L’Exode Jeux interdit René Clément  Brigitte Fossey

Bonjour. It’s not even 6 A.M. and I am writing. I am going to France soon, very soon and I dream of Medan, Drancy, the Assemblée Nationale, Paris, la Rue St. Michel (spent so many days walking around to the Boulevard St. Germain, coq au vin, poulet basquaise, boeuf Bourguignons, baguettes, croissants, vin rouge, and just having a successful trip that could include even imams and Jewish leaders.

The book I am reading has about 515 pages of reading material and I am nearing the conclusion in time to take off for Paris. The chapter is Pensez Vacances and yes, I am thinking about this vacation. In the last weeks, I had thought about the invasion of France by the Nazis in 1940 and packed between the pages in this chapter filled with words like bourse, blouson, slip, laine, sport, and taille were L’Exode, Vichy, and Jeux interdit and the story.

That story was on my mind as I thought about the bombing of Gaza. Weeks had passed and I couldn’t believe what I was reading in French. And this was a better description of the evacuation of Paris than I had previously read.

A young couple and their daughter Paulette (Brigitte Fossey) aged 6 or 7 and her little dog flee Paris in a car. People are fleeing with valise, bags, children (low age), carts are being pushed or pulled, horse drawn carts, automobiles, and small vans.

A Messerschmidt attacks and everyone panics, scattering. People hit the ground face first.  Bombs are released from planes above. Things are shattered into dust by the bombs.

This is war and the attack on Gaza was provoked by the October 7, 2024, massacre. Cries are heard everywhere. Soon the people fleeing continue the route.

We see the couple in their car, the little girl (une 202 Peugeot décapotée or convertible) sitting on the knees. The engine crache et ne démarre pas or it stops and does not start again. Le moteur semble mort or the motor seems dead.

It is time to give up and walk with the others. A trail of bullets strikes the father and mother near Paulette who does not know what is going on. The mother faces the sky, eyes closed. Paulette gently caresses her mother’s cheek (joue). Paulette soon sees the identical face of her father. By her side, Paulette notices the chien or dog. She picks it up, squeezing it in her arms murmuring her name.

The attack continues. Paulette is afraid, she soon leaves with her dead dog in her arms.

And there was no opposing military mentioned in this script.

And  during those days, leading up to writing this, I thought about the United States when Nazis and their supporters confronted Jews and vice versa. Madison Square Garden probably is the place most people think about (the old Madison Square Garden). And I think about the conflict between Jews and Muslims in France and North Africa as a war was going on in Algeria and people thought about Israel and the War in 1967.

And so many things are playing out on campuses right now, but what do we really know? Are we there to see and witness things? What do we believe? Should we believe Fox News which is telling US that it’s about the left and its hate for America? Should we believe what Jewish organizations are telling US and should we believe Palestinians, pro-Palestinians, and some Muslims? Should we? I say that the danger was there even before the Massacre in October and our nation did not properly act through education. It’s in my work!

And this came to mind.

The Attack on Hebron (1929) and More

Posted February 25, 2021

And one more thing to share is that one of the best-known Arabs who is repeatedly mentioned in the book about Palestine by Tom Segev. Khalil al-Sakakini sent his daughter Hala to a German school in Palestine, where the German children actually joined a branch of the Hitler youth. All the children in the school sang Deutschland Uber Alles and Raise the Flag, the Nazi Party anthem. Sakakini was a good man in many ways, but his politics included the hope that Hitler would liberate Palestine from the Jews.

Among the many thoughts that I have is this one. What would have happened if the Ottoman Turks had been on the winning side in World War I? That thought would also provoke what would have happened to US.

So why do I bring this up today in 2924. Anyone that doesn’t know Tom Segev’s work must take note of how he explains what happened in 1948 or what is known as the Nakba. I just had an exchange of thoughts with a very influential Muslim that you will read about soon. It is not the first time that I have had the occasion to learn about Hitler and The Final Solution and Muslim thinking. What I am saying is that the thought is blame Hitler and Europe because Muslim-Jewish relations were not even close to what Hitler did. And keep in mind that Black people wanted to join the Hitler youth in Nazi Germany.

Let’s move the scenario to America before Pearl Harbor. Republican leaders on Long Island were members of the Ku Klux Klan. Ku Klux Klan joined with fascists on the West Coast, along with even Mexican fascists. The NRA or National Rifle Association got involved in the plotting, because guns were needed to oust FDR and change the United States.

This was Jim Crow America and an America intent on not letting Jews into our nation through immigration laws that were hateful. And with anti-Semites even within FDR’s family and his administration, there was no help for Jews. Jews had to hope for the best. More education was needed as it is needed right now.  Alan Dershowitz is correct when he debates against pro-Palestinians that much or most of the Palestinians were with Hitler, but he falls short of attaining the greatness needed in his debates. You read what I wrote about Palestinians joining Hitler youth in Palestine and that is just one example. There are lots more and I have given examples in much of my writing.

Instead of fictional characters such as Paulette, her mother, father, and dog, let’s put real people into the time machine and send them back to that period.

Smiling Tim Scott praising Trump, an “enabler” of antisemitism. Lee Zeldin, a great Trump supporter, even though he must have read about Trump’s fascism somewhere and his comparisons to Hitler. Black and Jew united like ebony and ivory, together in their own perfect harmony. Side by side on some piano keyboard. Is it any shock to you that the first person executed in Greece after World War II for Nazi activities was a Jewish from a well-known family?

And all those Muslims and others in the United States who do not know enough history. Palestine waiting for Hitler. Iran controlled by Hitler a short time before FDR, Stalin, and Churchill met in Teheran. Iraq and a massacre against Jews, and North Africa waiting for Hitler to win,

The Nation of Islam must know that Minister Farrakhan said the “I know that we were next.” He said that thinking about being Black in Hitler’s world. The Muslim world back then was waiting for Hitler.  Were Black people really safe? And Muslims had Hitler’s approval as “Aryans.”

And the beat goes on in Dearborn, Michigan and in other communities. The word is out by powerful people who are saying “Do not vote for Biden.” That may change before November. I have written that a fascist could become a communist and vice versa in one day because of self-interest. World War II often revealed that as people switched sides. President Biden’s commitment to the right of Israel to defend itself has not been broken. And he and the Congress are not complicit in “genocide.” That is just an opinion that is being spread.

In Gaza, the scenario is different, and we should remember that Israel did not just decide to invade causing more than 30,000 deaths by some whim. It was the massacre and the hostages that are part of that equation. I certainly do not wish to write the script of Gaza 2023-2024 and the Exode that wasn’t.

