Federal Government = Democrat Vote Machine

 

Biden Turns Federal Government Into Democrat Vote Machine

Aaron Flanigan, Association of Mature American Citizens

Less than six months out from Election Day, troubling signs are emerging that President Joe Biden is using government power and weaponizing taxpayer dollars to retain his grip on the Oval Office.

As Fox News recently reported, the House Committee on Small Business issued a subpoena to the Small Business Administration (SBA) over its lack of transparency regarding the Biden administration’s efforts to promote voter registration in the key battleground state of Michigan—a move that looks like a blatant attempt to use government resources to register voters for Biden.

The subpoena was issued to SBA Chief of Staff Arthur Plews and Special Advisor Tyler Robinson on May 7 when they failed to attend a scheduled interview and hand over documents relating to a program that is, according to the House Committee, “diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democrat voters” in Michigan.

The program in question, which was announced in March, was created to “promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan” and was touted as a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” between the SBA and the Michigan Department of State.

“Protecting and strengthening our democracy is critical to our economic success and a core goal of the Biden-Harris administration,” SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman said about the program, pledging to “help connect Michiganders to vital voter registration information from the State of Michigan” and “help facilitate voter registration and civic engagement, so their voices are heard.”

Notably, the House Committee on Small Business found that 22 of the 25 voter outreach events set in motion by the SBA program “have taken place in counties with the highest population of Democratic National Committee (DNC) target demographics.”

According to Fox, the Michigan program originated with a 2021 Biden executive order on promoting “access to voting,” which has been slammed by House Republicans for going “beyond the power of the President and the statutory authority given to federal agencies.” Among other far-reaching directives, the order calls for “soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.”

The committee made clear that Tuesday’s subpoenas—which mark the first time in history the House Committee on Small Business has subpoenaed the SBA—were issued only because SBA officials failed to voluntarily comply with the Committee’s oversight requests.

“It is unconscionable that during such a precarious time for our nation’s small businesses, the sole federal agency created to serve as their advocate is instead utilizing their limited taxpayer resources and time to advance partisan political campaigns,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) told Fox regarding the program.

Of course, the notion that the Biden administration is actively coordinating with Michigan’s Democrat administration to boost voter registration raises the prospect that similar, perhaps even more under-the-radar initiatives are underway in other swing states.

The SBA program is not the only instance of the Biden White House’s efforts to boost Democrat voter registration. As Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner reported earlier this month, during Biden’s first year in office, the White House convened a Zoom meeting with progressive activists seeking to implement “sweeping election policy changes.”

Though the meeting was initially branded as “nonpartisan,” documents have revealed that meeting attendees were overwhelmingly aligned with left-wing causes and included the likes of a former Stacey Abrams operative, Black Lives Matter activists, left-wing think tank staffers, and employees of organizations that promote far-left priorities like open borders and defunding prisons.

Moreover, the left also has a well-established history of weaponizing nonprofits to keep Democrats in power—yet another systemic advantage that the GOP apparatus has largely failed to grapple with.

The fact that the Biden administration is ostensibly wielding the muscle of the federal government to increase its electoral prospects should be of grave concern to every American—regardless of political affiliation—who purports to care about preserving the democratic process and maintaining the integrity of our institutions.

These reports are also surfacing at a time when Biden is trailing presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump by as much as six points in national polling, as well as in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia—lending further credence to the notion that the Biden team is using agencies like the SBA as campaign arms to boost liberal turnout in crucial swing states like Michigan.

Thankfully, this week’s Washington Examiner report has reportedly captured the attention of House Republicans, who are vowing to “use every tool at [their] disposal to stop these blatant political acts.”

As the November election fast approaches, Republican leaders should be taking every possible measure not only to investigate and expose the left’s election interference strategies, but also to stop them in their tracks and counter them with thorough, effective, and innovative conservative get-out-the-vote initiatives that will set the stage for Republican landslides up and down the ballot this fall.

If the GOP is serious about delivering victories for conservatives in 2024 and beyond, it has no choice but to grapple with the left’s election interference campaign before it’s too late.

Aaron Flanigan is the pen name of a writer in Washington, D.C.

Moving Away From the Template of 'Oppressor vs. Oppressed'

 

Moving Away From the Template of 'Oppressor vs. Oppressed'

Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute 

The violent campus takeover by protesters — some of them students, many not — has had the unintended effect of discrediting the premise underlying the protest. That premise is that the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed, and that the oppressors are always evil and their victims already virtuous.

It's a premise that runs against common sense and is readily rejected by anyone with more than a smidgen of knowledge of history. Common sense tells us that people who are treated badly often behave badly in return, which is why people are favorably impressed by those who rise above adversity.

Common sense teaches also that virtue and vice are intermixed in every human heart, that no category of people — not a political party, not an ethnic group, not a religious sect, not a nation — has or can have a monopoly of behaving badly or admirably.

That's not the lesson being taught, it appears, in many of the nation's public and private schools, which have been feeding students into universities famous and obscure. The lesson pounded into young heads is that the greatest evil in world history is colonialism, that all nations that held colonies and all their citizens were oppressors, and that all residents of any colony were virtuous victims with the right to commit violence to liberate themselves from oppression.

Never mind that there are more moth holes than cloth in this garment. The record of major colonial powers was mixed — do you really want to condemn the British for ending widow-burning in India? —and the United States joined their ranks only belatedly and in not many places. If there's an anti-U.S. animus in the Philippines for supposed American depredations in 1898-1946, it hasn't made much impact, and polling shows only minuscule support for independence in Puerto Rico and other overseas U.S. territories.

As for Israel, it sought independence from the British after World War II and has made multiple offers of statehood to those who, since 1967, have been labeling themselves Palestinians — all of which have been rejected. Israel ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005 and authorized the election, which Hamas won in 2006. Hamas has proclaimed its goal of destroying Israel repeatedly ever since and backed that up with murders and hideous atrocities last Oct. 7.

Israel was attacked and responded in line with international law, whose principle of proportionate response does not require an invaded nation to stop when it has killed the same number of people who were killed in an initial attack. As President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, "The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." The Israelis have shown more caution and regard for civilian casualties than the U.S. did in 1941-45 or has done since, or as any other nation has ever done.

Polling makes it clear that the large majority of the public does not share many demonstrators' celebrations of Hamas' terrorism and cries of "intifada revolution" and "from the river to the sea" — the annihilation of Jews and continued violent acts of terrorism in Israel and the U.S. They have watched and seen how "peaceful protesters" have been barred from campuses and beaten up "Zionists." They have seen enough to reject the nonsense that the purported victims and their self-appointed advocates have a monopoly over virtue.

There's an obvious contrast here with the response four years ago this month to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It was followed by an almost universal acceptance that this single incident was definitive proof that America's "systemic racism" was as bad as — or even worse than — ever.

For those few of us with firsthand experience of relations between police and black city dwellers in the riot-torn years of the late 1960s, these claims were absurd. But demands to "defund the police" came not just from liberal politicians and journalists but also from corporate and religious leaders.

City governments responded to "mostly peaceful" (i.e., violent) rioting not just in Minneapolis but in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver by reducing funding for police, even as violent crime rates skyrocketed in late May and early June (not in March when COVID-19 lockdowns began, as some people claimed).

Ironically, black Americans — the presumed virtuous victims of police violence — were the most frequent victims of the crime wave unleashed as potential lawbreakers responded to the defunding of, and restrictions on, police forces. Violent crime has proved most consistent in Washington, D.C., where Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered "Black Lives Matter" painted on 16th Street two blocks from the White House. One result: Police ranks are the lowest in 50 years, and recruitment efforts are failing.

Last week, Bowser refused the request of George Washington University's president to send in police to clear the illegal tent encampments on that campus. But this time, it seems her siding with the purported virtuous victims over purported evil oppressors strikes the great mass of Americans as the absurdity it is.

