Trouble has followed Sara Catherine Jones since she married into the Biden family almost three decades ago. Not long after her 1995 wedding to Jim Biden, she took a job with one of his brother Joe’s Senate donors, who later accused her of “fraud” and “unjust enrichment,” according to court records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.

In the years since, she and her husband have been accused of reneging on debts and failing to pay their taxes, court and property records show. Like their nephew, first son Hunter Biden, they have reportedly sold the promise of access to their powerful relative to companies, several of which have gone bankrupt, some of which are tied to foreign countries hostile to the United States.

Now, Sara Jones Biden has emerged as a key figure in the mushrooming Biden foreign influence-peddling scandal.

GOP lawmakers seek to question the 64-year-old licensed attorney as part of their investigation of President Biden for possible impeachable offenses, including bribery. They are especially interested in subpoenaed bank records that include almost a quarter million dollars in checks Sara Biden wrote to her brother-in-law Joe, conspicuously marking them as “loan repayment.” Republicans want to ask her about the origin of those loans and whether checks “were funded by Biden influence-peddling schemes with China.”

“The Committees require you to provide details of these payments and other related matters,” the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees said in a joint letter they sent to her last month demanding she make herself available for a transcribed interview. In addition, they sent a subpoena to her husband for testimony and information.

Although Hunter and Jim Biden’s questionable business dealings – and their possible blessing from the president – are drawing increasing scrutiny, Sara Biden has drawn little attention until now. But court records and other documents show she has been a central player in the Biden family business for decades. They show how her and her husband’s desire for a lifestyle they could not quite afford has repeatedly led them to form relationships with shady figures and enterprises that often ended in lawsuits and even criminal investigations.

Looming over it all is Joe Biden. Documents recently obtained by government watchdog America First Legal, under a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that Sara and Jim’s main business, the Lion Hall Group, shows up in more than 3,735 emails generated by the former Vice President Biden’s office. The sheer volume of communications concerning his brother and sister-in-law’s business appears to contradict Biden’s repeated claims over the years that he was never involved in, or even aware of, his family’s business dealings.

A Match Made in Kentucky

Sara Biden’s links to Joe Biden date back to the early 1990s, when she landed a committee job with his close personal friend, Sen. Wendell Ford, a Kentucky Democrat.

“Sen. Ford has been an important part of our family for a long time,” Joe Biden said after Ford died in 2015. “He gave Sara Jones Biden, from Owensboro, Ky., her first job on the Hill when she graduated from Duke Law School, and that’s how she met my brother Jimmy.”

Jimmy and Sara weren’t just sweethearts; they were also business partners – with a taste for high living.

In 1997, Sara and Jim Biden formed the consulting firm Lion Hall Group with the help of Joe Biden’s old law partner, David Walsh, who acted as their registered agent, according to incorporation records they filed with the Delaware Department of State.

That same year, they bought an expensive home in the Philadelphia suburbs and struggled to make payments on the $650,000 mortgage, records show, even though a longtime Democratic fundraiser for then-Sen. Biden, Joel Boyarsky, loaned them as much as $200,000. In 1998, the IRS filed its first lien against their home to collect $145,000 in unpaid taxes.

In 2000, they borrowed $353,000 from another Biden donor – Leonard Barrack, a Philadelphia attorney who a few years earlier had agreed to hire Sara Biden at Jim’s urging for $300,000 per year, according to court and other records. Barrack would soon regret helping them out.

According to a lawsuit he filed against Sara Biden four years later, Barrack said Jim had convinced him that by hiring Sara as a partner, the Bidens would be able to attract clients to his law firm through their political connections.

“Jim Biden assured Barrack that he would be able to generate business for the Barrack Law Firm through his family name and his resemblance to his brother, United States Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware,” according to the 2004 complaint filed in Philadelphia County, Pa.

Instead, the document said, Sara Biden developed business opportunities for Lion Hall Group, where she served as president, a potential conflict of interest she allegedly never disclosed to Barrack.

The law firm, also known as Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, further alleged that she used its resources, including a travel budget, for personal benefit. The lawsuit said Sara Biden spent almost $250,000 to travel with her husband to Hawaii and Alaska and across Europe, including England, Ireland, France, and Italy. They even brought their son, Nicholas (now 26), and a nanny on some of the “lavish” trips.

“Contrary to Sara Biden’s representations, none of the foregoing trips generated any business for the Barrack Law Firm,” the suit stated. “The Bidens never intended to generate business opportunities for the Barrack Law Firm during their travels, using the trips instead for personal pleasure and to develop opportunities for Lion Hall.”

The couple also allegedly received a total of $500,000 in loans before Sara left the firm in 2003. These salary advances were never repaid, according to the legal complaint. The case, which charged Sara and Lion Hall Group with “fraud,” “unjust enrichment,” and “breach of contract,” was eventually settled. The terms are undisclosed.

Sara Biden did not respond to requests for comment. However, in a law publication profile, she asserted that she “co-founded” the Barrack law firm’s “institutional development and claims monitoring program.” Barrack apparently was unaware she was pursuing other outside interests while allegedly looting his firm.

In 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore and HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced a new $2 million partnership with NorthPoint Communications to help “bridge the digital divide” by providing broadband Internet access to more than 800 low-income urban neighborhoods.

Looking for political juice to help it win the licenses needed from the FCC for telecom development, NorthPoint invited Sara Biden to join its board, along with Hunter Biden. At the time, Hunter served as executive director of e-commerce policy at the Commerce Department, a Clinton-appointed position. It’s not known if his Aunt Sara did any lobbying for Northpoint, but Federal Election Commission records show that in 2000, she gave $1,200 to Northpoint’s PAC – People for Digital Competition.

Sara Biden does not appear in federal lobbying disclosure records as a registered lobbyist. Northpoint filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

Several years later, another Biden donor retained her and Lion Hall Group to lobby Sen. Biden and other senators for passage of a bill to help resolve tobacco-related medical claims. Although the bill, which Joe Biden supported, died in the Senate, the donor who pushed it – famous Mississippi trial attorney Dickie Scruggs – introduced Sara Biden to two associates, also Biden donors, who proposed bringing her into a potentially lucrative venture, according to legal documents.

Mississippi lawyers Steve Patterson and Timothy Balducci were looking to build a Democratic lobbying firm in Washington with global reach, and offered to make Sara a partner in the firm, which they planned to call “Patterson Balducci & Biden.” But the deal fell apart when Balducci and Patterson were indicted on federal bribery charges in an investigation that also ensnared Scruggs. After all three men went to federal prison, Biden was forced to return their donations.

Sara and her husband had more trouble with the IRS in 2013 when the agency slapped them with another lien for unpaid taxes, this one totaling $589,000. They also faced state and local tax liens, property records show.

The couple had just purchased a $2.5 million luxury vacation home in Naples, Fla., which the entire Biden clan, including Joe, used. But they racked up debt renovating the home – dubbed the “Biden Bungalow” – and went in search of more bailout money.

Owing a combined $700,000 in tax and vendor liens, they quickly found another Joe Biden supporter to rescue them. Over the next few years, millionaire car magnate and major Biden donor John Hynansky of Delaware floated Sara and Jim Biden “loans” totaling $900,000, records show.

During this same period, as then-Vice President Biden was the point person for U.S. policy in Ukraine, a federal lending agency – OPIC – authorized loans Hynansky’s company used to build a 7,300-square-foot Porsche dealership along the highway that connects downtown Kyiv to the Boryspil International Airport.

Mortgage records initially reported Jim and Sara Biden’s lender as “1018 PL, LLC,” obscuring Hynansky as the source of the loans. But the corporate entity is controlled by Hynansky, a 2018 document would later reveal.

The Bidens sold the waterfront house for a loss in 2018, and Hynansky released his lien on the property. However, Hynansky did not acknowledge full payment and satisfaction of the loans, according to the details laid out in documents recorded in Collier County, Fla.

Hynansky wasn’t their only white knight.

As the Bidens struggled to find money to pay contractors for hurricane-related repairs on their beach home and find a buyer for it, they went back to Joe’s old cronies from Mississippi. One of them, Mississippi lawyer Joey Langston, who had been sentenced to three years in federal prison for improperly trying to influence a judge, introduced them to the founder of Americore Health, who needed money to aggressively expand his chain of rural hospitals. Jim invoked his brother’s influence and said they had the political clout to drum up investment money, according to court documents and published reports. Impressed, Americore not only hired Lion Hall Group but loaned Jim and Sara Biden $650,000 for their personal use, even as the company hemorrhaged cash. The funds could have been used to help the company’s failing hospitals, which had to lay off hundreds of employees after Americore failed.

As soon as the couple received their loan payment, however, they stepped back from the venture, and the promised investments never materialized, according to a lawsuit filed against Jim Biden and Lion Hall Group by Americore’s medical partners after it went bankrupt in 2019. In a declaration, one plaintiff described Jim Biden as a con man who repeatedly made false promises “on the Biden’s [sic] family name.” According to a recent court filing, Diverse Medical Management and Azzam Medical Services, which hoped to manage Americore hospitals, claimed “Biden and his wife, Sara Biden,” made false assurances during a dinner they held at their home near Philadelphia that funding for the venture was forthcoming.

