Over 500,000 (claims of 1.5+ million) Palestinians are migrants away from their homeland, whether it be because of their political or economic struggles and the world has to deal with this crisis.
Crisis? Yes most certainly. As long as Israel exists as a nation the Palestinian and Arab World cannot peacefully accept this fact of history. The Middle East is Muslim, and those of other faiths must accept this for now and work with the extended Muslim Laws that allow them to exist. Yes, Islam accepts other faiths to exist, but Islam must be the Controlling Religion of this region. At the extreme, we saw how The Caliphate of ISIS allowed other religions to exist so long as they paid for Islam’s protection laws. In the most moderate of situations, national Islam allows its citizens to practice other faiths while the business of government remains Islamic. It is all about control. The millions of Palestinians and North Africans that roam the Middle East are going to the EU, United Kingdom, and North America hopefully to establish themselves in a new land, but also seeking a place to recuperate, regroup and reinforce their influence and power. Many Persians have made these nations their new homeland, while others have found Western Society to be too liberal, immodest, and secular, challenging their cultural and Islamic views.
So let’s relook at what is happening right now. Israel is conquering Gaza, attempting to eradicate Hamas as an opponent. Israel is seeking revenge and justice for all the “terroristic” actions of Hamas and other “terroristic” organizations against her. This may be the final solution needed to bring some form of peace to the Middle East. Jew and Arab, once neighbors long ago, have been radicalized by their superpower supporters and history. Never will they stand side by side as friends.
Western hopes lay empty in the face of what is happening in the Middle East. Only those who have visited this land, or live in it can understand the true meaning of peace in the Middle East, a concept that is always temporary, and never long-lasting, forever tainted in blood.
The hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern Migrants who are flowing to Canada, the USA, and Britain will never forget their history, their hate and mistrust of Israel and its allied partners. Toronto in the summer of 2024 will be chaotic through the militant actions of pro-Palestinian and Iranian forces. Protests will halt traffic, and possibly boil over into full violent riots depending upon what Toronto’s Police Department does. Toronto’s Police did not handle the Canadian Protesters in Ottawa last year, so how can they handle mass protests with armed individuals?
Washington D.C’s Lafayette Park and the Commons will be filled with militant protestors standing against American support for Israel and groups that claim nationalistic roots that are anti-Islamic will oppose them. Imagine the place where Martin Luther King proclaimed his dream, will be filled with people who care little for America, but center their anger and mistrust against her, and Her ally Israel. The Palestinian Militancy cares little for equality and is centered upon control and national eradication of Israel. Israeli’s move into Gaza was not well thought out, and in the process created new martyrs and purpose for militant hatred directed against it and its allies. That is America, Canada, Britain, and France. A possible resurgence of ISIS recruits from the Palestinian cause, is truly feared.
With the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and Chinese military and political interventions in Asia, it is only a matter of time before some nation will violently reach out to another, possibly beginning a global crisis or conflict. Iranian and Russian Intelligence Agencies are hard at work creating major difficulties for Western allies globally. China waits on the sidelines for that moment in time when the West is too busy to notice or immediately react to an invasion of Taiwan. There is the continual threat of North Korea’s Little Tyrant, threatening Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and even North America.
America may well have realized they can no longer be the world’s policeman. America’s National Debt in 2024 so far is $34 Billion. Much of that debt is military expenditures and costs domestically and internationally. If Donald Trump regains the White House, the debt will be one of the things He will need to deal with, perhaps concentrating on social program cuts as opposed to military ones. Even if President Biden maintains power the three elements He will need to solve will be the National Debt -Border and international issues. The Debt Ceiling issue has not been dealt with yet. President Biden’s weakness in the control of domestic issues will further embolden his International Enemies to attack American interests further, and possibly violently.
A hodgepodge of issues lay before our leaders, but also before us, the taxpayers, and the citizens not in any form of control of their future. Debts need to be paid, and whether living in Canada, the USA, or the EU-UK the bill stops with us, the indebted ones. We are faced with a Jeffersonian choice, not the President, but the hit show “The Jeffersons”, who were moving on up to the East side”. 2024 will show us all that the citizen and the nations of the West are in fact “moving on downward”, whether that means downsizing as people and a nation. Changes are on their way and we are not prepared.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A linebacker at Division II West Virginia State was fatally shot during what the university said Thursday is being investigated by police as a home invasion.
The body of Jyilek Zyiare Harrington, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was found inside an apartment Wednesday night in Charleston, police Lt. Tony Hazelett said in a statement.
Hazelett said several gunshots were fired during a disturbance in a hallway and inside the apartment. The statement said Harrington had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they had no information on a possible suspect.
