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On July 11, actor, director, and film producer George Clooney was featured in the New York Times seeking a new nominee for President from the Democratic Party. His credentials for an opinion piece in the newspaper that still claims to publish “All the News That’s Fit to Print” is Clooney’s claim “that I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history.” He continues, “Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election.”

In 1936, pro-Nazi Americans formed an organization called the German American Bund. They held rallies and demonstrations supporting Hitler and the Nazi Party. On February 20, 1939, 22,000 members showed up at Madison Square Garden surrounded by Nazi imagery and speeches filled with Nazi propaganda.  It was labeled “the day the Nazis took New York.”

As a possible Hostage deal gets closer, the ultimate fate of Gaza needs to be addressed. Prime Minister Netanyahu has already made it clear that Israel will retain the right of security control to prevent another October 7. This is a stop-gap measure. It does not work as a long-term solution. It simply kicks the can further down the road. The narrative about Gaza has to drastically change.  October 7 was a wake-up call. Allowing the Gaza situation to remain as it was in the past is totally unacceptable. With upwards of 70% of the Gaza population not only supportive of what Hamas did on October 7 but complicit in their crimes and atrocities, a military victory, which Israel is completing, is not enough.

When Osama Bin Laden met his maker, the world breathed a sigh of relief. The threat from Al Qaeda was never extinguished until he was gone. Al Qaeda was responsible for bombing the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.

In the most expensive primary Congressional race ever, George Latimer beat Jamaal Bowman in the Bronx-Westchester’s 16th District. In the end, the race wasn’t even close: Latimer, Westchester’s County Executive, received 59.3% of the vote to Radical Left Squad Member Bowman’s 40.1%. By most standards, that is a landslide.

The vicious systematic slaughter on October 7 of innocent men, women, and children points out the glaring lack of understanding the West has for the East (Middle East). Although most people were horrified by the atrocities, the Hamas propaganda machine was at work almost immediately. The lies and misinformation campaign was in full gear by October 8 and has not stopped for a moment since.