Meanwhile, Americore trustees have tried to claw back the $650,000 from the Bidens in bankruptcy court. An attorney for Jim Biden maintains that his client recently repaid Americore half the amount to settle the dispute.

After rural hospitals were forced to close their doors in Pennsylvania and other states, the FBI stepped in to investigate the Americore debacle as part of a criminal fraud investigation. While agents have questioned witnesses about Jim Biden’s role in the collapse, according to multiple reports, it’s unclear if his wife has been questioned. She did not reply to inquiries.

Around the same time the couple was raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the crooked hospital deal, Hunter Biden was sending hundreds of thousands more to his Uncle Jim and Aunt Sara – and impeachment investigators on the Hill hope to question Sara about the origin and flow of these funds.

Starting in the summer of 2017, Hunter began sending large wire transfers to Sara and Jim’s Lion Hall Group – some of which ended up in Joe Biden’s bank account. The source of the funds was CEFC China Energy, a Chinese conglomerate tied to Chinese military intelligence. After a year, Lion Hall had received $1.4 million from Hunter Biden.

On Aug. 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall after receiving $400,000 from a joint account he held with CEFC. On Aug. 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall’s account. Later the same day, she deposited it into her and Jim Biden’s personal checking account, according to bank records subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. On Sept. 3, 2017, Sara Biden wrote a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment,” exactly 10% of the $400,000 – matching a “10 held by H for the big guy” arrangement Hunter had made for Joe in the Chinese venture that was discovered in emails from his abandoned laptop.

Another personal check to Joe made out in Sara’s handwriting, this one for $200,000, was cut on March 1, 2018 – the same day Jim Biden got an equal amount from Americore. “Loan repayment” was also filled in for the memo line of the check.

If there were in fact loans between Joe Biden and his sister-in-law, the White House has not explained the reason for them or provided any details about their terms, such as the interest rates charged. A White House spokesman has only said that the release of the bank records is part of “a smear campaign against the president” by Republican investigators.

“There is nothing more to these transactions,” said Paul Fishman, a lawyer representing Jim Biden, “and there is nothing wrong with them.”

However, the wire transfers raised red flags with Hunter’s bank, Wells Fargo, which asked about their “purpose” and also questioned the recipient, the Lion Hall Group. The bank noted the owner, Sara Biden, is a “relative [and] the address appears to be a residential address,” adding, “What is the business type?”

Unsatisfied with Hunter’s explanations, the bank flagged the transactions as potential financial crimes, including money laundering, prompting the U.S. Treasury Department to issue a series of suspicious activity reports.

When her bank asked Sara Biden about the large transfers, she claimed the payments were for international consulting work (neither she nor her husband is registered with the Justice Department as foreign agents). However, she refused to provide any supporting documentation. The bank, in turn, closed the Lion Hall account, according to a 2020 Senate report.

Impeachment investigators tell RCI that they have subpoenaed related bank records from Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and Cathay Bank, in addition to Wells Fargo.

The Senate report noted that Jim and Sara Biden also benefitted from a $100,000 line of credit a CEFC executive opened for Hunter Biden in September 2017. After credit cards were issued to Hunter, as well as his uncle and aunt, they went on “an extravagant global shopping spree.” Records show Hunter, Jim, and Sara Biden used the cards for plane tickets, hotel rooms, and electronic devices, among other things.

House impeachment investigators tell RCI that Sara Biden, who acted as an apparent financial conduit, may hold answers to whether the president also benefitted from the Chinese largesse as part of a “foreign influence-peddling scheme,” which they say could “compromise his decision-making and threaten national security.” They also seek to find out how much interaction Biden has had with her business, the Lion Hall Group, while in office.

Congressional investigators suspect that Lion Hall, which was incorporated by Joe Biden’s old law partner, was set up to act as a pass-through vehicle to launder possible bribes to Joe Biden. They point out that Biden’s Mississippi donor pal, Joey Langston, pumped almost $200,000 into Lion Hall for unspecified services while Biden was vice president. According to subpoenaed Lion Hall bank records, Langston Law Firm Consulting Inc. began wiring money to Lion Hall within weeks of Langston losing his appeal in February 2016 to have his conviction for bribing a judge thrown out. A federal judge also turned down his petition to have his criminal record cleared. Records show that between March 2016 and October 2016, Langston made four payments to Lion Hall totaling $187,000. Investigators have asked Langston to come in for questioning and explain the nature of the payments. Attempts to reach Langston for comment were unsuccessful.

