The following article, A Kamala Photo-op? C17 Loaded with Supplies Never Sent to Hurricane Victims, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. A report from Arial Recovery in NC, and on X by the co-owner of Trending Politics alleges that the Governor of North Carolina and the NC National Guard had to load a C17 simply for a Kamala photo-op with no intention of sending them to hurricane victims. (Bizpac review) “The accusation came from Aerial Recovery … Continue reading A Kamala Photo-op? C17 Loaded with Supplies Never Sent to Hurricane Victims ...

If you’re having trouble sleeping, you’re not alone. A study from 2020 found that 14.5% of adults had trouble falling asleep most days. More than a third of Americans report getting less than 7 hours of sleep over 24 hours and 13.5% say they feel exhausted most days. When you get a bad night’s sleep, you feel terrible the next day, but that’s just half the problem. Sleep deficiency is linked to heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity and depression. To help people get a better night’s rest, a Redditor named AdOld2060 asked the AskReddit subforum, “What’s your secret to falling asleep quickly?” They received over 100 responses, with people sharing their methods to fall asleep at night. The responses ranged from a military hack to a detailed visualization that the Redditor claims helps them fall asleep in minutes. The cool thing is that many techniques were varied, so if one doesn’t work for you, the next one could.How to fall asleep fastHere are 13 of the best responses to the question: What’s your secret to falling asleep quickly?1. The military method1. Relax your entire face, including the muscles inside your mouth.2. Drop your shoulders to release the tension and let your hands drop to the side of your body.3. Exhale, relaxing your chest.4. Relax your legs, thighs, and calves.5. Clear your mind for 10 seconds by imagining a relaxing scene.6. If this doesn’t work, try saying the words “don’t think” over and over for 10 seconds.7. Within 10 seconds, you should fall asleep!2. ASMR"I love falling asleep to those asmr live streams on TikTok."3. Relax your head and shoulders"Intentionally relaxing my head and shoulders. Get all snuggly in the blankets, release that tension and melt into the pillow. Zzzzzz."4. Meditation"I meditate and breathe deeply to relax before sleeping.""Deep breathing works well for me. Also, weirdly, if I start thinking about something like the logistics of moving 20 people into my house I drift off easily."5. Melatonin"Your body creates melatonin on its own. The stuff they sell is just a supplement and gives you a little bump of it before bedtime."6. Extreme stillness"I don’t allow myself to move around. Once I lay down I get comfortable and then stop moving. I don’t scratch an itch. I don’t move at all. I just lay there and daydream. If I start moving around, I will never sleep! But if I make myself lay perfectly still I fall asleep."7. Reading"I read until I can't remember the sentence I just read...but if the book is too good it is counterproductive."How to fall asleep quickly8. A boat visualization"I have something that I came up with that usually works for me. I get myself comfortable, laying on my back, arms by my sides, close my eyes and imagine I'm in a small boat on a wide expanse of calm ocean with sunshine and clear blue skies. I imagine the boat is rocking gently and the sun is shining down on me. I just lie there for a couple of minutes enjoying the quiet, the warmth and the rocking motion and I usually drift off to sleep quickly. Admittedly I think I have a really good imagination , which helps, but it works for me."9. Count to 100"Relax everything, and just count to 100. If I reach 100, then I start going back to 0 and so forth. Very rarely do I make it to 100 and back to 0. I usually fall asleep before I get to 100."10. Slow breaths"I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime, regardless of the environment, if I choose to. I start taking really long, slow, intentional breaths. Inhale as slow, long, and deep as possible, filling my lungs to max capacity. Exhale the same way. By the third or fourth breath, I’m out."11. Cognitive shuffle"I saw it on reddit about 9 months ago and its been working really well for me, its called Cognitive Shuffle. There are multiple ways to do it, but basically, you think of something random and boring like 'dog' or 'car,' then picture it in your mind for a few seconds, then shift to some other random word and picture that. Another way to do it is to pick a word and come up with 5 random words for each letter and try to picture each one before moving to the next. By the 4th or 5th random word you can feel your self switching off and if you keep at out you'll be out soon. I've ALWAYS had trouble turning my brain off when its time to sleep and this method has worked wonders for me."12. Fantaszie"I get really involved in detailed non-sexual fantasies, space travel, superhero powers that type of thing. Out like a light."13. A regular schedule"Disciplined bedtimes. I found that if I force myself to sleep within a certain point almost every day I will automatically feel tired by that time. 10pm is my sweet spot. I get 9 hrs nearly every day. If I stay up it’s still at least 7 hrs."

