germany, or the Palestinians, is after you've brought them to their knees. The only times Israel made peace with its neighbors is after decisively winning wars. The US shouldn't be trying to "manage" this war, but rather showing strength and backing up Israel's willingness to turn Gaza into a parking lot if that's what it takes. Same language we would use against ISIS.
As Bari said, "... societies in which the Jewish people are persecuted are societies in which no one is safe." Strange how I've never heard that said quite that way before, but my 50+ years of learning history tells me that is exactly right. Bravo, Bari, and please continue with the exceptional reporting on this war.
Exactly. I would never have guessed seeing women and babies killed for being Jewish would bring joy and celebrations to our streets. The snarky tweets, e.g., what did you think decolonialization meant? I'll answer. Evidently, it means you're a psychopath.
I’m getting really tired of hearing “elite” or any positive adjective being given to any institute of higher education when THIS RESPONSE is what is being produced...
Secretly the single dumbest thing happening is the neocon effort to connect the Ukraine conflict with the Palestine conflict.
I guess they think they can get more money by stapling them together. Nonetheless, telling Putin that your effort to defeat him is directly connected to Zionism, for no reason at all, is possibly the worst foreign policy idea in human history.
We need to have a strong statement from Congress which defines antisemitism based on the IHRA definition and includes the slogans “From the River to the Sea” and “there in only one solution .. “for what it is — hate speech and call for violence against Jews . No different than White Supremacist chanting “Jews will not Replace Us” or Nazi propaganda regarding the “final solution “.
It is protected speech and can’t be prevented . However , universities have rules against “hate speech”. Students running around campus chanting and posting those slogans should be treated no differently than White supremacist or Neo Nazis . At the very least , let’s inform all Americans what those slogans mean and make those students , professors and the Squad defend the speech. Put them on the defensive . See if they agree with a 2 state solution . The radicals will say they don’t .
As the Harvard situation and push back on the students proved , make students accountable for their words . While we are at it , they should post the Hamas Charter so people can see for themselves what Hamas is
Exactly - make them defend themselves . Watch them squirm . But SJP and DSA folks will never recognize Israel right to exist as a Jewish state . And people need to know that .
evil; civilization vs barbarism. How pro-Hamas demonstrators deny the butchery in southern Israel, is beyond me. Hamas filmed the debauchery themselves. The camera doesn’t lie.
Filmed and posted on social media. No shame. No remorse. Jubilation! Disgusting. How can there be any doubts? Do we need to lead the press through the villages slaughtered, like the villagers near concentration camps who refused to believe they existed?
There's never enough dead Jews for the Jew haters.
Let's say Israel never responded to these attacks, what would the Jew haters say? That Israel should negotiate? That Israel should give something up to get hostages back? That Israel shouldn't be surprised because they're occupiers?
It will never be enough for the Jew haters, that's why it's better for Israel to do what they need to do because it's detractors won't stop till every Jew is dead and gone.
The hard truth is that there were times when whole swaths of the nation approved of slavery and people had to live with them and deal with the consequences. Today there are significant factions in society who do not just apologize ethnic cleansing and mass rape, but openly support such methods. If 6 million Jews were exterminated tomorrow there would be applause and jubilation in this country and around the world. We ae in a bad place and these issues are not going away.
I take some comfort in recent polling that shows 70% of Americans support Israel's actions in Gaza while just 8% of Americans oppose it. Support is bipartisan, though Republicans are at 77% and Democrats are at 69%. Sadly, I suspect that 8% is concentrated at top universities and in the media. You know, our thought leaders.
Sadly, 'decent' is usually passive. Decent folks try not to harm others. Good folks actively try to make things better for people. And the world often tries to tear down good people. So most people stop at decent.