 

Paul Sperry | RealClear Wire

 

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Former US Senator Kelly Ayotte left DC after one term to land on the boards of a bunch of different companies, including “BAE Systems, Caterpillar, Bloom Energy, Blackstone Group, News Corp., Boston Properties, and Blink Health, as well as the advisory boards of Microsoft, Chubb Insurance and Cirtronics.”

No one would be surprised to find people with deep pockets who happen to have an interest in or are part of the companies supporting her run for Governor of New Hampshire. Not because there is value in a small state governor. Ayotte was and continues to be groomed for much higher office, and I don’t mean the US Senate.

As a one-term US Senator, she was managed by the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham as a future GOPe standard bearer. With only a few years in office, her name was dropped as a potential vice president pick. When she lost her re-election by a handful of votes rather than contest it and get back into the US Senate in support of a president the Deep State GOPe didn’t like, she gracefully conceded.

Ayotte became the popular rhetorical blonde, landing on large corporate boards where she was made familiar with an even wider range of insider interests and individuals.

The thinking behind this seems evident to me.

Kelly is not running for Governor to keep New Hampshire ‘New Hampshire.’ She is running at the behest of her sponsors because a governor makes for a much more appealing VP candidate in 2028 than some one-time Senate candidate. A governor also makes for a much better Presidential candidate in 2028 or 2032 (assuming we’re still electing them by then).

Yes, there’s a story to be told about all the outside money, but it is impossible to run for higher office in a small state without it. Almost no one can run and win at any level above the NH House on local money alone. But the outside money is not the story. It is what that cash is trying to buy.

Yes, it wants to elect a governor, but not so it can influence a governor. That money wants future access to the Oval Office, and Ayotte is on somebody’s list for a future campaign as either a donor-directed VP or a candidate for President.

And yeah, the same crowd will take Nikki Haley this time around if you are curious.

That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.

 

 

Disclosure: A majority of the board of the 603 Alliance endorsed Chuck Morse for Governor of New Hampshire, and I am a voting member on that board.

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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 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.

Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you,  In reverse chronological order:

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

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

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

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

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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

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

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

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

 

 

 

TOP OF THE FOLD

MEQ Features Bleak Assessment of Israel’s Oct. 7 Response :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

While the inflamed mood in Israel immediately after Hamas’ murderous rampage appeared to indicate that the conciliatory ethos would be a thing of the past, signs of a return to business-as-usual abound, from the resumption of fuel supplies to Gaza and an increase in Israel work permits for West Bank Palestinians to a hostage deal that disrupted IDF military operations in Gaza and helped ensure the bargaining process for future releases “will continue indefinitely.” Less than two months after October 7, “talk about destroying Hamas had nearly vaporized.”

Why the reversion? Pipes suggests that the Netanyahu government’s failures made it more vulnerable to myopic pressure from the Israeli public and scolding by foreign states. Avoiding future mistakes requires that Israelis “adopt a radically different attitude toward the Palestinians … and seek Israel Victory.”

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Avi Shlaim’s Fantasy Land – Tablet Magazine

Shlaim’s idyllic vision, based on the social and economic mingling of upper crust Arabs and Jews in Baghdad during a brief period of time in the 1930s, is not a precedent or pointer to anything. My prediction? Were a one-state solution ever tried, it would collapse in anarchy and drown in rivers of blood, compared to which today’s violence is a mere trickle.

There is something of a utopian nature in us Jews.  We long for a return to Eden, having somehow forgotten that this is not possible.  Consider this idiot: Why I, as a Jewish member of MCSG, voted for resolution 13 – The Mac Weekly

 

I want you to consider how this level of delusion helps our enemies.

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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

 

 

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Not since the Yom Kippur war in 1973, has Israel been allowed to win a war (barenakedislam.com)

America too.  Vietnam was a watershed loss – not on the field, where we were winning, but in the minds of the people at home.  And it was a clear and bright lesson learned by all enemies.  And while the below is about America in war, it applies to Israel – and more broadly the West in general:

Afghanistan Vet: Every Enemy Knows How to Defeat the United States Now – PJ Media

In fact, we have abandoned everyone who has ever helped us in a major conflict since 1953. Since Vietnam, our adversaries have learned that all it takes to defeat the most powerful, technologically advanced military that has ever existed is to simply be patient. We think in two- to four-year election cycles, whereas our enemies think in decades to centuries. When you’re up against supersonic fighters, ten carrier strike groups, stealth bombers, and the most elite force on the planet, all you must do is wait it out. Poke and prod and kill enough Americans to keep the war on the front page of the news, and eventually, an election cycle will come up with the slogan: “Bring our boys home.”

