[link removed]

In this mailing:
* Robert Williams: Biden to Jews: 'No' to Defending against Iran's Nuclear Weapons
* Lawrence Kadish: Capital Crimes and Accountability


** Biden to Jews: 'No' to Defending against Iran's Nuclear Weapons ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------

by Robert Williams • October 7, 2024 at 5:00 am
* "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations." — United Nations Charter, Article 51.
* On October 1, 2024, Iran directly attacked Israel for the second time in six months, launching at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israeli towns cities and towns and sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters. Iran simply did what it has been doing for decades: trying to obliterate Israel.
* Iran, both alone and through its proxies, has attacked Israel -- a country smaller than New Jersey – for the past year, non-stop, on seven fronts: Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran itself. Lately, Iran has been eyeing an eighth front from which to fire on Israel: Sudan.
* If a country is in danger of being attacked by nuclear weapons, within "one or two weeks," as it is, according to the US Department of State, a request for "proportionality" is nonsensical.
* What Israel's leadership needs to do is ensure that Iran will not be able to attack the Jewish state ever again, either with conventional weapons or nuclear ones. This obligation, elementary for any country, means that Israel needs to incapacitate Iran's nuclear sites and arguably put an end to Iran's theocratic regime. There is no point in having an "accommodation" with Iran. To have peace in the Middle East, the West will need to defeat Iran.
* Iran, cordially loathed by many of own its trapped citizens, already controls four countries in addition to its own: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. The regime has made no secret of its commitment to exporting its Islamic revolution globally -- including to Sudan, the rest of Africa, the Western Hemisphere and the world. As the founder of the 1979 Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said: "We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no god but Allah' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.^"
* "Islam says," he also noted: "Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword!"
* Yet the Biden-Harris administration, together with the other G7 countries, who represent almost the entire West, apparently cannot agree that the world would be better off if "the leading state sponsor of global terrorism" -- on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons -- were stopped in its tracks.
* The UN resolution also showed those countries' disregard for Western civilization – a civilization which Israel, with no thanks from anyone, is paying the highest price imaginable to protect from tyranny and barbarism.
* All this, however, concerns more than "just the Jews." If Western countries actively enable autocracy, terrorism and savagery not just by standing passively by but by disabling a country that is fighting these onslaughts -- where does that leave the West when those forces move on to their next targets?

Iran's October 1 missile attack on Israel was an undeniable violation of international law. There should not be the slightest doubt that the moment the Islamic Republic of Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it will try to use them on Israel. U.S. President Joe Biden nonetheless told reporters that he would not support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites, and that if Israel did defend itself against Iranian aggression, it should only do so "proportionally." Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on from the dais, as a Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during at a military parade in Tehran on September 21, 2024. Fattah missiles were using in Iran's October 1 attack on Israel. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

If there is one rule under international law that is unequivocal, it is that a state that has been attacked by another state has the right to defend itself.

"Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations," states Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

This is true for every country – except it seems for Israel. When it comes to the world's only Jewish state, apparently, the rules do not apply.

Continue Reading Article ([link removed])


** Capital Crimes and Accountability ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------

by Lawrence Kadish • October 7, 2024 at 4:00 am
It is crucial that in a functioning democracy there be an open, wide-ranging, and energetic difference of opinion among those citizens entrusted with the gift of liberty. Freedom of speech and the ballot box are the legacies that have been dearly bought by generations of Americans in uniform. To see these freedoms perverted and attacked by would-be assassins embracing an ideology repugnant to most Americans is a reminder that their actions can only be described as a capital crime against our democracy. Pictured: Former President Donald Trump is taken off a rally stage by Secret Service agents after he was shot by a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

As John Wilkes Booth leapt from the murder scene at Ford's Theater, having just mortally wounded one of the greatest presidents who ever graced the Oval Office, he shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" or "Thus always to tyrants." It revealed a level of venomous hatred that altered the course of American history.

And so it is today as not one, but two, assassination attempts have been made on former President Donald Trump. While the motive of the first sniper attack remains muddied, the second planned attack left no doubt as to why the gunman was stalking Trump. He wrote it all down before he left to wait in ambush, much of it seemingly lifted from political propaganda: "You are free to assassinate Trump," he wrote, and "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose."

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have, on several occasions, "accused Trump of being a 'threat to Democracy.'"

Continue Reading Article ([link removed])

============================================================
** Facebook ([link removed])
** Twitter ([link removed])
** RSS ([link removed])
** Donate ([link removed])
Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved.

You are subscribed to this list as [email protected]

You can change how you receive these emails:
** Update your subscription preferences ([link removed])
or ** Unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])

** Gatestone Institute ([link removed])

14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022