And I am saying that there are elements of the past going back to Palestine and the Muslim world and more liberal things going on today that have brought US to this situation. I knew about it almost a decade ago, but nobody was paying attention. And the world was deep into colonialism back then and French territories and the English mandate in Palestine saw Hitler as their solution, not the Allies. And in America, Jim Crow went on for 20 more years with only slight liberating changes. Jews, too, prejudice and discrimination. Actually, I started writing about it in the 1980s when Palestinians in New York understood, perhaps, more than many people understand today.

If we cannot have a much deeper discussion of the past, we will continue to make mistakes. And this information, for now, applies to the United States, France, and other nations. Au revoir! And I will continue reading other information in the chapter including La Consummation du vin en baisse en France.

Inmigrantes Hay Poder en Aprender

En las canchas del fútbol digo a los padres de los niños que yo puedo producir mágico. Y claro puedo yo producir “Mágico.” Voy a mi sitio web, busco las fotos de salvadoreños, selecciono mi foto con “Mágico” y produjo “Mágico.”

Inglés para todos. Para los niños y los padres.

Un programa que es parte o pertenece al Departamento de Educación de los Estados Unidos y usted puede compartirlo con sus familiares en todas partes del mundo. Estas recomendaciones traen beneficios. Mejore su trabajo y avanza su educacion con cursos profesionales por su progreso en inglés.

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También, digo también porque hay más. Un programa donde se puede conjugar miles de verbos en inglés.

Learn the Verbs por favor haga un clic en Learn the Verbs. Al lado Izquierdo hay muchas materias. Seleccione verb conjugator y comience (use study o estudiar). Recuerde que usted puede compartirlo con sus familiares en todas partes del mundo. El mismo programa esta disponible en español y otros idiomas.

Alemán abajo a la derecha donde dice DE.

Al lado de EN o inglés es ES o español para aprender español.

Al lado de ES es FR para estudiar francés,

Al lado de FR es IT para estudiar Italiano.

Recuerde que usted puede compartirlos con sus familiares en todas partes del mundo.

Espero producir más mágico en el próximo article. Pronto estaremos juntos.

Profesor Martin Danenberg es el ex profesor del Consulado de El Salvador en Brentwood, Long Island. El es también llamado “El Quijote del GED.” GED es la equivalencia de bachillerato y se puede completar al curso en dos idiomas: inglés e español.

Una cosa más. Ojalá que llueva ojalá que llueva ojalá que llueva educacion.

Inmigrantes Hay Poder en Aprender

En las canchas del fútbol digo a los padres de los niños que yo puedo producir mágico. Y claro puedo yo producir “Mágico.” Voy a mi sitio web, busco las fotos de salvadoreños, selecciono mi foto con “Mágico” y produjo “Mágico.”

ADL Reports and More

Trump is on my mind and his policies. Campuses know about those policies. Could there be a link with the large numbers of people supporting the Palestinian cause? The wall, the Muslim ban, the border policy keeping people out, his comments about Latinos and Black people (other countries), George Floyd and how it was handled, no plan to build back better during COVID-19 and those deaths, no mask mandate, misinformation, lying, and more. Size does matter!

The new ADL Report is out. Take a look at one of its statements as news media put out important headlines. Those headlines may easily misdirect what is going on and I have read some of the information in the long report and done a small outreach.

“Our analysis combines objective data with certain subjective impressions and analysis as well as our beliefs about how to weigh different factors. Reasonable people may disagree with these decisions.”

You deserve to know more about the report, but for now let’s move on.

In the news is Michigan University and a disruption that took place there. Its president spoke out. Read and learn from this.

 Students violating the policy could face reprimand, disciplinary probation, restitution, removal from a specific course, suspension or expulsion.

Staff members violating the policy could face misconduct allegations, and the school “may institute discipline, up to and including termination.”

Think about your own reason for the moment (and your passions).

Let’s go back to January 2, 2024. And yes I remember it well (having a Parisian moment). A man that I know told me that his friends, shockingly, support the Palestinian cause.  And I called up the first media content of my search for that famous congressional hearing that rocked the world, but which never mentioned hate against Muslims and others. I found NewsMax and decided to share this.

Ivy League presidents testified to Congress about antisemitism on campus

Committee chair: Leaders failed to uphold morality

Investigation will look into policies, disciplinary procedures

All that goes back to December 5, 2023. This was only two days shy of Pearl Harbor Day. This was nothing more than an attack by Republicans for Jews against the rest of the world. And as I have written before, “freedom of speech” on campus must be maintained. Even the call for genocide against Jews on campus could have resulted in just a “reprimand” without ever getting close to “expulsion” or “termination.”

And on January 2, 2024, I shared things that I had learned from Antisemitism: Here and Now by Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Yes, the disciplining of students would depend on the context. Republicans and others may immediately say what I said was “Marxist” “liberal” or whatever, but I know how these things have been applied in similar situations from learning about the experiences of others. Joe McCarthy could not have done a better job (1950s history and Republican again).

And I wish I would have made a profile of those “friends” who now support the Palestinian cause. How many were there? Were any of them Jews? What are the ethnic and racial backgrounds of those people. I don’t have that kind of relationship with anyone since my contacts are very limited. But this country is vast and there is a consensus out there that Jews have been abandoned over the Massacre and the War in Gaza. A profile has to be made and I thought about project on campus and elsewhere.

And there has to be more to explore. HATE was the main ingredient of four years of the Trump Administration. Trump says that Jews hate Israel, and his believers absorb that (Hate America, too). Why not interview that man in Michigan who spoke those words days ago? What is the country where his family came from? Does he know the entire history of Palestine, even before the famous Balfour Declaration? Has he ever watched videos on the internet that show more than just the Nakba beginning in 1948? Videos that may show a violent, Arab history against Jews? And this applies to all supporters of Palestine and supporters of Israel as well.

Is Trump’s work on campus affecting the left? We know about his being an “enabler” of antisemitism for affecting the right. And please notice how the right is relatively quiet because of men and women going to jail for January 6, 2021 and due to the fact that the left’s antisemitism is spreading hate against Israel and the Jews right now and there is little need to do anything.

I found and saved an article in The Forward about the campuses with the most and least antisemitic acts (2,000 Jewish students on 51 campuses surveyed). This also goes back to December 2023. I wonder what those same students on the same campuses would say right now. True, they could easily have seen more examples of antisemitism, but they may have also witnessed college administrations doing much more to protect Jewish and all other students. The problem is big, and it will take a village to help. And those Republicans in Congress have sat back and watched. I hope you get that point and share it.