Related to that:

This is Why America Forgot How to Win – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

In the real world, you win the war by defeating the enemy, not by winning the support of the people. Wars are not democratic elections and the battlefield isn’t a political campaign. When wars are run by politicians, the end result is a defeat that comes from never really trying.

Why don’t we win wars anymore? Listen closely to Austin, McChrystal and virtually every military head honcho in the last twenty years and the answer is obvious. We don’t set out to win wars by defeating the enemy on the battlefield, but on the battlefield of ideas. Our forces are led by a generation of politicians in uniforms who have been indoctrinated, beginning at the academy level, to think of wars as contests for the hearts and minds of enemy civilians.

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Without a military leadership that understands the purpose of war, the next time we may not lose thousands, we could lose millions. And we could lose the United States of America.

IMHO the West in general.  Echoing the above, wars are won when the enemy is crushed and sues for peace.  Or dies.  Related:

Hamas calls on UN Security Council to end Gaza’s ‘brutal’ war – Insider Paper

UN invokes ‘most powerful tool,’ Article 99 on threats to international peace, to demand Gaza ceasefire (jihadwatch.org)

The moral collapse of the West – JNS.org

How Israeli forces take big risks to avoid harming civilians (nypost.com)

Everybody Is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza, but Where Do the Numbers Come From? – PJ Media

Netanyahu calls out Western leaders for pressing Israel to end Gaza war | World Israel News

Hamas and the Arabs can always count on the useful idiots in the West to take its side and force an end to the war before they lose.

The End Is Nigh: Hamas Operatives Surrendering ‘In Large Numbers’ (jihadwatch.org) (bolding added):

What will Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif do as their Gazan empire crumbles around them? I think they’ll do everything they can to escape. If they should manage to slip away to Egypt through a tunnel, the Egyptians won’t return them to Israel but will promptly imprison them as members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is the Gazan branch of the MB). If they can’t get out of Gaza, and don’t dare try to survive in the underground tunnels that may at any minute be flooded with seawater by the IDF, they’ll meekly surrender, or try to. Let’s hope that the IDF makes an exception in this case to its usual policy of taking alive those who surrender; Sinwar and Deif deserve special treatment.

I still think these leaders deserve the Jack Pershing treatment.  Publicly.

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Iran warns of ‘explosion’ after US veto on Gaza war – Insider Paper

Not good.  And being deeply suspicious of the current administration, I would suspect that – while I support the veto – inflaming the world against Israel is an ulterior motive.  More:

Iran’s Regime Soon to Have Nuclear Bombs; Hezbollah Is Next :: Gatestone Institute

Stopping the Mullahs vs. Getting Them All Set Up :: Gatestone Institute

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Why Did Hamas Attack Israel? – PJ Media

The absurd justification for Hamas’ atrocities against civilians that Hamas is fighting for land and orchards taken from them ignores the entire history of Islamic imperialism and the exterminationist approach that Muslims take toward people they define as enemies. Yes, genocide is an issue here, but it is the genocide that Hamas plans for Israelis and Jews around the world.

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‘Life under Hamas is like under ISIS,’ says Syria-born journalist deported from Gaza | The Times of Israel

This person has personal experience.  So, naturally, expect her experience to be dismissed by the SJW set.

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Why Are Islamists Claiming Non-Muslim Land? :: Gatestone Institute

Because Islam, ultimately, views the entire earth as its rightful due.  No less than every square attometer.  Especially if it was once, ever, held by Islam – as Israel was, as many lands were (italics replaced by underlining; link in the original):

Islamists believe that once a land has come under Islamic occupation and colonialism, the land conquered is forever Islamic. The Greek city of Thessaloniki, for instance, was once under Ottoman Muslim occupation. According to the official website of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, while it was under Ottoman rule (1430-1912), almost all Christian churches, parishes and monasteries were converted into mosques. Thessaloniki was liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.

Islamic supremacists such as Erdogan believe that because Thessaloniki was once under the occupation of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, it is a Muslim land eternally and must be returned to its rightful owner.

More on that:

Why Are Islamists Claiming Non-Muslim Land? :: Gatestone Institute

And:

Brewing Islamic Storm: Geopolitical Fallout in India as Palestinian Conflict Sparks Alarming Rise in Calls for Ghazwa-E-Hind and Muslim Genocidal Aspirations Against Hindus (Videos) – RAIR (rairfoundation.com)

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Hamas using safe zone in Gaza to fire rockets at Israel: reports (nypost.com)

“This is further proof that Hamas exploits the IDF’s humanitarian zone for terrorist activity,” the IDF said.

