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Intelligence is not Kamala's strong suit,. This is a spoof ? of why Biden appointed her to preside over A1 and Kamala chose AOC as her assistant? I will drink to this.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to establish government oversight of the growing role of artificial intelligence in our society, President Biden has appointed Vice President Kamala Harris as "A.I. Czar." The President expressed hope that Harris's track record of slowing the spread of intelligence will be of use.
"She's been fighting against the threat of intelligence her whole life," Biden said in brief remarks when the announcement was made. "When it comes to creating an environment where intelligence is restricted and unable to advance too far, Vice President Harris is more qualified for the job than anyone else."
Fears among the general public and leaders of the tech industry alike regarding the increasing growth and prevalence of artificial intelligence have led to calls for more oversight, which Vice President Harris was more than willing to provide — as soon as she was informed what "oversight" means she said (in something that seemed like a statement):
"It is my distinct honor to provide real leadership over the growth of artificial intelligence. Intelligence that is artificial is real, and intelligence that is real may, in reality, be artificial. It is within that reality that artificiality can become real."
Sources within the White House indicated Biden was supremely confident that Harris's leadership in the area of intelligence would be just as successful as her tenure as Border Czar.
At publishing time, Vice President Harris was reportedly already assembling a special task force to deal with the potential threat of intelligence, asking New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to serve as her adviser.
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| by Jakub Grygiel, A. Wess Mitchell via Foreign Policy Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan are part of an unstable frontier—and require a more principled U.S. strategy. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ As the IDF makes progress in Ramallah and beyond and places remaining Hamas leadership in flight, the leverage for Israel grows. BIBI is right that the more Israel completes their goal the better post war deal can be struck. Biden is so hell bent of being consistently wrong his call for a cease fire remains worthless but he too has leverage simply because he is currently president. Sherman lays out why I can say this. +++ Israel’s 131st Day of War By Sherwin Pomerantz
On this, the 131st day of the war in Israel, it appears leadership of Hamas, headquartered in southern Gaza, is on the run fearful of being captured or killed by the IDF. The IDF continues pursuing the Hamas leadership as our death toll rises, which now indicates that 232 soldiers having died in the battle for Gaza.
Negotiators from multiple countries met in Cairo on Tuesday, struggling to reach an agreement to temporarily stop the war in the Gaza Strip, as international concern mounted over Israel’s plan to press its ground offensive into the city of Rafah, where more than half of the territory’s population has sought refuge. Talks involving lower-level officials will continue for another three days, according to an Egyptian and an American official briefed on the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. They described the negotiations on Tuesday as promising, but Israel and Hamas were still not close to a deal.
A primary obstacle, according to another U.S. official, is a disagreement on how many Palestinians Israel would release from its prisons in exchange for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and its allies. A series of exchanges in late November saw three Palestinians released for each hostage returned. President Biden sent the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, to join the talks, and said he had spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to “push this forward” over the past month. Officials of Hamas, the armed group fighting Israel, were taking part in the negotiations indirectly, using Qatar and Egypt as intermediaries
It was reported this morning that Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, has urged Hamas to make a deal with the Israel for the release of the remaining hostages and the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in local jails. Deadly rocket fire targeting northern Israel yesterday illustrates Hezbollah is not deterred and is escalating attacks on Israel, seeking to target communities deeper inside Israel. Israel evacuated 80,000 people from northern communities in early October because of Hezbollah attacks. Hezbollah believes it has impunity to attack Israel and has launched more than 2,000 rockets at Israel. Rockets fired by the Iranian-backed terrorist group wounded a woman and her son on February 13. So far, there has been no attempt to fully deter and prevent Hezbollah’s attacks. Instead, Israel prefers precision and proportional response. Hezbollah gambled in early October that it could attack Israel with impunity and that Israel's, focus on the war against Hamas, would deter them from starting a two-front war. Indeed, this is not the Israel of 1967 or 1973, when it successfully defeated multiple conventional armies on multiple fronts in a week or two of fighting, despite many obstacles.
Reports from France indicate their government is about ready to suggest a truce agreement between Israel and Lebanon that would push Hezballah forces10km away from the border and Israel would create a buffer zone between Israel and Hezballah.
A Qatari source conveyed to Palestinian Authority president Abbas, Hamas has agreed to form a technocratic government in Gaza after the war, according to a Tuesday report from Sky News Arabia citing a Palestinian source in Ramallah. On Sunday, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Abbas was set to discuss a new Palestinian unity government with the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. According to the report, Hamas has shown initial acceptance of the idea of the Islamist terror organization’s joining the PLO on the basis that this merging be attached to a political horizon wherein a Palestinian State is formed along the 1967 borders.
Further, the technocratic government, that is, a government composed of individuals based on their technical expertise and knowledge rather than political ideologies, would theoretically oversee Gaza and would not have any Hamas pre-stipulated members. The Palestinian source conveyed to Sky News Arabia this supposed agreement is based on three points laid out in an “Arab principles paper.” The paper was followed up by a Palestinian-delegated Saudi team. It remains unclear what Israel’s reaction to this might be.
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She has previously worked as a public opinion and political campaign analyst for Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, one of the world’s preeminent leaders in the field. She was also Director of International Studies at the GCS Campaign Management Company and a researcher at the Israeli Democracy Institute. As an independent consultant, she develops strategies rooted in public opinion research for social issues, including sector relations, democracy and the transition to democracy, political disputes and negotiations, and human rights both in Israel and other countries.
