tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21551138101117168412024-03-19T01:47:42.610-07:00Middle East and Other MusingsDickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.comBlogger7320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-84622613512271904652024-03-18T20:44:00.000-07:002024-03-18T20:48:51.440-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH-m8nlaFW2s6KjhUWUYkQpZpKRTjvpmH3z1NaEVk5EwErZMdWlsxiRHpZcKFmzucO8cyjexZnK3lo8mlQVtwRqVdVOv-x_EO3YnAU2dYBrRs5ZQZzHHQY9hOspT-4l4wVEpy94I9NsfT0e5K4ch7uo_PPd7XAkQCdUtQwxzEG4gP5wGnXcqiQZxdOxv0/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH-m8nlaFW2s6KjhUWUYkQpZpKRTjvpmH3z1NaEVk5EwErZMdWlsxiRHpZcKFmzucO8cyjexZnK3lo8mlQVtwRqVdVOv-x_EO3YnAU2dYBrRs5ZQZzHHQY9hOspT-4l4wVEpy94I9NsfT0e5K4ch7uo_PPd7XAkQCdUtQwxzEG4gP5wGnXcqiQZxdOxv0/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> Beautiful Speech:<br /> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/crIKfuUX5PE?si%3DRB9Tavfnfr8V0jSo&source=gmail&ust=1710906130649000&usg=AOvVaw2goRAU5v2gqVqKeQwYxaD7" href="https://youtu.be/crIKfuUX5PE?si=RB9Tavfnfr8V0jSo" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/crIKfuUX5PE?s<wbr></wbr>i=RB9Tavfnfr8V0jSo</a><p></p><div>+++</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 15px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="margin: 0px auto; 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font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px;">Debunking Ivy League Myths About Israel | Yoseph Haddad</div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #311746; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="background: url("https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaGsWUJja7dJkwfn1TovE2X0BrbrgoQIvRD2_-Wb0XgqQulyiHMH3cJQDIhoZ7nDRtzhzeg76_TVym0Qh-KKimSalXW4eH8rVP56rd9FvvrBPpwQaGqUNEcUC2jBXYKmqCZN-AxYYb6AZxBi4I=s0-d-e1-ft#https://media3.locals.com/images/video/2024-03-15/35991/35991_3rno3rwrlv92vqw_full.jpeg") center top / cover no-repeat; border-radius: 10px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 520px;"><div style="line-height: 0;"><table align="center" background="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaGsWUJja7dJkwfn1TovE2X0BrbrgoQIvRD2_-Wb0XgqQulyiHMH3cJQDIhoZ7nDRtzhzeg76_TVym0Qh-KKimSalXW4eH8rVP56rd9FvvrBPpwQaGqUNEcUC2jBXYKmqCZN-AxYYb6AZxBi4I=s0-d-e1-ft#https://media3.locals.com/images/video/2024-03-15/35991/35991_3rno3rwrlv92vqw_full.jpeg" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background: url("https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaGsWUJja7dJkwfn1TovE2X0BrbrgoQIvRD2_-Wb0XgqQulyiHMH3cJQDIhoZ7nDRtzhzeg76_TVym0Qh-KKimSalXW4eH8rVP56rd9FvvrBPpwQaGqUNEcUC2jBXYKmqCZN-AxYYb6AZxBi4I=s0-d-e1-ft#https://media3.locals.com/images/video/2024-03-15/35991/35991_3rno3rwrlv92vqw_full.jpeg") center top / cover no-repeat; 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display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 490px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse: collapse; vertical-align: top; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #311746; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px;">Dave Rubin | DIRECT MESSAGE</div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #311746; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Bill Maher Stammers as Republican Corrects His Trump Lie with This Fact</div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="background: url("https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYTu9PWJrWJHuNYMmYs_a54sL6_5IA532HeI6Apbc-C4E6oa0iDMZkVooIX5QYa4lvvXog99UCRH_d0X5oeGRjn4eJcWLFqySgplUdi5OX7t2JaxBCoSkkyjU32TgWvxo6JNdI6YjtxlgssH-s=s0-d-e1-ft#https://media3.locals.com/images/video/2024-03-18/35991/35991_8rcepxt6a5g9cxv_full.jpeg") center center / contain no-repeat; 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Lieberman Piles On Schumer.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtlhWWux6sEHAve3ch0ovr-1XuVi1T61kyMulZRr5WoX_ktz2A4lNAtRNw63J28bMeTUSOSDRplTYIs7NML1Ut1uMXUS31hXYw6stqRQY3bDEIAegcN3wkpEyfj5-gpFeGE6bC-hsvaMMIqHGHialvqtVHxtIuU0TR16OixUKU1FXK892ELUuXy0wnIc/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtlhWWux6sEHAve3ch0ovr-1XuVi1T61kyMulZRr5WoX_ktz2A4lNAtRNw63J28bMeTUSOSDRplTYIs7NML1Ut1uMXUS31hXYw6stqRQY3bDEIAegcN3wkpEyfj5-gpFeGE6bC-hsvaMMIqHGHialvqtVHxtIuU0TR16OixUKU1FXK892ELUuXy0wnIc/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZs2J7BeaPZmLB7EABn-PIm8nmBAT6dmv7-WPlOgBRLMELzVOcVwXSSjX1_3yeIlbw3-KiLBM877nWdE6qGR5TCORyMw-bjK2neB78Esj-TNX9uiOr1nosMKVk2EMPd69zv82NnxqZ61eIaFGTQRXU5DCYNlK3AEbyFvPDjSEVnTyrsjEjOs9L0ZGojKc/s471/unnamed%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWY6MTc5MzkwNTQyMjM4NjIzODMyNSJd; 4:WyIjbXNnLWY6MTc5MzkwNTQyMjM4NjIzODMyNSJd" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/crIKfuUX5PE?s<wbr></wbr>i=RB9Tavfnfr8V0jSo</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="font-size: large;">Soros Funneled $15 M-Plus to Groups Rallying for Hamas - NY Post</span><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Rich Calder and Matthew Sedacca</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind this month’s pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas militants’ craven terrorist attacks on Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>A Post examination of Open Society Foundations records shows Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state are the real victims</div><div><br /></div><div>Tides’ beneficiaries include Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which on the day of the Oct. 7 massacre posted a photo on Instagram of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel’s border fence down and a caption: “Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Members of the Palestinian advocacy group occupied California Rep. Ro Khanna’s office on Oct. 20 to demand he sign a resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza. Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally that same day in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators spewed antisemitic chants and waved a sign that read “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS.”</div><div><br /></div><div>It also gave $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, another co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest where 139 people were arrested, financial records show.</div><div><br /></div><div>Open Society Foundations gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group co-founded by politically connected activist Linda Sarsour that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where protestors called for the eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read “Please keep the world clean!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Open Society Foundations also awarded $1.5 million to Adalah’s founding nonprofit, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, but only $800,000 of it was received before the legal center cut ties with the American organization in 2018. The legal center says its mission is to promote human rights in Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other Soros-backed, Palestinian advocacy groups whose members have been spewing hate at rallies since the massacre include Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which received $650,000 and $400,000, respectively.</div><div><br /></div><div>Both co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, and its members were among the protestors who converged on the US Capitol complex Oct. 18.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jewish Voice for Peace also helped occupy Khanna’s office and has blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 attacks, writing on its website: “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.”</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>CONTINUE READING</div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The Jewish state of Israel deserves an ally that acts like one. The </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">people of Israel at home, and in captivity, deserve America’s support.</span></div><div><br /></div><div> And Israel’s unity government and security cabinet deserve the </div><div>deference befitting a sovereign democratic country. The primary </div><div>obstacle to peace in Israel’s region are genocidal terrorists like Hamas</div><div>and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who slaughter innocent people, and </div><div>corrupt leaders of the Palestinian Authority who have </div><div>repeatedly, repeatedly rejected peace deals from multiple </div><div><br /></div><div>Israeli governments. And foreign observers who cannot keep these </div><div>clear distinctions ought to refrain from weighing in. It is grotesque </div><div>and hypocritical for Americans who hyperventilate about </div><div>foreign interference in our own democracy, to call for the removal of </div><div>the democratically elected leader of Israel. This is unprecedented. </div><div><br /></div><div>We should not treat fellow democracies this way, at all…Israel is </div><div>not a colony of America whose leaders serve at the pleasure of the </div><div>party in power in Washington. Only Israel’s citizens should have a </div><div>say in who runs their government. This is the very definition of </div><div>democracy and sovereignty. Either we respect their decisions,</div><div> or we disrespect their democracy.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>— Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the floor of the </div><div>Senate, in response to Senator Schumer’s remarks, March 14, 2024 </div><div><br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div>Lieberman piles on and slams Schumer. I left</div><div>Schumer a message that he had the spine </div><div>of a worm. Lynn cringed.</div><div><br /></div><div>+++</div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Lieberman slams Schumer for anti-Netanyahu speech: ‘</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Can’t ever remember anything like it’</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Carl Campanile </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Former Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday blasted Senate Majority </div><div><br /></div><div>Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for an election to replace Israeli</div><div>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the New </div><div>York Democrat’s remarks as “outrageous.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“I thought the statement he made this week … was a mistake. I can’t </div><div>ever remember anything like it,” Lieberman told host John Catsimatidis </div><div>on the “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.</div><div><br /></div><div>Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish-American to appear </div><div>on a presidential ticket, has slammed Senate Majority Leader </div><div>Chuck Schumer for urging Israel to oust Prime Minister </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Lieberman, 82, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut who </div><div>later became an Independent before his 2013 retirement, was the </div><div>first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket when then-</div><div>Vice President Al Gore tapped him as his running mate in 2000.</div><div>“For a US senator — let alone the majority leader; let alone the </div><div>highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington — to tell Israel </div><div>that it’s time to get rid of Netanyahu, that’s outrageous,” Lieberman </div><div>said of Schumer.</div><div><br /></div><div>In an extraordinary speech from the Senate floor on Thursday, </div><div>Schumer, 73, called for a “new election” in Israel after the conclusion </div><div>of the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, which has been raging in Gaza </div><div>and the West Bank since Oct. 7.</div><div><br /></div><div>“As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it’s become clear to me that </div><div>the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after </div><div>Oct. 7,” Schumer said, referring to the day of the Palestinian terror </div><div>group Hamas’ slaughter in Israel, which sparked the</div><div>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks from the Senate Floor</div><div>In an extraordinary speech from the Senate Floor last week, </div><div>Schumer called for a “new election” in Israel, labeling Netanyahu </div><div>an “obstacle” to peace. senate.gov</div><div>Schumer singled out Netanyahu and “radical” members of his </div><div>security cabinet as an “obstacle” to peace.</div><div><br /></div><div>His remarks joined a growing chorus of criticism emanating from </div><div>the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, which blames Israel for not </div><div>doing more to minimize civilian casualties among Palestinians as it </div><div>tries to eradicate Hamas.</div><div> </div><div>The top-ranking Senate Democrat’s words drew swift and strong </div><div>rebukes from Republicans and Israeli leaders alike, including </div><div>Netanyahu himself, who on Sunday fired back at Schumer for his </div><div>“totally inappropriate” speech.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“I think what he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate for him </div><div>to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected </div><div>leadership there,” Netanyahu said on CNN’s “State of the Union” </div><div>on Sunday.</div><div><br /></div><div>“That’s something that [the] Israeli public does on its own. We’re </div><div>not a banana republic.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Netanyahu fired back Sunday at Schumer, saying, “I think what he </div><div>said is totally inappropriate.” REUTERS</div><div><br /></div><div>Lieberman added, “Can you imagine Sen. Schumer or anybody else </div><div>in the US government saying to the Brits, ‘We don’t like your </div><div>prime minister. It’s really time for you to dump him.’ Oh my god, there’d </div><div>be outrage all around.</div><div><br /></div><div>“It’s a bad precedent for us to tell a friend and ally, a democratic ally, ‘</div><div>Get rid of this government. we don’t like him,’ ” the former senator said.</div><div><br /></div><div>President Biden on Friday praised Schumer, telling reporters he </div><div>thought the Democrat made a “good speech” during an Oval </div><div>Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biden is facing increased pressure at home over his handling of the </div><div>Israel-Hamas conflict as presidential election season gets into full swing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Protesters block the Ayalon highway during a demonstration calling for </div><div>the release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and Israeli Prime </div><div>Minister Benjamin Netanyahu5</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Protesters block the highway during a demonstration calling for the </div><div>release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and </div><div>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Image</div><div> </div><div>A poll published by the Wall Street Journal last week found that </div><div>60% of voters disapprove of how Biden has dealt with the war.</div><div><br /></div><div>Donald Trump, asked about Schumer’s speech by Fox News “</div><div>MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz on Sunday, blasted the Democratic </div><div>Party’s record on Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>“The Democrats are very bad for Israel,” said the former president, </div><div>now the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential </div><div>contest. “Israel sticks with them. I guess Israel is loyal, maybe to a </div><div>fault, because they stick with these guys. Biden is so bad for Israel.”</div><div><br /></div><div>+++</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">In Chapter 5 Seamus explains how the:"War On Farmers" began </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and what it means.</div><div><br /></div><div>In baseball it was Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Today it is</div><div><br /></div><div>Rockefeller to Bill Gates Jr .to biotechnology .</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Rockefellers made fortunes from fertilizers but when</div><div><br /></div><div>their patents ran out they shifted gears and began to use</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>climate change and "overpopulation" as a ploy against </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>farmers, whose animals are allegedly polluting the </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>atmosphere. Then Gates Jr. and others began to buy up farm </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>land and manufacture food that tasted like meat etc.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Riots also started to break out in Holland and spread as</div><div><br /></div><div>farmers realized their future and livelihood was at stake.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Start a questionable man made cause, find a victim, drive </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>the victims out of business, purchase their assets at a </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>sharp discount and subsequently produce alternatives. Then </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>convince government bureaucrats to link with The U.N that </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>you are engaged in saving the world and increase your </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>wealth not as a rogue but as a saviour.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The artificial food craze seems to have met consumer </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>resistance but the billionaire's have invested heavily and</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> I would not assume they will lose because they have the </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>U.N, WEF, Hollywood, 2030 and the mass Media on their </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>side. and Congress is always for sale at a price..</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-29935004772364704622024-03-18T17:18:00.000-07:002024-03-18T17:18:49.565-07:00<p> </p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1190408830116777337" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; 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display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Soros Funneled $15 M-Plus to Groups Rallying for Hamas - NY Post</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; width: 410px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin_cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#F1F1F1" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759column m_-1166312755353460759scale m_-1166312755353460759stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759text m_-1166312755353460759text--feature" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_-1166312755353460759text_content-cell m_-1166312755353460759content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #3e3e3e; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Rich Calder and Matthew Sedacca</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind this month’s pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasn6rqtLOBlLaVDrOlom00J7frlo8FPqUAnBskg_hreVr1ArADKXh5zhQMWYZDaLWjEmTE-ccBUrmDoNo_iY4zCo07egb8zxzEC3591oBGfUReAfgtWL28tZpA2rJ3-eRzcfnveQQ0pIvkCrACp4yh1GB5o27OnDu%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw0NrTp_nbj8dj5mkzOnLrCy" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasn6rqtLOBlLaVDrOlom00J7frlo8FPqUAnBskg_hreVr1ArADKXh5zhQMWYZDaLWjEmTE-ccBUrmDoNo_iY4zCo07egb8zxzEC3591oBGfUReAfgtWL28tZpA2rJ3-eRzcfnveQQ0pIvkCrACp4yh1GB5o27OnDu&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hamas militants’ craven terrorist attacks on Israel.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A <span style="font-style: italic;">Post</span> examination of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa1XtsjB5SiY84L3aNev26TqCUQUJfBInk-nCLDIX5CcvApuksb85V6AbdqwEgpmsnBlHiBCIA4IdysuboeFhBCtzjeLThCfVr63nVPZbMcd4%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw18Ok_1KL987z0XhEajtnGK" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa1XtsjB5SiY84L3aNev26TqCUQUJfBInk-nCLDIX5CcvApuksb85V6AbdqwEgpmsnBlHiBCIA4IdysuboeFhBCtzjeLThCfVr63nVPZbMcd4=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Open Society Foundations</a> records shows Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state are the real victims.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tides’ beneficiaries include Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which on the day of the Oct. 7 massacre <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZahcHJ5oTtoIhuMqCFTW3FVEOtbkO5AfgCi31YYV4GMOEfcTsDmk345DkTgwuaojFhNz0Hw3_NTSdmXdIcjMvreRfNpxaEsot7n4S8mdZ6zPg%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw3GUSD2wVHs93IskC7Nme5V" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZahcHJ5oTtoIhuMqCFTW3FVEOtbkO5AfgCi31YYV4GMOEfcTsDmk345DkTgwuaojFhNz0Hw3_NTSdmXdIcjMvreRfNpxaEsot7n4S8mdZ6zPg=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">posted a photo on Instagram</a> of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel’s border fence down and a caption: “Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Members of the Palestinian advocacy group occupied California Rep. Ro Khanna’s office on Oct. 20 to demand he sign a resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza. Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally that same day in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators spewed antisemitic chants and waved a sign that read “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It also gave $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, another co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest where 139 people were arrested, financial records show.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group co-founded by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaPGXwQjYlM4xZdE2axSwBlgzxEQnlosWtCYzxK81o3vEYgWNmCtNYs54ckeY3kpecl73LkvkTLL5NJHK77CkLD97tL-RFfzv3muF08wk-nGPfIXq8zacqf-dgowsM2G6wBQnsW7sscvuuLzyJWoFypysDTzO_qCrTTxulTcT1bVbyuVzwdpBK-TBzy0NTRtCDdv23Ro4bxDI%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1kUcAKln2z9ZJFhhwya2rn" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaPGXwQjYlM4xZdE2axSwBlgzxEQnlosWtCYzxK81o3vEYgWNmCtNYs54ckeY3kpecl73LkvkTLL5NJHK77CkLD97tL-RFfzv3muF08wk-nGPfIXq8zacqf-dgowsM2G6wBQnsW7sscvuuLzyJWoFypysDTzO_qCrTTxulTcT1bVbyuVzwdpBK-TBzy0NTRtCDdv23Ro4bxDI=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">politically connected activist Linda Sarsour</a> that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa4zKY9Ylgm3X2USexPNFwt8sO7e2y49OLLPJOKiQGktCs8HxbNqQza_qLer11M8Kht6eMgoZfrdYHpcPNYk5eobSbl50wkarajhdtWbAxHpKEzb5yWAOT6CC_vn0zghGS9-HiNjRwJnwLjJeX5ibijL_2fDC5p30D44YoB11ZBmMedlWFrAMX5A%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1HJ4_NhHslv2XA1ofa4-AD" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa4zKY9Ylgm3X2USexPNFwt8sO7e2y49OLLPJOKiQGktCs8HxbNqQza_qLer11M8Kht6eMgoZfrdYHpcPNYk5eobSbl50wkarajhdtWbAxHpKEzb5yWAOT6CC_vn0zghGS9-HiNjRwJnwLjJeX5ibijL_2fDC5p30D44YoB11ZBmMedlWFrAMX5A==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">protestors called for the eradication of Israel </a>and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read “Please keep the world clean!”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations also awarded $1.5 million to Adalah’s founding nonprofit, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, but only $800,000 of it was received before the legal center cut ties with the American organization in 2018. The legal center says its mission is to promote human rights in Israel.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Other Soros-backed, Palestinian advocacy groups whose members have been spewing hate at rallies since the massacre include Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which received $650,000 and $400,000, respectively.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Both co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, and its members were among the protestors who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasRsXENtU3JfEhtxTOd7j-TWF801QhRFEbPAXb3BkpAhiQIr3rcOZ2tkexHFU980BVVwc_5CQNkjXIpg9-5f2fliHqPvO7KAPEflK_Uaf5_o4iAxIl1K2dk1ywv2aUBXVr9jlDSe_LXZL4vkUEoKt4tJmwxeSVZYJREQ-xvuEZZA2Rlc55VIFeNrb-aPaxAgXdwnWYLAWDMezpkSpyp7bUw%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1OY8DQ4bN-P6KHivbV1US8" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasRsXENtU3JfEhtxTOd7j-TWF801QhRFEbPAXb3BkpAhiQIr3rcOZ2tkexHFU980BVVwc_5CQNkjXIpg9-5f2fliHqPvO7KAPEflK_Uaf5_o4iAxIl1K2dk1ywv2aUBXVr9jlDSe_LXZL4vkUEoKt4tJmwxeSVZYJREQ-xvuEZZA2Rlc55VIFeNrb-aPaxAgXdwnWYLAWDMezpkSpyp7bUw==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">converged on the US Capitol complex Oct. 18</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jewish Voice for Peace also helped occupy Khanna’s office and has blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 attacks, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaYC3jUJ0XoBtiBWi1dhJUHthtlG5v9fJMSBF6AH-JyuPzbecOPz0ILmpXXpQLhWcDALVpVvt5YZm9YBTm2vSEPuNSEdl-F4jTcLDX1OL-Kgh5jTQ9sjEFdLibkTJzL3x05XoAGslv4zJlAu0VUfyVJQ%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw2sg0MujV2NVCQjBgNUv9Im" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaYC3jUJ0XoBtiBWi1dhJUHthtlG5v9fJMSBF6AH-JyuPzbecOPz0ILmpXXpQLhWcDALVpVvt5YZm9YBTm2vSEPuNSEdl-F4jTcLDX1OL-Kgh5jTQ9sjEFdLibkTJzL3x05XoAGslv4zJlAu0VUfyVJQ==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; 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font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CONTINUE READING</a><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">The Jewish state of Israel deserves an ally that acts like one. The </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">people of Israel at home, and in captivity, deserve America’s support.</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"> And Israel’s unity government and security cabinet deserve the </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">deference befitting a sovereign democratic country. The primary </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">obstacle to peace in Israel’s region are genocidal terrorists like Hamas</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"> and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who slaughter innocent people, and </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">corrupt leaders of the Palestinian Authority who have </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">repeatedly, repeatedly rejected peace deals from multiple </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">Israeli governments. And foreign observers who cannot keep these </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">clear distinctions ought to refrain from weighing in. It is grotesque </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">and hypocritical for Americans who hyperventilate about </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">foreign interference in our own democracy, to call for the removal of </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">the democratically elected leader of Israel. This is unprecedented. </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">We should not treat fellow democracies this way, at all…Israel is </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">not a colony of America whose leaders serve at the pleasure of the </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">party in power in Washington. Only Israel’s citizens should have a </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">say in who runs their government. This is the very definition of </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">democracy and sovereignty. Either we respect their decisions,</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"> or we disrespect their democracy.”</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">— Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the floor of the </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">Senate, in response to Senator Schumer’s remarks, March 14, 2024 </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">Lieberman piles on and slams Schumer. I left</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">Schumer a message that he had the spine </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">of a worm. Lynn cringed.</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">+++</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Joe Lieberman slams Schumer for anti-Netanyahu speech: ‘</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Can’t ever remember anything like it’</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
By Carl Campanile
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday blasted Senate Majority </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for an election to replace Israeli</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the New </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">York Democrat’s remarks as “outrageous.”
“I thought the statement he made this week … was a mistake. I can’t </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">ever remember anything like it,” Lieberman told host John Catsimatidis </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">on the “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish-American to appear </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">on a presidential ticket, has slammed Senate Majority Leader </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Chuck Schumer for urging Israel to oust Prime Minister </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Images
Lieberman, 82, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut who </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">later became an Independent before his 2013 retirement, was the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket when then-</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Vice President Al Gore tapped him as his running mate in 2000.
“For a US senator — let alone the majority leader; let alone the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington — to tell Israel </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">that it’s time to get rid of Netanyahu, that’s outrageous,” Lieberman </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">said of Schumer.
In an extraordinary speech from the Senate floor on Thursday, </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Schumer, 73, called for a “new election” in Israel after the conclusion </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">of the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, which has been raging in Gaza </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and the West Bank since Oct. 7.
“As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it’s become clear to me that </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oct. 7,” Schumer said, referring to the day of the Palestinian terror </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">group Hamas’ slaughter in Israel, which sparked the war.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks from the Senate Floor.
In an extraordinary speech from the Senate Floor last week, </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Schumer called for a “new election” in Israel, labeling Netanyahu </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">an “obstacle” to peace. senate.gov
Schumer singled out Netanyahu and “radical” members of his </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">security cabinet as an “obstacle” to peace.
His remarks joined a growing chorus of criticism emanating from </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, which blames Israel for not </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">doing more to minimize civilian casualties among Palestinians as it </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">tries to eradicate Hamas.
The top-ranking Senate Democrat’s words drew swift and strong </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">rebukes from Republicans and Israeli leaders alike, including </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Netanyahu himself, who on Sunday fired back at Schumer for his </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">“totally inappropriate” speech.
<br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
“I think what he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate for him </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected l</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">eadership there,” Netanyahu said on CNN’s “State of the Union” </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">on Sunday.
“That’s something that [the] Israeli public does on its own. We’re </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">not a banana republic.”
Netanyahu fired back Sunday at Schumer, saying, “I think what he </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">said is totally inappropriate.” REUTERS
Lieberman added, “Can you imagine Sen. Schumer or anybody else </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">in the US government saying to the Brits, ‘We don’t like your </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">prime minister. It’s really time for you to dump him.’ Oh my god, there’d </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">be outrage all around.
“It’s a bad precedent for us to tell a friend and ally, a democratic ally, ‘</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Get rid of this government. we don’t like him,’ ” the former senator said.
President Biden on Friday praised Schumer, telling reporters he </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">thought the Democrat made a “good speech” during an Oval </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
Biden is facing increased pressure at home over his handling of the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Israel-Hamas conflict as presidential election season gets into full swing.
Protesters block the Ayalon highway during a demonstration calling for </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">t</span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: small; white-space-collapse: preserve;">he release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and Israeli Prime </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: small; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Minister Benjamin Netanyahu5</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Protesters block the highway during a demonstration calling for the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Image
A poll published by the Wall Street Journal last week found that </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">60% of voters disapprove of how Biden has dealt with the war.
Donald Trump, asked about Schumer’s speech by Fox News “</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz on Sunday, blasted the Democratic </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Party’s record on Israel.
“The Democrats are very bad for Israel,” said the former president, </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">now the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">contest. “Israel sticks with them. I guess Israel is loyal, maybe to a </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">fault, because they stick with these guys. Biden is so bad for Israel.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">+++
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In Chapter 5 Seamus explains how the: "War On Farmers" began </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and what it means.
In baseball it was Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Today it is
Rockefeller to Bill Gates Jr .to biotechnology .
The Rockefellers made fortunes from fertilizers but when
their patents ran out they shifted gears and began to use</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">climate change and "overpopulation" as a ploy against </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">farmers, whose animals are allegedly polluting the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">atmosphere. Then Gates Jr. and others began to buy up farm </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">land </span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and manufacture food that tasted like meat etc.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Riots also started to break out in Holland and spread as
farmers realized their future and livelihood was at stake.
Start a questionable man made cause, find a victim, drive </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the victims out </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">of business, </span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">purchase their assets at a </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">sharp discount </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and subsequently </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">produce alternatives. Then </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">convince government bureaucrats </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to link with The U.N that </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">you are engaged in saving the world </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and increase your </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">wealth not as a rogue but as a saviour.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The artificial food craze seems to have met consumer </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">resistance but the billionaire's have invested heavily and</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I would not assume they will lose because they have the </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">U.N, WEF, Hollywood, 2030 and the mass Media on their </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">side. and Congress is always for sale at a price..</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlTA9lcdM-Sp5KOOwVu-vDv8tFeOlw3nfeeNcXAa-KxSJ19lOU2Rp90Zo9iK5WtOdLcwLzufSCj-hPGwxFjUiFWq89EeMrlGNNVTtsInJvn1He05GXVosAEsNQfBsLmbkAOq0oPPhe51FbUEp_XxNE0ZniyCgRAoc2gjF5YnE6JGVcihgzlTw55W6-bEk/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlTA9lcdM-Sp5KOOwVu-vDv8tFeOlw3nfeeNcXAa-KxSJ19lOU2Rp90Zo9iK5WtOdLcwLzufSCj-hPGwxFjUiFWq89EeMrlGNNVTtsInJvn1He05GXVosAEsNQfBsLmbkAOq0oPPhe51FbUEp_XxNE0ZniyCgRAoc2gjF5YnE6JGVcihgzlTw55W6-bEk/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are American Jewish Committee’s top stories and resources of the day to help you stay informed, share the facts, and rally your networks to take action in support of Israel and against Hamas’ war crimes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forward this to your friends and networks. They can sign up at AJC.org/Israel </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Update. Day 164 Hostages Update: Israeli Delegation in Doha; IDF Confirms Captain Daniel Perez Was Murdered on October 7</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today, Israel’s negotiating team, led by Mossad Director David Barnea, is in Doha, Qatar where mediators will lead talks about a temporary ceasefire and hostage release. On Sunday, the IDF announced 22-year-old Captain Daniel Perez, who was believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, was killed on October 7. His brother Yonatan was also wounded that day, and following his recovery, proceeded with his wedding while waiting for his beloved brother’s return. We mourn his death with the Perez family, including his father Rabbi Doron Perez, executive chairman of World Mizrachi. May his memory be a blessing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What You Need to Know About Israel’s Humanitarian Aid To Gaza</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Eylon Levy, Israeli Government Spokesman, shared more information about how Israel is “flooding” Gaza with humanitarian aid, stating that 80% more food trucks are now entering Gaza compared with before Hamas attacked Israel on 10/7. According to Levy, “the United Nations has confirmed a ‘significant scale-up in humanitarian efforts... facilitated by the Israeli authorities across Gaza.’” One of the current challenges remains the delivery of aid throughout Gaza once it crosses the border. Currently, there is a lack of security and limited capacity to distribute aid within the coastal enclave in a safe manner. How is Israel working to provide Gaza with more food, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance? How is it working with the U.S. and other allies? Read AJC’s explainer for the answers to these pressing questions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Go Deeper: AJC breaks down Hezbollah’s international terror army and the threat it poses to Israel and the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">War Update: IDF Killed Hamas’ Third in Command; Terrorists Defeated at Al Shifa Hospital; IDF Did Not Enter Rafah Yet; Knesset Unanimously Establishes October 7 Memorial Day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Sunday, Hamas confirmed Marwan Issa — the third in command of the terror group — was killed by an IDF strike. And Fatah, the West Bank-based party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is now publicly blaming Hamas for the war. In a statement, Fatah said Hamas has “false agendas that have brought nothing but woes to the Palestinian people and have not achieved anything for them.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “No amount of international pressure will stop us from realizing all the goals of the war… To do this, we will also operate in Rafah.” The IDF has not yet begun its operations in Rafah. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Sunday, Israel’s Knesset unanimously decided the country will observe a national day of remembrance for the October 7 massacre on the 24th day of the Hebrew calendar month of Tishrei.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today, the IDF entered and took control of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where senior Hamas officials have been hiding and planning terror acts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The IDF killed approximately 20 Hamas terrorists, including senior leader Faiq Mabhouh. During the operation, 20-year-old IDF Staff Sgt. Matan Vinogradov was killed. May his memory be a blessing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1st quarter earnings proved quite positive. NVDA and SMCL made enormous moves and now energy stocks seem to be breaking out as the market broadens particularly where earnings remain strong.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I believe inflation continues to clobber the lower economic sector and any increase in Biden's extraordinary spending plans and increased wages have contributed to inflation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like it or not, I also believe the possibility that Trump not only will win but also might bring a flood of conservative Senators and Representatives with him is partly why the market is doing well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">In my opinion I believe the mass media continues to live in their cocoon and remain out of touch with the sentiments of vast number of voters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">But what do I know.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(171, 171, 171); color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 36.4px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;">Oil is dominating tech … how our oil trades are doing … higher prices are coming to the pump … the dividend yields on leading energy stocks … two reasons oil could soar from here</h3><p style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s all about tech today – specifically AI – right?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Nope.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Oil is crushing the Nasdaq 100 here in 2024</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Most investors haven’t been watching, but the price of West Texas Intermediate crude is up 13% on the year, more than doubling the Nasdaq 100’s 6% gain.</span></p><p style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2961832836301310312_" style="color: #1155cc; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Nasdaq 100 Index" class="m_2961832836301310312chart CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="327" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Nacxom9-ipM5s8hLaDKxObALfB4nx8exXvpllZ7M6R68qlip-fngVc4kGf4kzT-oKTVJEfbo-nhAndbmpVDHzUTEqZb_RbDDiN0XU3D5I69d-_bRTsLSQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://investorplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-95.png" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="540" /></span></a></p><p style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keep in mind, the Nasdaq 100 is a “weight averaged” index. In other words, the bigger the company, the greater the “representation” it has in the index. So, the bigger the stock, the more that the performance of that stock influences the overall Nasdaq 100 return. <br /><br />Given this, when we look at the Nasdaq 100’s price, we’re not viewing an accurate depiction of how its average stock is performing. We’re getting a skewed conclusion, heavily impacted by the performance of the largest companies in the index (i.e. Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta).<br /><br />For a more accurate gauge of the performance of the average Nasdaq 100 stock, we’d analyze the “Equal Weight” Nasdaq 100 index. As the name suggests, this allots an equal weighting to every stock in the Nasdaq 100 so that no single company has outsized influence on the overall reading.<br /><br />Now, we just saw that oil’s return is crushing that of the Nasdaq 100 by more than 2-to-1 here in 2024. But when we sub in the Nasdaq 100 Equal Weight index, the results are even more jaw-dropping…<br /><br />As you can see below, oil is more than 4Xing the return of the average Nasdaq 100 stock this year.</span></p><p style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2961832836301310312_" style="color: #1155cc; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Nasdaq 100" class="m_2961832836301310312chart CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="329" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYFbqcVgZiknvOf1nbnUdlLvfHo2f5_VMyUjk7pqavzmgS32kskCIjHGeefUOSr1WTDOnMSzfI1h-5XCzbtttQNMgwTFioQ99jp9OV0Zr7WgsY48LVAfg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://investorplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-96.png" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="540" /></span></a></p><p style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_2961832836301310312content" role="presentation" style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"></p><p style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"></p><ol style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"></ol><p style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center;"></p><p style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(171, 171, 171); line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 40px;"> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5489333354915405022mceBlockContainer" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top: 20px solid transparent; margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">MEF Analysts Address the "New Axis of Evil"</h1><p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%26id%3D0c48dad5f4%26e%3Da1d0e506dc&source=gmail&ust=1710881246751000&usg=AOvVaw1vroZIP8HyyVqR9nRxn36a" href="https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=0c48dad5f4&e=a1d0e506dc" style="color: #1155cc; 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padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%26id%3D33898f61ea%26e%3Da1d0e506dc&source=gmail&ust=1710881246752000&usg=AOvVaw2cCXt-JN9LaQsKHXF2N1-d" href="https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=33898f61ea&e=a1d0e506dc" style="color: #1155cc; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="right" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="265" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZ_PaS1tzyAJPFeTJT-vkU0jnjsQnyIOUSl9xfxg8X4XOYkX42BG7DiNXiVxYjL1X1sbthfd7URd7OZUGye1ETxa9nxwdFaN1YzufTtp29ItSEqXYO2je2nZ02Wq1pLpwRQcbw6KthtGtUk3Fof7-FvOaSIcOy9UPw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5/images/d4bf3dd9-62ed-ca10-8c2a-4e56dbbf4fbc.png" style="border: 0px; height: 265px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a>Daniel Pipes, Gregg Roman, and Michael Rubin – the Middle East Forum's president, director, and director of policy analysis, respectively – participated in a Jewish Republic Alliance (JRA) panel discussion on March 6 titled "The New Axis of Evil: Iran, Turkey, and Qatar," with each speaker focusing on one of the three adversarial Middle East governments in turn.<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">"In a world where deterrence remains a central goal, Middle East Forum scholars have provided unparalleled analysis <em>and</em> recommendations," said JRA cofounder Bruce Karasik in his introduction to the discussion. "Their work underscores the critical need for clear, decisive action to counteract the aggression of these states, which defy the principles of peace and security that we hold dear."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><em>Iran</em></strong><br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">"Bottom line upfront: the status quo is not tenable when it comes to Iran," said Rubin right off the bat. Iran is "on the offense" throughout the region and "appears just a few turns of a screw away from developing a nuclear weapon."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Many in Washington dismiss the danger of Iran rushing to build, let alone use, a nuclear weapon with the common refrain that "Iran isn't suicidal." What concerns Rubin is not that the clerical regime, which "has lost legitimacy in the eyes of its people" by brutally suppressing mass demonstrations, is suicidal, but that it may be, or may become, "terminally ill." Should its collapse become inevitable, "deterrence goes out the window," he explained, making a rush by ideological purists in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to deploy a nuclear weapon a real danger.<br /> </p><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Nb7U8ftNFbAfuiJ40GkYByuuL8Y8ONBknQS_rz5JwoMaJxJ-jOFXnLsYCSHBPlk-iLMOd1-db-RcLlWNg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.meforum.org/pics/11979.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; cursor: pointer; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" /><p style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; word-break: break-word;"><strong>Left to right: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><br />Even if the regime manages to stave off revolt by its subjects, Rubin sees a period of uncertainty and instability ahead for Iran given the looming departure of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, an 85-year-old partially paralyzed two-time cancer survivor. When Osama bin Laden was killed and Ayman al-Zawahiri declared his successor as Al-Qaeda leader, "other claimants to power competed to try to show the most bloodshed, to sponsor the most spectacular terrorist attacks." A similar dynamic in Iran could set the Middle East on fire.<br /> </p><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="16" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; margin: 0px 22px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 300px;" vspace="5"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; max-width: 300px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="303" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Na_jB5yx1UsxIc62eDtyWR51hB4zIv2VK66qaZZlv5-WjscvitVUJ2WvrfyEVC_A39306kDoOWbwPpVDQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.meforum.org/pics/11972.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; cursor: pointer; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" width="300" /><p style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; word-break: break-word;"><strong>Michael Rubin argues that Iran's advancement toward a nuclear weapon cannot be decisively halted without changing the nature of its Islamist regime.</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Rubin emphasized that Washington must not stay on the sidelines as Iranians grapple with their future. "Is the next administration – Democrat or Republican – prepared to try to empower ordinary Iranians who may want to throw off the yoke of the dictatorship under which they've lived for the past 45 years? Are they prepared to try to marginalize the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?"<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Rubin threw cold water on the common assumption that U.S. air strikes can end the Iranian nuclear threat. Air strikes can only "effect a delay" in Iran's advancement toward the bomb, and only "at significant cost."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">The question then becomes, "What are we going to do to take advantage of that delay to ultimately resolve the problem, which is the nature of the Iranian regime?" said Rubin. "Simply using American jets and pilots to kick the can down the road ... at tremendous cost in blood and treasure ... would be irresponsible."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><em>Qatar</em></strong><br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Gregg Roman discussed what he called the "old Qatari two-step" – the emirate's effort to simultaneously position itself as both an "indispensable ally" of America and a premier sponsor of terrorism.<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Like other Gulf Arab states, Qatar provides the United States with military installations (Al Udeid Air Base, outside Doha), buys American military exports, and spends billions of dollars investing in American companies. Unlike its neighbors, Qatar has enthusiastically supported and financed Islamic extremists across the region. In addition to bankrolling Hamas and lavishly sheltering its top leaders, Qatar hosted the Muslim Brotherhood's late spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi for many years, turned a blind eye to ISIS fundraising, and bolstered anti-democratic Islamist forces in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars.<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Qatar overreached with the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, in which 32 American citizens were killed (and at least five taken hostage). Roman calls for Qatar to face a four-pronged backlash.<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">First, Qatar's political lobbying efforts should be exposed, and their recipients called out. "If you're an American politician, whether Republican or Democrat, and you have relations with the Qataris, you have to be held to account for that."<br /> </p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="16" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 22px; max-width: 100%; width: 300px;" vspace="5"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; max-width: 300px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="300" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NY36M_CSol8Iiak8dgTtI0cwOVBqvH5IK35aJaiwNS1SCPSkXcAJq9tTLuz8ojLuLaFj1TvhDc9EXyIHg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.meforum.org/pics/11974.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; cursor: pointer; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" width="300" /><p style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; word-break: break-word;"><strong>Gregg Roman calls for Qatar to face a four-pronged backlash.</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Second, Qatar, which has become the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities, must be "ejected from the American college campus."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Third, Qatar's sprawling media assets in the United States must be scrutinized and reined in. Al Jazeera has press credentials for more journalists on Capitol Hill than any other media outlet, suggesting that their role has little to do with journalism. Most of these should be revoked, said Roman. "Hamas propaganda [outlets] should not be able to operate in the heart of American democracy."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Fourth, Qatar is certain to face substantial "civil actions brought by American victims of Hamas and Qatari-funded terrorism." The wide array of Qatari assets within reach of the U.S. financial system "should be on alert," said Roman, "because I can guarantee you attorneys representing the victims of Hamas terrorism will be coming for them."