Your reporting is the single most impactful that I have seen. And I know you must be heartbroken on a personal level. Just know that there are legions of still sane, reasonable people who could not agree more that this barbarism is different and must be shown for the evil it is. I am not Jewish, but I stand firmly and unequivocally with the Jewish people and Israel. Thank you for doing such an amazing job in a time of horrific turmoil. We need more good journalism if civilization is to survive.
Agree. I’m not Jewish either and I’m with you. And the free press.
I am with Israel, because the Jewish people are awesome and are wonderful friends to the USA. They also clearly will win this deep territorial conflict, and in fact they won it 50+ years ago. The main issue here is actually that the West and UN have never allowed Israel to take what it really already won. That is how you get a 150 year conflict instead of a much shorter one.
The real comparison here is the USA's westward expansion. Dirty hands on both sides, but overall driven by a natural conflict over territory not unlike the conflicts that already existed amongst Native American tribes. It's just that a new people arriving had the potential to drastically outcompete. I think that it's natural for peoples to compete for territory - if not a natural right, then at least effectively one. If they have the ability to do it, and you don't have the ability to stop them, regardless of the moral framework it's effectively a right. It's certainly natural - obviously animals in nature compete for territory constantly. The morality of individual actions becomes about winning allies and engendering sufficient fervor in one's people to win, or win faster in this case.
That's what we're seeing here. This is an act of barbarism, sure, as were Powhatan destruction of colonies in North America, but neither difficult to comprehend nor rooted in evil. Just lashing out of a people fated to lose the conflict. As the West Bank settlers reach nearly 30% of West Bank population, there's no future there for Palestinians, either, especially when Israeli GDP per cap is $55k and Palestinian is $6k. Slow, inexorable takeover by Israel will continue.
"Lashing out of a people" - I should note that clearly, Gazans have lived under military occupation (not by Israel, by Hamas) since 2007, so this is lashing out by an in-control, foreign-funded dominant military oligarchy rather than "a people". Easy for foreign money to foment that kind of takeover in a poor territory, unfortunately. Plus, of course, Israelis have assisted in that a bit given the appeals to Qatar to keep funding Hamas.
A lot of people seem to think the Gazan people "had their chance to run their country" and somehow continue to vote for Hamas. While in 2006 the Palestinians voted for Hamas overall, one can hardly make any conclusions about if Gazans would have voted differently in the decade and a half since. They simply got taken over by a faction that may or may not represent the current thinking of the populace overall. No elections since 2006, military oligarchy run by Hamas.
Agree completely as well. I stand with you all the way. Your reporting in the face of the horror, of all the hate, and the personal suffering is amazing. You are so courageous. Love and prayers, every day, all day.
I stand with you, another gentile, 100%
Amen.
Same for me, 100%.
I wholeheartedly support Israel. I also wholeheartedly support Ukraine. I think the war against Ukraine is the more serious of the two wars as the defeat of Ukraine will lead to a world war whereas if there is a victory for Hamas - which isn’t going to happen - the Jewish people will live on in the diaspora.
If Israel is eliminated - which Hamas defines as victory - it will entail another Holocaust, and millions of Jews will be killed...don't kid yourself that this wouldn't happen. After that, if Hamas controls the territory that is now Israel, it will be a dictatorial terrorist state and there will be no stability in the Middle East.
Both conflicts are fronts in World War 3, which is now well under way and getting hotter every day. Taiwan is most likely the next front, while it's quite likely that our home front will endure terrorist attacks from the cells established here because of Biden's open border fiasco.
That's simply never going to happen. You do realize that Israeli income is 10x Palestinian? Nobody is stopping Israel short of nuclear attack (which would look as you state and be terrible of course). Israeli settlers are now 30% of the West Bank population, and the Likud official party platform was adopted to officially state that they support full retaking of that land. No stopping it, only lots of handwringing over how and how many die in horrible ways on both sides. The end result is clear.
“Hold on, Jews. I know the Muslim world is arrayed against you right now like never before, but I think Putin is about to invade France for literally no reason according to Tom Nichols and Raytheon.”
