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supposedly the current president of iran was pleading with the ayatollah to suspend or cancel the attacks. we'll see...Well sports fans, we are sending a new carrier group to the Middle East, to relieve the current group, plus the USS Georgia guided missile Sub, plus the already mentioned F-22’s. The USS Abraham Lincoln is carrying the latest model F-35’s. It’s gonna be one hell of a dog fight.
Let’s hope cooler heads prevail.
On being asked by Ahmad Tibi, one of the Arab MPs within the Israeli Knesset last week if it was legitimate “to insert a stick into a person’s rectum”, Hanoch Milwidsky, a member of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, responded: “If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”
Both of those things are rape at least according to United States law.Is it actually a rape, or were they sticking a baton in somebody's ass as torture?
and it could sour relations between usa and israel. i have a feeling the mossad would know before some anonymous iranian dude.Sounds like propaganda from the Iranians justifying why they're not retaliating. They can't tell their people the truth that it's just the smart thing to do.
Their people probably aren't as behind a war as some think though. The new Iranian president got elected on a platform of increased relations with the US. That's why Israel killed Haniyeh on the day of the new president's inauguration. To try to force him into taking a more combative stance against the US/Israel.yea,iranian gov not super popular at home. they will need some BFD to get all their people behind a war.
Coming to America….
Protest is one thing. What has been going on in the U.S. isn’t protesting, it’s rioting and that should not be tolerated. No one has a problem with peaceful protests. But protesting that involves stopping traffic, impeding the daily life of non-protesters, threatening or violence, destruction of property should be dealt with and imprisonment and heavy fines should be levied. In fact our garbage legal system let the criminals off with just a slap on the wrist. So much for your argument.Our legislators are already trying to make criticism of Israel illegal. And clapped like seals when Netanyahu told Congress they need to crack down on people protesting US involvement in the Gaza conflict (which is constitutionally protected free speech). They should have booed him out of the room for coming to our country and telling our legislators to crack down on our citizens exercising their rights.
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House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war
The House has passed legislation that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws.apnews.com
We're just going to disagree on this. The most violent/riot stuff that happened related to the campus protests was counter-protesters mass-assaulting protesters at UCLA while the police did nothing to stop them (there are a bunch of videos and police have arrested some people for it after a CNN investigation shamed them into it). But since you care so much about our "broken legal system" you'll be extremely angry to learn that some people CNN identified weren't charged. One guy's mother even bragged about it on social media.Protest is one thing. What has been going on in the U.S. isn’t protesting, it’s rioting and that should not be tolerated.
I don't believe this. Plenty of people wanted students expelled and blacklisted from future employment for nothing but protected speech on campuses. When I was in college we had "free speech areas" where Christians would scream at students regularly calling them sluts or hold anti-abortion demonstrations. It's not my jam but that's free speech.No one has a problem with peaceful protests.
I agree with that. To say that more than tiny sliver of protest activity was that is ridiculous though. Unless you make the argument that some tents on a campus lawn amount to impeding the daily life of non-protestors. In which case I can't off the top of my head think of any civil rights movements you'd be okay with either. The public's perception of the campus protests vs what actually happened is so interesting.But protesting that involves stopping traffic, impeding the daily life of non-protesters, threatening or violence, destruction of property should be dealt with
A lot of the time that was because the charges were bogus to begin with. At Columbia, for one example, they sent out an email notice at 11:56PM one day that anyone still protesting at midnight would be arrested. A four minute time window that was never going to hold up in court and they didn't intend it to. The goal was to clear out the protesters for a few hours and inconvenience them with bogus charges. To then sob and cry when the bogus charges get dismissed is pathetic. Another example of that is what happened at UT Austin. The attorneys were telling them that the charges were bogus, they arrested students anyway, and charges immediately got dropped. That's bad decisionmaking by elected officials, not an indictment of our legal system.In fact our garbage legal system let the criminals off with just a slap on the wrist.