Allow me to move you away from the ADL report right now and share something that has been on my mind for a week or more. This is about ZOA.

This is from The Daily Caller in September 2023. The authors are Jacobs and Goldwasser and there is a history for you to know.

It did mention these multiple groups — white racists, black racists who are mostly followers of Louis Farrakhan, radical Islamists, and leftist anti-Zionists —

And it attacked the ADL for ignoring Jew-hatred from its political allies among the “marginalized groups.”

examples include Al Sharpton and the BLM movement

the Democratic Party’s Squad

extremist imams in mosques across our nation

Here is a list of people aligned with Jacobs and Goldwasser.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Richard A. Landes

Joshua Block

Rebecca Sugar

Caroline B. Glick

Naya Lekht

Richard Kronenfeld

Bruce D. Abramson

Thane Rosenbaum

Morton A. Klein

Alan M. Dershowitz

Rabbi Cary Kozberg

M. Zuhdi Jasser

William A. Jacobson

Johanna E. Markind

Rebecca G. Schgallis

Karen D. Hurvitz

Joanne Bregman

Lauri B. Regan

Dr. Amy Rosenthal

Josh Ravitch

Henry Srebrnik

Ben Poser

Note that Morton A. Klein is the head of Zionist Organization of America. The Surprising Zionist tells about how Senator Robert Taft worked with President Harry Truman in 1951 to support Israel. Taft came from one of the most powerful families in the United States (William Howard Taft) and held important positions until he was elected in 1938 to the United States Senate. His nickname was “Mr. Republican.” I found out that Klein revealed that he was scared of Donald Trump after Trump had dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes in November 2022. Was he asleep? My own work preceded his findings six years before that. Yes, he found out that Trump mainstreams Jew hatred. But where is he taking that new, important information in.

Again, I write what I wrote on February 29, 2024 to set the record straight in spite of efforts to portray Republicans and Senator Robert Taft as great heroes. I quote myself here “Congressman Albert Johnson and Senator David Reed, both Republicans, gave US a series of immigration acts designed to the referring to the recent immigrants (before 1924) as a “bulwark against a stream of alien blook” and referred to the recent wave of Jewish immigrants as “filthy, un-American, and often dangerous in their habits.” And now knowing that Benjamin Netanyahu has known for decades that Ze’ev Jabotinksy was right in calling for “3 million Jews to flee” Eastern Europe. Where were they going to go? Most would have to come to America, but that was illegal since 1924. They could have crossed the Mexican border in El Paso and other places. Americans did it to the Jews then and continue to do it to migrants today.

Ohio where Taft came from and its vote in the US Senate two yeahs both Republican.

Ohio where Taft came from and its vote in the House of Representatives

Two nays from Democrats, three yeas from Democrats, 16 yeas from Republicans (all of them) in Ohio

Fiorello LaGuardia voted nay in New York (4 nays, 1 present, 16 yeas and Nathan Perlman was one of those nays).

And I know about Jews who have said that they had to stay at the end of the line and so migrants have to do the same thing today.

But 3 million Jews were lost and lost largely because they could not come to America. Staying at the end of a line to all Jews should now sound repugnant and repugnant perhaps for the first time. I knew about this kind of thing 20 years ago, but I didn’t know that Benjamin Netanyahu knew what I am teaching here. Why all that silence?

I turned to my bookshelf and found One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang. I did not find what I had already written that caused me to state that the Immigration Act of 1924 was the most antisemitic act in USA history. 

I found this.

March 2, 1924 Brooklyn, New York.

Brooklyn Jewish Center where more than a thousand people were crammed, and two thousand people were turned away because of lack of space.

Brownsville, just to east, was called “Jerusalem of America.” People were moving in big numbers and away from the Lower East Side.

The Jewish immigration was expected to drop from 80,000 to 4,000 a man warned who was a keynote speaker that day.

This 5-foot 2 man whose parents hailed from Italy and whose mother was Jewish, told how this new law would discriminate against Italians and Jews. He was Fiorello LaGuardia.

Calvin Coolidge signed the bill into law and had declared “America must be kept American.”

Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame on anyone who doesn’t wish to understand.

The United States has this to talk about and Jim Crow since hate was in the driver’s seat in our nation.

And there was more. “There is one state in which one can observe at least weak beginnings of a certain conception…The American Union categorically refuses the immigration of physically unhealthy elements and simply excludes the immigration of certain races.”

That was written in Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and if you sit back and think about the Trump years, you can see the resemblance.

I found even more to share that may amaze you. Herbert Hoover and the Jews (the Jewish vote). The father of Benjamin Netanyahu had meetings with Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft, Claire Boothe Luce, and Alf Landon to bring about a bipartisan effort to install the Jewish state in Palestine. Republicans were learning a lot from Netanyahu in 1943-1944 and Claire Boothe Luce gave the Republicans this quote back then after not seeming to caring at all “Jewish blood stains the blue Mediterranean red.” England and its mandate was the target. Have you read already what this Republican Party did to the Jews through keeping them out? And at that convention, Jews were supposed to go to Palestine and not to the United States. Keep in mind that Jabotinsky died in 1940 and Jewish lives could have been saved by allowing all of them in. Hitler was still alive. Alf Landon played a role in that too, and the Democrats were the equal of the Republicans in their declarations.  And here is part of a long statement made by Herbert Hoover about the plight of the Jews. “We must accept the fact that the older and more fully settled countries have no longer any land and opportunity to absorb the migration of the migration of the oppressed.  Most Jews recognize that it is not in their interest to force such an issue.  Palestine could take more of them.  But after all Palestine would absorb only a part of the three or four millions whom this Conference has been discussing as needing relief.  That could be accomplished only by moving the Arab population to some other quarter.  These are problems impossible to settle during the war.”

Did you see the part about no more land for more people? Jews were still to be kept out!

This was a moment of that famous prayer “May God Bless and Keep (the Jews) Far Away from US.”

And before signing off here, I noticed Jonathon Greenblatt on The Squawk Box saying that the report is “objective.” And when questioned, he backed the report as he mentioned that presidents of universities were calling him to tell him that the report was “unfair.” Do you think that report could be “unfair” right now based on what you have learned? He says the grade speaks for itself after mentioning how he spoke to students at the Harvard Law School. Basically, what he was saying is that the schools are not protecting Jewish students. To me it sounds like Fox (Foxx) News again!

