Appeasement is not an offhand mistake the Democratic Party drifted into carelessly, or stumbled upon out of weakness. It is a premeditated strategy designed to strengthen Iran at the expense of America’s traditional allies, based on the misguided idea that “integrating” the Mullahs of Tehran into a regional system, and giving them a stake in the game, will make them responsible players. Its long-term goal is a new equilibrium between Iran and America’s allies, who will learn, in Obama’s terms, to “share the neighborhood.”
The Biden administration is clearly unable to change direction. The raw savagery of the Oct. 7 slaughter sponsored by Iran, which is now a nuclear threshold state, may have shocked many around the world, but it has not forced any serious rethinking in Washington. Instead, the Biden team continues to offer Iran sanctions relief. This is an increasingly dangerous game, and not just on the regional level. On the global stage, it signals the potential for a violent dissolution of the American-led security system that has kept the West safe since the end of the Second World War.
In addition to a formal commitment to Israel’s right to exist, migrants seeking to become citizens in Saxony-Anhalt will also face a process to determine whether or not they hold antisemitic beliefs, which Zieschang argued would violate the German constitution’s requirement to a commitment to a “free, democratic basic order.”
In light of the principle of hudna, such a German requirement of “commitment” would have a negligible import, in my view. Wouldn’t be worth the breath of speaking it, nor the paper it might be written on. Just another in the long series of (clever?) self-deceptions.
I love how now 2 out of 3 Ivy prez’s have now tried to walk back their obviously willful statements on antisemitism. Penn is now looking at a $100mill loss and similarly for Harvard and MIT. Their jobs are also now on the line…couldn’t have happened to a more despicable bunch. I never dealt with presidents at that level, but I dealt with 4 presidents cut from the same cloth at my small New England college. Nice to see them squirm….the more the better.
That would be taqiya or kitman but its a reasonable mistake to make
So the sign we lost the war on terror was the mass demonstrations ginned up in baghdad after the phony hospital bombing echoed in amman and beirut
The same could be said about mobs in london gotham la dc chicago what country are we living in?
Following up you trust these pirates of penzance character like general brown who learned nothing from the last 20 years garland seems to let the mobs run rampant well they dont wear red hats or have a cross around their necks
Re the young woman making animal noises…
Unique talent to be sure. Would get a kick out of a “where is she now?” follow up. Unless she’s doing cartoon voiceovers, that doesn’t seem marketable to me. But what do I know?
TommyJay, that is a somewhat interesting article, to be sure. However, right off the bat I get disappointed when the headline writer at Breitbart can’t grasp the difference between Saxony and Sachsen-Anhalt, which is next door. (File under “Get the Basics Right”.)
But leaving that aside, I think it’s worth noting that Sachsen-Anhalt is part of the former GDR lands, where the AfD has its strongest political presence. The administrative regulation described in the article seems to be laying the groundwork for legal justification for deportations later. Interestingly, though, the regulation does not come from the AfD, but from the CDU, which is part of the state government while the AfD is (still) an opposition party.
sdferr, Yes, just a signature is probably worthless. But the discussion of a process to verify, or ascertain if they really mean it, is at least promising. Now if it goes in the direction that Philip Sells mentions; a process that could lead to deportations, then it is even more promising. There are shades of authoritarianism that go along with such a process, but that rarely seems to bother Germans.
I had never heard of Saxony being hyphenated like that, but I wouldn’t know. Ha! So it’s wrong.
Cool vid. Reminds me of the bird call competitions. Favorite there being a girl who had the loon call down pat, including the posturing.
My favorite animal impressionist (best wolf impression I’ve ever heard) – Olena UUTAi
TommyJay, there is Saxony proper (has Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, etc.), and then if you go the next state over, that’s Sachsen-Anhalt. One could translate that as “Saxony-support-strut” if absolutely necessary, I suppose, which being right next door, could be viewed as keeping Saxony from breaking loose and sliding around 🙂 . After that, going in the same direction, is Lower Saxony on the old West German part.
As for authoritarianism concerns, I would say they’re no more or less ‘bothered’ by it these days than most New Yorkers or Californians, for example.