As winter approaches, people may wonder how stray animals stay warm and safe. Stray cats in particular are highly adaptable creatures and their home is the great outdoors, so most of the time there's not much that people need to do to protect them. But when temperatures dip to dangerous levels, caring humans naturally want to make sure strays have a place to go to get out of the harsh elements. One woman has taken that desire to a whole new level with an elaborate cat apartment she built for the many stray cats in her neighborhood. We're not just talking about a shelter–it's like luxury hotel living for her feline friends. The apartment has multiple rooms, cushy blankets that get taken out and cleaned and even a temperature-controlled water source so they're always able to find drinking water in frigid temps. Check this out: from MadeMeSmile The woman who built the apartment actually lives in China and shares videos on TikTok. Welcome to the Meowtel CatiforniaOf course, the clever hotel jokes and puns started rolling in first thing:'Welcome to the hotel catifornia.""Such a lovely place.""They can check out any time but they won't ever leave ^^""I prefer Hotel Calicofornia.""Meowriott.""Given my skill, mine would be more like Meowtel 6.""Pawliday Inn.'"The Fur Seasons."'"Meowne Plaza."People loved seeing the care and ingenuity she put into the "meowtel," as well as how happy the cats seem with the arrangement. In fact, some people were sure their own house cats would move out just to go live in this kind of cat commune."My cat just looked at me and sighed…""All the neighbours be looking for their cats and they’ve bailed to live at the kitty motel.""They’d pack their little bags and move in without a second thought.""They wouldn't even wait to pack their bags.""Alright Carol it’s been real but we’re gonna head out. Found a great deal on a luxury apartment so yanno… take care." @5fimnl9m Create a single apartment on the third floor of a four story winter cat shelter for stray cats#fyp #cat #cute #Straycat#salvation Cats live where they want when they wantThose people may have been joking, but several people shared that their cats really did ditch them to go live with neighbors who had more desirable living situations."I’ve had two cats do this. One was annoyed at our second dog’s puppy energy so she moved in with an older lady a street over. We used to see her all the time until she passed. The other missed our kids being little so she moved next door where there’s a little girl. We talked to both neighbors and said if they get sick of them to let us know and we’ll take them back but both lived the rest of their lives with their new families.""One of our cats moved next door because he loves children and wanted to be with the little girl next door. Because it’s a very small village, he goes to the school most days to wait for her and they come home together. School is 3 buildings away.""We had a cat do the same thing about 20 years ago. She hated the barks of our new puppy and would put her paw on his mouth to try and stop it. One day, she slipped outside and I found her a month later, two streets over, hanging with a couple who didn’t have a dog. They said she just showed up at the door and moved in. I gave them all her cat food and hope she had a nice quiet life." @5fimnl9m After two months of production and renovation, the basic facilities for wintering stray cats in the courtyard are almost complete#fyp #cat #cute #Straycat #salvation Is it a bad idea to feed and shelter stray cats?People have differing opinions about whether it's good to feed stray cats or not, as cats can cause problems for local wildlife and it's not great to encourage an increasing stray cat population. However, there are responsible ways to care for stray cats, which includes spaying and neutering those in your area. According to the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon, here are the best practices for feral and stray cats:- Spay/neuter to prevent additional litters - Find homes for friendly cats - Feed outdoor cats on a schedule - Remove food & dishes when they are done eating - Pick up scraps and keep the feeding area tidy - Provide fresh water - Provide a warm place for the cats to sleepSo go ahead and care for those kitties and keep them warm through the winter—just make sure they can't make any more kittens.

