Op-ed: 

Lies Told...Truths Not Accepted 

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.

 

“The Biden administration's policy toward Israel and around the world is to punish our allies and boost our enemies.” - Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

It's official...Joe Biden has proven himself to be a traitor to Israel on par with that of his puppet master Barack Obama. Two men interchangeable now working in tandem it seems...two men whose past and present actions have exposed which side they're really on in regards to any and everything Israel.

Two men with overlapping policies...dangerous anti-Israel policies...with Biden now trying to stop Israel from finishing its intended mission...as in the total elimination of Hamas from Gaza. And with Biden channeling his inner Obama, not only has he delayed the entirety of Congress' approved arms shipments* to Israel, but he has withheld from Netanyahu key intelligence information pertaining to the exact locations of Hamas' leadership. And Biden is doing so to cater to the whims of the anti-Israel/ antisemitic sorts here at home in hopes of garnering their political favor come November's election.

Remember, Obama's inner hatred towards Israel and the Jewish people can be summed up in this original sentence from his book “The Audacity of Hope”...that is before editing took place...as in, “I will stand with the muslims if the politics winds shift in an ugly direction.” And Biden's stated “unwavering support” for Israel...said soon after Hamas' October 7th attack on Israeli civilians...were obviously words spoken with fingers crossed behind his back. And why...because while Obama knew he'd always get a second term in office courtesy of his having played the “race card” throughout his first term thus solidifying for himself a second term, Joe Biden...even with Obama pulling his strings...has never been assured of that...voter “irregularities” not withstanding. And Obama knows that when Biden dares to go “off script” and speaks for himself, that things not meant for public consumption suddenly become newsworthy...as has recently happened.

Time for Obama to pull Biden's strings tighter, especially after his laying down “red lines” to Netanyahu...“red lines” telling BiBi that he dare not cross into Rafah to “take out” what remains of Hamas. And so here I say to Biden, how dare you tell the duly-elected leader of a sovereign nation what can or cannot be done in a time of war. Remember Biden...like Obama...is no friend to Israel*...he never was and he never will be. And  this all came to a head roughly two weeks ago when the U.S. State Department informed Congress that it intended to bypass laws that bar the U.S. from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel. In fact, in the past Biden has waived these sanctions, but now he says they'll be extended through April 30, 2025.

Guess Biden forgets that he probably won't be in office come 2025...voter “irregularities” again not with standing.

So what exactly would these waivers accomplish? Let's start with “aiding and abetting” our ally Israel's enemies as said waivers would allow U.S. weapons to be sent to nations that not only support and work closely with Hamas, but with other Iranian proxies as well. Dubious indeed for the fact is that these waivers were announced just one day before Biden “threatened” and then followed through the withholding of the aforementioned, Congress approved, weapons delivery to Israel. And Biden must be called to task...in fact some have already called for his impeachment***...for these actions reek of yet another “quid pro quo”...as in “we'll give you this only if you give us that”...type of scenario. How so...because Biden is “leveraging” already approved U.S. dollars against Israel's intended military actions in Rafah...actions that might...or might not...entail heavy “collateral damage.”

But I see Biden's actions actually bordering on, if not crossing over, into treason. How so...because by his withholding promised “offensive aid” to Israel, Biden is not only “aiding and abetting” Israel's enemies but America's enemies as well. Remember, while Hamas is but one of Iran's proxy armies that use Iranian monies and equipment in their terrorist attacks, also remember that Iran is an enemy of the U.S., and that Hamas remains on the “U.S. Terrorist Watch List.”

