This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes as such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.

 

 

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I attempt to populate each post with new material; thus, older posts have information that’s not in this one.  If this is a topic of interest to you I strongly urge you to go back through and peruse my older ones.  I do not focus on minute-by-minute updates but rather attempt to provide background and information relevant to this latest battle in a 1,400 year old war.  Reverse chronological order.

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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TOP OF THE FOLD

Iran says expansion of Israel-Hamas war ‘inevitable’ – Insider Paper

Not just this.  All around the world conflict areas exist, with the potential for a spark in the Middle East to spread as the world descends into WWIII.  Now, relevant to Iran, understand that to a believing Shiite Muslim WWIII is not a bug, but a feature, for their version of the Messiah, the “Twelfth Imam”, cannot come until there is a global conflagration.  Though this is encouraging… unless they’re lying as a feint:

Iran to Hamas: ‘We won’t go to war for you’ (israelnationalnews.com)

Let me repeat this: for their messiah to come, a world war must happen which will – obviously – result in the deaths of billions.  This war is a necessary precondition.  Thus, their desire to precipitate WWIII will lead to the single biggest human sacrifice in history.

Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile over 22 times limit of 2015 deal: IAEA – Insider Paper

 

 

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FLYING PIGS MOMENT! (barenakedislam.com)

Contrast with the above.  Good news.  Note that I still don’t trust the Abraham Accords, but they do – at least for now – seem to be having a positive influence.  And this video by a Bangladesh Muslim:

 

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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Staring Into the Abyss | Frontpage Mag

We’ve taken the enemies – plural – into our very center.  The hour is late, and we’re in dire straights.

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Hamas Hiding Vast Amounts of Fuel Under Shifa Hospital | Frontpage Mag

To a Westerner, that’s insane.  To a Muslim, that’s permissible.  Because – and I keep repeating this – any Muslim who dies in jihad gets an automatic ticket to the highest level of paradise.  They truly embrace death.  Such a person cannot be deterred, they can only be killed.

Hamas’ Hospital Hideout « Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm Blog

Take a look at what’s being discovered under Rantisi hospital:

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/inside-the-hospital.mp4

 

Surprise, Surprise! Guess What Was Found in Yet Another Gaza Hospital (townhall.com)

Proceeding through the hospital, Conricus pointed out how security cameras had been covered or obstructed before arriving at a disused MRI machine. Behind it, a “grab bag” for Hamas terrorists containing an AK-47 and ammunition, grenades, and uniforms. All stashed behind an MRI machine which, had it been used when the grab bag was there, would have sent the weapons and ammunition flying into the machine by its powerful magnets.

I did not realize AK-47s and grenades were standard hospital gear.  And take a look at this old man in the hospital who gives the reporters what-for about Hamas… and is quickly silenced as the “journalist” turns away from him: Gazan man: Why does Hamas hide in the hospital, why don’t they go hide in hell? (israelnationalnews.com) (bolding added):

 

“What is happening is a crime!” said the man. “Why is the resistance (Hamas) hiding among us? Why don’t they go to hell and hide there? They are not the resistance.”

The interviewer quickly cut the man off and began walking away as soon as he started to criticize Hamas.

 

HamAss, Hospitals and the MSM by Francis Turner – According To Hoyt

The AP at work today | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Memo to the AP | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Note how brazenly the media are taking Hamas’ side in covering this up.

In parallel, a note about Hamas’ use of civilian clothing – even guerillas are required to wear insignia or some other means to distinguish them from civilians.  And who remembers the Battle of the Bulge when German infiltration units were dressed in American uniforms?  Those Germans were summarily executed – with no repercussions or anything:

 

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Why a humanitarian ceasefire will bolster Hamas | JNS.org

Remember that, in war against the infidel, a hudna is allowed – but not to establish peace, but simply to rearm, reload, and reposition.  Speaking of humanitarian issues:

Hamas Shooting Civilians to Prevent Evacuation – HotAir

Gazans against Hamas do exist.  And the lesson of Abraham arguing with Hashem about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind if even ten good people be found.  I wrestle with this as I view videos like this two:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leave-us-alone-hamas.mp4

 

I read this article about comments on a NY Slimes Times piece on the Gaza tunnels and grasp that there’s widespread understanding of the problem of Hamas, even in New York Times-Traitor’s readership:

Tunneling is one of the most expensive and resource intensive enterprises known to man, the cost of the “Gaza metro” must reach billions of dollars. Imagine how much better the life of the Palestinian people would be if Hamas would have spent those billions of dollars of foreign aid on hospitals, schools, desalination plants, solar panels etc.

