By Mike Huckabee
October 12, 2023
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Today we have an update on the fate of the monster who goes by the name “Mohammed Deif,” the one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed bomb maker-turned-terrorist-leader reportedly responsible for the planning of Saturday’s grisly massacre in Israel. He’s been one of the Israeli military’s “Most Wanted” since 1995. We heard a tentative report earlier Wednesday that he might have been killed along with some accomplices, but it appears now that he is still out of reach. Here’s more about him…
As Brian Killmeade reported on Jesse Watters’ FOX NEWS show Wednesday night, the military has caught up with some of his family members. Retired Marine Corps. Col. Chris Douglas, whose background includes investigating the explosion in Afghanistan that killed 13 Americans, appeared on the show to discuss the current manhunt.
He said it’s challenging to find this terrorist because the population in that region obviously isn’t turning him in. This could mean either that they uniformly support him or that they are too afraid of him to make a move. He’ll be “very tough to find,” as he’s “just hiding among the populace.” There’s also an extensive tunnel network, he said, but one would think Israeli intelligence would’ve had that figured out.
When Kilmeade asked Col. Douglas if our abandonment of $4 billion worth of fighting equipment in Afghanistan might be related to this, he answered, “I mean, it’s hard to say that it isn’t.”
“The Middle East is the most complicated region in the world,” he said. “And although security wasn’t perfect in Afghanistan, it was more secure than it is now, with the Taliban in charge and all of the weaponry that we left behind and the manner in which we left. That said, the allies and partners within the region and around the globe definitely weren’t convinced that we were the force of choice in the future for incidents such as this.”
He put that about as delicately as it can be stated. Suggested translation: it made us look pathetically weak around the world. Tragically, in many circles --- Harvard University comes to mind --- Hamas is being seen as strong and heroic right now, and even justified in what they have done (as if anything could ever justify THAT). So, what has to happen to change that twisted perception?
“Speed, surprise, and violence in action” is what they [the Israelis] need now, Col. Douglas said. “They’ve got to respond swiftly, violently, and then, what’s gonna have to follow after that, though, is once they’ve defeated Hamas, any remaining need to be held to account. And they need to rapidly establish some sort of assistance package to Gaza; that’s gonna be the next. Because otherwise, it’s gonna be just this continuing problem, without providing some sort of stability.”
And what about the security of our own border? Kilmeade brought up the 6,000-plus “alien apprehensions” of Afghanis crossing into the U.S.; the 164 from Lebanon; the 659 from Iran; the 30,000 from Turkey (and of course these are just the apprehended ones), and asked, “Should we think that all these people want to be part of the American Dream?”
With an uncomfortable chuckle, Col. Douglas said, “You’d be naive to think that. The manner in which this happened in Israel should be a call to our elected officials, our President, to establish some sort of border security and to determine who here at home may wish us harm.”
That obviously makes too much sense for our current leadership to do.
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One Democrat talking point the past few days has been that “this isn’t the time to talk about the security failures. We’ll work on that later.” Certainly, they don’t want to dwell on a topic that brings up our own border security, but that consideration in the coming months is one huge reason why we have to determine the cause of this intelligence failure NOW and make sure it doesn’t happen here.
Bonchie at REDSTATE was right out of the gate with at least a preliminary look at how this could happen. “Clearly, intelligence resources were involved,” he said on Sunday of the attack, “and the multitude of weaponry, including thousands of rockets, was not produced by the Palestinians.”
“At this point, anyone denying Iran’s involvement might as well proclaim that the sky is not blue,” he said. “Iran’s own Supreme Leader came out and praised Hamas’ attack as it was occurring. Now, we have further confirmation, including from Hezbollah, Iran’s chief anti-Israel terror militia, that Iran was directly behind planning and pulling the trigger on the invasion.”
He pointed out that Biden’s Iran policy saved them when their economy --- and possibly their Islamist regime --- was on the verge of collapse, with renewed oil sales and unfrozen assets that are enriching them by tens of billions of dollars. We would add that the Biden administration has dispersed other questionable funds, more than $730 million to a UN agency that the State Department said in 2021 has assisted Hamas. (Unbelievably, the UN doesn’t categorize Hamas as a terrorist group.)
Hamas and Hezbollah are also reportedly rolling in cryptocurrency, and Iran funds Hamas to the tune of about $100 million a year.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/
Bonchie also noted that this approach to Iran policy dates back to Obama and that many of the players today are his holdovers. Jake Sullivan is one of those, a chief architect of Obama’s all-important “Iran deal.” (We were saying in those days that Obama seemed more like the president of Iran than of the United States. His administration was all about that deal, remember?) And recall our recent story about this official, Ariane Tabatabai, in light of what just transpired with Iran’s help. This is a must-read now in case you didn’t see it the first time...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant working in the Obama administration, recommended sharing intelligence with Iran in 2016, among other suggestions (the article has startling details) for working with them --- as an ally. In 2021, after Biden’s State Department brought her in as a senior adviser, a congressional letter suggested her security clearance be pulled because she obviously had a “relationship” with Iran. The letter said that Tabatabai “has echoed Iranian regime talking points and has made excuses for Iran’s oppressive government.”
But that congressional letter was taken about as seriously as most other congressional letters are these days. State Department spokesman Ned Price defended Tabatabai, saying that any security-related concerns about her were “baseless and illegitimate.” He called expressions of these concerns “smears and slander.” And today, Tabatabai is still in the Biden administration, with the impressive title of Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict.
This is true even though Iran envoy Robert Malley --- now under investigation for mishandling classified documents and suspected of being part of a spy ring for Iran --- personally brought her onto his team of negotiators. “Even in the face of serious evidence that the State Department and the Department of Defense are employing an enemy government agent, the Biden administration is not backing down,” Daniel Greenfield writes for FRONT PAGE Magazine. “The speed with which Tabatabai...has been able to fully penetrate the highest echelons of our national defense in a little over a decade is a testament to the national security collapse within a disloyal bureaucracy.”
There are other stunning examples as well, as guest Brooke Goldstein, CEO of The Lawfare Project, laid out on Wednesday’s HANNITY. (See full show, about 15 minutes in; the interview isn’t broken out as a clip. This requires a cable subscription; the show should be free on YouTube in a day or so.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
We still don’t know exactly what contributed to this stunning security failure, both here and in Israel. But after reading about such pro-Iranian people in our own government, it starts to seem possible that our government MIGHT have, um, “missed” an operation largely planned by Iran. If anyone in our State Department or Pentagon had any hint of this impending vicious attack and Israel was not warned, that would make our government complicit in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
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