I looked in my emails and I noticed I got involved on December 7, 2023. I will say no more right now, but for years I have told people that when you talk about education, educators, etc. that you have to be “fair and accurate” in the things mentioned. Being accurate or factual, for example, is not enough. My words come from a contractual agreement that I have expressed for decades. Does the report satisfy that definition?

I have shared information about Jewish leadership that our nation has to know about. From 1924 to today, the whole truth has to be told. Do you agree with me after reading this work?

City Elected Officials and Staff Need Training in Fighting Antisemitism

In my reporting recently, I wrote that in my large outreach to fight antisemitism I have learned that Jews do not know much about doing that. There are Jews and non-Jews on the city council and on the mayor’s staff who may know the long history of antisemitism, but that is not the same as successfully fighting it. We see antisemitism mixed in with free speech. We saw it in Charlotteville with “Jews will not replace us” and we see it in recent pro-Palestinian protests calling for a boycott of Israel which is picking up more steam than existed a couple of years ago. I repeat that the latter is a form of antisemitism.

Now that there has been much more publication of the problem and not just what Fox News and its call to stop antisemitism on campus which deflected attention away from right wing antisemitism (we can read about antisemitism K-12, in the home, in the workplace, and all across the USA instead of just in those “elite” “Ivy League” “liberal” institutions. It was everywhere and well documented in December when Congress met and focused only on the plight of Jews. That was a tragic mistake for a nation whose elected officials are supposed to protect all constituents including members of the Muslim faith.

As I thought about this and opened my computer, there was news from Congress of a new, stronger effort to add a component to fight hate in the office of the president. Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada spoke about this “My bipartisan legislation would establish a National Coordinator to Counter Anti Semitism for the first time ever and take other much-needed steps across the federal government to fight anti-Jewish hatred, bigotry, and violence in the United States.”

All of that is fine and good, but it “takes a village to raise a child” and even that talk misses the bullseye. That is why we have to be armed with knowledge all across the United States. Since I often communicate with the City Council of New York and the office of the mayor, it’s up to you New York to lead the way.

Keep in mind that “End Jew Hate Day” was not passed unanimously by the City Council and the council failed to do its best.  I have written about that. Even in the last week, everyone in the city should have noticed that thousands of Muslims had their rights violated by the NYPD which has made a settlement of $17.5 million over the disregard of the religious rights of Muslims and in Saudi Arabia Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center was refused entry to an event because he would not remove his kippah. Education matters around the globe and it is time for much change from people who run the city. Do the right thing.

What You Should Know Oye Ruben Diaz, Sr. y Sus Seguidores

This is about Enid, the Bronx, and America and its pastor(s) and the oveja(s) or sheep that follow them. It could be Cristo es Rey in Florida and churches everywhere. There has been great shame as a community had to deal with one of their own who was popular and who betrayed many of its people, but there is more.

And Donald Trump comes into play in all of this and specifically because he supported people who were chanting “Jews will not replace us.”

Enid, Oklahoma? I am not thinking about the Iglesia Pentecostal or Evangelicals. It’s that part of town that just voted and the election was non-political although this town and the county are heavily Republican. What has taken place?

Knowledge entered the politics about a candidate who the community found out participated in the infamous rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and this involved White Supremacists there and in Enid. Judd Bliven, the candidate, had to face another election to be commissioner and he just lost. He had been involved, deeply involved.

You can see what might have been a highly disgusted community, but do they know that Donald Trump because of Charlottesville and his handling of it and other issues has been declared an “enabler” of antisemitism? Would that matter to those voters? It’s really hard to say, but it does look like racism was rejected in the election because of Judd Bliven’s involvement in racist activities that were made public.

Turnouts are usually low there, but look what happened now including a huge turnout. Do those voters know that based on Trump’s performance over Charlottesville and other things that Trump has been defined as an “enabler” of antisemitism by experts. The heavy vote does appear to be about rejecting Judd Bliven for his participation in racist activities.

2023 Judd Bliven wins 422-386

2024 or just now Judd Bliven lost 829-561

Yes 386 people voted for Judd and we do not know how many of the same people did not care enough to change their vote. It would be amazing to conduct interviews with the voters there.

And those voters have to find out more about this article. The United States won World War II in 1945 after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan and this article may have a nuclear capacity to take down Donald Trump. We can go back to Father Coughlin and find out just how he expected his listeners to vote Republican and they did not. We can go back to the McCarthy Era and learn how Republicans helped exorcise him and his evil ways. Richard Nixon wouldn’t even sit near him.

The election is over in Enid, but now Enid has to deal with the fact that Donald Trump is “enabler” of antisemitism. The clock is ticking as another election is coming up in November.

This is a warning to the Bronx and Hispanic communities everywhere. People keep saying that the Hispanic community is leaning toward the Republican Party of Donald Trump, and it could be true. But let’s learn much more from this article and the research that I have done.

I contacted Ruben Diaz, Sr. and there was no reply. I wrote again this morning. I have known the pastor since 2003 when Pastor Juan Castillo of Brooklyn introduced me to the organization. There were things that I still remember about that meeting with pastors. I spoke about a way to help his community without going to class (I am known around the country and the world now for my work back then) and Ruben asked me “where are the classes.” Another thing that happened is this. Before I even did my presentation, he spoke to his pastors telling them that he was not going to give them Hillary Clinton’s phone number since he worked so hard to obtain it. I guess that was his style of Christianity and leadership back the. I got to see Ruben in other meetings, and I once went over to see him outside his hotel in Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic.

Recently, I noticed on FACEBOOK, his endorsement of Donald Trump. I called his organization and emailed his email address with my article (in English) that the 1924 legislation that started to make it illegal to cross the border was the most antisemitic legislation. I have not heard from him.

What brought me to write all this about Ruben Diaz, Sr. It was a hunch about his stance on immigration. In 2010, research about him revealed that he blamed the police operation in Arizona, but blamed Congress and President Obama (without mentioning his name) for no action on the promise to have reform). He diminished the importance of concentrating on Arizona and the hostile environment there at that time. Sheriff Joe Arpaio was convicted and pardoned by Donald Trump eventually. And Diaz promoted the idea of demonstrators to go to Washington, D.C. instead of going to Arizona to protest.

It was all about migrants and that law of 1924 which I will get to shortly. We had people all over the United States saying “Let Trump be Trump.” He brought attention to the border by saying that Mexico wasn’t sending US its best people, but “some” of them were okay. What Bible was he reading from? And we must turn to the origin now in 1924 when the authors of the immigration bill (Republican) spoke about Jewish immigrants as “filthy, un-American, and often dangerous in their habits.” That was your Christian nation, a Bible reading nation.