Hamas is absolutely the worst thing to have happened to the Palestinian people, similar to the equally ethnocentric and fanatical regimes of Germany and Japan during WW2, the life of the Palestinian people will never improve while Hamas exists, keep in mind that even if Israel where to cease to exist Hamas would blanket the middle east with a fundamentalist, corrupt and oppressive regime equal or worse to the Taliban in Afghanistan, where human suffering knows no bounds.

 

The video that Hamas doesn’t want the world to see (barenakedislam.com)

On tunneling:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hidden-tunnel-entrance.mp4

 

But then I read things like this:

‘Palestinian’ Mother: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren for the Sake of Allah – Geller Report

And recall – I can’t find the link as this was 10+ years ago – a Palestinian woman whose son was being operated on by Jews in an Israeli hospital to save his life for a heart condition that the local hospital couldn’t handle, and who said as she was interviewed waiting during the surgery, that she hoped he’d grow up to become a shahid and kill Jews.  This was one of my lynchpin shifts of perspective on the situation: Jews are saving her son’s life, but she’d rather see dead Jews.  Death cult.

That boy, getting treated by Israel hospitals, is not alone:

3,000th Palestinian child has heart operation in Israel through Save a Child’s Heart | The Times of Israel

The child has not enjoyed a normal, carefree childhood. He has been unable to perform simple tasks and he has not been allowed to run around, or even walk for long periods, lest the exertion prove too much for his fragile heart. Instead, his entire life, he has been under constant medical supervision.

When Amir’s family found out about the option of getting him heart surgery in Israel during a check-up in Gaza, they jumped at the opportunity.

“When the doctors told us there was a possibility for Israeli doctors to carry out the complicated operation Amir needed, we were so happy. Everyone here in Gaza talks about how Israeli doctors are the most professional in the world and that they can be trusted completely,” Amir’s mother said.

Some “genocide”.  Add in this:

Gaza Children as Young as 10-Years-Old and Women Participated in Massive Slaughter of Jews in Israel on Oct. 7 | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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To Defeat Hamas, Emulate the Destruction of the Tamil Tigers :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

Must read.  Good strategies, though remember – Hamas welcomes dying in jihad (video, 13 minutes).  And while there are similarities, there are also differences (links in the original, bolding added):

After Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed at the Anandapuram junction, Sri Lanka released a grisly photograph of him with bullet holes in his head, likely under the assumption that cults tend to dissipate when the cult leader dies. That tactic won’t work with Hamas. After its founder and “spiritual leader,” Ahmed Yassin, was killed in an Israeli strike on March 22, 2004, he was quickly replaced with Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi who was killed in an Israeli strike on April 17, 2004. Others have followed. Since Hamas is more than a cult, it will not be defeated by killing only the leaders. The infrastructure, middle-managers, recruiters, and financiers will also have to be either killed or forced to accept their defeat and face consequences.

Finally, at the Battle of Puthukkudiyirippu, the LTTE used the civilian Tamil population as human shields, refusing to let them flee the advancing Sri Lankan military. Similarly, Hamas is very proficient at using civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, as human shields.

In the aftermath of their victory, the Rajapaksa brothers came under even more scrutiny from the U.N. but refused to cooperate with international investigations looking to substantiate rumors of war crimes perpetrated by the Sri Lankan military and the “unnecessary” civilian deaths. Once Hamas is totally defeated, Israel should do the same.

I still argue that the Jack Pershing treatment should be applied.  Screw “proportionality”:

The Idiocy of the Theory of ‘Proportionate Response’ | Frontpage Mag

And cut off their money:

PA will pay $2,789,430 to families of 1,500 dead Hamas terrorist murderers, this month | PMW Analysis (palwatch.org)

NOT JUST HAMAS! Palestinian Authority (FATAH) also says Muslims will “exterminate all the Jews” (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Watch Chilling “Hamas-In Their Own Voices” (substack.com)

Video, less than three minutes.  All – every one – aired before the October 7, 2023, attacks.

