Trump Praises Hezbollah; Desantis Says There are no Innocent Palestinians
The Republicans have given Democrats some real political fodder in this report of recent events focused on support for Israel. From Trump's praising of Hezbollah and its intelligence, to a conference given by heretical Texas pastor John Hagee, where he gave Mike Pence a "Defender of Israel" award, the Istael-Hamas war has provided a number of moments when the conclusion must be drawn that "you just can't fix stupid."
Hagee's group, Christians United for Israel, is purely political. Hagee has disqualified himself as an end-times prophet under the Deutoronomy 18:20-22 principle, but he uses his unqualified support for Israel as a way to bash democrats. So along comes one of his inamoratas, Trump, who clearly has no knowledge or insight on what's going on between Israel and Hamas, and praises the intelligence of Hezbollah, while at the same time getting his digs in at Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he despises. Hagee's group is left either having to defend that, which, of course, they can't, or ignoring it and hoping the hypocrisy and inconsistency will resolve itself.
And right in their faces, President Biden hops on Air Force One and flies into the war zone that Israel has become, in a show of support that they can't match and only wish they could. Not only does Biden demonstrate unqualified support for Israel, and pledge financial help that the Republicans can't deliver at the moment, he also correctly and diplomatically separates Hamas, and its hatred, from the Palestinian people who, for the most part, are pawns being used by Hamas as human shields. Biden became the first American President to visit Israel during a war, adding that to his accomplishment of being the first American President since Roosevelt visiting a war zone not under the control of the United States military. Not a bad day for an octogenerian, I'd say.
Then there's the manure that Ron Desantis stepped in and spread all over the place.
"We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees," he said, creating a huge straw man issue to puff his politics. "I am not going to do that. if you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas but they are all antisemitic," he said.
Palestinians live in Gaza, and make up more than 90% of its population. Someone in Desantis' campaign or entourage should have pointed out to him that Palestinians are Arabic and that's the semitic language they speak. Being descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael, they are as semitic as the Jewish sephardim, and heirs to the same promises that the Jewish people claim through the same inheritance.
Two pseudo-Christian political organizations have also engaged in the Biden bashing and have been exposed in their lies. Family Research Council and Tony Perkins, said, "The $6 billion in funds that the Biden administration released to Iran in exchange for hostages helped fund the attack."
But the facts don't support that claim. First of all, Iran came to acquire the $6 billion, which is their money, not ours, through an oil deal with South Korea when Trump lifted the embargo and permitted the sale. And second, the money is still in the bank. There are still conditions placed on its use, enforced by the Biden administration, that will not allow it to be used for a purpose like this, and that can easily be checked.
James Dobson, the fallen director of Focus on the Family, now at the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute, acknowledged the truth, at least partially, about the funds still in the possession of the United States. But he said that it just means they can use other money for building and launching missiles and underwriting the October 7th attack.
Nikki Haley managed to step into the manure here as well. Not as extreme as Desantis, she nevertheless turned on "the Squad," advocating censorship, which is antisemitic in that at least two of the four members who are identified that way are Arabic, and Muslim. So instead of offering a real solution to the problem, or better than that, simple support without hostility, Haley chooses antagonism and hatred as her platform.
And we've completed yet another day without a speaker of the house being elected. The news media keeps all of this in front of us and is making us think that Republicans are still getting support from their base and this isn't moving the political needle at all and this is some kind of political showdown and battle of wills. Nah, I'm not buying that. Not at all. It's like they're in a barrel about to go over Niagara Falls. The media needs the ratings they get from reporting suspense. I honestly don't think it's that close. And if it is, then God help us because we're too ignorant and stupid to be trusted with democracy and we're going to lose it.
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