I finally noticed that Diaz, Sr. was no friend of the migrants as he endorsed Trump and his border policies. And what about the Bible and the story of Joseph and his brothers who entered Egypt during a famine. Joseph and that government helped out. Any of Diaz’s disciples who go along with this are also guilty of forgetting their Bible lessons. And that goes for others around our nation. The same shame that prompted a new election in Enid, Oklahoma should be openly discussed among all Christians in America right now. It’s this reconstruction of history that we can call What Ruben Diaz, Sr. and other Christians should know. The title was taken from the reverend’s own column and made popular by him.

And by going along with Trump’s border politics and without thinking about it, Diaz, Sr. placed himself among those men and women in history that would not take the Jews in when Hitler rose to power. And it only took a decade after 1924 for the world to see what was taking place.

Let’s go back to 1938 in America and Kristallnacht had already taken place. It was Roosevelt in the White House, but it could have been Trump instead. Trump and Miller!

I wrote this in September 2019 after reading about Austria in 1938. “In Austria 1938, the effort to gain a visa was full of the most horrendous, time consuming tiers of things that had to be done.  There was fraud involved and often Jews who had gone through many of the procedures had to begin all over.  The level of desperation was heightened by Hitler’s procedures.  There was a certificate of fiscal harmlessness, then payments, then a visit to obtain a certificate of domicile, then a visit to the district commissioner’s department in the town hall, then a visit to the Accountancy Department of the central tax office and the district tax office, then to step two if the person had the money to pay for the emigration tax, then a visit to a place where the Jew’s assets were released and a certificate of good conduct was issued, that’s when Jew’s could be forced to start all over as they could be assigned by the Nazis to clean up things and lose their turn, then to stage three where to obtain a passport which involved being interrogated at a police station, and then on to two other offices that Jews dreaded to go to.  And finally Jews had to swear that they were never going to return to Austria.  And Trump is for extreme vetting.  Where did he learn it from?”

Is it not true that under Trump, migrants were prevented from coming to the United States and that El Salvador and Mexico were in agreement with Trump’s plan. A wall was constructed or I should say a wall was not completed. The border really remained open and it stays that way today (I got a report from Texas from an eye witness). And President Biden has been a great improvement over FDR. Immigration reform was needed before Hitler got out of control.

I was learning more. That was about Netanyahu and Jabotinsky before Jabotinsky’s death in 1940. Can you imagine if Jabotinsky had a team of Jews in Eastern Europe using loudspeakers to warn all Jews to flee their homes (3 million or more) and head for well America. As the story We Were the Lucky Ones is being told right now in film, think of millions of “Lucky Ones” arriving at Donald Trump’s border, caravans of “Lucky Ones.”

Although Latinos from Puerto Rico were not so numerous back then, just the thought of the above description (fictional with Trump in 1938), would have placed Diaz, Sr. (but not Diaz, Jr) with the Ku Klux Klan, the previous America First, Father Coughlin, racist Republicans, and most Americans (cannot think of any Black people who participated), German-Americans and immigrants who I forgot about for the moment.

And let’s not forget Lee Zeldin, Elise Stefanik, John Catsimatidis, Curtis Sliwa-Arnaldo Salinas, and many others who along with millions of Americans would have not allowed Jews in.  

And Diaz, Sr. and his clergy vote for conservative values. It was a “conservative value” that resulted in the Holocaust and keeping Jews out until after World War II was over.

The clergy that I am appealing to across our nation can become unconfused about all this. Jews, too, who came to America and say that people have to wait their turn to enter instead of saying that I wish all Jews could have entered immediately before 1938 and after 1938 need a lesson too. I need a worldwide loudspeaker now to get the whole truth out.

And Pastor Samuel Rodriguez states this (National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference)

“Latino evangelicals, especially immigrants, flee countries ruled by authoritarian communist or fascist regimes with racist policies.” Pastor Rodriguez wants border security (as does Biden and others), but I guess the pastor never figured out that Trump would have blocked Jews as I have described.

So what are we going to do about teaching all this to the Bible vote. Bible belt=Bible vote. That Bible belt now called Donald J. Trump=Jesus impacts in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau County, Suffolk County. It has corrupted the minds of people of all faiths, ethnic groups, and races.  Ruben Diaz, Sr. can find common ground with Ed Romaine in Suffolk County and Bruce Blakeman in Nassau County. The shame should be felt all over our nation and it can be felt during the campaign for president. That is if Democrats do the right thing.

MSNBC just reported that the leader of the Charlottesville rally was a classmate of Stephen Miller at Duke, the author of Trump’s immigration policy and Richard Spence called for Hitler like salutes to honor Donald Trump. And Mark Levin, a Trump supporter, says that Biden is evil. Perhaps Levin would tell his audience how I said that FDR was not so good. And maybe Levin might look at himself in the mirror to decide if he has been evil himself for a long, long time. And Stephen Miller has gone from separating families at the Mexican border to overturning DEI programs at colleges and universities.

Imagine the Republican National Convention and Trump Under the Bus

I mean that the delegates could throw Trump under the bus. Of course. Let us look at all the hard work (with no results) of Republicans fighting antisemitism on campus and they have not done a thing to protect Jewish students on campus. England has taken action by the court of law demanding more from one of its top schools (University of Leeds). It is time to throw those members of Congress under the bus for incompetence. But I can see even an election with Trump winning more Jewish, Black, and Latino votes in November, but losing the swing states and the election. It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing.

But let’s continue with Jews and Israel. Republicans expected the worst after Senator Schumer called for an election and a cease fire. I supported Schumer because winning a war requires lots of things including the right strategy to win.  Did I expect the USA to stop arms shipments to Israel? Of course not!

Soon after all that election interference news from Republican and right-wing media, Biden gave Israel more weapons. But here is the most important thing that I have seen to share.

There is a strong effort under way in the talks to get the Palestinians to stop giving money and pensions for killing Jews.

I never respected The Abraham Peace Accords as a peace effort. The Palestinian people knew that they were neglected, and they were and the October 7, 2023 Massacre of Jews is horrible history.

Biden has not pulled off this important initiative, but we hope that he does succeed. I want to be fair because I do not even know anything about Trump attempting the same thing.  Maybe he tried. I said I would like to be fair. But if he only thought about moving the Embassy of the United States from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the Abraham Accords, then he cannot claim an inch of an agreement to stop the killing of Israelis and the granting of pensions for doing that.

