Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:31 a.m. No.3394535   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4651 >>4682 >>4765 >>4839 >>4985 >>5154

BOOM! President Trump: Brett Kavanaugh “Did Nothing Wrong… Was Caught Up in a Hoax… It Was All Made Up” (VIDEO)

 

President Trump spoke with reporters on Monday before his flight to Orando, Florida.

The Republican President slammed Democrats for their disgusting tactics to destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh at any cost.

Trump said the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh (by Michael Avenatti and Julie Swetnick) were all made up.

 

President Trump: Now they’re talking about impeaching a brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats, using the Democrats lawyers… I think it’s an insult to the American public. And I think you’re going to see a lot of things happen on November 6th that you would not have seen happen before… The American public has seen this charade. Has seen this dishonesty by the Democrats… It was all made up… I mean the last one, take a look at the last one, the things they said about him. I don’t think he even heard of the words. It was all made up it was fabricated.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/boom-president-trump-kavanaugh-did-nothing-wrong-caught-up-in-a-hoax-it-was-all-made-up-video/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:33 a.m. No.3394556   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4595 >>5149

What Bias? Google and Taylor Swift Caught Promoting Far-Left Website to Register Voters

 

Taylor Swift came out over the weekend as the latest entertainer to promote far-left candidates.

Swift also knowingly or not, promoted a far-left website, promoted by Google as well, that is endorsed for registering voters.

 

In sad news over the weekend, the very lovely and talented Taylor Swift finally came out and showed her liberal colors.

 

FOX News reported –

 

Taylor Swift — the pop star who notably has strayed from politics — broke that silence on Sunday, writing on Instagram that she’ll be voting for Tennessee Democrats in the midterm elections.

 

Swift, 28, slammed Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn in an Instagram post.

 

“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn,” Swift told her 112 million Instagram followers. “Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/what-bias-google-and-taylor-swift-caught-promoting-far-left-website-to-register-voters/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:36 a.m. No.3394580   🗄️.is 🔗kun

France's Le Pen Joins Salvini, Severs Ties With Bannon's 'Movement': "He's Not European"

 

In a relatively clear severing of ties, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is distancing herself from former White House strategist Steve Bannon's 'Movement', saying only Europeans will save the continent.

 

This is quite a shift from her remarks in July, when we noted that Bannon was looking to establish a populist stronghold within European Parliament which could gain as many as a third of the lawmakers following next May's Europe-wide elections. As the Beast pointed out,

 

A united populist bloc of that size would have the ability to seriously disrupt parliamentary proceedings, potentially granting Bannon huge power within the populist movement.

 

Depending on electoral law in individual countries, the foundation may be able to take part in some campaigns directly while bolstering other populist groups indirectly. -Daily Beast

 

“I didn't get the idea until Marine Le Pen invited me to speak at Lille at the Front National,” recalled Bannon. “I said, ‘What do you want me say?’”

 

Le Pen responded: “All you have to say is, ‘We're not alone.’”

 

But now, as AP reports, Le Pen said Monday, at a meeting in Rome, that she wanted to clarify “lots of conjecture” about Bannon’s reported plans to set up his foundation.

 

Le Pen said Bannon is not European, but rather an American who wants to create a think tank. She said:

 

“But we, and we alone, are the ones who will shape the political force that is born from the European elections, because we are attached to our liberty, attached to our sovereignty and we together…

 

…the representatives of the different peoples of Europe, are the ones who will shape the political forces that aim specifically to save Europe.”

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/frances-le-pen-severs-ties-bannons-movement-hes-not-european

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:37 a.m. No.3394598   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4612 >>4617 >>4636 >>4712 >>4742 >>4770

Trump And Rosenstein To Face Off At 30,000 Feet As Meeting Moved To Air Force One

 

President Trump will meet with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein aboard Air Force One on Monday, suggesting that Rosenstein's employment status is safe for the time being following a tense several weeks of speculation over whether the man running the Russia investigation would resign or be fired. Prior to the flight, Trump told reporters that he has no plans to fire Rosenstein.

 

"I actually have a good relationship — other than there’s been no collusion folks, no collusion," Trump said, adding that he looks forward to being with him.