In fact, in a recent CNN interview while Biden did say that Israel would continue to see U.S. support for its “defensive systems”...as in the “Iron Dome”...he quickly added the words, “If they [meaning Israel] go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.” But forgotten by Biden is that the weapons and especially the bombs he's now withholding from Israel...including another 1,800 U.S. made 2,000-pound “heavy” bombs, and 1,700 U.S, made 500-pound bombs, plus lesser charged bombs...bombs more adaptable to lessening “collateral damage”...are the very bombs that Israel has been using in Gaza since their retaliatory strike on Hamas began. Simply, Biden is only condemning said bombs use now because of the growing pro-Hamas/pro Palestinian protests here at home which might help garner him some votes.

But no matter for Israel has stockpiled enough of these “heavy bombs” to use in Rafah, it's the smaller diameter bombs...aka “precision bombs” used more so for “targeted kills”...that Israel needed more of if “collateral damage” was to be kept to a minimum. So Joe Biden's dancing on Obama's pulled stings has actually forced Israel into using the larger bombs, thus allowing Biden to not only blame Israel for the increase in civilian deaths, but to also garner votes...a cleverly crafted move indeed.

And yet Biden remains a foolish man for this war never focused on “precision” based “targeted kills” for that scenario never ends wars in fact, at times, it starts or drags out wars. Israel must do whatever it takes as they push deeper into Rafah, for the fact remains that with northern Gaza remaining basically “ungoverned” with sporadic fighting continuing, remnants of Hamas have begun to strike out against Israel again. In fact, just before Mother's Day, a small faction of Hamas operatives launched a rocket into the middle of a children's playground in Be'er Sheva, Israel. And while, thankfully, no children were killed, this act plus recently released IDF drone footage showing Hamas operatives launching attacks on Israel from a UN Works and Relief Agency warehouse while using official UN vehicles for transport into Gaza...clearly shows why Hamas must be eradicated in full for only with Hamas' total defeat will Israeli's be able to live in what passes for a mere semblance of “normalcy,” let alone with a sense of “security.”

But the question remaining is, how can “normalcy” or “security” return to Israel when the very country she thought was her ally is openly stabbing her in the back. And proof of this can be seen when Biden, just a week or so ago, sent an unclassified report to Congress on Israel's, what he called, “incursion into Gaza.”

An “incursion” is usually referred to as a limited “hostile entrance” into a territory...an unexpected “raid” if you will. But Israel did not “raid” Gaza...Israel openly and rightfully declared war on Hamas and all its bases of operation in Gaza, which now encompasses Gaza itself along with its Hamas supporting populace...a populace who have yet to condemn Hamas or their barbaric October 7th attack on what were defenseless Israeli civilians...an savage attack specifically targeting women, babies, and young children.

But what exactly was in the report...a report deliberately held back until Biden could shed phony crocodile tears in a televised speech given on “Holocaust Remembrance Day?” Simply, a twisting of truth to aid Biden in his quest for the anti-Israel/pro-Hamas vote. Stating that Israel, “likely used U.S.-made arms to inflict a higher number of civilian casualties in Gaza than is broadly deemed acceptable”...pray tell what number of civilian casualties is mitigated to be acceptable in a time of rightfully declared war...a war against those who committed barbaric, savage, and inhumane acts...war crimes plain and simple.

Also, stated in the report was that, “the State Department found that it is reasonable to assess that there are possible violations with hundreds of investigations open.” Investigations into what, as mere common sense dictates that sometimes “an eye for an eye” does indeed become the very solution to a problem. Also, in regards to the war Israel now finds herself in, if those siding with Hamas and their Palestinian supporters truly did not want casualties... if they were really concerned about what surely would be a mounting civilian death toll...Hamas should not have provoked Israel...the one country most know would rightfully respond ten-fold to their having been attacked.

Simply, the ones needing investigation are the traitors within our government's ranks who dared to questions our ally Israel's actions. Guess these paper pushing, leftist aligned, bureaucrats and politicians still don't grasp the meaning of the words “Never Again.”

And while this report does not say that Israel has violated any U.S. weapons policy or international humanitarian law...the very nature and timing of the report's release is what's most telling. How so...because the report's release just happened to coincide with the ongoing increase in pro-Hamas/pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests here in the U.S...protests whose partakers cry over the overinflated numbers of Palestinian lives lost.