<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong><em>Turkey</em></strong><br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Daniel Pipes notes that "If Iran is obviously an enemy and Qatar is not so obviously an enemy, Turkey <em>appears</em> to be a friend. It is a formal ally – a NATO ally. If something happens to Turkey, then we have to go to its defense, and vice versa."<br /> </p><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="16" style="border-collapse: collapse; float: left; margin: 0px 22px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 300px;" vspace="5"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; max-width: 300px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="274" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NYn-dqe8HWkqCbY0kSzbVFVQE_GrJ_0CZuv4C--wnQQUr5vuSUOJVmfEHSpnn66K9Gr-7aFXIYw5KEvxQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.meforum.org/pics/11975.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; cursor: pointer; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" tabindex="0" width="300" /><p style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; word-break: break-word;"><strong>"There's no way that Turkey will return to the friendly relations that existed before 2003 until there is a fundamental change in government," warns Daniel Pipes.</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">During the half century between 1952 and 2002, when nationalist disciples of Kemal Atatürk ruled in Ankara, Turkey was indeed a friend and ally. "US policy towards turkey was simple ... the United States <em>led,</em> and the Turks followed." But "corruption and incompetence" brought down the Kemalist political establishment, leading to the 2002 election of Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as prime minister (and later as president, after constitutional changes strengthened that office). Cautiously at first, more recently with breakneck speed, Erdoğan steered Turkish foreign policy steadily against American interests. Today, Turkey is an ally in name only and, like Qatar, actively sponsors anti-American Islamists the region over.<br /> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Successive American administrations have turned a blind eye to this, believing that "the good old days can come back, that we just have to wait out Erdoğan [and] things will turn out okay," said Pipes. But U.S. policymakers have failed to appreciate that Turkey has become a "changed place" under Erdoğan's 21-year reign:<br /> </p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It is a dictatorship. Yeah, there are elections, but there are also elections in a few days in Russia. Elections don't mean a whole lot. It's a dictatorship. Erdoğan has consolidated power within Turkey's institutions – the military, the intelligence services, the police, the judiciary, the banks, the media, the election boards, the mosques, and the educational system. He has a private security service called Sadat, which is kind of an army of his own. Academics and others who attend protests are accused of terrorism and thrown into jail. As his popularity has waned ... in the last seven, eight years, .... election abuses, dominating media coverage, having goons attack rival parties' offices, and so forth have increased.<br /> </p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In contrast to Iran, where the population has grown more pro-American under decades of Islamist rule and the regime's political opponents are invariably friendly to the United States,<br /> </p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Turks have become anti-American. When [Erdoğan] came to power, more than half the Turks were pro-American; now, maybe a sixth, and it keeps on going down. Anti-Americanism is rampant in politics, media, movies, school textbooks, and so forth. What's even worse is that the nationalists and the leftists are yet more anti-American than the Islamists, so it's become a highly unfriendly country.<br /> </p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In conclusion, Pipes warned, "there's no way that Turkey will return to the friendly relations that existed before 2003 until there is a fundamental change in government." In the meantime, we must "accept that Ankara is hostile, without delusions. This requires a big change in attitude. Turkey is not our friend, is not our ally. It is a rogue state that is hostile."</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="m_-5489333354915405022mceBlockContainer" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large;"> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br /> <p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-11904088301167773372024-03-18T07:55:00.000-07:002024-03-18T15:55:43.792-07:00"Power Grab." Soros and Hamas. Lieberman Piles On Schumer.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictv7EQKP4zd4rieANygyaARVy4chGVP5NPlRDEgoaTJQvPaFQnjZwnd6plhUAGpFbCfcsdq9rP3GbnjLg6EkxAMsd04SS9gHAEx5ifksDVElFZNUfTfUc2v2PKb_kxma9TaQDBxzS09WtIOzqGaPhoG1lwB83g2A17Vpif4kjn5u2uLOU0FzLvrHam5w/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictv7EQKP4zd4rieANygyaARVy4chGVP5NPlRDEgoaTJQvPaFQnjZwnd6plhUAGpFbCfcsdq9rP3GbnjLg6EkxAMsd04SS9gHAEx5ifksDVElFZNUfTfUc2v2PKb_kxma9TaQDBxzS09WtIOzqGaPhoG1lwB83g2A17Vpif4kjn5u2uLOU0FzLvrHam5w/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seamus' "4th Chapter, entitled: "Power Grab," discusses how various billionaires benefited from government funding of their various projects and investments leaving, in many instances when they went sour, the tax payer holding the empty bag. Welfare for the rich has grown over the years as Obama and Biden, even Bill Clinton, learned how to manipulate the spigot to benefit their sponsors.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin_cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#f1f1f1" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759column m_-1166312755353460759scale m_-1166312755353460759stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759text m_-1166312755353460759text--feature" style="table-layout: fixed; 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min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759column m_-1166312755353460759scale m_-1166312755353460759stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759text m_-1166312755353460759text--feature" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_-1166312755353460759text_content-cell m_-1166312755353460759content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #3e3e3e; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Rich Calder and Matthew Sedacca</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind this month’s pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasn6rqtLOBlLaVDrOlom00J7frlo8FPqUAnBskg_hreVr1ArADKXh5zhQMWYZDaLWjEmTE-ccBUrmDoNo_iY4zCo07egb8zxzEC3591oBGfUReAfgtWL28tZpA2rJ3-eRzcfnveQQ0pIvkCrACp4yh1GB5o27OnDu%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw0NrTp_nbj8dj5mkzOnLrCy" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasn6rqtLOBlLaVDrOlom00J7frlo8FPqUAnBskg_hreVr1ArADKXh5zhQMWYZDaLWjEmTE-ccBUrmDoNo_iY4zCo07egb8zxzEC3591oBGfUReAfgtWL28tZpA2rJ3-eRzcfnveQQ0pIvkCrACp4yh1GB5o27OnDu&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hamas militants’ craven terrorist attacks on Israel.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A <span style="font-style: italic;">Post</span> examination of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa1XtsjB5SiY84L3aNev26TqCUQUJfBInk-nCLDIX5CcvApuksb85V6AbdqwEgpmsnBlHiBCIA4IdysuboeFhBCtzjeLThCfVr63nVPZbMcd4%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw18Ok_1KL987z0XhEajtnGK" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa1XtsjB5SiY84L3aNev26TqCUQUJfBInk-nCLDIX5CcvApuksb85V6AbdqwEgpmsnBlHiBCIA4IdysuboeFhBCtzjeLThCfVr63nVPZbMcd4=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Open Society Foundations</a> records shows Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state are the real victims.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tides’ beneficiaries include Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which on the day of the Oct. 7 massacre <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZahcHJ5oTtoIhuMqCFTW3FVEOtbkO5AfgCi31YYV4GMOEfcTsDmk345DkTgwuaojFhNz0Hw3_NTSdmXdIcjMvreRfNpxaEsot7n4S8mdZ6zPg%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw3GUSD2wVHs93IskC7Nme5V" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZahcHJ5oTtoIhuMqCFTW3FVEOtbkO5AfgCi31YYV4GMOEfcTsDmk345DkTgwuaojFhNz0Hw3_NTSdmXdIcjMvreRfNpxaEsot7n4S8mdZ6zPg=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">posted a photo on Instagram</a> of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel’s border fence down and a caption: “Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Members of the Palestinian advocacy group occupied California Rep. Ro Khanna’s office on Oct. 20 to demand he sign a resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza. Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally that same day in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators spewed antisemitic chants and waved a sign that read “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It also gave $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, another co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest where 139 people were arrested, financial records show.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group co-founded by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaPGXwQjYlM4xZdE2axSwBlgzxEQnlosWtCYzxK81o3vEYgWNmCtNYs54ckeY3kpecl73LkvkTLL5NJHK77CkLD97tL-RFfzv3muF08wk-nGPfIXq8zacqf-dgowsM2G6wBQnsW7sscvuuLzyJWoFypysDTzO_qCrTTxulTcT1bVbyuVzwdpBK-TBzy0NTRtCDdv23Ro4bxDI%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1kUcAKln2z9ZJFhhwya2rn" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaPGXwQjYlM4xZdE2axSwBlgzxEQnlosWtCYzxK81o3vEYgWNmCtNYs54ckeY3kpecl73LkvkTLL5NJHK77CkLD97tL-RFfzv3muF08wk-nGPfIXq8zacqf-dgowsM2G6wBQnsW7sscvuuLzyJWoFypysDTzO_qCrTTxulTcT1bVbyuVzwdpBK-TBzy0NTRtCDdv23Ro4bxDI=&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">politically connected activist Linda Sarsour</a> that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa4zKY9Ylgm3X2USexPNFwt8sO7e2y49OLLPJOKiQGktCs8HxbNqQza_qLer11M8Kht6eMgoZfrdYHpcPNYk5eobSbl50wkarajhdtWbAxHpKEzb5yWAOT6CC_vn0zghGS9-HiNjRwJnwLjJeX5ibijL_2fDC5p30D44YoB11ZBmMedlWFrAMX5A%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1HJ4_NhHslv2XA1ofa4-AD" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZa4zKY9Ylgm3X2USexPNFwt8sO7e2y49OLLPJOKiQGktCs8HxbNqQza_qLer11M8Kht6eMgoZfrdYHpcPNYk5eobSbl50wkarajhdtWbAxHpKEzb5yWAOT6CC_vn0zghGS9-HiNjRwJnwLjJeX5ibijL_2fDC5p30D44YoB11ZBmMedlWFrAMX5A==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">protestors called for the eradication of Israel </a>and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read “Please keep the world clean!”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations also awarded $1.5 million to Adalah’s founding nonprofit, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, but only $800,000 of it was received before the legal center cut ties with the American organization in 2018. The legal center says its mission is to promote human rights in Israel.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Other Soros-backed, Palestinian advocacy groups whose members have been spewing hate at rallies since the massacre include Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which received $650,000 and $400,000, respectively.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Both co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, and its members were among the protestors who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasRsXENtU3JfEhtxTOd7j-TWF801QhRFEbPAXb3BkpAhiQIr3rcOZ2tkexHFU980BVVwc_5CQNkjXIpg9-5f2fliHqPvO7KAPEflK_Uaf5_o4iAxIl1K2dk1ywv2aUBXVr9jlDSe_LXZL4vkUEoKt4tJmwxeSVZYJREQ-xvuEZZA2Rlc55VIFeNrb-aPaxAgXdwnWYLAWDMezpkSpyp7bUw%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw1OY8DQ4bN-P6KHivbV1US8" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZasRsXENtU3JfEhtxTOd7j-TWF801QhRFEbPAXb3BkpAhiQIr3rcOZ2tkexHFU980BVVwc_5CQNkjXIpg9-5f2fliHqPvO7KAPEflK_Uaf5_o4iAxIl1K2dk1ywv2aUBXVr9jlDSe_LXZL4vkUEoKt4tJmwxeSVZYJREQ-xvuEZZA2Rlc55VIFeNrb-aPaxAgXdwnWYLAWDMezpkSpyp7bUw==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">converged on the US Capitol complex Oct. 18</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jewish Voice for Peace also helped occupy Khanna’s office and has blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 attacks, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaYC3jUJ0XoBtiBWi1dhJUHthtlG5v9fJMSBF6AH-JyuPzbecOPz0ILmpXXpQLhWcDALVpVvt5YZm9YBTm2vSEPuNSEdl-F4jTcLDX1OL-Kgh5jTQ9sjEFdLibkTJzL3x05XoAGslv4zJlAu0VUfyVJQ%3D%3D%26c%3DSnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA%3D%3D%26ch%3D2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710854899338000&usg=AOvVaw2sg0MujV2NVCQjBgNUv9Im" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m5UOKQAYEuTseWDlQwFx-Me96nEK2TQakySvKFIVwJOkiz85FzUEH8H7aBlRThZaYC3jUJ0XoBtiBWi1dhJUHthtlG5v9fJMSBF6AH-JyuPzbecOPz0ILmpXXpQLhWcDALVpVvt5YZm9YBTm2vSEPuNSEdl-F4jTcLDX1OL-Kgh5jTQ9sjEFdLibkTJzL3x05XoAGslv4zJlAu0VUfyVJQ==&c=SnN17q_iqKond6qJ0jD-SFgoFztCaCNjADngUwtOlZOMuhWubPBCnA==&ch=2OAZ1daH4rd5Nn96znJzWrrXckBWguU-_4Iw13NA7f-KS3gWjMgd0g==" style="color: #2c74ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">writing</a> on its website: “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout-margin_cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#F1F1F1" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1166312755353460759layout" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-1166312755353460759column m_-1166312755353460759scale m_-1166312755353460759stack" style="margin: 0px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><div style="height: 10px; 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font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CONTINUE READING</a><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">The Jewish state of Israel deserves an ally that acts like one. The people of Israel at home, and in captivity, deserve America’s support. And Israel’s unity government and security cabinet deserve the deference befitting a sovereign democratic country. The primary obstacle to peace in Israel’s region are genocidal terrorists like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who slaughter innocent people, and corrupt leaders of the Palestinian Authority who have repeatedly, repeatedly rejected peace deals from multiple Israeli governments. And foreign observers who cannot keep these clear distinctions ought to refrain from weighing in. It is grotesque and hypocritical for Americans who hyperventilate about foreign interference in our own democracy, to call for the removal of the democratically elected leader of Israel. This is unprecedented. We should not treat fellow democracies this way, at all…Israel is not a colony of America whose leaders serve at the pleasure of the party in power in Washington. Only Israel’s citizens should have a say in who runs their government. This is the very definition of democracy and sovereignty. Either we respect their decisions, or we disrespect their democracy.”</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">— Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the floor of the Senate, in response to Senator Schumer’s remarks, March 14, 2024 </p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lieberman piles on and slams Schumer. I left</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Schumer a message that he had the spine </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of a worm. Lynn cringed.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Joe Lieberman slams Schumer for anti-Netanyahu speech: ‘</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Can’t ever remember anything like it’</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
By Carl Campanile
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday blasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for an election to replace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the New York Democrat’s remarks as “outrageous.”
“I thought the statement he made this week … was a mistake. I can’t ever remember anything like it,” Lieberman told host John Catsimatidis on the “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket, has slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for urging Israel to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Images
Lieberman, 82, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut who later became an Independent before his 2013 retirement, was the first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket when then-Vice President Al Gore tapped him as his running mate in 2000.
“For a US senator — let alone the majority leader; let alone the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington — to tell Israel that it’s time to get rid of Netanyahu, that’s outrageous,” Lieberman said of Schumer.
In an extraordinary speech from the Senate floor on Thursday, Schumer, 73, called for a “new election” in Israel after the conclusion of the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, which has been raging in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7.
“As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it’s become clear to me that the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7,” Schumer said, referring to the day of the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ slaughter in Israel, which sparked the war.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks from the Senate Floor.5
In an extraordinary speech from the Senate Floor last week, Schumer called for a “new election” in Israel, labeling Netanyahu an “obstacle” to peace. senate.gov
Schumer singled out Netanyahu and “radical” members of his security cabinet as an “obstacle” to peace.
His remarks joined a growing chorus of criticism emanating from the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, which blames Israel for not doing more to minimize civilian casualties among Palestinians as it tries to eradicate Hamas.
The top-ranking Senate Democrat’s words drew swift and strong rebukes from Republicans and Israeli leaders alike, including Netanyahu himself, who on Sunday fired back at Schumer for his “totally inappropriate” speech.
“I think what he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate for him to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there,” Netanyahu said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“That’s something that [the] Israeli public does on its own. We’re not a banana republic.”
Netanyahu fired back Sunday at Schumer, saying, “I think what he said is totally inappropriate.” REUTERS
Lieberman added, “Can you imagine Sen. Schumer or anybody else in the US government saying to the Brits, ‘We don’t like your prime minister. It’s really time for you to dump him.’ Oh my god, there’d be outrage all around.
“It’s a bad precedent for us to tell a friend and ally, a democratic ally, ‘Get rid of this government. we don’t like him,’ ” the former senator said.
President Biden on Friday praised Schumer, telling reporters he thought the Democrat made a “good speech” during an Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
Biden is facing increased pressure at home over his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict as presidential election season gets into full swing.
Protesters block the Ayalon highway during a demonstration calling for the release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu5
Protesters block the highway during a demonstration calling for the release of hostages as well as denouncing the government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Image
A poll published by the Wall Street Journal last week found that 60% of voters disapprove of how Biden has dealt with the war.
Donald Trump, asked about Schumer’s speech by Fox News “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz on Sunday, blasted the Democratic Party’s record on Israel.
“The Democrats are very bad for Israel,” said the former president, now the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential contest. “Israel sticks with them. I guess Israel is loyal, maybe to a fault, because they stick with these guys. Biden is so bad for Israel.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">+++
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In Chapter 5 Seamus explains how the: "War On Farmers" began </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and what it means.
In baseball it was Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Today it is
Rockefeller to Bill Gates Jr .to biotechnology .
The Rockefellers made fortunes from fertilizers but when
their patents ran out they shifted gears and began to use</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">climate change and "overpopulation" as a ploy against </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">farmers, whose animals are allegedly polluting the </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">atmosphere. Then Gates Jr. and others began to buy up farm </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">land </span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and manufacture food that tasted like meat etc.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Riots also started to break out in Holland and spread as
farmers realized their future and livelihood was at stake.
Start a questionable man made cause, find a victim, drive </span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the victims out </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">of business, </span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">purchase their assets at a </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">sharp discount </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and subsequently </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">produce alternatives. Then </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">convince government bureaucrats </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to link with The U.N that </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">you are engaged in saving the world </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and increase your </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">wealth not as a rogue but as a saviour.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The artificial food craze seems to have met consumer </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">resistance but the billionaire's have invested heavily and</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I would not assume they will lose because they have the </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">U.N, WEF, Hollywood, 2030 and the mass Media on their </span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #202020; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">side. and Congress is always for sale at a price..</span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; direction: ltr; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #202020; direction: ltr; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-2833729285946588712024-03-18T06:26:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:55:22.580-07:00Will 2024 Be A Wake Up Call? HezbollahTerrorist Enters and Is Caught. Only one Choice. More.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5fhDrk6fksAj6OR5qd_iOeSdLi2asPgFV9HzLFit-fyjr_JWuPX3mXznw7-H72C3N0-0rBNwRWGEPcs4hbsv_R6i-YVZAwb1ibS3jfag0ZPabQGdZ4POroxDlQ_yUmkrxM6thM4IqCZR3WF4Y-_fGKIpB_wXhFQBkUWcr_JVF2XWfP6jwKoLvuZtAq4/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5fhDrk6fksAj6OR5qd_iOeSdLi2asPgFV9HzLFit-fyjr_JWuPX3mXznw7-H72C3N0-0rBNwRWGEPcs4hbsv_R6i-YVZAwb1ibS3jfag0ZPabQGdZ4POroxDlQ_yUmkrxM6thM4IqCZR3WF4Y-_fGKIpB_wXhFQBkUWcr_JVF2XWfP6jwKoLvuZtAq4/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/shorts/pPtYDWJjxYk?si%3D0OtHneEhhlsUl3OW&source=gmail&ust=1710857790481000&usg=AOvVaw3rq0Q6xEsPt_b8vy2QnNDa" href="https://youtube.com/shorts/pPtYDWJjxYk?si=0OtHneEhhlsUl3OW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/<wbr></wbr>pPtYDWJjxYk?si=<wbr></wbr>0OtHneEhhlsUl3OW</a></div></blockquote><p>And:<br /><br /></p></div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/17/joe-biden-promotes-staffers-he-blamed-for-mishandling-classified-docs-n4927388&source=gmail&ust=1710858424540000&usg=AOvVaw129rOzDpyXr3B1ZvH5a4UR" href="https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/17/joe-biden-promotes-staffers-he-blamed-for-mishandling-classified-docs-n4927388" jslog="32272; 1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWY6MTc5Mzg3NDQ4MzQyODkxNjAwMSJd; 4:WyIjbXNnLWY6MTc5Mzg3NDQ4MzQyODkxNjAwMSJd" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://pjmedia.com/matt-margo<wbr></wbr>lis/2024/03/17/joe-biden-promo<wbr></wbr>tes-staffers-he-blamed-for-<wbr></wbr>mishandling-classified-docs-<wbr></wbr>n4927388</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Bit long but this is fabulous: : <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/ETAFus3wmhw&source=gmail&ust=1710830472636000&usg=AOvVaw056eAP8dK0avAWUpWaKOM9" href="https://youtu.be/ETAFus3wmhw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ETAFus3wmhw</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This woman is saying everything I have been saying for years..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Will 2024 finally be a wake up year?</span></p><p>+++</p><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="18e51b49f1c8bad5" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1793870030980037333" jsname="r4nke" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1f1f1f; display: inline; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1">REPORT: Self-Proclaimed Hezbollah Terrorist Arrested at Border in Texas</h2><div><span face="Google Sans, Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">By Bob Price<br /></span></span><p><span class="J-J5-Ji" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" jsname="SjW3R" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 22px; min-height: 28px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/amp/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> by the<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York Post</em>.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the interview on March 12, agents Mirandized the man who later admitted to being a member of a foreign terrorist organization.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ebbadi also reportedly admitted he trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member for an additional four years. His duties included guarding weapons locations.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the first four months of Fiscal Year 24, which began on October 1, 2023, nearly 60 migrants illegally entering the United States have been identified as being on the terror watch list. Approximately 270 more were apprehended in the prior two fiscal years — shattering prior records.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.breitbart.com/author/bob-price/&source=gmail&ust=1701966170961000&usg=AOvVaw2NwkHYq3RlmOkR5MA-SpPt" href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/bob-price/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Price</em></a><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s </em><a class="x5l" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.fox26houston.com/shows/whats-your-point&source=gmail&ust=1701966170961000&usg=AOvVaw0ewpX7E7Lgcl4yphJC4IUh" href="https://www.fox26houston.com/shows/whats-your-point" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">What’s Your Point?</a> Sunday morning<i> talk show. He also serves as president of <a class="x5l" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bluewonderguncare.com/&source=gmail&ust=1701966170961000&usg=AOvVaw0N-U6xNXKeQawKLiwPwp1k" href="https://www.bluewonderguncare.com/" rel="noopener noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blue Wonder Gun Care Products</a>. </i><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you love America, if your care about America and if you care about it's most dependable ally, Israel, and whether you care about Trump or not, you have only one choice in 2024.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you choose not to vote that is a cop out and if you vote for Biden your judgement is not sound.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, Reagan would have never voted for Biden either. Lehman makes a rational, logical case that does not apply under 2014 circumstances.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me, he’d be looking for a strong third-party candidate to support.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By John Lehman</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As one of the last senior national-security officials of the Reagan administration still vertical, I must speak.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was an honor to serve as Navy secretary. The lessons I learned from the Gipper are still my political North Star. He taught his staff that we must be clear-eyed about our enemies, and especially our friends. He showed us how to speak to what makes America great, as well as what needs improvement, but not to tear America down. Most of all, he implored us to remember that strong relationships across the political divide are a great asset. Americans may disagree, he believed, but the true enemy lies beyond our shores.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reagan’s 11th Commandment was “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican,” but Donald Trump is no heir to Reagan’s legacy. He is an insult to it. The Reagan I knew would be appalled that someone as unfit as Mr. Trump had become the GOP’s standard-bearer. Reagan would also deeply oppose President Biden’s agenda, and he never trusted or cared much for then-Sen. Biden.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The most fundamental difference between Reagan and Mr. Trump is that Reagan knew America’s friends from its enemies. He would be horrified by the Republican Party’s abandonment of Ukraine at Mr. Trump’s behest. He would recognize Russia’s invasion for what it is: a brutal attempt to reassert its old Soviet dominance on a free people, no matter how many innocents die. Reagan would recognize that supporting Ukraine is both morally correct and good realpolitik, a chance to bog an adversary down. He would find Mr. Trump’s naked admiration of our enemies incomprehensible and dangerous. The man who told Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” wouldn’t understand how an American president could congratulate a Russian dictator for “winning” a sham election.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Further, Reagan wouldn’t be able to fathom a president going out of his way to insult the leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies by suggesting that Russia could have its way with them if they didn’t spend more on defense.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reagan would consider Mr. Trump’s praise for Hezbollah—calling the terrorist organization “very smart” in the wake of Hamas’s massacre of innocent Israeli civilians—unforgivable. Hezbollah is responsible for the most murderous attack on our peacetime military, Oct. 23, 1983, when its jihadists blew up a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. Mr. Trump’s praise demonstrates that he has no idea with whom he is dealing, let alone the effect of his words.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Trump’s praise of adversaries is particularly egregious considering the insults he throws at his own country. In his 2017 inauguration speech Mr. Trump spoke of “American carnage.” It is hard to imagine a phrase more out of sync with Reagan’s “morning in America.” Mr. Trump has spent his entire political career deriding the nation he wants to lead. He called America a “Third World country” and a “laughingstock.” He declared that “the American dream is dead.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reagan’s optimism wasn’t merely stylistic. It was substantive. He recognized that a nation that had lost its confidence during the Carter administration needed to be reminded of its greatness. Mr. Trump, it seems, has no understanding of the importance of speaking to the better angels of our nature.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nor does he understand the importance of speaking with the opposing party. He treats Democrats as villains to vanquish, not as countrymen to be persuaded or outvoted. Reagan’s ability to negotiate—and have genuinely close relationships—with leading Democrats was one of his most underappreciated skills. In partnership with House Speaker Tip O’Neill, Reagan negotiated excellent legislation that defined his administration’s domestic policy. The 1986 Tax Reform Act, the 1987 Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, and a Social Security compromise of 1983 are three examples among dozens.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reagan and O’Neill genuinely liked each other. Reagan once thanked Tip for a Valentine’s Day card he’d received, telling him he knew it was from the speaker because “the heart was still bleeding.” On another occasion, when Tip publicly criticized Reagan for sleeping through the Achille Lauro hijacking, Reagan responded to the press that he would promise Tip he would make sure he was awakened immediately for any crisis in the future—“even if it was in the middle of a cabinet meeting.” It was only thanks to Reagan’s close relationship with O’Neill and other country-first Democrats like Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson that I could get the large, steady budgets that allowed America to build the vaunted 600-ship Navy that checkmated the Soviet Union and kept peace on the seas for a generation.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One doesn’t see Reagan’s—or Jackson’s, or O’Neill’s—approach in Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden. Neither man has demonstrated a commitment to peace through strength, as both submitted budgets and proposals that forced the military to disarm while America’s enemies built their capabilities. Nor does one see unity or bipartisanship in their approaches. Gen. Jim Mattis was right when he described Mr. Trump as “the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.” Mr. Biden is the second such president.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a conservative, however, and the Republican Party has been my philosophical home. With Mr. Trump, it has suffered a break-in from a vandal who refuses to leave. And since Mr. Biden has turned his platform over to socialist Bernie Sanders, I am wrapped in the No Labels flag.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Lehman served as Navy secretary, 1981-87. He is an elector and delegate for No Labels and author of “Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Netanyahu to world: Did you lose your moral compass so quickly?'</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">PM says Rafah operation will happen, asks international community why the pressure is on Israel and not Hamas, which started the war.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated today (Sunday) that an operation in Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza, would take place.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Since the beginning of the war, we have been fighting on two fronts - the military front and the political front," Netanyahu began, adding that "on the political front, we have so far managed to allow our forces to fight in an unprecedented manner for five full months. But it is no secret that the international pressure against us is increasing."</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He added that "there are those in the international community who are trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved. They do this by hurling false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government, and against the Prime Minister of Israel. They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war. And they do this because they know that elections now will stop the war, and paralyze the country for at least six months."</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"So let's be clear: if we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, it means that Israel has lost the war, and we will not allow that. Therefore, we must not give in to these pressures, and we will not give in to them," he said. "No international pressure will stop us from realizing all the goals of the war: eliminating Hamas, freeing all our hostages, and ensuring that Gaza will no longer pose a threat against Israel."</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He stated that "in order to do this, we will also operate in Rafah. This is the only way to eliminate the rest of the murderous battalions of Hamas, and this is the only way to exert the military pressure necessary to release all our hostages."</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"To this end, we have approved the operational plans for the operation in Rafah, including the promotion of the steps to evacuate the civilian population from the battle zones. This is a necessary step towards the military operation," he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I repeat - we will act in Rafah. It will take a few weeks, and it will happen," Netanyahu said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Netanyahu also conveyed a message to the world: "To our friends in the international community I say: Is your memory so short? So quickly did you forget October 7, the most terrible massacre committed against Jews since the Holocaust? So quickly are you ready to deny Israel the right to defend itself against the monsters of Hamas? Did you lose your moral conscience so quickly?"</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Instead of putting pressure on Israel, which is fighting the most just war, against the cruelest of enemies, direct your pressure against Hamas and its patron - Iran. They are the ones who pose a danger to the region and the entire world." Netanyahu said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And:<br /></span></p><p class="m_-4565894069271414478ydp90405ea8yiv3336417310msonormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.5467px; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 23.32px;">GIL TROY: Beware of Dangerous Advice—An Urgent Letter to President Biden</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4565894069271414478ydp90405ea8yiv3336417310msonormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.5467px; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 21.2px;">They’re giving Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran propaganda victories they don’t deserve, weakening Israel and America, and holding Israel to standards America and other democracies never meet.</span><span style="color: #26282a;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-43r8NmbF9Ny_Xe5hRPeRYOzeknqwh11HQC2Q7cgT0G9jGYVQZRgTYwi8xqTyIC5Ggk609-YJMzOQYNbCHJB_2E8LKZs1ci97XOrSoWE99oUWW9h7GHva2MWhi8lacOO_acaQO9yem8ubqkyhUx-M_2eSdc3Uv8oFcoXeBRT2U5quujGJVM7gf2Czn14/s396/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="396" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-43r8NmbF9Ny_Xe5hRPeRYOzeknqwh11HQC2Q7cgT0G9jGYVQZRgTYwi8xqTyIC5Ggk609-YJMzOQYNbCHJB_2E8LKZs1ci97XOrSoWE99oUWW9h7GHva2MWhi8lacOO_acaQO9yem8ubqkyhUx-M_2eSdc3Uv8oFcoXeBRT2U5quujGJVM7gf2Czn14/s320/unnamed.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And::</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">OBiden, remember there is a Jewish Vote .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">By Larry M. Levine</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">President Biden's recent hostility toward Israel and Netanyahu has been described as a political move. It is all about Michigan, the over 250000 Arab vote and his parties well known antipathy towards the Jewish state. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Obiden needs to be reminded there are over 6 million Jews who may not agree on everything but most share their love/support for Israel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Israel is under unprecedented pressure to bow to the will of its biggest ally, the United States. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Obiden used Shameless Schumer to convey that Bibi is not towing the party line.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">What is that? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Stop the war “cease fire”, don’t finish off Hamas. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Biden's “red line” is Israel cannot go into RAFAH, which is a sliver of land on the border with Egypt, where the last remaining 4 brigades of Hamas are located. Rafah is also THE place where weapon smuggling from Egypt to Hamas occurs. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">THE ROCKETS </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PLAGUing </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ISRAEL are COMING FROM , THE EGYPTIANS.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Some reports say the smuggling operation is a billion dollar business for Egypt</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Create a “two state solution” and reward the Palestinians by giving them yet another state from which to launch genocidal attacks on the last place on earth that is hospitable to Jews. Ambassador David Friedman on Biden's recent hostility toward Israel .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">One has to wonder why the world is so up in arms over Israel going into Rafah? If you don’t finish the job Hamas has promised October 7th will happen again and again .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Do I sound dramatic? YES I AM. I have been told by several of my friends who would know that weapons shipments to Israel in the middle of a war have slowed down. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Apache helicopters have NOT delivered since December, any parts. These systems are critical to finish Hamas off in Gaza and to defend northern Israel for the war to come. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tank artillery shells and other weapons are running out of stock.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hezbollah has over 150,000 Iranian missiles, of which 50,000 have pinpoint accuracy and superior fire power. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hezbollah could destroy half of Israel. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Over 65,000 Israelis have been displaced from the north during this war. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Israel's economy is on hold. Nobody talks about that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Whose side is the Obiden administration on? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Biden didn’t mention Iran, the source of all the middle east turmoil during his State of the Union speech. Why?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Foreign policy article on bailing out Iran</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, THE UNITED STATES RELEASED ANOTHER LOAN WAIVER FOR IRAN of 10 TEN BILLION DOLLARS. MORE MONEY available for FUNDing THE HOUTHIS and Hezbollah . </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">One of the first acts of the Obiden administration was to remove the Houthis from the terror list. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Obiden recently put them back on since the Houthis have been firing missiles at international shipping and creating economic havoc. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Obiden reversed most of former President Trumps sanctions towards Iran enabling Iran to enrich themselves with billions of dollars in oil revenue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">War to come? Yes, remember I said last fall that this entire war was about Iran and its nuclear capability. Nobody is talking about it, but they now have enough weapons-grade Uranium or, close to it, to arm at least three bombs. They have a robust missile and drone program.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, has been firing pinpoint accurate anti tank shells destroying houses and killing scores of Israelis. Israel has been massing troops on the border and responding in kind. ISRAEL CANNOT LIVE WITH THIS THREAT ON ITS NORTHERN BORDER nor elsewhere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">BIDENS “SUPPORT” FOR Israel has been nothing short of a duplicitous con job. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Biden’s initial reactions towards October 7th is laudable. He said all the right things, moved the navy into position, and visited Israel. He vowed to let Israel finish the job against Hamas. Now he embraces Hamas's phony numbers of deaths ( over 30,000 Gazans.) Obiden is using Netanyahu as his straw man and is blaming him for all of Israel's issues. Netanyahu's positions reflect the majority of Israeli's. It is easier to focus his hostility toward Netanyahu than on fascist Islamists. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">These numbers were provided by the “ministry of health” HAMAS AND DO NOT INCLUDE COMBTANTS. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Obidens false claim that most of the Gazans are “innocent” must be challenged. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Polling shows an INCREASE in support for Hamas in Gaza since October 7th and an 80 percent plus support for Hamas in the West Bank. This hardly supports the innocent moniker that those on the left use in describing Palestinians.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">As time goes on, there is more and more evidence Gazan's and Hamas are one and the same. When the hostages, 85 year old Grandmothers, babies, women and men first arrived at Al Shifra hospital in Gaza they were met with cheers from the staff</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">UNWRAS headquarters is situated above Hamas command and control communications and intelligence networks . It is ludicrous to believe UNWRA or the United Nationals relief and works agency for “Palestinian refugees” were unaware.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Most, if not all hospitals, mosques, schools have weapons , missile depots and are bases for Hamas to operate.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The Gazans raped, mutilated, and slaughtered Israelis like cattle. Entire families were murdered and mutilated in front of each other. CHILDREN BURNED ALIVE, INCLUDING, BABIES, IN OVENS, YES, OVENS. Hamas engaged every unimaginable cruelty.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now, our Government wants Israel to reward the “Palestinians with a new state of their own. Most Israelis DO NOT WANT THAT. This sends the wrong message to every terrorist or terrorist group that TERRORISM (CRIME) </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PAYs</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">STOP THEM. We do NOT need another Jewish holiday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Israel is a modern, civilized democratic state that has accomplished miracles. Israel has made the world a better place. Israel DESERVES TO LIVE and thrive. Now is the time to fight back. We are Jews, we ARE AMERICANS. WE ARE ISRAEL .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Today is the time, the place, and the phone number to call Schumer and let him know he and his Democratic henchmen are on notice NOT to take the Jewish vote for granted and stop the HISTORIC BETRAYAL OF JEWS AND ISRAEL. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">AM YISRAEL CHAI - </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Israel Lives </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PASS THIS ALONG AND CALL SCHUMER. 202-224-6542</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Larry M Levine </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Biden does not care!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally: </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden Regime Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR to the White House, Then Lies About It</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By ROBERT SPENCER</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Every aspect of this story is bad, and each horrifying aspect is competing with the others for which can have the most negative consequences for the American people. After Jews suffered attacks in Chicago, the Biden regime reached out not to Jewish leaders, but to Muslim groups, including open supporters of Hamas. The Muslims, however, enraged at the regime’s continued (albeit hollow) support for Israel, refused to show. Then a Biden regime wonk lied brazenly and denied that one of the worst of the Muslim groups was even invited. This is the state of our staggered, sputtering republic in the fourth year of this radically anti-American and anti-democratic regime</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">This latest imbroglio started when Politico reported Thursday that “Illinois leaders in the Palestinian communities angry over how President Joe Biden has handled the Middle East war have turned down a request by the White House to meet in Chicago today.” We can see who is claiming the moral high ground, and who has the upper hand. After Hamas brutally and gleefully murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, Islamic groups and their leftist allies immediately began to claim victimhood at any sign of Israeli self-defense, fabricating casualty numbers before a world that was all too eager to be fooled, and even preposterously claiming that Israel was conducting a “genocide” when independent observers have dubbed the IDF “the most moral army in the world.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Despite all that, Muslim and leftist leaders around the world know that making wild claims about Israel and affecting a posture of aggrieved victimhood can win them ready concessions from the U.S., the European Union, and the United Nations, and so they’ve been striking victim poses aggressively since Oct. 7. It has worked. The Biden regime is on its heels, desperately worried by threats from the likes of Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the winsome Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) to withhold the Muslim vote if the regime doesn’t betray Israel. And so it has been doing just that, step by step, in slow motion: $100 million to Gaza, $10 billion to Hamas’ financiers, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and ever-increasing pressure on the Netanyahu government.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the regime keeps trying to placate the Muslim and Arab groups inside the U.S.: “Tom Perez, a senior adviser to the president, and other advisers had planned to sit down in three separate meetings with various Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders and elected officials to talk about tensions in the Middle East. The private meetings were to come on the heels of similar gatherings in Detroit.” The professional victims, however, stayed in character: “But most folks contacted turned down the request, according to six people we talked to. Any meeting being held will be with a smaller group of players.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Not only did they refuse to meet with White House apparatchiks, but they continued to excoriate the regime for its alleged support of Israel. One Muslim spokesman declared that his group considered “anyone — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab — who takes a meeting with the White House to be an absolute sell-out.” One of those who declined to attend was Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR, who explained: “We believe a thousand percent in civic engagement. We preach it. But this is an unusual moment and requires an unusual response. We have made clear that a ceasefire is needed.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">The outreach to CAIR, whose top dog Awad infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre, embarrassed even the Biden regime apparatchiks. Jewish Insider correspondent Gabby Deutsch stated: “WH spox @AndrewJBates46 told me that CAIR was *not* invited to WH mtgs in Chicago w/ Muslim Americans—& that the group is NEVER invited to WH mtgs.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">This just piled embarrassment upon embarrassment. Unfortunately for the wretched regime wonk Bates, CAIR has been frequently invited to the Biden White House, and has posted press releases detailing the meetings. But the idea of the regime kowtowing to an organization with actual Hamas ties is too much even for Biden’s handlers, and so Bates was apparently instructed to lie about the meetings, exposing the Biden team as both dishonest and pro-Hamas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Even worse is the timing. Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies pointed out that “since Friday: Pro-Hamas anti-Semitic rioters in Chicago intimidated the House of Blues to cancel a Jewish singer’s sold-out show. The venue cited security concerns. Loyola University told Jewish students they could no longer allow a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre to speak on campus. The university cited security concerns. Jews were attacked while trying to enter a theatre to watch footage of the Nova music festival massacre. Jews are not even allowed to mourn the massacres without being attacked in the city of Chicago. The mayor says nothing. The president says nothing. But the White House is sending staff to meet with the organizers of these violent riots and assaults instead of defending the Jews they are trying to drive underground.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">That’s right. And if this is happening more or less out in the open, albeit with inept and half-hearted attempts to cover it up, imagine the betrayals that are going on behind the scenes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Robert Spencer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 27 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, and The Critical Qur’an. His latest book is Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here. For media inquiries, contact communications@pjmedia.com.</div></span></div></div></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-74809060059224400822024-03-17T14:58:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:40:20.555-07:00So What, Big Deal, Who Cares.My Op Ed. Have you No Shame?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHZo4cfrBhCsbHVPeUTc0PQSotgu1OFZ2yL5aAF4SBr-9Ov_Yox_yfHc73nZ_1p6rPyo8pyTdfNgUlTLAI5eCnKnbPOyNyJtgUao8V13l7qRRVGii3gekeKVxKGphnLiPSZ8AquNaRQRz43TDBxne-056HsUWKO3XZFvSSKmJU6LILbJfTy9GFfJAEaE/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHZo4cfrBhCsbHVPeUTc0PQSotgu1OFZ2yL5aAF4SBr-9Ov_Yox_yfHc73nZ_1p6rPyo8pyTdfNgUlTLAI5eCnKnbPOyNyJtgUao8V13l7qRRVGii3gekeKVxKGphnLiPSZ8AquNaRQRz43TDBxne-056HsUWKO3XZFvSSKmJU6LILbJfTy9GFfJAEaE/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing ever comes of anything. It is much to do about everything. As my wife says: "so what, big deal, who cares."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Obstruction, Lawmaker Says</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,’ says Rep. Barry Loudermilk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The chair of a House subcommittee warned that some members of a controversial Jan. 6 investigatory subcommittee could face charges of hiding and destroying documents.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) said in an interview last week that he may refer former members of the committee to the Department of Justice for prosecution after a report he commissioned found that its members allegedly hid information from the public.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Mr. Loudermilk told Just the News last week after the report was released, referring to the possibility committee members will face punishment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Story continues below advertisement</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get,“ he added. ”And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But the Georgia lawmaker suggested that there are “other options,” including censuring and ethics referrals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“But also consider there are members of that Select Committee who are no longer members of Congress. So they may fall under a different scenario,” Mr. Loudermilk told the outlet. “So we do have the tools of members of Congress, but also, active members of Congress have certain protections. So we'll have to work on that. Because as you talked about earlier, we’re in uncharted territory right now. And so we’re going to have to work through this.