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I’m stunned by the callousness as well as the historical illiteracy of this comment.
Sorry.
On TFP supporting Ukraine is bad, waste of money, and is another neocon "forever war."
While there is no amount of money too much for Israel as they are the only ones with clean hands in the Middle East and somehow are perceived as a democracy.
Compost, of course, like all Jiha(D)is, wants us to destabilize Russia first because he knows where the stray nukes are going when that happens and he is tired of waiting for Obama/Iran’s nuclear program.
Lol!! Another pathetic strawman by KevinDurant.
I don't care if U.S. supports Ukraine or Israel, both or neither, or one and not the other...
Just so funny how YOU have constantly complained about U.S. tax dollars supporting "foreign wars" and Ukraine..but you're 100% on board with doing that in the Middle East.
Care to explain?
Yes I can explain.
The Ukraine conflict was started by dipshits in our State Department and is a money laundering operation that involves vacant farmland. Putin has had nukes for 20 years and can be negotiated with.
The Palestine conflict is 1500 years old and it is not something Robert Kagan brewed up in his basement. The instant Iran gets nukes they will set them off in urban centers because they are subhuman psychopaths who cannot be negotiated with.
Kevin Durant. I’m non Jewish but 100% support Zionist and State of Israel. I’m very concerned that Israel is going to now be an even bigger ‘way station’ for arms to Ukraine. This was already occurring before the Hamas attacks (US arms to Israel first, then flowed to Ukraine). Are you at all concerned about this occurring and now getting bigger? I sure am. If you don’t see this is happening just look at this Jan ‘23 WSJ op ed, where Israeli’s were lamenting at how low their US stocks of 155mm shells had become, because they had been shipped north from Israel stocks to Ukraine. Neocons are gonna play us all, you watch
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-arsenal-of-democracys-stockpile-in-israel-weapons-arms-supply-chain-operations-conflict-war-zone-11674681905
Iranians are subhuman?...interesting take.
No. Actually, it was started by Vladimir Putin who is an autonomous individual who made the the decision to invade.
1500 years....no, Israel was created 1948, then Nakba happened, etc. Were the same state departmemt dipshits involved in that?
Wanna try again?
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Too bad we went with ‘diversity is our strength’.
One of my first comments I remember writing on The Free Press was about the Global Democrat Left’s quest to eradicate white supremacy, and the short version of that comment is
“Which white people do you think they will go after first?”
But Jewish people aren't white.
And Compost parachutes in from out of nowhere with some Democrat Race Science!!
A bit off topic here: Kevin, I accidentally clicked on your avatar as I was scrolling, and I was surprised to see that you have your own Substack, because I don’t think I have EVER seen you link to yourself in the comments you make (as so many others do, mercilessly). Is that humility I see...despite your edgy humor? [Shhhhhh, it’s our secret.]
And now, back to the topic, Complot must’ve seen those ‘Gram pix of the former Miss Israel, Yityish “Titi” Aynaw. But according to Democrat Race Science, she is absolutely White (in fact, she is technically “super White”) because of her privilege. And lemme tell you, in our world, beauty is a REAL privilege.
Yeah....once you take a look at his Substack....you'll change your tune.
Actually, if you read the thread....Kevin Durant is the one who said Jews were white....so maybe call it KevinDurant Race science.
You are a Holocaust denier and you have already stated that you are rooting for the ‘Palestinian’ terrorists.
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Nope. But Bari and TFP commentors like BrammyMIA would disagree with you.
"Jews are white." Is actullay, a BIG part of Bari's book, "How To Fight Anti-Semitism" in which her complaint is that Jewish people, even American ones, are unfairly/incorrectly viewed as "white" and not a minority, which is an effort to make them culpable in "oppressing" others which makes them more open to being victimized without sympathy.
So, actually, Comprof parachuted in with a bunch of knowledge from having actually read the book of the author who started TFP, and the subsequent message board that I destroy you on regularly.
