Secure Freedom Minute

The Iranian mullahs doing business through yet another terrorist front – the so-called Houthi rebels in Yemen – are dangerously expanding their violent aggression. 
Jihadists used a helicopter-borne assault yesterday to seize a large cargo ship in the Red Sea and take its crew hostage on the pretext that, while it is Bahamas-flagged, owned by a UK company, operated by a Japanese one and manned by an international crew, a wealthy Israeli is “associated with” its owners. 
In other words, Iran’s proxy attack in a strategic waterway is a menace to international shipping more generally. It underscores the vulnerability of the vital, but fragile, lifeline of commerce that relies on safe-passage throughout the world’s waterways. If insurers respond by declining to provide coverage, the economic knock-on effects could be devastating.
The Biden administration must stop appeasing, enriching and emboldening Iran, now.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Our new bestselling book, The Indictment, describes how our “captured elites” are selling out America to the Chinese Communist Party and must be prosecuted – at a minimum, in the “court of public opinion.”
Look no further than what went down Wednesday in San Francisco.
First, CCP “dictator” Xi Jinping met for hours with President Biden – a man who career CIA spy “Sam” Faddis correctly observes “works for” the Chinese Communists. Then, Xi dined with 400 of his “captured” leaders among this country’s elite businesses. 
A bipartisan blue-ribbon commission confirmed this week that Emperor Xi is readying his country and its military for a shooting war with us. Those helping them aren’t simply corrupt “useful idiots,” putting personal enrichment over our national security. They’re providing “aid and comfort” to our mortal enemy – the definition of treason – and must be treated accordingly. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Biden held a long-awaited meeting with Communist China’s “dictator,” Xi Jinping. As expected, the two agreed to renew so-called military-to-military contacts. The problem is not actually a failure to communicate. Rather, it is the fact that Xi is relentlessly preparing for a shooting war with our country.
That reality makes all the more reckless the Biden administration’s other efforts in the name of “engagement” to prop up a Chinese Communist Party increasingly beset by potentially terminal political, economic and demographic crises.
Fortunately, at least it will no longer be compelling past and present military personnel and their civilian federal government counterparts to invest in China’s companies – including some manufacturing weapons intended to kill us. Their pension fund will henceforth be offering an investment platform that excludes Chinese and Hong Kong-based corporations.
The rest of America must disengage, too.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of us stood with Israel on the National Mall. We were treated to forceful speeches from the bipartisan congressional leadership, including this statement by the top House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries: 
“Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad….Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against Hamas terror….We must stand with Israel in its effort to decisively defeat Hamas to make sure that this brutal terrorist regime can never rise again.”
Welcome as they are, such commitments by Mr. Jeffries and others on Capitol Hill will amount to empty – and deceptive – rhetoric unless backed up by action. Most immediately, Congress must act to prevent President Biden from releasing yet another $10 billion to Iran’s mullahs who fund Hamas and enabled its invasion of the Jewish State.
No actual friend of Israel would fund its enemy – and ours.
This is Frank Gaffney.

In Washington today, Americans standing with Israel will rally on the National Mall. Their purpose is to speak for the vast majority of us who reject the narratives relentlessly promoted by our enemies in the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood and allied Marxist groups, here and abroad. 
In particular, the latter insist the Jewish State is engaged in genocide. Yet, they support – and relentlessly endorse – the truly genocidal goal of Hamas, namely eliminating Jews “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
In fact, supporters of Hamas not only effectively endorse the anti-Semitic violence it relentlessly unleashes on Jewish civilians and decry Israel’s justified efforts to prevent more. They also ignore the jihadists’ murderous mistreatment of Gazan civilians reduced to human shields for underground command centers and firing positions in hospitals, schools and refugee camps. 
Stand with Israel and against its enemies – and ours.
This is Frank Gaffney.

On Wednesday, President Biden will dignify a serial strategic arsonist with a meeting in San Francisco. Worse yet, he’s expected to reward Chinese dictator Xi Jinping – who apparently greenlighted invasions of Ukraine by Russia and Israel by Hamas – with promises of intensified “engagement” with America. 
Incredibly, yet another bail-out of Xi’s failing Chinese Communist Party comes as it prepares to ignite “tinder” the CCP’s created here over decades of “unrestricted warfare” against us – notably by: hollowing out our industrial base; attacking us with a biological weapon; dividing us with cultural Marxist initiatives like racist “diversity”; and “capturing” elites supposed to protect us against such assaults. 
Even now, Xi is weaponizing TikTok literally to inflame support for Hamas and smuggling in military personnel to light his next fire across America on command. 
We should be prosecuting this arsonist, not further enabling him.
This is Frank Gaffney.