I suspect one of the claims that X makes against Media Matters with be Tortious interference. 3x punitive damages in most states.
Tortious interference is a common law tort allowing a claim for damages against a defendant who wrongfully interferes with the plaintiff's… https://t.co/hPtlEiwsYb
The left is terrified of a platform which they don’t control and where free speech exists. They can’t handle an environment where there are other thoughts and opinions and their views are challenged. Very telling. https://t.co/xqNsSZTLno
I don’t think a lot of people truly grasp what it is Elon Musk did and why they’re going after him so hard right now. It’s deeper then just free speech. He took the one thing they needed and wanted. Absolute control.
“I don’t think a lot of people truly grasp what it is Elon Musk did and why they’re going after him so hard right now. It’s deeper then just free speech. He took the one thing they needed and wanted. Absolute control.
They control the government. They control the media. They control the school system. They control the social media companies. They have complete and utter control over every aspect of our lives. Elon Musk took some of that control from them and gave it to the people.
It’s 2023 and they expected to own it all and now people have an opportunity to see the truth thanks to Elon. I don’t have to worry about getting suspended or shut down for sharing the truth. This small step goes a long way in saving mankind. The people in control don’t care if they destroy the world, as long as they’re in charge when it happens.
The attacks on Musk won’t stop. They’ll do everything they can to stop him. Im happy to see so many people waking up and fighting back. We can’t let these monsters win. Why would anyone side with them?”
It’s a monstrous mindset, from the adults in Hamas, all the way down to the peasants and their children. Hate infects them all.
This is the “people” of Palestine praising and celebrating the barbarity their leaders have committed.
The narrative is that Palestinians and Hamas are two different mindsets. Here are Palestinians reacting to Hamas terrorists carrying the trophy bodies of raped and murdered Israeli women through their enclave. https://t.co/c4F6C9LtwP
Chicago and the DNC is gonna be lit. They can’t control the monsters they created.
Thousands are occupying California Democratic Convention in Sacramento, both floors of the building completely shut down. CEASEFIRE NOW @POTUSpic.twitter.com/Zrkmx8S5G7
"Due to circumstances beyond our control, & for the safety and security of our delegates & convention participants, we are canceling tonight’s caucus meetings, hospitality suites, & VoteFest taking place at the convention center.”
~ … New results from a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll show Americans’ support for abortion access is at one of the highest levels on record since nonpartisan researchers began tracking it in the 1970s. Some 55% of respondents say it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain a legal abortion if she wants it for any reason.
The poll, conducted for the Journal by NORC at the University of Chicago, surveyed 1,163 registered voters from Oct. 19-24.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to the procedure, abortion-rights groups have notched seven consecutive victories in state ballot initiatives. They include an Ohio measure earlier this month to protect abortion under the state constitution. Behind these successes is a decadeslong shift among Americans in support of access to the procedure.
Democrats and independent voters—whose support of abortion rights was roughly in line with that of Republicans up until the 1990s—now back access to the procedure by greater margins. About 77% of Democrats in the new poll say they support access to abortion for any reason, up from 52% in 2016. Among Republicans, that share is one-third.
Some Republican voters who generally oppose abortion rights don’t want to give state lawmakers the chance to rewrite the rules, a position they see as in keeping with conservative support for limiting government intervention. … ~
BREAKING: In case you missed this today, Democratic Congressman @RepDanGoldman went on Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki" show today to declare that TRUMP "HAS TO BE ELIMINATED." WATCHpic.twitter.com/qUU4e9s69r
Poor thing, he thinks his biased screed is journalism.
Propaganda outlet Washington Post throws an unhinged temper tantrum over voter rejection of the establishment. This angry, hysterical lede from @schmidtsam7 is actually kind of funny. pic.twitter.com/ljKTV6YKkm
The average American eighth grader is reading at a third grade level and driving over two structurally deficient bridges to get to school. https://t.co/O4NafmrDGP
It's not enough for you to fund Ukraine's entire war that it has zero chance of winning. You also have to pay for Ukraine's schools and its teachers' salaries. https://t.co/jYCkKgRdhE
As you slog thru another Monday at the office, take heart. You're not just buying cluster bombs and Patriot missiles for Ukraine – you're paying the salaries of their teachers.