So, take it up with Bari, BrammyMIA, etc....or better yet, take a TFP poll and see how many agree with your claim that Jews are "white people."
Thank you for destroying me with this non-bigoted post where you assert that all Jews think the same way.
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No. Just mentioned two in particular, how those two would disagree with your claim that "Jews are white", how Bari wrote a whole book disagreeing with you - a book that I read and you haven't and then suggested you take a poll to get further feedback.
Lol. You're pathetic.
Hmmm. I read here a lot more than I comment, but I just gotta say I just haven't viewed you as a smart guy that comes in here and "destroys people" on the regular. I'm thinking more like what kind of personality disorder that guy must have. But yeah, self awareness is a thing--maybe start by reading your posts aloud to yourself before you publish?
Well, I do Susan. Notice how KevinDurant suddenly shut up when I asked him a yes/no question about his comment? When he starts bringing up his old, tired "$19 an hour" bit...he's done...and owned again.
Which is why in your statement you were unable to provide one single example of where I am wrong, have been bested, or any prediction I have made that has not come to pass.
Since you're a regular reader, please share those with the rest of the class :)
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After 8 people were killed in the London bridge terrorist attack, police commissioner Cressida Dick stated she was proud of the diversity of the victims. Diversity is our greatest strength, even in death!
I just typed ‘Cressida Dick’ into Google Images and she looks at least 5x more like a Cressida Dick than I thought she would.
I am now going to pistol-whip myself in the forehead.
Sure but some people just are aptly named....
First LOL in 10 days. Thanks Bruce and KD!
Onomatopoeia
"Onomatopoeia, I don't want to see yuh speaking in a foreign tongue." John Prine
.The name suits her/
I see what you did there ;)
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Diversity has failed because it is racism.
Bari- thank you so much for all you have done and are doing
Amen to that! Hang in there Bari, its going to get worse, but we're with you all the way!
Yes, we are with Israel all the way. And yes, the Free Press is one of a handful of quality news sites.
I just wish the Free Press had been with us (Americans who truly believe in equally and justice) all the way when show trials and witch hunts ensued and only black lives mattered.
I am not Jewish but I would never turn my back on Israel. And I would have hoped that the Free Press hadn't turned their back on decency and the law and equality just because they were not conservatives.
It’s amazing to me how so many of you Free Press citizens are not critically thinking about the neocon ramifications resulting from this Hamas attack. I’m a Jewish and State of Israel supporter. But I’m not ‘with’ anyone all the way. That’s how you get manipulated very quickly. It occurred on 9/11 and we got the Patriot Act and a forever war in Iraq as a present. Are you all a bunch of young and naive people on this stack?
It was/is "Black Lives Matter" not "Only Black Lives Matter."
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I hope you will cover the Hamas supporters' US Capitol Insurrection today. I am sure they will be imprisoned for years, no bail and no trial. You know, like Insurrectionists deserve right?
Hamas supporters voted for Biden. So the deep state won't touch them.
Merrick Garland could be doing a hostage video next to masked guys with swords and he would still tell you the Proud Boys are the true threat.
Yes. Biden, Harris, Garland, Mayorkas. The party for which Bari Weiss votes is run by unconscionable anti-American, anti-democracy liars.
You left out antisemitic.
And he would be believed.
And Blinken would tell you that climate change is the biggest threat.
While Biden gurgles and spews that it's really MAGA Republicans....
In between eating his stewed prunes.
That's what keeps him regular.
True. This is (D)ifferent. So, the usual: some arrested, some not arrested, light charges, charges to be dismissed later after some time has passed. The 2020 Rioter plan.
Incited by Rep Rashida
Even the Jewish protestors that were there?
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Oh there were Jewish protesters there? So Democrat terrorists are also using human shields.
Your employer George Soros was a Jew who helped Nazis.
Lol. The IDF uses human shields.