Can you respond to the part about our legislators trying to make criticism of Israel illegal? It doesn't seem like you actually care about free speech. You just want the people controlling it to be on your side. If you don't care about the free speech rights of people you disagree with, you don't care about free speech.So much for your argument.
We're just going to disagree on this. The most violent/riot stuff that happened related to the campus protests was counter-protesters mass-assaulting protesters at UCLA while the police did nothing to stop them (there are a bunch of videos and police have arrested some people for it after a CNN investigation shamed them into it). But since you care so much about our "broken legal system" you'll be extremely angry to learn that some people CNN identified weren't charged. One guy's mother even bragged about it on social media.
I don't believe this. Plenty of people wanted students expelled and blacklisted from future employment for nothing but protected speech on campuses. When I was in college we had "free speech areas" where Christians would scream at students regularly calling them sluts or hold anti-abortion demonstrations. It's not my jam but that's free speech.
I agree with that. To say that more than tiny sliver of protest activity was that is ridiculous though. Unless you make the argument that some tents on a campus lawn amount to impeding the daily life of non-protestors. In which case I can't off the top of my head think of any civil rights movements you'd be okay with either. The public's perception of the campus protests vs what actually happened is so interesting.
A lot of the time that was because the charges were bogus to begin with. At Columbia, for one example, they sent out an email notice at 11:56PM one day that anyone still protesting at midnight would be arrested. A four minute time window that was never going to hold up in court and they didn't intend it to. The goal was to clear out the protesters for a few hours and inconvenience them with bogus charges. To then sob and cry when the bogus charges get dismissed is pathetic. Another example of that is what happened at UT Austin. The attorneys were telling them that the charges were bogus, they arrested students anyway, and charges immediately got dropped. That's bad decisionmaking by elected officials, not an indictment of our legal system.
Can you respond to the part about our legislators trying to make criticism of Israel illegal? It doesn't seem like you actually care about free speech. You just want the people controlling it to be on your side. If you don't care about the free speech rights of people you disagree with, you don't care about free speech.
I want to preface the rest of this by saying that we probably don't disagree that strongly on speech itself then. We just disagree on the minutia of what is and is not the right/wrong way to go about it.Happy that didn’t pass or gain any traction. It’s a garbage bill. People are free to have opinions no matter how retarded they are but there is a right and wrong way to express those opinions.
Have you considered that the reason for this is because the protests weren't actually as violent as you think they were?BS. Just like the BLM riots of 2020, none of these rioters were punished or at the least a very few.
Activities disrupted were largely due to self-inflicted administrator freakout at blowback from wealthy donors and congressmen who were pushing that aforementioned bill. Administrators whose jobs, by the way, should not exist and are the biggest reason for bloated college tuition prices. They freaked out because large universities are hedge funds who do a little education on the side (business-wise) and they wanted to protect what actually makes them money.These protests basically halted all activity on campus
Most of the campus protests were in part or entirely organized by jewish students. I don't want to assume too much but if I had to guess, you probably are very skeptical when the media accuses someone of racism. I think if you applied that skepticism to claims of anti-semitism you'd notice a lot of similarities in how those terms are deployed.forced other students to fear for their safety (Jews)
When people say the "human shields" thing about Hamas it's just to excuse the civilian death toll that Israel is causing. It's not because they actually care about civilians or that they think the use of human shields is wrong. Else they'd have to consider the fact that Israel's military command is located in Tel Aviv around businesses and residential housing. In 1991 when Saddam launched some scud missiles at Tel Aviv and Israeli civilians died, no one accused the IDF of using human shields by embedding their HQ among civilians.
I want to preface the rest of this by saying that we probably don't disagree that strongly on speech itself then. We just disagree on the minutia of what is and is not the right/wrong way to go about it.
Have you considered that the reason for this is because the protests weren't actually as violent as you think they were?
Activities disrupted were largely due to self-inflicted administrator freakout at blowback from wealthy donors and congressmen who were pushing that aforementioned bill. Administrators whose jobs, by the way, should not exist and are the biggest reason for bloated college tuition prices. They freaked out because large universities are hedge funds who do a little education on the side (business-wise) and they wanted to protect what actually makes them money.