We are paying for their war, paying for their government, and now this 'shroom brain wants to pay their teachers.
Your money is being confiscated to pay for virtually all of another country, while you figure out how to pay for increasing bills due to bidenomics. https://t.co/uYQXjFBe8X
“The last time we checked in on former White House coronavirus “expert” Dr. Anthony Fauci, he was grousing that the public may not buy into future mask recommendations should there be a super-duper strain of COVID or another infectious respiratory virus.
The UK Daily Mail recently reported that US taxpayer money was used to experiment with coronaviruses from the Chinese lab thought to be the source of the Covid pandemic more than a year before the global outbreak. The lab, with connections to Fauci, is located in Montana.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Dr Anthony Fauci’s leadership, infected 12 Egyptian fruit bats with a ‘SARS-like’ virus called WIV1 at a lab in Montana in 2018.
The WIV1-coronavirus was shipped from the Wuhan lab the FBI believes caused the Covid pandemic and was tested on bats acquired from a ‘roadside’ Maryland zoo.
…The 2018 experiment was carried out at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, which was overseen by Fauci, the former director of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The research was a joint venture between the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories and Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina.
Republican Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) recently sent a letter to the NIH demanding ‘to learn more about potentially risky research’ at the Montana facility.”
Questions include: ‘Will the renovated RML conduct gain-of-function research or any other type of experimentation enhancing the pathogenicity of infectious agents or creating chimeric versions?’
‘Should any biosafety incidents at RML occur, how will Congress and the public be notified?’
‘Where are RML’s lab animals sourced from? Are bats or other animals being imported from foreign nations?’
The senators’ letter highlighted the lab had previously reported a number of protocol breaches, including a mouse infected with an Ebola-like virus escaping its cage and roaming free for a day and unauthorized individuals, including a child, found wandering near the lab’s primate facility.
The CDC was not alerted immediately about the breaches because, the letter states, lab officials ‘did not believe they needed to report the escaped rodent but later did when instructed to by CDC officials.’
Meanwhile, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is demanding to interview a key Fauci aide about the possible destruction of critical records related to COVID-19.
Johnson (R-Wis.) demanded the Department of Health and Human Services make Dr. David Morens, a former aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci, available for an interview with his staff, and urged the HHS watchdog to take the matter seriously.”
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“FBI and CDC Slammed for “Dropping the Ball” on Illegal California Biolab Run by Chinese
The lab was run by a Chinese man, Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by China while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility.”
“Legal Insurrection readers may recall that this summer, I reported on a warehouse in Reedley, California had been the site of a massive remediation project and investigation after it was discovered to be an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, infectious agent samples, medical waste, and hazardous materials.
There were over 20 different infectious agents that this company was working with, ostensibly for the development of diagnostic kits. The pathogens included herpes, HIV, chlamydia, coronavirus, and hepatitis.
When that report was given, there were limited details on the entire suite of pathogens, and just how connected that laboratory was to China. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party did its own investigation.
The 40-page report was a chilling account on the revealing serious gaps in monitoring the nature and safety of biological research, which is a serious threat to both national and global security. The Select Committee investigation also concluded the lab had very close ties to China.
The lab contained deadlier pathogens (e.g., Ebola) than the original press accounts suggested. The lab was run by a Chinese man named Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility
The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
One of the members of the select committee, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), slammed the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their lack of interest in this case, saying Select Committee’s final report, “reads like a movie script and a horror movie script, when you detail all of those things that were missed”.
Hinson, like others, is concerned that more could be hidden across the U.S., posing a threat to national security.”
“The FBI and the CDC really dropped the ball here in terms of investigating not only this illegal lab, but now we wonder how many more labs like this exist in the country,” she said.
“So clearly, we have some work to do to make sure we’re prepared, because we know China is doing everything they can to constantly undermine us.”