 

"We’re going to be talking. We’ll be talking on the plane."

 

The two will have their most extensive conversation since September news reports that Rosenstein had discussed secretly taping Trump, and possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office.

 

The DOJ has denied the charges, and said that Rosenstein's recording remark was meant sarcastically. Still, Rosenstein reportedly told White House officials that he was willing to resign, as he expected to be fired. In a tumultuous day, Rosenstein met with White House chief of staff John Kelly and had a phone call with President Trump, however he kept his job.

 

Trump has said publicly that he would prefer not to fire the Justice Department’s No. 2 official and that Rosenstein has told him he did not say the remarks attributed to him. Advisers had also cautioned Trump against doing anything dramatic in the weeks before the midterm elections next month, suggesting Rosenstein’s job is safe at least for now. -AP

 

If Rosenstein is terminated, it would most certainly affect the special counsel's Russia probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, as Rosenstein appointed former FBI Robert Mueller to lead the investigation.

 

Trump and Rosenstein were expected to meet at the White House days later, however that was derailed by the Brett Kavanaugh circus.

 

On Monday, Trump will speak at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Orlando, while the DOJ has said that reducing violent crime and supporting local law enforcement are key goals. Rosenstein, meanwhile, has agreed to a private meeting with House Republicans to answer questions over his reported statements about the President.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/trump-and-rosenstein-face-30000-feet-meeting-moved-air-force-one

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:42 a.m. No.3394641   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4718

‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia

 

Although many people in Serbia hold “painful” memories of NATO’s 1999 bombing of their country, it was, in fact, done precisely to protect them from their own government, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Belgrade.

 

He was answering questions about the bombing and about the NATO campaign against the government of the former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, during a meeting with the students of Belgrade University.

 

“I stressed that we did this to protect civilians and to stop the Milosevic regime,” Stoltenberg said, as quoted by the local media, claiming locals have painful memories of the events.

 

So NATO wants the alliance and Belgrade to “look into the future.” Stoltenberg also boasted of an “excellent relationship” between NATO and Serbia, adding that the military bloc “respects” Belgrade’s decision not to join the alliance. Still, he maintained that NATO wants to be Serbia’s “partner.”

 

He also said that NATO supports “dialogue” between Serbia and its breakaway region-turned-self-proclaimed state Kosovo, not only diplomatically but also “in the form of KFOR” – the NATO-led international peacekeeping force deployed to Kosovo.

 

His words came about a week after a brief escalation of tensions between Belgrade and Pristina sparked by the visit of Kosovo’s leader to a northern part of the breakaway region, which is populated by Serbs who refuse to recognize Pristina’s authority. The KFOR stayed conspicuously inactive during the incident, according to some reports while others suggested that the NATO-led force had even accompanied the Kosovo representative on that trip.

 

In March 1999, NATO launched airstrikes in what was then Yugoslavia, without the backing of the UN Security Council, after it accused Belgrade of “excessive and disproportionate use of force” in a conflict with insurgent Muslim ethnic Albanians in the region of Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence nine years later, in 2008.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/440616-stoltenberg-serbia-nato-bombing/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:45 a.m. No.3394690   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4877

Who Really Killed Bobby Kennedy?

 

Robert F. Kennedy died fifty years ago this June but just this weekend Juan Romero, the teen immigrant busboy who held him as he died just passed. I had actually been thinking about the RFK assassination. In between having finished American Tabloid, James Ellroy's fictionalized account of events and intrigues leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination and just finished reading Caliber Comics' Red Diaries which delves into conspiracy theories surrounding Marilyn Monroe, Jack and Bobby Kennedy. Regardless of the exactly reason, Kennedy assassination theories have been on my mind.JFK conspiracy theories were a sign of the times. Camelot had fallen and with it an era of innocence and absolute trust in the Federal government was now an emblem of a bygone era. In a way, it was America's starry eyed innocence that died along with Jack Kennedy that day. That November day in Dallas conspiracy culture burgeoned but as well known and varied as the JFK conspiracy theories are, the RFK assassination resulted in just as many inconsistencies and unanswered questions.