Remember publicity, even negative publicity, in today's America equates more times than not as votes garnered along “blue party lines,” especially when numbers are deliberately manipulated to help push forward ones chosen cause.

Forgotten by these folks is the fact that in war innocent people die...the very nature of war always sees innocent blood being shed. But what not to be cried over is numbers being manipulated to help push forward a cause based upon lies. Simply, the number of (anything but) innocent Palestinian lives lost due to Israeli bombings has been overinflated two-fold. In fact...and surprisingly it's the United Nations...the organization who detests Israel the most...specifically the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...who recently revised and lowered its Palestinian death count by half...including the number of women and children killed in the seven-months since Hamas started its war with Israel.

So much for Hamas’ death toll numbers...numbers continuously disputed by Israel as said numbers came mostly from the Hamas controlled “Gaza Ministry of Health”...numbers taken as truth by both Biden and the anti-Israel sorts who blindly accept the word of Hamas over that of our ally Israel.

“We will fight with our fingernails if necessary.”                   - Benjamin Netanyahu. May 9, 2024 

The Israel/Hamas War will eventually end, for war itself begins and ends in its own dictated time. However, I have a suggestion that might help end this war sooner rather than later, and I'll start by saying that those in Israel calling for Netanyahu's resignation for not having secured all the hostages release, to please wake up to the fact that few if any hostages are still alive.

It's my belief that most were killed soon after Israel's entry into Gaza, and that's why Hamas has not surrendered or even agreed to another ceasefire as the hostages, to them, were always but bargaining chips...bargaining chips now gone...bargaining chips likely used as “human shields” to protect Hamas' own miserable lives. Hamas never intended to release all the hostages for to do so would show weakness and vulnerability on their part...not something genocidal terrorists want as their calling card.

Netanyahu knows this as likely as do most not personally involved, an unfortunate reality that the families of those taken still have trouble facing. BiBi Netanyahu made a decision to save his country and its multitude of people, and while we cry for the hostages now likely lost, imagine instead having to cry for the entire nation of Israel and the sum of her people lost.

Simply, Israel must end this war by any means possible, and it's time for...I believe...Biden and Obama's instigators in Israel to stop fueling the pain hostage families feel. The longer Israel has roadblocks thrown in its path to victory, the more the death toll rises with peace moving further and further away. And whether some want to accept it or not the only ones then left standing will be Biden, Obama, Iran, and the indoctrinated folks who relish and feed on hate. Case closed. __________________________________________________________

* As I was writing this article Biden approved a “possible transfer” ...note the word "possible" of $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, minus Congress' approved 1,800 U.S. made 2,000-pound “heavy” bombs; 1,700 U.S, made 500-pound bombs; plus lesser charged bombs including “precision bombs” which would help keep “collateral damage” to a minimum.

** Click to read my article: 'Obama and Biden...No Friends of Israel.'

*** Amongst those calling for Biden's impeachment for refusing to send certain promised arms to Israel by soliciting a “quid pro quo” with Israel, is U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) who filed articles of impeachment (HR 1220) on May 13, 2024 accusing Biden of “abusing his authority by leveraging vital military aid for policy changes.”

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed: 
Filling the Mainstream Media Void 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

As we were all focused on Passover and Easter preparations and celebrations, and as the fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame dominated the 24/7 news cycle, three other key news stories slowly started making the rounds including last Friday's political bombshell concerning former presidential candidate and now Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

So let me start by saying that I volunteered and campaigned for Romney twice...when he ran for the nomination against John McCain and when he ran for the presidency against Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Romney's message and platform were strong as well as his having political experience as the Republican governor of a blue state. He was business savvy and ever so handsome...the epitome of a loving husband and family man. I worked hard as a campaign volunteer and even got to watch Romney debate Obama at a special “invite only” debate watching party. And while I felt he was not forceful enough against Obama at certain points in that particular debate, I held out hope that he'd pull off a presidential win...he truly was the better candidate...the better man...for the job after all.