The House Select Committee on the PRC further claimed that both the FBI and the CDC were contacted by local law enforcement, but the agencies declined to investigate.”
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The FBI is too busy with parading Grandmas and imaginary white supremacists to notice this.
“For more than a generation, the Israeli left and Western leaders have insisted that the Palestinians want peace.
They want a state of their own.
They want Israel to leave the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. And once they get these things, they will live at peace with Israel.
Successive U.S. administrations have modulated their support for Israel based on their perception of the Israeli government’s willingness to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians.
Those that were seen as willing to surrender Judea, Samaria, Gaza (which Israel abandoned in 2005) and Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority (PA) were supported.
Those that were perceived as unwilling to cough up land to the P.A. were ostracized, condemned and subverted.
Throughout the years, Israeli political leaders, military leaders, academics, and journalists have produced voluminous reports that exposed the PA’s support for and involvement in terrorism.
They have produced encyclopedia-length dossiers, documentary movies and intelligence reports exposing how its education system indoctrinates children from birth to embrace the cause of Israel’s annihilation and imbued the entirety of Palestinian society with a genocidal, Nazi-styled jihadist outlook that seeks the utter elimination of Judaism and Jews from the face of the planet.
Beyond a few half-hearted condemnations from U.S. State Department officials over the years — and a couple of even less committal guffaws from U.N. and E.U. officials — none of these reports, documentaries or exposés have impacted the West’s devotion to the so-called “two-state solution,” or Westerners’ tendency to blame the absence of peace on “right-wing” or “extreme right-wing” Israelis who reject territorial concessions to a society and a governing authority that aspire to wipe Israel off the map.
Over the past 30 years, Israeli leftists have at times paid lip service to the problem.
But due to a combination of political interests, ideological brittleness and dependence on Western allies, the bulk of the Israeli left refused to accept the strategic implications of the absence of a Palestinian leadership — or society, for that matter — that is willing to countenance Israel’s right to exist, with or without Judea and Samaria, with or without Jerusalem.
On Oct. 7, the sadism and scope of Hamas’s slaughter shocked the whole of Israeli society to its core.
Polling data indicates that there has been a sea shift of opinion among Israeli leftists regarding the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians.
The same cannot be said of the West.
Led by the Biden administration, Western governments have uniformly insisted that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians.
Most Palestinians, including those in Gaza, simply want to make peace with Israel that includes a Palestinian state, they say.
Since Oct. 8, U.S. officials — and their counterparts in the European Union, the United Nations and beyond — have insisted nearly every single day that if Israel strikes too hard in Gaza, if it denies so-called “humanitarian aid” to the people of Gaza, then it will draw these poor people to Hamas, guaranteeing another generation of war.
In other words, by this telling, until Israel launched its counterstrike in Gaza, the Palestinians opposed Hamas and were its unwilling victims. But once Israel deployed its ground forces in Gaza, these people were forced into Hamas’s waiting arms.
As President Joe Biden and his advisers have said repeatedly, “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. It does not stand for the dignity of Palestinians.”
Weighing the results of an opinion poll
On Thursday, Birzeit University near Ramallah published a survey of Palestinian opinion that responded to this central Western claim.
Their answer was as nuanced as a brick.
Researchers from Birzeit gathered the data through face-to-face interviews with thousands of Palestinians throughout Judea and Samaria, and at three points in southern Gaza.
They also spoke to residents of southern Gaza and with evacuees from the combat zones in northern Gaza.
Some 75% of Palestinians support the Hamas-led slaughter of Oct. 7.
Another 11% don’t have an opinion.
They’re neutral about whether it’s a good idea to rape and torture, and behead, burn alive and abduct women, men, children and infants.
Still, three-quarters of Palestinians think it’s a terrific accomplishment.
Likewise, 75% of Palestinians seek the annihilation of Israel.
They want a Palestine “from the river to the sea.” This position is distinct from a position of supporting a Jewish-Arab state from the river to the sea, or the so-called “one-state solution,” which only 5.4% of Palestinians support.
Another 17.2% support the two-state solution, (13.2% in the PA controlled areas in Judea and Samaria, and 22.7% in Gaza).
If Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinians, it’s hard to understand who represents them.
Seventy-six percent of Palestinians support Hamas. Eighty-eight percent of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria support Hamas, and 60% of Gaza residents support Hamas.
The PA enjoys the support of just 10% of Palestinians.
The only groups that enjoy more support than Hamas are the terror groups that have no aspiration to do anything other than kill Jews — Iran’s Islamic jihad, the P.A.’s Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, and Hamas’s terror cells Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades all enjoy even higher levels of support than Hamas itself.
Palestinians believe that there is no credible reason for anyone to support Israel.”
Wandering Views 
Take note of these enemies of America and free speech.
“I don’t think a lot of people truly grasp what it is Elon Musk did and why they’re going after him so hard right now. It’s deeper then just free speech. He took the one thing they needed and wanted. Absolute control.
They control the government. They control the media. They control the school system. They control the social media companies. They have complete and utter control over every aspect of our lives. Elon Musk took some of that control from them and gave it to the people.
It’s 2023 and they expected to own it all and now people have an opportunity to see the truth thanks to Elon. I don’t have to worry about getting suspended or shut down for sharing the truth. This small step goes a long way in saving mankind. The people in control don’t care if they destroy the world, as long as they’re in charge when it happens.
The attacks on Musk won’t stop. They’ll do everything they can to stop him. Im happy to see so many people waking up and fighting back. We can’t let these monsters win. Why would anyone side with them?”
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It’s a monstrous mindset, from the adults in Hamas, all the way down to the peasants and their children. Hate infects them all.
This is the “people” of Palestine praising and celebrating the barbarity their leaders have committed.
Everyone knows it, and they play along.
https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1726315764519522395
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Chicago and the DNC is gonna be lit. They can’t control the monsters they created.
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From WSJ:
~ … New results from a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll show Americans’ support for abortion access is at one of the highest levels on record since nonpartisan researchers began tracking it in the 1970s. Some 55% of respondents say it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain a legal abortion if she wants it for any reason.
The poll, conducted for the Journal by NORC at the University of Chicago, surveyed 1,163 registered voters from Oct. 19-24.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to the procedure, abortion-rights groups have notched seven consecutive victories in state ballot initiatives. They include an Ohio measure earlier this month to protect abortion under the state constitution. Behind these successes is a decadeslong shift among Americans in support of access to the procedure.
Democrats and independent voters—whose support of abortion rights was roughly in line with that of Republicans up until the 1990s—now back access to the procedure by greater margins. About 77% of Democrats in the new poll say they support access to abortion for any reason, up from 52% in 2016. Among Republicans, that share is one-third.
Some Republican voters who generally oppose abortion rights don’t want to give state lawmakers the chance to rewrite the rules, a position they see as in keeping with conservative support for limiting government intervention. … ~
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The kid gave away the game. Lol.
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Saying the quiet part out loud.
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Poor thing, he thinks his biased screed is journalism.
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Any excuse to fund their forever war.
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Fauci should be in prison.
He’s working hard on the next global outbreak, once again funded and pushed by him, but this time they’re doing it here in the US.
“Senators Probe Fauci-Run Biolab in Montana Where Scientists Conducted Bat Research With Covid-Like Virus in 2018
Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson demands interview with Fauci adviser about the potential destruction of key COVID-19 records.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/senators-probe-fauci-run-biolab-in-montana-where-scientists-conducted-bat-research-with-covid-like-virus-in-2018/
“The last time we checked in on former White House coronavirus “expert” Dr. Anthony Fauci, he was grousing that the public may not buy into future mask recommendations should there be a super-duper strain of COVID or another infectious respiratory virus.
The UK Daily Mail recently reported that US taxpayer money was used to experiment with coronaviruses from the Chinese lab thought to be the source of the Covid pandemic more than a year before the global outbreak. The lab, with connections to Fauci, is located in Montana.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Dr Anthony Fauci’s leadership, infected 12 Egyptian fruit bats with a ‘SARS-like’ virus called WIV1 at a lab in Montana in 2018.
