Don’t Hold Up Israel Aid to Further Ukraine War Funding

• The United States’ closest ally and strategic partner in the Middle East is well equipped to respond to this escalating war and defend its people, but military support from the U.S. will be necessary in the coming weeks.
• Having failed to force through more Ukraine funding by tying it to disaster relief for Americans, Senate leadership is now using the crisis in Israel as a “Plan B” to get the Biden administration’s funding request across the finish line — this time by as much as $100 billion.  
• The conflicts in Ukraine and Israel are two distinct events that deserve two distinct responses.
• Instead of holding up aid to Israel for additional Ukraine funding, Congress should give the situation in Israel the separate debate and vote that it deserves.
• Conservatives should also insist on securing our own borders and fully enforcing our immigration laws, considering that Hamas and other terrorist organizations have infiltrated our homeland through our open borders and continue to do so today.

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BLM Support of Hamas Is Perfectly in Line with Its Goals

• Embracing the vilest forms of terrorism as a means of destroying Israel is a feature, not a bug, of revolutionary “decolonization.”
• The once “national” mother ship, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, has in fact gone semi-dormant, so its silence on the slaughter in Israel should not be interpreted as distancing itself from it; BLMGNF hasn’t posted any news on its website since July.
• By contrast, the recent display of support for the slaughter of Israeli Jews by two key groups, BLM Grassroots and BLM Los Angeles, is more significant.
• These groups believe that “decolonization," a mantra of the movement, is to be carried out “by any means necessary” and say that Israel must be destroyed because it is a white settler, white supremacist state.

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Inflation Isn’t So Bad? Don’t Buy It

• “The war on inflation is over,” economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, wrote recently on X/Twitter. “We won, at very little cost.”
• But inflation is not down for the count—not by a long shot. Prices are up an average of 3.7% in the last year, which means they’re rising more than two and a half times as fast as they did when Biden took office. Inflation is nearly twice the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
• The latest consumer price index (CPI) data shows that prices have risen more than 17% on average since President Joe Biden took office and are on pace to double in less than 12 years. The typical American family has effectively lost $7,300 in annual income under Biden.
• Worse, with blowout federal deficits continuing as far as the eye can see, there’s little hope of inflation returning to its low trend that existed before Biden took office.

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