Wilmer Leon III: You are entitled to your opinion, not your own facts

by Dr. Wilmer Leon III (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Hamas and Putin…both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy…Hamas’ stated purpose for existing is the destruction of the state of Israel and the murder of Jewish people. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering greatly because of them.”—President Biden October 19, 2023 On October 19th& President Biden gave an Oval Office address. He was desperately trying to convince the nation to support his $105B military and humanitarian aid package for Israel, Ukraine and border efforts. His focus was on the wars between Israel/Hamas and Ukraine/Russia.& Biden’s presentation was ahistorical, based upon supposition, personal bias and just wrong.& One of Biden’s constant underlying themes as he champions support for these failing efforts is that by supporting Israel and Ukraine, we’re supporting “democracy”. One of the prevalent talking points about Israel is& that& it’s& the “only democracy in the Middle East”.& & First off, there are many democracies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Algeria.& As for the settler colonial state known as& Israel, it is not a democracy.& It is defined in its declaration of independence as a “Jewish state”.& Thus,&...