 

Of course, the official story is that Sirhan Sirhan, a lone, crazed gunman killed Bobby. I personally don't buy that and neithe does RFK Jr. who, to this day, maintains that Sirhan was innocent.

 

thegoldwater.com/news/10079-Classified-JFK-Documents-to-Be-Released-By-President-Trump

 

There are more holes in the official story of the Kennedy assassination than in the door behind RFK which, coincidentally was removed by the LAPD and never seen again. Witnesses say Sirhan was facing west, but the wounds are consistent with a shot from behind. Even Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles Thomas Noguchi ruled that the shot that killed Bobby was fired from behind his right ear from a distance of approximately one inch. John Pilger, an eyewitness, in 2008 also admitted his belief that there had to have been a second gunman.

 

Sirhan Sirhan had a .22-caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver with eight rounds in the chamber. Three bullets hit Bobby, two did not pass through due to the which is not surprising considering the caliber of the ammunition. Three bullet holes were in the ceiling, five other victims were also hit. The LAPD must have taken a page from the Warren Commission deciding to claim their own "magic bullet" theory. Problem is there were two bullet holes left in the door frame. Press took photos of the bullet holes which clearly show police measuring them. Martin Patrusky, another eyewitness, remembers officers saying they removed two bullets from the door frame, but once again like Kennedy's brain, somehow that bit of evidence managed to disappear.

 

thegoldwater.com/news/10453-Secret-Service-Agent-with-JFK-s-Motorcade-Believes-Jackie-Kennedy-Saved-by-Divine-Intervention

 

Forensic expert Philip van Praag analyzed audio recorded by reporter Stanislaw Pruszynski which indicate at least 13 shots fired. How did Sirhan Sirhan manage to fire 13 shots with a gun that could only fire 8 bullets? Van Praag had his findings checked by forensic audio specialists Wes Dooley and Paul Pegas and forensic audio and ballistics expert Eddy Brixen as well as audio specialist Phil Whitehead though there have been other experts who have said that from the recording only eight shots seem to have been fired.

 

Sirhan's defense attorneys William F. Pepper and Laurie Dusk filed a brief in 2011 regarding a bullet being switched out. Their assertion was that the LAPD switched out the bullets since it didn't match the caliber of Sirhan's gun. That said, it's not like the LAPD has any history of corruption or falsification. Wait a minute, what's that, oh they have?

 

thegoldwater.com/news/12233-Jack-Ruby-Told-FBI-Informant-To-Watch-The-Fireworks-On-Day-JFK-Was-Killed

 

If you watch the recording after Bobby is shot you hear, "Hold him, hold him, we don't want another Oswald."

 

You mean a patsy right? Too late, your fall guy has fallen.

 

http://www.thegoldwater.com/news/38927-Who-Really-Killed-Bobby-Kennedy

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:46 a.m. No.3394708   🗄️.is 🔗kun

MORE UN BULLSHIT

 

Deadly heat waves to hit India, Pakistan every year because of climate change – UN report

 

A heat wave like the one in 2015 in India which killed nearly 2,500 people may become an annual occurrence in India and Pakistan, a damning UN report on the threats of climate change claims.

 

According to the report published on Monday, if world temperatures do indeed rise by two degrees Celsius, India could see deadly heat waves increase in frequency and become an annual condition.

 

The much-anticipated ‘1.5 Health Report’ was released on Monday in South Korea by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body set up in 1988, and written by 91 authors from 40 different countries.

 

It singled out Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal State, as well as Karachi, the capital of Pakistan’s Sindh province, as the areas likely to be most affected by the sweltering temperatures.

 

“Karachi and Kolkata can expect annual conditions equivalent to their deadly 2015 heatwaves. Climate change is significantly contributing to increased heat-related mortality,” the report reads.

 

The reports warns “unprecedented action” is need to make sure global temperature increase is limited to 1.5 degrees, including human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reducing by 45 percent by 2030, with that figure going to near-zero by 2050.