Again with your tired, patheyic Soros stuff. Get some new material.
What is your evidence re: Soros?
They'll probably let the Jewish protestors who were involved go.
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The Jewish protesters will be receiving the George Soros Jews Helping Nazis Achievement Award at your next company picnic.
Are you still all about #BanADL like you were a few months ago?
Yeah....still waiting for your Soros evidence....
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When will Omar, Tlaib and Sandy Cortez be expelled?
they will be jailed like the crew who tried to derail Kavanaugh./
They went into the Capitol? When is the awards ceremony?
Insurrectionists is right
I don’t like for a moment what those Hamas/Palestinian protesters support, at Capitol or any other US city. But it’s their 1st Amendment right to speak their vile, garbage without repercussion. Be fucking consistent in your values, even if Left is not.
The inconsistency is the point. The US Capitol, the Supreme Court, state capitols - leftist disruptions and riots there are Protecting Our Democracy© whereas in the few or rare cases when it comes from the right it's Insurrection and The Worst Thing Ever in US History© and the FBI is doing national dragnets and people are in prison for years.
I state this under premise that I believe the Jan 6 prosecutions and jailings are totally wrong and should be reversed. And yes, the FBI is corrupt as hell. All that said, the Left protests/sit ins @ Capital steps and rotundas we see since Hamas murders are not the same as Jan 6. Jan 6 the establishment thought the vote would be overturned or delayed, movement of people towards the House floor. These recent protests did not attempt to disrupt a vote count. They were organized sit ins. I don't agree with them, but I hope we can stay intellectually honest about the differences and respect everyone's 1st Amendment Right to speak and assemble
Strange....because a lot of the protesters were Jewish.
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Hamas supporters invaded the Capitol?
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Yes. Police had to remove them, some were arrested (don't worry, charges will be discretely dropped later).
Ah....so you think "ending Israeli occupation of Palestine" = "Hamas supporter"
Well....then I guess "IDF" = "Israeli"
Glad we got that cleared up. Thanks. :)
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I wonder just how many FBI agents it took to lead that recent pro-Hamas protest invasion of the House Rotunda?
Sam Harris recently said, “There are not many bright lines that divide good and evil in our world, but this is one of them.”
Sam Harris also said that he would happily support Biden if there were children's corpses in his basement. Did that bright line also divide good and evil?
I find that these defining battles are only halfheartedly fought if a full renunciation of the ideology that does the equivocating isn't on the table.
JDFree when I read the Sam Harris comment- Sam has lost so much credibility. Seems like all the things everyone was so scared of Trump- NONE of them happened during his administration and ALL of them happening during Biden's.
Hmmmmmm......
Solipsists project.
Is anyone surprised? Leave it to Biden to fu** American foreign relations/policy.
Bari gushes As my friend Sam Harris recently said, There are not many bright lines that divide good and evil in our world, but this is one of them.”
Perhaps the one truism that the hapless Mr. Harris has discovered. Our Bari needs to lose the schoolgirl crushes on self-reverential shitheads such as Harris. Plain and simple, Harris is an apologist for the senile, corrupt imbecile who rules us. Making Harris, if possible, worse than Biden, himself. Because Harris is ostensibly smart enough to know better but still makes excuses for this evil charlatan. The Israeli tragedy has saddened and chastened us all Please don't cheapen it by pushing silly, self-delusional atheistic nitwits on us.
I❤️Bruce Miller!
Right on Bruce - Sam Harris is gonna Sam Harris i.e., be a hypocritical dirtball depending on the day and the issue. But muh, muh Trump gonna destroy democracy...something something
By far the best thing about Sam Harris is that the first reason he pointed to when asked why Trump was unfit to serve was Trump University being a scam.
Sam has a meditation app.
Didn't he say in Hunter Biden's basement, not Joe Biden?
I think Sam's point was he didn't care about Hunter because it had nothing to do with Joe.