One of the most depressing facts of life is that studies show that after age 25, we start to lose friends at a rapid pace and there are many reasons for this. Around this time, people begin to take their careers seriously; they may get into a serious relationship and move in with someone, or they may already have children.This leaves less time for you to hang out with your friends, and unlike during your school years, there are fewer situations in which to meet new people and form relationships. Yes, people may meet new people through work, but professional dynamics can make it hard to develop true friendships.After the age of 25, if you don’t make a concerted effort to keep up with the friends you made earlier in life, it’s easy for them to drift away. That’s why a story out of Liverpool, England, is so heartwarming. A pair of men named George, George Price, 96, and George Foukes, 95, are celebrating their 90th year of friendship.The story was recently covered in the Liverpool Echo. The two boys met in 1934 while living on the same street in Wirral, a peninsula in northwest England. Back then, there wasn’t much to do at home, so the boys ran through the streets and played at the local park on the swings. In addition to the 2 Georges, there were 3 other boys in their friend group, but sadly they have passed away.Price attributes the length of their friendship to the fact that they always worked to stay in touch. "As you grow up and become older, friends come and go, and there may be times when you don’t see each other as much. However, me and my friend George have always kept in touch, and he rings me on the phone most evenings,” Price told the Liverpool Echo.So how did the two Georges stay friends for so long? “Knowing nice people is key,” he said. “You choose who your friends are, and they are an extension of you. Choosing friends who share similar values, morals and qualities to you is important.”How to keep a lifelong friendshipWhen Price says the key to his lifelong friendship with Foukes is putting in the effort to stay in touch, he hits the nail on the head. Therapists say one of the most important things we can do is make time for our friends, no matter how hard it is with family and professional commitments. “Whether that’s meeting for lunch, responding to texts in a timely fashion, or scheduling a Zoom happy hour, it’s important to set aside time to connect with one another,” Mac Stanley Cazeau, LMHC, a couples therapist in New York City, tells WebMD.Cazeau adds that having a balanced relationship with plenty of give and take is also important because one-sided friendships won’t stand the test of time. “Be as good to your friends as you want them to be to you,” Cazeau says, adding that it’s always important to lend an impartial ear. “Being a safe space where your friend can share and vent without judgment can be vital to their mental health,” Cazeau says. The 2 Georges friendship is an excellent example for all of us, especially if you’re at the age where it’s easy to attribute losing friends to the passing of time. The 2 Georges have shown that if you put effort into your relationships, they can last a lifetime.

I enjoyed one of my loveliest drives ever in late March 2012. My sainted parents had invited me to join one of their many post-retirement trips. So, I flew into Asheville, North Carolina, rented a car, and departed for their time-share condominium on Lake Lure, about an hour away. I expected that area to be rich in bluegrass music. So, I clicked on the radio, only to find a particularly hideous rap tune oozing from the speakers. Repulsed, I swiftly turned one station to the left. Eureka! The plink-plink-plink sounds were exactly what I wanted. Exquisite banjo riffs brightened the crisp, sunny, early-spring afternoon. The DJ soon announced that this local National Public Radio station was honoring the memory of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, who had passed away that March 28 — just days earlier. The station planned to remember Scruggs by playing his recordings, wall to wall, all day long. Jackpot! “And now, back to the music,” the DJ said with a warm, rich voice. “Here’s Earl Scruggs with Lester Flatt at Carnegie Hall, December 2, 1963.” Gorgeous, pristine banjo, guitar, fiddle, and other real instruments erupted from a record of the first bluegrass concert at the legendary venue that Andrew Carnegie opened in 1891. Better still, that show originally was performed the week before I was born. Google Earth As these fantastic bluegrass tunes poured forth, played by North Carolina native Scruggs and his ensemble, I rode along a stunning, winding, highway. Countless trees and shrubs were in bloom. Up hills and down, the curvaceous road twisted left, right, and all around. It repeatedly turned, perhaps 270 degrees in one direction and then 190 the other way. No