The IDF published a graphic showing the locations of the rocket launches from al-Mawasi, as well as an image showing a rocket launcher.

Of course.  Hamas wants Israel to retaliate, to create more camera fodder.

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Some history of Israel regarding 1964 (rumble.com)

Rumble video on my channel.  It echoes a video of Golda Meir who was being interviewed and said “Pull back to the borders of 67 and there will be peace…  we were at the borders of 67, why was there war”?

 

 

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Israel’s Work Permits for Gaza Enabled the Hamas Attack – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles (link in original):

The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned dogs.

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There’s no win-win scenario with Islamic terrorists: there is only a win-lose scenario. Anyone who thinks that they’re in a win-win scenario with those who want to kill them has already lost.

And that’s the thing about the utopian mindset of many people, including a staggering amount of Jews.  Repeating a video about the pro-peace, “Team Humanity” people who got slaughtered by the people they embraced and to whom they reached out, employed, and thought they had befriended:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Message-to-sjws.mp4

 

When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.

 

 

ATROCITIES

HAMAS savages using Israelis for target practice while the bodies pile up (barenakedislam.com)

Video.  I really want confirmation that this is Hamas using Israelis.  Note – horrific regardless, but confirmation would be good.  We cannot be so enamored with “proof” of what we want to believe that we ignore the required vetting process.

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Nazis, Muslims and the Jews (israelnationalnews.com)

Berl Katznelson, the foremost leader of Labor Zionism until his death in 1944, was a witness to Arab massacres of Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. He referred to “the Palestinian Nazis who succeeded to unite here in [Eretz] Israel the zoological antisemitism of Europe and the lust for the dagger of the Orient.” The connection between Nazis and Palestinian Arabs led the esteemed songwriter Naomi Shemer to offer a remarkable insight:

“Arabs like their murder hot, moist, and steamy, and if they will ever be free to fulfill themselves, we [Jews] will yearn for the good sterile gasses of the Germans.”

One only need look at the horrors Islam has perpetrated – not just on Jews but all its conquered peoples – to understand what will happen if Israel succumbs.  Related:

HAMAS BARBARIANS shot Israeli female soldiers in the crotch and breasts as part of ‘systemic genital mutilation’ (barenakedislam.com)

PURE EVIL: Hamas depravity that defies comprehension (barenakedislam.com)

Jew are considered “filth” to be killed:

Brigitte Gabriel – short ship on Islamic view of Jews (rumble.com)

Video at my Rumble channel.  More:

Jews are “human waste,” Europe and the US will do anything to keep them in Israel, says Palestinian political commentator

Related:

Savages – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?

These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.

But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.

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This is not about Hamas atrocities, but part and parcel of Islam itself:

Iranian security forces raped and sexually assaulted male and female protesters as young as 12 – with six victims subjected to gang-rape by groups of up to ten | Daily Mail Online

 

 

It’s Islam, Stupid – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

During the first siege of Vienna in 1529, when the invading Muslim horde decided that “children were cut out of their mothers’ wombs and stuck on pikes”, was that a protest against colonialism or capitalism? When a Muslim chronicle boasted that during the genocide against the Sikhs in the 18th century, “the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people”, was this a response to globalism or Zionism? Or was this just Islam.

Everything Hamas did during the bloody High Holy Days massacres has been done by Muslims throughout history and is still being practiced today. There is nothing new here whatsoever. Medieval barbarism never went away because Islam kept those grisly practices alive. It endures side by side with the modern world of smartphones, electric cars and AI because its worst crimes are an object of religious law and faith.

A Yazidi girl abducted by the Islamic State when she was only 12 described how the Jihadist who raped her explained to her that because she “practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it”. He “bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her. When it was over, he knelt to pray again”. The girl begged him to stop, but he “said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah.”

Meanwhile, an Iranian voice supports Israel (link to video):

An Iranian woman voices support for Israel (rumble.com)

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

SICK. Presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn Tell Congress that Calling for the Genocide of Jews Does Not Necessarily Violate their Campus Code of Conduct – Unless It Leads to Actual Genocide (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

But if you dare misgender someone… or strip Hams fighters after capture:

Dozens of Hamas Terrorists Surrender. Can You Guess Who Isn’t Happy About It? – PJ Media

I guess capturing terrorists is not a good thing for these people. Seriously, it’s amazing, after what happened on October 7, that these men would actually have the audacity to complain about how Hamas terrorists are treated — especially when the reason these men have been stripped is to protect the Israeli soldiers from hidden explosives.