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">America Was Misled on Jan. 6, New Congressional Investigation Finds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Loudermilk also said that he believes Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 select committee, allowed then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to make decisions for the panel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“There’s still documents that we need to get hold off. We still don’t have passwords for the encrypted documents,” he added. “It’s amazing that you know, when I asked the former Chairman Bennie Thompson, ‘all I want you to do is give me the passwords.’ He said, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about.’”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Well, I think it’s coming down to he probably didn’t, because now new information we’re getting is that Liz Cheney ran that committee,” Mr. Loudermilk said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Last Tuesday, a previously undisclosed transcript of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee’s interview with an unnamed Secret Service officer who drove the presidential SUV on Jan. 6 provided new information about outgoing President Donald Trump’s actions that day. That transcript of the driver contradicted key witness Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony—namely her claim that President Trump tried to grab the wheel of his presidential car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">President Trump “never grabbed the steering wheel,” the Secret Service agent said, according to a transcript reviewed by The Epoch Times last week. “I didn’t see him lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The testimony was given to the Democrat-dominated select committee convened to investigate the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in the previous Congress, but the transcript wasn’t released by the committee.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Story continues below advertisement</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">House Republicans said in the new report that Ms. Hutchinson’s version of the story was false, according to the vehicle driver’s testimony.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Despite the driver of the president’s SUV testifying under oath that the Hutchinson story was false, the select committee chose to validate and promote Hutchinson’s version of the story as fact. The select committee hid the driver’s full testimony and only favorably mentioned his testimony in its final report, it did not release the full transcript,” they stated in the report.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Thompson said in a statement that his panel explained in 2022 that it had to send some transcripts to the Executive Branch for review “to protect sensitive information as well as the privacy of witnesses.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He said the panel’s final report “took into account the testimony of all witnesses” and that “all the evidence points to the same conclusion: Donald Trump wanted to join his violent mob as it marched on the Capitol.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In response to the report last week, Ms. Cheney, who lost her Wyoming Republican primary by more than 40 percentage points, suggested on X that Mr. Loudermilk and others are lying and trying to “cover up what [President Trump] did” on Jan. 6. The former lawmaker also recently wrote that people should instead read her committee’s report.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Zachary Stieber and The Associated Press contributed to this report.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have You No Shame?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You can be turned off by Trump and find plenty to justify your view and you can favor with Trump and find much to justify that feeling. What you cannot do, however, is conclude he and his family have been treated fairly by America's judicial system.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even Alger Hiss received better judicial treatment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our former president has been sued for laws that are so old they have thick inches of dust on them. Many laws have been purposely twisted so gumshoe prosecutors, who are hell bent on depriving him of his constitutional rights, can pile on charge after charge after charge. Why? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">First, because the more charges the more likely the public will</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">be susceptible to believing his is guilty. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, more charges provide the mass media Frankenstein's with copy/</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Second, rabid Democrats care not a twit about the law. They simply want Biden to run without opposition and/or against a nominee who stands a good chance of losing to their candidate.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Third, they purposely chose to co-ordinate their suits with he White House to heighten Trump's inability to campaign.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fourth, though this is a longer shot, they believe, by using the law to harass him and his family, they might bankrupt him and/or break his spirit or both. So far that tactic has not only failed but also has increased Trump's acceptability. American's abhor bullies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, an even more desperate prosecutorial goal is they could achieve his imprisonment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Radical Democrats generally place winning as their sole goal not what is best for America. Lamentably, conservatives do not place winning first. Frankly, they consistently demonstrate they don't know how to win even when odds overwhelmingly favor their chance of winning. Don't ask me why because I remain mystified. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The various prosecutors, who have chosen to engage in overreach, have violated every ethical principle by broadly announcing their vile intentions. They even campaigned for office by unabashedly announcing their despicable intentions were politically driven. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Georgia the Fulton County District Attorney built her case on Ricco charges. The prosecutor in New York sought to accuse Trump of an intent to deceive where there was no victim or loss and the lenders had their own legal staff to protect them. In Florida the goal seems to be to disrupt Trump's ability to campaign in a timely manner and I have yet to mention the outrageous pursuit of Trump by the FBI under the direction of the Justice department.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The contempt high placed officials have displayed for their regard of the judicial process is disheartening simply because a former President was viewed as a threat to the D.C elites. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have sunk to a very unhealthy level when it comes to our fractured legal system. Democrats have done the nation a disservice and seem to believe there will not be any blowback. However, they have set America on a perilous course.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div></div><br />Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-16464848134714887632024-03-17T09:01:00.000-07:002024-03-18T14:05:39.248-07:00Sean's Chapters 2 and 3. 163 rd Day. CIA On Jan 6? White House Update. More.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrdAu2shWBaFtm_V5KWQL9X5bDZIN8BN7uj5e-ri5FroqXle1PDZ3roYpwbtlh_arSRYh36ma-Ai6kL79a00fAI_nyUbb2JJ7MTOgEZ8cbAnQDWq-75xPgfK314co_s9SbKAOVFC_ECJoeeFT036-sGh1pVn6j11BYmJ4u5iH_4B1P0YU2mbr-xdyv4rg/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrdAu2shWBaFtm_V5KWQL9X5bDZIN8BN7uj5e-ri5FroqXle1PDZ3roYpwbtlh_arSRYh36ma-Ai6kL79a00fAI_nyUbb2JJ7MTOgEZ8cbAnQDWq-75xPgfK314co_s9SbKAOVFC_ECJoeeFT036-sGh1pVn6j11BYmJ4u5iH_4B1P0YU2mbr-xdyv4rg/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seamus' second chapter focuses on the Gates' family and how Bill Gates Sr formed a law firm, gained control of Physio-Control, brought it public and subsequently, his son, Bill Jr established the Gates Foundation, after becoming a billionaire, at a young age, drops out of high school, connects with IBM, establishes Microsoft and invests in MSNBC and marries his former wife. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bill Sr. initially allowed his father to run the Gates Foundation until it came to be known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Questionably, Bill and Melinda believe vaccinations prolong the life of children and thus parents are prone not to have as many children and this supports their desire to reduce world population growth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sean walks you through Bill Jr's focus on vaccines, his relationship with Fauci and Birx, his embrace of eugenics and connection with the Rockefeller Foundation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Initially, Bill Gates Jr was known as a technology nerd but after establishing his foundation the world embraced him as a philanthropist, one who cares about society and thus, prone to submit to untested quickly developed vaccinations a</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">nd the extraordinary profits Gates made from development of vaccination technology known as mRBA. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is the same Bill Gates who is buying up farm land, investing in substitute manufactured food products etc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">+++ </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In Chapter 3, Sean writes about Klaus Schwab, the founder of DAVOS and WEF.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The pandemic provided Klaus the opportunity to introduce his "Great Reset." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Schwab is another wealthy "do gooder," gad fly who has identified 5 concerns that need solutions:<br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1) The world needs to redefine the social contract and be more inclusive</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2) Decarbonize the world economy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">3) Digitalize everything</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">4) Companies should use the pandemic to rethink profit motives and </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">transition to "stakeholder capitalism." (This is concept is vey antidemocratic and more like crony fascism.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">5) Global governance. Henry Kissinger was a close friend of Klaus</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ESG or "woke investing" became an outgrowth of Schwab's creeping social credit scoring that emanated from his loony, disruptive ideas. ESG, was embraced by Larry Fink, who would love to be president. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ESG also proved pure nonsense and seemingly dying a painful death. Progressives are always in search of solutions where they are not needed because they awake each morning unhappy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">+++</span></div><div><p align="center" class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; margin: 0in; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a name="m_-6171622364977880416__Hlk161080482" style="color: #222222;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">The 163<sup>rd</sup> Day of Israel’s War Against Hamas<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></a></p><p align="center" class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; margin: 0in; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; margin: 0in; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">By Sherwin Pomerantz</span><a name="m_-6171622364977880416__Hlk159762043" style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Mossad Chief David Barnea is expected to arrive in Doha on Monday for hostage talks as Hamas has put a new proposal on the table, which appeared to revive the stalled negotiations. Barnea will meet with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed al-Thani and Egyptian officials in an attempt to bridge the gaps between the positions of Israel and Hamas, a source told Reuters. The Security Cabinet was expected to meet today to determine Israel’s redlines.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">"We will operate in Rafah. It will take a few weeks, but it will happen," Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the start of the government meeting on Sunday. Some in the international community are trying to stop the war before all goals are achieved. They do this by making false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government, and against the Prime Minister of Israel," Netanyahu added. "They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war. And they do this because they know elections now will stop the war and paralyze the country for at least six months."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In the north, IDF fighter jets struck a Hezbollah military compound Sunday night in the area of al-Khyam in response to missiles fired toward Acre overnight, the IDF reported on Sunday. The attack was initially reported by the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen agency on Sunday morning. In addition, IDF fighter jets struck a Hezbollah observation post in the area of Kafr Kila on Saturday night. IDF artillery also struck a site to remove a threat in the area of Maisat. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-6171622364977880416MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Yemen’s Houthi terrorist group obtained a new hypersonic missile and upgraded its current arsenal with warheads, Russian state media RIA reported on Thursday. Citing an unnamed Houthi official, the terrorist group told RIA that they had tested a hypersonic missile “with high lethality” and are planning to add it to their arsenal. “The group’s missile forces have successfully tested a missile capable of reaching speeds of up to Mach 8,” the official said, adding that the weapon runs on solid fuel; Yemen intends to begin manufacturing it for use during attacks in Krasnoye, Arabian Seas and the Gulf of Aden, as well as against targets in Israel.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 247); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The first Friday of Ramadan saw over 80,000 Muslims come to pray at the Al Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem. Thankfully, the day passed quietly without incident.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The IDF on Friday denied claims by Hamas that troops had opened fire on crowds of civilians waiting for aid at Kuwait Square in Gaza City, saying Israeli soldiers did not shoot at any stage during the incident and Palestinian gunmen caused the casualties. According to the IDF's probe, a convoy of 31 trucks containing food and other humanitarian aid made its way to northern Gaza on Thursday night. An hour before the convoy arrived at an IDF-established corridor, armed Palestinians opened fire while civilians were waiting for the aid trucks. "As aid trucks were entering [the corridor], the Palestinian gunmen continued to shoot as the crowd of Gazans began looting the trucks," the IDF said, adding that it also identified several civilians who had been run over by the trucks. "A review of our operational systems and IDF troops found no tank shelling, airstrike or gunfire was carried out toward the Gazan crowd in the area of the aid convoy."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">What Was the CIA Doing at the January 6 Riot?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">By VICTORIA TAFT |</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">It was like old home week for the alphabet agencies at their reunion at the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In addition to all kinds of feds, assets, narcs, PCs, informants, and other characters from the Department of Defense, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ATF, and the Department of Justice, you can add CIA to the party. What were they doing there? What a fantastic question. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Judicial Watch sued in federal court to uncover January 6 documents relating to "records and communications regarding shots being fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch wondered what the agency, which is not allowed to operate domestically, was doing there. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Why didn't the Pelosi January 6 commission, as corrupt as it was, not disclose the CIA involvement? What were they used for? Were they investigating foreign intelligence operations? Were they investigating American citizens? What else have they done related to January 6?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Judicial Watch received ATF documents showing that the CIA had multiple operators there that day. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Were they answering the Mutual Aid request in D.C. or something else?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">A CIA bomb team was deployed where "pipe bombs" were found outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters where Kamala Harris had meetings on January 6 and at a club near the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill. Multiple dog sniffing teams were put on standby according to the messages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records include a series of text messages under the heading “January 7 Intel Chain” in which two separate references to participation by the CIA are made. One states that “two CIA bomb techs” are assisting with “a pipe bomb scene on New Jersey and D ST SE.” Another references “several CIA dog teams on standby.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Americans know that when it comes to the January 6 Capitol breach, all is not what it seems. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">A skeptical Julie Kelly, who has written widely on the January 6 breach and the legal aftermath wondered what all those operators were really doing there. Were they starting something or stopping something?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The former Defense Intelligence Agency head, retired General Michael Flynn, said the House should immediately move to halt funding for both the CIA and FBI and start subpoenaing the January 6 Commission members to find out what they know about the CIA activities leading up to an on January 6.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">We recognize that crowd control is a specialized kind of policing, but you'd think that with all the federal officers there that day that they'd try to stop the riot. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Many federal agencies knew in advance there would be trouble at the Capitol and had their assets and officers there, so why didn't Nancy Pelosi and the Mayor of D.C. say yes to the increased numbers of National Guard members President Trump offered to send?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Here they are. Too late.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The House is investigating why the January 6 Committee destroyed evidence and presented only information that condemned, not exculpated Donald Trump. Maybe they'll have some answers on why there was a feds family reunion planned for January 6, 2021 and that the only ones not sent an invitation were the National Guard. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">And when they get a chance, I have a couple special request questions for House members to ask the J 6 Committee: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Where was Antifa that day or are you expecting us to believe this was the only riot in years they missed? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Is this the same CIA that started the Russia Collusion frame up against Trump to help Hillary in the 2016 election? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">PJ Media tells you the truth about this every day. But we also know that the commies may censor us for telling you the truth. Fight back. Save America. Become a VIP Member now. By becoming a VIP member, you'll directly support our journalism and commentary and help us fight the censors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Victoria Taft is an award-winning journalist, writer and terrestrial radio talk host, heard in Seattle and on the rest of the Left Coast. Listen to her twice weekly “Adult in the Room Podcast.” Find her at VictoriaTaft.com Gettr, MeWe, Minds, Locals, Twitter & Facebook. Her book mocking Antifa will be out next year. For media inquiries write: Victoria@VictoriaTaft.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /></span></p><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="18e4d92f046c07d0" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1793797347561179088" jsname="r4nke" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1f1f1f; display: inline; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="-1">UPDATE: White House says it’s up to Israelis to determine elections</h2><div class="aqn arL nH oy8Mbf" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md;SRPXqb:EQElHf;" jscontroller="Px22Mb" style="height: 0px; min-width: 256px; overflow: hidden; position: fixed; visibility: visible; width: 0px;"><div class="aBO" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 0px; max-width: 256px; width: 256px;"><div class="VK s ik" gh="chat" style="height: 0px; position: relative; width: 256px;"><div class="ij" id="talk_roster" jsname="cfRvlc" style="inset: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: absolute;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 0.875rem;">Print al</span><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 0.875rem;">In new window</span></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Dear Dick,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Israel is facing attacks from seven fronts at once. Over the weekend, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi reasserted that "We are in a multi-front war" and that the military is on high alert as Hamas and the terror group’s backers in Iran threaten to exploit Ramadan to ignite violence and attacks on Israel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">In Gaza, the IDF continues to operate against Hamas cells throughout the central and northern parts of the Strip. Today the IDF announced that the Nahal Infantry Brigade has killed more than 250 Hamas terrorists in central Gaza over the last two weeks alone, in gun battles and targeted airstrikes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Israeli troops continue to uncover and destroy Hamas infrastructure, including rocket caches, launchers, and weapons depots.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">IDF destroys longest Hamas tunnel in northern Gaza</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Today the IDF released new footage inside Hamas’ longest tunnel built beneath northern Gaza – connecting various Hamas battalions from the northern to the southern parts of the Strip.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Israeli combat engineers destroyed over 1.5 miles of the tunnel network to eliminate the threat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The video below shows the detonation and footage taken inside the passageway before it was destroyed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Hamas spent 16 years and hundreds of millions of dollars siphoning money and resources meant for the people of Gaza to build its underground terror fortress.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">White House: Israelis themselves must determine elections</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">In an interview this morning, White House spokesperson John Kirby underscored President Biden’s position that Israelis must decide for themselves when elections are held and the process of choosing their leadership.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">"The President believes it’s up to the Israeli people and the Israeli government to determine if and when there’s going to be new elections," Kirby said when prompted about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s speech last week.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">America must continue to stand with our ally Israel and ensure it has the time and resources it needs to win this war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Click here to send an email to your senators urging them to support full funding of vital security aid to Israel and oppose adding any new political conditions on aid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">First NGO maritime aid shipment unloaded in Gaza</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">In coordination with the IDF, a shipment of 200 tons of food was delivered to Gaza on Saturday and is being readied for distribution by the NGO World Central Kitchen. The aid was delivered via a new aid route from Cyprus, and underwent an IDF security screening before being offloaded onto 12 trucks and delivered by the charity group operating on the ground.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">A second maritime aid shipment is expected to leave Cyprus for Gaza carrying 240 tons of food.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Continue to follow AIPAC on social media for the latest updates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Alisha Tischler</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">AIPAC Southeast Regional Director</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">+++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Biden, Schumer, Israel and American interests </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">By Steven Rosenberg</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Placating the anti-Semitic left will only further erode America’s standing on the world stage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">To placate the anti-Semitic faction of the Democratic Party’s left-wing, President Joe Biden has been engineering a divide between the United States and Israel as the Jewish state struggles for survival against Hamas. Biden’s recent establishment of a “red line” against potential Israeli military action in Rafah underscores the widening chasm. We saw this coming. Biden’s faux early support for Israel was bound to lead to this point. After all, it was his capitulation to Iran that got us here in the first place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">While Biden courts the Arab and Muslim vote in places like Dearborn, Michigan, he risks isolating the Jewish community and other Americans who are steadfast in their support for Israel’s right to self-defense. The Biden administration must be mindful of the potential fallout from this, particularly in critical swing states like Pennsylvania, which have substantial Jewish populations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Subscribe to The JNS Daily Syndicate by email and never miss our top stories</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">By signing up, you agree to receive emails from JNS and allied pro-Israel organizations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">While nobody can argue that the Muslim population isn’t important, it’s clear that the progressive left wants to tear our country apart. But it is only a small if loud minority. Too many people are afraid to stand up and say what they think about the left because they know they will be shouted down.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">In the wake of Biden’s wavering support for Israel, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has now blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the lack of progress towards a Palestinian state. Schumer appears to be prioritizing personal political gain over the greater interests of the country and his party.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel, coupled with his criticism of Netanyahu’s leadership, disregards the fact that Netanyahu was democratically elected. Any meddling in another nation’s democratic process is unacceptable. Just as the United States vehemently opposes foreign interference in its elections, Israelis do as well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Contrary to Schumer’s assertions, Netanyahu enjoys widespread support in Israel for his unwavering stance against Hamas. Israelis believe that military decisions are Israel’s alone to make. The U.S. and certainly Chuck Schumer do not have the right to tell Israel how to defend itself. Moreover, why is Schumer not telling Hamas to surrender and return the hostages? I imagine this would end the Israeli offensive much quicker than the silly and nonsensical recommendations coming out of Schumer’s mouth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Schumer’s criticism also conveniently overlooks Netanyahu’s peace efforts, including his pivotal role in brokering the historic Abraham Accords and his strides towards normalization with countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It appears that Schumer’s comments are politically motivated and out of touch with the complex realities of the Middle East.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">By focusing on regime change in Israel, Schumer neglects more pressing issues, such as the Iranian threat. I have yet to hear Schumer call for regime change in Iran or any other nefarious country that promotes terror.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Schumer’s betrayal of Israel is emblematic of a broader pattern of American retreat and duplicity under the Biden administration. If this trend persists, it could lead to the erosion of American influence in the Middle East, with countries like the Gulf Arab states and Egypt seeking closer ties with Iran, Russia and China. Moreover, the rest of the world continues to watch as the once proud and strong United States appears increasingly weak on the global stage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">American Jews and supporters of Israel have a pivotal opportunity in the upcoming elections to send a resounding message to Biden and Schumer. It is imperative for us to prioritize the interests of America and its allies over self-serving political ambitions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The opinions and facts presented in this article are those of the author, and neither JNS nor its partners assume any responsibility for them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">+++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-26864966623756090422024-03-16T17:09:00.000-07:002024-03-17T08:56:08.961-07:00Sean Bruner"s Book. Glick and Phillips Dispute Disingenuous Attempts By Biden , Schumer, The CIA To Harm Israel's Survival. More.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpW0uvUlApoleUUDqYv42t1ybgJN4rSYf2q9vqYWh9V6K3wtqxGTqzEDMy-e9iKiNyEX-nYS9XkHPh_fCrjYCjHJTifPLuConC59MHxxHGpNTN1Z7prDci_J3b0h8QglI67JYqybkrh36fDYt_FuyYl52_V-LK76fUQHDczoHzLhWc1F5bCwRio-qFv4/s1079/-907706404_1710631726167_141434.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1079" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpW0uvUlApoleUUDqYv42t1ybgJN4rSYf2q9vqYWh9V6K3wtqxGTqzEDMy-e9iKiNyEX-nYS9XkHPh_fCrjYCjHJTifPLuConC59MHxxHGpNTN1Z7prDci_J3b0h8QglI67JYqybkrh36fDYt_FuyYl52_V-LK76fUQHDczoHzLhWc1F5bCwRio-qFv4/s320/-907706404_1710631726167_141434.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Hct_kcwBJkogLb_DvBXWO0pQIcHQvy-tH4qAmdIdrlQMBYBChhb745w-1jnHDHgU7RzHkvbFJAYzeCkrLQgP4bo8oUJrBuKG35Mzf1xykXLe3SnvkIc2OOvtING-GBwu7r4sHA5dk1sVWL0ShC3DNjx9CofxjwGGnPZFIeyGGRbrKVQDTlVo6vi5KOA/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Hct_kcwBJkogLb_DvBXWO0pQIcHQvy-tH4qAmdIdrlQMBYBChhb745w-1jnHDHgU7RzHkvbFJAYzeCkrLQgP4bo8oUJrBuKG35Mzf1xykXLe3SnvkIc2OOvtING-GBwu7r4sHA5dk1sVWL0ShC3DNjx9CofxjwGGnPZFIeyGGRbrKVQDTlVo6vi5KOA/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++<div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Israel’s strategic game of survival</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Caroline Glick</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s obscene call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster from power on the Senate floor on Thursday was the latest sign that Hamas’s strategy is working. On the “Caroline Glick Show” this week, U.S. Military Academy professor Col. John Spencer, who chairs West Point’s Urban Warfare Studies Program, explained that the terrorist organization’s goal for victory is a concerted political-military strategy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hamas, he said, knew that Israeli Defense Forces would respond with force to its Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel. “They wanted Israel’s counterattack, and then they wanted to hold in the tunnels and use the hostages just to buy time for the international community—namely, the United States—to stop the IDF in their operations.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Their only goal is to survive. … It’s all about time. They want to survive Israel’s attack against them, which gives them immense political power. If they survive in any way, they have strategically won the war,” said Spencer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hamas didn’t invent this strategy. This has been the Palestinians’ strategy for defeating Israel since at least the 1982 war in Lebanon. In that war, the PLO relied on the United States to force Israel to permit the PLO to survive to fight another day, by evacuating to Tunisia.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Palestinians clearly identified Israel’s greatest strategic vulnerabilities and built their strategy around them. Its first vulnerability is its Jewishness. Israel is the Jew of the international community. As such, it is continuously scapegoated, just as Jews have been scapegoated throughout history. The United States is the only powerful nation that has ever been willing to stand up to international bigotry against the Jewish state. So the only thing needed to collapse Israel’s international position is for America to turn against Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>This goes double for military capabilities. Since 1973, Israel’s ability to maintain its war effort militarily has dependent on the U.S. resupply of arms during the course of war. By the Palestinians’ line of reasoning, if their many friends could convince Washington not to supply Israel with weapons in wartime, then they will survive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since all the Palestinians need to do to win is survive, their strategic aces in the hole are antisemitism and time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today, all aspects of U.S. policy regarding the Hamas war against Israel in Gaza and the larger Iranian-directed war to destroy the Jewish state are aligned with the Palestinian strategy.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Biden administration’s insistence that Israel permit unlimited quantities of food, water, fuel, medicine and other goods to enter the Gaza Strip ensures that Hamas will maintain its control over the population.</div><div><br /></div><div>America’s threats to end its military resupply to Israel has forced Israel to slow down its operations in Gaza in the interests of conserving munitions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biden’s demand that Israel not conquer Rafah—Hamas’s last conventional holdout, where a quarter of its forces and its military leadership are holed down—is a demand that Israel allow Hamas to survive with its leadership and that part of its army intact. In other words, it is a demand that Israel not only allow Hamas to survive, but that Israel permit Hamas to end the war with a victory parade.</div><div><br /></div><div>Likewise, the administration’s obsessive focus on building a Palestinian state, which under all circumstances will be dominated by Hamas, with its opposition to continued Israeli military control over Gaza after the war indicates that not only is the administration opposed to an Israeli victory, but it seeks a Palestinian victory.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Spencer explained, in prosecuting the war to date, Israel has managed to do the impossible. It has waged the war successfully on the tactical level despite the massive obstacles the Biden administration has placed against its operations at every turn.</div><div><br /></div><div>Israel’s tactical prowess owes to the fact that the IDF is a citizens’ army. As such, it is able to tap into and utilize the unique skills of all sectors of Israeli society. For instance, in the weeks leading up to the ground invasion, the so-called Hilltop Youth—young men who live in isolated communities in Judea and Samaria—appeared at the mobilization base outside Gaza with their welding tools and metal beams. They fitted APCs and tanks with steel canopies that protected them from RPGs and other armor piercing projectiles. No one called them up to help. They just arrived. And their efforts saved the lives of countless soldiers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Similarly, a high-tech engineer called up to reserve duty developed a drone capable of operating inside the tunnels. Cross-industry collaboration with the IDF led to the immediate production of the drones for deployment in the tunnels—to great effect. One of the IDF’s tactical innovations that most impressed Spencer was its success in turning Hamas’s tactical advantage—its tunnels—into a disadvantage by learning to fight inside them.</div><div><br /></div><div>‘This is a conventional war’</div><div><br /></div><div>Since Israel first bore out the accuracy of the Palestinians’ strategic assessment of its weaknesses by standing down in in the face of U.S. pressure in Beirut in 1982, Jerusalem has opted to avoid the strategic contest altogether and focused on achieving tactical advantage across time. Its tactical successes enabled life to go on in Israel as the Palestinian war against it festered.</div><div><br /></div><div>The situation wasn’t desirable. Over the decades, the Palestinian-led political war against Israel’s right to exist constantly escalated in scale and destructive capacity in the international arena.</div><div><br /></div><div>But on a day-to-day level, Israel prospered. Given the sharp differences of opinion among Israelis over the strategic goals vis-à-vis the Palestinians, by limiting the battle to the tactical arena, Israeli society remained unified sufficiently to fight limited wars in Gaza, as well as limited operations in Judea and Samaria.</div><div><br /></div><div>The clash in Israel revolved around Israelis’ perception of Palestinian goals. Israelis on the left believed Palestinian demands were limited, and therefore, it would be possible to peacefully coexist if Israel appeased them by withdrawing from Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and giving them a state. Israelis on the right believed Palestinian demands were unlimited; therefore, Israel must have the national and strategic means to defeat them as a military and political threat by retaining perpetual control of Judea and Samaria, and granting the Palestinians limited autonomy.</div><div><br /></div><div>The military scope and genocidal nature of Hamas’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7 did two things. First, it settled the argument between left and right. Domestic support for Palestinian statehood dried up. Depending on the poll, between two-thirds and 85% of Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) now oppose Palestinian statehood.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oct. 7 also ended Israel’s ability to suffice with tactical successes and avoid a strategic victory. Hamas’s strike was strategic. The dimensions of their slaughtering and the jubilation with which it was greeted across Palestinian society mean that nothing short of total victory will suffice to ensure Israel’s survival.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, the Biden administration and its Democratic Party refuse to understand the strategic stakes. Spencer explained that the West—and specifically, the United States—will not acknowledge two fundamental facts about the war. First, this is a conventional war, not a counterterror operation. Hamas is not merely a terrorist organization. It is a large, fortified army that began the war with 30,000 soldiers organized in specialized, well-trained units operating under a unified command.</div><div><br /></div><div>To understand the nature of the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, “you really have to go back to World War II-style battles,” said Spencer.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Defense is always the strongest form of warfare … Hamas has had 15-plus years to build defensive positions. … Yes, they don’t have an air force. They don’t have armor and tanks. They’re mostly light infantry. But they’re in probably the most defensive terrain that could ever be created. They’re in literally bomb-proof bunkers underneath every house. … It’s 400 miles of tunnels that range from 15 feet to 300 feet underground where no military munition can reach.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The IDF, Spencer noted, “has lots of drones and things above, but you can’t see through concrete. You can’t see underneath the buildings. It’s an immense defensive capability, but also the rocket supply. The fact that Hamas has launched over 12,000 rockets at Israel’s civilian sites—every one of them a war crime—is part of their combat power. … The fact that they’re sitting in their defensive positions, waiting for attack and have been planning for that for 15 years means it doesn’t really matter how big the IDF is or how powerful they are.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The second fundamental feature of Hamas’s war against Israel that the United States refuses to acknowledge is that Hamas’s Oct. 7 operation was not a terrorist attack. “They did terrorist things, but that was a full division-level invasion of a nation, of Israel,” and “while Hamas is a terrorist organization, it’s also an army.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The terrorists that carried out the slaughter that day didn’t “penetrate” Israel, like a suicide bomber who explodes himself in a crowded cafe. Hamas operatives invaded Israel with thousands of well-trained, heavily armed terror forces organized as light infantry and artillery units. Their goals were to seize whole communities, military bases and villages, and enact a premeditated plan of sadistic slaughter, gang rape, seizure of hostages of all ages, seizure of strategic targets, and, if possible, the holding of territory within Israel. The ground invasion was synchronized with a massive missile and drone strike, in addition to a cyber-attack against first-response systems and other critical infrastructure.</div><div><br /></div><div>Three things Israel must do to win</div><div><br /></div><div>Israel’s mini-war against Hamas in 2014 ended with a tactical victory and strategic stalemate. Ten years ago, Netanyahu was able to withstand the Obama-Biden administration’s demand that Israel capitulate and enable Hamas to win a strategic victory by mobilizing the support of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which opposed Hamas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fearing Hamas’s mastermind Iran—and in light of the U.S.’s determination to enable a Hamas victory to empower Iran—today the moderate Arab states are unwilling to stick their necks out. In the absence of Sunni support, Israel is compelled to stand alone against the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div>To win, Israel must do three things. It must remain politically stable. Schumer’s broadside from the Senate floor was just the latest salvo in an all-out effort by the administration to destabilize Israel politically and replace Netanyahu with his chief rival Benny Gantz, whom they believe will agree to capitulate and accept the formation of a Palestinian state. Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar’s decision on Tuesday to ditch Gantz’s party and take his faction’s four Knesset seats into the coalition speaks to the near consensus view in Israel that Netanyahu is the only leader that will fight to victory despite U.S. opposition. On Wednesday, a new Direct Polls survey showed that U.S. hostility has strengthened Netanyahu and the right. Netanyahu leads Gantz 47 % to 37% in public support. His right-religious bloc of parties, (including Sa’ar) is polling a 62 seat-majority to Gantz’s leftist bloc of parties’ 48 seats.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second thing Israel must do is mobilize U.S. public opinion on behalf of its goal of achieving strategic victory by eradicating Hamas and maintaining its security control over Gaza for the foreseeable future. According to last month’s Harvard-Harris poll. Americans support Israel against Hamas 82% to 18%. Netanyahu opened a campaign this week to secure public support with a slew of interviews to the American media and his speech to AIPAC’s annual convention.</div><div><br /></div><div>Schumer’s hysterical attempts to walk his remarks back amid a furious storm of criticism from all quarters revealed that pro-Israel public opinion remains a factor in American politics.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, Israel must conquer Rafah in defiance of the Biden’s redline and do so as quickly as possible.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the weeks and months pass, and Election Day in America draws nearer, if Israel remains politically stable, if the IDF continues its brilliant fight in Gaza and if U.S. opinion remains supportive, just as Israel has turned Hamas’s tactical advantages into its own, it will turn the Palestinian U.S.-centered strategy on its head. For once, time will work in Israel’s favor, and Israel will win the strategic victory it needs to secure its survival.</div><div><br /></div><div>Originally published at JNS.org.</div><div><br /></div><div>And:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; padding: 0in; width: 412.5pt;" width="550"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><div align="right"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><h1 style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 27pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #363737; font-family: Lora;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id%3D77655%26post_id%3D142643156%26utm_source%3Dpost-email-title%26utm_campaign%3Demail-post-title%26isFreemail%3Dfalse%26r%3D8t22h%26token%3DeyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDc5MjYzMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQyNjQzMTU2LCJpYXQiOjE3MTA2NzExNjIsImV4cCI6MTcxMzI2MzE2MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTc3NjU1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.7eMiHYAwCSFCMLJjXFjtqzHpfwq-EI3OiWkBQ7YUTlI&source=gmail&ust=1710763250603000&usg=AOvVaw0qKHw9ZVc2_ssCw948KGox" href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=77655&post_id=142643156&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=8t22h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDc5MjYzMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQyNjQzMTU2LCJpYXQiOjE3MTA2NzExNjIsImV4cCI6MTcxMzI2MzE2MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTc3NjU1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.7eMiHYAwCSFCMLJjXFjtqzHpfwq-EI3OiWkBQ7YUTlI" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #363737; text-decoration-line: none;">The Palestinian Terrorist Authority</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1><h3 style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: grey; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">A new report reveals the insanity of entrusting Israel's </span></span></h3><h3 style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: grey; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">security to Ramallah<u></u><u></u></span></span></h3><div><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: grey; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-height: 20px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: #363737; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: large;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/06075a1e-78f2-41f1-ba0f-b92c8c7d9a9b?j%3DeyJ1IjoiOHQyMmgifQ.nqnf7nMQMDkhzUXCLCDz5a3oAgGtQz54DO3O4-QNZN0&source=gmail&ust=1710763250604000&usg=AOvVaw0mfek-au_sgI4WGFxSlPIs" href="https://substack.com/redirect/06075a1e-78f2-41f1-ba0f-b92c8c7d9a9b?j=eyJ1IjoiOHQyMmgifQ.nqnf7nMQMDkhzUXCLCDz5a3oAgGtQz54DO3O4-QNZN0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #363737; text-decoration-line: none;">MELANIE PHILLIPS</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /><div>For western liberals, the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the only answer to the Palestinian-Israel conflict.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Biden administration wants post-war Gaza to be ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). This is being resisted by Israel, one of its disagreements with the US over the conduct of the war for which the Biden administration is increasingly punishing it.</div><div><br /></div><div>The US is impervious to the argument that the PA, no less than Hamas, would turn Gaza once again into a terror state. The Bidenites close their eyes to the copious evidence of PA incitement and rejectionism. They dismiss the huge salaries the PA pays to terrorists incarcerated in Israeli prisons and to the families of terrorists who have been killed. </div><div><br /></div><div>They ignore the survey published 100 days after the outbreak of the Gaza war which revealed that around 82 per cent of Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria support the October 7 pogrom, and that support for Hamas among the Arabs in Judea and Samaria rose from 12 per cent in September 2023 to 44 per cent in November-December 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now a startling and important report by the Israeli group Regavim, which works to protect Israel’s land and resources in order to uphold its integrity as a Jewish state, illustrates the insanity of assuming that the PA is a route to peace and security in the region.</div><div><br /></div><div>Under the 1995 Oslo Agreement, a broad Palestinian security apparatus was established consisting of the Palestinian Police and other security officials who are supposed to combat terrorism and collaborate with Israel on security matters. But the Regavim report, “Officers by Day, Terrorists by Night”, has identified at least 78 members of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), many of them officers, who since 2020 have carried out terrorist attacks against Jews.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since Regavim gathered its information from official PA statements and announcements, this figure is likely to be a significant underestimate.</div><div><br /></div><div>In an interview following the October 7 massacre, Palestinian Security Services spokesman Talal Duweikat said:</div><div><br /></div><div>In 30 years, the Palestinian Security Services have sacrificed more than 2,000 martyrs and hundreds have been arrested, some serving life sentences.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jibril Rajoub, the former head of the Preventative Security Service in Judea and Samaria, said that 12 per cent of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails were members of the Palestinian security services. Hasin Hama’il, a spokesman for the leading party in the PA, Fatah, spokesman boasted about the high number of PASF officers in Israeli prisons and stressed that “the PASF do not arrest Munadhilin (Palestinian terrorists); to the contrary, members of the PASF are the very ones involved in the fight against the occupation”.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Regavim report says that many PASF officers hold parallel positions in civil or military “resistance” movements such as the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades (the military arm of Fatah). Rather than upholding public order and preventing terrorism, they themselves carry out acts of terrorism against Israeli civilians and members of Israel’s security forces.</div><div><br /></div><div>It says that more and more PASF members and officers are taking a significant role in encouraging and supporting terrorism. Children and other family members of PASF staff and officers are actively involved in terrorist activities, alongside PASF officers who personally carry out murderous attacks against Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>PASF officers also disrupt Israeli security forces’ operations in Judea and Samaria. After the outbreak of the current war, Fatah commanders serving in the PA security apparatus in Jenin issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), demanding that he declare a total and open confrontation against Israel “by any and all means” or else they would declare a military revolt.</div><div><br /></div><div>The reports lists examples of Fatah “martyrdom” proclamations identifying terrorists from the ranks of the PASF. It lists PASF officers arrested for involvement in terrorism between 2004 and 2020; those arrested prior to 2020; those wounded while carrying out attacks against civilians or IDF soldiers; those PASF personnel who incite terrorism. The details are specific and copious. </div><div><br /></div><div>Since the October 7 pogrom, there have been many suggestions that the catastrophic failure of Israeli intelligence to understand the signals that such an onslaught was in the making was due to “the conception”, group-think based on wishful thinking that persistently misinterpreted and fatally underestimated the intentions and capacity of the Hamas leadership. The report observes that this catastrophic “conception” is still alive and well in Israel’s security and political circles over the PA’s activities in the disputed areas of Judea and Samaria. </div><div><br /></div><div>Around the time that the survey of Palestinian support for Hamas in the disputed territories was published, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Galant stressed “the importance of security coordination with the Palestinian Authority”. He declared:</div><div><br /></div><div>At this time the Palestinian Authority is working to curb terrorism, to rescue Israelis who accidentally stray into territories under the PA’s jurisdiction, and I think that this effort is helping us — otherwise we will have to do it ourselves. If we reach a situation where they act against us — we will know what to do, but we’re not in that situation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The report says, to the contrary: </div><div><br /></div><div>It is not only Regavim’s contention that a reality in which the PASF turns its guns on Israel is not a futuristic scenario but is happening, increasingly, even now; senior officials in the Fatah Movement and the PASF have already made it very clear that the members of all branches of the PA security framework are actively involved in the struggle against “the occupation,” and proudly boast about the large and growing number of “martyrs” and prisoners from among their ranks.</div><div><br /></div><div>The notion that on “the day after the war” the very same Palestinian “security mechanisms,” which are actually terrorist mechanisms, will bear responsibility for Judea and Samaria, as well as for Gaza is chilling; the very thought should be keeping every sane person awake at night. It is this same line of thought that brought the massacre of October 7th upon us. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Palestinian Authority and its “security” mechanisms in particular believe themselves to be the hands entrusted with the dual mission of conquering Israel and eradicating the Jewish People. This is their operative plan and their ultimate objective. Any statement to the contrary, made in service of or by any other interest, is tantamount to burying one's head in the sand and poses a strategic threat to the State of Israel and the Jewish People.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Biden administration and other western governments — as well as the Israeli establishment — have their heads very firmly stuck in this particular sand. That’s because it has suited everyone to pretend that there are “good” Palestinians who believe that fighting terrorism alongside Israel is in everyone’s interests. Just as wishful thinking about Hamas paved the way for the atrocities of October 7, this fantasy “conception” about the PASF has already been responsible for numerous terrorist attacks on Israelis. If the Biden administration has its way, it will pave the way for future pogroms. </div><div><br /></div><div>The report by Regavim should be brought to the attention of the American public and their lawmakers, to alert them all to this further betrayal of Israel’s security that is being proposed in their name.