complaints! The vista through my rented SUV’s windshield could not have been prettier. Highway 74’s topography, sunshine, blossoms, blue skies, and bluegrass all delivered one of my most delightful experiences as a motorist. I traversed small towns called Fairview, Gerton, and Bat Cave. The entire area struck me less like the South and more like Vermont. Before long, Lake Lure emerged. Its tranquil waters glistened beside vacation mansions as the Blue Ridge Mountains climbed into the heavens. My father and I canoed on that very lake a few days later. My parents and I savored the local restaurants and shops. And the highlight of our trip was a tour of the Biltmore. George Washington Vanderbilt erected it in 1895, as his extended family virtually drowned beneath waves of its own cash. The Biltmore: “America’s Largest Home” (Photo: Purplemango2020 via Wikimedia Commons; Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) Asheville, Lake Lure, the Biltmore, and their surroundings. What spectacular places! Too bad so much of that has washed away. Residents of western North Carolina saw their region vanish, thanks to Hurricane Helene’s astonishingly relentless rains. Rushing waters stole miles of the stunning roads I navigated. The bridges I crossed: swept aside. Lake Lure: Clogged with tree stumps, demolished cars, ripped-up pieces of living rooms, and chunks of former kitchens. The trees and bushes full of spring flowers — uprooted and turned to projectiles that shredded houses and, even worse, human bodies. The survivors are fine people trapped in a living hell. They waited an obscene amount of time for federal aid that is trickling, not flooding, in. These Americans deserve none of this. I have three pieces of advice for the citizens of this battered region. First, fly to Tijuana, run across the border, and surrender to the Border Patrol. Rather than suffer from the Kamala Harris administration’s almost sadistic neglect, these people’s every need will be catered to: free food, healthcare, cell phones, plane tickets. Their wish will be Kamala’s command. Especially if the western North Carolinians can fake foreign accents, they will be in like Flynn. As this calamity unfolded, staying put in these communities meant that locals waited and waited and waited in vain for federal disaster assistance and personnel. For the first week after the storm, thousands of Helene’s victims wondered if they ever would be seen again. The federal response was somewhere between sluggish and comatose. Emergency equipment, generators, medicine, food, and water all were in painfully short supply. While these Americans suffered, President Joe Biden relaxed at his Rehoboth, Delaware, beach house. Meanwhile, Kamala, who blew off her hurricane-preparation briefings, raised funds in Hollywood. As the saying goes: Not a good look. Homeland Security Secretary Antonio Mayorkas complained about a lack of resources. “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said on Oct. 2. “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.” But even as Mayorkas excused Washington’s sloth by pleading poverty, FEMA was flush with cash for babysitting illegal aliens. “I wanted to ask if the White House plans any legal responses for the state sending migrants on buses and, secondly, if there’s [sic] plans to reimburse those cities or provide funding for how they’re handling that,” a journalist asked presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sept. 16, 2022. “FEMA Regional Administrators have been meeting with city officials on site to coordinate available federal support from FEMA and other federal agencies,” Jean-Pierre replied. “Funding is also available through FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter program to eligible local governments and not-for-profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants.” In fiscal year 2023, FEMA dedicated $364 million to nurture illegal aliens. For FY 2024, FEMA allocated $650 million — a one-year 78.6 percent increase. If Kamala, Biden, and Mayorkas had not squandered $1,014,000,000 to pamper people who broke into America, FEMA would have more funds on hand to offer hope and dignity to those stuck in the mud of Lake Lure and its environs. “Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety,” America First Legal declared. Despite Mayorkas’ pleas of poverty and these hard data on FEMA’s cornucopia for illegal aliens, the catastrophe agency now claims that the controversy over these facts is fueled by — wait for it — “conspiracy theories.” (Never mind that conspiracies often undergird such “theories.” Just ask Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Archduke Ferdinand, the 9/11 dead, and many more.) “Officials will push to uncover the source of conspiracy theories hampering Hurricane Helene relief efforts, the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency said,” according to Bloomberg. “Disinformation in previous disasters came from US foreign adversaries, said FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and though she doesn’t know if that has been the case for Helene yet, the cause is ‘certainly something that will be looked into.’” The Heritage Foundation assisted Criswell’s hunt for cred in October. Investigators at the conservative think tank exposed the disinformers who claimed that illegal aliens scored more than $1 billion in catastrophe relief: FEMA. Here is Heritage’s recap of FEMA’s own announcements of aid to illegals: Heritage Foundation Case closed. Meanwhile, a failure to communicate plagued the Helene Zone early on. Telephone lines were torn down, and cellphone towers dissolved like sandcastles at high tide. Too many of those in distress could not shout for help. “One of the frustrations is that Kamala Harris had $42 billion and years to get rural satellites and rural communications established and didn’t get one household connected,” U.S. Sen. Ted Budd (R–North Carolina) told Fox News anchor Eric Shawn on Sunday. “In a matter of a button click, with a phone call from Donald Trump, Elon Musk had hundreds of Starlinks delivered on the ground,” thus allowing satellite-based communication. “We need really strong, entrepreneurially minded, non-bureaucratic thinking to get this solved in the future.” Atop catalyzing Musk’s resources, Trump visited Helene’s victims in Georgia. He arrived with the Rev. Franklin Graham and trucks brimming with relief supplies, courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse. Trump also launched a GoFundMe page and urged his supporters to donate up to $1 million to aid those aching in Helene’s wake. As of Friday morning, that appeal had generated 48,200 contributions totaling $7,713,057. And all at the behest of an alleged narcissist who supposedly thinks only of himself. My second piece of advice to those in the Helene Zone is to fly to Lebanon and seek Kamala’s help there. While Kamala shuffles in house slippers to aid her fellow Americans, she dons running shoes to dispatch assistance to foreigners. When Kamala finally made it to North Carolina, she offered Helene’s survivors an insulting $750 each. This echoed the $700 that the Kamala administration gave those who escaped the August 2023 conflagration in Maui. Kamala focused her full compassion overseas. “The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there,” Kamala announced Saturday via X. “To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.” My third piece of advice for those struggling after Helene: Stop voting Democrat. The Democrat Party’s mistreatment of these embattled Americans blends big-government incompetence and cruel disrespect. One almost could hear Team Kamala say, “Take that, you crackers!” as these southerners’ appeals for mercy went unheeded for days. Democrat campaign consultant David Axelrod’s breathtakingly condescending words encapsulated this attitude. On his podcast, The Axe Files, Axelrod said that Democrats in Left-dominated Asheville are “upscale liberal voters, and they’re probably going to figure out a way to vote.” But, in contrast, Axelrod continued: “I’m not sure a bunch of these folks who had their homes and lives destroyed elsewhere, in western North Carolina, in the mountains there, are going to be as easy to wrangle for the Trump campaign.” The Democrat outlook seems to be Helene? Whatever. These Trump-loving hicks had it coming. When illegal-alien loving leftists prefer to send humanitarian aid to south Lebanon than to North Carolina, and then laugh about it, it’s time to deny Democrats what they crave most: Votes. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.  The post Kamala for President … of Lebanon appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68), died this week at age 96. She was a remarkable woman, a mother of 11 children, the last of whom was in her womb at the time of the assassination of her husband in June 1968. She is mother of, among others, one of the speakers at our annual gala of The American Spectator, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ethel was a devoted wife and mother. She was also a very devout Catholic. Throughout her life, she was a daily communicant; she attended daily Mass. RFK Jr. talks of how as a child his mother and father took the family to Mass not only once a day but sometimes twice. “We went to church, sometimes twice a day … at 7 and 8 o’clock,” says RFK Jr. today. “The centerpiece of our lives was Catholicism.”  