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Op-ed:

The Statesman's Address to Congress

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  

 

“Three thousand Hamas terrorists butchered 1,200 people from 41 countries, including 39 Americans. Proportionally, compared to our population size, that's like 20-9/11s in one day.”*

 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the October 7th Hamas attack.

While Joe Biden was preparing for his what in reality appeared to be a farewell speech to the nation, Kamala Harris declined to preside over a special joint address to Congress...which is a part of her official job description as vice-president. Saying that she had a previous speaking engagement in Indianapolis, Indiana...as in to give a speech at what was a five-day long Grand Boulé conference of the Zeta Phi Beta historically black sorority...the fact is Harris knew for over a month the date and approximate time that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be making a historic fourth appearance before a Joint Session of Congress in what now surpassed appearances by the great Winston Churchill. And even knowing this, Harris chose not to even ask to have her sorority speech be shifted to a different day and time...something that could easily have been done if only she had bothered to ask.

What a slap in the face to Benjamin Netanyahu...the leader of America's staunchest and most loyal ally... proving to all that for Kamala Harris her priorities will always be based upon an event's skin color scenario and not on the importance of the issue being addressed nor on the importance of the person giving said address... especially when it concerns the Jewish State of Israel.

But this is par for the course for the very woman who does not have a pro-Israel record, and who not long ago stated that, “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid into Gaza. No excuses,” and followed it up by threatened “consequences for Israel,” if they don't...thus sending a powerful message to all as to who whose side in the Israel v. Hamas war she is on. And it's no wonder that many pro-Israel world leaders have no respect for her...except for maybe the mullahs is in Iran and her “no friend to Israel” or Netanyahu puppet master Barack Obama, the man who has always been and will always be the one pulling Harris' strings.

And as for the 68 of the 263 Democrat members of Congress...plus lone Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky...who boycotted Netanyahu's address...I say to those who stand in solidarity with the Israeli hating, anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas protesters and agitators who were gathered outside the Capitol and also on Pennsylvania Avenue, “shame on you,...you are a disgrace to the very office you were elected to.” Siding with those screaming “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea” all while defacing government, public, and private property at Union Station, then moving on to vandalize a Christopher Columbus statue with the words, “Hamas is coming” while Netanyahu was speaking... gives new insight into who you really are. But Netanyahu said it better than I could by his truthfully stating that, “When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising, promoting, and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.”

 

 “Useful idiots” indeed especially when our very own U.S. Director of National Intelligence has confirmed that said protests against Israel and the anti-Semitic protests on American college and university campuses are indeed being funded by “Iranian government actors.”

And here I'll go but one step further and first say to those protesting Netanyahu's address over Israel's so rightful actions in Gaza, you folks willfully choose to ignore the fact that as per urban warfare expert John Spencer...the Chair of “Urban Warfare Studies” at the Modern War Institute at West Point...“Israel and the IDF have taken all efforts to preserve civilian life, and has done so above and beyond what international law requires” meaning that Israel's Gaza incursion has indeed resulted in one, if not the, lowest ratios of combatant to civilian deaths in the entire history of warfare. 

And second, I say to those very same folks who indeed are Iranian funded “useful idiots”...”idiots” who relished in spewing “allah-akbar” while trampling on and then burning both American and Israeli flags and replacing them with Palestinian flags while at the same time hanging Netanyahu in effigy and shouted Netanyahu is a “war criminal”...and this includes Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib who held up a sign that said “war criminal” while listening to Netanyahu's address...I say get the hell out of my country for you and your ilk are no better than the sum of the islamists you support. 

In fact, to be more specific, you folks are no better than...as per Benjamin Netanyahu...the Hamas “monsters who raped women, beheaded men, burned babies alive, killed parents in front of their children and killed children in front of their parents,” all while “They dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into the dark dungeons of Gaza”...thus reiterating the very scenario these anti-Israel protesters refuse to accept as truth.