</div><br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><div>The Elite War on the American Middle Class—and How to End It</div><div>Christine Rosen April 2024</div><div><br /></div><div>Being middle class in America used to mean something—something socially transformative, something even revolutionary. The American middle class represented a form of national social order never before seen on this earth—cultural domination not by the very rich and very educated, or the political domination either by tyrants or the mob, but by a mass of people, relatively well-to-do, who felt themselves fortunate in their circumstances. That was what made the American middle class different from the French or English bourgeoisie. Its members believed, and the country believed, that they were the nation’s backbone, its true governing class, and its moral compass.</div><div><br /></div><div>Throughout most of the 20th century, the term “middle class” signaled membership in an optimistic and growing group, most of whom had risen within memory from physically laborious jobs in farming or on factory floors to offices and small businesses they ran themselves. The middle class had enjoyed long periods of prosperity and stability, and each generation of politicians, on the left and the right, had enthusiastically pandered to it because they were the American majority, and it was from the American majority you could build a political consensus and a political coalition.</div><div><br /></div><div>What were the core convictions of the American middle class? It valued its freedom and autonomy, was proudly patriotic, involved itself in its local communities, and was churchgoing without being fanatical about it. Its position at the dead center of American life was reflected in mass culture in ways that were both positively reinforcing and widespread. If you turned on any radio program in the 1930s and 1940s or any network television show before the advent of the cable era, you would likely find some benign portrait of the middle-class American nuclear family staring back at you. Providing that kind of mirroring comfort made cultural and financial sense in a country where approximately 61 percent of adults lived in middle-class households.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the early-21st century, however, the cultural and political power of the middle class had begun to erode—subtly at first, then rapidly. In his memoir of his time working for President Barack Obama, David Axelrod recalled chastising Obama in 2008 for his “clinical and bloodless” discussions of the country’s vast middle and reminded him of its importance to the Democrats’ election prospects. “I talk about the middle class all the time,” Obama peevishly insisted. Axelrod disagreed and advised Obama that he could not merely “sprinkle mentions of the middle class formulaically in speeches,” as he had been doing. He had to wage “a day-in, day-out campaign on the issue.”</div><div><br /></div><div>It was good advice, as numerous signs at the time of Obama’s successful bid for the presidency were pointing to a downturn in middle-class fortunes—and all this before the financial meltdown of September 2008 that led to a decline of 35 percent in the wealth holdings of Americans. A 2006 report from the Brookings Institution found that “middle-income neighborhoods as a proportion of all metropolitan neighborhoods declined from 58 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 2000.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Even in the suburban neighborhoods favored by the middle class, the proportion of middle-class families shrank to 44 percent in 2000, down from 64 percent in 1970. “Suburban middle-income neighborhoods were replaced in roughly equal measure by low-income and very high-income neighborhoods,” the report concluded. By 2012, a Pew survey found “fully 85 percent of self-described middle-class adults say it is more difficult now than it was a decade ago for middle-class people to maintain their standard of living.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Still, as late as 2013, Democratic political consultant James Carville and Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg published a book titled It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! in which they congratulated themselves and the Obama campaign for successfully winning reelection on a message of helping the middle class. Their celebration proved short-lived. By 2016, as Pew Research noted in a post-election report, “the Republican Party made deep inroads into America’s middle-class communities.” Pew noted that “although many middle-class areas voted for Barack Obama in 2008, they overwhelmingly favored Donald Trump in 2016, a shift that was a key to his victory” over Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, “Democrats had more success retaining a loose ‘coalition’ of lower-income and upper-income communities.” The middle class was not only shrinking—according to Pew Research Center, “the share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61 percent in 1971 to 50 percent in 2021”1—it was also becoming restive.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Max Weber said, “A class itself is not a community.” The middle class in the U.S. has always been as much an idea as it is a definable socioeconomic category. It has also served as an ideal, a goal to achieve for the working class, which sees in the rung above them on the social ladder wonderful and achievable things like home ownership, a safe neighborhood, and retirement comfortable enough to soothe an aching back garnered from decades of physical labor.</div><div><br /></div><div>But both the idea and the ideal are under significant threat today, and not only from economic challenges such as inflation, stagnant wages, and higher housing costs. The common understanding of the middle class as the key moderating force in our culture and politics is also disappearing. We know this from the evolution of American mass entertainment. Popular culture has moved away from the values and interests of the middle as well. In Status and Culture, the critic W. David Marx describes how, in the mid-20th century, the middle class “enjoyed its own respectable taste world of Reader’s Digest, bowling clubs, and Lawrence Welk.” Those middle-class tastes and choices were mocked by the elitists of the time; the middle class was said to be living soulless conformist existences in “little boxes made of ticky-tacky,” as the folksinger Malvina Reynolds sang contemptuously in 1962. Efforts to shock the middle class out of its complacency came in the form of supposedly scandalous works like Peyton Place that presumed to show the dark truth behind the manicured lawns of Main Street USA.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then came the 1960s and the elevation of transgressive behavior and mores. By now, there is almost no middle-class culture to mock. Today, Marx writes, “the twenty-first century economy has skewed media and consumption so decisively toward coastal elites as to be perceived among the lower middle class as a demeaning erasure.”</div><div><br /></div><div>This erasure is significant because it speaks to thorny issues of status and dignity in a country with long-standing anxieties about class. The middle class found it could no longer rely upon or take pleasure in its creature comforts quite so readily, or find satisfaction in achieving a certain level of social standing. As Paul Fussell observed in his 1983 book, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, “The special hazards attending the class situation in America, where movement appears so fluid and where the prizes seem available to anyone who’s lucky, are disappointment, and, following close on that, envy….The myth conveys the impression that you can readily earn your way upward, [so] disillusionment and bitterness are particularly strong when you find yourself trapped in a class system you’ve been half persuaded isn’t important.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Fussell notes that poorer Americans “tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have,” but for the middle, markers such as education and the kind of work a person does are profound measures of self-worth as well: “Nearer the top, people perceive that taste, values, ideas, style, and behavior are indispensable criteria of class, regardless of money or occupation or education.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The middle class had as its unstated goals to maintain a decent standard of living for itself and to pass on a stable, good life to their children. Prosperous but self-made, elite-adjacent but not elite themselves, it followed the rules while nurturing a belief in the ability to improve one’s circumstances no matter where you found yourself on the social ladder. Sometimes beset by envy of the wealthy on the one hand, and concern about the burden of supporting the poor on the other, the middle class nevertheless served as a stabilizing force, taming the extremes of wealth and poverty while going about its business as white-collar professionals, small-business owners, and mid-level managers.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, the middle class, despite its anxieties, was supposed to prevent class warfare. Now, it look more likely to ignite a class war.</div><div><br /></div><div>Consider the recent cultural and political shifts experienced by the typical middle-class American, shifts dramatic enough to be experienced as whiplash by many of its members. During the Covid pandemic, for example, the majority in the middle was told to listen to elite experts and follow the dictates of the institutions those elites controlled. Most did. But as those same elites mandated harmful business and school closures (while conveniently ignoring such restrictions on their own behavior by dining at the French Laundry, as Governor Gavin Newsom did, or sending their children to private schools that remained open), middle-class Americans watched their children’s educational and emotional well-being suffer as the public schools they attended remained shuttered.</div><div><br /></div><div>The arbiters of culture increasingly ignore the middle to focus instead on minority groups of every stripe (the smaller and more bizarre the better), or on the tribulations of the luxury consumer. When given attention at all, the middle is treated as a bunch of exotic weirdos, despite still being the majority. Cultural products consumed by the middle—their favorite comedians, music, and television shows—often get only grudging or glancing attention from elite media. Increasingly, television shows depict the very wealthy (Succession, The White Lotus) or the poor or working-class (Dopesick, Maid) more than they do the lives of people in the middle. Richard Rushfield, who runs a Hollywood dope sheet called The Ankler, noted the following recently about a television show you may never have heard of:</div><div><br /></div><div>Young Sheldon ambles amiably towards its denouement, absolutely unloved by anyone except for TV viewers. You could drive a semi-truck through every media office in New York without hitting an article about Sheldon’s final season. [But it] has sat in the Top 10 of most-watched shows throughout its seven-year run…and had ratings that approach latter-day Oscar numbers. Not only that, but it is the sequel to The Big Bang Theory, which previously dominated the ratings boards from 2007 to 2019. And it was just announced that after Sheldon concludes, it will be followed by another spinoff, centered on brother Georgie, making it likely that by the time that show wraps, the Big Bang universe will have quietly drawn audiences in the many millions for approaching 30 years.</div><div><br /></div><div>Which is a decent run at a time when people and networks supposedly don’t want middle-of-the-road comedies anymore and you’d be hard-pressed to find a single one of its like across the entire Streaming Wars spectrum. It’s kind of a problem for us to entertain the world if we not only don’t watch what they watch, but we won’t even acknowledge their entertainment exists.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rather than be catered to by the elites who seek to make their living off their tastes and wants, the middle class is more likely to hear the elite talk about it as a problem: Middle-class Americans are racist, they complain too much about how expensive everything has become, and they won’t get on board either with the left’s social-engineering schemes or the populist right’s rage-driven apocalypticism.</div><div><br /></div><div>They are told that “no human is illegal” and that their concerns about an open border are evidence of their own bigotry. They see the poor and other designated “oppressed” receive sympathetic elite attention and government subsidies and programs, and services aimed at helping them. The elite champion the rights of criminals, illegal immigrants, and destructive Black Lives Matter activists who want to dismantle the police. They tell the rest of the country that they must call the homeless the “unhoused” and ignore any quality-of-life effects from that population’s drug use or instability. When the middle class complains, the elite often chide it for having fallen prey to “misinformation” or excessive “right-wing” media consumption.</div><div><br /></div><div>The middle class is also frequently reminded that shoplifting is a victimless crime even as they see prices rise and goods placed behind locked cabinets—or, in many cases, entire stores shuttered after being scavenged for too long by thieves who go unpunished. In January, after coordinated groups of pro-Palestinian protesters shut down traffic to tunnels and bridges in Manhattan, disrupting the lives of millions of New Yorkers, the New York Post noted how many of the protesters were students at elite colleges such as Yale and Brown, whose activities were being lavishly funded by “the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation” as well as “a Rockefeller family foundation.”</div><div><br /></div><div>On the rare occasions when such protesters are arrested, they are immediately released and often valorized for their law-breaking, as Black Lives Matter protesters were in the summer of 2020 by soon-to-be–Vice President Kamala Harris. She urged the public to donate to the pro-decarceration Minnesota Bail Fund to “help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” many of whom had committed arson, property crimes, and assault; the same fund later secured the release of a man who then murdered someone. As Matthew Crawford observed of these young radicals, many the children of privilege, who have become full-time protesters: “At bottom, we see a refusal of the ruling class to take responsibility for its rule, preferring to [role-play] at the barricades.”</div><div><br /></div><div>By contrast, it is the middle class that sends its children off to the military to fight wars. The middle class is overrepresented in the ranks of the enlisted compared with upper- and lower-income groups. According to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations, “Most members of the military come from middle-class neighborhoods. The middle three quintiles for household income were overrepresented among enlisted recruits, and the top and bottom quintiles were underrepresented.” They are effectively serving a country that lately has shown little tolerance for their way of life or their values.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, they watch politicians like President Biden transfer the student loan debt of higher-earning Americans to those in the working- and lower-middle class. A 2020 report from the Brookings Institution, using data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finance “confirm[s] that upper-income households account for a disproportionate share of student-loan debt—and an even larger share of monthly out-of-pocket student debt payments.”</div><div><br /></div><div>No wonder they feel like suckers, betrayed and frustrated because things no longer seem to work the way they should. They are being played for suckers.</div><div><br /></div><div>A savvy politician would appeal to this middle—would make them feel that they matter and are valued. Unfortunately, the incentive structure of our politics has changed so that elected officials now cater to the extremes within their coalition, rather than talking to the moderate middle. Our elites act like Marxists (focusing entirely on either the upper or the lower classes) when they should behave like Weberians—thinking about the stabilizing force of the middle. A recent article in The New Yorker by Evan Osnos is indicative of the trend, examining the many ways the word “elite” has become a pejorative deployed by populist wannabes such as Tucker Carlson to tar their perceived enemies (who are as wealthy and well educated as they are). Amid intra-elite squabbles, the concerns of the middle class receive no attention.</div><div><br /></div><div>Instead, elite cultural mavens have decided to target the middle for reeducation, so that they might be cured of their backward, racist, homophobic, and transphobic views. Imagine being a mid-level manager at a large corporation. You are middle class but work among the elite-educated top of the economic scale and, as Thorstein Veblen taught, feel their disdain more acutely because of that proximity.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are subjected to the indignities of diversity, equity, and inclusion training and bureaucratic oversight, and told to be grateful for the opportunity. Typical was the email sent out by the chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins University. She discussed the “Diversity Word of the Month”—“privilege”—which she defined as “advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.” Among the list of “privileged” groups she included, were the “middle or owning classes” (as well as the usual suspects: white people, Christians, heterosexuals, the able-bodied). More than 27,000 people have their day jobs at Johns Hopkins. Almost all are middle class. Every one of them got this memo.</div><div><br /></div><div>As is true of our political class, the incentive structure of the elite has changed. Elites increase their status by virtue-signaling and valorizing the concerns of the supposedly oppressed, and as a result they no longer make a pretense of respecting the values of the vast middle. It is a peculiar new form of class warfare: The elite, claiming to represent the concerns of the poor and oppressed, array themselves against the middle, whom they insist must embrace elite values while they continue to refuse them elite privileges.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally:</div><div><br /></div><div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Chief of Staff on Ramadan: 'We are in a multi-front war'<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chief Staff LTG Herzi Halevi visited the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria and evaluated the forces' preparedness for Ramadan</span></span></h2><br /><div>He was accompanied by the Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Brigadier General Yaki Dolf, Commander of the Binyamin Brigade, Colonel Liron Biton, and additional commanders, who held a situational assessment and evaluated the forces' preparedness for Ramadan.</div><div><br /></div><div>In addition, LTG Halevi met with IDF and Israel Border Police forces deployed in the sector on high alert for various scenarios.</div><div><br /></div><div>"This is the first Friday, and it is not only on Fridays but the entire Ramadan. There have already been several attempted attacks in various places this week, and your challenge is to manage to guard this entire month, and afterward, because it doesn't end with Ramadan, but we are more deployed this month. You need to be very vigilant and meticulous, with very good security," Halevi stated.</div><div><br /></div><div>He added: "We are in a multi-front war - Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, and also farther away. Everyone, every soldier, IDF, Israel Border Police, working together, has responsibility over all sectors, because every event that happens on one of the fronts truly affects and can create a reaction in other regions."</div></div><div>+++</div><div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">The Elite War on the American Middle Class—and How to End It<u></u><u></u></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 17.4pt; max-width: 100%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0px;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: large;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.commentary.org/author/christine-rosen/&source=gmail&ust=1710775088964000&usg=AOvVaw3ePnZgVCqFfurghEVhQqTI" href="https://www.commentary.org/author/christine-rosen/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Posts by Christine Rosen"><span style="color: #416ed2;">Christine Rosen</span></a> </span></span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div>This dynamic plays out most clearly in the realm of education—and nowhere is the resentment of the middle class more justifiable. At the K–12 level, middle-class parents have watched as Democrat-controlled school systems, in the name of “equity,” have eliminated measures of academic merit such as standardized tests and Honors classes that these parents view as crucial to their children’s success. Now, talent and hard work matter less than the pursuit of elite ideological projects, with predictable results for children’s education.</div><div><br /></div><div>As well, the long-standing path into the upper classes via entry into elite higher-educational institutions has now been effectively blocked for the middle class and their children. They still try to get their children into the best colleges possible, of course—colleges they often can’t afford. But what they fail to realize, and what elite institutions refuse to acknowledge, is that despite having the same grades and qualifications as middle-class children, the children of the wealthy are now twice as likely to be accepted at Ivy-Plus colleges as middle-class kids.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 2017, the New York Times noted, with surprise, “Students at elite colleges are even richer than experts realized, according to a new study based on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records.” The study confirmed that “at 38 colleges in America, including five in the Ivy League—Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown—more students came from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent.” Put another way, less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the bottom fifth of American families attends an elite college.</div><div><br /></div><div>A more recent study from 2023 from Opportunity Insights also found significant overrepresentation of the wealthiest on elite campuses—and an admissions system that casts itself as an engine of equal opportunity while heavily favoring the richest students. The study notes, “Children from families in the top 1 percent are twice as likely to attend an Ivy-Plus college (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago) as those from middle-class families with comparable SAT/ACT scores.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The advantage was great enough that the researchers concluded, despite their claims to the contrary, “highly selective private colleges currently amplify the persistence of privilege across generations but could diversify the socioeconomic backgrounds of America’s leaders by changing their admissions practices.”</div><div><br /></div><div>And please, please, please dismiss the arguments of the wealthy elite who benefit from this system and who argue that allowing larger numbers of wealthier children on campuses helps everyone by increasing the resources available to all. While those increased resources from wealthier families might allow for a small additional number of poor students to attend an elite institution than was the case in the past, it is the middle class that is paying the price—by being kept out almost altogether.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a 2018 American Enterprise Institute report by Jason D. Delisle and Preston Cooper found, “Students from high-income families were a growing share of enrollment at these institutions in the mid-2000s. Meanwhile, the share of students at selective colleges who are from middle-income families has steadily declined over time, particularly students from the third income quartile.” Their conclusion? “The enrollment gains of high-income students in the mid-2000s came at the expense of middle-income students. . . . It is middle-income students, not low-income students, who are becoming less represented on these campuses” (emphasis added). In other words, the middle is disappearing from the very institutions whose gates are designed to allow admission into the American elites, even as low-income student numbers remain steady, and the number of wealthy students increases significantly.</div><div><br /></div><div>This system affects everyone because elite institutions disproportionately funnel students into the most powerful political and cultural institutions, even as the worldview of graduates from these schools increasingly does not reflect the views of most Americans.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Opportunity Insights found, “Attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average highly selective public flagship institution increases students’ chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 60 percent, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm.” A 2018 study in the Journal of Expertise explored the pipeline into prestige journalism and found a similar impact: “Only a handful of select schools feed the mastheads of the NYT [New York Times] and the WSJ [Wall Street Journal].” Among staff writers at the Times, for example, 52 percent attended elite schools.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Rob Henderson notes in his recent memoir, Troubled, “At Yale, more students come from families in the top 1 percent of income than from the bottom 60 percent,” and this class chasm creates peculiar challenges. The moral universe of the elite is different from the rest of the country, and they view these beliefs as important markers of their status. “Today, luxury goods are more accessible than before,” Henderson writes. “This is a problem for the affluent, who still want to broadcast their high social position. But they have come up with a clever solution. The affluent have decoupled social status from goods and reattached it to beliefs.”</div><div><br /></div><div>What kind of beliefs? One study cited by Henderson reveals, “Upper-class individuals cared more about status and valued it more highly than working-class individuals. . . . Furthermore, compared with lower-status individuals, high-status individuals were more likely to engage in behavior aimed at protecting or enhancing their status.” Henderson coined the phrase “luxury beliefs” to describe some of the things his classmates believed are harmless (defunding the police, decriminalizing drugs, abandoning monogamous marriage) because their privilege protected them from the impact of such choices—even as the poor and middle class suffered from those same policies. Worse, he found many students who suffered from a rather skewed moral compass: “My classmate and I discussed various moral dilemmas,” Henderson writes of a conversation he had at Yale. “And he said he would push a man off a bridge to stop a train from hitting five people. I asked if he would murder his mother to save five strangers. He promptly responded that he would. I doubted anyone I knew outside of college would have said yes to that question.”</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, the elite who control our institutions still expect the middle class to yield to their supposed wisdom. This has unexpected political implications.</div><div><br /></div><div>Economically, the view from the middle reveals a landscape where at least the poor can stitch together all kinds of benefits via government programs, and are considered victims of systemic injustices, thus gaining attention and status in a society that valorizes victimhood. The wealthy have the resources to weather most if not all economic challenges. That leaves the middle class paying full price for most things, and still trying to play by the rules, while feeling as if they are barely getting by—all while being scolded by an elite that tells them they should stop complaining about the price of groceries and gasoline. No wonder a recent ABCNews/Ipsos poll found a steep decline in the number of Americans who still have faith in the American dream of “if you work hard, you’ll get ahead.” Sixty-nine percent said that is no longer true.</div><div><br /></div><div>These differences in circumstances, education, and worldview have policy implications as well. Polling from RMG Research by Scott Rasmussen recently explored the views of America’s cultural elite (defined as those with a postgraduate degree who earn more than $150,000 a year and live in “high-density” areas). These Americans are “wealthier, more highly educated, and attended the best schools,” and they trust the government “to do the right thing.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Their views of American principles, however, are starkly different from those of their middle-class fellow citizens: “Nearly six in ten say there is too much individual freedom in America,” for example, double the rate of all Americans. Sixty-seven percent of this group also favors “rationing of vital energy and food sources to combat the threat of climate change,” and “somewhere between half and two-thirds favor banning things like SUVs, gas stoves, air conditioning, and non-essential air travel to protect the environment.” These are the people running our elite political and cultural institutions, and yet they have little understanding of how regular people live their lives, or what they believe, or the things they value.</div><div><br /></div><div>What, then, is to be done for the middle class?</div><div><br /></div><div>There are practical steps that can be taken in higher education that would offer immediate relief to the middle class and restore more socioeconomic diversity to elite college campuses. First (and this is already happening), schools from elementary to high school and universities everywhere must restore standardized testing as a vetting mechanism for admission. When higher-education institutions went test-optional and when secondary schools eliminated blind testing, they effectively decoupled merit from admissions for the middle class. Conveniently, they left in place admissions preferences for protected classes of students (such as minorities) and the wealthy (who could still boast more extracurricular activities, private-school résumés, or who could, as a last resort, simply buy their child’s way in via donations). Tests such as the ACT and SAT give middle-class applicants a path into competitive elite educational institutions by demonstrating their ability to succeed. And testing for admission to the best public high schools eliminates the ability of administrators to self-select the student bodies they think are more racially and culturally suitable.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second, with affirmative action now effectively ended by the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s time to end legacy admission preferences as well in higher education. There isn’t even an argument to be made that these preferences do anything other than benefit the wealthy. As schools such as MIT, which does not grant legacy preference, demonstrate, ending legacy preferences leads to a more socioeconomically diverse campus.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third, it is time to stop giving so many admissions spots to foreign students, many of whom, as we have seen in the wake of the events of October 7, bring to American campuses a toxic brew of radical politics, disdain for American values such as free speech, and anti-Semitism. A survey by Tablet found that up to 25 percent of the students on elite campuses are not American citizens and come here solely to study (paying full freight, and often on the dime of their authoritarian governments). This is a violation of the civic duty of American universities to educate Americans to the highest degree possible. Congress could play a role here by passing legislation that would limit the number of foreign students admitted to colleges and universities that accept federal funding.</div><div><br /></div><div>Culturally and socially, the challenge is more complicated. But it is not unresolvable: If you want to stop making the middle class feel as if their own country has turned against them, then the arbiters of culture need to stop turning against the middle class. For several years now, corporations and cultural institutions have pandered to elite values—values that, as we have seen, are not shared by most Americans and that have cost many companies the business of the majority. Don’t make the mistake Target did, pushing “tuck-friendly” trans swimsuits and LGBTQ-themed baby clothes to consumers who simply want well-priced goods. Given the state of the culture, the authentically transgressive move (to say nothing of the financially sound move) would be to sell to the vast middle, whose members are largely uninterested in waging a culture war via their infant’s onesies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Politically, to restore the respect owed the middle class, politicians might find unexpected success by listening not to their cheap sloganeering consultants but rather by following the evidence of their own eyes and pitching their message not to their most extreme (and often online) partisans but to the people who want this country governed with some common sense. From 2015 onward, Donald Trump has had a distorting effect on the national political conversation in myriad ways, but one that is often overlooked is how the “Resistance” that rose to challenge his polarizing behavior then provided cover for the advancement of a more radical progressivism on the left. The left’s embrace of extreme and unpopular views about gender, the border, race, and fossil fuels had unexpected force in part because they were attached to a more traditional Democratic opposition to Trump. But this has also moved their party much further away from the views of the average American voter. If you doubt this, listen to then–Senator Barack Obama talk about America’s need for a secure border; by the standards of today’s progressive left, he would be judged a right-wing nut.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our politicians need to sell their ideas for improving the country to the majority, to move away from the volatile, dysfunctional way of doing politics that starts from the fringes and moves inward. We do not need leaders who start from the elite premise that this country has too much freedom or from the populist premise that America has descended into an evil that only top-down populist solutions can save us from. Rather, they should be asking how they can ensure that people live good lives and flourish with as little elite interference as possible—including interference by their own government.</div><div><br /></div><div>These are not partisan proposals. Rather, I am talking about modest steps toward a politics and culture that might once again enjoy greater stability, prosperity, and commonsense wisdom. Embracing middle-class politics is neither exciting nor revolutionary, but at a time of simmering resentments and instability, it may be just the prescription to save the country from its sometimes seemingly incurable ailments.</div></div><div>+++++++++++++++++</div><div> <span style="font-size: large;">The worm squirms:</span><br />+++</div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Schumer provides cover for Biden’s smears of Israel</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The self-proclaimed “shomer” of the Senate is at odds with Israel’s people, not Netanyahu, in order to convince Israel-hating Democrats not to defect.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS)</span></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In a city packed with cynical opportunists, few people in Washington can match the cynicism and opportunism that are on display when Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks. He’s been in public office continuously since the age of 25, and the 73-year-old Senate Majority Leader has spent his adult life grandstanding for the cameras and the press while always seeking some momentary political advantage as he schemed, back-stabbed and bloviated his way to the top of his profession.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet in a career replete with disingenuous rhetoric and Machiavellian maneuvering, nothing Schumer had done before was ever quite as loathsome as his most recent speech on the floor of the Senate. In it, he demanded a change in the government of the State of Israel and for the Jewish state to change its policies on the war against Hamas. He also pushed for post-war policies that the people of Israel adamantly oppose.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s not just because the substance of his remarks was deeply misleading in terms of his claims about what the obstacles to peace in the Middle East are, as well as highly inappropriate, especially when you consider how much we Americans resent foreigners interfering in our own political life.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Appeasing the Israel-haters</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This was a disgraceful performance because, despite Schumer’s much-ballyhooed stance as Israel’s guardian in Congress, the point of the effort was not to bolster its alliance with the United States or to lend support at a time of unique peril to the Jewish state and a surge in antisemitism in America. To the contrary, his agenda was to lend assistance to the Biden administration’s tilt away from Israel to curry favor with the Democratic Party’s left-wing Israel-haters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s the only reason why a senator supposedly devoted to protecting the Jewish state against its foes would choose this particular moment to launch a full-scale attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and essentially call for regime change in Jerusalem. Contradicting both the facts and his rhetoric about loving the Jewish state, he placed equal blame for the lack of peace on Israel’s elected leaders, and drew a moral equivalence between them and the tyrannical Palestinian Authority, in addition to the genocidal Islamists of Hamas.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Exhibiting the sort of insufferable condescension towards the opinions of the Israeli people that is generally the preserve of those who have little sympathy for them, he also backed up Biden’s immoral demand that the Jewish state agree to a Palestinian state as part of a postwar plan—something that would grant a reward to Hamas for having committed the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet even worse than all that was Schumer’s decision to echo the libelous attacks on Israel being aired by the Biden administration. For Israel’s supposed best friend in Congress to join with the mob of antisemites who have been howling about “genocide” and to validate their unfair smears, coupled with Hamas propaganda about the campaign being waged against it in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces, was truly beyond the pale.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What could have possibly motivated Schumer to have done this? Unlike the band of Obama administration alumni who run foreign policy for Biden, the senator was not known to hold a grudge against Netanyahu for his opposition to the disastrous 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Nor is he someone who routinely engages in scapegoating Israel, as do some members of the Senate Democratic caucus.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s more, he is someone who has condemned the post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism. Further, he has acknowledged the reality of the left-wing mobs that have targeted Jews on college campuses and in the streets of American cities while calling for the destruction of Israel and terrorism against Jews wherever they live.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The ‘shomer’ of his own ambition</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The only plausible explanation for the speech can be found in the plight of his party’s leader. A week after his hyper-partisan State of the Union speech that Democrats hoped would revive his re-election campaign, President Joe Biden has seen no bump in the opinion polls. His favorability ratings are disastrous for an incumbent hoping for another term. And he’s trailing former President Donald Trump in head-to-head matchups and in surveys where third-party candidates are also considered and in the battleground states that will decide the election.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of the problem is the distinct lack of enthusiasm for the president being shown by the party’s left-wing activist base because of their distaste for any support being given to Israel by Biden. A full-scale civil war has been raging inside the Democratic Party over the Israel-Hamas war. That has led administration officials, congressional staffers and even those working on Biden’s re-election campaign to sign petitions demanding that Israel be abandoned.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In response, Biden has sought to appease left-wing Democrats like the pro-Hamas mayor of Dearborn, Mich. But merely talking out of both sides of his mouth about the war while still providing Israel with the arms to fight Hamas has not proven persuasive. Hence, the switch in the last week to an effort to blame Netanyahu for the continuation of the war was part of a vain effort to justify a pivot away from his post-Oct. 7 stance of support for Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">And that’s where Schumer comes in. As anyone who has covered New York politics in the more than 40 years during which the Brooklyn native has served in both the House and the Senate, Schumer never tires of telling Jewish audiences that a Hebrew translation of his name means shomer or “guardian.” That makes him, he likes to say, a guardian of Israel—a line that is followed with a solemn pledge that he will ensure that no harm comes to the Jewish state on his watch.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Leaving aside the dubious nature of his linguistic claim and whether even an ardent pro-Israel senator should be speaking in a way that validates dual-loyalty smears, this particular piece of schtick has become his calling card for Jewish voters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That stance was already called into question by his devious behavior during the debate about Obama’s Iran deal. He declared his opposition to a measure that empowered and enriched Israel’s most lethal enemy but then undermined it by declaring that he would take no actions to try to persuade any other senator to join him, thus ensuring that his stance would be seen as meaningless. That helped guarantee the passage of Obama’s policy while also doing no harm to his plan to become Senate Democratic leader in the next Congress. That stance made it obvious that the only thing that he has ever been the shomer of is his own unquenchable ambition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The ‘shomer’ of his own ambition</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The only plausible explanation for the speech can be found in the plight of his party’s leader. A week after his hyper-partisan State of the Union speech that Democrats hoped would revive his re-election campaign, President Joe Biden has seen no bump in the opinion polls. His favorability ratings are disastrous for an incumbent hoping for another term. And he’s trailing former President Donald Trump in head-to-head matchups in surveys where third-party candidates are also considered and in the battleground states that will decide the election.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of the problem is the distinct lack of enthusiasm for the president being shown by the party’s left-wing activist base because of their distaste for any support being given to Israel by Biden. A full-scale civil war has been raging inside the Democratic Party over the Hamas-Iran war. That has led administration officials, congressional staffers and even those working on Biden’s re-election campaign to sign petitions demanding that Israel be abandoned.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In response, Biden has sought to appease left-wing Democrats like the pro-Hamas mayor of Dearborn, Mich. But merely talking out of both sides of his mouth about the war while still providing Israel with the arms to fight Hamas has not proven persuasive. Hence, the switch in the last week to an effort to blame Netanyahu for the continuation of the war was part of a vain effort to justify a pivot away from his post-Oct. 7 stance of support for Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">And that’s where Schumer comes in. As anyone who has covered New York politics in the more than 40 years during which the Brooklyn native has served in both the House and the Senate, Schumer never tires of telling Jewish audiences that a Hebrew translation of his name means shomer or “guardian.” That makes him, he likes to say, a guardian of Israel—a line that is followed with a solemn pledge that he will ensure that no harm comes to the Jewish state on his watch.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Leaving aside the dubious nature of his linguistic claim and whether even an ardent pro-Israel senator should be speaking in a way that validates dual-loyalty smears, this particular piece of schtick has become his calling card for Jewish voters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That stance was already called into question by his devious behavior during the debate about Obama’s Iran deal. He declared his opposition to a measure that empowered and enriched Israel’s most lethal enemy but then undermined it by declaring that he would take no actions to try to persuade any other senator to join him, thus ensuring that his stance would be seen as meaningless. That helped guarantee the passage of Obama’s policy while also doing no harm to his plan to become Senate Democratic leader in the next Congress. That stance made it obvious that the only thing that he has ever been the shomer of is his own unquenchable ambition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Appeasing the leftist base</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That is the proper context for understanding his speech, which doubles down on Biden’s effort to blame the prime minister for his decision to back away from Israel. At the heart of this dilemma is the way a false narrative about the IDF committing “genocide”—based on the lies of Hamas, a terror organization—has not merely been spread by a corporate media that is deeply biased against Israel but is being validated by statements by Biden and now Schumer.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">While the senator paid lip service to the basic truth that Palestinians have rejected peace and started this war with attacks so barbaric that many refuse to believe them, that apparently proved the set-up for a series of smears against both Netanyahu and Israel.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">For Schumer to claim, as he did in his speech, that preventing Palestinian casualties should be a higher priority for Israel than defeating Hamas is—despite talk about supporting its right to self-defense—to articulate a policy that would prevent it from exercising that right. To say that it is causing a “humanitarian catastrophe” and that it is “falling short” of upholding “Jewish values” honored by Diaspora Jews like himself is both deeply offensive and a brazen falsehood. Schumer knows that the Israel Defense Forces do far more than any army, including that of the United States, to prevent civilian casualties. And he also knows that Hamas, not Israel, is responsible for everyone harmed in this war.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The speech’s “analysis” of the problems of the Middle East also puts him squarely in the same camp as the very same Israel-bashers that he has previously denounced for legitimizing antisemitic attacks on Jews.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The notion that Oct. 7 was part of a “cycle of violence” that Netanyahu will not act to end is just as wrong. It is a deliberate misreading of what has caused the Palestinians to reject numerous offers of peace and statehood, and to launch terrorist wars like the one that began five months ago with Hamas’s spree of murder, rape, torture and kidnapping in 22 southern Israeli communities.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">His advocacy for a two-state solution that would guarantee that Hamas—which, contrary to the mendacious claims of both Biden and Schumer, has the support of most Palestinians—survives doesn’t so much put him at odds with the prime minister as it does with the overwhelming majority of Israelis from one end of the political spectrum to the other. They know firsthand what happens when Palestinian terrorists are granted power; retrying that experiment in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem would be not so much ill-advised as suicidal.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">For Schumer to essentially echo the claim that there is some sort of moral equivalence between Netanyahu and his democratically-elected government, and the undemocratic Palestinian leadership that seeks the destruction of the Jewish state and its people, is as malicious as it is wrong.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But the problem here is not just that Schumer is playing Jewish wingman to Biden.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Shifting the blame for the war and the problems with the United States solely on Netanyahu is a way for the pair to signal their party’s activist base that they are on their side. Democratic activists hate Israel because of their indoctrination in critical race theory and intersectionality, which holds that Israel and the Jews are guilty of being “white oppressors.” These “progressives” will never be satisfied with Biden’s “even-handed” stance, though Democrats hope that it will be enough to convince them to turn out to support Biden over Trump in November. Schumer toeing this line gives Biden cover with pro-Israel voters who would normally decry any American leader buying into this kind of false moral equivalence.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Advocating regime change</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet what made Schumer’s speech truly newsworthy—and appalling—was his open call for a change of government in Israel. While he claimed that he only wanted to give Israel’s people a “choice,” they gave the current coalition a clear majority only 16 months ago. It’s been a stormy term for Netanyahu, and the fact that the Oct. 7 disaster happened on his watch may ultimately end his political career.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But even though Americans like Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have been trying to interfere in Israeli politics for decades, never has a U.S. official been so brazen in demanding that Israel’s democratic system bow to Washington’s wishes that it produce a government more amenable to the diktats of the White House on the Palestinians and Iran.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That isn’t merely hypocritical, given the nonstop bleating of Democrats over the past eight years about Russian efforts to intervene in U.S. elections. Schumer thinks that Netanyahu should condemn Israeli politicians who are part of his coalition, like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, because of their extremism. But has Schumer done the same to the antisemitic extremists in his own party of the left-wing “Squad” or sought to expel its members from Congress?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The damage Schumer is doing to the U.S.-Israel relationship is evident from the condemnations that his speech has received across the board from Israelis, including chief Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz. The irony is, as Gantz knows well, that by seeking to oust Netanyahu by unfairly attacking the IDF’s war effort and saving Hamas, as well as by demanding a two-state solution that Israelis from right to left oppose, Biden and Schumer are helping rather than hurting the prime minister. They are making new elections—something that is not going to happen in the middle of a war—even less likely than before.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Treating Israel as a client state that must sacrifice its security for the sake of discredited policies like a two-state solution that has been tried and failed is bad enough when it comes from those who don’t pose as advocates of the Jewish state as Schumer does. Yet his stance is rooted entirely in partisan political interests rather than principle. This is one of the most perilous times in Jewish history, when Jews are being attacked for backing Israel, and others are fighting and dying to ensure that the Jewish state will live. For Schumer to speak in this disgraceful manner and to undermine Israel in wartime for the sake of helping Biden hold onto office is a decision that should permanently associate his name with that of betrayal and dishonor.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++++</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ordman reveals Israel is open for business despite the impact of the Hamas War.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></span></div><div><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="18e4b9298db7ab1d" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1793762139722722077" jsname="r4nke" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1f1f1f; display: inline; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1">JDI - Israel's Positive Newsletter to 17th Mar 24</h2><span class="J-J5-Ji" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" jsname="SjW3R" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 22px; min-height: 28px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;"><div aria-checked="true" aria-label="Important according to Google magic." class="pG" data-is-important="true" data-tooltip-align="b,l" data-tooltip-contained="true" data-tooltip-delay="1500" jsaction="mouseenter:Oh6g9b; mouseleave:Oh6g9b;click:KjsqPd; keydown:mAamLc;" jscontroller="sggJRd" jsname="FaKNoe" role="switch" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 20px;" tabindex="0"></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">The abbreviation</span><strong style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> JDI</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span><strong style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Just Do It! </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">are trademarks of the products of a well-known company, but they have entered the English language to mean "Get on with it" and "Don't delay". Israelis and their supporters have perfected the art of Just Doing It. They respond to item requests from IDF soldiers by Just 3D-printing it; to a request for volunteers by Just creating a volunteer’s online resource center. The biggest complaint in the IDF is to Just let us get on with it. And even while Hamas is still firing rockets at Sderot, one of the city’s main supermarkets has Just re-opened</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Other examples:-</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><br />Use experimental phage therapy to treat dying patients? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Make Aliyah to alleviate the shortage of doctors? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Find a cure for Parkinson’s where no-one thought of looking? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Bring together Jews & Arabs to play chess? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Use bacteria to keep food fresh? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Create head protection for IDF dogs? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Reposition and relaunch a product after previous business failure? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Make some of the best pizzas in the Middle East? – <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Dance with a new Torah scroll in Gaza? - <strong>JDI</strong>.