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J. Kb

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The USS Liberty

Nov 8, 2023 J. Kb 17 comments

In my last post, Chas left this comment:

If you spend any time on Basef Right X, you might see posts like this:

Or maybe this:

https://twitter.com/MiscStuff084/status/1720528545401676159?s=19

 

The USS Liberty incident another antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Based Right latched onto to justify their Jew hatred.

The USS Liberty incident is the most studied friendly fire accident in military history.

On June 8, 1967, right in the middle of the Six Day war, the USS Liberty was on patrol in the Mediterranean, in international waters, off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

It was a spy ship. It’s job was to record all the radio transmissions in the area during the Six Day War.

It was in a waterway that had previously been used by the Egyptian Navy and at the time was not flying the US colors.

There was an explosion of munitions on a beach in Israel, and the IDF suspected it had been shelled by the Egyptian Navy.

The Israeli Air Force spotted a ship in range, and misidentified it as an Egyptian vessel and opened fire.

The location of the USS Liberty was radioed to Israeli Navy patrol boats.

There is some debate to if the USS Liberty fired upon the Israelis or if it was ammunition cooking off in a fire, but the patrol boats launched torpedoes, one struck the USS Liberty.

As a result, 34 US sailors were killed and 171 were wounded.

The USS Liberty identified itself, at which point the Israelis called off the attack and immediately offered assistance, which was rejected.

The US Navy, IDF, US Congress, and Knesset all investigated, as well as a number of historians in the private sector.

The US Government released all radio communications prior to and during the attack on a FOIA.

The conclusion by all parties was that the attack on the USS Liberty was an accident caused by confusion in the middle of a war in which Israel was attacked on all sides by seven Arab nations.

The Israeli government paid $3.2 million to the families of the dead sailors, $3.5 million to the wounded sailors, and $13 million to the US Navy for damages to the ship.

It was a friendly fire accident between allied nations during a war and Israel paid restitution.

End of story.

Except for the Jew haters who want to sever ties between the US and Israel.

They claim that the attack was deliberate.

They generally give one of three justifications.

The first is that the Jews hate white Christian America and simple wanted to attack Americans.

This is just naked bigotry and Jew hatred.  It also fails to explain why Israel admitted fault and paid restitution.

The Second is that they wanted to draw America into the war on its side and make it look like an attack by Arab states.

The logic of Antisemites isn’t logic, so they fail to explain how Israel attacking a US ship while flying Israeli colors and speaking Hebrew would trick the Americans into thinking they were attracted by Arabs and join the war on Israel’s side.

The third is the USS Liberty has recorded evidence of an Israeli war crime in Egypt.

Except that supposed war crime didn’t happen and no evidence for it was released with the other radio traffic from the Liberty.

This conspiracy theory usually digresses, when these points are brought up, that the Jews and/or Israel secretly owns or bought off Congress and the Department of Defense and that’s why they say it was an accident and are not telling the truth that it was a deliberate attack.

The Based Right continue to bring this incident up to try and prove the Jews hate the United States and the US should abandon Israel as a friend and ally.

Friendly fire incidents happen.

They are tragic.

In 1966, the US Coast Guard Ship Point Welcome was attacked by US Air Force aircraft, killing two Coast Guard sailors.

In Desert Storm, another fast paced war in the Middle East, 24% of all US casualties were friendly fire.

There were a number of high profile friendly fire incidents in the GWOT.

The US Air Force killed five Green Berets by bombing them.

US Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat Tillman was killed by US troops when an IED was mistaken for enemy mortar fire.

The US has killed allied troops as well.

We dropped JDAMs on both Canadian and British military units in Iraq and Afghanistan.

These incidents are always explained as having occurred during the fog of war.

But the one time an Israeli friendly fire incident against an American ship occurs, it’s the result of malicious action and evidence of the evil of the Jews.

The USS Liberty has entered the Canon of Antisemites and the people who bring it up now do so in bad faith.