They state, clearly, their aims and plans.  Note what the guy says about Rome.  Not Israel.  ROME.  Rome is to be an advance outpost for the conquest of Europe.  Then to the Americas.  Death to every infidel.  Why do so many not have the moral courage to take them at their word?

And what they did on Oct. 7 – graphic material alert:

HaShabbat HaShachora – The Judean

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Islamic Nazis | Frontpage Mag

If a subject of the Palestinian dictatorship on the West Bank sells land to a Jew, for example, the official penalty is death.

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Far-Left ‘Fact-Checker’ NewsGuard Denies Facts on Hospital Bombing, Covers For Jihadis | Frontpage Mag

The war is not just military, but a war of information.

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There is No Moderate Jihad | Frontpage Mag (bolding added):

Coexistence is death, resistance is life. Until we learn to stop coexisting with our killers, they will go on killing us. All else is an illusion. A fantasy that we keep feeding ourselves. There is no moderate Islam because there is no moderate Jihad. And there is no moderate Jihad because there is no moderate way to conquer and enslave non-Muslims. Islam is a state of perpetual war. To know Islam is to never know peace. We coexist with Islam and so we are at war.

Savagery: The True Nature of the World | Frontpage Mag

We are the same brutal, cruel, and warlike creatures we have always been. Every headline, every act of hideous violence, and every pro-genocide cheer by the grad school sociopaths who fetishize Third-World savages, proves it. What we have to do is lift the scales from our eyes, understand the situation we are in, and accept it.

For the last couple of generations, we in the West have told ourselves that we have changed. We told ourselves that we are beyond violence. And we told ourselves that everyone else was too. But that was a lie.

The Gates of Gaza | Frontpage Mag

Civilization is a set of borders that men once carved out of the wilderness. On one side the village, on the other the wolf and the savage baying for blood. The capitals of civilization have all been blinded. They hold up signs welcoming refugees and wonder why bombs go off. They accept the rationales, capitalism, colonialism, zionism and imperialism, for these horrors, and convince themselves that this time they can trust Delilah… because what is the alternative?

Not just Israel.  The entirety of Western Civilization.

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Israel Prepares for Possible Fentanyl-filled Rockets from Hamas, Hezbollah (breitbart.com) Hammer it home in your mind: to a Muslim in jihad there are no civilians on the other side.  They’ll cheerfully kill millions and not lose a second’s sleep over it… even as they use our own values against us complaining about “civilian deaths”.  Rockets, or drones.

 

 

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How any woman in the West can be for Hamas after reading something like this is beyond me:

‘She was gang-raped, then executed’: Testimonies from Oct. 7 – JNS.org

The detectives have been processing statements of perpetrators and survivors. One of them is a chilling testimony of a young woman who hid with her boyfriend in a shelter, where she witnessed the rape and murder of another Israeli woman.

“I saw them forcing her to bend forward and then someone rape her,” the testimony reads. “They were dressed in olive-toned fatigues, she was alive, and then she fell silent. She was raped and then killed.”

From another article about the same incident:

‘Hamas terrorists gang-raped Israeli woman before one shot her in the back of the head as he was still having sex with her’: Horrifying account revealed as police gather evidence of sex assaults during October 7 attack | Daily Mail Online

The witness says the victim was ‘alive’ and ‘on her feet and bleeding from her back. But then the situation was that he was pulling her hair. She had long, brown hair.’

The woman told officers one of the Hamas gunmen ‘shot her in the head while he was raping her… didn’t even lift his pants’.

Something else in the first article caught my eye (bolding added):

One of the Hamas operatives who was captured said in his interrogation that each cell had a mission, and the terrorists were divided into squads for training. He described how they trained for years. Each cell received a battle plan, and to prevent leaks only the cell leaders were briefed on the actual missions.

The terrorists had ambitious plans, one of which was to take over a community and hold the residents hostage.

So what’s one of the lessons?  That Hamas planned this for years and years.  All the planning, all the training, took place while there was an extant ceasefire.  Hudna, remember?

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The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites | Frontpage Mag

Excellent – must read.  Don’t bother people with facts or call out their hypocrisy.  Related:

The Left’s Cheerleading for Hamas’ Terror | Frontpage Mag

The Left and Islam are more alike than not.  Both are totalitarian.  Both are expansionist.  Both brook no rivals.  And both see Western Civilization as the enemy.  And not for nothing is there the Arab proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”… until, somehow, they defeat us.  Any takers on who wins the Islam – Leftist slugfest?