What has come out since then is that Hunter was using his dad's position to enrich himself and allegedly was funneling a cut to Joe Biden.
In any case, Sam made a clumsy point that didn't hold up. I'm giving Sam grace on this one.
Sam Harris doesn't deserve an ounce of benefit because his wasn't a clumsy argument. His point was; I'll do whatever it takes to avoid a Trump presidency. What Sam and others like him will not understand is that language such as his is exactly WHY so many people are alarmed. If Sam will look away from dead children in a basement, what's a little ballot stuffing? Why not bribe people counting the votes? To be clear, I believe Trump lost (and he deserved to lose) but there was plenty of disgraceful conduct on the left; the suppression of the laptop story, government violation of the First Amendment with social media companies, the unprecedented changes to voting procedures, etc.. When mild-mannered Sam says such hysterical bullsh!t, it destroys his reputation which is where I find myself today; with no respect for a man I once thought respectable.
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I hear you. It was a choice between a narcissist and a most likely corrupt ex-VP.
I'm in commercial real estate, and it's very interesting that virtually no one in my circle supported Trump. He's not respected in our industry.
But more to the point. I think we need to figure out how to encourage the best of us to run for office. I will argue that grace (even for Sam Harris), is a good place to start.
Oh please.
Hamas admitted they got help from Iran for the massacres, rapes and murders of babies.
Biden loosened sanctions on Iran, filling their coffers. He freed up $6 billion. His stooge Blinken crowed about resuming aid to Gaza.
Biden and Blinken have the blood of innocents on their hands.
And so do his apologists such as Harris.
Yes a “word salad” is worth a thousand words.....🤮
Sorry world, I have no sympathy for the Gazan Palestinians. Please, no more pictures of Palestinians mourning and wailing over the bodies and graves of dead family members. Even though Hamas is responsible for the planning and execution of the attack, it is the people in Gaza who assent to this tactic. Any society that teaches children in schools to hate and murder Jews does NOT deserve the benefit of the doubt. Their fate is in their own hands that are covered in blood by proxy.
I am NOT calling for genocide, even though these people are doing so in respect to Jews, but I AM calling for a "come to Mohamad" moment where they fully realize their own complicity in this murder spree, and the continued brain washing that they are assenting to, similar to what German citizens had to face after WW II.
It is tragic what they have had done to them/done to themselves. What chance do children have when taught this from birth? That said, trying to take any sort of reasoned approach is futile. The project of the Left (insert particular cause here) is DESTRUCTION. You cannot reason with it. You can only defeat it.
Elizbeth, the sad thing is that excizing the Hamas Death Cult will necessarily mean disfiguring the Israeli people as well. There is no world where destroying evil does not exact a terrible cost. If Hamas IS destroyed, Jews for generations will mourn for their lost humanity.
I’m intrigued. How do you figure that?
Golda Meir said it best I think: "[W]e can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for forcing us to kill your children."
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Realistically the only ways out of that dilemma are a full court press by the Anglosphere and Europe to peaceably evacuate Gaza to Egypt or to incorporate it back into Egypt as is. I'd suggest, since Britain owns a considerable part of the making of this mess at our apogee of Empire and our lamentable and demented scuttle from said Empire, that we stump up a considerable part of the costs of making it worthwhile to Egypt. Who really, really, really love the Muslim Brotherhood and all its' offshoots, and so are guarenteed to sit on them properly.
But, again realistically, that won't happen because it is a far too sensible idea to gain traction with the mutton-heads who govern us.
I see the benefit of your plan but I too think it not likely to gain traction.
Elizabeth, Lynne got it quite succinctly! Just consider the ferment of the Viet Nam war, how the nation was changed and damaged for two generations now. Think WW II, where the so-called Greatest Generation remained mute about their experiences and the mental and emotional cleansing we had to go through, and even today, agonizing about the use of The Bomb. Also, if you are a fan of Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's emotional response to war in Europe, and how the characters were changed forever by the conflict. Everyone is a victim in war! But only the victors achieve any sense of accomplishment, such as it is, and a poor one at THAT!