Never did I think Americans would be so misguided or foolish enough to elect a community organizer, let alone an islamic condoner, to the presidency of these United States. But then I never thought the liberal media would be so successful in anointing a seemingly politically inexperienced half-black man as America's supposed “saviour-in-chief.”

And sadly, I too was fooled for the man I thought Mitt Romney was back then has now morphed into nothing but the late RINO John McCain's Senate replacement. And Romney is worse than McCain for McCain's disdain for Donald Trump could be called a somewhat “righteous stand” against Trump's uncalled for POW comments. But Romney...an early critic of candidate Trump...put on a grand show of pretending to mend fences when he was asked by now President Trump to interview for the position of Secretary of State...which fortunately he did not get.

Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me. Fool me three times...and it's time for me to set right a grievous wrong as my head hangs in shame for ever having supported this man. And why...because Romney never moved on from his anti-Trump stance...it grew and festered as he became just another RINO come home to the Senate to roost.

A RINO indeed for Mitt Romney could not keep his mouth shut or his tweeting finger still after reading the redacted version of the Mueller report. Choosing to criticize President Trump, his administration, and the report itself, Romney, last Friday, tweeted that he was “sickened” by the “dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land including the President.”

“Sickened” by what...that no evidence of “collusion” either by Trump or his campaign was found...“sickened” that no chargeable “obstruction of justice” was found...“sickened” to such a degree that even proverbial “nice guy” former AR Gov. Mike Huckabee felt he had to jump to Trump's defense by saying that what made him “sick” was the thought that, “Mitt Romney might have become president in 2016.” 
 
But Mike Huckabee is right...for what Mitt Romney did was give the Democrats fodder to keep the “collusion” now morphing into “impeachment” nonsense going...but maybe that was RINO Romney's intention all along...payback for Trump's publicly criticizing him after losing to Obama most likely. Any thing's possible in today's heated political climate with Romney likely continuing to spew his anti-Trump rhetoric.

Next up and coming on the heels of the Notre Dame fire, the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka saw a wave of eight early Sunday morning explosions rocking three Catholic churches holding Easter services as well as three upscale tourist hotels. At least 359 people were killed (as per the latest count) with 500+ more injured, including at least two Americans (one being 40-year old Dieter Kowalski from Denver CO) and eight British citizens among those listed as killed.

Now believed to be in response to last month's Christchurch, New Zealand mosque massacre, the well coordinated attacks, as per Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene, were carried out by Sri Lankan “muslim extremists” from "National Thowheed Jama'ath" (NTJ)... a local group that is both the fairly new islamist faction of the two decades old less extremist group Thableekh Jamaat, the group previously known for vandalizing Buddhist statues, and who in 2016 saw one of its leaders being arrested for “inciting racism.”

And with said attacks being highly suspected of having help from an “international terror network”...to that affect ISIS' news agency Amaq announced earlier this week on Telegram (via the NAshir News Agency) that the attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out by ISIS fighters. Also of note is that "National Thowheed Jama'ath” has on numerous occasions not only threatened to kill Sri Lankan nonbelievers but to bring islamic fundamentalism to the country as well.

And to date over 40 arrests have already been made, and two of the seven suicide bombers...including Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, who blew himself up at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel's Taprobane Restaurant as people were eating breakfast and Zahran Hashim, a well-known muslim “preacher” who claimed, “Allah created this land for Muslims”...have been identified as members of said goup. But to make matters worse, local intelligence had received warnings a full ten days prior to the attacks that “prominent churches” could be the target of suicide bombers. In fact, "National Thowheed Jama’ath" was specifically named in a police advisory to local security services as one they believed posed a threat to Catholic churches.