 

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The antisemitism of the Based Right

Nov 8, 2023 J. Kb 13 comments

After years of prioritizing diversity, the US Army released a video on X that show exclusively white male soldiers.

The replies were full of comments saying that after years of disrespect from the military, they as white males won’t die for Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there was this:

 

Since Desert Storm, there has been a consistent theme that all the wars the United States has fought in the Middle East are for the benefit of Israel.

This is usually coupled with the conspiracy theory that the Jews, Israel, and/or Zionists secretly control the US Government, and use Americans for cannon fodder in their proxy wars.

The world is melting down because of Biden’s incompetence.

October 7th was a symptom of that.

And when shit gets ugly, for many people, the rush is to blame the Jews.

Iran has been trying to destabilize the region and undermine us since 1979.  Remember that the Iranians attacked American ships and took sailors hostage.

But if we do anything, the Based Right will say it’s a war for Israel.

Based Antisemites to the Right, Woke Antisemites to the Left, and here I am stuck in the middle again.

 

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Antisemitic Hamas protest turned lethal

Nov 6, 2023 J. Kb 3 comments

Man dies after being hit in the head at protest sparked by Israel-Hamas war

A 69-year-old man died Monday after suffering a head injury at a Westlake Village protest centered on the Israel-Hamas war, according to law enforcement.

The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office said an autopsy determined Paul Kessler died as a result of a blunt force head injury.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said the incident was reported just after 3:20 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Westlake Boulevard and Thousand Oaks Boulevard, near the L.A. County border. Opposing protesters — pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian — had taken a stand on either side of the intersection when an altercation occurred, authorities said.

Kessler, of Thousand Oaks, was struck in the head, knocked backward and hit his head on the ground, deputies said.

Other news reports said that Kessler was struck in the head with a megaphone and fell, hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk causing a brain bleed.

This is the same chain of events that causes so many of the one punch kills that I cover on this blog.

Jews have been harassed and attacked by Hamas supporters in the US since 10/7, but this is the first confirmed fatality.

What happens next will be a defining moment.

Will they hunt down and throw the book at the suspect?

Or, will they make a half-assed attempt to find him and then waffle on the punishment, all while telling us that Islamophobia is the real problem?

Being California, I suspect the latter.

These mid-level violence Pogroms just elevated to equal force.

The threat is real, Jews need to understand that and prepare accordingly.

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Massie is a cunt and I hate Libertarians

Nov 3, 2023 J. Kb 19 comments

Congress passed H. Res. 798:

Condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education, which may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff.

Here is what the bill does:

Resolved, That the House of Representatives— (1) condemns the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education, which may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff; and 

(2) urges the Secretary of Education to direct  the Office for Civil Rights to investigate and, where appropriate, take action immediately.

That’s it.

It doesn’t spend money.

It doesn’t create new branches of government.

It condemns antisemitism and asks to investigate civil rights violations of Jews on colleges.

Twenty three members of the House voted against it.

Twenty two were Democrats, including the entirety of The Squad.

And one Republican, Thomas Massie.

Of course, Massie has some Libertarian principles that make it so he can’t condemn colleges supporting terrorism, the mass murder of Jews, and create hostile environments for Jewish students.

We can’t question those Libertarian principles that cause him to vote with The Squad on the topic of Israel and the Jews 100% of the time.

Sure, it was plausible that he was the lone Republican who didn’t support Iron Domrle because he doesn’t like to spend money.

But even when there is no money to spend and no foreign countries involved, just American Jews on American college campuses, he can’t bring himself to vote yes.

For years I have been aware of the undercurrent of antisemitism in Libertarianism.

Then I moved to New Hampshire.

The Libertarians have absolutely swallowed the “Jews secretly own and control the United States government” conspiracy theory.

 

 

You can’t tell Libertarians from Neo-Nazis when it comes to Jews.

But no, Massie doesn’t believe that, even though his supporters do, en masse.

His Libertarian Constitutional principles are why he voted with The Squad 100% on the Jews.

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

This is his third vote this year in which he was the only Republican voting against Israel and/or the Jews.

