Another Saturday attack on Israel happened – this time directly by Iran instead of its proxies, further destabilizing the region. This attack puts the United States’ feckless foreign policies under President Biden on full display. Iran says the drone and missile attacks were in response to the bombing of one of the buildings in the Iranian compound in Damascus which killed seven senior Iranian military officials. After the attack, in anticipation of a response by Israel, Iran sent a note via the United Nations to Israel warning Israel to not retaliate and for the United States to stay out of the conflict.
President Biden has taken up Iran’s cause – not Israel’s, calling on Israel to exercise restraint and that the U.S. would not be any part of an escalation or response.
It doesn’t take a PhD in international relations to know that Iran smells weakness from the U.S. and opportunity to provoke a regional war that pulls others into the conflict.
I trust the Israeli government will respond independent of anything the Biden administration advises.
Shortly after the reports of the attack on Israel, Chicago Alderperson, Rossana Rodriguez posted “Free Palestine” on her X page. Alderman Ray Lopez responded as follows on his X account.
With the conflict in that region escalating, Rossana Rodriguez should be making strong statements about keeping the peace instead of fanning the flames of protestors. Rodriguez should know that pro-Hamas groups are organizing into a broad coalition with plans to not comply with City of Chicago directives on where and when they can protest during the Democratic National Convention.
The Chicago Tribune reported on the meeting of the March on DNC 2024, writing the following on Sunday April 14, 2024:
“A couple of hundred people representing 78 activist organizations gathered Saturday for a day-long “working conference” hosted by the March on the DNC coalition to organize fundraising, communications and logistics for the months ahead before top Democratic politicians arrive in Chicago. While support for a ceasefire in Palestine is the unifying cause, the coalition includes representatives from dozens of causes, including reproductive rights, labor rights, and immigrant and undocumented persons rights.
“We’ll be marching with or without permits. This DNC is the most important one since 1968, also in Chicago when Vietnam War protesters and the black liberation movement organized mass demonstrations that were violently repressed,” said Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, at a coalition conference Saturday on the Near West Side to organize protest efforts. “The march on the DNC will be the largest mobilization for Palestine in the history of the city.”
These folks are looking to stir up trouble and the city is not ready for it. These are all radical progressive Democrat socialist organizations. Check out their website at this link: https://www.marchondnc2024.org/
They feel free to organize and protest and then dictate foreign policy to the US. They associate with their identity group rather than as Americans.
The meeting took place in the basement of the Teamsters Local 786 building in Chicago at 300 S. Ashland. The happenings during the day-long meeting have now made national news as radical Muslim extremists taught the willing attendees how to chant “Death to Israel,” and then, at the request of a member of the audience, “Death to America.”
In high shrill, warlike voices the masked participants followed the Jew-hating, America-hating Muslim leader leading the chant, pictured in the headline photo. Fortunately a reporter from The Free Press was there to capture it all.
The Chicago Tribune who reported on the meeting, as noted above, as not subsequently reported on the Death to America chant. Likely, they did not have a reporter there who heard the chant, but they could have picked up on the news of the chant and reported on it.
Instead we will have to rely on the NY Post. Click HERE to access the NY Post article and watch the video from the meeting. It is chilling that these people work and live among us. By the way, they are all in masks which were required to attend the meeting. The masks also served to hide their identity.
Chicago isn’t the only hotspot. Before the chants of Death to America in Chicago, it got ugly in Detroit. Last week at a pro-Palestinian rally on Al Quds Day, radicals also chanted Death to America, quoted Malcom X calling America one of the “Rotteniest Countries” and said Israel is ISIS. Watch that appalling video and get ready for what’s to come in August in Chicago.
Illinois has the largest concentration of Palestinians in America. At least 75 rally/march requests have been submitted for the four days during the DNC.
So now that the coalition has tipped their hand that they HATE America and plan on chaos and lawlessness, the question is what will the authorities do about it. If anyone seems like a threat to our American way of life and our laws, then it would be someone chanting Death to America.
Has the DOJ and FBI sent armed agents to these extremists’ homes to haul them in for questioning?
Have they scoured their social media to look for radical insurrectionist and Islamic-supremacy plans like they did to American citizens including our members in uniform?
Did they warn local law enforcement to be on the lookout for suspicious activity similar to the letter they put out about conservative Catholics?
And how about the Teamsters? Who let these America-hating people use your office building? Does Eileen O’Neill Burke want to give back the $25,000 she got from the Teamsters knowing that they facilitated this meeting?
We want the same scrutiny on these radicals that the DOJ put on other Americans. And we want anyone associated with this group to feel the heat of that association.
There’s been no press statements on what happened from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, Senate President Harmon, Speaker Welch or any other Democrat Congressional. Casten’s Twitter was completely silent on what happened.
A follow-up, yesterday there were coordinated disruptions of our transportation system at many major cities. Access to O’Hare airport was blocked by these same radical protestors. According to reports 54 were arrested. We’ll see if this means they are prosecuted and convicted for blocking traffic.
Years ago people spoke favorably of our multicultural society, but there was an understanding that America was still a melting pot of shared values. This is not true anymore. Now multiculturism means that newcomers’ culture is elevated and celebrated over American culture which is now subservient.