However, due to what he called “friction” within opposing factions of the government leadership, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issued a statement saying that neither he nor his cabinet ministers had been notified about those warnings so little to nothing was done to keep the churches safe...safe from what Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera called “a well-coordinated attempt to create murder, mayhem and anarchy.”

Mission accomplished I'd say...mission accomplished because like within the different sects of Christianity who are constantly at odds with each other over just whose version of Christianity is the version Jesus intended...Sri Lanka has also seen religious issues arising from its own 1983-2009 civil war...a war between Hindu separatists from the minority Tamil ethnic group vs. the Sinhalese ethnic Buddhist majority. And as long as religious odds exist within a given country, islam will continue making inroads into that country whether or not they had significant numbers population wise, as now witnessed in Sri Lanka, a nation of 23 million people that currently is less than ten percent muslim...less than ten percent now but whose numbers are rapidly growing.

And as Sri Lanka starts to bury its dead, more bombs were discovered...bombs that thankfully did not go off. Found by Sri Lankan police were 87 bomb detonators at the capital of Colombo's main bus station, and on Monday a large bomb was defused on an access road leading to the country's international airport.

So as the scale of the intent to do as much carnage as possible becomes reality, Sri Lanka is being held hostage in fear of those who truly are out to kill us all.

And lastly, a big news item this week saw President Trump again standing strong not just against Iran herself but against Japan, South Korea, Turkey, China, and India saying that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. economic sanctions and could face economic penalties themselves if they continue to import oil from Iran.

Announced in a televised news conference this past Monday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the decision not to reissue those country's waivers when they expire this May 2nd, was made after already having granted those countries extra time...as in eight waivers...to find other oil suppliers. Being done to “bring Iranian oil exports to zero” by “squeezing Tehran’s government” of even more much needed revenue...revenue that had been $50 billion a year before the sanctions ...while at the same time trying to both force political change in the islamic nation as well as trying to get Iran to “rein in” its military actions across the Middle East, most especially in Syria.

However, while U.S. officials say they don't expect to see any significant reduction in the actual “supply of oil” given production increases by other countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE...and with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid a-Falih saying that his country "will coordinate with fellow oil producers to ensure adequate supplies are available to consumers while ensuring the global oil market does not go out of balance"...I still must play “devil's advocate” for a bit as we must be forewarned that this move could...and I only say could...still lead to higher oil and gas prices at the pump...at least temporarily...as sometimes prices have nothing to do with “supply” but have everything to do with simple “demand.”

 

And that “demand” was reflected by Monday's global crude prices rising three percent in Asia to more than $74 a barrel, the highest they've been since October, as soon as word of what Trump was doing leaked out. And let's not forget that this move...as rightful as we feel it may be...will indeed draw the ire of some of our allies while at the same time seeing a White House shuffling of some policy priorities, including maybe putting the all-important, ongoing trade talks with China and the garnering of China's assistance in helping to contain Kim Jung-un's nuclear ambitions, on the back burner for a bit.

So while Italy, Greece, and Taiwan, three other countries also originally waivered in, have stopped importing oil from Iran, the a fore mentioned five “big boys” have not. In fact, those five have actually begun lobbying for said waivers to be extended yet again no matter that Trump said “time's up.” And as for our NATO (supposed) ally Turkey, they continue to claim that Iranian oil is critical to meeting Turkey's energy needs and that as Iran's neighbors they cannot completely cut economic ties or close its economy to Iranian goods nor can Iran's economy be closed to Turkish goods.

Well obviously they can be or else President Trump would not be doing what he is doing...as in cutting off the head of the snake while its body withers and dies on the ground. A hoped for fitting end to the mother of all snakes...Iran.

So there you have it...three of this week's top stories as we move away from Notre Dame a bit...confident that it will be rebuilt...and back we go to stories that do have a greater and more direct impact on our country than does 850-year old Notre Dame.

 
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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