The WIV1-coronavirus was shipped from the Wuhan lab the FBI believes caused the Covid pandemic and was tested on bats acquired from a ‘roadside’ Maryland zoo.
…The 2018 experiment was carried out at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, which was overseen by Fauci, the former director of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The research was a joint venture between the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories and Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina.
Republican Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) recently sent a letter to the NIH demanding ‘to learn more about potentially risky research’ at the Montana facility.”
Questions include: ‘Will the renovated RML conduct gain-of-function research or any other type of experimentation enhancing the pathogenicity of infectious agents or creating chimeric versions?’
‘Should any biosafety incidents at RML occur, how will Congress and the public be notified?’
‘Where are RML’s lab animals sourced from? Are bats or other animals being imported from foreign nations?’
The senators’ letter highlighted the lab had previously reported a number of protocol breaches, including a mouse infected with an Ebola-like virus escaping its cage and roaming free for a day and unauthorized individuals, including a child, found wandering near the lab’s primate facility.
The CDC was not alerted immediately about the breaches because, the letter states, lab officials ‘did not believe they needed to report the escaped rodent but later did when instructed to by CDC officials.’
Meanwhile, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is demanding to interview a key Fauci aide about the possible destruction of critical records related to COVID-19.
Johnson (R-Wis.) demanded the Department of Health and Human Services make Dr. David Morens, a former aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci, available for an interview with his staff, and urged the HHS watchdog to take the matter seriously.”
—–
“FBI and CDC Slammed for “Dropping the Ball” on Illegal California Biolab Run by Chinese
The lab was run by a Chinese man, Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by China while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/fbi-and-cdc-slammed-for-dropping-the-ball-on-illegal-california-biolab-run-by-chinese/
“Legal Insurrection readers may recall that this summer, I reported on a warehouse in Reedley, California had been the site of a massive remediation project and investigation after it was discovered to be an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, infectious agent samples, medical waste, and hazardous materials.
There were over 20 different infectious agents that this company was working with, ostensibly for the development of diagnostic kits. The pathogens included herpes, HIV, chlamydia, coronavirus, and hepatitis.
When that report was given, there were limited details on the entire suite of pathogens, and just how connected that laboratory was to China. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party did its own investigation.
The 40-page report was a chilling account on the revealing serious gaps in monitoring the nature and safety of biological research, which is a serious threat to both national and global security. The Select Committee investigation also concluded the lab had very close ties to China.
The lab contained deadlier pathogens (e.g., Ebola) than the original press accounts suggested. The lab was run by a Chinese man named Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility
The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
One of the members of the select committee, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), slammed the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their lack of interest in this case, saying Select Committee’s final report, “reads like a movie script and a horror movie script, when you detail all of those things that were missed”.
Hinson, like others, is concerned that more could be hidden across the U.S., posing a threat to national security.”
“The FBI and the CDC really dropped the ball here in terms of investigating not only this illegal lab, but now we wonder how many more labs like this exist in the country,” she said.
“So clearly, we have some work to do to make sure we’re prepared, because we know China is doing everything they can to constantly undermine us.”
The House Select Committee on the PRC further claimed that both the FBI and the CDC were contacted by local law enforcement, but the agencies declined to investigate.”
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The FBI is too busy with parading Grandmas and imaginary white supremacists to notice this.
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Like I said above, the Palestinian people support Hamas. What happens as a result, is on them.
“Palestinians Overwhelmingly Back Hamas Terrorism”
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gaza-samaria-palestinians/2023/11/20/id/1142944/
“For more than a generation, the Israeli left and Western leaders have insisted that the Palestinians want peace.
They want a state of their own.
They want Israel to leave the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. And once they get these things, they will live at peace with Israel.
Successive U.S. administrations have modulated their support for Israel based on their perception of the Israeli government’s willingness to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians.
Those that were seen as willing to surrender Judea, Samaria, Gaza (which Israel abandoned in 2005) and Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority (PA) were supported.