And the icing on the cake for Biden right now is the expected return to talks of the Israeli government with the White House. The Republican intervention to invite Netanyahu and other things will go down the drain as Trump almost did in 2020. But under the bus, he may go if Republicans want a better chance of winning in November. Biden has risen in polls right now after people have read repeatedly online that Trump is ahead. I know that you have to read about the pollsters who know the most and that is what happened in May 2020 when pollsters knew that Trump was going to lose.

What readers are getting right now, and I see it online are things like this. Fifty Cent says that Trump is going to win in November.

Now I understand that trade is important, but that trade agreement is not what America First was and is about. It’s a global thing. Saving lives is important to everyone, and if Biden can continue on this path and lead to a combination of Israeli victory (destroying or destroying the power of Hamas and getting the hostages home along with saving Israeli lives). It may not be a Victory in Europe, Japan, Israel moment as we think about wars ending, but it is persuasive. We hope the message will get out across our nation and even the world.

J’Accuse 2024

Not 1898!

1898 is the year when Emile Zolá attacked the French military and all of France over the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus by publishing J’Accuse.

A call to the office of a US Congressman down south and I learn that Jews do not know how to fight antisemitism.

A call to a journalist of a Jewish newspaper (international) and I find, in my strong opinion, that the journalist does not know how to fight antisemitism.

My own family conversations and the same thing.

A Holocaust survivor and the same thing.

Writing to people who are fighting antisemitism and the same thing.

Reading lots of material and finding weaknesses instead of strengths. The same thing and being ignored too. Yes, a lot is being done, but there are things that need to be straightened out. I try and get no response after I contact people, important people who should learn more.

In my last article, I wrote how Donald Trump, Jr. diminished one of the top Jewish organizations and provided my readers with evidence or example of the symbolism used by some White Supremacists. Junior reaches tens of millions of people who count on him for the best information (I really didn’t mean best). And we haven’t seen Senior correct his Junior and they have power. Trump is an enabler of antisemitism and any members of his family that supported him while he was in office and today should be classified the same way. I wouldn’t invite him to my home, nor would I shake hands with him. Even at a police funeral, I would shake hands with him.

I would be happy to provide proof to all the Jewish organizations in the USA and France. Let’s learn more before things get worse. Check your passions and focus on knowledge.

I decided to use these words to show the weakness in fighting antisemitism.

We do not accept “unsolicited material”

We are not going to promote what you wish in order to fight antisemitism (a book)

No reply, no reply, no reply, no reply, no reply, no reply, no reply…I could have filled up ten pages of no replies

Check this out as it just came to my attention.

Fighting antisemitism in universities in England

We have developed an action plan which will help us achieve this, but it is vital that we listen and learn from others, which is why we are setting up an Advisory Panel to scrutinise this plan and oversee its implementation. 

If you would like to meet with us on the Report and Action Plan please contact (us).

Now you can see why I have taken this time to Accuse.

Very important news about Professor Lipstadt who can find out what I have been doing behind the scenes in England. I (We) thank her for news.

Lipstadt advocate for free speech. “That’s what makes our countries special,” she says, and draws a clear distinction with criticising the Israeli government, something, she notes, many Israeli citizens have done.

And for all of US that means on college campuses. I would recommend that those majority leaders in Congress who attacked the Ivy League 3 College Presidents finally be rebuked.

Prime Minister of England takes action.

Rishi Sunak delivered a rare address from the steps of No 10 to warn against the threat to the country’s democracy.

“It took a while for it to come,” says Lipstadt, with characteristic candour, “but I’m pleased the Prime Minister made a very strong statement.”

“So maybe my message seeped up to 10 Downing Street,” she says with a smile. “Because I do believe that what we’re facing is not just the threat to the Jews in north London or any other place like Manchester, Leeds …  because this is the shutting down of democracy, and with that comes a threat to national stability and security.”

This is what it’s all about as Professor Lipstadt travels the world to make things clear to leaders and communities.

That was her argument during addresses at Birkbeck, University of London, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, and with the National Union of Students during her recent trip.

“If they say ‘we’re not engaging in anti-Semitism’, [well then] call out the anti-Semitism,” she says. “You can say, ‘well I was just marching next to them’, well, that’s a pretty lame excuse when it comes to the prejudice of Jew hatred.”

The wider problem, she says, is that by “choosing to march with them”, the protesters are “giving a certain imprimatur” to the demonstrations’ extremist fringe.

And I tell you in a loud, strong voice that in the United States right now, in politics, in marches, and in communities online and in homes, learn how to do the right thing and that may keep the right wing away from this crisis.

I had to include from the article in The Telegraph in England.

“But she is perturbed by the rise of anti-Semitism on the campuses of elite universities, and the prevailing attitude among some academics. The issue has ignited a firestorm in the US. In December, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT were hauled before Congress to answer for their institutions’ conduct in high-profile, televised hearings.

All three failed to categorically state that calling for the genocide of Jews violated their universities’ codes of conduct.”

Notice that the journalist did not quote Professor Lipstadt. I put those paragraphs in quotes. I am perturbed by professors and students on campus that are not telling the whole truth. I have written about The Nakba. Just about everything online that I see, too, starts in 1948 and Muslims and Jews got along. Not so true. Even Professor Lipstadt did not write about that or mention it.

And in NYC we just learned about this at the City’s universities.

Hunter College

“There’s no playbook for this,” said Kirschner, who will leave in August. “Nobody teaches you how you’re going to navigate this.”

There will be more coming on what those repugnant leaders in

Congress have done. Those people march with Trump who is an “enabler” of antisemitism. March is ending tomorrow, and we need to march against such corruption. Our democracy is at stake.

Trump Diminished the ADL France (Yael Braun-Pivet) and USA (Chuck Schumer) Must Know

Braun-Pivet President of the National Assembly of France

Schumer Senate Majority Leader USA

I believe that a cross-Atlantic connection must be made to fight antisemitism. I wonder if President Macron of France would agree with me? Maybe I can make a motion picture about this effort called The French Connection? Maybe and maybe not! The White House has to get more involved.  

Donald Trump, Jr. criticized the ADL by its stand that 100% is a term used to support White Supremacy and Trump, Jr. says its merely a mathematical term (probability). I hadn’t heard of it at all until yesterday, but I do not associate with White Supremacists nor do I see much written about White Supremacy right now now that the pro-Palestinian protests are often or more than often filled with antisemitism. I guess those people who are nurturing 100% are taking a break and are going to use their energies when things die down among Palestinian and Israeli supporters.