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Flirtation With Evil Will Not End Well for Leftists › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

It is curious how people romanticize evil and insanity. The habit, I believe, is born in part of naiveté, or at least inexperience. The college student who prances about in a T-shirt bearing the image of Che Guevara, for example, generally has no idea of what a malignant figure Che was, how treacherous, how cruel, how murderous. He sees only a handsome “freedom fighter” swaddled in the gauze of exotic Latin flamboyance. The grubby reality escapes her entirely. Ditto with respect to Hamas.

Related:

J Street Lobbies Against Israeli War on Hamas | Frontpage Mag

The Unhinged Among Us | Frontpage Mag

For the first time in their lives, many of the ignorant protestors suddenly professed concern about refugees, colonialism, disproportionality, innocent civilians, and the rules of war.

But none could explain why the Palestinians who fled Israel in 1947-48 still self-identify as victimized “refugees” when 900,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Middle-East Arab cities about the same time do not.

The 200,000 Greek Cypriots driven out from norther Cyprus by Turkey apparently do not warrant “refugee’’ status either.

Victor Davis Hanson is always a must-read, and very insightful.  Speaking of useful idiot support of monsters:

Jewish woman kicked out of “Caliphornia” cafe after complaining about Jew-hating graffiti in the restroom (barenakedislam.com)

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The depravity of the unholy alliance between Leftists and Islamofascists (barenakedislam.com)

Video embedded, about 10 minutes.

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

Everybody is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza | Frontpage Mag

If you follow an asterisk down to the small print, you’ll see that the UN attributes its figures for Palestinian casualties in Gaza to the “Ministry of Health” and the “Government Media Office.” Which Ministry of Health? Which government? The UN doesn’t say, and its reticence on this point is likely due to the fact that the government and Health Ministry in question are those of Hamas in Gaza. The Guardian likewise attributes its figures to “the Gaza health ministry.” Yes, that’s right: the one that Hamas runs.

This would be like the New York Times during World War II reporting massive German civilian deaths in an Allied offensive and attributing its data to Josef Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Hamas obviously has very good reasons to inflate the number of Palestinian civilian casualties: the higher the numbers, the angrier Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Antony Blinken get, and the closer the Biden regime moves to cutting ties with Israel and isolating the Jewish state completely.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sometimes-civilians-get-hurt.mp4

 

Also to be found on my Rumble account:

Englishman speaking on civilian casualties (rumble.com)

Again, dead civilians make good CAMERA FODDER.

UN and Hamas: Partners in Crime :: Gatestone Institute

The propaganda campaign’s main aim – besides smearing Israel – appears to be to build overwhelming international pressure on Israel to agree to an indefinite ceasefire , which will give Hamas the needed time to regroup and replenish to continue its terrorist activities and to avoid being eliminated by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Remember, lying and deception are so entrenched in Islam they have separate terms for different means of doing so:

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Related is this video:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/urban-combat-casualties.mp4

 

Same video at my Rumble channel:

Urban combat fatalities – and the reality in Israel (rumble.com)

As is this one (link only):

2024 Oscars go to… Pallywood (rumble.com)

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Somehow I do not see obesity as being consistent with “open air concentration camp”.  Also take a look here at what this journalist misses about Gaza.  Some “concentration camp” – link to video:

Gaza Journalist misses her home (rumble.com)

My great uncle, his wife, and their teenage son were murdered in Auschwitz.  Somehow I don’t think that place was like this.

I, and others, have pointed out multiple times that Gaza could be the Singapore of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.  Beautiful beaches, prime trade location, arable land…

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No, There Has Been No Sixteen-Year Israeli Siege of Gaza (jihadwatch.org)

There has been no 16-year “siege,” but only a narrowly-tailored blockade of “dual-use” materials, such as cement and steel rods, that can be used to build tunnels and bunkers. The fact that there is not enough work in Gaza is hardly Israel’s fault; it is due entirely to the corruption and mismanagement by Hamas itself, three of whose leaders (Khaled Meshaal, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Ismail Haniyeh) have stolen from the aid meant for Gaza the colossal sum of eleven billion dollars. Israel has tried to alleviate the problem by providing well-paying jobs for 20,000 Gazans — a number it was about to increase before October 7, but of course since then, no Gazan workers have been allowed into Israel, given the belief that some of those guest-workers provided intelligence to Hamas about the layout of both kibbutzim and the house shelters, and the placement of security details.Contrary to Bartov, the Israeli “siege” never included food or medicine; Israel also had been supplying Gaza, until October 7, with food, water, and 50% of its electricity. None of this is taken into account by Omer Bartov. It is entirely possible he knows none of this, but more likely, he is counting on his audience not knowing.

This quote from fiction applies to reality:

“Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.”

― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

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Another video I uploaded with several people talking about “apartheid” in Israel.  The first woman is an Arab Muslim woman.

Arab Woman in Israel describes her experiences in “apartheid” Israel (rumble.com)

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If not for their double standards, the Western and Arabic media wouldn’t have any standards at all (barenakedislam.com)

Two videos.  More:

HAMAS THREATS: ‘Cut off heads,’ ‘Slit Throats,’ and ‘Slaughter Every Jew on the Planet,’ isn’t worthy of media coverage in America (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

TERROR COMING TO THE WEST?

UK: Two women beat a Jewish woman unconscious as passersby ignore the whole thing (jihadwatch.org)

London 2023 has become Berlin 1938. And it’s not just London.

Coming?  It’s here.  More:Man Fires Shots Outside Albany Synagogue, Screams ‘Free Palestine,’ FBI Working to Find Motive (jihadwatch.org)  University of Pennsylvania’s Jewish students taunted on campus with chants of “We are Hamas” and signs that say “Jews are Nazis” (barenakedislam.com)

 

MARYLAND Muslim teacher put on administrative leave because of of her email signature that supports the genocide of Jews (barenakedislam.com)

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Now ‘Jihadi’ Joe Biden wants to take in the 1.7 million Afghan illegal aliens that Pakistan expelled last month (barenakedislam.com)

And Palestinians.  And the already-ongoing stream.  Say, doesn’t a ban on immigrants from Muslim countries look good about now?

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/islamic-plans-in-france.mp4

 

Another French incident:

France: Muslim Migrant Stabs Elderly Couple With Butcher’s Knife Inside Crowded Mall Food Court | Frontpage Mag

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

American Jews Never Learned to Fight Leftist Jew-Hatred – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

The actual Socialist, the actual USSR, hated Jews.  Why, then, the fascination and attraction?

The pact between Islam and the Left manifested once again in the response to the Oct 7 atrocities should be met the same way. The Left should be rejected the same way the Communists were. The ‘Communazis’ have been replaced by ‘Commuhamasniks’, but that is the only thing that has changed. American Jews must relearn how to fight this enemy.

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David Sacks Explains Why Jews Are Becoming Republicans . . . Where They Belong (rumble.com)

Video, about 3 minutes.  I suspect a longer version exists.

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Biden’s schizophrenic Middle East policy is disastrous – he vetoes anti-Israel UN resolutions, but lets Iran attack US forces 76 times without decisive military response | All Israel News

MHO?  Playing to make Jews think he’s on Israel’s side, while he’s actually not.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

POETIC JUSTICE: Prominent law firm rescinds job offer to Muslim attorney because of her support for Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

Hey, cancel culture works both ways.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

 

 

Weimar America – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

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A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a pro-Palestinian university professor.

Jewish students were trapped in a Cooper Union university library surrounded by pro-Hamas demonstrators. At MIT, Jewish students were warned to keep away from particular areas of the campus deemed dangerous for them.

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Once a society mainstreams the values of thuggish brownshirts, and ignores their “from the river to the sea” eliminationist chants and screams of “beat the f—king Jew,” then the next emboldened step is foreordained.

Familiariaze yourself with this.  Pin, in your own mind, where we are now:

 

 

I was listening to those Ivy League Presidents unable to answer a simple YES (or NO) to a question about whether calling for genocide and/or the destruction of an entire nation rises to an actionable item under their own codes.  The legalese bob-and-weave that they all did utterly disgusts me.

Universities Contextualize Calls for Genocide of Jews | Frontpage Mag

The students, of course, are no better:

Survey: Students Who Hate Israel the Most Know the Least About It | Frontpage Mag

I’ve seen students asked “Which river, which sea”? and they have no idea.  It’s the Current Thing, the trendy thing, and they have no idea what they’re supporting other than eeeeeevil colonizers being taken down.  But this is how it starts.  And we’ve seen how this ends.

Stop pretending otherwise.

Don’t let “Oh that’s just not possible” or “That can’t happen here” be what you continue to intone, mantra-like, until you get dragged from your home or worse.

Don’t be a TWENTY-NINER.

 

Nazi Book Burning

 

 

My transcription starting about 7:41, bolding added:

“…my mother who, when I asked her if we had to worry about a guy like Hitler, she said: ‘No, we are living in a Democracy, we have the protection of the police, nobody is going to hurt us’, so talk about warning signs there were plenty of them.  Did we take them serious, my family didn’t, never believed the Germans would stoop so low they would implement the threats one fanatic uttered…”. 

James Woods Advises Jews to Arm Themselves in Response to Shocking Poll – Twitchy

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