 

More than 2,500 were killed in India when temperatures reached highs of 48 degrees between May and June three years ago. The worst-hit state was Andhra Pradesh in the south-east, which accounted for two-thirds of the overall deaths. Scientists, including some from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, had at the time already sounded alarms over climate change as they said it had “exacerbated” the heat wave in the country.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/440664-india-pakistan-heat-wave-climate/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:48 a.m. No.3394731   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Columbus Day Proves History is Written by the Winner Who Cons People into Celebrating Mass Murder

 

People are finally waking up to the fact that Columbus was a mass murdering tyrant but only after centuries of celebrating him as a hero.

 

Over the last few years, and rightfully so, cities across the country have been ditching the celebration of Columbus Day. After beating it into children for over a century that Columbus discovered America, the world is finally waking up to the reality that not only did Columbus not discover America, but he was a rapist murdering tyrant that set off a massive genocide. Sadly, however, there are still schools across the country today that will celebrate this tyrant and make a powerful point—history is written by the winner—even if the winner murders and pillages their way into it.

 

Historical records are kept by those in power, more often than not, those in power achieved that power through unscrupulous means and will do anything to keep it—up to and including writing heroic versions of history about themselves, that never happened. Columbus having his own national holiday proves this. As Napoleon once famously said, “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

 

Christopher Columbus is celebrated because he “sailed the ocean blue in 1492” and “discovered the new world,” but in addition to the fact that he didn’t actually discover anything, there is a very dark side of Columbus’ life that is still not taught in school history books—despite the fact that schools are ceasing celebration of the national holiday.

 

As Irish Central noted, when Columbus and his men explored the lands of present-day Dominican Republican and Haiti, they found an overwhelming abundance of gold, and Columbus’ lust for fame and fortune “set into motion a relentless wave of murder, rape, pillaging, and slavery that would forever alter the course of human history.”

 

Catholic Priest Bartolomé de las Casas transcribed Columbus’ journals, and testified to the violence that was chronicled in them, noting that over 3 million people died of a result of the war and slavery championed by Christopher Columbus.

 

“There were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over 3,000,000 people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines,” de las Casas wrote.

 

Pointing out the fact that history is written by the winners, de las Casas finished his writing by asking this question: “Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it.”

 

Indeed, it has taken decades to get people to even question the official history of Columbus. However, it seems that this information awareness is happening more and more quickly thanks to an ever expanding access to information.

 

When Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1440, the world had no idea that things were about to drastically change. Prior to the release and production of the printing press, books were incredibly expensive, rare, mostly written in Latin, and reserved for royalty and clergy.

 

The spread of information was kept under lock and key.

 

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/columbus-history-written-winners/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:51 a.m. No.3394762   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4917

In His First Day On The Job, Kavanaugh Hired As Many Black Law Clerks As RBG Has In Her Entire Tenure

 

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has hired a black law clerk for his new chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, matching Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s record of African-American clerkship hiring during her tenure on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.

 

With his first clerkship hires, Kavanaugh also set a gender composition record, an apparent attempt to buck the high court’s hiring patterns, which tend to favor white, male graduates of elite law schools.

 

Since joining the high court in 1993, Ginsburg has hired over 100 law clerks, just one of whom is black.

 

Ginsburg’s hiring practices have been criticized for decades. During her 1993 confirmation hearings, GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah asked Ginsburg if a court might reasonably conclude that a small business in a majority black city that hired 57 white employees and zero black employees over a period of years was discriminatory. Ginsburg dodged, before Hatch pointed out that was in fact her own record of clerkship hiring in her 13 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

 

“I will try harder, and if you confirm me for this job my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve,” Ginsburg replied, to much laughter throughout the hearing chamber.

 

Kavanaugh’s new clerks are Shannon Grammel, Megan Lacy, Sara Nommensen and Kim Jackson. These hires set a record in a second respect: Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court justice to hire an all female class of clerks.

 

A 2017 study published in the National Law Journal found that 85 percent of all Supreme Court clerks between 2005 and 2017 were white, and approximately two-thirds were male.

