Iran has been a threat to National security for decades.
@POTUS has been (and continues to be) consistent in this matter.
It slaughtered 1000’s of its citizens for protesting.
It has funded terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS.
Cut the head off the snake.
@PressSec@dbongino Thank you for clearing that up.
Claiming that “Israel forced us into this” is so dishonest.
Trump has been consistent for over 40 years.
@megynkelly I think you forgot that a lot of people who followed you, also followed Ben.
But it appears you’re on the wrong side of history, so….
Toodles 🤷🏼♀️✌🏼
I can’t speak for all Iranians, only for myself. And for this Iranian, seeing the hostages walk free from Hamas’s terror tunnels and back into their loved one’s arms is like seeing Iranians freed from the regime’s terror cells.
While Islamism/jihadism may take different forms, it’s only insomuch as Nazism may have called itself the Nationalist socialists in Germany, the Iron Guard in Romania, or the Arrow Cross in Hungary. Ultimately, it was all Nazism, seeking global domination and the elimination of those deemed unhuman.
No matter what strain or strand it manifests as, this is the same of Islamism/jihadism everywhere. Its objective is global domination, and the elimination of those it deems infidels.
Seeing the hostages walk free today was a tiny—but not insignificant—blow to its world order. An order engineered by extremists and upheld by the people and organizations that wear the name of humanity while spitting in its face.
For the tiny minority of us immune to the moral contagion that has turned the world mad (probably because we survived it and developed antibodies), this was our private victory.
After two years of being shut out from the world, I’ve learned that we don’t need validation from untouched keyboard warriors wearing the mask of righteousness to make it so. Today, humanity was restored.
In the 90’s the U.S. government determined that the Muslim Brotherhood had established a propaganda arm in the U.S.. The objective was to advance Hamas’s cause through political, financial, and media channels.
The Muslim Brotherhood did this through several “front” organizations. One was called the IAP. That organization was shut down by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
Later, two of the leading figures of the IAP went on to establish CAIR.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Several years later, in 2007, the U.S. investigated another organization that came out of the same committee established by the Muslim Brotherhood. That organization was called the Holy Land Foundation.
In U.S. v. The HLF, the FBI presented internal Muslim Brotherhood documents from the early 1990s that described the creation of multiple “front” organizations in America to support Hamas “by perception and influence.” The HLF was convicted of providing material support to Hamas. This organization was also shut down.
In that same trial, CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator.” The DOJ report acknowledged that “evidence at trial linked CAIR leaders to Hamas.”
Following the HLF trial, the FBI formally suspended all outreach and liaison relationships with CAIR.
Yet, thousands, perhaps millions engage with this organization while perceiving it merely as “fighting fascism” and discrimination. It’s the same organization now condemning the Nobel peace prize being awarded to Marina Corina Machado for opposing Maduro’s repressive regime that has crushed millions of Venezuelans.
We are totally oblivious to the influence constantly operating to shift our perspective in the way it camouflages itself in righteous causes.
Yasser Arefat was paid $200,000 per month by the KGB, who created the PLO, wrote its first charter, and hand selected its 422 founding members. Defector Mihai Pacepa admitted to handing Arafat’s salary to him each month in Red Horizons.
He was described as intransigent and extraordinarily dishonest; those who worked with him for decades said “Arafat lies in every sentence.”
The KGB’s primary objective with Arafat was to present him to the western world as a moderate leader, which he initially refused. Known to be highly egotistical, he wanted only to be seen as a revolutionary.
The KGB helped Arafat and his mercenaries commit endless terror attacks against Jews in the Middle East in a way that they would never trace back to him and the PLO. He was a terrorist and murderer.
After 9/11, this stunt was for the optics of appearing to stand in solidarity with Americans to soften his image and garner support, a propaganda strategy the KGB spent decades teaching him.
In particular, it was explained that Useful Idiots (the communist term for western leftists who carry their message to their own detriment) would fall for it without question. Welp…
No, Greta, you were not tortured.
Israelis being held in terror tunnels for two years without light, food, touch, life, and freedom are being tortured.
Iranians forced to confess for their death sentences by having their teeth pulled, being lashed, and subjected to sensory deprivation are being tortured.
Yemenis sentenced to death by stoning for criticizing the Houthis are being tortured.
Lebanese held in Hezbollah’s captivity for challenging its rule are being tortured.
As someone from a country of people who are tortured daily and left forgotten by the world while pampered westerners role play their persecution for media attention, I can tell you that this isn’t the “right side of history.” It’s the theater of the moral narcissists.
The way to tell whether you truly believe something or simply hate the people on the other side is to reverse the script. If you still stand where you began, it’s conviction. If you switch sides, it’s hate.
So let’s reverse it.
Imagine Jews were not indigenous to Judea, but to Europe. Imagine the entire Middle East was once Arab-Muslim land. Fourteen hundred years ago, Jews from Europe conquered it, forced everyone to speak Hebrew, banned other religions, and beheaded those who refuse to pay the tax for not practicing Judaism. For fourteen centuries this order ruled, and to this day, minorities were slaughtered and burned alive for not being Jewish.
A few Arab-Muslims survived and scattered around the world, stateless and despised because of centuries of the colonial powers propaganda against them.
Then, less than a century ago, a man with a mustache in Germany rose to power and declared that the world’s problems would be solved by killing the remaining Arab-Muslims. After everything they’ve survived, they’re now gassed to death in their millions.
Desperate, they escape back to the Middle East, their ancestral homeland, and claim the tiniest sliver of it as theirs. In the entire colonial Jewish sub-continent, this piece of land is no bigger than New Jersey, and they ask for nothing more than survival.
Now imagine that every day since they’ve been there, their Jewish neighbors fire rockets at them from all across the region, insisting they will not stop until all the Arab-Muslims are gone, because the entire land must be Jewish.
Imagine in the west, protesters angrily take to the streets demanding, “from the river to the sea, the Middle East must be Jewish.”
Let me ask you this now. Are you sure you’re the good guys?