In this mailing: Khaled Abu Toameh: The Role of Iran's Palestinian Mercenaries Chris Farrell: Parents Finally Catch On: Will Not Be Threatened The Role of Iran's Palestinian Mercenaries by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  October 28, 2021 at 5:00 am       Hamas and PIJ, it seems, want to continue receiving funds and weapons from Iran, but they do not want to be seen by Arabs and Muslims as mercenaries serving Iran's interests in the Middle East. Hamas and PIJ want the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and Muslims to believe that their only goal is to "liberate all of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" -- a euphemism for driving the Jews out of Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state. That is most likely why both Palestinian terror groups were quick to issue statements denying that their main goal is to defend Iran and serve its interests in the Middle East. "Take your armies and go with them back to Iran, where you can fight your battles away from the peoples you occupy to achieve your agendas," said Sami Gemayel, head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. He also criticized the failure of Lebanese leaders to respond to the admission that Hezbollah was created to serve Iran, and not Lebanon: "Are you ready now to face the truth?" The Iranian commander's [Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid's] statements coincide with the Biden administration's delusional commitment to the fiction that the US will somehow convince Iran to abandon its plans to acquire nuclear weapons. While the Biden administration is talking about "diplomacy" as the best way to rein in Iran's nuclear program, the mullahs are preparing for war and advancing their scheme to annihilate Israel and, with the help of their six "armies," occupy still more Arab countries. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, it seems, want to continue receiving funds and weapons from Iran, but they do not want to be seen by Arabs and Muslims as mercenaries serving Iran's interests in the Middle East. Pictured: Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists parade with Bader 3 rockets in Gaza City, on May 29, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images) Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are embarrassed: Iran just admitted that both of those terrorist groups serve as mercenaries for the mullahs in Tehran. For Hamas and PIJ, the admission is yet another sign that the truth can be painful and inconvenient, especially when it comes from a major ally such as Iran. Recently, Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, stated that his country has armies that operate outside of Iran. Rashid was referring to Iranian-backed groups such as Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, the Syrian army and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and other militias in Iraq and Syria. These groups, he said, "have ideological tendencies" with the mission to defend Iran. Rashid pointed out that the former commander of Iran's Quds Force, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, said three months before his death that he had "organized six armies outside the territory of Iran." Continue Reading Article Parents Finally Catch On: Will Not Be Threatened by Chris Farrell  •  October 28, 2021 at 4:00 am       Now, in America, self-described "progressives" of any number of different stripes continue to aggressively label and attack as criminals and domestic terrorists any person or group dissenting from their radical agenda. Therefore, the NSBA and others of their ilk have few qualms about calling parents exercising their right to confront smug educrats at public hearings "domestic terrorists." What is truly alarming is that these opponents of the First Amendment appear to have backing from the Biden White House. Using the FBI to police local school board meetings is a disturbing example of federal overreach. It would also be nothing new for the FBI. It is very easy to imagine what the Justice Department's "additional efforts" could include -- as we have already seen -- surveillance, subpoenas, infiltration, questioning, intimidation, entrapment, enlisting informants, rifling through emails and financial records, the full panoply of investigative methods usually reserved for organized crime mobsters or genuine threats to national security. The White House may soon regret going down the road of diverting the FBI from more important law enforcement issues to harass parents. Sagging White House approval ratings; an explosive national murder rate; the highest inflation rate in 10 years, the highest gas prices in seven years; and 4.3 million Americans leaving the workforce this past August -- not to mention the Chinese Communist Party's hypersonic missiles and exponentiating global "lily pads" from which to project military power -- may help focus the Biden administration on other issues besides school board meetings. Inserting federal law enforcement into local school matters further makes the case for systematic reforms of the politicized FBI and the Justice Department. The next Congress should closely investigate how this program was implemented and which parents were subjected to FBI harassment, and should expose the links between policymakers and education pressure groups. Whether it is Critical Race Theory, explicit sexual techniques, pandemic restrictions, math being racist or general anti-Americanism, according to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and the National School Boards Association, parents are supposed to just shut up and let the public education establishment mold their kids into compliance and conformity. Pictured: Protesters attend a rally in Leesburg, Virginia against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in Loudoun County public schools, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) House Republicans are lecturing Attorney General Merrick Garland on the rights of parents over the education of their children: "Parents have an undisputed right to direct the upbringing and education of their children, especially as school boards attempt to install controversial curricula," the 19 Republicans wrote. "Local law enforcement—and not the FBI—are the appropriate authorities to address any local threats or violence." The October 25 letter was on the letterhead of the House Committee on the Judiciary and had no Democrat signatures. Republican Senator Josh Hawley went a step further and asked for Garland to resign. Continue Reading Article