Harvard Students issue factual statement about Israel and Palestine. Republican Extremists Attack

Republicans love when Extremists attack.  They fvcking loooooooooove it.  Republicans love when innocent people die in Terrorist Attacks because then they get to Bash the Left with their rhetorical war club and accuse Democrats of Aiding Terrorists.

Because of the Tea Party lunatics, the cartoonish Trump criminality and treason, and the non-stop Anti-American antics of Greene, Santos, Boebert, Tubberville, Hawley et al you had forgotten how bad the Republicans were under George W(orst POTUS Ever) Bush.  Hadn't you?

For instance, convicted criminal and drunken evangelical Tom DeLay scuttled aid to Palestine Authority in 2005.  Undercutting the Palestine Authority in 2005 aided who?  Hamas; who "won" elections in Gaza in 2006 and have never had another.  Who else has aided Hamas?  Why Benjamin Netanyahu. 

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"

For years Netanyahu was a "Friend of Hamas" because Hamas and Likud are Extremists who love and need each other.  Netanyahu ignored Gaza because he was busy helping settlers confiscate land in the West Bank and eliminating Supreme Court barriers to his fascist rule.  The two state solution died when Netanyahu had Yitzak Rabin assassinated.

“Israel is not killing the Hamas leadership, they’re not getting revenge out of Hamas. There is collective punishment for 2.2 million people. Look what’s happening towards the Palestinians in the West Bank, to us, the Palestinian Israelis that live inside the state of Israel. Our lives are in danger because of all the extreme-right fascists.”  Sami Abou Shehadeh said.

The Hamas multi-pronged attack is just the balm rightwing extremists across the globe needed.  Anyone attempting to analyze the incredibly fraught Israel/Palestine situation, express understanding of the shared grief, bring humanity or nuance into this is immediately attacked.  Especially, if you are in the West and you share even a scintilla of compassion for the plight of Palestinian civilians expect to be savagely denounced by Republicans. 

So, in response to 34 Harvard student groups putting out an accurate if controversial statement 

We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.  

Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.  

The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.

properly ascribing blame to the Israeli treatment of Gaza, Republican extremists pounced;

Elise Stefanik, a Republican US Representative from New York and a Harvard graduate, called the statement “abhorrent and heinous” for excusing the “slaughter of innocent women and children”.  

I will note that the deaths of children in Gaza from indiscriminate missile strikes originating in Israel do not engender the same response.

Republican US Senator Ted Cruz, a Harvard Law School graduate, wrote on Xitter: “What the hell is wrong with Harvard?”

This is a good question as they were not clairvoyant enough to see the odious Traitor Cruz would turn into.

Harvard President Claudine Gay and senior leadership including 15 deans issued a statement on Monday that said they were “heartbroken by the death and destruction unleashed by the attack by Hamas that targeted citizens in Israel this weekend”.

See! We can neatly blame all the future death and destruction on the original Hamas attack and thus Israeli war crimes in Gaza are actually the fault of the people being killed by bunker buster bombs and the cutting off of the water supply.

It's nigh-impossible for anyone in the West, especially in the US, to criticize Israel. Even when such criticism is wholly accurate.  Israelis, however, are not shy about placing the blame upon the occupation and inhuman conditions the Israeli governments have subjected the Palestinian people.  Here in the US, Republicans have nothing to offer the American peoples thus they see this continuing War in Palestine/Israel as see an opportunity to attack President Biden and the Democratic Party and further endanger and degrade the United States.  While the Republican Party  isn't in "league" with Hamas, the Likud Fascists, Vladimir Putin, all these extremists know that their interests are aligned and that each of them is able to wield outsized power by undermining peace, democracy, and liberal society.

So as the death toll rises and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza gets worse, expect Republicans to get more vociferous in their support of the Netanyahu's and the IDF war crimes.  All you have to do is remember how fervently the Republicans defended Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, "enhanced interrogation", Blackwater crimes in Iraq, and every other atrocity committed by the US in the name of the Global War on Terror.

The Daily Caller lies. Breitbart.com lies. Welcome to the Right-Wing Fart Bubble Echo Chamber

Conservatives spend their time inside the Right-Wing Blog-o-Sphere bubble regurgitating each others farts and cross-contaminating their lies amongst themselves.

It's known as incestuous amplification.

