Albany Beat – February 28, 2025
Hochul’s proposed $252 billion budget for 2025 is $15 billion over the amount the legislature passed and $19 billion more than what she proposed last year.
WSJ… Free Expression? Not So Much
There is an irony that a newspaper which has traditionally upheld the concept, practice and concept of free expression, if reader's comments are to be believed, is increasingly censoring and suppressing them.
Why Trump Must Insist on Removing Hamas From Power
Any deal that allows Hamas to remain in power would be disastrous for Israel, the Palestinians, and Arab states threatened by the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance" and undermine the Trump administration's credibility in the eyes of many in the Middle East. The Trump administration will appear as if it is only good at making empty threats.
Hamas’ Baby Killers and the World’s Broken Moral Compass
Fashionable antisemitism has caused leftist myths about Israeli “oppressors” to dismiss justified anger and grief about the fate of the Bibas kids.
9 MILLION Hostages
Restraint and rethinking are necessary in the discourse about the hostage situation. Skeptics of deals with Hamas are not “war criminals.”
Jewish Foes of Trump’s Gaza Plan Remain Hamas’s ‘Useful Idiots’
The latest celebrity petition about the post-Oct. 7 war is yet another example of how the “as a Jew” crowd expresses their identity by supporting those who seek Jewish genocide.
‘Qatar is Hamas, and Hamas is Qatar’
The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7, 2023 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so.
If hostages are being abused, their captors shouldn’t be rewarded
Three men released by Hamas looked like Nazi death-camp survivors. Israel and the United States must not allow the terrorists to survive and thrive.
INTO THE FRAY: Trump, Macron and Greenland: A Contrived Conflict?
On the world stage and promoted by the legacy media, the Palestinian issue is relentlessly and often callously exploited by ruthless jihadist Islamists and their sympathizers, despite the immense suffering of many innocent civilians from both parties to the conflict.
How Hamas Plans To Foil Trump’s Gaza Plan
Hamas is basically saying that if the Trump administration dares to implement the relocation and reconstruction plan, the terrorist organization will unleash a wave of terrorism against Americans and Palestinians.
Trump Critics want to Make America Safe for Antisemites
An executive order to deporting pro-Hamas student visa holders horrifies left-wingers. Would they defend foreigners inciting against other minorities?
Why The PA Will NOT Be Able to Control Gaza
The US Must Cut Ties with Qatar, Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Qatar’s ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza: Keeping Hamas in Power
The Qataris do not want the PA in the Gaza Strip to rein in Hamas and other terrorist groups, or to prevent attacks against Israel. Instead, they want the PA to act as a front to maintain Hamas's hold on power -- as a cover for keeping Hamas in power.
Witkoff Insists Israel Trade Live Terrorists for Dead Hostages
The Biden-Witkoff surrender to terrorists deal gets worse.
The 50% Haredi Discount
The draft bill currently before Knesset is an outrage and a fiction at the same time; Religious Zionists demand: Give our families a 50% reduction in army service too!
Zero Tolerance for Empty Words of Holocaust Remembrance
Those who are morally neutral about or support the latter-day Nazis of Hamas and make false claims of genocide against Israel should remain silent on Jan. 27.
INTO THE FRAY: An Emerging Strategic Axis: Washington-Jerusalem-Baku
The Trump administration should factor the unique model of Judeo-Muslim collaboration between Israel and Azerbaijan, which transcends prevailing geopolitical divisions, into its foreign policy aimed at engendering enhanced international stability.
Both Friends And Foes Should Lower Their Expectations For Trump 2.0
All Americans should support their president when possible and oppose him when necessary. Each side may need to do that in the coming years.
Laughter… Take Two!
They know that Mr. Trump didn’t like them much before they tried to assassinate him. They are probably going to find that he dislikes them MUCH more the second time around.
A Deal That Keeps Hamas in Power Is Meaningless
Hamas seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews.
Tackling ‘Transactional Trump’
Israel will have to play along with President Trump’s priorities such as the hostage deal and a Saudi deal. If Israel does so, it will be well placed to expect a return from Trump down the line on other issues – ranging from Israeli assertion of sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria, to pushback against nasty international organizations that are at Israel’s throat, to US supply to Israel of heavy ordnance weaponry necessary for striking Iran, and more.
The Hamas Surrender Deal Sets Up Trump to Fail
The Trump administration is being tricked into adopting the Biden administration's Hamas policy.
‘Scholasticide’ Slur : Why Trump Should Defund Antisemitic Institutions
The American Historical Association’s allegation discredits them more than it does Israel. Yet it illustrates how corrupt and anti-intellectual the leftist-dominated academic world has become.
Ending Facebook Censorship is a Victory for Freedom, not Antisemitism
ADL’s claims that Mark Zuckerberg’s decision will harm Jews show their partisanship and liberal frustration over Trump’s defeat of the censorship-industrial complex.
Incontrovertibly Indigenous in Israel
Time to re-engage in the fight for Israel with passion and conviction, not apologetics or apprehension. A new film and book show the way.
December 31st, 1912
America has not fallen, no more than it did when the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1912.
Albany Beat – January 3, 2025
Hochul also expressed, as only she can, her disgust with the Electoral College, calling for it to be abolished as she presided over the 60th general proceedings of the state’s delegation to the Electoral College in Albany.
INTO THE FRAY: Macron on the Wrong Side of History
The election of Donald Trump and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria will compel a recalibration of recalibration of France’s past policies.
INTO THE FRAY: Gaza—A Sense of Déjà vu
Sadly, the discussion of the fate of Gaza in general, and of the “Day After” in particular, is taking on an eerily familiar look—ominously reminiscent of the discussions of yesteryear.
Congress Must Begin Biden Mental Competency Hearings and Invalidate His Actions
The perpetrators of the senility coup must be held accountable.
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