An example of that would be Robert Kraft publicly pulling his donations from Columbia. He is extremely pro-Israel and even takes Patriots players + NFL hall of famers on paid trips to Israel. He pulled his donations from Columbia and then gave $1,000,000 to Yeshiva University which is an orthodox jewish university. He also attends fundraisers for the Israeli Defense Forces among other things.
Most of the campus protests were in part or entirely organized by jewish students. I don't want to assume too much but if I had to guess, you probably are very skeptical when the media accuses someone of racism. I think if you applied that skepticism to claims of anti-semitism you'd notice a lot of similarities in how those terms are deployed.
It allegedly happened at UCLA, where pro-Israel counter-protesters were also allowed to attack the campus protesters in a mob (on CNN video) while police let them. Can you show a few videos of other colleges where students were forcibly prevented from attending class?You really are delusional. There are videos of students forcibly preventing others students from attending class. It was widespread and only colleges in Texas and Florida seem to be handling these idiots albeit not harshly enough.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters in Fla. and Texas face suspensions
The University of Florida has issued suspensions of up to four years for several pro-Palestinian student protesters who were arrested during campus demonstrations in April, WUFT reported.www.insidehighered.com
That wasn't the point of what I said. Columbia overreacted to the protests because of those donors threatening to pull their money + pressure from the same people in Congress who wrote that bill I linked the article about. Which caused massive police presence and shutdown the campus. That's what kicked everything off. Otherwise it'd have been like students protesting climate change or anything else as is normal for a university campus. They just get ignored and go away.If I was a donor, I would pull my money too that didn’t support my beliefs. No fault in that and I applaud him for doing so. It was a complete embarrassment to higher learning not to mention being hateful to what he believes.
You said the protests were threatening to jewish students. It seems like many protests being organized by jewish students would be a factor in that.I don’t care who organized them honestly.
So charge the ones that destroyed property. Which they are doing. Given the requirements you've laid out I'm not familiar with any past civil rights movement, antiwar protests, revolutions, or anything else you'd actually approve of though.I just disagreed with how they went about it and the destruction of property
Flag burning is protected free speech. It was a stupid thing to do and hurt their cause. But it's free speech and not something needing punishment.burning the US flag
You're right the campus protests were basically the same thing as October 7th. You're definitely not the delusional one. "Terrorist" gets thrown around way too much these days and it's been sapped of any meaning. We had Nelson Mandela on the terrorist watchlist until 2008. We inexplicably have Cuba on a list as a State Sponsor of Terror. And we just lifted the ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, who we find out more and more every year had massive involvement in 9/11. No one cares about that word other than people who use it when they mean muslims.the protestors took a page from the Hamas playbook and basically acted like little terrorists.
Those were years ago and we're talking about the campus ones related to Israel.Yes they were. BLM protests caused over 1 billion in damage and 11 people died during those riots.
It allegedly happened at UCLA, where pro-Israel counter-protesters were also allowed to attack the campus protesters in a mob (on CNN video) while police let them. Can you show a few videos of other colleges where students were forcibly prevented from attending class?
That wasn't the point of what I said. Columbia overreacted to the protests because of those donors threatening to pull their money + pressure from the same people in Congress who wrote that bill I linked the article about. Which caused massive police presence and shutdown the campus. That's what kicked everything off. Otherwise it'd have been like students protesting climate change or anything else as is normal for a university campus. They just get ignored and go away.
You said the protests were threatening to jewish students. It seems like many protests being organized by jewish students would be a factor in that.
I am for any protests that is done peacefully. However my dad had to suffer through the anti Vietnam protests being yelled at and spit on. He talked about it regularly and it made him hate hippies. They were vile.So charge the ones that destroyed property. Which they are doing. Given the requirements you've laid out I'm not familiar with any past civil rights movement, antiwar protests, revolutions, or anything else you'd actually approve of though.