That was his father’s doing as much as his mother’s. The senior Bobby Kennedy was so devout that if he had not gone into politics, he might well have become a monk. I’ve noticed negative reader comments at the end of obituaries of Ethel from some conservative Catholics critical of the once obviously pro-life mother for raising a family of mostly and wildly pro-choice children. But I can’t say that ought to be considered Ethel’s fault. Nor do I know where she personally stood on the issue. But I do know that she and Bobby until the time of his death had both been staunchly against abortion and generously gave the gift of life. For me, and perhaps many, the most enduring, searing image of Ethel is a very tragic one. Photographers caught it and sadly have saved it for posterity. It occurred shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. The place was the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Robert F. Kennedy was there for a celebratory speech after having just won the California primary for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. It was major victory, positioning Kennedy as possibly the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. Many now believed that Bobby was headed for the White House. Bobby exited the Embassy ballroom and was guided by handlers along a path that winded through the hotel kitchen and pantry. Hiding there was a 24-year-old Palestinian–Jordanian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan, who jumped out from behind a cart stacked with trays next to an ice machine and began firing a .22 revolver. He struck Kennedy three times, including a fatal head shot that entered behind his right ear. A good Samaritan who attempted to come RFK’s aid at that awful moment was Juan Romero, a busboy. The 17-year-old Mexican immigrant had badly wanted to see Robert F. Kennedy that night. As onlookers seized Sirhan, Romero knelt next to Kennedy. He asked the senator: “Are you okay? Can you get up?” He noticed that one of Kennedy’s legs was trembling and his left eye was twitching. Romero placed his hand under Kennedy’s head. At that moment, Bobby’s wife, Ethel, kneeling in a pretty orange-and-white dress, pushed Romero away. Romero, however, wanted to give something to the senator at that moment. “When I was in trouble, I would always go and pray to God,” he later explained innocently. He asked Mrs. Kennedy if she would mind if he gave his Rosary to her husband. Dumbfounded, shocked, Ethel said nothing. Romero pressed the beads into Kennedy’s lame hand, wrapping them around the senator’s thumb. When they wheeled Bobby Kennedy away, the Rosary beads were hanging off his hand. Ethel was at his side all the way to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died the next day. That image of Ethel and Bobby was the last image taken of them together. The woman lived with that the remainder of her long life. She lived without her husband. She missed him terribly. She never remarried. This past week, Ethel, devoted wife, was reunited at long last with her beloved husband taken so brutally from this world 56 years ago. May this woman who suffered so much at long last rest in peace. The post Ethel Kennedy at Long Last Is Reunited With Her Late Husband appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Shana Tova, my fellow Jews. As Yom Kippur approaches, our thoughts naturally are focused on teshuvah, acknowledging our prior indiscretions and committing once again to virtue. To that end, in this election year, we owe it to our families, fellow Jews, and country to shed our knee-jerk partisanship and consider the records of the presidential candidates objectively. The survival of diaspora Jewry depends on it. The depraved and murderous Gazan attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7 exposed the existential Palestinian threat to the Jewish state. Similarly, anti-Jew-hatred and pro-Hamas protests that proliferated on university campuses and elsewhere immediately after Oct. 7 have many American Jews questioning whether we can continue to survive and thrive in the United States. Evil still exists, and Jews seem to be downrange of that impulse. Much of the venom can be attributed to the predominant Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ethos in the United States, which contends that people should be morally judged based on their skin color, sexual preference, and gender, not on their merits. According to DEI advocates, the world is divided into two groups of people, oppressors and oppressed. The oppressed must be elevated, while the oppressors must be laid low, regardless of their relative merit or morality. Despite a history of being oppressed, Jews today are considered oppressors. After all, Jews are disproportionately accomplished and wealthy, Israel has a powerful military and a burgeoning economy, and Jews have won 22 percent of the Nobel Prizes since 1901, although they only comprise 0.2 percent of the world’s population. Consequently, Jews are now attacked as racist, “white oppressors.” Currently, two-thirds of religiously motivated hate crimes in America target Jews, even though Jews