And while House Speaker Mike Johnson warned of a “zero-tolerance policy” for any signs of disturbances in the Capitol building itself, U.S. Capitol Police have said that six people were arrested after disrupting Netanyahu's address to Congress. Disrupting Congress and demonstrating in congressional buildings is indeed against the law as per D.C. “Code §10-503.16(b)(2), Unlawful Conduct”**...as is the protesters blocking traffic while calling for a “student intifada.” And yet the fact remains that Israel...the now and forever home of the Jewish people...has been engaged for these passed ten months in a war for its very survival...a war that has become a 3-front war: Israel v. Hamas in Gaza; Israel v. Hezbollah in Lebanon; and Israel v. the Houthis operating out of Yemen. And Netanyahu knows well that Iran is their enemies common denominator making this, in actuality, a 4-front war Israel is now fighting.

And fight Israel will do for Netanyahu also made it clear in his address that Israel's current fight against those who wish its “elimination” is “not a clash of civilizations” but “a clash between barbarism and civilization.” No truer ever words spoken as were Netanyahu's following words that, “America and Israel must stand together,” for “When we fight Iran we are fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States.” How true those words are for we...the United States of America...are Iran's main enemy with Israel alone outwardly standing between them and not only us, but Iran's hoped for Jew-free, Christian-free world...and know that those of the Christian faith are surely next on Iran's “hit list” if you will. 

 

But I say that day hopefully will never come for not only did Netanyahu rightfully say that, “when we stand together, something important happens, we win, they lose,” but I say that as long as strong leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu...as long as strong men like Donald J. Trump are America's president...and as long as they and “We the People” continue to repeat these 23 words said by Netanyahu over and over again, “'Never again' must never be an empty promise”...“It must always remain a sacred vow – and after October 7, 'never again' is NOW”...“never again” will indeed be “never again.”

And in Benjamin Netanyahu's near closing remarks that, “All countries who are at peace with Israel and who will make peace with Israel must join a military alliance against Iran,” this one brave man let it be known that an Iranian “battle cry” of sorts was now being directed at the sum total of the western world. Why so...because when five allied nations armies took to the skies last April to shoot down what was an Iranian missile and drone attack against the Jewish state, those five nations knew then that by their helping Israel that they too were not not safe from the religious driven fury that is the hallmark of Iran.

And with that said, Netanyahu also let it be known that a new security alliance to counter the growing Iranian threat...the “Abraham Alliance” he said he'd like to call it...would if implemented be a Middle East version of and somewhat on par with NATO but much stronger. A “natural extension” of President Trump's ground breaking “Abraham Accords,” that would send a powerful message to Iran that the western world would no longer allow nor put up with their barbaric and savage ways, and that those on the side of Israel know well the “difference between good and evil” and “right from wrong.”

And so Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up his address before Congress, but not before his having introduced at the beginning of said address a number of IDF soldiers... including muslim and Bedouin soldiers fighting alongside Israel...heroes all...who helped not just by their fighting in this just war, but individuals who helped in freeing some of the 135 hostages now safely back on Israeli soil, which included former hostage Noa Argamani who sat between Netanyahu's wife Sara and her father during Netanyahu's address. And in a show of much welcomed bipartisanship, Netenyahu also thanked Joe Biden not only for his “half a century of friendship to Israel” and for being a proud “Irish-American Zionist,” but also for his and America's part in the aforementioned April event This was a very nice thing to do considering what Biden's own party, led by Obama of course, has done to Biden in getting him to withdraw from the presidential race, thus allowing Netanyahu a moment to cleverly get in a “bitch slap” at Obama, the man who while president relished in “stabbing Israel in the back” time and time again.

And so I leave you with these words spoken by the very man I will always consider to be the world's last great statesman, ”For 4,000 years Israel has been the land of the Jewish people...it has always been our home and it will always be our home.” And with that I say “amen” and “case closed.”

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Footnotes

* Read Netanyahu's full address to Congress here. 