Flag burning is protected free speech. It was a stupid thing to do and hurt their cause. But it's free speech and not something needing punishment.
Muslims are the number 1 sponsor of terror in the world. If they don’t like that label maybe they should do something about it. Not one of these Palestinian protesters or terrorist sympathizers seem to care about the persecution of Christians by the Islamic State that involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Nigeria.You're right the campus protests were basically the same thing as October 7th. You're definitely not the delusional one. "Terrorist" gets thrown around way too much these days and it's been sapped of any meaning. We had Nelson Mandela on the terrorist watchlist until 2008. We inexplicably have Cuba on a list as a State Sponsor of Terror. And we just lifted the ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, who we find out more and more every year had massive involvement in 9/11. No one cares about that word other than people who use it when they mean muslims.
They didn't really get what they wanted except in very isolated cases. Some colleges agreed to consider divestment at later dates. At those later dates they will decide not to. There isn't yet enough public pressure to do it since, again, large universities are mostly hedge funds. It will take years before public pressure hits apartheid South Africa levels though things are definitely headed that way quicker than I thought.Over reacted? They didn’t react harsh enough. They basically held the universities hostage until they met their “demands”.
Why isn't the inverse of that true? If you don't like the first amendment why do they have to leave? There are many other countries that don't value free speech.If you burn the U.S. flag, I feel you should just move and go to a country that you love and will respect. I have no sympathy or respect for U.S. flag burners. It may be a protected form of speech but that doesn’t make it any less disgusting.
On a global scale they've got nothing on us. It's not even remotely close either.Muslims are the number 1 sponsor of terror in the world. If they don’t like that label maybe they should do something about it.
They were protesting US diplomatic support, arms sales, and economic aid for Israel because of what Israel is doing in Gaza. They cannot keep doing this stuff without us (whether you agree with it or not). Which is why Netanyahu had to come here to say "Give us the tools so we can finish the job" to Congress.Not one of these Palestinian protesters or terrorist sympathizers seem to care about the persecution of Christians by the Islamic State that involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Nigeria.
They didn't really get what they wanted except in very isolated cases. Some colleges agreed to consider divestment at later dates. At those later dates they will decide not to. There isn't yet enough public pressure to do it since, again, large universities are mostly hedge funds. It will take years before public pressure hits apartheid South Africa levels though things are definitely headed that way quicker than I thought.
Why isn't the inverse of that true? If you don't like the first amendment why do they have to leave? There are many other countries that don't value free speech.
On a global scale they've got nothing on us. It's not even remotely close either.
United States involvement in regime change - Wikipedia
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It does cause some funny situations though. Here's a fun one from 2016:
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In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and…www.latimes.com
They were protesting US diplomatic support, arms sales, and economic aid for Israel because of what Israel is doing in Gaza. They cannot keep doing this stuff without us (whether you agree with it or not). Which is why Netanyahu had to come here to say "Give us the tools so we can finish the job" to Congress.
What exactly would they protest in regards to ISIS? Are we funding ISIS? Giving ISIS diplomatic cover at the UNSC? Threatening ICC/ICJ prosecutors who are trying to charge ISIS with war crimes? Whipping up support from the UK, Germany, and Italy to give ISIS more weapons? Deploying billions of dollars of military assets to protect ISIS from the consequences of its own actions? We've been actively targeting/fighting ISIS for years and still have troops based in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and other places for that stated purpose.
If you want to get mad about US support for people bullying Christians, here you go.
Case in point. They want to destroy the west.
Case in point. They want to destroy the west.
Fuck that guy
Look in the mirror. This will be who bails them out.
erudite and literate commentator. also,a smoker.Fair and objective reporting. Good source.
Par for the course
Looks like people need to take their city back. The people around here will NEVER let that happen, not ever.
WAPOST:
A few minutes later, she pointed to a large, vacant building down the street that she said had once housed a popular department store. It was purchased by a Yemeni immigrant and has sat empty for two years, she said.