There have been several recent Prime-Time examples: such as Karl Rove's 2012 Election Night Meltdown on Faux News with "the math you do as a conservative to make yourself feel better." and Michele Bachmann repeating the Right-Wing Fart Bubble lies that President Obama spent $200 Million USC a day, with a 3000 person staff occuping 800 Hotel Rooms accompanied by a 34 Ship US Navy Armanda in 2010. But, those incidents don't underscore the vicious smears and whispering campaigns Conservatives concoct to get Liberals fired or discredited.

Like Paul Krugman. Right-Wingers hate Paul Krugman, because as Loudon Wainwright III noted, Krugman's Got the Noble Prize So Krugman Ought-a Know

So, Right-Wingers are constantly on the lookout for slanders to publish about Krugman and then cross-link amongst themselves.

In the March 11 post, Deadbart (Breitbart.com) editor at large Larry O'Connor mocked the New York Times columnist for his alleged financial mismanagement. Unfortunately for O'Connor, the report that Krugman went bankrupt was clearly a joke and originated from the satirical website The Daily Currant.

In his post, O'Connor jabbed Krugman for supposedly spending "$84,000 in one month" on Portuguese wines and "a dress from the Victorian period," and concluded that "apparently this Keynsian [sic] thing doesn't really work on the micro level." O'Connor sourced the report to a Boston.com post written by "Prudent Investor." The post by "Prudent Investor" sources an Austrian website, which reprinted the original Daily Currant story.

O'Connor has since deleted the post without explanation.

This type of Right-Wing perfidy against Paul Krugman has happened several times before. In 2011, a Right Wing Punk Ass Bitch named Carlos Gaterol, opened a Google+ account under the name Paul Krugmann, and released a message after an East Coast earthquake, 

"People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage." 

This was immediately grasped by the Right-Wing Nut Jobs and recirculated inside their Fart Bubble.

Of course, Paul Krugman didn't write it Carols Gaterol did. But, over at Hotair, conservatives revealed it doesn't matter if it's actually true: 

"I don’t really care if this moron said it because I know for a fact there are progressives out there who do actually think a good catastrophe would be good for the economy. Unless of course it is an oil spill in the gulf that kills birdies and makes The Messiah look bad."

Gaterol defended his lying by stating he wanted to show through 'parody', "the many misguided beliefs that Paul Krugman holds, defends, and espouses on a daily basis."

O'Connor, like Gaterol and all lying conservative "journalists", find evidence to confirm their conclusions. And if they can't find it, they just make it up; Conservative Mantra.

During the confirmation hearings, Breitbart Senior Editor Ben Shapiro ran with a story about Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his secret association with "Friends of Hamas." What's important to understand about the Hagel Hearings was that Shapiro (a chicken hawk, warmonger, Bush backer) found a perfect story with which to slander Hagel and by association President Obama.

Friends of Hamas was just perfect. It fit with everything Right-Wing Nutjobs have been saying for years about President Obama and Leftists, i.e. that Liberals are Muslim Loving Anti-American Terrorist Appeasers. And here was evil Kenyan Marxist Muslim Loving Obama pushing a Terrorist Lover onto the Secretary of Defense!!! Republican Senators referenced the lies during the hearings. Every right-wing blog and journal sucked up the story and regurgitated it in the Fart Bubble. 

Of course, it doesn't matter that the story is entirely false, apparently started when a reporter asked a series of absurdist questions, and Shapiro didn't even do the most basic of research (a google search). What matters to Right-Wing Toxic Nut Job Bloggers is getting as many anti-liberal blog stories, facebook posts, e-mails, tweets and memes into the Blog-o-sphere as possible.

Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller are engaged in this same sort of "journalism". They've got a Vendetta against Democratic Senator Bob Menedez which they've propagated through lies and payoffs. The Daily Caller alleged Menedez engaged in prostitution in the Dominican Republic, most likely, in the time-honored right-wing tradition of Sex Shaming Democrats into stepping down.

Now when the Washington Post published a story entirely dismantling the Daily Caller's story,

An escort who appeared on a video claiming that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican authorities that she was instead paid to make up the claims and has never met or seen the senator, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim. 

The woman said a local lawyer had approached her and a fellow escort and asked them to help frame Menendez and a top donor, Salomon Melgen, according to affidavits obtained by The Washington Post.

The Daily Caller and the conservative dupes who sucked up Tucker Carlson and editor-in-chief David Martosko farts lashed out! There's an Investigation! It's a different hooker! Hookers Lie! 

That the story is an entire lie and malicious campaign to force Menedez to step down doesn't matter.

What Right-Wing Liars are tasked with is keeping enough chum in the water in order to get enough duped and battered conservative drones slurping down the frothy mixture and vomiting it back into the Blog-o-Sphere.

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