West Virginia State said counselors were available to students and faculty on campus.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Jyilek’s family as they mourn the loss of this incredible young man,” West Virginia State President Ericke S. Cage said in a letter to students and faculty.
Harrington, a senior, had eight total tackles, including a sack, in a 27-24 win at Barton College last week.
“Jyilek truly embodied what it means to be a student-athlete and was a leader not only on campus but in the community,” West Virginia State Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Nate Burton said. “Jyilek was a young man that, during Christmas, would create a GoFundMe to help less fortunate families.”
Burton said donations to a fund established by the athletic department in Harrington’s memory will be distributed to an organization in Charlotte to continue his charity work.
West Virginia State’s home opener against Carson-Newman, originally scheduled for Thursday night, has been rescheduled to Friday, and a private vigil involving both teams was set for Thursday night. Harrington previously attended Carson-Newman, where he made seven tackles in six games last season. He began his college career at Division II Erskine College.
“Carson-Newman joins West Virginia State in mourning the untimely passing of former student-athlete Jyilek Harrington,” Carson-Newman Vice President of Athletics Matt Pope said in a statement. “The Harrington family and the Yellow Jackets’ campus community is in our prayers. News like this is sad to hear anytime, but today it feels worse with two teams who knew him coming together to play.”
DETROIT (AP) — Joe Schmidt, the Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Detroit Lions win NFL championships in 1953 and 1957 and later coached the team, has died. He was 92.
The Lions said family informed the team Schmidt died Wednesday. A cause of death was not provided.
One of pro football’s first great middle linebackers, Schmidt played his entire NFL career with the Lions from 1953-65. An eight-time All-Pro, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973 and the college football version in 2000.
“Joe likes to say that at one point in his career, he was 6-3, but he had tackled so many fullbacks that it drove his neck into his shoulders and now he is 6-foot,” said the late Lions owner William Clay Ford, Schmidt’s presenter at his Hall of Fame induction in 1973. “At any rate, he was listed at 6-feet and as I say was marginal for that position. There are, however, qualities that certainly scouts or anybody who is drafting a ballplayer cannot measure.”
Born in Pittsburgh, Schmidt played college football in his hometown at Pitt, beginning his stint there as a fullback and guard before coach Len Casanova switched him to linebacker.
“Pitt provided me with the opportunity to do what I’ve wanted to do, and further myself through my athletic abilities,” Schmidt said. “Everything I have stemmed from that opportunity.”
Schmidt dealt with injuries throughout his college career and was drafted by the Lions in the seventh round in 1953. As defenses evolved in that era, Schmidt’s speed, savvy and tackling ability made him a valuable part of some of the franchise’s greatest teams.
Schmidt was elected to the Pro Bowl 10 straight years from 1955-64, and after his arrival, the Lions won the last two of their three NFL titles in the 1950s.
In a 1957 playoff game at San Francisco, the Lions trailed 27-7 in the third quarter before rallying to win 31-27. That was the NFL’s largest comeback in postseason history until Buffalo rallied from a 32-point deficit to beat Houston in 1993.
“We just decided to go after them, blitz them almost every down,” Schmidt recalled. “We had nothing to lose. When you’re up against it, you let both barrels fly.”
Schmidt became an assistant coach after wrapping up his career as a player. He was Detroit’s head coach from 1967-72, going 43-35-7.
Schmidt was part of the NFL’s All-Time Team revealed in 2019 to celebrate the league’s centennial season. Of course, he’d gone into the Hall of Fame 46 years earlier.
Not bad for an undersized seventh-round draft pick.
“It was a dream of mine to play football,” Schmidt told the Detroit Free Press in 2017. “I had so many people tell me that I was too small. That I couldn’t play. I had so many negative people say negative things about me … that it makes you feel good inside. I said, ‘OK, I’ll prove it to you.’”
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s Environment Assessment Office has fined Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. $590,000 for “deficiencies” in the construction of its pipeline crossing the province.
The office says in a statement that 10 administrative penalties have been levied against the company for non-compliance with requirements of its environmental assessment certificate.
It says the fines come after problems with erosion and sediment control measures were identified by enforcement officers along the pipeline route across northern B.C. in April and May 2023.
The office says that the latest financial penalties reflect its escalation of enforcement due to repeated non-compliance of its requirements.
Four previous penalties have been issued for failing to control erosion and sediment valued at almost $800,000, while a fifth fine of $6,000 was handed out for providing false or misleading information.
The office says it prioritized its inspections along the 670-kilometre route by air and ground as a result of the continued concerns, leading to 59 warnings and 13 stop-work orders along the pipeline that has now been completed.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