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PALLYWOOD

 

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A little touch up before the cameras do “real” filming.

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‘Palestinian’ victim: ‘Mom, I’m fine, it’s just for the camera!’ (jihadwatch.org)

Fakery at its finest.  More on this, with a bunch of other topical links:

“PALLYWOOD” The widely discredited Hamas media propaganda arm is back spewing its usual lies (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

 

TERROR COMING GLOBALLY; ANTISEMITISM

Slouching Toward Kristallnacht | Frontpage Mag

Shoot back.  When threatened you cannot be passive.  Related:

One Sick War | Frontpage Mag

But the best way of understanding this sick war is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of antisemitism is again sweeping the globe.

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Around the world:

French Jews face surge in hatred – JNS.org

Skyrocketing antisemitism in Britain is ‘perhaps no surprise’ – JNS.org

London: ‘Death to all the Jews!’ (jihadwatch.org)

South African chief rabbi slams government: ‘You are Iran’s useful idiots’ – JNS.org

Head of Germany’s Jewish Community Fears ‘Hunt for Jews’ – Geller Report

NYC: Violent Jihadi Rioters Beats Jewish Man In The Head With Chair, Taunting, Laughing – Geller Report

Pro-Hamas demonstrator in London: ‘Hitler knew how to deal with these people’ (jihadwatch.org)

Montreal Jewish community targeted again as shots fired at yeshiva | World Israel News

Barbarism Is Winning – HotAir (image and quote from this article):

It goes far beyond politics and college campuses. At the pro-Palestinian protests you see people explicitly endorsing hatred and violence against Jews. Not just sly references to eliminating Israel, but open antisemitism and embrace of Hitlerian tactics.

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It’s not just in America. It is an illness that has struck the entire West. Wherever you turn–France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand–you see a rottenness in the culture. It’s not that everything is rotten–far from it. But once the rot has spread far enough it eats away at the healthy tissue.

 

 

What’s the sum total of all the above?  The campfire of civilization is dying, whether from domestic strife and machinations, or from enemies outside.  The campfire of civilization is dying, and the wolves are closing in.  Hey, I wrote about that:

Hungry Wolves and Darkened Campfires – Granite Grok

Written specifically about America, but it applies globally.

WATCH: Muslim and Leftist Terror Mob Attacks Jews Outside Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles – Geller Report

Springtime for Hitler at MIT | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

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Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF

Just found this article in my favorites file.  Some “concentration camp”.

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TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

Muslim Dems ‘Horrified’ by Plan to Halt Palestinian Immigration to U.S. (breitbart.com)

Heaven forbid we slow down the importation of potential terrorists!

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Biden admin isn’t sanctioning Hamas for use of human shields, drawing bipartisan ire | World Israel News

Time to understand Biden is not on your side, American Jews.  Related:

Biden giving tax money to mosques that seek total annihilation of Jews (wnd.com)

‘JIHADI’ JOE BIDEN considers waiving additional sanctions on Iran which will free up $10 billion more to fund the Hamas war against Israel (barenakedislam.com)

American Jews… you’re seriously still considering voting for this guy again?  Or “D” in general?  More:

US Jews Should Deploy Ultimate Weapon – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Past time.  More:

What to Do to Win the War – PJ Media(bolding added):

While Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is virtue signaling at a self-serving rally about anti-Semitism in Washington, this hypocrite refuses to let the House-passed bill to send financial aid to Israel even come before the Senate floor.

 

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MISCELLANEOUS

 

The Untold Exodus of Jews from Arab Lands

 

 

The speaker wrote the book UPROOTED.  Excellent book.

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Melanie Phillips Video: What the Media isn’t Telling You About Israel’s War on Hamas | Frontpage Mag

Speech and transcript.

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Dalia Al-Aqidi, Muslim Candidate for Ilhan Omar’s Seat in Congress, Visits Israel – The Media Line

I saw death. I saw torture. But let me take you to 2014. I was covering… I was a journalist by then. In 2014, ISIS entered the city of Mosul and started persecuting Christians. I was born as a Muslim, and I launched a campaign, an international campaign and I went on air.

I said I am the Sunni Muslim [and] I am going to wear that cross to stand with the Christians of Iraq and to stand with the Christians of the Middle East. And I won’t take it off until every Christian goes back to their villages and cities. Yesterday, I put [on] the Star of David and I say I am a Sunni Muslim that I would wear the Star of David until of the hostages come back.