<br />Become a father at 88? - <strong>JDI</strong>.<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> </span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Printing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">A student engineer has 3D-printed thousands of items for the IDF.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Parkinsons" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israeli researchers have found a new approach to curing Parkinson’s.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Chess" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israeli Jews and Arabs are good mates at chess tournament.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Bacteria" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">An Israeli company uses bacteria to keep food fresh.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Batteries" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israel’s fast-charging EV battery still works well in the freezing cold.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Guatemala" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israel’s Free Trade Agreement with Guatemala goes into operation.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Cycling" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israeli cyclists are in winning form.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8054641010481035741_Baby" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">An 88-year-old Israeli Rabbi just celebrated the birth of his first son.</span></a></strong></span></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"></span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #606060; 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color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> <br /><strong><u>POSITIVE NEWS DURING A WAR</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Christian Embassy donates 4 ambulances.</strong> The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem has donated four new ambulances to help replace the dozens of Israeli ambulances destroyed on and since Oct 7. One is an advanced military ambulance for Gaza border communities. One will serve Holocaust survivors in the North.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dddbdcdc919%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3tKEgWtM2fEk4FYj9Fc7p2" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ddbdcdc919&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/wire/<wbr></wbr>international-christian-<wbr></wbr>embassy-jerusalem-donates-<wbr></wbr>four-new-ambulances-to-israel/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Reservists complain – let us fight.</strong> Israel’s military ombudswoman Brig. Gen. (res.) Rachel Tevet-Wiesel has found that most of the 1,316 complaints during the first three months of the war (Oct-Dec) were civilians seeking to return to reserve duty after receiving exemptions and reservists asking to be moved to a combat unit.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dec78b92447%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw1Xpfp3WQSHoMJg9DKi5_Cd" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ec78b92447&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>idf-ombudswoman-report-finds-<wbr></wbr>rise-in-reservists-clamoring-<wbr></wbr>to-be-allowed-to-fight/</a><br /> <br /><strong>The largest ever IDF enlistment of Yeshiva students.</strong> The upcoming IDF recruitment cycle will include a record 1,000 fighters from the Hesder yeshivot (300 to combat units); another 300 from Zionist yeshivot gevohot (post high school yeshivot); and hundreds more from religious pre-military preparatory schools.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0765a86444%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3E7YkQWoXAH_-6jvm_SYhG" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0765a86444&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386759</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D83654ba1b1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw0z3zcTi5Oi8coaHwksx_s2" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=83654ba1b1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>idf-confirms-1300-to-be-<wbr></wbr>recruited-early-from-pre-army-<wbr></wbr>programs/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Volunteering changed her life.</strong> On Oct 7 Yocheved Ruttenberg was in Dallas Texas waiting for her lone soldier brother to return from Israel so they could start a business in the USA. Now Yocheved is co-founder of NGO Sword of Iron – Israel Volunteer Opportunities, helping others organize their Israel volunteering trips.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Deb3acac984%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw0WzSyQgTH8WntID2vWbeyf" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=eb3acac984&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/how-<wbr></wbr>a-two-week-trip-to-volunteer-<wbr></wbr>turned-lifechanging/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db2c2f10022%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3gzHlxS330eWW0EJE7xX7l" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b2c2f10022&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>groups/353201190423242/</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Printing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>You need it, Ariel 3D-prints it.</strong></span> Ariel Harush is an engineering student at Israel’s Ben Gurion University. He 3D-printed a radio connector for a friend in the IDF and suddenly army commanders were asking for 1,000 of them. He and 400 volunteers have since printed 43,000 items, from knee pads to night-vision rifle adaptors.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da04cbb7fba%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw2tX0v3iivqE_mJzRPxXifc" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a04cbb7fba&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://nocamels.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>volunteer-engineer-is-3d-<wbr></wbr>printing-kit-for-israeli-<wbr></wbr>troops-at-war/</a><br /> <wbr></wbr> <br /><strong>Latin America solidarity mission.</strong> A delegation of governors and mayors from Panama, Uruguay, Honduras, Chile, and Guatemala, traveled to southern Israeli cities targeted on Oct 7 and met with family members of Israeli hostages during their four-day trip.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db7afdc26c6%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw140iAD6l2gJH0Tyc9IfkkQ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b7afdc26c6&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/latin-<wbr></wbr>american-local-leaders-pay-<wbr></wbr>solidarity-visit-to-israel/</a><br /> <br /><strong>IFCJ funds 123 bomb shelters.</strong> The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (FCJ) is funding more than one and a half million dollars to place 123 shelters alongside bus stops serving 42 northern Israeli communities, amid Israel’s ongoing conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db84849b3b4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw2XnHjR-_mC88G0GD_tdLZo" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b84849b3b4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/ifcj-<wbr></wbr>funding-123-shelters-for-bus-<wbr></wbr>stops-near-lebanon-border/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Sderot supermarket re-opens.</strong> The first supermarket in Sderot has reopened more than five months after the Israeli city was mostly evacuated due to the war with Hamas. Its owner, Prosper Peretz, said, “I worked throughout the war, even though my house was hit by a rocket. I didn’t give up and I didn’t leave the city.”<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc42db3c0fd%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw1FuySkUpsrhrgXR0BDRM35" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c42db3c0fd&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://unitedwithisrael.org/<wbr></wbr>sderot-supermarket-open-for-<wbr></wbr>business-5-months-after-hamas-<wbr></wbr>invasion/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Phage therapy combats antibiotic resistance.</strong> The Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC), led by two Hebrew University of Jerusalem professors, has used a bacteriophage PASA16 on compassionate basis to treat tough Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in 16 patients. It has shown promising results with an 86.6% success rate.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dcb5ea6ddd1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3CRPwyCIYeiP9e0BB1zkdF" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=cb5ea6ddd1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.huji.ac.il/news/<wbr></wbr>anti-bacterial-virus-phage-<wbr></wbr>pasa16-treated-antibiotic-<wbr></wbr>resistant-infections-866</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df037f72f2a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3OsCHhP17B3IDWFBp39yfN" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f037f72f2a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.cell.com/med/<wbr></wbr>abstract/S2666-6340(23)00225-8</a><br /> <br /><strong>How do some viruses get nasty</strong>? Tel Aviv University researchers discovered a mechanism used by viruses to decide whether to kill their bacterial host. These phages monitor the health of the cell they are occupying. They also check that there are no viruses residing in nearby cells that the phages wish to occupy.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D842d0d6f0d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw2Xh1X_6u2mcTtinG3SFBwk" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=842d0d6f0d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://foodsecurity.tau.ac.<wbr></wbr>il/sbcr/news/how-do-viruses-<wbr></wbr>choose-whether-to-become-<wbr></wbr>nasty-or-not-16-1-2024</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9dc2626ee5%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw0YUUzfIFCgpHAnuNtE4U7X" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9dc2626ee5&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/<wbr></wbr>articles/s41564-023-01551-3</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Parkinsons" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Clues may lead to a cure for Parkinson’s.</strong></span> Researchers at Haifa University have discovered that sufferers of Parkinson’s disease have brain cells that are deficient in mRNA and proteins that build the extracellular matrix (ECM). It is the ECM that provides brain cells with structural and biochemical support.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dac3d46f85f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw30wlWQSx5h7-qfHEAxFAXt" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ac3d46f85f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>parkinsons-breakthrough-link-<wbr></wbr>discovered-between-disease-<wbr></wbr>and-brain/</a><br /> <br /><strong>500 doctors to make Aliyah.</strong> Nefesh b’Nefesh’s Medex event held in Teaneck, NJ was a huge success. Nearly 500 medical professionals attended from 30 states and provinces in the US and Canada, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, dental hygienists, and many more. A European event is scheduled end-March.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Deb333bfc84%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw2S9a-lzkBcliyeh5BWa3zk" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=eb333bfc84&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israelhayom.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/03/11/nefesh-bnefesh-<wbr></wbr>inaugurates-international-<wbr></wbr>medical-aliyah-program-to-<wbr></wbr>combat-israels-physician-<wbr></wbr>shortage/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Ddf46fc7c15%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3UW9XqzyMrYXiIEIUF-w4S" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=df46fc7c15&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/aliyah/<wbr></wbr>health-services/article-791431</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Tech startups hire more women in R&D.</strong> A survey by the Israel Innovation Authority and Israel’s Reichman University has determined that 38% of women in the Israeli tech industry held R&D positions last year. This compares to 28% in 2013. Women now hold around one-third of all high-tech positions in the Jewish State.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc78367de12%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw0mrWiv6pKR5SKApPNWkCu_" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c78367de12&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/israeli-<wbr></wbr>tech-companies-hiring-<wbr></wbr>significantly-more-women-in-<wbr></wbr>rd-roles/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Israel relocates orphanage from Gaza to Judea.</strong> At the request of German authorities, Israel facilitated the transfer to Bethlehem of approximately 60 orphans, aged 3 to 15, from a German-funded Gaza orphanage that ceased operations due to the war. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6528eb0bb9%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw0AtGOKPknp6FyKPJ2_cEij" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6528eb0bb9&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ynetnews.com/<wbr></wbr>article/ryxljohpt</a><br /> <br /><strong>Brave Moslem women speak up for Israel.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6a64b3a320%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3VG2wNkqoEHqlgJ7eukU6h" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6a64b3a320&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Ted Belman</a></strong>) Anila Ali (Pakistan) and Soraya Deen(Sri Lanka) have dedicated themselves to resisting radical Islamist oppression of women and hatred of Israel and Jews. Anila spoke at a side event of the United Nations sponsored by the Israeli mission to the U.N.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D25ce5e2432%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw34OeXI3ga5HL7I0G-J6vsf" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=25ce5e2432&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/two-<wbr></wbr>muslim-women-who-are-fighting-<wbr></wbr>for-freedom/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db3905df838%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw1Ewl_n1tJZbFg2MMf2cfns" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b3905df838&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/<wbr></wbr>k1t/k1tv3tvn0o</a> (See at 27:41)<br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Chess" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Chess tournament unites Jews & Arabs.</strong></span> (TY Yanky) The Israeli Open Chess Championship in Acre brought together Jews, Arabs and Druze in friendly competition. The 132 chess players ranged in age from 9 to 78 and included some 20 international masters and grandmasters.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df5ba2f07cb%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw3gOJJmWpKGcyQ2uzB-zz3F" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f5ba2f07cb&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>chess-tournament-makes-mates-<wbr></wbr>of-arabs-jews-and-druze-amid-<wbr></wbr>gaza-war/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Good relations with Liberia.</strong> Representative Moimah Briggs Mensah is Chairperson of Liberia’s Israel Allies Foundation Caucus. She expressed her fervor for reinforcing Liberia’s diplomatic ties with Israel, which could even include establishing its embassy in Jerusalem by the end of 2024.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6ee7a29257%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089741000&usg=AOvVaw1__9poBWz23r_eKOoWyq5l" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6ee7a29257&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israfan.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>06/strengthening-ties-<wbr></wbr>liberias-commitment-to-open-<wbr></wbr>its-embassy-in-jerusalem/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Three new African ambassadors.</strong> Israeli President Herzog thanked the incoming ambassadors of Equatorial Guinea, Burundi and Eswatini for their support of Israel and in protecting Irael’s observer status in the African Union. “We believe in Africa. We love Africa,” Herzog told the ambassadors.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dec7fb1be4d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3QF_6J10NYE3kr-W98qGIU" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ec7fb1be4d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/israeli-<wbr></wbr>president-lauds-african-<wbr></wbr>countries-for-diplomatic-<wbr></wbr>support/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Brain Science Prize winner.</strong> Prof. Haim Sompolinsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard is the first Israeli to be awarded the Brain Prize - the largest and most prestigious international prize for brain research. The prize is awarded annually by the Lundbeck Foundation of Denmark.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De47227ce89%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2c957hLumk9TIl8UjBnkdY" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e47227ce89&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>physicist-haim-sompolinsky-<wbr></wbr>first-israeli-to-win-largest-<wbr></wbr>brain-science-research-prize/</a><br /> <br /><strong>So sweet!</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D13a233a467%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1aRHi5fVrZP0SeorC-J-Fy" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=13a233a467&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">OurCrowd</a></strong>) Israel’s Incredo (formerly DouxMatok see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D198cc7cc25%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3FP_D3vVR1HvwuUzIJi_qH" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=198cc7cc25&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has unveiled Incredo Sugar G2, a concentrated version of its award-winning Incredo Sugar. The new product is more sustainable because it can be produced, stored and manufactured in smaller quantities.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd88cbd3f0f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2s3OOR_trFerAM5eYRdDEP" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d88cbd3f0f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ourcrowd.com/<wbr></wbr>startup-news/incredo-<wbr></wbr>announces-breakthrough-in-its-<wbr></wbr>sugar-reduction-solution-with-<wbr></wbr>the-launch-of-incredo-sugar-<wbr></wbr>g2-a-concentrated-clean-label-<wbr></wbr>offering-made-of-real-sugar-<wbr></wbr>and-protein</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Bacteria" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Using bacteria to keep food fresh.</strong></span> Israel’s LiVA uses “good” bacteria to increase the shelf life of fresh food by at least 100%. LiVA’s stickers contain a patented pre-biotic blend of bacteria that grows quickly and prevents “bad” bacteria and fungi from forming. It’s “survival of the fittest”. A clever (Israeli) idea.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da0dd02f7be%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3zqWc1CyIU6QtAZJaKwOvq" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a0dd02f7be&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://nocamels.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>keeping-fruits-and-vegetables-<wbr></wbr>fresh-with-a-simple-sticker/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D54df3c282f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1U2eNKeg_nzrDZKaRIWEIh" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=54df3c282f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.liva.ag/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D39676516a9%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3mS9c38NQi2uemaRdSW56S" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=39676516a9&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=PXNkdzZPqSU</a><br /> <br /><strong>Controlling pesticides.</strong> New to this newsletter - DriftSense, and its tool to help farmers decide when to spray their crops; Palm Robotics, which detects pests and diseases using remote sensing and other technologies; Fungit Biosolutions’s fungal microorganism-based biocontrol agents and BetterLeaf’s botanical biopesticides.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da6e6430852%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1YW4yvDE_cUrZKcGqixAtd" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a6e6430852&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/8-<wbr></wbr>innovations-helping-reduce-<wbr></wbr>pesticide-use/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D79ddbe41ae%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw22-ZQPtQA3hFowDd83BBw7" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=79ddbe41ae&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://drift-sense.com/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0c49f43e96%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2wOZ979bFwTfb62QfL12xm" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0c49f43e96&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://palmro.com/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D89c743fa48%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0tvLIrdGcZKCfHdQsFb7YG" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=89c743fa48&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://fungitbio.com/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1e0b9d546b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0trDtlEAqeFEWE4RB-uKhY" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1e0b9d546b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://olivetechltd1953.<wbr></wbr>wixsite.com/better-leaf</a><br /> <br /><strong>Know where to go.</strong> Tel Aviv-based Atly (previously called “steps”) allows users to publicize their “new favorite places” such as eating out, hiking and even where to take a date. Atly has just added maps for gluten-free and celiac dining. Gluten-Free Eats has 28,000 places in the US and is vetting a further 300,000.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dead632fc0a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2d5fSKTk4FWxGgZs6r4ktY" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ead632fc0a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://nocamels.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>platform-to-map-social-hot-<wbr></wbr>spots-launches-new-gluten-<wbr></wbr>free-map/</a> <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dcb110653c4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw10WuynbPC20hU6vw09LsQv" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=cb110653c4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.atly.com/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D549c255a58%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0ZX27KFx0TSMltmbNfxL6-" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=549c255a58&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=uAFbmKGYmpg</a><br /> <br /><strong>Securing 7 million networks.</strong> Israel’s Sam Seamless Networks (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De566d328df%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2CeKZ6K0dv-sdzo3TgousO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e566d328df&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) protects the 7 million networks of Verizon, Virgin Media, Orange and Bezeq – some half-a-billion devices. CEO and co-founder is Sivan Rauscher. She was a former officer in Israel’s elite 8200 Military Intelligence cyber unit.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D7cafa5ef8f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3ienHCmCzL6YofpY4C7RJh" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=7cafa5ef8f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>spotlight/israeli-startup-<wbr></wbr>secures-7-million-networks-<wbr></wbr>500-million-connected-devices/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3198a86ecb%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1KqhkBc_GYYIFsVFlBLOgg" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3198a86ecb&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=x94vQ0CBQyY</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3a7debf869%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1HAkX2iaPGbzGPLGF_0OTF" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3a7debf869&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ourcrowd.com/<wbr></wbr>companies/sam-seamless-network</a><br /> <br /><strong>Speeding up AI development.</strong> Some 80% of Artificial Intelligence projects fail, for many reasons. Israel’s Dataloop AI (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dbbf914965c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3vQ1eWYi1dc9dY3qoFxR7W" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=bbf914965c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has launched Marketplace – an intuitive platform that streamlines processes, and accelerates workflow efficiency for AI teams, resulting in more efficient AI application building.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0c7cccccfd%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2mflr4VnOvZRHdWJV7gfK9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0c7cccccfd&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ourcrowd.com/<wbr></wbr>startup-news/dataloop-ai-<wbr></wbr>launches-a-marketplace-to-<wbr></wbr>drastically-enhance-ai-<wbr></wbr>development-processes-and-<wbr></wbr>slash-time-to-market</a><br /> <br /><strong>A headset for military dogs.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D27d5ae81dc%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3uz9RKzyA0huQ6scMMMa2k" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=27d5ae81dc&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) Israel’s Silynxcom (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dffa0ac2fac%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0Jng9T-oSaVrDLPU8C05dz" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ffa0ac2fac&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has developed a protective headset for military dogs such as the IDF’s K9 unit in operation in Gaza. The headset also enables seamless command transmission via radio directly to the dog.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dae53e982f6%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3N8NMi1zuZXyiUkLiwNzyO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ae53e982f6&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.silynxcom.com/<wbr></wbr>silynxcom-unveils-<wbr></wbr>groundbreaking-headset-for-<wbr></wbr>military-dogs-offering-<wbr></wbr>unparalleled-protection-and-<wbr></wbr>communication/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D79df2029a0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw36uhtRw1pKnesVrfBZLWQm" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=79df2029a0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.thedefensepost.<wbr></wbr>com/2024/03/04/silynxcom-<wbr></wbr>headset-military-dogs/</a><br /> <br /><strong>A word in your ear.</strong> On the heels of its previous announcement for dog headsets, Israel’s Silynxcom has just reported that its new in-ear headset has completed trials and been purchased by the European law enforcement customer that tested the equipment. The system is compatible with a wide range of encrypted radio devices.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df5bb858bab%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1gj9zGZfO27vQNx6o2zMzU" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f5bb858bab&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.silynxcom.com/<wbr></wbr>silynxcom-secures-first-order-<wbr></wbr>of-its-new-in-ear-headset-<wbr></wbr>system-designed-for-law-<wbr></wbr>enforcement/</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Batteries" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>A cold start? No problem.</strong> </span>(TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D19a067ef26%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw06FhyM9D7KoV1s8Y15qhhD" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=19a067ef26&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) Israel’s StoreDot (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D14bc00ae91%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2Ek9yFzMC-cXZi3fsGdF83" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=14bc00ae91&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has reported that at -10°C its superfast-charging EV battery cells charged to 80% capacity and delivered over 85% of their full range capacity. Even in the extreme cold of -4°F (-20°C), the cells still provided over 70% of their full range capacity.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dcd993e3b79%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3HglX8eGCmt1zM3nnVXr3i" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=cd993e3b79&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.store-dot.com/<wbr></wbr>press/storedots-battery-<wbr></wbr>technology-offers-ev-owners-a-<wbr></wbr>winterproof-charging-<wbr></wbr>experience</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ECONOMY & BUSINESS</u></strong><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Guatemala" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Free trade with Guatemala.</strong> </span>(TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De29a4d9b9b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0btU0lVXxNbNx__xlv0UHD" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e29a4d9b9b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that Israel signed with Guatemala in 2022 (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D340b86eda0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0ss_tytXAgCl9DjSvTj4m2" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=340b86eda0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has just come into effect. Guatemala has the largest economy (GDP & population) in Central America. It joins seven Latin American countries that also have FTAs with Israel.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db3bafec213%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0kF4G5_uLyS70ddjqcJh4Z" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b3bafec213&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-Israel-Guatemala-free-<wbr></wbr>trade-pact-comes-into-force-<wbr></wbr>1001472602</a><br /> <br /><strong>Big increase in apartment sales.</strong> Despite the war, the number of apartments sold in Israel has increased by 14% year-on-year. There were 8,053 real estate deals in January, the highest figure since September 2022.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Ddc5a00fb13%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0p3xZI-we8NRd0nlzUIaop" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=dc5a00fb13&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>apartment-sales-jumped-14-in-<wbr></wbr>january-amid-ongoing-war-new-<wbr></wbr>figures-show/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Who’s flying to Israel?</strong> One site with information about how to get to Israel and what to do when you get there. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0749862525%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2HOwsgq-TMoxE1XTcWIrlI" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0749862525&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.touristisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>traveling-to-israel-now/64346/</a><br /> <br /><strong>A space to build space-tech.</strong> JNF-USA funded the Mitzpe Ramon Hub in the Negev for startups developing technology with relevance to outer space. The first to take up the offer is Israel’s Creation Space, a group dedicated to promoting technology in New Space. It also helped turn the landscape into a replica of Mars.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5bf9acb9a0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw19KBvSs5AuSpsCpvckG1Y3" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5bf9acb9a0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>spotlight/from-mitzpe-ramon-<wbr></wbr>to-mars-new-hub-paves-way-for-<wbr></wbr>israels-tech-and-space-<wbr></wbr>industry/</a> <br /> <br /><strong>Best Microsoft Contact Center.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dac4539fcd8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3QigbfRlnguPHbM8faQuG0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ac4539fcd8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) At the CX (customer experience) awards hosted by CX Today, Israel’s AudioCodes (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D28ae2a9a2c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3J-myXmpDV1dZsBK4xmeco" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=28ae2a9a2c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) received the award for Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center Solution for its Voca Conversational Interaction Center (Voca CIC). Judges were independent industry experts.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D90109c2afa%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0rrFUk-eD5eZW7_8TvTer9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=90109c2afa&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.audiocodes.com/<wbr></wbr>news/press-releases/news/<wbr></wbr>audiocodes-ai-first-voca-<wbr></wbr>conversational-interaction-<wbr></wbr>center-wins-best-microsoft-<wbr></wbr>teams-contact-center-award</a><br /> <br /><strong>Saliva pregnancy testing kit hits the market.</strong> After rollout in England, Ireland, and Sweden, Israel’s Salistick (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6e824187ea%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2uvMykutFxTm242ZLb5oCj" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6e824187ea&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) is finally available in Israel. It will be sold in 285 branches of Super-Pharn for just under 25 shekels. The product detects the hormone Beta-hCG and has sold 100,000+ units in the UK since July 2023.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D67f7539f98%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0hHHRlCHuHkQgmf0A0OgdW" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=67f7539f98&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>saliva-pregnancy-test-kit-<wbr></wbr>finally-hits-israeli-market/</a><br /> <br /><strong>The sweet smell of success.</strong> Israel’s iRomaScents (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1c24bff58c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw19k9FLry25vIA7qiF_JPi9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1c24bff58c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) couldn’t sell its “scented movies” to the entertainment industry. So, it re-positioned the product as an aid to choosing perfume. Its AI Wizard was a knockout at CES Las Vegas where it accurately recommended fragrances to the public.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dba41382c92%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw070pemYL1m5GfphnYRJ3pu" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ba41382c92&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>startup-iromascents-uses-tech-<wbr></wbr>to-simplify-perfume-sales/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Exits, takeovers and mergers – to 17/3/24:</strong> Israel’s <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D2533f00486%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1qXILlxLc3TYZv5ZZuPjUq" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=2533f00486&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Wiz</a></strong> is acquiring Israel’s <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D51698bee8f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2FYNheGfbozGfA5PEreS4M" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=51698bee8f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Gem Security</a></strong> for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9008c0055e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0FQTXwQ90ozcjVGywN3M7N" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9008c0055e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$350 million</a>. Multinational Ashley Home has acquired Israeli co-founded Resident Home for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3117cebbf0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3oXM4d6SwmurWFhqk-t5cf" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3117cebbf0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$1 billion</a>. America’s Zscaler is acquiring Israeli startup <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Decc8cfcc68%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1Do5pdh_nxUdpvVVefN4H9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ecc8cfcc68&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Avalor</a></strong> for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D96eea960cd%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw12gmUOeaZ3T7eTJWwa7cga" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=96eea960cd&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$350 million</a>. Israel’s Cycode has acquired US-based Bearer for around $10 million.<br /> <br /><strong>Startup investment – to 17/3/24: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D117048e587%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0nM1L0wE1WI4NUFZyvgdl5" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=117048e587&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Empathy</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D51596165d4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2pwsAbRCXFFY6Q6wAS0VMR" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=51596165d4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$47 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3e94310fba%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1MTNa7WucTGIlUscQGVZsT" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3e94310fba&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Fijoya</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd8b6ef40b8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3v1D9fa91NeogNQaCz1g-6" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d8b6ef40b8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$8.3 million</a>;<br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Jerusalem Biennale returns home.</strong> The sixth Jerusalem Biennale is finally set to return to the Israeli capital five months after the war in Gaza forced the organizers to take the art platform on a world tour. (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D79828a8815%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0CX4VTsYNGYB3Nacjl-dQL" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=79828a8815&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong>). It has been updated to give broader recognition to female artists and include more works created post-Oct 7.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5e885f5f97%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3T9CEPH58kBW55bvEjXsJn" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5e885f5f97&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>after-war-induced-exile-<wbr></wbr>jerusalem-biennale-returns-<wbr></wbr>home/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Top pizza restaurants.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D561ee0cae4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1uTyjt2L8G6u37yq2wZBzw" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=561ee0cae4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) Two Israeli pizzerias have been selected to be featured in the annual 50 Top Pizza ranking in the Asia-Pacific category. The Fresca pizzeria from Kibbutz Afikim, located south of the Sea of Galilee, was ranked 37th in the guide, and the Jerusalem-based La Piedra was ranked 39th. <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D445f4da2b7%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2lGHcsrcb-2Km1d4SLVKO4" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=445f4da2b7&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israelhayom.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/03/04/2-israeli-<wbr></wbr>pizzerias-make-prestigious-50-<wbr></wbr>top-pizza-list/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df092e4d400%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2DDKwtoCJyDMk13VtQEkGO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f092e4d400&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.50toppizza.it/en/<wbr></wbr>asia-pacific-special-awards-<wbr></wbr>2024/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Def49725855%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0nnB41ml3zSp1Ikxxq2g92" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ef49725855&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.50toppizza.it/en/<wbr></wbr>50-top-pizza-asia-pacific-<wbr></wbr>2024/</a><br /> <br /><strong>The winds of change.</strong> Israel’s entry in the Eurovision song contest had to be changed, as the European Broadcasting Authority objected to the original lyrics referring to Oct 7. Let’s hope that the new version, entitled “Hurricane”, blows the audience away! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D64b08279eb%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1apQsLMc-oKupb4-pEfUv5" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=64b08279eb&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386542</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D759d166042%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw28Sz1U8q6bH06fEQAYtTyK" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=759d166042&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=QV_NQ5F_iXY&</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Cycling" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Tour de Taiwan first stage winner.</strong> </span>Israeli cyclist Itamar Einhorn of Israel Premier - Tech Cycling Team, won the opening stage of the Tour de Taiwan in Tapei, becoming the first Israeli to wear the yellow jacket in one of Asia’s oldest races. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1116131dfa%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0bQ0MLljfSDR83YBuDffMN" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1116131dfa&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://unitedwithisrael.org/<wbr></wbr>israeli-cyclist-wins-opening-<wbr></wbr>stage-of-tour-de-taiwan-in-<wbr></wbr>tapei/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>THE JEWISH STATE</u></strong><br /> <br /><a name="m_8054641010481035741_Baby" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Firstborn son at 88.</strong> </span>Rabbi Tzvi Kushlefsky, a Rosh Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, has just fathered a firstborn son at the age of 88 years old. He became a widower at the age of 82 and remarried a 50-year-old woman who had several children previously. The baby was born at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D04b67c0e4c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1MB-wCdHYYFzd96wxjaCPY" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=04b67c0e4c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://anash.org/<wbr></wbr>yerushalayim-rosh-yeshiva-has-<wbr></wbr>firstborn-son-at-88-years-old/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Rave survivors & rescuers pray at Western Wall.</strong> Five months after the devastating Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival, survivors gathered to pray at the Western Wall. Notes from survivors were carried from Reim and placed in the cracks of the Kotel. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd14efc6cf5%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3ZfLeVZCCy_ePqA2wKbvMu" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d14efc6cf5&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=SWo2_cUN6Ss</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3da622aa10%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2TptW7A312pz2dne4MM4ZY" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3da622aa10&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://unitedwithisrael.org/<wbr></wbr>watch-oct-7-music-festival-<wbr></wbr>survivors-pray-at-the-western-<wbr></wbr>wall/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Soldiers receive new Torah scroll.</strong> Soldiers from the Hakotel and Yaffo Hesder Yeshivas, together with their peers from the Nachal Brigade, welcomed a new Torah scroll at the Netzarim Corridor in the Gaza Strip.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De561719f3f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3Y-_lnoBZqxCdN3LUU-4jA" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e561719f3f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386532</a><br /> <br /><strong>How to help Israel.</strong> Here are some sites where newsletter readers can donate to Israeli organizations that provide vital help to Israelis at this difficult time. Many thanks to those who have already contributed and to those who are helping by donating their own valuable time and resources.<br /> <br />Friends of the IDF (US donors): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc453a40c1b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1b_M6ka5h-BR62GEyZqGSI" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c453a40c1b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.fidf.org/</a><br />or IDF Soldiers Fund in Israel: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D63be1e493b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2OJHxlOeaaf0Mh9f9x5bju" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=63be1e493b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ufis.org.il/en/<wbr></wbr>donation-en/</a> (select the English speakers’ option)<br /> <br />American Friends of Magen David Adom (US donors): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D90fdd24592%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2CIV3Cj-J-H07IcBOBuuqT" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=90fdd24592&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://afmda.org/</a><br />or Magen David Adom (Israel): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd33d2d478e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3y7zsD35xnGknhd-44nlnU" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d33d2d478e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.mdais.org/en/<wbr></wbr>donation</a><br /> <br />Zaka (US donors): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dda95cb8032%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0WpVGuogf-mvDAN38v07Lr" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=da95cb8032&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://donate.zakatelaviv.<wbr></wbr>org/give/525578/</a> or (Israeli donors): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D19cfbe7838%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1_G60RajW_ocknXxE387M0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=19cfbe7838&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://charidy.com/zaka</a> <br />or (Canadian donors): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/bellevue-foundation/&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2PVECcrRApz37QNLSqvuUf" href="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/bellevue-foundation/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.canadahelps.org/<wbr></wbr>en/charities/bellevue-<wbr></wbr>foundation/</a><br /> <br />United Hatzalah: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1e268b5c4e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2Bo61vldalCw4S-X5I6YD9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1e268b5c4e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israelrescue.org/<wbr></wbr>campaign/israel-at-war-2/</a> or Canada <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D2989f647e8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0TqpVVD8o5EGdua7G4S0FS" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=2989f647e8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.uhcanada.org/</a><br />Leket Food Israel: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D552875da50%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0NFAgqd9vw3I2gQQ4KUS2v" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=552875da50&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.leket.org/en/</a><br />JNF USA - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De72851f93f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw07RshfVonbQ7n_SOJV2L0I" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e72851f93f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://my.jnf.org/gaza-<wbr></wbr>emergency/Donate</a> or Canada <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D422a372562%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw23Da19-gijBCxatHng9kTT" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=422a372562&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://jnf.ca/</a><br />Orthodox Union - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D7cde39666e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3qc3KSOLuP-KBrvrHteP71" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=7cde39666e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.charidy.com/<wbr></wbr>ouisraelcrisis</a><br /> <br />Schneider Children’s Hospital: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D78bc1bd869%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1cN4z-ACot2azDgITbYV1n" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=78bc1bd869&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.fos.org.il/en/<wbr></wbr>donate</a> (Israelis)<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df7a134f428%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw1neBEFktTKQDkvBNXWRx9p" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f7a134f428&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://system.smartgiving.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/charities/8530/make-<wbr></wbr>donation</a> (UK) <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6b9f5dd859%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw2DDs6-PwGCkL3r1eNQnA0n" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6b9f5dd859&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://chaischneider.org/<wbr></wbr>donate/</a> (USA)<br /> <br />Hadassah Hospital Israel: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D01412a72a2%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3-mC8KV-790ukgEMByfyjz" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=01412a72a2&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.hadassah.org/</a><br />Laniado Hospital (Netanya) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4b89ce436c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0pTZdZdYO_xXScfibzFiiU" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4b89ce436c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://my.israelgives.org/en/<wbr></wbr>fundme/EmergencyLaniado</a><br /> <br /><strong>And many more charities here:</strong><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd0b559fae4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3UCkEHzicTK2FSRUMmeX8c" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d0b559fae4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>where-people-abroad-can-<wbr></wbr>donate-to-israels-hospitals-<wbr></wbr>troops-survivors-and-more/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De0b488fe85%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw25_CHNXfnGEwfIBuBVxK2c" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e0b488fe85&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://chesedtoday.com/<wbr></wbr>campaigns/soldiers/</a> (Warm winter clothes for Israeli soldiers)<br /> <br /><strong>Buy Israel Bonds to support the Jewish State.</strong> (TY Larry B)<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4e57a1d229%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw0D2n31H7J6L37dZEpqmLOM" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4e57a1d229&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>jewishvirtuallibrary.org/<wbr></wbr>state-of-israel-bonds</a><br />USA - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De605d84ec1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3nsVdGNm-YgivsrYwBvYRn" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e605d84ec1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israelbonds.com/</a><br />Europe - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4d57f7e1b8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw3lUqq_aIaBg51ly_oyRH0e" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4d57f7e1b8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israelbondsintl.com/</a><br />Canada - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D38bfa10973%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710775089742000&usg=AOvVaw17Jz_ZtKshgJMOYuWy2NLV" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=38bfa10973&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israelbonds.ca/</a></span></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p></div>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-53208668172822083692024-03-16T08:39:00.000-07:002024-03-16T17:02:30.556-07:00Haas" War For Israel. My Rebuttal. Relationship Deteriorating. Berkley Reveals. My Essay, Will Deck Be Stacked?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil9wUUNc5IG1VGuNgmGR8f5dMt8W7X2i-T7UTfKgIlOAZ2apzdhJ8e-rx_PVoc-2Cvaed9ssAOm2PIJ-155xPbD1z59zdYAPdDYoJhyphenhyphenSm7E-cUf41xMGxc2IdRjrw5Jig3F_eH_tHVcEAPhcgHYFkHEgnmf_crWhexYkYNcIIhyfvgFsfSFI2MNenWUcA/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil9wUUNc5IG1VGuNgmGR8f5dMt8W7X2i-T7UTfKgIlOAZ2apzdhJ8e-rx_PVoc-2Cvaed9ssAOm2PIJ-155xPbD1z59zdYAPdDYoJhyphenhyphenSm7E-cUf41xMGxc2IdRjrw5Jig3F_eH_tHVcEAPhcgHYFkHEgnmf_crWhexYkYNcIIhyfvgFsfSFI2MNenWUcA/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7of41iLYzPzYq9omiR8K3pcXp5PBNfs4BOfzF1EoBDodvgtz_5V1cBvCUx-X0kxZ88ghaODL4DLCUJs1I4z-Pgcv_fnbKOwSVJSowyEve_LbJduloHXr_a_Tki-4gp0kQSVK9mcvcNYAnejUZLTI79LaM4Pz-D3fmGBmUeKYO1FiGuJNe91JiUHfy8kc/s800/afb031424dAPC-800x0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/zrpjrctbjjwkrbjbkbrptkgllfkllbftddpcqrwrmmpdmbw_eytsdtrpydyfrzrdbpzrdd.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Are Republicans Ready to Take on the Olympians of Voting?</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/hvqrvdgsrrhzvsrszsvbgzlwwfzwwsfgmmbdpvhvqqbmqsm_eytsdtrpydyfrzrdbpzrdd.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Katie Pavlich</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span>++++<br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/cttrtsngrrjftgrgfgtpnfkllmfllgmnqqpsztjtddpqdgm_eytsdtrpydyfrzrdbpzrdd.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">'Duty, Honor, Country'? More Like 'Selfishness, Cowardice, Communism'</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">By </span><a href="#" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Kurt </a><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/aslzmcwyzztnmyzynymdwnvpplnppylwssdcgmtmkkdskhb_eytsdtrpydyfrzrdbpzrdd.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Schlichter</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Everybody always has advice for Israel, Where were these geniuses when America fire bombed Dresden?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><h1 class="evxsf2b0 css-q80yfm-StyledHeadline-BigTopHeadline-BigTopHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-white); font-family: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-family); font-size: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-size); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; text-align: center;">The War That Israel Could Have Fought</h1><h2 class="css-1gn5ugf-Dek-Dek-BigTopDek e10dsoc81" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-white); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-size); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 8px 0px 0px; text-align: center;">The horrific assault by Hamas demanded a firm response, but Israel has depended too much on military might and not enough on diplomacy and political vision </h2><h2 class="css-1gn5ugf-Dek-Dek-BigTopDek e10dsoc81" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-white); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-size); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 8px 0px 0px; text-align: center;">By Richard Haas</h2></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel had not just the right to respond but the necessity: to show that Hamas would pay a high price for its savagery, to keep the perpetrators from killing again and to recover those who had been taken hostage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But the design and conduct of Israel’s response—both its tactical decisions and its strategic aims—have been, and remain, a matter of choice. And almost all of those choices have been counterproductive. Israel’s actions have left it worse off, at a great cost to itself and its relationship with the U.S. and in the lives of innocent Palestinians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">None of this was inevitable, even as Israel understandably sought revenge. Better options were available at every juncture over the course of more than five months of conflict.