Those that were perceived as unwilling to cough up land to the P.A. were ostracized, condemned and subverted.
Throughout the years, Israeli political leaders, military leaders, academics, and journalists have produced voluminous reports that exposed the PA’s support for and involvement in terrorism.
They have produced encyclopedia-length dossiers, documentary movies and intelligence reports exposing how its education system indoctrinates children from birth to embrace the cause of Israel’s annihilation and imbued the entirety of Palestinian society with a genocidal, Nazi-styled jihadist outlook that seeks the utter elimination of Judaism and Jews from the face of the planet.
Beyond a few half-hearted condemnations from U.S. State Department officials over the years — and a couple of even less committal guffaws from U.N. and E.U. officials — none of these reports, documentaries or exposés have impacted the West’s devotion to the so-called “two-state solution,” or Westerners’ tendency to blame the absence of peace on “right-wing” or “extreme right-wing” Israelis who reject territorial concessions to a society and a governing authority that aspire to wipe Israel off the map.
Over the past 30 years, Israeli leftists have at times paid lip service to the problem.
But due to a combination of political interests, ideological brittleness and dependence on Western allies, the bulk of the Israeli left refused to accept the strategic implications of the absence of a Palestinian leadership — or society, for that matter — that is willing to countenance Israel’s right to exist, with or without Judea and Samaria, with or without Jerusalem.
On Oct. 7, the sadism and scope of Hamas’s slaughter shocked the whole of Israeli society to its core.
Polling data indicates that there has been a sea shift of opinion among Israeli leftists regarding the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians.
The same cannot be said of the West.
Led by the Biden administration, Western governments have uniformly insisted that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians.
Most Palestinians, including those in Gaza, simply want to make peace with Israel that includes a Palestinian state, they say.
Since Oct. 8, U.S. officials — and their counterparts in the European Union, the United Nations and beyond — have insisted nearly every single day that if Israel strikes too hard in Gaza, if it denies so-called “humanitarian aid” to the people of Gaza, then it will draw these poor people to Hamas, guaranteeing another generation of war.
In other words, by this telling, until Israel launched its counterstrike in Gaza, the Palestinians opposed Hamas and were its unwilling victims. But once Israel deployed its ground forces in Gaza, these people were forced into Hamas’s waiting arms.
As President Joe Biden and his advisers have said repeatedly, “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. It does not stand for the dignity of Palestinians.”
Weighing the results of an opinion poll
On Thursday, Birzeit University near Ramallah published a survey of Palestinian opinion that responded to this central Western claim.
Their answer was as nuanced as a brick.
Researchers from Birzeit gathered the data through face-to-face interviews with thousands of Palestinians throughout Judea and Samaria, and at three points in southern Gaza.
They also spoke to residents of southern Gaza and with evacuees from the combat zones in northern Gaza.
Some 75% of Palestinians support the Hamas-led slaughter of Oct. 7.
Another 11% don’t have an opinion.
They’re neutral about whether it’s a good idea to rape and torture, and behead, burn alive and abduct women, men, children and infants.
Still, three-quarters of Palestinians think it’s a terrific accomplishment.
Likewise, 75% of Palestinians seek the annihilation of Israel.
They want a Palestine “from the river to the sea.” This position is distinct from a position of supporting a Jewish-Arab state from the river to the sea, or the so-called “one-state solution,” which only 5.4% of Palestinians support.
Another 17.2% support the two-state solution, (13.2% in the PA controlled areas in Judea and Samaria, and 22.7% in Gaza).
If Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinians, it’s hard to understand who represents them.
Seventy-six percent of Palestinians support Hamas. Eighty-eight percent of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria support Hamas, and 60% of Gaza residents support Hamas.
The PA enjoys the support of just 10% of Palestinians.
The only groups that enjoy more support than Hamas are the terror groups that have no aspiration to do anything other than kill Jews — Iran’s Islamic jihad, the P.A.’s Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, and Hamas’s terror cells Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades all enjoy even higher levels of support than Hamas itself.
Palestinians believe that there is no credible reason for anyone to support Israel.”
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