That’s enemy action.

I’m calling it: Massie is a Jew-hating cunt.

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My ugliest honest opinion

Nov 3, 2023 J. Kb 12 comments

I have seen a lot of news about the number of Middle Eastern terrorism suspects that entered the US through our South border.

How they might propagate a 10/7 like attack in the US.

Good.  I hope they fucking do it.

These people tend to congregate in big blue Democrat cities.

The same big blue Democrat cities where Leftists and Palestinian supporters have been cheering on the deaths of Jews and saying Israel deserved it.

Okay then.

I hope that every big blue Democrat city Leftist who stands with Palestinie and has been tearing down posters of kidnapped Jews experiences every single atrocity that was done to Israel.

When they cry on CNN and say, “But I stood with the Palestinian, I don’t understand why they raped my wife to death and beheaded my children,” I will sit back, with a smile on my face, crack open a cold one, and say, “You fucking deserved it.”

By the millions, I hope it happens.

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Mid-level Pogrom

Nov 2, 2023 J. Kb 11 comments

I have written about mid-level violence before.

Mid-level violence is the annoying little brother, “I’m not touching you.”

It’s physical harassment that is intended to intimidate and strip the dignity from a victim.

The victim cannot respond because when they do, the instigator can say, “Why did you hit me? I wasn’t touching you.”

The aggressor can then play the victim.

This happened at Harvard.

 

This is a mid-level pogrom.

They corralled a Jew. They blocked his escape as they yelled at him.

But… They didn’t actually beat him up.

It was intimidating and humiliating, but in a Liberal area of the country (Massachusetts), this isn’t enough to justify the use of force for self defense.  Not just with a gun, but any level of force.  If the Jewish student used pepper spray, he’d have gotten into more trouble than the aggressors.

This is going to increase in these Leftist areas because it’s an effective tactic.

It’s why I believe that mid-level violence should justify high-level violence.

Surround me and try to force me into being subjected to berating and harassment, and I should have the right to knock your fucking teeth out.

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The Two Platforms of 2024

Nov 2, 2023 J. Kb 5 comments

As anyone with an accurate knowledge of American history knows that the Democrat Party was the party of slavery, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan.

After the Civil War, a theme used by Democrats in several elections was The Two Platforms. The Democrat platform for the white man and the Republican platform for the negro.

 

The Democrats ran on over racism to win elections.

Now, let’s jump to today.

From Fox News:

White House indicates people making ‘violent antisemitic threats’ not classified as ‘domestic terrorists’

The White House indicated Tuesday that people in the U.S. making “violent antisemitic threats” were not going to be classified as “domestic terrorists.”

The comments, made by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during the White House press briefing, ran in stark contrast to parents concerned about their children’s education previously being described as “domestic terrorists” in a letter that prompted a directive from the Biden administration for the FBI to investigate.

“The people in this country making violent antisemitic threats. Are they domestic terrorists?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Kirby.

Both the Biden Press Secretary and Vice President Harris deflected from questions about the rise of antisemitism after 10/7 to Islamophobia.

 

 

Here is a critical fact that makes this clear.

Biden’s support among Arab American voters plunges since Israel-Hamas war

President Biden’s support among Arab American voters has sharply decreased since the Israel-Hamas war, plummeting to dismal and unprecedented numbers.

Support for his upcoming reelection bid from Arab Americans dropped by 42 percentage points, from 59 percent in 2020 to 17 percent, according to a new poll conducted by the Arab American Institute.

Arabs/Muslims are one of the fastest growing demographics in America.

Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and that is unlikely to change severely any time soon.  Too many Jewish Democrats are Democrats first and Jews a distant second.

The Democrats’ political calculus makes it clear that the gain in Muslim voters by embracing antisemitism outweighs the loss in votes by Jews driven away by the Antisemitism.

We’re reaching a point where antisemitism is going to be as much of a Democrat platform as anti-black racism was in the 1860s.

I suspect we will see posters like this in the near future: