Experts say that (some) Democrats' attempts to distance themselves from their terrorist clients (and patrons) is a bit too little too late.
Security experts said the weekend attacks exposed the peril of a decade-long Democrat pursuit of an elusive deal to end Iran's nuclear and terrorist activities combined with a romanticism in liberal academic and political circles of a Palestinian "struggle."
That "struggle" has repeatedly resorted to inflicting terrorist casualties on innocent civilians dating to the days of Yasser Arafat and the Achille Lauro ship hijacking, where a wheelchair-bound American Jew was executed and thrown overboard.
Over the years the names of sponsoring organizations have changed -- Arafat's PLO and the related Palestinian Liberation Front of yesteryear or today's Hamas and Islamic Jihad -- but the ties to Iran's mullahs and the tactics of indiscriminate violence have remained the same, the experts said. Some suggested the weekend's attacks were even more vile and heinous, akin to the horror inflicted by ISIS in the last decade, and that reality can no longer be ignored.
"The danger is not just to Israel," former Obama-era Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Just the News on Tuesday night. "The enemy we face in Hamas is the same enemy that America faces in ISIS and Al Qaeda. It is a radical, medieval, vicious, brutal, barbaric, jihadist group.
"It's not a clash of civilizations ... it's a clash between a civilization and a different universe, a very dark and evil universe. And you have to believe in evil," Oren said during an interview conducted from a bomb shelter with the Just the News, No Noise television show. "These are people who behead babies, repeatedly rape young women and strip them and march them naked through the streets of Gaza so they can be spat upon and beaten, who take entire families out and shoot them."
Former Trump-era Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates said the blame isn't just with Palestinian-sympathetic congresswomen and academics, it also falls on the Biden administration for sending millions in aid to Hamas-controlled Palestine and for appeasing Iran with eased oil sanctions and a recent $6 billion in unfrozen assets in the name of seeking a nuclear deal even as Tehran continues to sponsor terrorism and toss out UN nuclear inspectors.
"There are the $6 billion that was paid in ransom recently. It's not what funded this particular attack. That's what they'll use to fund the next attack," Coates told "Just the News, No Noise" on Tuesday evening. "But what has funded this attack is the tens of billions of dollars that have been pouring into Iran."
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Longtime intelligence expert Fred Fleitz, the former chief of staff to the National Security Council, said while it may take days or a few weeks for U.S. intelligence to pinpoint the exact nature of Iran's role in the attacks, he has little doubt Tehran was involved.
"I think Iran was definitely involved," Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "....I find it disturbing that the Biden administration is discounting an Iranian role before they have the evidence, even if they don't think Iran was involved. They don't have the evidence yet. They shouldn't be saying anything, because Iran might have been involved. And it looks fairly clear that the Biden administration wants to absolve Iran from being involved, because it wants to continue its efforts to revive Obama's terrible nuclear deal with Iran. They don't want this to distract from that."
"I think the most important evidence was when the Hamas spokesman thanked Iran for helping them carry out the mission," he said. "And then you're right, the Hamas spokesman backtracked on that, because the Iranian government got worried that Israel might retaliate against Iran."
Oh, Hamas publicly thanked Iran for helping it carry out its slaughter of Jewish civilians?
That seems like pretty good evidence that Iran helped it carry out the slaughter of Jewish civilians.
But our criminal "intelligence" officials say different -- they say that they can find no evidence that Iran, who they are determined to give billions of dollars to as well as a nuclear bomb, had anything to do with this.
In other words: The leftwing criminal junta at the top of our "intelligence" agencies have cleared themselves of responsibility for funding this!
JUST LIKE ANTHONY FAUCI CLEARED HIMSELF OF HAVING FUNDED THE CREATION OF COVID-19.
Oh wait, that's a "conspiracy theory!" The US government says so when it pressures corporations to censor the truth about its role in the creation of a bioweapon that killed millions!
But let's all now defer to our criminal "intelligence" services. They know best, and they've never lied to us before.
I mean, the CIA did pay experts to falsely claim that covid-19 evolve naturally, but other than that -- a perfect record of honesty (and competence)!
Last month the Biden White House gave final approval for the release of $6 billion to Iran (on the anniversary of 9/11 no less), and they now know that's a really bad look.
Just coincidentally a few media outlets then came out with the same story. This is CNN's version:
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@CNNInitial US intel suggests Iran was surprised about Hamas' attack on Israel, casting doubt on the idea of Tehran's direct involvement, sources tell CNN
- The "intelligence" here is the CIA's buddies in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards telling them, "Just tell our American enemies that we were 'surprised.' These American criminals are stupid. They will believe us."
2, Notice the hedge -- no direct involvement. Like -- no actual Revolutionary Guards took part in the attack?
No... direct involvement! Lots of other kinds of involvement, but swearsies, no direct involvement!
Wow, that totally clears Iran!
And with that, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway adds an important "consider the source" reminder to the above story:
I'm not kidding, it's time to defund our intelligence agencies. I don't care if this "opens us up to terrorist attacks." 1, they're too incompetent to stop them, as they've proven repeatedly before, 2, they are IN BED with the terrorists, showing billions of dollars on them, and 3, they are a criminal terrorist junta that illegally interferes with our election.
I don't want terror attacks, but terror attacks are less of an existential threat posed to us that the CIA. We cannot continue funding an organization which directs psyop after psyop at its own population which it supposedly "serves."
Oh, by the way: Our "intelligence" services are so sure that their Client/Patron Iran had nothing to do with the attacks that Biden is now finally putting a "lid" on Iran's ability to withdraw money from the $6 billion Terrorism Fund.
U.S. officials and the Qatari government have agreed to stop Iran from accessing a $6 billion account for humanitarian assistance in light of Hamas�s attack on Israel, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats on Thursday, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private remarks.
But our Partners in Peace (TM) in Iran had nothing to do with the attacks!
You can believe us!
Any claim to the contrary has "All the Hallmarks of a Russian Disinformation Campaign!"
Why won't you believe us? Why do you not heed the orders of your Masters?
Related: Holy shit.
Thanks to kallisto.
And directly related to that:
That's because you're a stupid, ignorant, incurious self-deluded hack and a piss-poor "journalist" unable to see past his own nose which is firmly implanted in the asshole of Hillary Clinton, Jake: