Bull in a China shop style writing. One example. Here's a quote from the 2009 WSJ article Emerald centers here case upon: "When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza's Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel -- particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 -- Israel cracked down with ferocious force." I.e., some actors working for Israeli intelligence and diplomacy arguably did "help" this group--how much is difficult to say--in its earliest stages, but that has not been the policy for, er, well, 29 years now. Emerald juices that into "why did the state of Israel help to create and fund Hamas for so long?"
I agree with the spirit of "let's be careful in this moment of moral outrage," present in this. Over at Powerline, you can find me in the comments vigorously defending Tucker and Vivek against Scott Johnson's unfair attack against them for taking a similar stand.
But far greater care is needed on this. Here we have a moment where elements of the Left and Center are finally returning to sanity on one issue, and where the knives are out for those who took the wrong stand on Israel for years. Much hypocrisy in that, but some good is possible from it also.
And of course those of us focused on the Covid/Vax Disaster, or on Biden's criminality, can only wince when up against the way this war is likely to hamper our efforts to draw attention to those stories. But we have to learn to swim in the waters we're in. I am noticing bad signs that conservatives alive to the Disaster are being tempted by conspiratorial-type theories of why this attack happened now. Pieces like this, when written in this way, do not help. Let's not charge in and unnecessarily step on a lot of knives, and confuse a lot of people who might, at bottom, be found to be more open to our take in the wake of Hamas' massacres, than before.
In discussing Israeli policy toward Hamas, it’s unclear why quotes are placed around the word help. (Was this help imaginary?) It is also a poor argument to dismiss this assistance as limited to isolated elements of the Israeli government acting some time in past.
One should be able to condemn the terrorism of Hamas against Israel and question Israeli policy towards Hamas. Doing both makes someone a clear and rational thinker, not a conspiracy theorist.
To be clear: I am not saying, and I don't think you are either, that Emerald is doing that--she doesn't give Hamas a pass in this piece in any way. But her enemies will be chomping at the bit to frame it that way.
The way to destroy the smartmatic cabal is to bring back non-electronic voting, non,-electronic vote counting. SO SIMPLE! We know how to conduct elections without computers. Fror God's sake and ours let's campaign for this.
Fwiw, the financial "markets" aren't the least bit concerned about these developments. In fact, the picture they paint is of salivating billionaires super excited about war profiteering.
Go to Youtube and search for Ron Paul - Israel Created Hamas. He addressed this very topic 12 years ago. Remember how they all made Ron Paul out to be a crazy person? A lot of what he said has been proven to be spot on.
Thank you Em, for keeping us in the loop. Many of us turned the MSM off years ago and rely on truth tellers (especially Christian ones) like you for our news. 💪🏼👊🏼💥
All my life, I've heard about Israel being the U.S.'s ''special ally,'' ''most important ally,'' blah, blah, blah. Somebody please show me the treaty, or any document, that verifies that so-called ''alliance.'' All I ever see is the feckless US gov't declaring our undying, unequivocal support for Israel, as well as sending Israel billions upon billion of $$ of our taxpayers' contributions. Their is zero reciprocation from Israel. Ally? Look up USS Liberty. Jonathan Pollard. Dancing Israelis on 9/11. Just for starters.
Emerald Robinson for President. The biggest question that must be addressed is, why would Hamas do anything to bring Hell upon the innocent Palestinians living in Gaza, if they really cared about them? Hmmm? Instead, they did the absolute worst thing for those people (there might be some members of Hamas within Gaza, but the vast majority are innocent men, women and children). Now, the blind masses support Israel/Zionists killing them all, and Israel/Zionists can do what they have wanted to do since 1948, openly (instead of every so often firing missiles into civilian populated ares of Gaza). By the way, the Palestinians were there first, and, based upon international law, have a right to armed rebeliion for being an occupied territory. Thank you again Emerald.
In some ways, we really don't know what's going on here, either. So much in world events is orchestrated for the benefit of the few, without the knowledge or consent of the masses, and we never learn the truth behind it all.
Obviously the origins of Hamas have been known and published in the U.S. media. You posted the WSJ article yourself. We do know that Obama and Biden have put a lot of money into the terror supporting, Israel hating government of Iran. We know Hamas is supported by Iran. We know they are murderous thugs dedicated to destroying Israel. We know Israelis were massacred and there is going to be a war of retribution. We know that the U.S. administration is composed of traitors and imbeciles. Why would the U.S. government help the Iranians with billions of dollars and sanction evading maneuvers only to create a fabricated war? Biden and the Left hate Israel. Just because Netanyahu didn’t help Trump with one mission doesn’t explain anything. You’re a great reporter. But you’re jumping the gun here. You are correct. It’s complicated. We don’t know everything, but we know enough to recognize the need for Israel to defend itself.
"You have no idea what’s going on over there." Agreed. Trump is right. Like usual.
There is absolutely no oversight with our unelected 4th branch(intel agencies) and YOU have no idea what is going on. Their Praetorian Guard media is part of them.
You knocked it out of the park, Emerald, per usual.
Thank you for giving us FACTS, Emerald. This makes sense, helps put this in context.
Bull in a China shop style writing. One example. Here's a quote from the 2009 WSJ article Emerald centers here case upon: "When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza's Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel -- particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 -- Israel cracked down with ferocious force." I.e., some actors working for Israeli intelligence and diplomacy arguably did "help" this group--how much is difficult to say--in its earliest stages, but that has not been the policy for, er, well, 29 years now. Emerald juices that into "why did the state of Israel help to create and fund Hamas for so long?"