Dr. Scheindlin has advised five national election campaigns in Israel, in addition to political and societal projects in Austria, Italy, the US, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia and Zanzibar, among others. Dr Scheindlin is an external lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and previously taught at the Jezreel Valley College and Ben Gurion University. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Montreal, and her Master’s degree from Harvard University. She writes a regular column for 972 Magazine, an independent website; contributes from time to time to other newspapers; and serves as an interpreter for the Israeli and international media.
Israel could clearly benefit from the intellect of people like here as we move to a new government after the war. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
Can you hear their voices?
By Douglas Altabef
The next generation of Israeli leadership can not yet be seen, but it can be heard, Op-ed.
The transformative power of the October 7 pogrom has been the subject of awe filled depictions and recollections. Stories of heroism abound, as do anecdotes of eye-opening realizations – ranging from the political to the spiritual.
We have tracked the amazing heroics of our soldiers, individually and collectively. We stand in awe of the 180 degree overnight change in our society as acrimonies over issues which now seem like distant memories were not just laid aside, but were discarded in favor of a unified determination to win.
Nowhere has the intensity of change been so profoundly felt as among those who have put their lives on hold in order to serve their country. While the IDF has always been Israel’s great melting pot, the current war has combined the diversity of a broad spectrum of our society with the singlemindedness of unprecedented degrees of combat.
The granular intensity of the mission has made prior disagreements seem small and irrelevant. Soldiers have discovered in each other the brotherhood of being the protectors of their families, communities and, by extension, their nation.
Their voices are being heard over and over again: we must continue until we have won. We cannot stop until our mission is accomplished. We cannot allow our brothers’ sacrifices to have been in vain. Rather, we must sanctify their sacrifice with victory.
These are not October 6th sentiments. There is no hidden agenda to either indict or to exculpate the Prime Minister, the governing coalition, the opposition or the leadership of the IDF, security and/or intelligence services.
The focus is on the welfare of the nation, the ability of our citizens to sit peacefully under their own fig trees. The realization that the overriding raison d’etre for the State of Israel – to be a safe haven for individual Jews and for the Jewish People – was shown to be vulnerable, tenuous and even questionable, was a mindset altering shock.
This sense of vulnerability and tenuousness had the counter-intuitive effect of having hundreds of thousands of soldiers saying, well then, we have to re-create that strength, that security, that sense of sovereign autonomy.
Stories of soldiers analogizing themselves and their brothers to the generation of ’48 were not an attempt to usurp the latter’s importance. Quite the opposite. What has been perceived is a respectful appreciation of the magnitude of the task of their forebears, and a recognition that today, this generation is being once again called on to secure the future for a State of Israel.
This is a civic, national, even existential awakening. It is not political in the more mundane sense of things, but rather a recognition that victory must first be won on the battlefield and then ultimately on the home front.
Not knowing who specifically, it seems clear that we are hearing the voices of a new generation of societal leaders. It is inconceivable that having seen the abyss, and having plunged into it in order to emerge with a restored, even reconstituted society, that these soldiers will blithely return to their former lives and their former ways of thinking about their country.
What we are doing on the battlefield is not just raising a new generation of heroes, but also a new generation of societal fiduciaries. These will be those who, with the cleanest of hands, will demand integrity, consistency and widespread, across the board benefit for our citizens.
This fiduciary posture will pervade our society, from our communities to our board rooms, to the various bodies of political leadership. It promises to bring a breath of fresh perspective and resolve, not unlike the out of the box, against all conventional wisdom, way that these selfsame soldiers have approached the enemy on the battlefield.
I look forward to reading retrospectives from these emerging leaders, ruminating about the Divine Providence that bestowed a painful, but ultimately loving punch to both the gut and head of Israeli society in the form of the October 7th pogrom. And how, counter-intuitively this punch became the catalyst for the revival and renewal of Israeli society.
This will be the Zionist “day after,” the rise of a new, revitalized generation imbued with a sense of mission, of can-do determination, and a love of and appreciation for the nation they will be serving.
Listen closely and hear their voices. It is a beautiful chorus.
Douglas Altabef is Chairman of the Board of Im Tirtzu and a Director of the Israel Independence Fund.
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Hezbollah is playing with fire and may have overstepped. Israel will not tolerate these attacks like Biden.
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One dead, eight injured in barrage to Tzfat and northern Israel
Magen David Adom reports on one dead and eight injured in barrage to Tzfat and northern Israel. All evacuated to Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat.
At least eight missiles were fired in the recent barrage to Tzfat and northern Israel.
Saudi news television channel Al Arabiya reports that missiles were aimed at the Air Force base on Mount Meron and an IDF base in Tzfat.
Magen David Adom reports on eight injured. One person died of their injuries.
All were evacuated to Ziv (Sieff) Medical Center in Tzfat. One seriously injured, age 30, was airlifted to the trauma unit at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
Rambam Medical Center reports that the two injured in anti-missile fire last night continues to be serious, but stable.
The two are a 47 year old mother and 15 year old son, who were seriously injured. The mother immediately underwent surgery and the son is hospitalized in the ICU department.
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