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In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we look at terrorists, neo-Nazis, and other candidates for office in the United States. And then we look at what drives the fits and starts in Lebanon’s cycle of war and peace, and who is currently making decisions in Iran (today).
Of Nazis, terrorists, and other wannabe candidates for office.
Graham Platner, who once had a Nazi tattoo on his chest and is the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Senate ticket in Maine, has received the support of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), who very recently published a book titled: Antisemitism in America – A Warning.
It’s hard to be respectful when witnessing, and seeking to comment on, the complete and total moral capitulation of a man, so we won’t (be respectful). This is an abomination. Sen. Schumer should be personally and professionally ashamed.
In other terrible news out of the northeast, Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as “the Blind Sheikh,” was convicted on several terrorism charges, including in connection with his followers conducting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Adam Hamawy testified in defense of the terrorist sheikh.
Today, Hamawy, who has served in the US Army and is a successful plastic surgeon in New Jersey, is the Democratic nominee to represent the people of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. As the District is overwhelmingly Democratic, it is expected that Hamawy will be in the next Congress.
Finally, there’s Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He’s decided to campaign with Hasan Piker (who thinks America deserved the 9/11 attacks), and, according to JI, El-Sayed “struggles with question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state.”
Bottom line, we suspect the most prominent antisemitic voices in American history have yet to be heard. As such, your presence in our nation’s capital at this year’s, and every year’s, CUFI Washington Summit is vital.
Just Let Them Lose
And in just a few short weeks, we’ll be in Washington during one of the most pivotal moments in American and Israeli history. Here’s where things stand in the region today:
Lebanon and Israel remain at war. Beirut is led by a group of people who always choose the worst possible short- and long-term outcome for their people. Beirut’s leaders seem to find a safe measure of predictability in some measure of instability. That is why the war continues, the negotiations continue, and progress – from a pro-Israel/free-world perspective (sorry Tucker) – remains exclusively in the domain of the former.
Speaking of those who never get it wrong in a war... the French have decided to chime in and condemn Israel’s actions in Lebanon. That’s it; no further analysis or consideration needed.
Ultimately, in Lebanon (and Iran), you have a pseudo-cartel problem. Beirut has allowed the Hezbollah cancer to grow and grow, always saying they will/should have addressed the matter. The cartel – Hezbollah – has become a state within a state.
What the entire world must do – and most certainly the ladies and gentlemen of Paris and Beirut – is take a deep breath and accept that we have arrived at the portion of the road to which the can has been kicked all these years. This is it. It’s time for Hezbollah to lose.
Gallery of Garbage
In Iran, the same is true, except the cartel is the government – especially now. The handful – or so – of people really controlling the levers of power in Iran are a who’s who of horror. Want to meet them?
Leading this gallery of garbage is IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi; Interpol has a Red Notice out for him in connection with the 1994 bombing of an Argentine Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
Next up we’ve got Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; his time in the military and IRGC earned him the moniker “the most corrupt commander in Iran.”
Alongside Ghalibaf, there’s another former IRGC man, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr who has the rather impressive distinction of having a UN Resolution sanctioning him (UNSC 1747) for his involvement in Iran’s nuclear program.
Finally, we’ve got two individuals responsible for keeping the people in line. They are Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei (a hardline cleric), and Law Enforcement Commander Ahmad-Reza Radan who is considered to be the “first line of repression” for a regime that recently killed tens of thousands of its own people.
This is with whom the U.S. is “negotiating,” a bunch of elderly, murderous die-hards. Yes, there are reports that the Supreme Leader’s son may be slightly better now than he was – but no one’s seen him, and the regime kills for sport so it makes sense then that they might lie.
From Maine and Michigan to Beirut and Tehran, the ultimate outcome is purely dependent upon strength of will - the will of the people or the leaders – but willpower just the same.
Sincerely,
The CUFI Action Fund Team |