Hope.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

An addendum in my critique of the person who said “Violence is taught” to what she must believe are the noble savages before they are corrupted to become violence-doers.  Here:

In forming tribes, we are like our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. Chimpanzee troops have been observed, for example in the Gombe Chimpanzee War, massacring another troop. To increase access to resources, chimpanzees may beat to death every member of an opposing tribe.

So, who taught the chimps this?

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The mythical advanced human society

For my high school American History project I did my term paper on the stock market crash of 1929.  One of the things that I read was that economists of the time, prior to the crash, kept saying that the economy had reached a “new plateau” and that things only looked up from here.  That crash shattered that claim.  So a quote to warm up:

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization – PJ Media (bolding added):

So the great achievement of Western civilization — consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit — was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.

But so often the resulting leisure and affluence instead deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.

As a result, the once prosperous Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Renaissance republics, and European democracies of the 1930s imploded — as civilization went headlong in reverse.

We in the modern Western world are now facing just such a crisis.

We are now faced with the civilizational cycle, as discussed by Bill Whittle (long but absolutely worth it):

 

Bill Whittle The Assault On Civilizational Structures

 

 

Or my cycle:

 

Success breeds confidence

Confidence breeds complacency

Complacency breeds distraction

And when distracted one becomes vulnerable

 

Distracted by all the wonderful gadgets and endless entertainment and apparent unending plenty, we have indeed become vulnerable.  People do, indeed, have stability privilege these days thinking things cannot backslide to savagery:

Try to remember that Sarajevo once hosted an Olympics. Remember that Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Remember that women used to wear lipstick and miniskirts in Tehran.

Try to remember that, prior to October 7, 2023, Israel viewed Hamas as “maturing” and benefitting their people from the calm of the ceasefire.  Meanwhile, they were planning and rehearsing for years.  So now the West is faced with the horrors that our stable, peaceful civilization thought they’d left behind in that New Civilizational Plateau.  Stability is an illusion:

 

 

As the sage Thomas Sowell said:

 

 

Be willing to do violence to those who do violence to you.  Be the ruder breed, or be consigned to extinction:

“The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

And concluding with this truth-hidden-in-fiction cold splash of reality:

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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If Dartmouth Health is right that administering puberty blockers and hormones to boys and girls to try to make them look like the opposite sex is medically necessary, safe, and well-researched, then systematic reviews that say otherwise by France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Finland are wrong.

Dartmouth Health’s written testimony against New Hampshire bill HB619 which would end child transing, signed by 21 clinicians including head pediatrician Dr. Keith J. Loud, asserts that “All gender-affirming care (GAC) is safe, age-appropriate, medically necessary, and well-researched.” However, every country that’s conducted a systematic review of the data has concluded that the evidence for these treatments is low and the risks are great.

As a result of its systematic review, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare issued a warning about GAC’s dangers:

These treatments are potentially fraught with extensive and irreversible adverse consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased cancer risk, and thrombosis. This makes it challenging to assess the risk/benefit for the individual patient, and even more challenging for the minors or their guardians to be in a position of an informed stance regarding these treatments.

The UK conducted a review of the data for gender-affirming care as part of their investigation of the Tavistock, the world’s largest gender clinic which was shut down this year. The resulting report, the Cass Review concluded that “At this stage, the Review is not able to provide advice on the use of hormone treatments due to gaps in the evidence base.”

The Council for Choices for Health in Finland concluded from its study that “Research data on the treatment of dysphoria due to gender identity conflicts in minors is limited.”

The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board stated:

The knowledge base, especially research-based knowledge for gender-affirming treatment (hormonal and surgical), is deficient and the long-term effects are little known. This is particularly true for the teenage population where the stability of their gender incongruence is also not known.

The two studies Dartmouth Health provided to the NH House Health Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee to support their claim that GAC is evidence-based are fundamentally flawed.

The University of Washington study Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Binary Youths Receiving Gender Affirming Care explored the effects of hormonal interventions on mental health after only one year of treatment. They didn’t find statistically significant improvements among the subjects who received hormone therapy.