**Code of the District of Columbia § 10–503.16. Unlawful conduct

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Op-ed:

Netanyahu...Keeping Israel the Jewish State

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

 

Israel...the now and forever Jewish State of Israel...the land God Our Father gave to his chosen people...the Jews. Israel today...a country literally risen from the ashes of six million dead...a land rightfully mandated by U.N. law to be the Jewish homeland. Yet it's a land never seeing a true day's peace for the islamic wolves at her door continue to salivate as they not so patiently wait to lay claim to land that was never and will never be theirs.

 

Read entire article and see video here:  https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2019/09/op-ed-netanyahu.html

Op-ed:

Netanyahu...Keeping Israel the Jewish State

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Israel...the now and forever Jewish State of Israel...the land God Our Father gave to his chosen people...the Jews. Israel today...a country literally risen from the ashes of six million dead...a land rightfully mandated by U.N. law to be the Jewish homeland. Yet it's a land never seeing a true day's peace for the islamic wolves at her door continue to salivate as they not so patiently wait to lay claim to land that was never and will never be theirs.

Israel...not only America's staunchest ally in the Middle East but in the world. Israel is also the very country we have the strongest military to military alliances with. Israel...a land of prosperity, modernization, and innovation where Jews and Christians live side-by-side as one Israeli people...a people whose borders are breached only by those still wishing all Israeli's...all Jews and Christians...dead. Israel...a country not unlike ours when it comes to the playing of political games for politics is truly also Israel's "enemy within." And that enemy within can clearly be seen in the recent Israeli election...an election that remains in contention and probably will be for some time. More on that in a bit.

And Israel and the United States share much in common as in our core beliefs, freedoms, morals, values, and ideological unity above all else...no matter that our actual systems of government are quite different in that ours is, for the most part, a more cut and dry major two party system where as Israel's government is built by coalition replete with minor party alignments. And our governing differences can also be seen in the fact that while we are a Constitutional Republic, Israel is a Parliamentary Democracy with its having no formal constitution per se. And yet some key functions of a constitution are filled by the 1948 Declaration of Establishment, the Basic Laws of the Parliament, and the Israeli citizenship law of 2013...a law which allows every Jew to become a citizen of Israel, pretty much automatically.

Also, our three branches of government...executive, legislative, and judicial...are somewhat different as well. Briefly, our executive branch is headed by the president while Israel's is headed by the prime minister with the president being more of a state figurehead. Our legislative branch is bicameral...the House and the Senate...while Israel's is unicameral... as in the Knesset. As for our judicial system, I think Israel's judicial system is better in one specific area as their Supreme Court, which sees justices appointed by a Judicial Selection Committee comprised of all three branches of government, has a mandatory retirement age of seventy. No Ruth Bader Ginsberg types hanging on out of political spite. And while our Supreme Court sees the president nominating justices, who if approved are appointed for life, we also have the U.S. Court of Appeals, District, State, and County courts...Israel does not.

And even though the three main branches of our two governments differ to some degree, they do at the same time basically serve the same purpose. However, it's our party system itself where we and Israel differ the most. How so...we are mainly a two-party system...Democrat and Republican...with some minor and some not so minor parties like the Conservative Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and a few others picking up the slack... while the Israeli government, as in the Knesset, is currently comprised of 17 political parties with 35 other political parties wanting but not having seats in the Knesset. This translates into the need for coalition building and for alliances to be formed...meaning to become the dominate party in Israel said party needs a total of 61 seats out of the 120 seats in the Knesset with Knesset seats being elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency.

Confusing I do know but it is what it is, and this system works...kind of...in a tiny country surrounded by a pack of ever hungry islamist wolves. And yet it's actually all this confusion that could hopefully still see the great Benjamin Netanyahu remaining Israel's prime minister.