only account for 2 percent of the U.S. population. These are clearly perilous times for us. Enter Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump. Harris continually amplifies narratives that glorify Gazans and anti-Israel U.S. protesters and impugn Israel and American Jews. According to Politico, merely two months after Oct. 7, Harris began urging Biden to be more sympathetic toward the Palestinians, “tougher” on Israel, and “more forceful at seeking a long-term peace and two-state solution.” Harris appears to be oblivious to the perversity of rewarding the Palestinians with an independent state immediately after the Palestinians murdered 1,200 Jews and absconded with hundreds of Israeli and American hostages, many of whom remain in captivity a year later. Despite no evidence of famine in Gaza and the confirmed delivery of 313,970 tons of food there, from Oct. 7, 2023, through April 15, 2024, Kamala Harris shamefully accused Israel of deliberately starving the Gazans: “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane. And our common humanity compels us to act … The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid.” Harris claimed that Israel was imposing “unnecessary restrictions” on aid delivery. Kamala Harris has the right to disagree with Israel’s democratically elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but she seems to revel perversely in poking him in the eye. When Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress in July, Harris refused to preside over the event, as the vice president customarily does. Instead, she attended her sorority’s annual national convention. On Sunday, replying to Bill Whitaker’s question on 60 Minutes, Harris declined to call Netanyahu an “ally” of the United States. Domestically, Harris continually expresses her empathy for anti-Israel protesters, many of whom wish to eradicate Israel and Jews from the Middle East. Just a few months ago, Harris proclaimed, “They [anti-Israel protesters] are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza.” Shockingly, there are many indications that Kamala Harris will fill her administration with Jew-hating anti-Israel radicals. A month ago, the Harris campaign told Arab American leaders in Detroit that Keith Ellison is on the presidential candidate’s short list to become attorney general. Ellison has worked with antisemite Louis Farrakhan and the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Muslim Brotherhood–linked group that the United Arab Emirates has designated a terrorist group, but Ellison has lauded as a “civil rights” organization. Harris’ current national security adviser, Phil Gordon, is intimately connected to Washington officials suspected of being Iranian spies. And her campaign’s liaison to the Jewish community, Ilan Goldenberg, advocated for 2016’s U.N. Resolution 2334 opposing Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall, the restoration of funding to the Hamas-allied United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), and sanctions on Jews living in Judea and Samaria. Harris’ record should frighten all Jews. In contrast, Donald Trump consistently has supported Israel and Jewish Americans. Yes, Trump can be mercurial, harsh with critics, and downright dislikable to others. But his record speaks for itself. Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel 76 years after her formation and moved the U.S. Embassy to the holy city. His administration also mediated the Abraham Accords, resulting in the Islamic UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan recognizing Israel’s sovereignty and establishing full diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Trump imposed sanctions on Iran, starving it of the capital needed to fund its anti-Israel terrorist proxies. The former president also cut off aid to the Palestinians and consistently affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself from attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian surrogates. As a result, the Middle East was relatively peaceful during Trump’s term. Trump blocked various U.N. Security Council resolutions designed to denounce and weaken Israel. He also had a strong friendship with Netanyahu. Frankly, the list of actions taken by the Trump administration to support Jews and Israel goes on and on. On this Yom Kippur, I urge all Jews to engage in teshuvah: discard your partisan preconceptions and dispassionately evaluate the records and statements of Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump. If we do this sincerely, the choice is clear. READ MORE: One Year After Oct. 7, American Voters Face Stark Foreign Policy Choice One Year After Oct 7., the Heartbreak and Hope of Israel and the Jewish People The Lion of Judah Unleashed The post Jews and the 2024 Election appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.