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel has carried out large-scale military operations throughout Gaza, targeting locations it says were occupied or used by Hamas. By its own estimates it has killed more than 13,000 Hamas fighters out of a prewar total of some 30,000. This includes some leaders of the group but not the most senior, or even all of those who planned the Oct. 7 attacks. To date, Israel’s operation has resulted in the deaths of more than 31,000 Gazans, according to the Gazan Ministry of Health, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and Hamas fighters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For its part, Israel has lost some 250 soldiers, with another 1,500 wounded, since the start of its ground operation. Three hostages have been rescued, while another three were accidentally killed by Israeli soldiers. Another 109 have been returned through negotiations and exchanges. Approximately 130 hostages remain, with estimates of the number still alive ranging from 75 to 100.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel has also paid a substantial economic price for the conflict. Its GDP fell by nearly 20% on an annualized basis in the last quarter of 2023. As a result, Moody’s downgraded the country’s credit rating in February</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Recent months have seen perceptions of Israel turn sharply negative around the world. A March Gallup poll found that 58% of respondents in the U.S. hold a very or mostly favorable view of Israel, 10% below this time last year and the lowest it has been in 20 years. Worse, the U.S. is now the only developed country with a net favorable rating of Israel. In Arab countries, opposition to diplomatic recognition of Israel has spiked and a new generation has come to fervently embrace the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, the backlash against Israel has emboldened Iran, the principal backer of Hamas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As for the future, the plan that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released in February for “the day after,” when the conflict in Gaza comes to an end, is wildly unrealistic. It is basically a plan for Israel’s open-ended military occupation of Gaza, with the presumed support of local Palestinian representatives and funding from Arab and European governments. Such cooperation is unlikely, to say the least, and as Israel has reason to know from its previous experience in Gaza and Lebanon, military occupation invariably breeds lasting resistance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Implicit by its absence from Netanyahu’s day-after plan is a decision not to elevate the role of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which for all its flaws remains the best and potentially only security partner for Israel in both the West Bank and Gaza. Arguably, this is exactly why his plan excludes the PA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the years leading up to Oct. 7, Netanyahu pursued a divide-and-conquer approach to the Palestinians, giving a green light to Qatar’s support of Hamas while constantly denigrating the PA. Knowing that Hamas is forever unacceptable to almost all Israelis, this policy allowed successive Netanyahu-led governments, which favored the expansion of West Bank settlements and opposed a Palestinian state, to argue that Israel had no Palestinian partner for a peace deal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All of which raises an obvious question: As these traumatic events unfolded, what else could and should Israel have done?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One thing was to wait. Much is said about the parallels between the Oct. 7 attacks and what the U.S. faced in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. Often lost in this comparison is the fact that U.S. military operations to oust Afghanistan’s Taliban government for providing sanctuary to al Qaeda did not begin for nearly a month. Other fateful decisions, including enlarging the mission and increasing the number of American soldiers on the ground, did not happen for months or even years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Had Israel waited to respond after Oct. 7, Hamas’s atrocities would have dominated the news, allowing Israel to focus international attention on the barbaric attack, made possible by the group’s backers in Tehran. New sanctions could have been imposed against Iran; aid to Hamas from Qatar and others could have been halted. Pressure could have been raised on both Iran and Hamas to release the hostages.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This approach would not have precluded a military response. Indeed, Israel needed to restore deterrence and punish the perpetrators. But retaliatory attacks should have been more precise, giving priority to eliminating Hamas’s leadership and key fighters as intelligence allowed. Israel should have relied more on small-unit operations rather than aerial bombardment, which causes far greater collateral damage to civilian populations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Such a targeted campaign might have taken months, even years, and some Hamas fighters who embedded themselves in schools and hospitals would have escaped punishment. But this would have been preferable to killing thousands of civilians, further radicalizing the Palestinian population and alienating the region and the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This might seem like too easy an assessment to make knowing what we do now, but such arguments have been publicly articulated from the start. As the scope and nature of the Oct. 7 attack became clear, a number of Israeli politicians and pundits, along with Americans with relevant military experience, warned that a large-scale military response would hurt Israel’s cause and play into the hands of Hamas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel could have safely slowed down its military efforts as it worked to understand the failures that made possible the nightmare of Oct. 7. Intelligence assets could have been redirected, defense resources reallocated. As events have proved, it was never realistic for Israel to achieve its stated goal of eradicating Hamas. Many of the group’s members will survive, and elements of its dogma will persist and even spread. But it was, and still is, possible to sharply limit the group’s military capacity and the reach of its ideology.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Overshadowing all of these other failures in Israel’s response, however, has been the absence of a political component. Military force is a necessary but not sufficient element of strategy. War may be politics by other means, as Clausewitz famously observed, but war conducted without a political track is destined to fail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here it is useful to go back to Oct. 7 and consider Hamas’s motivations for the attack. One was to spoil Saudi Arabia’s plan to normalize relations with Israel. Another was to show that only Hamas could advance the Palestinian cause, that Arab states like Saudi Arabia were clearly not interested and that the PA was too feckless and corrupt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israeli policy over the past several years could have focused on proving Hamas wrong on these points. This would have meant demonstrating that there were better paths than violence available to promote legitimate Palestinian interests. It would have required Israel to make clear it was prepared to work with Palestinians who eschewed the use of force and wished to coexist peacefully. Such openness to building a Palestinian state would have been accompanied by transfers of resources, to build capacity, and limits on Israeli settlements, so as not to prejudge necessary territorial division.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An approach along these lines might not have succeeded, as the many failed peace efforts of the past testify. It would not have given the Palestinians all that they wanted, but it would have given them a political horizon, and more than they could ever expect to garner from violence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel’s ruling coalition has unfortunately deemed such diplomatic outreach completely unacceptable. It is also true that the wider Israeli public, even before Oct. 7, saw no compelling reason to re-engage with the Palestinians. Today, polls show that a majority of Israelis favor attempting to completely destroy Hamas, no matter how unachievable that might be through force and despite the visibly mounting costs for Israel. But leadership is about shaping public opinion, not following it. And Israel has been notably lacking in leaders of this sort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So what can and should Israel do going forward? These are urgent questions as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, with its history of raising tensions between Palestinians and Israelis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">First, and regardless of whether Hamas agrees to a new pause in the fighting, Israel should bring an end to major military operations, including the planned assault on Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza and the home now of well over a million desperate Palestinian refugees. As President Biden has said, a major operation in Rafah would “cross a red line” because of the mass civilian casualties that would almost certainly result. Ceasing major military operations would not be the same as a total cease-fire—Israel must be able to go after those responsible for Oct. 7 or anyone planning new attacks—but it would give civilians in Gaza a respite from bombing and make it easier to provide them with much-needed food, medicine and other supplies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel should also work with the U.S., the United Nations and Arab states to ensure that such relief enters Gaza. That doesn’t just entail allowing those countries to bring in humanitarian aid through airdrops or the temporary Gaza pier being constructed by the U.S. Israel must actively facilitate the delivery of aid through its land border crossings so that adequate supplies can enter and distribution can be controlled. Israel’s decision this week to open up a new land route for aid to enter Gaza from the north is a welcome step, but much more is needed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Finally, the U.S. and other allies should press Israel to articulate the principles that would inform a political path forward for Palestinians: what would be expected from them and what Israel would be prepared to do in return. It is unthinkable in today’s circumstances to begin to negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state, but it is not too soon to try to begin persuading the Israeli public to accept the idea. Over the next few years, this might allow negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state to commence and have a chance of succeeding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel could develop these principles in collaboration with the U.S., Saudi Arabia and those Arab states with whom it has formal diplomatic relations. With a credible roadmap in place, the Saudis would likely agree to normalize relations with Israel and, along with other wealthy Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates, to help fund Gaza’s reconstruction. Several Arab states might agree to provide a transitional security presence to keep order in Gaza. The political roadmap could be enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution, which in turn could be the basis for a regional peace conference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I understand all too well that such a path is anathema to Israel’s current governing coalition and much of the Israeli public, still consumed by the trauma of Oct. 7 and the continuing hostage crisis. But the U.S. can begin to discuss it publicly in an effort to spark a debate there, as Senate majority leader Charles Schumer, a stalwart backer of Israel for decades, tried to do in a speech this week. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At the core of this public discussion must be the notion of a Palestinian state, whatever limits might be placed on its sovereignty. It is needed not just because Palestinians willing to coexist peacefully alongside Israel deserve one, but because Israel needs such an outcome if it is to remain a secure, prosperous, Jewish and democratic country. This is not, as some have suggested, a reward for terror. It is the best and arguably only way to marginalize Hamas and rebuild necessary support for Israel in the region and the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Crises can either be a midwife for change or lead to a doubling down on the status quo. Oct. 7 is no exception. Israel can embrace the sort of future being advocated by a number of former Israeli prime ministers and the Biden administration, one that potentially leads to a sustainable peace with the Arab world and Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. Or it can continue to travel down the path created by Netanyahu, which is one of occupation and forever wars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The U.S. can encourage Israel to opt for the former through persuasion, incentives and, if need be, penalties, including placing conditions on the use of U.S.-supplied arms and imposing diplomatic and economic sanctions linked to settlement activity and annexation. Successive administrations of both parties have largely avoided such difficult choices. Their reticence has proved costly. The U.S. and Israel both have reached a point where not to choose is to choose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Richard Haass is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior counselor at Centerview Partners. He served as a senior Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush and as director of policy and planning at the U.S. State Department in the administration of President George W. Bush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />And: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Biden acknowledges Hamas' destruction of Israeli homes and wanton killing of Israeli citizens at the same intense level when attacking Bibi and demands Hamas returns hostages, living and/or dead, he deserves no credit for even handedness. Until Biden stops being two faced and demanding Netanyahu leave Israel exposed to more Hamas attacks and Bibi should make bed with Palestinians who still seek Israel's elimination, Bibi should hang tough</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden’s Relationship With Israel’s Netanyahu Is in ‘Serious Crisis’</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Their nearly 50-year ties are nearing an open rupture, spurred by clashing political agendas and conflicting war aims in Gaza</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By David S. Cloud and Dov Lieber</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">WASHINGTON—In the decades-old history of the U.S.-Israel relationship, there has rarely been another moment when an American president was closer to Israel and more at odds with its prime minister.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Since the start of the Gaza war five months ago, President Biden has repeatedly called the U.S.-Israel bond unbreakable. But his nearly 50-year relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadily deteriorated, cleaved by their clashing political agendas and conflicting war aims.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It now appears close to an open rupture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The tense Biden and Netanyahu relationship underscores how Washington and Israel are diverging the longer Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza lasts, raising uncomfortable questions about the long-term strength of bilateral ties that once seemed ironclad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> “There is a very serious crisis in the relationship,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and adviser to several prime ministers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In just over a week, Biden has vowed to hold what he called a “come to Jesus” talk on the war with Netanyahu, pressed for more humanitarian aid into Gaza and declared that he might withhold U.S. weapons deliveries unless Israel takes further steps to protect civilians, a step nervous White House aides quickly sought to play down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In another extraordinary development, top U.S. intelligence agency chiefs warned publicly in testimony to Congress this week that Netanyahu’s political future was in grave jeopardy, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Thursday called for Israeli elections on replacing him in a blistering Senate speech. The White House said it knew about the speech before it was delivered, but didn’t coordinate it with Schumer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Asked about Schumer’s remarks on Friday, Biden told reporters: “He made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Netanyahu has fired back, vowing to resist pressure to scale back Israel’s goal of destroying Hamas, the U.S.-designated terror group whose bloody Oct. 7 attack sparked the war. Israel, he said in a video speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, retained the support of the “overwhelming majority” of the American public and Congress—a not-so-subtle reminder to the White House that it runs a political risk by taking him on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Washington’s relationship with its closest Middle East ally has been considered sacrosanct for years, so unassailable that neither Republican nor Democratic administrations have been willing to risk a serious breach for fear it would end up benefiting the other party politically.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The last time U.S.-Israel relations dropped anywhere near as low was during Barack Obama’s presidency when Netanyahu, then also facing a tough-re-election fight, said he would never accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel and denounced a U.S.-backed nuclear deal with Iran.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden has a deeply felt affinity for Israel that has led him to strongly back its war against Hamas. Early in the conflict that support extended even to Netanyahu, a frequent antagonist during their long political careers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But instead of returning Biden’s embrace, Netanyahu rebuffed him at almost every turn—rejecting a U.S. postwar plan that called for bringing the Palestinian Authority, which currently governs a portion of the West Bank, to Gaza and launching a new diplomatic push for a Palestinian state. Biden still insists he would never abandon Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Netanyahu’s opposition has set back the president’s plan for Israel to agree on a path to establishing a Palestinian state in exchange for the normalization of Israeli relations with Saudi Arabia, denying the White House a diplomatic coup. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The relationship between Biden and Netanyahu has been “a one-way street,” with the U.S. president giving Israel his backing at some political cost, only to have his own requests rebuffed, said Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyx4fdQVDqNwSzFqDrQp7vTYPtkv0lcWIm2elwStANNPvZsDpjC-hFDTxCgiTn5wYThl561_lg52V9XIPrkZzRJgVpsFN-V7ijFfXP6i5wGBtOMnOxTvjthLTHswv-SYHCA8eqsiNu6kE8OyXI-ThIksjw1fg8T8-mdbAThUjEApAzwRd-Ty0puauBnw/s640/433285639_964438761734711_2010518434974849244_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyx4fdQVDqNwSzFqDrQp7vTYPtkv0lcWIm2elwStANNPvZsDpjC-hFDTxCgiTn5wYThl561_lg52V9XIPrkZzRJgVpsFN-V7ijFfXP6i5wGBtOMnOxTvjthLTHswv-SYHCA8eqsiNu6kE8OyXI-ThIksjw1fg8T8-mdbAThUjEApAzwRd-Ty0puauBnw/s320/433285639_964438761734711_2010518434974849244_n.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++</div><br /><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">An Illuminating Exchange on Crime, at Berkeley of All Places</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The mob didn’t disrupt our panels, which mostly engaged in reasoned, respectful debate.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Barry Latzer</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">This month I participated in what’s now considered an unusual event: an ideologically diverse criminal-justice conference at the University of California, Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law professors organized it: John Yoo, a former George W. Bush administration official, and Chesa Boudin, the San Francisco district attorney who was removed from office in a 2022 recall. Their intention in convening diverse speakers was twofold: to make things interesting and potentially to bridge divides. What transpired wasn’t perfect but could emerge as a model for when the academic world finally breaks out of its ideological shackles.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">There were no hecklers or protests. Panelists were generally respectful. The most cordial discussion was between prosecutors from several California counties, all of whom agreed that public safety was their first priority. Perhaps district attorneys are better at compromise than academics. On the other hand, judging by their anodyne point of agreement, there was less to be learned from their exchange.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">The real intellectual fireworks were on display in panels on crime and drugs. The latter was revelatory as Harvard Medical School’s Bertha Madras described the numerous medical risks from marijuana use. She blasted the Biden administration’s proposal to downgrade cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act—suggesting the drug has low potential for abuse.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Ms. Madras pointed out that marijuana is much more potent than it was decades ago, with long-term consequences yet unknown. She added that the surreptitious addition of such adulterants as fentanyl and highly potent synthetic cannabinoid makes the potential for harm all the greater. Ethan Nadelmann, a longtime opponent of narcotics prohibition, followed with an impassioned plea for cannabis legalization coupled with treatment programs. The contrast could hardly have been greater or more thought-provoking.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">My contribution was on the crime-trends panel. I argued that the crime spike during the pandemic and George Floyd protests is unlikely to be protracted since the factors associated with long-term booms, such as the 25-year crime wave that began in the late 1960s, aren’t present.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">The Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald followed with an account of criminals raiding retail outlets with cars and sledgehammers, which led to store closures in Northern California. A let-wing panelist cast this as “propaganda” reminiscent of Nazi Germany, arguing that the real cause of crime and misery is inequality, poverty and racism, and that incremental fixes to law-enforcement policies are exercises in futility.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">I couldn’t let this stand unchallenged. Progressives seem to believe that the best solutions to social problems are the all-encompassing long-term policies whose effects won’t be known for decades. If you want to solve crime, they say, then eliminate poverty—as if that were a near-term project. Meanwhile, innocents continue to be assaulted every day.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">That same panelist also suggested that the concept of crime as conservatives define it is too narrow. The category should include corporate violations of environmental law, bribery, false claims and corporate fraud. Never mind that these transgressions are already crimes, mainly on the federal level and thus outside the purview of municipal police. Further, the Federal Bureau of Investigation—whose reports are the main source of crime data for criminologists and the media—doesn’t record these crimes.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Anyhow, this complaint is unwarranted because serious violent and property crime prosecutions far outnumber corporate offenses. Between 1992 and 2022, the highest number of annual corporate prosecutions was a mere 304. In a recent 10-year period, 2013-22, the average was 128. In 2009 there were more than 30,000 felony prosecutions for violent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and assault and property crimes such as burglary, larceny, motor-vehicle theft and fraud.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Progressives will say these counts are misleading because law enforcement refuses to pursue corporate wrongdoing. But that’s implausible. The gulf between the prosecutions of business.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">street crime is so vast that no amount of vigorous searching for corporate malfeasance will be enough to close it. Moreover, when it comes to crime, the public is most worried about personal security—whether they’ll be mugged on the way to work, or their kids harmed en route to school.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">When panelists have such divergent views, is there any value in bringing them together? Won’t each speaker play to his base and simply reinforce the audience’s prejudices? Yes, but a great deal depends on the audience. If undergraduates or law students are listening, they might truly benefit, as their views probably aren’t solidified yet. The longer one lives, the more one reads, the more experiences one has in the world, the more one’s views evolve.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">It’s important, then, to present both sides of an issue, especially to students. This once widely accepted truth resurfaced at perhaps a most unusual place. In doing so, it pointed the way to the kind of diversity that counts most: the intellectual kind.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Mr. Latzer is an emeritus professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of “The Myth of Over punishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">+++++++++++++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"> And </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will The Deck Be Stacked Again?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">America higher ups, who hate BIBI, have begun to assemble. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Former CIA Director John Brennan, President Biden and Senator Schumer have begun to make demands of Bibi that are not in Israel's best interest because these weasels have their own issues which motivate their nefarious demands. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brennan's hatred of Trump has led him to the edge of being a traitor. Biden has wilted from the heat of possibly losing Muslim votes and re-election and Schumer has always had the spine of a worm.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bibi may not be revered, as he was in his early years, but after Oct.7, the nation of Israel is behind the way the government is taking the war to Hamas. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whether total victory can be achieved, as Bibi seeks, may not be in the cards but Israeli's seem obliged to pursue the goal.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are those, like Bret Stephens, who say Israel has no other choice and, of course, there are always the naysayers to whom Brennan, Biden and Schumer are now collectively catering. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one told America not to torch Dresden, if memory serves me correctly. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Small nations, like Israel, are vulnerable and easy targets as demonstrated by Schumer's recent speech calling for elections in Israel. Chutzpah has always been a trait that displays Schumer's frail morality. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for Biden, his treatment of Justice Thomas speaks legions and then Brennan's despicable/repetitive attacks on Trump. have set a new low.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many unbiased Senior American Officers have been awed by the IDF's pursuit of the War. Israel did not start or want a confrontation. Yet, the IDF has gone beyond in avoiding civilian tragedies at a cost to their own troops' lives and now they are assisting in relieving Palestinian hardships at further risks to their forces. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel has no desire to administer Gaza but neither can they allow Hamas to do so post the war's conclusion. Neither can Israel allow the current leaders of the Palestinians to be in charge. The mess created by Palestinian hatred toward Israel and their willingness to be governed by Hamas led to the current Gordian Knot. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The deck seems always stacked against Israel and I have no doubt it will be again. The world, for whatever reason, eventually adores and supports the perpetrator. The victims, residing in their graves, have no voice. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); 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text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: underline;">https://townhall.com/tipsheet/</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></wbr><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: underline;">saraharnold/2024/03/15/biden-g</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></wbr><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: underline;">ive-500-million-to-middle-east</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></wbr><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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text-align: left;">++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Savannah's St Patrick's parade reflects that our beautiful city has an excellent mayor, who happens to be black, who has done a magnificent job of keeping the community together. Savannah has a history of many ethnic groups living side by side and proud of our common history.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have our issues but we try to resolve them based on social comity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Savannah is a great example of what America needs to return to being and could if politicians and radical outliers were willing to put political animosities behind them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">For instance:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="yiv3385878210text_block yiv3385878210block-1" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none !important; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv3385878210pad" style="outline: none !important; word-break: normal;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; outline: none !important;"><div style="color: #0364aa; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none !important;"><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 30px; outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Call on the Rutgers Student Assembly President to Block the BDS </span></span><span style="outline: none !important;">Referendum</span></span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv3385878210text_block yiv3385878210block-2" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none !important; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv3385878210pad" style="outline: none !important; padding: 5px 10px 25px; word-break: normal;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; outline: none !important;"><div style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; outline: none !important;"><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">On October 7, 2023, over 1,200 men, women, and children were brutally massacred by Hamas terrorists who violated Israel’s border. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. More than 250 innocents were taken hostage, and more than 130 remain in captivity nearly five months later. As Israel continues to fight an existential war against the genocidal terrorist group in Gaza to bring back its hostages, <strong style="outline: none !important;">universities across the country have seen an unprecedented rise in anti-Semitism, and </strong><a href="https://link.quorum.us/f/a/3csTmO6daYhPxzOeaDPyGg~~/AACYXwA~/RgRn2C6HP0RKaHR0cHM6Ly9hYmM3bnkuY29tL3J1dGdlcnMtamV3aXNoLXN0dWRlbnQtZXhwdWxzaW9uLWFudGlzZW1pdGlzbS8xNDI2MTYwOC9XA3NwY0IKZe-YqfVlQJY0eFIVYnJva2VyYmVya29AeWFob28uY29tWAQAAAAA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0364aa; outline: none !important;" target="_blank"><strong style="outline: none !important;">Rutgers has not been spared</strong></a><strong style="outline: none !important;">.</strong></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"> </p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Recently, the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) voted to hold a school-wide BDS referendum during the upcoming RUSA election (March 25-29). The campus community is currently set to be presented with a vicious petition, backed by radical student groups, that takes the position of Hamas and absurdly accuses Israel, which is attempting to rescue the hostages and liberate the Gazan people, of “apartheid” and “genocide.” This is a vile affront to the victims and survivors of the actual massacre.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"> </p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">RUSA President Jack Ramirez can veto the decision and block the referendum, which demands that Rutgers University adopt the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement </strong>by divesting its endowment fund from companies that do business with Israel and calls on Rutgers to terminate its partnership with Tel Aviv University. <strong style="outline: none !important;">BDS activity on college campuses has been linked to an increase in anti-Semitic activity on campus</strong> and only inflames tensions in already dangerous environments for Jewish students.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"> </p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Hamas and its supporters have waged a long-term, well-funded campaign to delude Americans into accepting their attempt to portray Israel as somehow uniquely “illegitimate” as a state. Combined with the broadest wave of antisemitism in the West since the 1940s, the Jewish community is being made to feel deeply unsafe, marginalized, and othered, particularly in the university context.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"> </p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">Call on RUSA President Jack Ramirez to act now to ensure that this hateful, slanderously anti-Semitic petition never goes in front of the student population. </strong>With the level of rhetoric against Jewish people and Israelis that has already been permitted in this environment, popularizing such malicious and clearly false claims and granting legitimacy to the anti-Semitic BDS Movement will only serve to inflame an already traumatic situation.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></div><br /> <p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-1287318300628327922024-03-15T19:10:00.000-07:002024-03-16T07:50:53.431-07:00Brown Shirts? Biden Beholden? American Generals Awed. Love Losing.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDakNKuTfaLPW1Geoeug3P4YbL3-AqukZ88BNJOrtZOgRACK9tc-KiU7PKB2svtDaOzPu5taTesdLYdZdD7soR8QtOb4QyfU4S95uWfZMrS5x2hsKNcFGShWI4O99kaANxCqKLna81K0hgyhzxzYefoOX-Vhtp-ZfcxaNGqbt9BYTRhLOgSNepSQXzPY/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDakNKuTfaLPW1Geoeug3P4YbL3-AqukZ88BNJOrtZOgRACK9tc-KiU7PKB2svtDaOzPu5taTesdLYdZdD7soR8QtOb4QyfU4S95uWfZMrS5x2hsKNcFGShWI4O99kaANxCqKLna81K0hgyhzxzYefoOX-Vhtp-ZfcxaNGqbt9BYTRhLOgSNepSQXzPY/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Op Ed's I totally agree with.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will they be wearing Brown Shirts?</span><br />+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Chicago Teachers Union’s Student Voter Army</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The union plans to organize high school students and march them to the polls in support of a tax increase.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By The Editorial Board</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chicago high school students may not be reading at grade level, but the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is making sure they know how to vote like union members.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a letter on Monday, CTU Vice President Jackson Potter said the union would be aiming to “fill CTU HQ with Chicago’s newest voters” for a special “Student Power Forum.” High school students drafted by teachers and staff would be gathered to hear from “candidates/political organizers” and then join a “Parade to the Polls, where students will march to an early voting site . . . making their voices heard along the way.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This inspiring display of democracy, Mr. Potter’s letter says, would be operated in partnership with Chicago Votes, La Casa Norte and Bring Chicago Home. The latter outfit is pushing to pass a real-estate tax increase referendum on March 19. Chicago news station WBEZ reported that the CTU said the letter’s reference to Bring Chicago Home’s participation was a “mistake.” Whoops.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Bring Chicago Home referendum, which would raise the real-estate transfer tax to 2% on properties over $1 million and 3% for those over $1.5 million, is supported by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. But that’s not the only reason the CTU likes it. The measure would supposedly raise funds to combat homelessness, but the union has identified it as a revenue source for subsidizing teacher and student housing as well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a leaked summary of the CTU’s demands for its next contract, reported by the Illinois Policy Institute, the union notes that CTU Members “have demanded that we have more resources, and what better resources could there be than ACTUAL housing!” Among the key proposals the CTU lists is “Financial assistance for CTU members to live & work in the city.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Our campaign begins now with Bring Chicago Home, on March 19 and continues in our contract campaign,” the union adds.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So the CTU has donated $400,000 to support Bring Chicago Home and the union will be marching student to the polls to vote on the referendum. That’s political coercion so explicit even Richard Daley and the old Democratic Party Chicago machine would blush.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Biden paying off China and the University of Pennsylvania?</span><br />+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden’s Budget Neglects the Military</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sequestration and chronic underfunding have opened a yawning gap in American strength and readiness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Michael J. Boskin and Kiran Sridhar</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">President Biden has again proposed a vastly inadequate Defense Department budget. His proposal for 2025 is a mere 1% increase from this year’s agreed level. Adjusted for inflation, it’s about $140 billion below the 2010 budget that many analysts, including these pages, deemed insufficient in far less challenging times. While America’s military remains the strongest and most capable in the world, our advantage over potential adversaries has been shrinking rapidly. We must do better if we are to deter our enemies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For decades, the nation expected the military to be able to fight and win two wars simultaneously. That expectation has been gradually reduced to winning one war while deterring “opportunistic aggression” elsewhere. The Biden administration has placed less emphasis on military capability and more on tools such as sanctions. Yet at a Hoover Institution conference we convened in early 2023, a bipartisan group of three dozen former top leaders from the Pentagon, Congress, think tanks and academia agreed that insufficient and inflexible budgeting ensures the military will struggle to meet even this diminished standard. As Colin Powell once put it, “Show me your budget and I’ll show you my strategy.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Navy can’t send ships it doesn’t have to keep sea lanes open. The Army can’t deploy troops it has been unable to recruit and train. The budget is the basis for modernizing technology, replacing old equipment and restoring the defense industrial base with capacity to supply needed stockpiles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Following mandatory sequestration cuts and endless continuing resolutions, U.S. defense spending has never returned to that 2010 level. Even sizable supplemental aid for Ukraine and Israel wouldn’t get it close this year. The cumulative funding gap since 2010 totals about $2 trillion in today’s dollars (and Mr. Biden’s 10-year plan fails even to keep up with inflation). While only some of that money would have enhanced current readiness, the shortfall has still battered the military’s capabilities. With an average age of 28 years, only 70% of combat aircraft are mission-ready. The Navy is retiring a submarine every two years, while China, which already has the world’s largest navy, recently deployed advanced subs that can run silent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What’s necessary to catch up? Sustained yearly increases of $100 billion or more—about 0.4% to 0.5% of gross domestic product. The Reagan-era buildup that helped win the Cold War peaked at 6% of GDP, about twice the current level, which is near a historically low point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Among the most urgent priorities: a larger Navy with greater sea-lift capacity and advanced submarines; modern air- and missile-defense systems; a larger Army; expanded forward-basing capabilities, especially in the Pacific; modernized nuclear deterrence; upgraded fighters and bombers in a portfolio matched to mission needs; a rebuilt defense industrial base; and increased capabilities in cyber and space, where Russia threatens to disable our satellite communications.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fiscal constraints from excessive deficit spending in recent decades, and a deteriorating outlook driven by Social Security and Medicare, mean the defense buildup will need more bang for the buck as well as more bucks. Some allies must step up their spending and integrate their forces better with ours, as Japan is doing. But there is no substitute for American military supremacy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The public and lawmakers will justifiably demand accountability. The Pentagon is hardly a paragon of efficiency. Despite progress, the Defense Department recently failed its sixth straight audit. Three reforms, among many possibilities, would make the Pentagon much more efficient.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">First, around $100 billion of the defense budget funds activities not closely related to national security—including environmental, educational and healthcare programs. Many of those programs should be shifted to different agencies, with some of the current funding reallocated to core military capabilities. Second, the military should buy more up-to-date and less expensive commercial technology. Third, we should trim congressional micromanagement, which hamstrings the Pentagon from operating more efficiently. In 1970 the National Defense Authorization Act was 10 pages long and passed in one day by voice vote; today, it is 100 times as long and filled with onerous requirements. Pentagon leaders should have more flexibility, with appropriate accountability.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Congress also should separate the investment account from the rest of the budget, the better to highlight new capital investment, depreciation and inventory depletion. Borrowing to acquire assets, as a family does with a mortgage or car loan, is far more sensible than borrowing to finance regular continuing expenses. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s huge military investment for World War II and Ronald Reagan’s buildup that convinced the Soviets they couldn’t win the Cold War are historic examples of wise debt financing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We see reasons for optimism. Over the past three years, bipartisan majorities in a Congress with growing numbers of recent veterans added billions of dollars to Mr. Biden’s inadequate requests. The 2024 NDAA enables the Pentagon to employ some multiyear contracts for critical munitions and missiles. Polling suggests that while the public greatly overestimates the defense share of the budget, it wants more information and backs increased spending.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But episodic supplemental appropriations are no substitute for a consistently adequate budget. And as Reagan showed, only a determined president can persuade a war-weary public and wary Congress to support the sustained investment in national security that is the foundation of freedom, peace and prosperity. The next president will have a lot on his plate, but rebuilding the nation’s military must be job No. 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Boskin is a Hoover Institution senior fellow and economics professor at Stanford. He served as chairman of the president’s council of economic advisers, 1989-93. Mr. Sridhar is an investment affiliate at Shield Capital and a senior fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity. They are co-editors, with John Rader, of “Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The word I am hearing through well placed sources is that unbiased American miltary higher ups are in awe of what the IDF and IAF have accomplished against unbelievable restrictions and unfair demands from the Bdien Administration.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel Will Defeat Hamas in Rafah</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’ve incapacitated most of the terror group. Rafah is its last stronghold, and we must win there too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Ophir Falk</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mounting international pressure to end the war won’t weaken Israel’s resolve to accomplish its mission of destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages and guaranteeing that Gaza will never pose a threat to Israel again. Detractors dismiss total victory as implausible, but the facts on the ground indicate otherwise.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel has already dismantled 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions, incapacitated more than 21,500 Hamas terrorists—about two-thirds of its force, including two of the top four leaders—and destroyed significant terror tunnels. By contrast, it took U.S. military forces nine months to take out 5,000 ISIS fighters in Mosul.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">John Spencer, chairman of urban warfare studies at West Point, described Israel’s achievements as “unprecedented,” especially given the complex combat conditions above and below ground. Mr. Spencer says that Israel is setting the “gold standard” for avoiding civilian casualties.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel doesn’t need prompting to provide humanitarian aid or to act with caution. According to retired British Col. Richard Kemp, the average combatant-to-civilian death ratio in Gaza is about 1 to 1.5. This is astonishing since, according to the United Nations, the average combatant-to-civilian death ratio in urban warfare has been 1 to 9. Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool. We cannot let Hamas’s strategy pay off.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas has four terror brigades in Rafah. That city is Hamas’s last stronghold, and its defeat is a prerequisite for victory. Whoever pressures Israel to refrain from entering Rafah is preventing the destruction of Hamas and the freeing of Israel and Gazan civilians from Hamas’s stranglehold. Gen. David Petraeus, who led the 2007 American surge in Iraq, said last week that the “key now is to not stop until Hamas is fully destroyed.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asking Israel to stop the war now is akin to telling the Allies to stop halfway to Berlin in World War II. If Hamas isn’t eradicated, genocidal terrorists will continue to emerge. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told new Israel Defense Forces cadets last week, “when we defeat the murderers of October 7, we are preventing the next 9/11.” Global leaders should take note.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">High-intensity combat will wind down after Rafah, humanitarian aid will no longer be hijacked by Hamas, and safety for civilians can be realized. Total victory is within reach. Israel will finish the job. Anything less will endanger the rest of the civilized world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Falk is an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Schumer has the spine of a worm. He is a despicable version of a contemptable politician.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++ </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Top Senate Democrat Topples Another Democratic Norm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An unwelcome case for foreign interference in elections.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By James Freeman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Is it just a coincidence or are the Washington politicians who spend the most time telling us how valiantly they are defending democracy and political norms also the ones who cannot be trusted to respect either? We now have the spectacle of a senior U.S. government official demanding that a friendly democracy replace its duly elected leadership.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Natalie Andrews reports for the Journal:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has lost his way” and called for new elections aimed at choosing a new government, a sign of growing U.S. pressure on Israel over the war in Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fortunately the New York Democrat was not expressing a consensus view in the U.S. Congress. Ms. Andrews notes:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) took to the floor to blast Schumer’s speech.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“It is grotesque and hypocritical for Americans who hyperventilate about foreign interference in our own democracy to call for the removal of a democratically elected leader of Israel,” he said. “This is unprecedented. We should not treat fellow democracies this way at all.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No, we should not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Deliberations of the Unreasonable Nations Security Council</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Speaking of deliberative bodies, a Jerusalem Post editorial notes an address by Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz to the United Nations Security Council. The U.N. has still not designated Hamas as a terrorist organization despite a U.N. report that finally acknowledged the rape, slaughter, torture and kidnapping perpetrated by Hamas. The Post writes of Mr. Katz:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Noting that many countries had declared Hamas a terrorist organization – including the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Paraguay, New Zealand, the UK, and the European Union – he appealed to the Security Council: “Do not turn your head away from the facts: Hamas must be declared a terrorist organization and face the harshest sanctions.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Insisting that the UN had been silent for too long regarding the actions of Hamas, Katz said that in the past five months, it had convened 41 times and “neither condemned nor denounced the brutal crimes of Hamas.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This could be a new low for the U.N., but of course the organization has a long and undistinguished history. Forty years ago today, Richard Bernstein reported for the New York Times:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The vast majority of United Nations member nations last year voted against the United States five times more frequently than they voted with it, according to an American study of voting patterns distributed here today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The study, which was compiled by the United States Mission, says the United States continues to be commonly outvoted in the United Nations, a pattern that has endured for nearly two decades of both Republican and Democratic administrations, said the United States chief delegate, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the General Assembly that ended last December, the overall degree of support shown by all countries was 25.5 percent, according to the report. Only the Western European countries as a group and Israel voted more than half the time on the same side as the United States, with the Israeli record showing a 93.3 percent concurrence with American positions, the highest of any country...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The report said that among the countries professing nonalignment, support for the Soviet Union’s positions was about 80 percent, compared with 20 percent for the United States.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Speaking of politicians who claim to be guardians of democracy, readers may recall the 2022 election high jinks in which Democrats would pretend that Trump allies represented the greatest threat to our republic—while simultaneously helping them win Republican primaries.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Seems like they’re at it again. Michael Bender reports for the New York Times:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Democratic group is wading into the Republican Senate primary in Ohio with a new television spot aimed at promoting the conservative credentials of Bernie Moreno, a Cleveland-area businessman who has been endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The spot criticizes Mr. Moreno as ultraconservative and too aligned with Mr. Trump. But by running the ad in the final week of the primary, those critiques are likely to be viewed as badges of honor by Republican primary voters, a tactic Democrats have employed in other races in recent years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Bender adds that the group running the ad “is funded largely through the Senate Majority PAC, the principal super PAC supporting Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Democrats assess that the MAGA guys are easier to beat in general elections, but obviously the Democrats aren’t that worried about the consequences if this assessment turns out to be wrong. And if not even they believe their hysterical anti-MAGA warnings, maybe no one else should either.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">++++.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Republicans do not know how to win because they prefer the comfort of losing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The GOP’s Senate Opportunity</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The party will have a favorable map in 2024 for the last time in several voting cycles.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Brad Todd</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Republicans long ago earned the nickname “the stupid party,” and we’re threatening to prove it again. Democrats haven’t been this vulnerable in the U.S. Senate in a decade, yet GOP donors and our Washington geniuses seem to be focusing on a shrinking number of seats. It’s not too late to correct course. Long-term control of the Supreme Court might depend on it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The 100-member Senate is divided into three classes of 33 or 34 members each, and every two years one class’s members face re-election. Only 12 Democratic senators come from states that a Republican has carried in any presidential election since the iPhone was introduced in 2007. Those are the Democrats whom Republicans should be most able to beat.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Seven of those 12 Democratic seats are up this year, along with one from Nevada, a state that was closely contested in 2016 and 2020. Only five will be in 2026 and 2028 combined, along with at least six Republican-held seats in competitive states.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">You don’t have to be a math wizard to realize Republicans had better pad their margin now. A 51-seat majority isn’t enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The retirement of West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and the clear primary field for Tim Sheehy against Montana’s Jon Tester makes 51 an easy reach for Republicans. Nobody with any sense will bet on Mr. Tester, given that Mr. Biden is likely to lose the Treasure State by 20 points.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The next objective for Republicans should be to sweep the Great Lakes in what used to be called the Democrats’ blue wall—by taking out incumbents Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and winning the open seat now held by Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, all states that Donald Trump carried in 2016 by winning working-class white voters. These are all Democrats from another era, and all are charter members of the lucky-calendar club.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This class faced election in 2006, one of the best Democratic years since Watergate. All won in 2012 on the coattails of Barack Obama, who ran hard for blue-collar Midwestern voters by painting Mitt Romney as a soulless corporate vulture. Then they rode the wave of 2018, when left-wingers deranged by Donald Trump’s presidency showed up in droves and his fans stayed home.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This year’s election will be the first neutral or hostile electoral climate this crop of Senate Democrats has faced this century, and Republicans need to try to beat them all—and to go after opportunities in Nevada (against Jacky Rosen) and Arizona (where Democrat turned independent Kyrsten Sinema is vacating her seat). And they should support unusually strong candidates in the blue states of Maryland (former Gov. Larry Hogan) and Virginia (Hung Cao).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Trump will either win or come close in all these states. A well-run Senate campaign will get every vote that he gets, and it can squeeze out a few more from suburbanites who dislike Mr. Trump but don’t want Democrats in charge of everything.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Democrats know they’re vulnerable, and that’s why Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC this week announced nearly a quarter-billion dollars in ad reservations for the fall, covering all of those states plus Montana. Republicans have so far booked fall airtime only in Montana and Ohio. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in December that those two states, plus Pennsylvania, were his focus.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A GOP sweep of the close states would give the party 57 seats. That’s unlikely, but you can’t know which seats will be winnable late if you don’t bet on all of them early. That truism is lost on Republican megadonors and on too many politicians, whose ambitions are tempered by the donations made. In the two decades since the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law made Super PACs the main advertisers in American elections, GOP donors have settled into a pattern of not engaging with big contributions until late in the election year—too late.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Big Republican donors have a conservative capitalist ethos: Pour money into proven performers and safe bets. They wait to see which candidates survive months of onslaught from Democrats before sending in air cover. Our low-dollar donors are driven by personalities, not party, since they hate “the official Republican Party” almost as much as they detest the Democratic Party.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Democratic donors are risk-taking and mission-driven. They tend not to belong to traditional religions, so donating to left-wing candidates is the equivalent of putting money on the collection plate. Lefty megadonors are either trial lawyers accustomed to front-loading investments, guilt-ridden heirs to legacy wealth or tech-industry zillionaires trained to risk money on prospective concepts.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">While Democrats held 60 Senate seats as recently as 2009-10, it’s been a century since Republicans had more than 55, and we’ve had that many only four times. There’s no reason to think we can’t do better. The GOP should aim for as many seats as possible in 2024. If we don’t, we’ll wish we had when the pickings get slim in 2026 and 2028.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Todd is a co-founder of OnMessage Inc., a Republican consulting firm, and co-author with Salena Zito of “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics.”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">++++</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-28122672558904739282024-03-15T16:51:00.000-07:002024-03-15T18:59:39.718-07:00Fani And Her Judge.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqOdDD-v-A1JDELd9qcVE3gFyJQ7PKFwZ23bAvN_0mvGzhzeKPRdW6Sm_1bD98lTHNjBxiyeFM4uvlt4hY9gca7wfaA7qiG8gMhVN9o2yRdTY5lpXBpwzKvkp2__kkh0ivhouOrRoynmpDm9wbYrDL2VMODrQ5sITaBSQ0yRlmUKFrVVYo9WaxuvAOfg/s553/unnamed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leadership and Strong Hand In Glove</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Weaponization, politicization of the law is un-acceptable. Lies, based on testimony from her own lips, has somehow allowed Fani to continue prosecution of an ex-president on trumped up charges so as to deprive him of his constitutional rights. This liar made no bones about the fact crippling Trump was her stated goal in order to receive notoriety. Fani the "King Killer."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The judge seemed to make a "Solomonic" decision and split hairs by allowing only one liar to proceed to prosecute.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hopefully, the Georgia State Legislature will end this farce and demoniacal effort to smear through use of the law.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Call me a racist. I no longer give a damn. Most black citizens aspire to what most everyone wants, a job, an education, an ability to raise a family in a safe environment and the ability to save and retire at some reasonable age in decent health.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Far too many expect it as an entitlement and will not put in the effort to obtain it through their own sweat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, there is a large element, within the black society, that are radical, lawless and have reached high undeserved positions because they are inept and Fani is one of them. Why this Judge struggled with allowing her to continue defies morality, logic and even prudent legal conclusions. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I lived in Atlanta for 42 years and watched the city decline as incompetent black officials wormed their way into local government. Some were outstanding and made great contributions (MLK immediately comes to mind) but far too many were corrupt and sought their day at the public's trough. They also had chips on their shoulders and decent Atlantan's feared to knock them off because of being called racists so the black racists had their way and Atlanta paid the price.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Atlanta is simply a tragic example of America in decline. Great nations require constant clear headed and courageous leaders. Like apples, a few rotten ones spoil the batch and Carter, Clinton, Obama and now Biden are prime examples. Republicans have their share of misguided leaders as well. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for participant citizens, a rigorous education is also key.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It takes a strong hand in the glove to keep any nation on track.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">America's engine seems to have run out of steam and the hand in the glove has shrunken.. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="18e424a393ee2295" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1793598836580426389" jsname="r4nke" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1f1f1f; display: inline; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1">Breaking news: D.A. Fani Willis can stay on Trump case if lead prosecutor leaves, judge rules</h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Google Sans, Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br /></span></span><span class="J-J5-Ji" jsname="SjW3R" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; min-height: 28px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;"><div aria-checked="false" aria-label="Not important" class="pG" data-is-important="false" data-tooltip-align="b,l" data-tooltip-contained="true" data-tooltip-delay="1500" jsaction="mouseenter:Oh6g9b; mouseleave:Oh6g9b;click:KjsqPd; keydown:mAamLc;" jscontroller="sggJRd" jsname="FaKNoe" role="switch" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 20px;" tabindex="0"></div></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Judge Says D.A. Can Stay on Trump Case, but Only if Lead Prosecutor Leaves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fani Willis, the Atlanta district attorney, came under scrutiny because of a romantic relationship with the prosecutor she hired to oversee the case involving Donald Trump.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgy76nOSotYiqwXJGUQcZeQgFUEkwpLUIYIYAaSvB12M3326rVxUY6eLH7YWU32xj3H6omZ9xKsHAmpxkUSONU_iWnOgN-Xf8DEhmnE4ttvL6w0mr7r19QF-X0znGhbO6DES7yA6HOqOmSHkYMoHRvwicc3AA-ZvWNoR8fDh0Rm8KOZQquWOcygDOhSQ/s1079/1601861500_1710551635574_399428.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1079" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgy76nOSotYiqwXJGUQcZeQgFUEkwpLUIYIYAaSvB12M3326rVxUY6eLH7YWU32xj3H6omZ9xKsHAmpxkUSONU_iWnOgN-Xf8DEhmnE4ttvL6w0mr7r19QF-X0znGhbO6DES7yA6HOqOmSHkYMoHRvwicc3AA-ZvWNoR8fDh0Rm8KOZQquWOcygDOhSQ/s320/1601861500_1710551635574_399428.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-16836683827551539232024-03-15T15:26:00.000-07:002024-03-15T16:42:11.229-07:00Capitalism. Israel The Scapegoat? Vitriolic Bernie. Bii Give's World What It Deserves. More.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqZe3e7F56ott4CRhfguTnvMBMElcXOCx3ndV3FiflUWLp7ED78IpAEmit2xOjNPSdp14RvrWpkm9WJiDJSKJT_g-zzN-ksJmlzQi4_AsQhcoFrF84FBBEgYdtQIdlm4LKw0ZhyRde15EyJ-NLvZUKzURrEtxD9UbszEz5qhYM2wVBolkyAdt_0Zniqs/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqZe3e7F56ott4CRhfguTnvMBMElcXOCx3ndV3FiflUWLp7ED78IpAEmit2xOjNPSdp14RvrWpkm9WJiDJSKJT_g-zzN-ksJmlzQi4_AsQhcoFrF84FBBEgYdtQIdlm4LKw0ZhyRde15EyJ-NLvZUKzURrEtxD9UbszEz5qhYM2wVBolkyAdt_0Zniqs/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzkNqR372FfIsnOfucHXSC2BoJ8tFSaxpEWp6T1xcHWXRfJO8g7w6womIr-6icN1C0i4qNviqVJ0tQBVggntA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sent to me by a dear friend and fellow memo reader:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The de facto state actors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By Jeffrey A. Tucker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large floppy disks. We had a great time poking fun at them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I recall the days of thinking government would never catch up to the glories and might of the market itself. I wrote several books on it, full of techno-optimism. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The new tech sector had a libertarian ethos about it. They didn’t care about the government and its bureaucrats. They didn’t have lobbyists in Washington. They were the new technologies of freedom and didn’t care much about the old analogue world of command and control. They would usher in a new age of people power. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here we sit a quarter-century later with documented evidence that the opposite happened. The private sector collects the data that the government buys and uses as a tool of control. What is shared and how many people see it is a matter of algorithms agreed upon by a combination of government agencies, university centers, various nonprofits, and the companies themselves. The whole thing has become an oppressive blob..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Every major company that once stayed far away from Washington now owns a similar giant palace in or around D.C., and they collect tens of billions in government revenue. Government has now become a major customer, if not the main customer, of the services provided by the large social media and tech companies. They are advertisers but also massive purchasers of the main product too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are the biggest winners of government contracts, according to a report from Tussel. Amazon hosts the data of the National Security Agency with a $10 billion contract, and gets hundreds of millions from other governments. We do not know how much Google has received from the US government, but it is surely a substantial share of the $694 billion the federal government hands out in contracts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Microsoft also has a large share of government contracts. In 2023, the US Department of Defense awarded the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract to Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Oracle. The contract is worth up to $9 billion and provides the Department of Defense with cloud services. It’s just the beginning. The Pentagon is looking for a successor plan that will be bigger. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Actually, we don’t even know the full extent of this but it is gargantuan. Yes, these companies provide the regular consumer services but a main and even decisive customer is government itself. As a result, the old laughing stock line about backwards tech at government agencies is no more. Today government is a main purchaser of tech services and is a top driver of the AI boom too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It’s one of the best-kept secrets in American public life, hardly talked about at all by mainstream media. Most people still think of tech companies as free-enterprise rebels. It’s not true. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The same situation of course exists for pharmaceutical companies. This relationship dates even further back in time and is even tighter to the point that there is no real distinction between the interests of the FDA/CDC and large pharmaceutical companies. They are one and the same. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In this framework, we might also tag the agricultural sector, which is dominated by cartels that have driven out family farms. It’s a government plan and massive subsidies that determine what is produced and in what quantity. It’s not because of consumers that your Coke is filled with a scary product called “high fructose corn syrup,” why your candy bar and danish have the same, and why there is corn in your gas tank. This is entirely the product of government agencies and budgets. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In free enterprise, the old rule is that the customer is always right. That’s a wonderful system sometimes called consumer sovereignty. Its advent in history, dating perhaps from the 16th century, represented a tremendous advance over the old guild system of feudalism and certainly a major step over ancient despotisms. It’s been the rallying cry of market-based economics ever since. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What happens, however, when government itself becomes a main and even dominant customer? The ethos of private enterprise is thereby changed. No longer primarily interested in serving the general public, enterprise turns its attention to serving its powerful masters in the halls of the state, gradually weaving close relationships and forming a ruling class that becomes a conspiracy against the public. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This used to go by the name “crony capitalism” which perhaps describes some of the problems on a small scale. This is another level of reality that needs an entirely different name. That name is corporatism, a coinage from the 1930s and a synonym for fascism back before that became a curse word due to wartime alliances. Corporatism is a specific thing, not capitalism and not socialism but a system of private property ownership with cartelized industry that primarily serves the state. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The old binaries of the public and private sector – widely assumed by every main ideological system –have become so blurred that they no longer make much sense. And yet we are ideologically and philosophically unprepared to deal with this new world with anything like intellectual insight. Not only that, it can be extremely difficult even to tell the good guys from the bad guys in the news stream. We hardly know anymore for whom to cheer or boo in the great struggles of our time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That’s how mixed up everything has become. We’ve clearly traveled a long way from the 1990s! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Some might observe that this has been a problem far back in time. Starting with the Spanish-American War, we’ve seen a merger of public and private as involving the munitions industry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is true. Many Gilded Age fortunes were wholly legitimate and market-based enterprises but others were gathered from the nascent military-industrial complex that began to mature in the Great War and involved a vast range of industries from industry to transportation to communications. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Of course in 1913, we saw the advent of a particularly egregious public-private partnership with the Federal Reserve, in which private banks merged into a unified front and agreed to service US government debt obligations in exchange for bailout guarantees. This monetary corporatism continues to vex us to this day, as does the military industrial complex. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How is it different from the past? It’s different in degree and reach. The corporatist machine now manages the main products and services in our civilian life including the entire way we get information, how we work, how we bank, how we contact friends, and how we buy. It is the manager of the whole of our lives in every respect, and has become the driving force of product innovation and design. It has become a tool for surveillance in the most intimate aspects of our lives, including financial information and inclusive of listening devices we’ve willingly installed in our own homes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In other words, this is no longer just about private companies providing the bullets and bombs for both sides in a foreign war and obtaining the rebuilding contracts after. The military-industrial complex has come home, expanded to everything, and invaded every aspect of our lives. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It has become a main curator and censor of our news and social media presence and postings. It is in a position to say which companies and products succeed and which ones fail. It can kill apps in a flash if the well-placed person does not like what it is doing. It can order other apps to add or subtract to a blacklist based on political opinions. It can tell even the smallest company to comply or face death by lawfare. It can seize on any individual and make him a public enemy based entirely on an opinion or action that runs contrary to regime priorities. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In short, this corporatism – in all its iterations including the regulatory state and the patent war chest that maintains and enforces monopoly – is the core source of all the current despotism. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It obtained its first full trial run with the lockdowns of 2020, when tech companies and media joined in the ear-splitting propaganda campaigns to shelter in place, cancel holidays, and not visit grandma in the hospital and nursing home. It cheered as millions of small businesses were destroyed and big-box stores thrived as distributors of approved products, while vast swaths of the workforce were called nonessential and put on welfare. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This was the corporatist state at work, with a large corporate sector wholly acquiescent to regime priority and a government fully dedicated to rewarding its industrial partners in every sector that went along with the political priority at the moment. The trigger for the construction of the vast machinery that rules our lives was far back in time and always begins the same way: with a seemingly inauspicious government contract. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How well I recall those days in the 1990s when public schools first started to buy computers from Microsoft. Did alarm bells go off? Not for me. I had a typical attitude of any pro-business libertarian: whatever business wants to do, it should do. Surely it is up to the enterprise to sell to all willing buyers, even if that includes governments. In any case, how in the world would one prevent this? Government contracting with private business has been the norm from time immemorial. No harm done. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And yet it turns out that vast harm was done. This was just the beginning of what became one of the world’s largest industries, far more powerful and decisive over industrial organization than old-fashioned producer-to-consumer markets. Adam Smith’s “butcher, baker, and brewery” have been crowded out by the very business conspiracies against which he gravely warned. These gigantic for-profit and public trading corporations became the operational foundation of the surveillance-driven corporatist complex. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are nowhere near coming to terms with the implications of this. It goes way beyond and fully transcends the old debates between capitalism and socialism. Indeed that is not what this is about. The focus on that might be theoretically interesting but it has little or no relevance to the current reality in which public and private have fully merged and intruded into every aspect of our lives, and with fully predictable results: economic decline for the many and riches for the few. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is also why neither the left nor the right, nor Democrats or Republicans, nor capitalists or socialists, seem to be speaking clearly to the moment in which we live. The dominating force on both the national and global scene today is techno-corporatism that intrudes itself into our food, our medicine, our media, our information flows, our homes, and all the way down to the hundreds of surveillance tools that we carry around in our pockets. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I truly wish these companies were genuinely private, but they are not. They are de facto state actors. More precisely, they all work hand-in-glove and which is the hand and which is the glove is no longer clear. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Coming to terms with this intellectually is the major challenge of our times. Dealing with it juridically and politically seems like a much more daunting task, to say the least. The problem is complicated by the drive to purge serious dissent at all levels of society. How did American capitalism become American corporatism? A little at a time and then all at once. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Islamist Terrorism disrupts tranquility, morality is the first matter that suffers because weak kneed politicians cave, seek a scapegoat and that scapegoat is always the victim of the terror.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Hamas attacked and raped Israel, Israel became the object of hatred because it allowed anti-Semites to rise from the gutter and openly become the trash they have always been.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">More vitriol from a Communist.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bernie Sanders Speaks Out on Netanyahu and US in Gaza</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(RightWing.org) – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has slammed Israel’s prime minister over the ongoing war in Gaza. Sanders, who has called on the US to cut arms shipments to Israel, called Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “extremist” and said it needs to step aside to end the war. He also hinted that the US is “complicit” in civilian casualties in Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On March 10, Sanders appeared on CBS’s “Face The Nation” and discussed the Israel-Hamas war with host Margaret Brennan. The far-left senator, who has been criticizing US support to Israel for months, blasted the government for its history of military aid, condemned plans to send the Jewish state another $10 billion, and said there’s no point asking Netanyahu to end the war if we’re going to send him weapons anyway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Brennan then asked if it was possible to have a ceasefire with Hamas, a group dedicated to destroying the Jewish state. Sanders compared the Iran-backed terrorist organization with Netanyahu’s government, “which is dedicated to destroying Hamas,” as if the two goals are equally evil. He then said there can’t be peace as long as Hamas runs Gaza and Netanyahu runs Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Although the Biden administration has continued to send arms to Israel, President Biden is increasingly hostile to Netanyahu and his ruling Likud party. The Israeli government is now claiming Biden is trying to push the prime minister out of office — and it isn’t happy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In a statement released to Israeli media by an unknown “senior official,” possibly Netanyahu himself, the country insisted it isn’t “a protectorate of the US” and the prime minister is elected by “Israeli citizens, and not anyone else.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While Netanyahu’s popularity has collapsed after many blamed the October 7 massacre on his complacency, if Israelis believe the US is trying to change their government they’re likely to rally around the prime minister. Sanders’s latest comments aren’t going to help.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Copyright 2024, RightWing.org</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I applaud BIBI for giving the world the finger it so richly deserves!<br />+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dear Dick,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel’s war cabinet reportedly approved plans for an extensive operation in Rafah to root out the remaining Hamas battalions and leadership. The cabinet’s plans include a large-scale evacuation of civilians from the city.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"We need to make sure that 1.4 million people, or at least a significant amount of the 1.4 million, will move…to humanitarian islands that we will create with the international community," said the IDF military spokesman.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While the timing for the operation has not been announced, Israel has been steadfast in its commitment to finishing the job of driving Hamas from power in Gaza and ensuring the terror group cannot fulfill its promise to repeat October 7.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As the war has progressed in Gaza, Hamas leadership and operatives have rushed into – and beneath – Rafah, using innocent Palestinians as human shields to protect themselves and their weapons. Hamas is willfully putting countless Palestinians as risk for its own survival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Reports: Hamas Demanding 1,000 Prisoners Released</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas has reportedly finally responded to the U.S.-brokered framework to pause fighting for six weeks in exchange for some hostages to be released and a surge of aid. The terror group has failed to respond for weeks to the deal. Israel has already agreed to it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Reuters reports that Hamas’ demands for the deal include up to 1,000 prisoners to be released from Israeli jails, including 100 who are serving life sentences. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office characterized Hamas’ counter-offer as, "ridiculous demands," but also agreed to send Israeli officials to Cairo to continue negotiations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The proposed framework would include the release of women, children, the elderly, and ill hostages.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ramadan in Jerusalem</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israeli police and security officials are helping facilitate a peaceful Ramadan in Jerusalem and around the country despite efforts by Hamas to foment violence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">More than 80,000 worshippers prayed today at al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the month-long holiday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Click here to read an AIPAC memo about Ramadan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, two Israeli Arabs — Yosef Alzayadni and Hamza Alzayadni — are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas Number 3 Likely Killed</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Intelligence reports indicate that Hamas’ number 3 leader in the Gaza Strip, was likely successfully killed in a targeted strike carried out by the IDF last weekend. Known as the "shadow man," Marwan Issa was the principal deputy to the military commander – Mohammed Deif.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If successful, Issa would be the most prominent Hamas leader killed by Israel since October 7.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">80% More Food into Gaza than Pre-October 7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel continues to expand the flow of aid and resources into Gaza. Yesterday, more than 240 aid trucks were transferred into Gaza and 80% more food trucks are entering Gaza than before October 7.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel also said that up to 44 trucks could be inspected per hour at the available crossings. "The problem isn’t opening more crossings, the problem is distributing the aid to the people in Gaza," said Colonel Elad Goren. "The international organizations do not have the capacity and have yet to take real steps to improve on distribution of aid across Gaza."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Prior to yesterday's convoy of 31 humanitarian aid trucks containing food and supplies into Gaza, armed Palestinians opened fire while Gazan civilians were awaiting the arrival of the aid convoy. According to the IDF, as aid trucks entered, the Palestinian gunmen continued shooting as the crowd of Gazans began looting the trucks. Additionally, a number of Gazan civilians were run over by the trucks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Despite what the media is reporting, the IDF did not open fire at the aid convoy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yesterday also marked the first day that aid entered Gaza by land, sea, and air.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"While the IDF continues its humanitarian effort to supply food and humanitarian aid to the civilians of the Gaza Strip, Hamas terrorists continue to harm Gazan civilians who are seeking food – and Hamas is blaming Israel for it," the IDF said in a statement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Continue to follow AIPAC on social media for the latest updates.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sincerely,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Alisha Tischler</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">AIPAC Southeast Regional Director</div>+++</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The west’s abandonment of the Jews</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By MELANIE PHILLIPS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers 2000 and the Artists4 Ceasefire pin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that western civilisation is no longer civilised.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel’s war of defence against a genocidal enemy is an inflection point in the seismic battle between civilisation and barbarism. The west is failing that test.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This was illustrated at the Oscars. Numerous Hollywood stars sported red pins supposedly backing a ceasefire in Gaza. The pin depicts the palm of an orangey-red hand on a red background with a black heart in the middle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For some Israel supporters, this image channelled the infamous picture taken in 2000, when a Palestinian terrorist involved in the savage lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah triumphantly displayed his two bloody palms to the frenzied mob.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The group that distributed the pin, Artists4Ceasefire, claims that the hand image “conveys the beautiful community of people from all backgrounds that have come together in support of centring our shared humanity” and that the heart is an “invitation for us to lead with our hearts”.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This asinine froth does not convince. The palm of a hand does not denote community; hand symbols are usually white, a heart is usually red and a red hand signifies a bloody one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A black heart, meanwhile, commonly denotes evil. And the 2000 lynching involved ripping the heart out of one of the Israeli corpses and holding it exultantly in a Palestinian hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Conversely, the image could have been reflecting the symbol used in countless anti-Israel demonstrations to signify that Israel has blood on its hands: a symbol that grotesquely paints the Israelis fighting to defend themselves against genocide as wanton killers of the innocent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Oscars ceremony also featured an attempt to transform Israeli suffering into Israeli oppression by Jonathan Glazer, director of the much-lauded Holocaust movie “The Zone of Interest”.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Standing with his two backers, Glazer said, “Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.” The victims of the October 7 pogrom and the inhabitants of Gaza, he said, were “all the victims of this dehumanisation”.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">His ignorance was staggering. Apart from no land being illegally “occupied” by Israel, the cause of the conflict is the century-old attempt by the Palestinian Arabs to eradicate the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel and then the Jewish state. And to accuse Israel of dehumanisation, when it’s going to greater lengths than any other army in the world to minimise civilian casualties, was simply malevolent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Far worse, though, was Glazer’s abuse of Judaism and the Holocaust to claim that Israel had hijacked both. He implied that Israelis were like Nazis and that their behaviour went against Jewish principles. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This to describe a war caused by the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust and Israel’s attempt to ensure that a second Holocaust does not happen again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The obscenity of Glazer’s comments can scarcely be exaggerated. The belief that demonising Israeli Jews somehow represents Jewish values is, however, a pathology that has twisted the minds of many liberal American Jews. It is being fed by a venomously distorted presentation of Israelis as child-killers in Gaza that’s being ruthlessly pumped out by western media.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This accusation, of course, channels a paranoid antisemitic trope. It’s also based on Hamas propaganda claims that are patently untrue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In a notable article in Tablet, Abraham Wyner, professor of statistics and data science at the University of Pennsylvania, has used basic statistical analysis to suggest that the Hamas casualty figures of 30,000 dead Gazans, of whom 70 per cent are said to be women and children, are fake because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Other problems with these figures are that they include as children the many teenagers who are committing Hamas atrocities, as well as the civilians killed by thousands of rockets falling short into Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Why, though, do so many believe these patent untruths propagated by Hamas? One reason is that the false premises of “intersectional” identity politics automatically turn Israelis into “oppressors” and the Palestinians into their “victims”. This doesn’t explain, however, why so many subscribe to the demonstrably ludicrous belief that Israel is committing “genocide.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For decades, the Palestinians have accused Israelis of being “Nazis” and committing “genocide” to obscure the fact that their own Holocaust denial runs in tandem with their declared intention to kill every Jew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This “genocide” smear has been taken up by the Palestinians’ western supporters largely through the influence of human rights culture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In total contradiction to its foundational ideals, this culture has turned into a vehicle for singling out certain human rights for extinction: the rights of the Jewish people to live in their own ancestral homeland.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the 1970s, radical idealists who were disillusioned after the discrediting of European socialism alighted upon “human rights” as another universalising creed promising to bring about utopia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As the ultimate particularist culture, Judaism is in the way of all universalising creeds; and so Israel, the particularist Jewish state, had to be dumped. The stage was set for the demonisation of Israel tied to the increasing dominance of international human rights doctrine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A living example of this is Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development and the Obama administration’s US ambassador to the UN.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A noted expert on genocide, Power has long said the United States bears a unique responsibility to prevent mass atrocities.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It was therefore an irony that, earlier this year, Power was attacked by current and former USAID employees for belonging to an administration providing military support to Israel in the war against Hamas. Although she told these officials it was “very important that what happened on October 7 never happen again,” she failed to push back against their claim that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Given her history, this perhaps wasn’t surprising. In 2002, she was asked as a “thought experiment” what she would advise the US president to do about the Israel-Palestinian problem “if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving towards genocide”.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In response to this already disturbingly loaded question, Power said that something should be put “on the line” to help the situation. This might mean “alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import… It does require external intervention”.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Power wasn’t talking about preventing the Palestinians from committing genocide against the Jews of Israel. She was talking about invading Israel to prevent an Israeli genocide against the Palestinians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She was suggesting that Israel might commit atrocities against people who themselves make Israel the victim of precisely such atrocities: the vile smear being used against Israel today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She also suggested that the only people who might be alienated if the US invaded Israel for this purpose would be American Jews, who she said exercised tremendous political and financial power over America.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The anti-Semitism of this remark aside, the thinking here was that Jews can’t be allowed to get in the way of the human rights doctrine that state power is always used to make victims and never to protect people from becoming victims in the first place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel is fighting a desperate battle for its survival. Its people are in a state of ever-deepening trauma, grief and anxiety. Some of their families and friends are still hostages in Gaza meeting unthinkable fates. The death toll among their conscripted children and grandchildren fighting to defend their country is steadily ticking upwards.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They understand that genocidal savages intend to continue their attacks until they have destroyed the Jewish homeland and slaughtered every Jew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In this truly desperate situation, what’s even worse is that the so-called “civilised” west — which also wants the Jews removed from its headspace and its conscience — is accusing them of the crime of which they are the present and intended victims.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That is an unspeakable abandonment of the Jewish people, and to the west a source of ineradicable shame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2024: The Stand of the Based Americans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-clipping-animation grve-advanced-animation grve-colored-clipping grve-animated-item grve-subtitle-text grve-text-black grve-animating" data-animation="colored-clipping-left" data-clipping-color="primary-1" data-delay="250" data-duration="normal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: #efefef; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Jost; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; word-break: break-word; z-index: 1;"><div class="grve-clipping-wrapper grve-animation-wrapper" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; backface-visibility: hidden; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><div class="grve-clipping-content" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; backface-visibility: hidden; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">ESSAY By </span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff4433; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">T.J. HARKER</em></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For the first time in more than twenty years, the ruling elite’s stranglehold on the nation’s power structures threatens to collapse. Simultaneously, ambitious mandarins in big tech, high finance, big law, and the administrative bureaucracy vie for supremacy in the face of a power vacuum that grows with Biden’s deteriorating mental faculties. Meanwhile, millions of ordinary Americans seek a common political principle around which to organize a coherent defense of their way of life. 2024 is shaping up to be the year in which the existing balance of power between these two groups is consolidated or upended. 2024 will be the year that the new based Americans finally join the battle against the established ruling elite and its regime mandarins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Ruling Elite and Its Regime</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Though Ross Perot is a distant memory, his 1992 third-party presidential candidacy catalyzed the ruling elite into self-awareness. Surprised by his 19% of the vote, the ruling elite took notice of itself as an independent political force and realized it had to act to maintain its power. Quickly it consolidated control of the major party systems. Simultaneously, it developed a cadre of loyal, mandarin-like sycophants within the administrative state, most legacy media institutions, big law firms, and virtually all of high finance. Later, it welcomed big tech into its mandarin classes. Today, this organizational structure, together with a lowly class of prole-like enforcers and useful idiots, is “the regime.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For the five consecutive presidential elections from 1996 through 2012, the ruling elite used the regime to become rich and powerful, almost entirely at the expense of ordinary Americans and the nation’s interests. But, in the absence of any serious challenge to their power, it became arrogant and increasingly incompetent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today, this process has culminated in a Washington D.C. clown show, in which nearly every apparatchik is incompetent in the most clinical sense of the word. Thus we see children holding senior administration positions; mediocrities with literally zero subject-matter experience appointed to cabinet level positions; caricatures of Darth Vader in positions of extreme sensitivity despite catastrophic failures; spineless shills routinely embarrassing the nation in international affairs; and milquetoasts who decide whether to enforce the nation’s laws based solely on regime-approved criteria.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Their self-congratulatory “the grown-ups are back in charge” mantra notwithstanding, the regime is not blind to its own widespread incompetence. But it also knows that it has no quick solution. There is no standby legion of elite technocrats to which it can turn for technical competence. The “scientific government” of John Dewey and the mid twentieth century progressives is a distant memory. This leaves the regime with no choice but to lie … about everything. Thus, in a weird way, the regime’s growing mastery of political propaganda is a consequence of its technical incompetence</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Based Americans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Standing against the ruling elite and its regime are a widening circle of based Americans. Say what you will about Donald Trump, he deserves credit for at least one thing: His 2016 presidential victory pulled the wool from the eyes of many benighted Americans. For the first time, millions came to perceive, however dimly, the growing incompetence of the regime.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today, the nascent political awakenings of 2016 have begun to sink roots. It is slowly accreting a litany of unlikely allies into an increasingly coherent political force. From homeschoolers to homesteaders, Bitcoin enthusiasts to cattle ranchers, evangelical Christians to Hasidim, secular jews mugged by reality to second-generation Hispanics, wilderness survivalists to moms for liberty, and neo-Nietzschean GigaChads to walkaway homosexuals, plus thousands of other vital human beings, first millions then tens of millions, and perhaps more than one hundred million Americans, have now awakened to the grave threat posed by the regime. Politics make strange bedfellows, and all that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If in 2016 Trump’s supporters knew something was up, if not quite what, today this ground swell of based Americans has also realized that the regime is a threat to their liberty and property; that its unifying purpose is to subjugate them; that it uses propaganda systematically to conceal its unbelievable incompetence from them; and that it is both incredibly dangerous and grossly incompetent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is that combination–the awareness of the regime’s desire to subjugate, its power to do so, and its gross incompetence–that resonates with Americans more effectively than any specific political agenda. We Americans are freedom-loving and action-oriented people, deriving our wealth and success from a combination of fierce independence, self-reliance, know-how, expertise, craftsmanship, tacit knowledge, experience, and technique. As such, we are highly attuned both to threats to our liberty and to professional incompetence. We know that plumbers who can’t fix pipes aren’t plumbers. Electricians who can’t wire a house aren’t electricians. Pilots who can’t fly aren’t pilots. And tyrants who can’t do anything else will work to subjugate us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based Americans now see that instead of preparing for and winning wars, DOD is laser-focused on sexual perversions. As a result, the regime hasn’t started a war worth fighting in at least 33 years, and hasn’t won any of those that it did. This will go on until we get our asses kicked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based Americans also see that instead of working to enhance the nation’s geopolitical posture, the CIA and State Department go out of their way to hire mental defects with diagnosed psychological disorders only to blunder catastrophically in conducting foreign policy by toppling stable and predictable foreign regimes, while propping up unstable and unreliable ones. This will continue until the CCP steals the last vestiges of our intellectual property, infiltrates every federal agency, and has accumulated sufficient blackmail on all our politicians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We understand that the regime lawlessly permits the migration of tens of millions of third-world aliens into our heartland. Instead of using its abundant power and resources to stop this culturally adulterating flood, DHS spends money to encourage, welcome, and subsidize it, erasing American culture in the process. This will continue until no American classroom teaches about Abraham Lincoln or George Washington, but every classroom teaches about Salvador Allende. In Spanish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based Americans stand flummoxed by the regime’s fantastically childish climate agenda that erodes our national strength by prohibiting the search for, and production of, abundant energy. This is to continue until we ordinaries are cold and hungry, weak and frail, and stranded in the duplexes we rent from Blackrock. We won’t own anything and we’ll be miserable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based Americans now know that the CDC and the NIH fund gain-of-function research deep in the bowels of our greatest geopolitical rival, knowing that such research will be used to synthesize bio weapons of astonishing horror. Meanwhile the CDC—the Center for Disease Control—lectures us that “gun violence” is a public-health epidemic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In short, based Americans now understand that transgender, dog-mask wearing generals aren’t warriors and won’t be able to defend us. That boy-faced small-town mayors with traffic circle design experience aren’t logistics experts and can’t unfuck the port of Los Angeles. That noble-prize winning “economists” who think war increases wealth have no idea how to enrich us. That beneficiaries of our racial-spoils system appointed to high positions in elite universities don’t know how to educate us. That medical “experts” who deny biological sex can’t be our children’s pediatricians. That public health officials who think “gun crime” is a health crisis, are not prepared to combat pandemics. That prosecutors who excuse mass violence by regime favored races while wildly overstating the frequency of so-called “hate crimes” will not protect our communities.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But based Americans also understand that all those same incompetent regime elites mean to rule us without our consent. I could go on. For a long time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is the confluence of the regime’s desire to subjugate plus its widespread incompetence plus newly based Americans’ awareness of both, that have set the stage for the battle for America. This battle has already commenced and will continue in 2024.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Regime Tactics in 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On the one hand, though the regime is incompetent, it is also incredibly dangerous. It is willing to use any tool at its disposal to attack and destroy any threat to its power, including the based Americans who oppose it. With this framework in mind, we can make a few predictions for 2024.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We should expect the regime to continue to gut the nation’s institutions in increasingly merciless ways to sustain its power. The state and federal criminal prosecutions and civil legal assaults on Donald Trump are only the most public examples. But the regime won’t limit its attacks to public figures. In 2024, it will continue to target ordinary people, just as it did with Ricky Vaughan, Enrique Tarrio, Derek Chauvin, and the thousands of January 6th protestors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Just as the regime used coordinated lawfare to rig the 2020 election, it will devise clever ways to rig it again this year. If, despite their election-rigging efforts, Trump wins the Presidency, expect the regime to try to overturn the results. This isn’t conspiratorial speculation: it’s just their plan in their words. It’s their democracy, after all, and they mean to keep it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The regime will also accelerate its public-private censorship efforts. It cannot compete in the space of ideas because it doesn’t have any. It has only attitudes and psychological dispositions, usually anger and fear. Since it has no ideas it also has no coherent policy positions to discuss. Since it has nothing to discuss, it risks losing the battle of ideas to anybody willing to defend any position whatsoever. This is intolerable to the regime, and so in 2024 it will vigorously censor any sufficiently public voice on any public or private platform.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At the same time, as election day approaches, it will continue to flood every communication channel with waves of endless regime propaganda. As Biden’s polling figures wax and wane, these lies will swing between the believable and the laughable. Take, for example, the recent circus of regime lackeys publicly applauding Biden’s supposed cognitive acumen on the usual Sunday morning propaganda outlets. This was the regime’s stupefying response to special prosecutor Robert Hur’s report that Biden’s brain was too far gone even for him to stand trial. Expect the regime’s lies to become utterly absurd. And terrifying.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Race is a perennial weapon of the regime, which has mastered the art of conquering by dividing. Since racial problems are more imaginary than real, however, the regime will continue to gin up pretend racial iniquities to sow division and otherwise weaken its opponents. As 2024 progresses, racial grievance-mongering will reach fever pitch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The regime will continue to weaponize the power of various federal agencies. Specifically, it will deploy these agencies’ regulatory, enforcement, and auditing powers to enmesh the regime’s opponents in a labyrinth of frivolous litigation, regulatory infractions, and bogus tax claims, ideally bankrupting them in the process. For the regime, this will have the dual benefit of silencing its outspoken critics while making examples of them to aspiring based Americans.