But let me explain by first saying that I truly believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indeed the world's last great statesman...a statesman of the old and honorable school who is now fighting for both his political life and the future of his country all because of a man, a party, and an ideology that fail to understand that neither political deals nor peace can be made with the devil...the devil in this case being any and all wishing Israel gone. And let me also say that by making such deals with the devil Israel will no longer be a Jewish state...for what Hitler started misplaced allegiances and alliances will finish.

So the bottom line before this past Monday's "recommendations" alliances were made was that there was no clear majority winner in Israel's latest election as BiBi's “Likud” party held 31 seats...now up to 32 seats...and his opponent, ex-armed forces chief Benny Gantz's “Blue and White” party held 33 seats with both falling well short of the mandated 61 seats needed to form a majority government. Now also think of it this way...the right-wing “Likud” party is the Republicans and the centrist, leaning to the far left “Blue and White” party (actually a nick-name of sorts for the Kahol Lavan party) is the Democrats...conservatives vs. liberals Israeli-style...and both men and their parties needing to build a coalition of the lesser parties in order to either take over or keep power. But even that seemed to be at a standstill as just last Sunday Israel's President Reuven Rivlin began talks with both main parties about choosing a leader to put together a coalition...a “unity”...government.

“It's up to Israel's two biggest parties, the first and second that are almost equal in size, to join forces...so that you together manage and establish a system that brings a stable government,” so said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin just one week ago.

And why a “unity” government...because the center-left has no realistic option numbers wise of forming a government without “Likud,” and a now being talked about third election could lead to political chaos. But remember, a “unity” government is not new to Israel as Israel has seen several such governments...governments where major rival parties worked together to form a workable and successful ruling coalition. Such a coalition was formed in the days leading up to the Six-Day War, and after both the 1984 and 2009 elections.

And Netanyahu is open to forming a “unity” government, in fact he appealed to Gantz to help him "set up a broad unity government, demonstrate responsibility, and pursue cooperation," as well as to allude that he might be willing to accept a power-sharing arrangement with Gantz...something which Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres did in the mid-1980s. But Benny Gantz is not, as he stated that he would only lead or be part of a "liberal" coalition...a secular only coalition which would exclude the two ultra-Orthodox parties...the Agudat Israel Party and the National Religious Party...along with another nationalist-religious party.

Translation: under Gantz's version of a coalition the Jewish State of Israel would, as previously stated, most probably be Jewish no more...surely not with the secular, anti-religious government Gantz is proposing...shades of our very own Democrat party I'd say. And besides, Gantz also fears that a “unity” government with the right numbers and right parties could see Benjamin Netanyahu garnering bargaining power along with the possibility of him alone holding onto the prime ministership.

Benny Gantz chooses to forget that there is a reason why Israel is formally known as the “Jewish State of Israel”... Benny Gantz forgets the six million dead.

So what did Benny Gantz...the man who wants to sellout Israel to a two-state so-called Palestinian solution...do to stop the Reuven Rivlin proposed, Netanyahu agreed to“unity” government from forming? Gantz outwardly and quite maliciously courted the Arab-dominated “Joint List,” which said it was ending its long standing policy of not supporting any of the main candidates for prime minister after any elections. And why exactly is the “Joint List” ditching this their long standing policy...as per party head Ayman Odeh, it's because they must remain focused on their prime goal which is to “bring an end to the era of Netanyahu, so we recommend that Benny Gantz be the one to form the next government.”

Sleeping with the devil, thy name is Benny Gantz.

But even with the “Joint List's” endorsement...and know Gantz got 10 of their 13 possible "recommendations"...he still fell short of the needed 61 votes, nor does it mean that the “Joint List” will finally get to sit with any governing coalition, something they surely expected in exchange for their support. And this new alliance is suspect, in and of itself, as Israel's current leadership is both questioning and investigating this unprecedented increase in voter turnout by Israel’s 21-percent Arab minority...as in Arabs not voting before nor even being registered to vote now suddenly being registered and bused to the polls to vote for Gantz. Shades once again of our own Democrat voting fraud. And it's this busing action alone that allowed the “Joint List” to win 13 Knesset seats, now making it the third largest winner of seats...thus affording an Arab party...a decidedly anti-Netanyahu, anti-Israel party...too much power if you ask me.

