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Powerful Forces are Fostering the Flow of Illegals   By James Terminiello      The ongoing and seemingly bumbling efforts to do something, anything, about our hemorrhaging southern border make one thing very clear . There are powerful forces working feverishly to keep that border wide open and thoroughly porous.  It is also equally clear that this is not a Democrat/Republican issue.  Both sides share in the guilt. Any reasonable analysis of the situation must conclude that a wide-open border allowing millions and millions of unvetted people into our country cannot be sound public policy.  But against reason, there appears to be no will to change things.  Just where is that will?   The laughable governmental efforts to bring order to this chaos demonstrates that a directive from on high somewhere is saying, in effect: keep shuffling the deck, engage in misdirection, never give a straight answer, deny, deny, deny, a nd, above all, let ' e m in!    But why?    Alas, there are p

Israel Has Fallen i nto a Trap Set b y Hamas   By James Terminiello   The October 7, 2023 atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent Israelis were fueled by many factors - economic disruption, despair, corruption, greed, bigotry, and that old standby antisemitism. And the Israelis, being only human, have responded with very human righteous indignation. And because Israel is a military power, that righteous indignation has taken the form of a furious military action.   And now the offended party (Israel) is being accused of being the offender because their military response to an unquestionable military operation  is killing many innocent Palestinians.   Sadly, this is exactly the trap that Hamas hoped for.   If anyone thinks that Hamas did not expect Israel to respond the way it has, they should check their naivete at the door.   Of course, Hamas knew that Israel would punch back hard. Of course, they knew that many of their own people would get in the way of that punch. In fac