Passing time in a tightly packed airport coffee shop recently, I ended up in conversation with a thirty-something couple sitting only inches from me. I was coming from Mexico City and they were going there. After the usual banter, I asked where they were from and learned they were New Yorkers moving out of that city. They didn’t offer a reason and I didn’t press for one.
They asked me what I did for a living and I explained that I was a writer currently investigating how cartels were smuggling people into the US. I say I was chatting with this couple, but it was really only with her. He said nothing the entire time. But he listened intently as she asked questions.
“You travel a lot? Where have you been?”
“Well, so far this year, I’ve covered the WEF in Davos, researched Karl Marx in London, went to Gaza with the IDF…”
“You’ve been to Israel?” She interrupted. “We’ve been there. What do you think of the war?”
I guessed that here our conversation would end unhappily. They were New Yorkers, so almost certainly heavily propagandized lefties. But I pressed on.
“Almost everything you hear in Western media is wrong…”
“You mean it’s a lie. How?”
“Oct 7 was not just a Charlie Hebdo-style terrorist attack. It was an act of war. More than 7,000 Hamas terrorists penetrated the frontier at more than 100 points. Inspired by Islam, they had been instructed to r8pe, behead, torture, and kidnap men, women, and children.”
He still said nothing, but leaned forward, eyes narrowing.
“Who helped them do it?” She asked.
“Iran was the biggest supplier, but North Korea, China, and Qatar mostly. The UNRWA also played a role. Weapons and matériel were stockpiled in Egypt and smuggled into Gaza through tunnels.”
“You know that?”
“I know that. Trust me.” That led to a discussion of President Sisi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and my standoff with Egyptian State Security in Cairo. Still, I had no real gauge for where they stood politically. She asked if I had written anything on the subject, so I pointed her to my article for The Federalist connecting the dots between Egypt, USAID, Gaza, and my swatting.
A woman sitting nearby, leaned over and said, “Forgive me for eavesdropping on your conversation, but this is fascinating.” We all chatted a bit longer and I left.
About 30 minutes later I was standing in line at the gate waiting to board my flight when the husband appeared.
“Pardon me, but I had to come find you.” He was full of emotion. He indicated that he and his wife were Israelis who had lived in NYC but were now fleeing Mamdani’s third world sh*thole.
“You are a man who needs the protection of angels,” he said, and then presented me with a Jewish holy book. “We want you to have this. I pray it protects you.”
With that he turned and walked away.
Gentile and fierce Protestant that I am, I was nonetheless deeply moved. It seems they had read the article and, catching a glimpse of my work, felt my life was in danger. For my own part, I was aware that the same ideology that threatened me, was the same one that threatened them, forced them to move, and imperiled their native land.
I’m often amazed by the people the Lord puts in my path when I pause long enough to look around and notice them.
Juchitán, cuna histórica de la izquierda oaxaqueña, cayó bajo el control del CJNG desde el propio ayuntamiento. Es el retrato más crudo de cómo el crimen organizado ya no espera a la política: la coopta desde dentro. Mi columna en @AuroradeMexico 👇
https://t.co/HQHBac8vKN
#ElBastión
‼️¿En realidad AMLO tenía vínculos con el Crimen Organizado?⁉️
⚠️Escucha las revelaciones de la periodista de investigación Anabel Hernández⚠️
💥 Porque soltaron a Ovidio
💥 A petición de quien
Encerraron en Almoloya a Miguel Sánchez, alcalde de Juchitán, Oaxaca. Los fanáticos obradoristas seguirán negando que en Morena anida parte del crimen organizado. Lee a Germán Martínez JUCHITÁN, NARCO-MORENA. ¿NO QUÉ NO?
https://t.co/ouIgKAHkyh
‼️ 𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗔𝗣𝗢́𝗡 𝗗𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗖𝗢 𝗔 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗕𝗔𝗨𝗠 ‼️
Vean como Jorge Chaparro @chaparroacosta le pone una arrastrada desde el sistema de Salud de Dinamarca, hasta más obras que ya se cayeron... Y aquí les dejo la de la Deuda🤣 porque Claudia Sheinbaum @Claudiashein no vale MDRs!
#MorenaEngañaPendejos #MorenaNarco
Es muy grave la denuncia que está haciendo Anabel Hernández que implica amenazas de muerte. Y es muy grave que @NachoRgz suba un video asegurando que @Claudiashein y @OHarfuch van por ella. ¿Qué sabe el señor para tales afirmaciones?
El Chapucero afirma que en el informe que @ErnestinaGodoy_ dará este sábado en Gobernación por el caso Ayotzinapa, la Fiscal involucra a Anabel por su libro que escribió sobre los sucesos de la desaparición de los normalistas.
¿Le van a fabricar un delito?
Sheinbaum dijo que en el informe, ya lo conoce, se verá qué libros de ficción protegieron a involucrados en Ayotzinapa. Una indirecta a la periodista, no se atrevió a decir su nombre.
Yo no confío en el Mecanismo de Protección de Periodistas que depende de este régimen.
Que no se les olvide que Anabel Hernández tiene nombre y presencia internacional y cualquier intento por afectarla e, incluso, como ella dice, que ponga en riesgo su vida, recaerá en Sheinbaum, Godoy y Harfuch.
Anabel está en promoción de su libro Narcocracia bajo estas circunstancias.
Hace 41 años, la CDMX sufría. Ese 19 de septiembre de 1985 gobernaba el priísta Miguel de la Madrid y....
-AMLO era Director de Promoción Social del INCO
-Bartlett era Secretario de Gobernación
-Ebrard trabajaba en Programación y Presupuesto
-Layda Sansores, en el DDF
#PRIMOR
Y los de la Cuauhtémoc van a dejar que gane alguien que ni siquiera se presenta a trabajar no importa si es secretaria del instituto de la mujer o si es senadora.
Cobra por no hacer nada.
¡Directo a la yugular!
@hdemauleon exhibe el silencio que protege al narco exsecretario Ojeda Durán.
El exsecretario Ojeda fue exonerado cuando estallaba el escándalo y comenzaban los asesinatos de los marinos y otros involucrados en la trama del huachicol fiscal.
¿Qué hizo Ojeda después de que el contraalmirante Guerrero Alcantar le desmenuzó la red?
¿Qué hizo con la información que el marino asesinado puso en sus manos?
No lo sabemos porque han decidido no localizarlo.