The researchers based their claims of the benefits of GAC on the fact that while the treated patients didn’t get much better, those in the control group got worse. They ignored the fact that only 7 of the 92 members of their control group remained until the end of the study, making any inferences of causality irresponsible. The UW knew the study didn’t find causality, but covered up this information.

The other study Dartmouth Health submitted to the committee, Puberty Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation was mined data from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, which used mostly online convenience sampling created for lobbying purposes. How accurate was the survey? Among the study’s significant flaws, 73% of those who claimed they had taken puberty blockers reported that they had done so before they were available for puberty suppression. Although the survey excluded those subjects from their final count, why assume the responses from younger participants are accurate?

Not only does Dartmouth Health brush aside consistent and compelling evidence that GAC isn’t safe or evidence-based, but they also blackmail lawmakers with the trans suicide myth recently denounced by a leading expert in gender care: “Our multi-disciplinary program includes pediatricians who understand that banning surgical care to gender-diverse individuals is harmful, and, according to data, can be life-threatening.”

Related: Detransitioner Sues American Academy of Pediatrics for Fraud and Conspiracy

Whether Dartmouth Health’s claims are deliberate deceit or willful ignorance, the consequences are the same. Children are having their fertility destroyed and their health permanently damaged with experimental treatments.

 

Dartmouth Health Testimony HB619

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I don’t expect anyone at CBS to know how this works, but the story annoys me. It is clickbait from people in a business that pretends to know more than our knuckle-dragging morons (and their bloggers) about the NH primary and claims that “we” are defying Joe Biden. And it’s not just CBS.

Here’s that report shared at Gateway Pundit.

 

New Hampshire is defying President Biden and the DNC by remaining the first primary in the nation, rejecting their plan to put South Carolina first. “Republicans and Democrats up here were just not having it,” CBS News’ @JakeMRosen reports. https://t.co/DOT2Jnp0aZ pic.twitter.com/NCbvkizXaK

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 15, 2023

 

There are a few obvious points for the cheap seats. The DNC is a private corporation. They do not define what states can or cannot do (I know, it depends on the state). President Biden is not the head of the Republican Party, another private corporation acting (when it chooses) without regard to Uncle Joe’s opinion (or the will of voters). None of these individuals or entities has any authority to circumvent state law unless they get elected to office and change it. The law states that New Hampshire will have the first ‘Primary’ independent of which or how many political parties want candidates on that ballot.

All you have to do is pay the registration fee to be on the First in the Nation Primary ballot.

The Secretary of State is not allowed to change this. He or she must set the date seven days before the next scheduled primary. It is not something anyone can debate except in the legislature, should they desire to change it, and no one wants it changed. Not even New Hampshire Democrats.

In other words, no one is defying anyone unless you’d like to argue that Biden and the DNC have defied tradition to make their weak president look better in a primary process whose outcome they will “fix” if needed so none of it truly matters.

What is news is how amusing the process of getting from there to here has been—a few examples from our pages.

 

• Why NH Democrats Should Be Proud to Lose Their Primary
• 3,542 Democrats Switched to Independent So They Could “Interfere” in the NH Republican Primary
• New Hampshire Dems – We Won’t Be Following the DNC Primary Schedule ‘cuz Reasons …
• DNC Gives NH Dems Another Yard of Rope to Rhetorically Hang Themselves
• The DNC Just Screwed the NH Dems, and It’s Glorious
• What Will NH Dems Do If the DNC Dumps Their First in the Nation Primary?
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NH Dems have no choice. They can’t have their primary until March (DNC rules), but New Hampshire isn’t doing this twice, not that it would. The law is clear.

So, Biden is not on the NH primary ballot, but many other “democrats” are, as are independents and Republicans, so the local Dems are running a write-in Biden campaign. Why? Because they hate jobs, prosperity, medical freedom, open and unregulated internet, national security, low energy prices, global peace, secure borders, and economic stability. (I’ve suggested they write in Hunter Biden, but we’ll have to wait to see if that got traction.)

The results of that write-in campaign will mean nothing to the DNC until their official Democrat primary date for the Granite State, weeks later.

To summarize. No one is defying anyone.

Joe’s puppeteers deciding to start their circus tour in South Carolina is irrelevant to New Hampshire law. We were always having our primary first, and until the law changes, we always will.

There will be ballots with names on them, and citizens will be encouraged to show up and vote in defiance of tyranny (we would hope), though there is no guarantee.

That’s how this all works.

 

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