Ah! Glad I asked. Makes a world of sense.
And such is the tragedy of life. Better that than they have no future generations. 🫤
Beyond furious that Biden has promised aid to the Palestinians (again!) without any demands for the release of kidnapped victims. The Marshall plan was great, but it was after the surrender of Germany not during the Blitzkrieg or when trains were depositing Jews into concentration camps. 6 Billion to Iran and a 100 million to Palestine. Kidnapping, rape, and murder appears to be a very profitable business deal for terrorist.
Biden actually said, when talking today about this new aid to the Palestinians, something along the lines of: "if Hamas steals this aid, we'll really know for sure now that they are bad guys who don't care about the Palestinian people." I was astonished..."if Hamas steals this aid..."; how clueless can a person be????
Of course he preceded that stupid statement with his tag line, "let me be clear", as if this conveys strength and seriousness.
What does it take to assure Biden that Hamas is the for sure bad guy? Americans dead, babies killed, and/or gunning down concert goers is insufficient evidence to suggest that these are evil people?
it was a mind-boggling statement.
Or a statement from a boggled mind.
Hamas has been stealing aid money sent to Gaza ever since they seized control of that desolate piece of sand.
And, the United States has known that Hamas has defied all attempts to control the funds going allegedly to help the citizens of Gaza. The leaders of Hamas are exactly like Sadam Hussien and Bashar al-Assad...the sleep in cushy mansions or comfortable compounds with an AK-47 close at hand and company of armed guards at the gates and doorways.
I seriously question the operations of our security operation where, it is becoming aparent, we have to learn the same lesson over and over again because we chose NOT to listen to what criminal regimes are saying and doing.
Passing billions to people wanting nothing but the worst for us and absorbing millions of people who want their piece of the action while turning wherever they land into the types of ghettos that they left.
It's the same group of knot-heads leading our decline that we talk about daily on these pages.
Stop voting for them, people! They are not thinking of what might be best for you and for me.
They have ALREADY stolen UN aid! Good money after bad.
Yet the left & western media grotesquely serve Hamas by posting pictures of Palestinians pulled from the rubble after a bomb strike. They lap it up KNOWING those people are dead because Hamas was hiding behind them.
Or even possibly due to a strike from Hamas’ own rocket.
Precisely; how quickly did the NYT jump on that story? With the third correction to the story, there was a collective shrug like, "How were we supposed to know Hamas would lie to us?"
And there has been such minimal effort to correct the blood libel they broadcast! I was reading BBC this morning, and the haven't even committed to believing it was a failed Hamas rocket that crashed into a carpark next to a hospital, not an Israeli strike ON a hospital. You can be sure if the Israelis intended to hit the hospital, they would have.
Not just that, the hospital wasn't even hit. It landed in a parking lot next to the hospital. It's so gross that I can only hope this will be the point when history turns away from the mainstream media entirely. That the NYT was once a respectable "paper of record" doesn't mean they get to keep that prestige while doing nothing to earn it.
The only time you can negotiate with enemies, whether that's Germany, or the Palestinians, is after you've brought them to their knees. The only times Israel made peace with its neighbors is after decisively winning wars. The US shouldn't be trying to "manage" this war, but rather showing strength and backing up Israel's willingness to turn Gaza into a parking lot if that's what it takes. Same language we would use against ISIS.
Amen
As Bari said, "... societies in which the Jewish people are persecuted are societies in which no one is safe." Strange how I've never heard that said quite that way before, but my 50+ years of learning history tells me that is exactly right. Bravo, Bari, and please continue with the exceptional reporting on this war.
Keep telling the stories. The world needs to hear them.
Thank you for your continued service to freedom and values of the enlightenment. Happy subscriber from day one.