And this sudden increase in Arab voter turnout...especially in six key precincts...surely bears the hallmark of outside involvement. George Soros or Barack HUSSEIN Obama perhaps....two arch enemies of Netanyahu who relish in driving the knife deeper into both his and Israel's back.

So that left, amongst but a few others, former Netanyahu ally turned turncoat, far-right former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beitenu party secured eight Knesset seats, to possibly be the potential decider. And while Lieberman has reiterated his previous calls for a “unity” government, he has also stated that he would not be recommending either candidate to be Israel's prime minister, leaving one to wonder if Lieberman could “be bought”...if you will...by Gantz as the lesser, in his mind, of the two evils.

And then there's the religious parties representing Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox communities... communities known as "Haredim"...who remain a key factor in this equation, with “Shas” winning nine seats and “United Torah Judaism” winning eight seats. But even if all their votes went to Netanyahu that too still does not bring him to the needed 61 vote either... “close but no cigar” as they say..

So what would happen if a “unity” government could not be formed...if Benny Gantz does not agree to one like Netanyahu has? It simply would mean there will be yet another election “do over” as Israeli's will head to the polls for a third time to chose between the “Likud” party...Netanyahu’s right-wing so-called "flagship party"... the party which rightfully opposes a Palestinian state (after all the so-called Palestinians already have a state and it's called Jordan), the party which rightfully supports "settlement" annexation, and the party which encourages privatization in the economy...vs...Benny Gantz's “Blue and White” centrist coalition...a coalition solely created to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu and his “alleged corruption.”

And know that “alleged” is always the operative word for the fraud, bribery, and breach of trust charges brought against Benjamin Netanyahu reek of the same nonsense as Donald Trump faced with the “alleged” Russian collusion charges...as in nothing but a set-up to discredit BiBi before his election as happened with President Trump.

And in an effort to avoid the above stated scenario, this past Monday, President Rivilin had a meeting with both Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz after he finished consulting with all political parties involved. As it stood at that point in time, Benjamin Netanyahu received 55 “recommendations” to become Israel's prime minister while Benny Gantz received 54 such “recommendations,” meaning that while both men failed to secure the needed majority of 61 out of the 120 Knesset seats, on Wednesday, President Rivlin tapped Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form the new government within 42 days after receiving the final results of last week's election. Especially noted was the fact that the National Democratic Alliance (the Balad party), an ally of the "Joint List," said it did not and would not support the " Joint List’s" position to vote for or support Benny Gantz for prime minister...thus clearing the way for BiBi to remain Israel's prime minister...if said new government is formed.

And while some progress was also made on Monday in the fact that Rivlin said "significant steps" in negotiations over the formation of what will be that new government were made, he made it clear that some "compromises" had to be made on both sides especially since Benny Gantz has stated that he will not serve under Netanyahu...not even as his "second in command"...until he is cleared of any wrongdoing. And to that I say he will be.

So now the task of forming a new government begins.  And to that affect Benjamin Netanyahu issued this statement, wise man and honorable that he is, "I know the only way to form a new government is a unity one.  We need unity to unify everyone and to reconcile the people."

And if a "unity" government cannot be formed, President Rivlin stated that the "opportunity" could pass to the next candidate who has the greatest chance of forming a new government...as in Benny Gantz...or else Israeli's would surely be headed back to the polls for election number three...something no one wants to see happen.

So for now Israel, with Benjamin Netanyahu as its prime minister, remains the Jewish State that God Our Father...and the U.N... intended her to be. And Benjamin Netanyahu's fifth term in office looks promising indeed... and for the Jewish State of Israel's sake...for the Middle East's sake...and for America's sake...I pray it is so.

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