Wednesday Potpourri

First, on the intersectionality front, Sir Rickster offers the Palestinian view of homosexuality:

A Palestinian scholar from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem sends a message to the “Queers for Palestine-crowd” in the West: “The people of Palestine will not allow a single homosexual in our land," such perversion brings the wrath of Allah”

Someone tell Judith Butler that she should reconsider her plans to vacation in Gaza.

Second, the NoLeft Turns Twitter account, offers a history lesson:

1)Before the modern state of Israel there was the British mandate, Not a Palestinian state.

2) Before the British mandate there was the ottoman empire, Not a Palestinian state . 

3) Before the ottoman empire there was the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt, Not a Palestinian state.

 

4)Before the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt there was the ayyubid dynasty, Not a Palestinian state .Godfrey of bouillon conquered it in 1099. 

5) Before the ayyubid dynasty there was the christian kingdom of Jerusalem, Not a Palestinian state.

 

6) Before the christian kingdom of Jerusalem there was the Fatimid caliphate, Not a Palestinian state. 

7) Before the Fatimid caliphate there was the byzantine empire, Not a Palestinian state. 

8) Before the byzantine empire there was the Roman empire, Not a Palestinian state. 

9) Before the Roman empire there was the hasmonean dynasty, Not a Palestinian state.

 

10)Before the hasmonean dynasty there was the Seleucid empire,Not a Palestinian state.

 

11) Before the Seleucid empire there was the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon, Not a Palestinian state. 

12) Before the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon there was the Persian empire, Not a Palestinian state. 

13) Before the Persian empire there was the Babylonian empire, Not a Palestinian state. 

14) Before the Babylonian empire there was the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, Not a Palestinian state. 

15) Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judea there was the kingdom of Israel, Not a Palestinian state. 

16) Before the kingdom of Israel there was the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel, Not a Palestinian state. 

17) Before the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel there was the individual state of Canaan, Not a Palestinian state . In fact in this corner of the earth there was everything but a Palestinian state!

Third, will the Czech Republic lead an exodus from the United Nations? From the Jerusalem Post:

Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová, expressing outrage at a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for Israel to cease its operations in the Gaza Strip, called for the Czech Republic to withdraw from the UN on Saturday.

Fourth, in the case of Robert Card, the Maine shooter, Rick Moran has offered an argument on Pajamas Media that I have often proposed in these pages. Everyone seemed to know what Card was a threat. No one did anything about it, as in, committed him involuntarily for psychiatric treatment. A two week stay in a mental hospital was obviously grossly inadequate.

Fifth, in the matter of Harvard University, the number of administrators largely exceeds the number of students and the number of faculty. This, from the College Fix:

During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, Harvard had 10,120 full-time administrators and support staff on its payroll; in contrast, it had 3,899 full-time teaching and instructional staffers. The total number of undergrads that year was 7,483.

As might be expected, these administrators are mostly involved with facilitating diversity, equity and inclusion.

Sixth, from Issues and Insights, a study that will be seriously ignored by everyone everywhere. It was produced by an agency of the government of Norway.

The conclusion: the climate crisis is not a crisis and global warming is not happening:

A new study out of Norway is exactly what was needed to shut down the climate alarmists. Its findings show that man has not set fire to his home planet.

Right from the top, in the abstract not 10 lines into the study, the authors get to the point.

“Using theoretical arguments and statistical tests we find,” the researchers say, “that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be strong enough to cause systematic changes in the temperature fluctuations during the last 200 years.”

In other words, our words, the greenhouse effect is so weak that it should be sidelined as an argument.

From there, the bad news only gets worse for priests of the climate religion.

“​​Even if recent recorded temperature variations should turn out to deviate from previous variation patterns in a systematic way it is still a difficult challenge to establish how much of this change is due to increasing man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.”

Sixth, in the matter of Obama's Vice President It was just revealed that when he was vice president Joe Biden sent out 82,000 emails under different pseudonyms. However did he have time to do anything else?

Seventh, yes, indeed, Harvard University has found the perfect solution to its anti-Semitism problem. Its president, Claudine Gray, is forming an advisory board. There, that will solve the problem.

Or better, as the highly estimable Caroline Glick explains on Twitter:

Ooh! Harvard is forming an "advisory board" on anti-Semitism. As students and faculty threaten Harvard's Jews and advocate for Hamas, rather than expel and fire Harvard's Hamasniks, Harvard will talk about what anti-Semitism is and show phony empathy.

Eighth, good for them. In the midst of the hubbub over allowing males to compete against females in swimming competition, some of us, myself included, recommended that female swimmers boycott such unfair competitions.

Now, female martial artists have refused to compete against transgender individuals. The result, their professional association, the North American Grappling Association has changed the rules.

For my part I am very impressed that they call themselves grapplers:

Terrified female martial artists say they’ve pulled out of recent competitions to avoid facing much stronger transgender fighters — forcing a major organization to revise its rules to ensure trans females can now only face men.

The North American Grappling Association (NAGA) said it overhauled its rules after complaints about transgender female athletes fighting in recent events.

Ninth, Wall Street Journal writer Molly Ball explains the problems that the current conflagration in Israel and Gaza has produced for American liberals:

The weeks since the Hamas attacks have riven the liberal coalition, pitting erstwhile allies against each other as ugly accusations fly in both directions. From the halls of power in Washington to street protests and social media, progressives find themselves at odds with those they once saw as kindred spirits.

Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates describe a feeling of disillusionment as relationships fracture and harsh words are exchanged. The result, many predict, could be a breach that splits Democrats for a generation with untold political consequences.

Tenth, as for the status of the Abraham Accords, they do not yet include Saudi Arabia, but they are alive and well.

Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Arab Emirates Federal National Council said this.

We want everyone to acknowledge and accept that Israel is there to exist and that the roots of Jews, Christian are not in New York or Paris but here in our region. They are part of our history and they should be part of our future.

‘’From the United Arab Emirates perspective, the Abraham Accords are there to stay.

This the third war in Gaza. Whenever there is something happening in Gaza, people come to us and ask: ‘What do you think of the Abraham Accords. Are you going to change ?

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The Accords are our future. It is not an agreement between two governements but a platform that we believe should transform the region where everyone will enjoy security, stability and prosperity.

I cannot guarantee that he is speaking for the Saudis, but the leaders of the Emirates and the leaders of Saudi Arabia are close allies. If the Saudis had not wanted him to say what he said, the likelihood is-- he would not have said it.

Eleventh, Dominic Green offers the view from Europe in the Wall Street Journal this morning:

A war in the Middle East is a foreign-policy crisis for the U.S., but it is a domestic crisis for Europe. The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad. In Brussels, the European Union’s capital, an international soccer match was halted after a Tunisian asylum seeker shot two Swedish fans on their way to the game. Synagogues and Jewish schools are vandalized, and Jews physically assaulted. Police are outnumbered in the streets, undermined by legal activists, and supported only equivocally by politicians.

This is the rotten fruit of decades of mismanaged immigration and a mealy-mouthed failure to reckon with the limits of multiculturalism. Most of the perpetrators aren’t white nationalists. Nor, although the useful idiots of the upper-middle-class left clog the streets and the airwaves, are they environmental catastrophists, angry vegans, or adepts of the trans cult. They are Europe’s fastest-growing religious minority, and its largest bloc of social conservatives: Muslims.

Twelfth, on a more personal note, I am looking for a literary agent or a publisher for my new book, Can’t We All Just Get Along. Please send recommendations or suggestions to my personal email: StuartSchneiderman@gmail.com.

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