Exactly. I would never have guessed seeing women and babies killed for being Jewish would bring joy and celebrations to our streets. The snarky tweets, e.g., what did you think decolonialization meant? I'll answer. Evidently, it means you're a psychopath.
I’m getting really tired of hearing “elite” or any positive adjective being given to any institute of higher education when THIS RESPONSE is what is being produced...
Secretly the single dumbest thing happening is the neocon effort to connect the Ukraine conflict with the Palestine conflict.
I guess they think they can get more money by stapling them together. Nonetheless, telling Putin that your effort to defeat him is directly connected to Zionism, for no reason at all, is possibly the worst foreign policy idea in human history.
Kevin Durant, who’s to say the events in Israel are not ‘engineered’ to allow backdoor arms flow to Ukraine, via Israel? Neocons did it before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
We need to have a strong statement from Congress which defines antisemitism based on the IHRA definition and includes the slogans “From the River to the Sea” and “there in only one solution .. “for what it is — hate speech and call for violence against Jews . No different than White Supremacist chanting “Jews will not Replace Us” or Nazi propaganda regarding the “final solution “.
It is protected speech and can’t be prevented . However , universities have rules against “hate speech”. Students running around campus chanting and posting those slogans should be treated no differently than White supremacist or Neo Nazis . At the very least , let’s inform all Americans what those slogans mean and make those students , professors and the Squad defend the speech. Put them on the defensive . See if they agree with a 2 state solution . The radicals will say they don’t .
As the Harvard situation and push back on the students proved , make students accountable for their words . While we are at it , they should post the Hamas Charter so people can see for themselves what Hamas is
The prissy little poseurs change their stories very quickly once their names are revealed and their job offers pulled.
Exactly - make them defend themselves . Watch them squirm . But SJP and DSA folks will never recognize Israel right to exist as a Jewish state . And people need to know that .
It’s Armageddon folks. Good vs
evil; civilization vs barbarism. How pro-Hamas demonstrators deny the butchery in southern Israel, is beyond me. Hamas filmed the debauchery themselves. The camera doesn’t lie.
Filmed and posted on social media. No shame. No remorse. Jubilation! Disgusting. How can there be any doubts? Do we need to lead the press through the villages slaughtered, like the villagers near concentration camps who refused to believe they existed?
There's never enough dead Jews for the Jew haters.
Let's say Israel never responded to these attacks, what would the Jew haters say? That Israel should negotiate? That Israel should give something up to get hostages back? That Israel shouldn't be surprised because they're occupiers?
It will never be enough for the Jew haters, that's why it's better for Israel to do what they need to do because it's detractors won't stop till every Jew is dead and gone.
The hard truth is that there were times when whole swaths of the nation approved of slavery and people had to live with them and deal with the consequences. Today there are significant factions in society who do not just apologize ethnic cleansing and mass rape, but openly support such methods. If 6 million Jews were exterminated tomorrow there would be applause and jubilation in this country and around the world. We ae in a bad place and these issues are not going away.
I take some comfort in recent polling that shows 70% of Americans support Israel's actions in Gaza while just 8% of Americans oppose it. Support is bipartisan, though Republicans are at 77% and Democrats are at 69%. Sadly, I suspect that 8% is concentrated at top universities and in the media. You know, our thought leaders.
I try to remember that most Americans are decent.
Long past time the decent Americans demand action to end the demonstrations and intimidation.
Sadly, 'decent' is usually passive. Decent folks try not to harm others. Good folks actively try to make things better for people. And the world often tries to tear down good people. So most people stop at decent.
Clearly the haters know they can get their demonstrations and murderous rhetoric onto the MSM outlets looking for any blood they can broadcast.
But will the views of the majority of the electorate ever be reflected in the policies crafted by our betters in Washington, D.C.?
Sigh.
yes, there will be no silver bullet where the bad guys slink away.
No silver bullet, but maybe a full metal jacket!
Unfortunately this is exactly why we need free speech.