‘Power Grab’

 

50 Governors Oppose Federal Plan to Move National Guard Units: 

‘Power Grab’

Governors of all 50 states said they oppose a measure to move units to the Space Force.

Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times

Governors from 50 states, as well as several territories, said they oppose a Department of Defense (DOD) plan to move state National Guard units to the U.S. Space Force, with a separate governor alleging Monday the plan is a “power grab.”

In March, the DOD sent Congress a proposal that would allow the federal department to send some state guardsmen to the U.S. Space Force. It would require Congress to pass a new law that requires governors to allow changes to National Guard units under Title 32 and Title 10 of the U.S. Code.

But a coalition of bipartisan governors said in a letter sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that the move would undermine their authority and circumvent federal laws.

“Governors must maintain full authority as Commanders in Chief of these assets to effectively protect operational readiness and America’s communities,” their letter, signed by 48 governors, stated.

The letter argued that the measure would impact governors’ capacities to use the Guard in case of an emergency, natural disaster, or other crises.

“Legislation that sidesteps, eliminates or otherwise reduces Governors’ authority within their states and territories undermines longstanding partnerships, precedence, military readiness and operational efficacy,” the letter said. “This action also negatively affects the important relationships between Governors and DOD at a time when we need to have full trust and confidence between the two to meet the growing threats posed by the era of strategic competition as well as natural disasters.”

The only governors who didn’t sign the letter are Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. However, both sent their own respective letters opposing the move.

On Monday, Abbott sent a letter on Monday that he opposed the proposal and claimed that the DOD directive is tantamount to a “power grab for the National Guard” to give U.S. military secretaries “unilateral authority to dismantle National Guard units on a whim.”

“The U.S. Department of the Air Force should retract Legislative Proposal 480. Instead of attempting such a power grab in Congress, the U.S. Department of the Air Force should work with the affected governors to build up the Space Force in a way that is consistent with federal law,” his letter stated, adding that governors should remain the commanders-in-chief of their National Guard units.

Mr. DeSantis issued his own letter that opposed the measure, arguing that Florida needs its National Guard units to deal with natural disasters such as hurricanes.

“As a low-lying, storm-prone state, Florida is uniquely vulnerable to hurricanes and flooding that require significant, operationally ready logistics and disaster support, including from our National Guard units,” he wrote in the letter dated May 3. “This legislative proposal weakens that guarantee and sidesteps the authority of the Governor to ensure Floridians are prepared and protected to address whatever domestic emergencies may arise, especially as we approach another hurricane season.”

Other than the governors, the National Guard Association of the United States asserts that the plan would strip states of their own space capabilities and proposes the creation of the Space National Guard.

During a Senate hearing last month, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told lawmakers that “500-plus people” would be shifted to the Space Force from National Guard units, claiming that the reaction to the proposal is overboard. The change would have a small impact on around 1,000 National Guard members who are performing space duties across about seven states.

He also told the Space Symposium event last month that “we’ve had much, much more political attention over this issue than it deserves, in my mind.”

“We’re talking about a few hundred people. The numbers for any state are less than I think 2 percent at most of their Guard people, and they’re only a handful of states that are affected,” Mr. Kendall remarked. “People should look very carefully at this before they make a snap judgment about whether they’re comfortable with the change or not,” he added.

According to the bill, Air National Guardsman with space-connected missions would be moved to federal control and would be under the U.S. Air Force’s Space Force. It noted that Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, New York, and Ohio have their Guard members perform space-related missions.

The Epoch Times contacted the DOD and White House for comment Tuesday.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5

Gaza, the Holocaust, and the Math

 

Gaza, the Holocaust, and the Math

Mike Walker, Col USMC ret

All across campuses today we hear the word "holocaust" used to define the Hamas War.

It is hard to imagine a more unethical and immoral utterance.

During the height of the Holocaust (May 1942-November 1943) when the concentration camps in Germany along with the death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau were augmented by Sobibor, Treblinka, and Belzec, the SS Totenkopf were slaughtering about 230,000 Jews per month.

The Hamas War will reach its 7-month point in a few days.

If the Israelis were indeed carrying out a holocaust akin to what the Nationalist Socialists did to the Jewish people then the toll in Gaza now would sit at about one million six hundred thousand (1,600,000) deaths.

So even if we are so naive and/or blinded by prejudice to accept unquestioningly the 33,000 deaths in Gaza foisted by Hamas then no honest person would equate the Hamas War with the Holocaust.

To conflate the vast discrepancy over the brutality and monstrosity that occurred during the two events beggars belief.

Yet the word "holocaust" to describe the Hamas War is on the lips and in the minds of thousands if not tens of thousands of our post-secondary students.

Such is the tragic ignorance besetting 21st century American colleges and universities.

Future generations will look back the current record of these dismal institutions of higher learning with a combination of shame and contempt.

More on Palestine and Israel...

Here is some of the history of the partition and its rejection by Palestinian revolutionaries.

Mike Walker, Col USMC, ret

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Jewish state in Palestine. It goes back to 1935, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam (Qassam) and his brethren fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It became part of another chain that included the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after.

 

Here is the story of Qassam: He tried to fight against the Italians in Libya 1912 but was prevented by Turkish authorities. He then fought with the Ottomans in WWI in his native home of Syria and after the French arrived he fought them. Defeated by the French, he fled to Haifa in 1920 and became a radical imam and ally of the Mufti of Jerusalem. By 1931, he was organizing armed resistance, the Black Hand, against the British (who governed Mandatory Palestine) and Zionists. In reaction to the discovery of a secret weapons shipment bound for the Jewish Haganah, Qassam killed a policeman on 8 November 1935. The British then began to hunt him and his group down. He was killed on 20 November and immediately became a martyr and the Black Hand was renamed the Qassamites. 

 

The failed Arab Revolt in Palestine followed from 1936-1939. In trying to deal with the Arab Revolt, the British Royal Peel Commission (headed by Lord William Peel) was created in 1936. In 1937, it proposed for the first time a two-state partition solution. 

 

But Peel died that year and the British abandoned partition in 1938 then let the issue rest in early 1939 by issuing a white paper proposing joint Arab-Jewish rule. The change in policy stemmed from a number of interrelated factors: Its success in crushing the uprising in 1939 combined with the looming Second World War motivated the British to calm the waters as Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic policies gained wide appeal in the Arab world and opened it to an alliance with Germany.

 

In 1937, Nazi Germany had concluded “the formation of a Jewish state … is not in Germany’s interest” because it would “create additional national power bases for international Jewry such as for example the Vatican State for political Catholicism or Moscow for the Communists. Therefore, there is a German interest in strengthening the Arabs as a counterweight against such possible power growth of the Jew.”[i]

 

And at that time German operatives in Mandatory Palestine actively used Jewish immigration to turn the Arab population away the Britain and towards Germany. They were quickly rounded up by the British as soon as the Second World War began.

 

Similarly, Germany’s Axis partner Italy was a clear threat. The large Italian army in Libya on Egypt’s frontier and its conquest of East Africa that concluded in May 1936, made the British even more eager to defuse potential troubles in the Middle East.

 

Whatever policy strengthened Britain’s position in the region and further secured the vital Suez Canal would take precedence and to shore up Arab support, Britain walked away from partition and limited Jewish immigration in 1939.

 

Notably, the mandates were overseen by the League of Nations and it rejected the British white paper and continued to support more immigration and the formation on a Jewish state in Palestine. Facing the exigency of a world war, the British ignored the League’s decision but partition would be a legacy policy when the League was dissolved and replaced by the new United Nations.

 

With the Second World War over, the British again returned to their support of partition and sought to end Mandate Palestine. 

 

In 1947, the United Nations adopted a two-state Palestine-Israel solution for the region with Jerusalem as an open city under international administration. 

 

The Jewish side accepted the UN’s two-state solution while the Palestinian side rejected it in its entirety. The founding fathers of Hamas in their 1988 covenant continued to reject the two-state solution. In the covenant’s opening preamble, Hamas exhorts its followers to destroy Israel:

 

“Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam obliterates it just as it obliterated others before it.”

 

That led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War where the followers who later formed Hamas were defeated and the State of Israel was created. This extremism is further explained in the Covenant’s Article 13:

 

“Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.”

 

How can two states negotiate a peaceful resolution when one side has utterly rejected a two-state solution?

[i] PRO: GFM 33/799 Telegram from Von Bulow–Schewante to German embassies in London, Baghdad, Jerusalem, 11.6.37.

The Big Lie

             

Partition Map 1947

                                                       

The Big Lie

 Don Jaffa, 

The current spate of ‘protests’ at Columbia, NYU, the Ivy League, etc., East Coast, West Coast, all around the town, is nothing but a charade, funded by Soros and the Woke, about something that does not exist. When the United Nations created Israel in 1948, it did so out of the British Mandate over Palestine. At the end of the vote, when Israel was established under international law, Palestine ceased to exist.

The new Israeli government offered the resident Arabs Israeli citizenship if they acknowledged Israeli law, and retained their right of ownership to the land and villages under Israeli law.  The majority of Arabs living in Israeli heeded the Arab call to flee to refugee camps, to wait out the Arab war against Israel. And in 1949, when Israel and the Arabs agreed to a cease fire, Egypt occupied the area of Israel which is called Gaza. The Egyptian government declared it the Egyptian Protectorate of Gaza. Every subsequent ‘Palestinian’ Arab political organization had charters that call for the destruction of the state of Israel, and the killing of the Jews in it and around the world, wherever found.

“The Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, and witnessed by Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.” Wikipedia

In practical terms the Egyptian ‘Protectorate of Gaza’ was ceded to Israel, and the Israeli ‘Protectorate of Sinai’ was returned to Egypt. The sovereignty of Gaza was returned to Israel, as was the sovereignty of Sinai was returned to Egypt. Under the peace treaty Israel was required to agree to the ‘autonomy’ of the Arabs living in Gaza. It did not entitle the Arabs in Gaza to any status except ‘Stateless Persons.’ Egypt and all the other Arab countries refused to take them as either refugees, or asylum seekers. Their example in Jordan, where they attempted a coup, and to kill the King of Jordan, made them unacceptable as either refugees or asylum seekers.

In point of fact, the political organizations within their ‘autonomy’ are nothing but domestic terrorist organizations whose charters’ first principle is the destruction of the state of Israel, and the killing of Jews. The claim of the civilian population being innocent, is anything but. For two generations Arab women in Gaza bore sons and daughters to serve as ‘Martyrs.’ During Saddam Hussein’s reign in Iraq, he provided a $25,000 bounty to each family of a ‘Martyr.’ 

For those generations, first Arafat’s PLO, Fatah, and now HAMAS, have been relying on those ‘innocent’ civilians, in hospitals, schools, housing areas, to protect the terrorists from either reprisals, or eradication. So it is not unexpected that the sacrifice of some 34,000 women and children is being used to elicit crocodile tears.

Such superficial sympathy, is a false, insincere display of emotion such as a hypocrite crying fake tears of grief. The current protests here in the USA use placards, banners, Palestinian Flags, and chants such as “From the River to the Sea,” or “I am HAMAS!”  Their bespoke protests serve as propaganda for the domestic terrorism of HAMAS, and all the other prior ‘Palestinian Arab’ terrorist groups and actions. The era of FATAH and Black September was both internecine war with Jordan, and the kidnapping and killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympiad.

Seventy-five years of unceasing attempts to kill Jews and destroy Israel serve to illustrate that there is no political compromise with terrorists, and that as long as they occupy Gaza the terrorism will continue no matter how many Arabs in Gaza are killed. The Secretary of State designated HAMAS as an international terrorist organization in October 1997.

“For the purpose of the Order, “terrorism” is defined to be an activity that (1) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and (2) appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.” Executive Order 13268 of July 2, 2002

The October 7th mass murder of 1200 Israelis, along with the kidnapping and hostage taking of both Americans and Israelis clearly meets the criteria of the Executive Order. The bespoke HAMAS protests on college campuses around the country clearly meet the criteria in paragraph (2) above. In a real world scenario the Attorney General would order the FBI to arrest any HAMAS demonstrators. Under the authority of the Federal statutes on prosecuting terrorists, and enhanced by the Executive Order, they would be charged as domestic terrorists, and held without bail, until formerly charged, or indicted, and then remain incarcerated until trial in federal district court. The number of such domestic terrorists would be in the thousands, as they would run to replace those arrested to continue the HAMAS protests.

It would end up being 3-5 years of incarceration before enough trials and plea bargains could be arranged. And no doubt each would result in a felony conviction and result in keeping each of these brain dead idiots from any significant career future.

These protestors flogging the HAMAS ‘From the river to the Sea’ holocaust renewal are, like the Arab women and children in Gaza, victims without value. The 34,000 ‘innocent’ victims in Gaza are an amorphous mass. Only the number has value. There are no singular victims who can be memorialized.  Only the NGO civilians killed in the line of fire have any storylines.

The IDF press releases suggest that the four HAMAS battalions have been reduced to one. Now the Biden administration has been requesting Israel not to enter Gaza and exact ethnic cleaning of Rafah, with the elimination of the last HAMAS battalion. The HAMAS leadership long ago relocated to Dubai. Even if Rafah is cleansed of HAMAS, it will recruit, rearm and return to kill Jews and work to destroy Israel. Under the guise of humanitarian air, US Air Force C-17s have been air dropping tons of prepared meals in northern Gaza, in effect resupplying HAMAS with food and water, to continue their fight with Israel and the United States, without any turnover of either Israeli or American hostages. This is not any real demonstration of support for Israel.

A real demonstration of support for Israel would require the State Department brokering an agreement between the US, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, to offer humanitarian permanent relocation of all the Arabs in Gaza to the two islands ceded to Saudi Arabia by Egypt, Sanafil and Tiran Islands in the Strait of Tiran. Both are uninhabited and easily reachable by ferry with Sharm El-Sheikh, at the southern tip of Sinai. Or, to the area north of Sharm El-Sheikh, which the Egyptians could provide as well. The whole point is that neither HAMAS, the PLO, Fatah or any anti- Israeli factions of the Arab world would remain in Gaza.

Israel’s northern border with Egypt would be secure, and the IDF would only be focused on Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, and Iran.  It would be easier for Saudi Arabia to grant use of these two islands for permanent relocation of the Arabs from Gaza, as they would be isolated, and dis-armed, at the outset. It would take at least a decade to construct permanent housing for all these relocated, but, like Sharm El-Sheikh, it provides an opportunity to develop ideal vacation spas for scuba diving, fishing, and water sports.

On the other hand, the thousands of bobble-heads doing the bidding of Woke liberals who chant ‘From the river to the sea’ and who have no idea that they are the second wave of the Hitler Jugend, willingly donning the brown shirts of the NSDAP, or the Black shirts of the Fascisti!

“During a rousing speech in Iowa, Biden's second gaffe went when he said "we choose about truth, not facts." 

The practical politics aside, the revealed truth is that all these activities, from the Biden demand to not go into Rafah, to the pro HAMAS protestors chanting “From the River to the Sea,’ is to fully engage the genocide of the Jews and the destruction of Israel. The original ‘revealed’ truth was the opinion of Emir Feisal, the first King of Saudi Arabia, whose comments were published on the front page of the London Times in 1918: “The grumblings of Arab peasants in Palestine is of no consequence!”