From the ADL

100% is shorthand among white supremacists for “100% white,” Among prison populations and places such as California where “100% peckerwood,” “100% featherwood,” or “100% wood.”

white supremacists will refer to themselves as “101% white,” “123%” appears, which also means “100% white,”

the 23 refers to W, the 23rd letter of the alphabet

white supremacist gang members may substitute an alphanumeric equivalent, such as “112%”

or refer to “100% Aryan Brotherhood”

or “113%” to refer to “100% Aryan Circle.”

The ADL recommends caution since most uses of this symbol are not, in fact, white supremacist in nature.

On my desk is the book by Professor Deborah Lipstadt called Antisemitism: Here and Now. I just had to reach a foot toward my monitor to hold it and open it. ZOG! I wonder if Donald Trump, Jr. knows about ZOG. I didn’t know about it, but I do now. ZOG=Zionist Occupied Government. Keep in mind that Professor Lipstadt is traveling around the world as President Joe Biden’s special envoy to fight antisemitism and she has 30 years’ experience where we have maybe many hours or days of fighting antisemitism and our own contribution is minimal. Of course there can be people who wish to exaggerate their performance. The ADL has a huge amount of experience and I recognize that it gets mixed reviews and some of those are deserved.

ZOG

Right wing groups

USA is ruled by ZOG or international wealthy Jews

End American government as we know it (it was not the ZOG that attacked our capital on January 6, 2021 Junior)

One government is coming for the world to be dominated by ZOG

Jews dominate media, banks, and American foreign policy according to these right-wing groups

Notice how the Fox News and other prominent sources keep repeating “elites” such as the elite universities

And in the discussion of all this Professor Lipstadt points out that additional hatred has been added

Muslims, African Americans, and Latinos (actually thinking of da Bronx Clergy Association of Reverendo Ruben Diaz, Sr. and his Pentecostal churches that have announced support or endorsement for Donald J. Trump because of their “conservative values” and not even knowing that Trump’s border policies were voted or dictated back in 1924 against Jews (Jews that Pentecostals love from the Bible, but men and women who do not seem to realize that those policies help cause the deaths of millions of Jews….Amen?) Think about that a bit more because Jews do not wish to see that happen again (in these times and to any other group of people).

Let us put Trump and his border politics in office in 1924 instead of 2016 and let’s keep him there for 5 terms (Roosvelt was elected later 4 times), Trump could claim that he kept the Jews out of America or My Administration Kept the Jews Out.

And the discussion moved along to Charlotteville and Senior (Donald J. Trump) and his “legions of antisemitic fans.”

Republicans and Others Cite Election Interference by Schumer

The last election interference was not Schumer’s comment. It was Donald Trump and his mob on January 6, 2021. And if Israel were heading back toward socialism right now (which was its genesis), the Republican Party might stir up a mob to overthrow the Israeli government. Chuck Schumer is not on the left so read on.

And I feel strongly that American intelligence, as in other wars such as World War II, is considering the interests of the United States at this time along with the interests of Israel. I can apply information about that war where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were making decisions. Yalta was one such meeting where the decision was made to invade the Nazi regime in France. Veterans know that D-Day took place, but what do they know about the behind-the-scenes negotiations?

And France is now on high alert and rightfully so. Trump would say that would never happened under my administration, but what has Trump said so far to help? Oops Trump just said to Israel “finish up the war.” And Trump has spoken out and he says now that the Gaza attack, he knew, would create more antisemitism. Isn’t that amazing that a man who has held such high office and desires a comeback would not speak out right away. He could have made the same statement when the Israeli attack on Gaza began. More Jewish people should be alarmed by his comments. But we know that in New York, Lee Zeldin will march the march, and so will others around our nation and across the globe.

There is no election taking place in Israel nor should we expect one soon. There is hostility in Israel, strongest perhaps, for the moment, among those who are the families of the hostages. There is the same kind of resentment among families of Americans who have lost loved ones in the military and find Biden at fault. And lots of other Israelis blame Netanyahu for the Massacre of October 7, 2023.

Both Joe Lieberman and Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, were on Fox News talking about Schumer. With no election taking place, we have to reduce or eliminate that title because it is inaccurate. We see much of the world criticizing Israel for the “genocide” that is taking place. Even Congresswoman AOC recently made a point by stating that the genocide is unfolding (but not taking place). That is an example of how someone on the left appears to be supporting Israel by her choice of words. And the right is wrong since there is no election taking place.

Lieberman, to his credit, has spoken out that Netanyahu is not so popular in Israel because of Israel’s swing to the right, but Netanyahu does have support for taking care of Hamas.

Oren and Lieberman are the go to people. Liberman fled to the Republican Party and drifted away to a “No Name” Party quickly after watching Donald J. Trump and many in his mob (long before January 6, 2021). Oren has to be looked at carefully and hundreds of media outlets are seeking him out for comment.

I’ve written about Oren before, highlighting things from his book Ally. He has really failed the Jewish community in the United States and around the world. He could have led by his final instructions as ambassador and turned out to be just an author.

Let me provide what he has written, and the ink has not even dried on his paper. “Faced with this pernicious phenomenon, there is little that we, as Jews, can do to combat it. We can only urge Westerners to work out their identity issues between and by themselves and keep us out of it,” he wrote in late February.

In other words, Jews are not the problem. Yet there are Jewish students on campus who are major supporters of Palestine. Yet there are Jewish rabbis that have joined the BDS movement. Yet there are Muslims on campus doing more than just protesting. Yet there are Jews all over the United States doing little or nothing and spreading misinformation themselves. Have you noticed that Congress (the Foxxes and Stefaniks) has done nothing? Do Lieberman and Oren even realize that? It’s been months and there has been nothing.

The Irvine 11 is something that I found while researching Michael Oren. But I also found in that article he published around a month ago my favorite topic of conversation. Zolá and Dreyfus. He said that the 3 Ivy League presidents were not Dreyfus and that the Stefanik, the inquisitor, is not Zolá. Just that word that he used “inquisitor” should bring back the need for justice that should shine on those 3 Ivy League presidents. One of those presidents has not resigned and justice, true justice, would call for justice for all of all of them. One man has created a movement for justice for one of them, Claudine Gay. Why? She is Black. Do you know about that movement?

In my last article, I pointed out how the University of Leeds settled a case with a Jewish student and in that decision the court also directed the staff to learn more about fighting antisemitism. That is precisely what Joe Lieberman, Michael Oren (and he had a good idea in his book Ally and did not follow through). Netanyahu, in Israel, apparently did not follow through on reports of dangerous Hamas activities.