I agree with the spirit of "let's be careful in this moment of moral outrage," present in this. Over at Powerline, you can find me in the comments vigorously defending Tucker and Vivek against Scott Johnson's unfair attack against them for taking a similar stand.
But far greater care is needed on this. Here we have a moment where elements of the Left and Center are finally returning to sanity on one issue, and where the knives are out for those who took the wrong stand on Israel for years. Much hypocrisy in that, but some good is possible from it also.
And of course those of us focused on the Covid/Vax Disaster, or on Biden's criminality, can only wince when up against the way this war is likely to hamper our efforts to draw attention to those stories. But we have to learn to swim in the waters we're in. I am noticing bad signs that conservatives alive to the Disaster are being tempted by conspiratorial-type theories of why this attack happened now. Pieces like this, when written in this way, do not help. Let's not charge in and unnecessarily step on a lot of knives, and confuse a lot of people who might, at bottom, be found to be more open to our take in the wake of Hamas' massacres, than before.
In discussing Israeli policy toward Hamas, it’s unclear why quotes are placed around the word help. (Was this help imaginary?) It is also a poor argument to dismiss this assistance as limited to isolated elements of the Israeli government acting some time in past.
One should be able to condemn the terrorism of Hamas against Israel and question Israeli policy towards Hamas. Doing both makes someone a clear and rational thinker, not a conspiracy theorist.
You have got to be kidding me.
Emerald, your take is far more real than Carl's, and i thank God and you for that.
this is what I'm concerned about: conservatives giving the terrorists a pass for the massacre
in their goal to blame the CIA or DNI or whatever.
that seems to be a real deflection as well.
To be clear: I am not saying, and I don't think you are either, that Emerald is doing that--she doesn't give Hamas a pass in this piece in any way. But her enemies will be chomping at the bit to frame it that way.
The way to destroy the smartmatic cabal is to bring back non-electronic voting, non,-electronic vote counting. SO SIMPLE! We know how to conduct elections without computers. Fror God's sake and ours let's campaign for this.
F you smartmatic you scumbags from hell.
Also, they should be counted at the distributed voting places.
This nonsense of boxing them up and shipping them to some central hell facilitates the cheat.
Fwiw, the financial "markets" aren't the least bit concerned about these developments. In fact, the picture they paint is of salivating billionaires super excited about war profiteering.
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Go to Youtube and search for Ron Paul - Israel Created Hamas. He addressed this very topic 12 years ago. Remember how they all made Ron Paul out to be a crazy person? A lot of what he said has been proven to be spot on.
Thank you Em, for keeping us in the loop. Many of us turned the MSM off years ago and rely on truth tellers (especially Christian ones) like you for our news. 💪🏼👊🏼💥
All my life, I've heard about Israel being the U.S.'s ''special ally,'' ''most important ally,'' blah, blah, blah. Somebody please show me the treaty, or any document, that verifies that so-called ''alliance.'' All I ever see is the feckless US gov't declaring our undying, unequivocal support for Israel, as well as sending Israel billions upon billion of $$ of our taxpayers' contributions. Their is zero reciprocation from Israel. Ally? Look up USS Liberty. Jonathan Pollard. Dancing Israelis on 9/11. Just for starters.
SPOT ON!! RIGHT OVER THE TARGET!!! Exceptional work, Emerald.
Once again you’re 100 percent correct. Kick ass my lady. Can I say that?? Oh well.
Emerald Robinson for President. The biggest question that must be addressed is, why would Hamas do anything to bring Hell upon the innocent Palestinians living in Gaza, if they really cared about them? Hmmm? Instead, they did the absolute worst thing for those people (there might be some members of Hamas within Gaza, but the vast majority are innocent men, women and children). Now, the blind masses support Israel/Zionists killing them all, and Israel/Zionists can do what they have wanted to do since 1948, openly (instead of every so often firing missiles into civilian populated ares of Gaza). By the way, the Palestinians were there first, and, based upon international law, have a right to armed rebeliion for being an occupied territory. Thank you again Emerald.
In some ways, we really don't know what's going on here, either. So much in world events is orchestrated for the benefit of the few, without the knowledge or consent of the masses, and we never learn the truth behind it all.
Obviously the origins of Hamas have been known and published in the U.S. media. You posted the WSJ article yourself. We do know that Obama and Biden have put a lot of money into the terror supporting, Israel hating government of Iran. We know Hamas is supported by Iran. We know they are murderous thugs dedicated to destroying Israel. We know Israelis were massacred and there is going to be a war of retribution. We know that the U.S. administration is composed of traitors and imbeciles. Why would the U.S. government help the Iranians with billions of dollars and sanction evading maneuvers only to create a fabricated war? Biden and the Left hate Israel. Just because Netanyahu didn’t help Trump with one mission doesn’t explain anything. You’re a great reporter. But you’re jumping the gun here. You are correct. It’s complicated. We don’t know everything, but we know enough to recognize the need for Israel to defend itself.
This attack from Hamas is very convenient for the Biden-Obama regime, don’t you think?
BINGO !
If you're being sued for your journalism work, you should have a GoFundMe Defense Fund.
Oops. I meant GiveSendGo. GoFundMe will likely cancel you.
"You have no idea what’s going on over there." Agreed. Trump is right. Like usual.
There is absolutely no oversight with our unelected 4th branch(intel agencies) and YOU have no idea what is going on. Their Praetorian Guard media is part of them.