When you’ve got money to burn, advanced TDS, and couldn’t care less about the rather large skeleton in your closet:
Gadi Taub, Tablet Mag, “Anthony Blinken is Hardly the Next Kissinger”: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/antony-blinken-hardly-next-kissinger
Related:
Caroline Glick Show, “The Making of Sadistic Terrorists: Interview With Dr. Mordechai Kedar”: https://youtu.be/Q2r_qIr-hKE?si=vH-hzrgqI6E_vZQx
This is interesting. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that it is happening in Germany.
Affirm Israel’s Right to Exist in Writing if You Want German Citizenship, Migrants Told by Saxony
In light of the principle of hudna, such a German requirement of “commitment” would have a negligible import, in my view. Wouldn’t be worth the breath of speaking it, nor the paper it might be written on. Just another in the long series of (clever?) self-deceptions.
I love how now 2 out of 3 Ivy prez’s have now tried to walk back their obviously willful statements on antisemitism. Penn is now looking at a $100mill loss and similarly for Harvard and MIT. Their jobs are also now on the line…couldn’t have happened to a more despicable bunch. I never dealt with presidents at that level, but I dealt with 4 presidents cut from the same cloth at my small New England college. Nice to see them squirm….the more the better.
If you can’t tell, this made my day.
Oh
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-these-interviews-with-two-africans-who-explain-why-they-just-came-to-america-illegally
That would be taqiya or kitman but its a reasonable mistake to make
So the sign we lost the war on terror was the mass demonstrations ginned up in baghdad after the phony hospital bombing echoed in amman and beirut
The same could be said about mobs in london gotham la dc chicago what country are we living in?
Following up you trust these pirates of penzance character like general brown who learned nothing from the last 20 years garland seems to let the mobs run rampant well they dont wear red hats or have a cross around their necks
Re the young woman making animal noises…
Unique talent to be sure. Would get a kick out of a “where is she now?” follow up. Unless she’s doing cartoon voiceovers, that doesn’t seem marketable to me. But what do I know?
you were saying last night
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1733227161585164642
ham sandwich
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1733240589888434383
TommyJay, that is a somewhat interesting article, to be sure. However, right off the bat I get disappointed when the headline writer at Breitbart can’t grasp the difference between Saxony and Sachsen-Anhalt, which is next door. (File under “Get the Basics Right”.)
But leaving that aside, I think it’s worth noting that Sachsen-Anhalt is part of the former GDR lands, where the AfD has its strongest political presence. The administrative regulation described in the article seems to be laying the groundwork for legal justification for deportations later. Interestingly, though, the regulation does not come from the AfD, but from the CDU, which is part of the state government while the AfD is (still) an opposition party.
that detail comes from here
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/merz-israel-staatsbuergerschaft-100.html
sdferr, Yes, just a signature is probably worthless. But the discussion of a process to verify, or ascertain if they really mean it, is at least promising. Now if it goes in the direction that Philip Sells mentions; a process that could lead to deportations, then it is even more promising. There are shades of authoritarianism that go along with such a process, but that rarely seems to bother Germans.
I had never heard of Saxony being hyphenated like that, but I wouldn’t know. Ha! So it’s wrong.
Cool vid. Reminds me of the bird call competitions. Favorite there being a girl who had the loon call down pat, including the posturing.
My favorite animal impressionist (best wolf impression I’ve ever heard) – Olena UUTAi
TommyJay, there is Saxony proper (has Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, etc.), and then if you go the next state over, that’s Sachsen-Anhalt. One could translate that as “Saxony-support-strut” if absolutely necessary, I suppose, which being right next door, could be viewed as keeping Saxony from breaking loose and sliding around 🙂 . After that, going in the same direction, is Lower Saxony on the old West German part.
As for authoritarianism concerns, I would say they’re no more or less ‘bothered’ by it these days than most New Yorkers or Californians, for example.
When you’ve got money to burn, advanced TDS, and couldn’t care less about the rather large skeleton in your closet:
Democrat Mega-Donor, Who Visited Epstein Island, Says He Is Funding Nikki Haley to Stop Donald Trump