There are valid reasons regarding the world situation which has gone beyond the Russia attack and war on Ukraine to diminish Netanyahu. Just like antisemitism in the USA, those things have been going on for many years. It’s the world of crazy diplomacy again and I have cited examples in World War II before.

Getting back to the Irvine 11. Oren was prevented from speaking at the University of California in 2010 and there were criminal charges against the 11 who obstructed his speech. They lost and then an appeal was made on their behalf. And the perpetrators were sentenced in that first trial. I wonder if Oren has spoken about that and why not if he has not.

Was the matter finally settled out of court? Did it go further and was decided in favor of the Irvine 11 or some or most of them? Did Oren’s side lose? Did they win? It’s a mystery to me. Has the staff of Congresswoman Stefanin “the inquisitor” researched his matter. Even Oren says that there is little that can be done. So much drama about “genocide” on campus and nothing being done about it in our streets. And I must repeat that I was tired of asking people to denounce this and that as far back as 2019 and I wanted action. My last article was about 200 campuses that had Israel Apartheid Day and Trump and his mob did nothing about that and more.

And have you not seen my articles about La Maison Zolá – Le Musée Dreyfus and that collaboration which started in 1898 in France continues today to fight hate through education and justice for all. College presidents are fighting across our nation to promote tolerance. I do lots of research and I came up with a video from the 1990s where a famous Black activist was using the Satmar position against Israel and Zionism. And he spoke about this. The Jews were not hurt by Muslims, pointing out that Hitler was the culprit by killing 6 million Jews. Muslims did not cause that is the theme, but Arabs in Palestine were highly supportive of the Nazis there.

I took a break to do some research and found an article about that long history where details were provided by Joshua Washington of the IBSI or Institute of Black Solidarity with Israel. It goes back to 1975 in the world when Zionism was equated with racism. It was not a big campus thing. The U.N. repealed that around 30 years ago, but the damage has been done.

Did Stokely Carmichael know that 67 innocent, Orthodox Jews were massacred in Hebron in 1929 which was four years before the rise of Hitler to power? Knowledge matters! I knew about the “massacre” in the 1980s and the Palestinians that learned about my work knew it was balanced. I can blame just about everyone for the unbalancing of this important information. I have also witnessed Israeli officials that do not seem knowledgeable enough to mention that massacre and as I have pointed out before the Tulsa Massacre took place in the United States around the same time. The racism that Palestinians and others seems to have been erased and Black leaders do not seem to know this. Even information provided to help the campus world does not make the point that I have just shared…again. And again and again. And they say “Never Again.”

Did Stokely Carmichael know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wanted “to throw all the Jews into the sea?” And that he was welcome at the court of Adolph Hitler.

And now we have Michael Oren to contend with.  Michael Oren,who writes a lot about history, but in writing about Emile Zolá he seemed to pass over the theme of justice and those college presidents were abused by the inquisitor. And why has he not mentioned “the Irvine 11?” We should find out and I emailed him. Let’s see what happens. And I checked the work of Michael Oren for the Hebron Massacre and did not find any mention of it. Stokely didn’t seem to mention it, too.

And Netanyahu is not sending a delegation to Washington, D.C. after the US did not veto a UN ceasefire resolution. And in Israel Gideon Starr, a member of the emergency unit government put together by Netanyahu after the October 7 Massacre, has resigned. He is not being granted access to the highest-level cabinet meetings and hoped to influence policy.  See that is the kind of thing that I previously referred to in this article. I hope that if he has better policy ideas that Netanyahu will listen.

Trump Said He Destroyed ISIS

He said he would repeal ObamaCare on Day 1. He said he was going to build the wall and never completed it. He said if he had one regret that it was that he didn’t do tax reform sooner and that was the best year that he had for building the wall. He said that he destroyed ISIS and now we have witnessed a brutal massacre by ISIS in Russia. Two massacres in the news and I wonder how many Americans are going to care about those lives lost in Russia. I assume that there will be polls soon about the massacre just as polls are taken that show American attitudes about Palestine and Israel.

But let’s go back to the Biden call to withdraw from Afghanistan. And I just read that the New York Post says that the “media mob” is allowing Biden a free pass. And I wrote the article about Afghanistan because ISIS was a concern at the time of the evacuation. You can say that ISIS was rising even though the Taliban took over.

Afghanistan: Learning from the Godfather and more

Posted August 31, 2021

Afghanistan is the nation with the most terrorism in the world. Every province (there are 34) has experienced death except one.

 In Kunduz in 2019 there were 500 deaths attributed to terrorism. And the terrorism was increasing after that. The Taliban were responsible for 87 percent of the fatalities. The Islamic State was responsible for 5 percent of those deaths and it was active in 7 provinces. In 2019 there were almost 3,000 fatalities among police and military. And it was reported that ISIS had a “sleeper cell” in Kabul in the report that I have cited

It really appears that some or many critics of the events feel that things could have been much better. Take the example of starting the evacuation much sooner. Does it make sense? Sure it does, but even a “sooner” evacuation would have raised eyes and ears, especially since there are trained spies everywhere. That surely might have put the lid on the evacuation, if the Taliban so desired. Repugnicans have a lot of explaining to do that include Senator Lindsay Graham.

I strongly suspect that there were spies working in the Afghanistan government and I admit to having no proof. This kind of situation almost always happens during war and during and or after overthrows of governments. Some of those people are clearly double agents. No motion picture comes to mind.

Repugnicans know just how strong they are in their counties and states. They can say anything and get away with it.

As you can see from the material above, ISIS was active and remained active. It has been confirmed that ISIS in Afghanistan did this massacre and not any group anywhere else. The intelligence of Trump is just another Trump bankruptcy.

Let’s go to one of the most famous movies of all-time to illustrate the fantasy world of “fake news” which has been generated mostly by Repugnicans in America. The Godfather!

Al Pacino, as Michael Corleone, comes up with the most “brilliant” idea. Set up a meeting for me in a restaurant and put a gun in the toilet that I can take possession of and I’ll kill the bastard. The movie proceeds exactly according to plan. Great entertainment and fulfillment of the screenwriters dream of making something happen that ordinarily wouldn’t happen. But it could happen. Just like the Corona Virus could just be a flu or our marines can absolutely control things when in fact they cannot do that absolutely.

And yes things did start to get worse as I expected, but not quite yet. I read this just before writing the Godfather piece.

Reuters

Rockets target U.S. troops as Afghanistan withdrawal enters final stage.