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What Recognizing “Palestine” Really Means | Steve Berman

What Recognizing “Palestine” Really Means | Steve Berman


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Norway, Ireland and Spain have formally recognized the state of “Palestine,” meaning a disconnected jumble of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip (“from the river to the sea” with Israel in between). They join 143 other U.N. members in doing so. Let me start by observing that this is not …

IRAN: President Raisi’s Chopper Found, and He’s Very Dead | Steve Berman

IRAN: President Raisi’s Chopper Found, and He’s Very Dead | Steve Berman


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The moment I heard that the chopper carrying Iran’s president was missing in the mountainous region between Azerbaijan and northern Iran, I presumed he was dead. And he’s definitely very dead, as the chopper has been found–incinerated. Actually, the first I heard of it was from an account on X/Twitter called @MossadIL, Mossad commentary (satirical). …

COLLEGE DECAY: Liberals Can’t Fix Stupid | Steve Berman

COLLEGE DECAY: Liberals Can’t Fix Stupid | Steve Berman


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For years, liberal colleges like the Ivy League and communist Cambridge-based Harvard and MIT have cultivated a far-left enclave of idiotic groupthink. Like a snowball of stupid rolling down Bunker Hill, it rolled over every useful measure of what a good university is supposed to do. MIT required “diversity statements” from prospective faculty, including departments …

NO, JOE: Biden Condemns Something That Never Happened | Steve Berman

NO, JOE: Biden Condemns Something That Never Happened | Steve Berman


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After an extended silence while Jew hatred burned on American campuses, funded and planned by the propaganda arms for Hamas, President Joe Biden finally chimed in for the rule of law. Thank you. In a short speech to the press in the White House Roosevelt Room, the president condemned violent protest. “We are a civil society, and …

‘METICULOUSLY PLANNED’: Qatar is Funding Student Uprisings with Blood Money | Steve Berman

‘METICULOUSLY PLANNED’: Qatar is Funding Student Uprisings with Blood Money | Steve Berman


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Jesus said “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” But Columbia University and other elite colleges are doing their level best. The “youth rebellion” aspect of the …

JEW HATERS: Let Them Revel in Their Disgrace | Steve Berman

JEW HATERS: Let Them Revel in Their Disgrace | Steve Berman


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This got almost no press: almost exactly a year ago, the Albemarle County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office issued a news release that unsealed three indictments against the “tiki torch” marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, who chanted “Jews will not replace us” at a “Unite the Right” rally. They were charged with “a single count of burning an object …

IRAN: Blinken Greenlit Attack, Kirby Lied About It | Steve Berman

IRAN: Blinken Greenlit Attack, Kirby Lied About It | Steve Berman


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The Washington Post and the New York Times are not reporting what Reuters and the Jerusalem Post claim: that Iran reached out to the U.S. through both Turkey and Iraq three days before its drone and missile attack on Israel to seek some kind of guidance on how America would react. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby made the rounds of the Sunday morning …

HEADFAKE: Don’t Fall For Dem Traps, The Real Issue is in Hawaii | Steve Berman

HEADFAKE: Don’t Fall For Dem Traps, The Real Issue is in Hawaii | Steve Berman


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Democrats are showing the abortion card, but they’re playing a much bigger one. Sure, Arizona had a law on the books since 1864 that bans all abortions, and Democrats are losing their minds over it. A few women couldn’t dispose of their unborn children in Texas, and liberals are getting out their “Handmaid’s Tale” cosplay …

‘FINISH UP’: Trump Isn’t Wrong on Gaza | Steve Berman

‘FINISH UP’: Trump Isn’t Wrong on Gaza | Steve Berman


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Donald Trump told two reporters from the conservative Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (“Israel Today”) that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to “finish up” the war on Gaza. “You have to finish up your war,” Mr. Trump said. “You have to get it done. We have to get to peace. We can’t have this going on.” …