 

Just hours after the Senate narrowly confirmed the new justice, Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy in a private, intimate ceremony at the court. He quietly began work on Sunday, taking over a suite of offices formerly occupied by Justice Samuel Alito.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/08/brett-kavanaugh-black-women-law-clerks-ginsburg/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:52 a.m. No.3394783   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4798

Google Design Lead David Hogue: ‘Evil’ Republicans Will ‘Descend into Flames’ of Hell

 

In a Twitter rant over the weekend, Google design lead Dave Hogue claimed Republicans will “descend into the flames” of hell, and described members of the GOP as “treasonous” and “evil” following the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

 

“You are finished, @GOP. You polished the final nail for your own coffins. FUCK. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL,” posted Hogue. “I hope the last images burned into your slimy, evil, treasonous retinas are millions of women laughing and clapping and celebrating as your souls descend into the flames.”

 

Hogue soon deleted the post and made a follow-up tweet condemning the Republican Party while also adding that he “should have been more eloquent and less condemning” in the previous post.

 

“Yes, I deleted that tweet. Yes, those opinions are mine personally, and I am responsible for them. Yes, I should have been more eloquent and less condemning,” declared Hogue. “Yes, I still believe the @GOP is wrong and not serving your best interests. Yes, I still believe we can do much better.”

 

According to Hogue’s LinkedIn profile, he has worked as a UX Design Lead at Google in San Francisco since December 2013.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/08/google-design-lead-david-hogue-evil-republicans-will-descend-into-flames-of-hell/

 

MIRROR

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:56 a.m. No.3394821   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4916

Border Patrol Spread Thin by ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ at Arizona Border

 

Border Patrol officials in the Tucson and Yuma Sectors say human smugglers are raking in profits while risking the lives of migrants moving in escalated numbers into Arizona.

 

Despite increased enforcement efforts, a summer of record-breaking temperatures, and other dangers inherent to the Arizona desert, human smugglers are crossing large numbers of migrant families and unaccompanied children into the U.S. Multiple areas along the border, including the Yuma and Ajo corridors, are being exploited, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

 

“This is a humanitarian crisis that is impacting border security,” Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Porvaznik said in a written statement. “Criminal entities are lining their pockets while exploiting a vulnerable population, filling our stations and diverting our national security efforts.”

 

Officials say the new smuggling operations are a dangerous break from the past when migrant families and children would present themselves at ports of entry to request asylum. They are now being moved through remote areas of the desert where no physical barriers, or ineffective barriers, are in place to prevent illegal crossings.

 

“With no regard for the safety and well-being of these families, smugglers put their bottom line before human decency,” Joint Task Force West, Arizona Commander Rodolfo Karisch stated. “Tuesday we sent agents out to rescue 61 of these individuals from rising flood waters; and Wednesday, shortly after crossing the border, a mother in one of these groups passed away in front of her son.”

 

Human smugglers in northern Mexico are apparently learning from cartels operating south of the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo Sectors that when the border is flooded with migrant families and unaccompanied minors, Border Patrol resources are stressed. Cartels are then able to smuggle drugs and other “high-value human cargo” across the border with a greater opportunity for success.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/10/08/border-patrol-warns-of-resource-stress-amid-rising-migrant-crossings-into-arizona/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 10:01 a.m. No.3394882   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4968 >>5051 >>5082

Erdogan Vows Revenge Against Kurds in Iraq, Says He’ll Kill At Least 800

 

Suggests Turkish forces will move against Sinjar and Qandil

 

Speaking at a conference of the ruling AK Party in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed revenge against the Kurdish PKK after a Wednesday attack that killed eight Turkish soldiers in southeastern Turkey.

 

Erdogan vowed to avenge the troops by “finishing” Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, saying Turkish forces will “go into their dens” in Sinjar and Qandil, Kurdish areas of Iraq where PKK-aligned fighters are accused of being.

 

Erdogan said that not only would he ensure that the fighters there would be finished, he promised that to make up for eight slain Turkish soldiers, at least 800 PKK militants in Iraq would be killed. It’s not clear how many PKK are even in Iraq after years of strikes.

 

Erdogan has been threatening to go into Iraq after the PKK for awhile, and suggested this may be coming soon with today’s comments. Iraq has repeatedly warned Turkey against incursions into their territory.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/10/07/erdogan-vows-revenge-against-kurds-in-iraq-says-hell-kill-at-least-800/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 10:04 a.m. No.3394906   🗄️.is 🔗kun

With Brexit Backsliding, Tory Leavers Insist Britain Must Leave EU by 2022 at Latest

 

The feared backslide which is seeing Britain’s departure from the European Union moving further into the future continues, with pro-Brexit Tory MPs now concerned Prime Minister Theresa May could fail to complete the transition even by the next general election in 2022.

 

The new deadline being demanded would commit Theresa May to getting Britain “fully out” of key areas of EU control by 2022, when the next general election is due — amid concerns that the Brexit process is already years behind schedule.

 

Brexiteers worry that if the UK has not managed to extricate itself from certain areas by then, such as the EU Customs Union, it never will.

 

The warning comes as those Conservative MPs signal they are willing to give the Prime Minister extra time to negotiate with the European Union over the Irish border issue, reports The Times, but not indefinitely. The paper states the Eurosceptic MPs are concerned that given the next general election is in 2022, and: “After that we can’t know who will be in charge, so we must be fully out by then.”

 

After the European Union membership referendum in June 2016, Britain was supposed to begin the process of leaving the continental power bloc; however, triggering the Article 50 process was delayed until March 2017. The delay meant almost a whole year passed without formal Brexit negotiations being able to take place.

 

A formal date for Brexit was then set for March 2019, but subsequent capitulations and negotiation failures by Theresa May’s pro-remain led government means this date has become little more than a symbolic departure.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/08/with-brexit-backsliding-tory-leavers-insist-britain-must-leave-eu-by-2022-at-latest/

Anonymous ID: 207e67 Oct. 8, 2018, 10:09 a.m. No.3394964   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5002

Christian Zionists Target US Aid to Palestinian Authority

 

A few days ago, We Hold These Truths posted a podcast entitled “Christian Zionism is a War Based Religion,” which includes a discussion on the so-called “just war” theological doctrine often used by Christian leaders to justify their support for US wars.

 

I am referring, of course, to Christian leaders such as John Hagee, of Christians United for Israel, or CUFI.

 

Back in 2003, Hagee supported the US war in Iraq, and even later, after it became glaringly apparent there never had been any weapons of mass destruction and that Bush had lied about the war, he continued to be a vocal supporter of the US aggression.

 

“Christian Zionism is a war based, political religion wrapped around the notion that the modern state of Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy,” reads the podcast description put up by We Hold These Truths. You can go here to listen to the podcast. It’s a fairly interesting discussion.

 

I mention it because just today CUFI, which is the largest Christian Zionist organization in America, sent out an appeal to its email subscribers calling for an end to US financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. A friend of mine who is on their email list forwarded it to me.

 

What exactly has the PA done that has so upset the CUFI? You’ll read about it in the text of the email, which I reproduce below, but basically it comes down to support for the families of Palestinians who have been either killed or imprisoned by Israel–people the CUFI views as “terrorists.”

 

Of course, anyone who gets killed by an Israeli soldier automatically has to be labeled a “terrorist,” and there have been reports of soldiers planting knives on the bodies of their victims. Apparently this is of no concern to CUFI, however. It isn’t mentioned in their email.

 

The illegal settlements, the ongoing 50-year occupation of the West Bank, the targeting of residential buildings and hospitals in Israel’s periodic attacks upon Gaza–all these things, too, go unmentioned.

 

Another key point is that under international law people have a right to resist occupation. By this measure, attacks by Palestinians against Israeli soldiers are not acts of terrorism. To make the assertion that they are would be the equivalent of branding the founding fathers of America as terrorist leaders.

 

But perhaps the main thing to keep in mind is that this appeal is being made by an organization that supported the US war in Iraq, and which has yet to apologize or concede that the war was fought under false pretenses or that Christian support for it was a terrible mistake. Another thing you might also want to reflect upon, just as a matter of interest, is that the executive director of Christians United for Israel, David Brog, is not in fact a Christian–he is Jewish.

 

https://alethonews.com/2017/03/03/christian-zionists-target-us-aid-to-palestinian-authority/