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And, in 2024, the regime will continue to flood the nation with Third World illegal aliens because doing so is essential to the regime’s long-term strategy. It knows that if it wins the battle of 2024, nothing will prevent it from transforming these aliens into its Praetorian enforcers—granting them amnesty in exchange for their arms and their votes. Unlike your countrymen, however, these aliens-turned-praetorians will always vote for the regime but never hesitate to pull the trigger when you or your neighbors stand in the way. The regime is counting on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based Americans in 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Unlike any time in modern American history, a sufficient number of Americans have awakened to the true nature of our political regime. Enough now understand that the regime has ruled and means to continue to rule at our expense. We are also, by now, intimately familiar with the tactics described above. In general, we know what to expect, even if we’ll be surprised by the specifics. Such is the way with battle since time immemorial. We also know the stakes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Though seemingly insignificant, this situational awareness should not be underestimated. For decades, our common decency and ignorance were exploited by a cynical regime. We were used. No longer. Now we know what we’re up against. The ruling elite no longer has the element of subterfuge or surprise. With this, we should expect record voter turnout come November. We might also consider the possibility of tectonic demographic shifts as record numbers of Hispanics and black men turn on their ungrateful regime masters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There is also the possibility of a few defections from the ruling elite, similar to that from Elon Musk and, possibly, Bill Ackman. The ruling elite understand the scope of the regime’s incompetence. Unlike ordinary Americans, however, some are in a bind. If in 2020, the ruling elite wondered whether Joe Biden had the cognitive stamina to complete his first term, today they have no doubt he cannot complete a second. But, to throw their support behind him would also require that they deploy an incessant stream of propaganda to mask his deteriorating cognition. Though many have no choice but to do exactly that, maintaining that façade for five more years is unappealing if not impossible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On the other hand, if Biden won’t step down, they can’t get rid of him. Unlike Nancy Reagan who understood that her responsibility as a caring wife and decent person was to protect her husband and his legacy in the face of cognitive decline, Jill Biden seems indifferent to the fact that a growing percentage of Americans see her husband’s condition as sad. He’s becoming pitiable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thus we have a bizarre situation in which many in the ruling elite don’t want Biden to win, but also can’t backtrack on the horrible things they’ve said about Trump. They have no choice but to oppose Trump’s candidacy, if only out of fear of retribution by him for the things they’ve already said should he become President. Most members of the ruling elite are caught between the Scylla of Biden’s astonishing incompetence and the Charybdis of their Trump derangement syndrome. Most, but not all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Some of the ruling elite have, for example, expressed doubt about Biden’s future. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, recently applauded a few of Trump’s first-term accomplishments. These statements would have been unthinkable only nine months ago. As 2024 unfolds, we should expect to see a few members of the ruling elite become traitors to their class and support Trump. Most will do so tepidly, though some will do so enthusiastically. These may play a pivotal role in deciding the outcome of battle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For decades, the regime ruled with an eye to its interest. It did so at the expense of the great body of yeoman Americans who remained resolutely—perhaps even naively—patriotic, even as our modest wealth was stripped, our proud history debased, our customs gutted, and our God mocked. We were almost completely disempowered. Almost, but not quite. Though we are the underdog, we based Americans will make our stand come what may in 2024. However it turns out, it will be a close run thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">* * *</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">TJ Harker is the General Counsel of a Knoxville, Tennessee company. Until recently, he was a federal prosecutor, where he investigated and tried national white-collar fraud and espionage matters for the Department of Justice. He recently launched Amicus Republicae on Substack and occasionally writes for The American Mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++++</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div><p> </p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-16863911732059156422024-03-15T04:54:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:06:30.272-07:00Why God? Don't Screw Up. Biden Saving Hama. Why? Sleaze. No Choice.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocO3h4kd1B_gfOhVPsgODa5EuBMI70Q7Ahcws8JLp3-rdKb4TYsSWnsuX5ZmHY0HlRwCl_VBDRzMp_twMz1lFXb61vgP5A6bcr5xCgDC76hzQKBZIAs0T_o4Yt1AHTJfDwZS88gaRAhqJokz926trIzZSCRBPoNL-OUr-u4aflODbbRyZxTju9ZioIOc/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocO3h4kd1B_gfOhVPsgODa5EuBMI70Q7Ahcws8JLp3-rdKb4TYsSWnsuX5ZmHY0HlRwCl_VBDRzMp_twMz1lFXb61vgP5A6bcr5xCgDC76hzQKBZIAs0T_o4Yt1AHTJfDwZS88gaRAhqJokz926trIzZSCRBPoNL-OUr-u4aflODbbRyZxTju9ZioIOc/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">If there is a God, why did he not leave earth inhabited solely by animals, birds, fish etc.? Why did he put man on earth and add to the mix and misery.?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz-ftDx6hh95untt1FjKedp0sTD59BCPYL5QNG6ISQoKp7nr3y2GEENLitsLKzRJf64xAIBGnh3VVsKfOsQSA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/yqsrswzfrrbnsfrfnfsqznpggvnggfvzccqwtsbsllqbmfl_xcrvgpdshghtdjdgrggjgg.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Republicans Should Consider the Innovative Strategy of Not Screwing This Up</a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto; outline: none !important; padding-top: 5px;">By <a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/hbnrvdgsrrhzvsrszsvbgzlwwfzwwsfgmmbdpvhvqqbhnsb_xcrvgpdshghtdjdgrggjgg.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kurt Schlichter</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto; outline: none !important; padding-top: 5px;">++++</p></div><span style="font-size: large;"> Amb. Friedman: Biden is saving Hamas by trying to stop Israel</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman talks to Arutz Sheva about the state of US-Israel relations, says, Biden making it harder to recover hostages, win war, pressure and criticism of Israel 'only because it's an election year.'</span></p><p>Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News about the current state of the US-Israel relationship in light of the recent pressure by the Biden Administration over the war against Hamas.</p><p>Ambassador David Friedman commented on the shift in the messages conveyed by the US government from what was felt in Israel in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas massacre, on October 8th and 9th, when the US seemed more supportive of Israel. “It is very unfortunate. Biden made reference to Israel engaging in indiscriminate bombing. This is very, very unfair and not true. I think he said that their conduct was over the top. He started pushing for a two-state solution. He's demanding a ceasefire."</p><p>"It's offensive, but the real damage is that it is making it harder for Israel to recover the hostages and win the war, because of the Hamas strategy. They know they can't defeat Israel militarily, so what they're saying is, ‘okay, we just committed this incredible act of barbarity. We're the darlings of the terrorist world. Now can we survive? We're not going to survive if Israel completes this war. The only way we can survive is if America stops Israel from completing the war. So right now they've got a few battalions left in Rafah and they've got their leadership still intact. So now they're watching Biden and they're saying to themselves ‘this guy's going to stop Israel, and if this guy stops Israel, we're going to survive. We don't have to pay that high a price to survive. The price of the hostages goes up and the risk of a bad outcome goes up. No one's paying attention to Biden more than Hamas and he's sending them exactly the wrong signals.”</p><p>On the shift between the initial hugs that Israel received, people in Israel were really moved and impressed by President Biden, by the hugs from the US, Blinkin coming here, saying ‘you guys are not alone,’ there was a feeling that the US is really with us, Ambassador Friedman says that he was not surprised, because “I never thought that Biden was really in charge of this. I think that at some level he does have an affection for the state of Israel, but that gives way entirely to his desperation to be reelected in 2024. So, as the politics start to move away from Israel and they always do, I mean every single battle that Israel's been involved with, when they're attack on the first day or two, they get some sympathy. It always changes, assuming that it would be the same thing here, I wasn't surprised. I am disappointed at how abrupt and how extensive the turning has been on Israel. In particular this idea of trying to create a distinction between Netanyahu and the people of Israel. Israel and America have very close relationships and I wouldn't say that there has been no meddling going on over the last 50 years, because it's such a close relationship. Everybody's interested in everybody else's politics, but this sets a new standard. This idea of going after the elected leader of the state of Israel in a war has really set a new low. It really undermines Israel. I don’t think it’s a policy or Biden’s style. It’s all political, because I think he's looking at this and saying, ‘I don't want to turn on Israel. I still have a lot of centrist Democrat voters, who like Israel, but most of them, especially on the left, don't like Netanyahu, so I can thread this needle by being really, really tough on Netanyahu, but by saying, ‘but of course I love the Jewish people and I love the State of Israel.’ I think that's a political calculation. I think he got together with his people and said, ‘all right, how do I work this thing out? How do I support Israel, but keep my voters? If it was just a political calculation under normal circumstances, politics is a very complicated and sometimes a dirty game. But during a war, when Bibi is trying to defend this country against the greatest threat it's had, maybe in its entire history, it’s really inappropriate.”</p><p>Addressing reports that the US is holding Israel ‘by the throat’ even in terms of ammunition, something that has never been heard of, Ambassador Friedman says that, “yesterday seven US senators proposed the bill that would end military assistance to Israel. There are circumstances where they didn't like the way the war was going. If they go into Rafah they would lose their access to weaponry. Again, Israel has to win this war. Israel, and only Israel, bears the consequences of losing the war and for a bunch of American Senators 6,000 miles away to try to handcuff Israel, at a time when they're confronting this evil, for political gain; it's only politics. It's only because this is an election year. It's terrible. Just understand that if this was 2023 or 2022 and we didn't have a presidential election coming, none of this would be happening. It's all to cater to a political base that the Democrats can't lose, in order to win in 2024.”</p><p>Turning to his support for former President Donald Trump, whose administration he served under as ambassador, Friedman said, “To put this support in the right context, because people ask me sometimes, ‘what do you think is the worst risk that Israel faces? Is it Hamas? Is it Hezbollah? Is it Iran? And I say the biggest risk to Israel geopolitically is that America ceases to lead the world. That's the biggest risk to Israel. So when I say Trump is better for Israel than Biden, in the first place it's because Trump is better for America than Biden, because Trump will lead America. Because Trump will keep America out of wars. Because Trump will project the strength and influence of the United States in a way that will end wars before they start and make people fear America before they engage in military adventurism. That's what makes Trump fundamentally better for Israel than Biden.”</p><p>Ambassador Friedman continues, “On this specific issue, his track record is like no other, whether it's Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Pompeo Doctrine, the Abraham Accords. I mean no one's done for Israel what Trump has done and he'll continue on that path, I believe.”</p><p>Some people on the right fear that Trump gave Israel so much and that during his second term he may want something as a payback. Ambassador Friedman is not sure, “What the payback would be. I mean I guess the fear would be that Israel would make peace with the Palestinians under terms that are unfavorable. He knows the enemy that Israel is confronting. He made it very clear that Israel should finish the job against Hamas. He understands Abu Mazen and those that follow him. He understands that 80% or more of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, not in Gaza, support Hamas and support the attacks of October 7th. He understands terrorism. He understands evil. He led the fight against ISIS, and we defeated ISIS. I don't think there's anything in his background or anything that he has said that would suggest anything but continued support for Israel.”</p><p>Trump is seen by some as having ‘problematic relationship’ with Netanyahu over the latter's call to congratulate bIden on his election victory in 2020. Ambassador Friedman says that, “I haven't had a conversation with him in months about Israel and in particular Israeli politicians. He's very quick to offer his views. I think in the aftermath of October 7th, he was stunned by the failures of Israel and they were massive. They were unprecedented and to date none of us have a good answer for how they happened and he recognized that just as I did, just as everybody did and I think he reacted to that. I think he felt great disappointment and shock that this could happen to Israel. Such a primitive attack against Israel could have such devastating consequences. So, I think it has caused him to have some doubts about the leadership, but at the end of the day whoever the democratically elected leader of Israel is, will be a friend to Trump. I don't have any doubt.”</p><p>Explaining what he believes is behind Biden’s pressure for a Palestinian state now, Ambassador Friedman stated that pressuring Israel to give a Palestinian state basically as a result of October 7th, “is exactly the wrong response. It's exactly the wrong outcome. It rewards terror. It says that terrorism can be excused and put into a context. It can be resolved through concessions and appeasement. This will be the template for terrorists around the world, terrorizing their particular communities and expecting to be rewarded for it. So it is exactly the wrong message. In particular in Israel it's going to be undoubtedly an existential threat to the state, because again, it's a state of people. It's not a hypothetical state. It's a state of people and these people have already voted and 80% of them or more are saying ‘we support the October 7th attacks. How do you sit side by side with a terrorist state that is so close to Israel's major population centers. Israel will never agree to it and we saw, to their credit, that the Knesset took this up and voted 90 something to 10, to reject the unilateral imposition of a state.”</p><p>Against the criticism of many that Netanyahu is currently refusing to talk ‘about the day after,’ or ‘what he wants to happen in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria,’ for example, Ambassador Friedman says that, “the day after, and the day after that, is all still about security and ensuring that October 7th doesn't happen again. I mean, if people want to talk about some Jeffersonian reconstruction of a democratic institution, we're so far from that. I mean it would be silly to discuss it and frankly there would be so little political consensus on that, you're just driving wedges into the unity that's been reestablished after this past summer. So, it doesn't make any sense to talk about it now. It makes sense to secure the territory and then start thinking about it. That to me is the day after. Any more pressure on Israel to go beyond that is foolish.”</p><p>On Ambassador Friedman’s new approach that he is proposing for Judea and Samaria, which some say connects to what Mike Pompeo presented here in Israel, and which he presented in Nashville, Tennessee, he says, “I proposed it, because when Biden proposed the two-state solution, everyone was saying that if not this, you have to have some alternative. So I felt the need to do it then in Nashville, because it was an organization of 5,000 Christian broadcasters and they would get the message out to a very broad audience. Before I talk about the specifics, I think that what's happening now is that, for the first time maybe in my lifetime, the convergence of theology, geopolitics and national security, is leading us to the same place. The theology has always been there. The theology among those who believe in the land of Israel is that God gave this land to the Jewish people. He promised it to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to the prophets. Places like Shilo and Beit El and Hevron, these are places that are deeply intertwined into the Jewish DNA of our people, in our history. So, theologically, we should keep the land. But now for the first time, you look at the politics. Well we know now that a two-state solution doesn't work. We know it because we gave it a try in Gaza. Gaza was effectively a Palestinian state. We gave them a lot of money, not a single Jew on the ground, not a single soldier on the ground and yet what did they do with all the money? They build terror tunnels and rockets So we know that a Palestinian state fails. So the politics now tells us we have to come up with something else and the reality is that if you look all around the region, the only potential for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to have more prosperity and more dignity is to somehow be able to cooperate and coexist with Israel, which is the only successful country in the region. Its GDP per capita is more than ten times everybody else's. Now the national security is the reality that Israel cannot leave the Palestinians to their own devices. They left Gaza to its own devices and under our noses they created the greatest homecourt advantage in the world, in terms of ground combat. There's no other place where you could attack anywhere in the world, where you would confront the type of terror tunnels, this 350-mile spiderweb of terror tunnels that you have in Gaza. So we now know that from a national security perspective Israel must be on the ground. So for Israel to be on the ground in Judea and Samaria is the only way to keep the entire area peaceful, not just for the Israelis, but for whatever number of Palestinians, and it's not a small number, want to live in peace with Israel and are themselves being terrorized by Fatah, and by Hamas and by Islamic Jihad.”</p><p>Ambassador Friedman continues, “We’re talking about full sovereignty. If you listen to those ugly demonstrations all around the world where people say ‘from the river to the sea Palestine will be free,’ so they're half right. What I would say is ‘from the river to the sea Israel will be free,’ I think that really is the right approach. Again I say this with a desire to create a win-win circumstance. This isn't a situation where Israel's going to grab all the land and the Palestinians should just pound sand, or continue to live sub-optimal lives. It’s that with that sovereignty comes a responsibility. It's an expensive responsibility and to me the way to move this forward is to expand the Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accord countries were concerned about the quality of life of the Palestinians. We need to explain to them that it's not going to get better by creating a Palestinian state; it's going to get worse. It will be better if Israel has sovereignty over the region and they can help absorb healthcare and schooling into their infrastructure. Israel has to make sure that the schooling and education is consistent with the values of coexistence. That is the sovereignty. It's a win for everybody. It's not something where you take the parts that you want and you just leave the rest and leave people to their own devices.”</p><p>This situation would result in the Palestinians having a right to vote for the Knesset, which Ambassador Friedman explains as, “you have Israel just coming out, of God willing, this massive military threat to its existence. You're not going to swap a military threat for a demographic threat, where it makes it even easier, just by voting for Israel to no longer be a Jewish state. That can't work, but at the same token, I look at Puerto Rico as an example, because Puerto Rico is the territory of the US. They don't vote in our national elections. They don't get any electoral votes. When I was a kid, the biggest terror group in the US was called the FALN. There were the Puerto Rican nationalists who engaged in terrorism to create Puerto Rican independence. They're not around anymore. Puerto Rico lives happily within its construct as being a territory of the US. They vote in local elections, but they don’t vote in the national election. Why? Because the benefits they get from their association with the US exceed whatever detriments of not voting. The best example is there are a lot of hurricanes in Puerto Rico and when there's a hurricane, the US comes and helps. It’s a win-win. In the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians they are not going to vote in the national elections of the state of Israel, but Israel will commit itself to helping them achieve the benefits of living in a first world country.”</p><p>A situation like this exists already in Jerusalem, where Israel is taking care of Palestinians who are not really citizens, and Ambassador Friedman says that, “that's true sovereignty. In Jerusalem they have become permanent residents. My vision would be that they would be permanent residents in Jenin and Ramallah as well, meaning there’s not going to be a risk of them being thrown out of their country. They could get travel documents that would enable them to leave. All subject to the overriding security protocols, but that is what it means to be a sovereign.”</p><p>Ambassador Friedman continues to explain that, “This is all part of the big picture of the Abraham Accords, which concern broadening Israel's relationship with the Arab world. It is important to these countries that they can say in good conscience that they did not abandon the Palestinians. So the next step is to convince the Arab world that you're not abandoning the Palestinians by not giving them a state. If anything, given the history of the Palestinians, who have never successfully self-governed, whose leadership has been, at best, corrupt and giving them their own state is not going to help the Palestinian people, enabling them to live side by side with Israel in peace, working on a common economy, working on common goals. That is how you help the Palestinians and that's where the Gulf countries should be investing.”</p><p>Ambassador Friedman concludes the interview by remembering October 7th, “it was very difficult for me. I had some of my grandchildren with me and we were going in and out of shelters and my oldest granddaughter who's about 13 said to me ‘why are people trying to kill us, they don't even know us? What is it about them that are trying to kill us?’ I just thought back and said ‘I'm not from the generation of the Holocaust. My parents’ generation is the generation of the Holocaust. I thought we were past this already and here I am explaining to my granddaughter that there are people who just want to kill Jews, because they are Jews. So that was depressing and it was hard for me to watch. As I learned more about the level of barbarity that took place, I was so sad and angry at the same time. Since then what I would say is this. The people of Israel are truly the greatest people in the world. They really are. I mean what they've done to take care of each other, to rebuild people's lives, to look after the wounded, to comfort the grieving. People have just stopped everything to help each other and it's extraordinary. It makes me so proud to be Jewish, that this is how we've reacted to it. We just have to finish the job. We have to win this war decisively, not just because we want to eradicate Hamas, but because we need to send a message to the world that Jewish blood is not cheap, and if this ever happens again, the response will be overwhelming again.”</p><p>If Trump goes back into the White House and following his experience of October 7th, Ambassador Friedman believes that, “There is no question that he would go back into public activity. I think post October 7th my desire to serve is far greater than it was before. I haven't spoken about this with the President. This is his decision and he tends to make these decisions much closer to inauguration day, than just during a campaign. But, if given that opportunity, it would be my honor to do whatever I could do to help. I just want to help. I don't have anything specific in mind. Obviously, I have a track record in one particular job, but I just want to be in a position to help as best I can.”</p><p>+++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Schumer, Schiff and Nadler are sleazy.</span></p><p>+++</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Zionist Organization of America | ZOA is Horrified by Schumer Treating U.S. Ally Israel Like a Banana Republic Demanding Replacement of Israel’s Democratically Elected Govt. - Zionist Organization of America</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:</span></p><p>Senate Majority Leader Schumer often calls himself a “Shomer Israel” – guardian of Israel, and did so again at the outset of his lengthy speech on the Senate floor on March 14, 2024. Following the speech, ZOA received numerous calls from American Jews and pro-Israel Americans expressing their shock at Schumer’s dangerous statements, which attacked Israeli democracy and Israel’s fight for her existence against Hamas and other Palestinian Arab terrorists.</p><p>ZOA and the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities are horrified that Schumer is improperly interfering with Israeli democracy by calling for new, premature elections in Israel to try to unseat Israel’s democratically elected prime minister and Knesset, almost three years before the current Israeli government’s four-year term ends. That sort of divisive interference with a foreign government should be unthinkable. Schumer also failed to mention that Israel is now governed by a broad-based war cabinet, and that Israelis are united in the need to destroy Hamas’ terror army and bring the hostages home.</p><p>Schumer also gave succor to Israel’s enemies by wrongly labeling as “major obstacles to peace” Israel’s democratically-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, other Israeli ministers, and the 500,000 peaceful Jews living in Judea/Samaria (whom Schumer falsely and insultingly called “far-right wing extremists” and “right wing zealots”). Schumer also promoted the Biden administration’s actions against them.</p><p>Further interfering with Israeli democracy, sovereignty and safety, Schumer called for the U.S. and Arab nations to pressure Israel to give up her lawful land to create what would be a Palestinian Iranian-proxy terror state that endangers Israel’s continuing existence (the so-called “two-state solution”). Schumer threatened to cut off U.S. support if Israel did not comply, saying: “the U.S. Government should DEMAND that Israel conduct itself with a future two-state solution in mind. [minute 36:05] We should not be forced into a position of unequivocally supporting the actions of an Israeli government that include bigots who reject the idea of a Palestinian state.”</p><p>Thus, according to Schumer, anyone who sensibly rejects creating a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s land is a “bigot.” That means that Schumer is calling 85% of Israelis and a high percentage of Americans “bigots”!</p><p>Schumer also ignored the last century of history, and absurdly asserted that the prospect of a state would magically make the Palestinian Arabs peaceful – but that more terror would result if Israel takes real, sensible anti-terror actions, such as tightening Israeli security control. Schumer incredibly stated: “With the prospect of a real two-state solution on the table, and for the first time genuine statehood for the Palestinian people, I believe they will be far more likely to support more mainstream leaders committed to peace.”</p><p>The first time??? The Arabs were given extremely generous offers of a state on Israel’s land numerous times throughout the past 75 years (including in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2008 and 2014). Each time, the Arabs rejected a state and instead went to war to destroy Israel or began another Intifada to murder and maim thousands of Israelis.</p><p>And that’s not all.</p><p>Schumer also overstated Hamas’ inflated Gazan casualties as “immense.” Wharton and other statisticians have shown that the Hamas figures are grossly exaggerated. Schumer also falsely demanded that Israel “must prioritize the protection of civilian casualties when identifying military targets.” No international law requires prioritizing civilians of an enemy in war time.</p><p>In fact, Israel carefully follows international law for every operation, which requires weighing the prospective military advantage against the potential expected casualties. Israel often calls off important operations when expected casualties may be too high. Many Israeli soldiers have died as a result of Israel’s care in preserving civilians. Prof. John Spencer of West Point and Britain’s esteemed Col. Richard Kemp this week stated that no army in history has done more to protect enemy civilians than Israel. And these Gazan civilians are not so innocent—they elected Hamas and 72%-85% of them support and praise the October 7th massacre, rape, murder, torture of innocent Jews. Thousands went into the streets of Gaza cheering and handing out candy. Even the nurses and doctors in the Gazan hospitals joined in.</p><p>Israel’s protection of civilians is so exemplary that despite Hamas using civilians as human shields, the number and ratio of Gazan civilians killed (approximately one civilian casualty for each of the 13,000 terrorists killed) is the lowest in the history of warfare.</p><p>Schumer also outrageously libeled Israel by falsely claiming that “so many Jews” are “horrified” by “our sense that Israel is falling short of upholding these distinctly Jewish values that we hold so dear” of protecting human life. And Schumer even claimed that due to “far-right extremists in his coalition,” Netanyahu is “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza.” We gasped when we heard that last outrageous libel.</p><p>“So many Jews” are actually horrified that Schumer is libeling Israel’s excellent record of preserving and protecting civilians.</p><p>Schumer also portrayed Israel’s efforts in Gaza as motivated by “revenge,” “anger” and “trauma” – instead of acknowledging that Israel’s sole, rational motivations are protecting Israeli citizens from the Hamas terror army that vows to launch more October 7ths, and bringing the hostages home.</p><p>Schumer also referred to a “cycle of bloodshed and revenge” – a misleading, morally-deficient phrase that equates Palestinian Arab terror attacks with Israel’s efforts to stop those terror attacks. </p><p>In addition to libeling Israel’s leadership, the peaceful Jews living in Judea/Samaria, and Israel’s law-abiding efforts to stop the vicious Hamas terror army that vows to destroy Israel, Schumer downplayed the daily horrors perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority. For instance, Schumer merely stated that the PA “incites instability through the martyr payment system.” Schumer did not explain that the PA’s “martyr payment system” refers to the PA’s payment of $400 million per year of reward payments and pensions to Arab terrorists to murder Jews. These PA “pay to slay” have resulted in Arabs murdering scores of Jews, and daily terror attacks on Jews in Judea-Samaria and elsewhere in Israel. “Pay to slay” is one of the most serious obstacles to peace. The Palestinian regime even paid the Hamas murderers of 10-7 lifetime pensions.</p><p>Schumer’s speech also employed serious falsehoods to promote his dangerous Palestinian state agenda.</p><p>First, Schumer claimed that only a “minority of Palestinians [] support Hamas and demonstrate other forms of extremism.” In fact, the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research (PCPSR) December 2023 poll revealed that 72% of Palestinians support Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israeli civilians; 70% of West Bank Palestinians support “armed struggle” against Israel; 60% of Palestinian Arabs want Hamas to remain in control of Gaza after the war; 85% of West Bank Palestinians support Hamas role during the war; and 81% support Yahya Sinwar’s role (the mastermind of the October 7 atrocities).</p><p>Second, Schumer falsely claimed that “on the Palestinian side,” former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad is “a model of responsible leadership.” In fact, Fayyad recently stated that his longstanding and current view is that the PLO/PA (which the U.S. is promoting to rule both Gaza and Judea/Samaria) must be expanded to include Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad! And that the PA/PLO cannot rule Gaza unless it includes Hamas and PIJ. Also, just three weeks ago, Fayyad praised Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva as an “international hero” for libelously accusing Israel of committing atrocities that haven’t been seen since Hitler killed the Jews.</p><p>Fayyad’s “responsible leadership” also included sponsoring PA summer camps where children’s groups are named after leading Palestinian Arab terrorists including Dalal Mughrabi (who murdered 37 Jews including 12 Jewish children); calling for boycotting Israeli goods; ignoring Israeli sovereignty and organizing massive Palestinian construction projects on Israeli state lands; calling for the mass release of convicted Palestinian Arab terrorists/murderers from Israeli jails; and comparing Israel’s security fence (needed to stop thousands of Palestinian terror attacks on Israel) to the Berlin Wall.</p><p>Schumer could point to no other allegedly peaceful Palestinian Arab leaders. Notably, the PCPSR December 2023 poll found that Palestinian Arabs’ most-favored candidates to replace Mahmoud Abbas as head of the Palestinian Authority are, first, convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti (who is serving five life sentences in Israel for murdering Jews) and second, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.</p><p>Schumer’s false praise of Fayyad as a “model of responsible leadership” is especially concerning because Fayyad is reportedly a candidate for ruler of Gaza and/or a senior position in the U.S.-planned “renewed” Palestinian Authority.</p><p>Third, Schumer insulted every Jew and the Jewish faith itself, by impugning the motives for Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av last year. Jews visit the Temple Mount because it is the Jewish people’s holiest site. It is where the Jewish Temples stood for approximately 1,000 years, and where Jews from throughout the land made pilgrimages three times every year. Tisha B’Av – which commemorates the destruction of the Temples – is a prime day for visiting the Temple Mount. Solomon constructed the Temple on the Temple Mount to be a place of prayer for all nations. And Ben G’vir visited the Temple Mount as an act of love and unity, saying “On this day, at this place, it is important to always remember – we are all brothers. Right, left, religious, secular.” </p><p>Yet, Schumer ignored all this, and instead claimed that Ben Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount was “a move only intended to antagonize the Muslim population” and “a brazen show of force towards Palestinians.” Doesn’t Schumer believe that Jews, too, have a right to pray on Judaism’s holiest site?</p><p>Schumer also claimed that “during this current conflict, [Ben Gvir] has facilitated the mass distribution of guns to far-right settlers, exacerbating instability, fueling violence.” In fact, the daily violence comes from the Palestinian Arabs. The few guns in the hands of Jews living in Judea/Samaria are needed for self-protection. For instance, when three Arab terrorists recently ran down the road between Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem, shooting, killing and wounding Jews sitting in their cars who were stuck in a traffic jam, armed civilians helped stop the terrorists’ deadly shooting spree.</p><p>Fourth, Schumer also wrongly claimed that Arabs would outnumber and outvote Jews in a one-state solution – a claim based on fraudulent demographic data. In his zeal to promote a Palestinian terror state, Schumer also ignored other alternative proposals, such as former Ambassador David Friedman’s recent sovereignty/peace plan.</p><p>It is also remiss that Schumer spent so much time leveling false accusations at Israelis, while failing to name Iran as the major obstacle to peace in the Middle East.</p><p>We hope and pray that Majority Leader Schumer will reconsider and retract his dangerous statements, and live up to being a Shomer Israel.</p><p>And:</p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: -apple-system-font, serif; font-size: 23.5pt;">Israel Has No Choice but to Fight On </span></h1><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: -apple-system-font, serif; font-size: 23.5pt;">By Bret Stephens</span></h1><p><br /></p><p>On Saturday, President Biden warned that Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel.” The Israeli prime minister replied the next day that Biden was “wrong.” The rift between the two leaders means that Israel risks losing its most important pillar of military and diplomatic support.</p><p>I’ve argued that Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas as an effective fighting force. Here I imagine a conversation with an intelligent critic of that view.</p><p>Thousands of Gazan civilians, many of them children, have now been killed, bombed in their homes or out of them. Now they face a humanitarian catastrophe in the form of medicine and food shortages, even starvation.</p><p>How can you possibly justify it?</p><p>Like all wars, this one is horrible and heartbreaking. But I blame Hamas, not Israel, for the devastation.</p><p>Look, Hamas is a terrorist group whose leaders should face justice for the massacres of Oct. 7. But it isn’t Hamas’s bombs, missiles or artillery that have leveled Gaza. It’s Israel’s.</p><p>Right. And Hamas, which started the war, could put a halt to that rain of fire tomorrow. It rejected a six-week cease-fire that would have paused the fighting and allowed much more aid in exchange for the release of roughly 40 of the remaining 100 Israeli hostages. It could stop the fighting for good by simply surrendering.</p><p>Hamas may not want to stop the fighting, but there’s little we can do about that. Israel can stop its assault, and thus spare Palestinian lives. And because Biden has leverage on Israel, he should use it.</p><p>The best way to get Hamas to stop fighting is to beat it. If Israel were to end the war now, with several Hamas battalions intact, at least four things would happen.</p><p>First, it would be impossible to set up a political authority in Gaza that isn’t Hamas: If the Palestinian Authority or local Gazans tried to do so, they wouldn’t live for long. Second, Hamas would reconstitute its military force as Hezbollah did in Lebanon after the 2006 war with Israel — and Hamas has promised to repeat the attacks of Oct. 7 “a second, a third, a fourth” time. Third, the Israeli hostages would be stuck in their awful captivity indefinitely.</p><p>Fourth, there would never be a Palestinian state. No Israeli government is going to agree to a Palestinian state in the West Bank if it risks resembling Gaza.</p><p>All that is speculative. The reality is that children are hungry, the sick aren’t getting medicine, innocent Palestinians are being killed, now. It’s wrong to avert theoretical harms by causing actual ones.</p><p>It might be more speculative if this weren’t the fifth major war that Hamas has provoked since it seized power in Gaza in 2007. After each war, Hamas’s capabilities have grown stronger and its ambitions bolder. At some point this had to end; for Israelis, Oct. 7 was that point.</p><p>Maybe, but why can’t Israel be much more judicious in its use of force?</p><p>Do you have any specific suggestions for how Israel can defeat Hamas while being more sparing of civilians?</p><p>I’m not a military expert.</p><p>I’ve noticed that whenever Israel’s critics lecture the country on better calibrating its use of force, they don’t have any concrete suggestions. Are Israelis smart enough to fight better, but too stupid to appreciate the diplomatic consequences of not doing so?</p><p>Maybe they’re thirsty for vengeance.</p><p>The reality of urban warfare is that it’s exceptionally costly and difficult. The United States under Barack Obama and Donald Trump spent nine months helping Iraqi forces flatten the city of Mosul to defeat ISIS, with results that looked even worse than Gaza does today. I don’t remember calls for “Cease-Fire Now” then. Hamas has made it even more difficult for Israel because, instead of sheltering civilians in its immense network of tunnels, it shelters itself.</p><p>Even so, that doesn’t relieve Israel of the obligation to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.</p><p>It’s not as if Israel is not lifting a finger. On Sunday alone, 225 truckloads of aid entered Gaza through Israel, according to the Israeli military. But you seem to think that the government of Israel’s primary responsibility is to the welfare of the people of Gaza. It isn’t. As with any government, its obligations are to its own people.</p><p>Israelis are mostly doing fine now. It’s Palestinians who are dying.</p><p>Israel has spent the last five months degrading Hamas’s military capabilities to the point that it seems to have run out of rockets to fire at Israel. And around 200,000 Israelis are living as refugees inside their own country because its borders aren’t secure. No country can tolerate that. Israel didn’t come into existence to showcase the victimization of Jews. It came into existence to end their victimization.</p><p>Well, since you’re alluding to the Holocaust, it surely can’t be in Israel’s interests to be seen perpetrating a version of it in Gaza. Just look at the worldwide explosion of antisemitism since Oct. 7.</p><p>That analogy is false and offensive on many levels. Israel is fighting a war it didn’t seek, against an enemy sworn to its destruction and holding scores of its citizens hostage. If Israel had wanted to wipe out Gazans as Germans sought to wipe out Jews, it could have done so on the first day of the war. Israel is fighting a tough war against an evil enemy that puts its own civilians in harm’s way. Maybe there should be more public pressure on Hamas to surrender than on Israel to save Hamas from the consequences of its actions.</p><p>As for antisemitism, the war hasn’t generated a torrent of antisemitism so much as it has exposed it.</p><p>Probably a mix of the two. Still, you make the mistake of imagining that Hamas can be defeated. You can’t kill an idea, particularly by generating the terrible resentments that are surely brewing in Gaza and throughout the Arab world.</p><p>By that logic, the Allies should have spared Germany because National Socialism was also an idea. You may not be able to kill an idea but you can defang it, just as you can persuade future generations that some ideas have terrible consequences for those who espouse them.</p><p>So what do you suggest the Biden administration do?</p><p>Help Israel win the war decisively so that Israelis and Palestinians can someday win the peace.</p><p>Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The Times, writing about foreign policy, domestic politics and cultural issues. Facebook</p><p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-88842707941066821192024-03-14T12:32:00.000-07:002024-03-14T20:09:30.672-07:00Wipe Out Rafah. Education The Key. My Knock On Wood.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Ah0De7xr3syVkgr42TRDBMSWkbIVH3nIZyidl0N4MBU0Gtlc7UbX4jtG7o67JoGYhRplVLk6MLv5BoGcCtXNSMcqd-XW22_e7WG_AMDijlfbImEod69QKVMyFQV3a2HEKafIW3eaakVQ0SGtNewRfEhLF0wpcmH4xx63if7qTSzs9CbJrTP0hPbX9UI/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Ah0De7xr3syVkgr42TRDBMSWkbIVH3nIZyidl0N4MBU0Gtlc7UbX4jtG7o67JoGYhRplVLk6MLv5BoGcCtXNSMcqd-XW22_e7WG_AMDijlfbImEod69QKVMyFQV3a2HEKafIW3eaakVQ0SGtNewRfEhLF0wpcmH4xx63if7qTSzs9CbJrTP0hPbX9UI/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjikBW3giG8nL6kB8Vqtsf2eSlZYacE2O8T1qlbTJ-C89gd4Wec9ySIbRBQuVjtdZsYFgMi9Dn34AnOedVKctee0HT_F5JmYZgbXoQzWfBIKH52wC5BAqlmmljvkXalX4agwiNHfdBhgUWwPD2d_1FsgPV0_0vSuiSP9gUQQSPW6foV4iA4zVz9OyvdIBw/s320/1273002866_1710457674464_193146.jpeg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKvef_w0lItVj465UpOPSVseP_tHEEHyiNCzNJAJeJRq5DCN_LvLdp2w4KB-s9VoNrGdr3lvlOpAdChBhyphenhyphenM4qvMzQLkDvVFAa_lYAbfZVOE0Db9R4uKksqY0LeKu7rOJbdxkWTeQ2Gp93skhuZdU8_z0T3vInp3ZsZVuMqvqhBHusZc5f6uiNmMHTJ6E/s1079/-195850933_1710458212668_381951.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1079" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKvef_w0lItVj465UpOPSVseP_tHEEHyiNCzNJAJeJRq5DCN_LvLdp2w4KB-s9VoNrGdr3lvlOpAdChBhyphenhyphenM4qvMzQLkDvVFAa_lYAbfZVOE0Db9R4uKksqY0LeKu7rOJbdxkWTeQ2Gp93skhuZdU8_z0T3vInp3ZsZVuMqvqhBHusZc5f6uiNmMHTJ6E/s320/-195850933_1710458212668_381951.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Road to Ceasefire Leads Through the Rafah Offensive </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By Jacob Stoil & John Spencer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Have you wondered why, despite the devastation in Gaza and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">massive diplomatic efforts involving many countries, Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">continues to refuse a ceasefire? It has a lot to do with its initial</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">strategy on October 7—and the United States.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Hamas attacked and invaded Israel, it did so knowing there</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">would be a massive response by Israel and an operation into</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gaza. It knew many Gazan civilians would die, indeed they</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">counted on it, referring to their population as "nation of martyrs"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and taking pride in their sacrifices to further Hamas' military goals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The military strategy for Hamas" October 7 attack was to create the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">largest scale of atrocity possible and survive Israel's counter attack.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then, having survived, it intended to build up for many more</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">October 7 attacks, all with the aim of achieving its grand strategic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">goal: the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jewish people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas political leader, stated as</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">much, saying, Israel is a country that has no place on our</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">land. We must remove that country ... the Al-Aqsa Flood is</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">just the first time, and there will be a second, third, and fourth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Will we pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas' hope is that repeated attacks like October 7 will</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">eventually break the will of the Israeli population. To do that,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas would need to survive the war.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas' defenses in Gaza were built to hold the Israeli Defense</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Forces (IDF) in the eastern areas of Gaza. The defense also relied</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">on the hundreds of miles of tunnels that Hamas had built under the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">civilian areas, protected sites, and infrastructure of Gaza. In the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">offensive in North Gaza, the IDF achieved operational surprise and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">performed well on the battlefield. As a result, Hamas' defenses did</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">not hold as well as they hoped, so Hamas embraced a temporary</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ceasefire and returned almost half the hostages. During that</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ceasefire, Hamas evacuated the remaining hostages and much of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">their leadership to hide among the concentration of civilians in the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">remaining uncleared areas of Gaza such as Rafah.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the meantime, pressure at home and the suffering of Gazans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">led the United States to put pressure on Israel to change</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">operations during the fighting in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">by employing a much lighter force package. For the first time,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas could see a way forward.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If the United States could be made uncomfortable enough with the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">continuing of the war against Hamas, then it would put more</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">pressure on Israel to wind down operations. Egypt, in part, was</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">inadvertently aiding in Hamas' strategy when they closed their</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">border to Palestinian civilians. This trapped Gazans in the combat</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">zone and guaranteed that, despite Israel and the international</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">communist efforts with humanitarian aid, there would be little</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">relief to Gazans suffering.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While multiple countries joined Israel's efforts to increase the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">amount of aid going into different parts of Gaza, to include airdrops</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and now a seaport, there will always be limitations while Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">continues to hold the hostages and attack the IDF. Hamas actions</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">to limit the aid to Palestinians continues to increase the likelihood</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">that the United States will demand further restrictions on</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel–especially on operating in Rafah.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So why has Hamas refused a ceasefire now in Gaza?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Simple: They think their strategy is going to work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They believe the United States will keep Israel out of Rafah, or that</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">if Israel operates in Rafah, it will risk a strategic rupture with its</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">only ally in the United Nations Security Council. Either way, Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">potentially walks away with a strategic victory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Without operations in Rafah, Israel will be forced to accept</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">outlandish demands for the return of the hostages. Moreover,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas will survive and emerge as the only Palestinian</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">organization to defeat Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As it becomes increasingly clear that the United States has</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">little stomach for an Israeli incursion into Rafah, Hamas has</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">no reason to negotiate the terms of a ceasefire. It does not</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">care about the interest of the Gazans. Hamas can maximize its</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">gains with faith that the United States will ultimately impose a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ceasefire on Israel. In the unlikely event that the Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">assumptions about the United States start to prove false, they</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">could attempt further delays of the Israeli offensive into</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">southern Gaza by coming back to the table.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Without the realistic threat of an Israeli operation in Rafah,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas has no reason to seek a ceasefire, and given Hamas'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">strategy, there can be no truly lasting ceasefire if Hamas can</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">return to control Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As long as the United States seems opposed to an Israeli entry</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">into Rafah, Hamas leadership can sleep relatively soundly in their</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">tunnels and refuse to negotiate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ultimately, Hamas strategy and unwillingness to negotiate is</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">entirely dependent on the United States acting as Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">wants—an outcome that looks increasingly likely. This means that</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">the key actor in determining whether Hamas will come to the table</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and whether a ceasefire is possible is not Israel but the United</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">States.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In other words, while the road to a lasting ceasefire in Gaza may</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">run through Rafah, its first stop is in Washington.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">___________________________________________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Jacob Stoil is the Chair of Applied History at the West Point</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Modern War Institute (MWI), Assistant Director of the Second</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">World War Research Group (North America), Trustee of the U.S.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Commission for Military History, and a founding member of the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">John Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Institute (MWI) at West Point, codirector of MWI&#39;s Urban Warfare</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Project and host of the "Urban Warfare Project Podcast" He</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">served for 25 years as an infantry soldier, which included two</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">combat tours in Iraq. He is the author of the book Connected</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connection in Modern War</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and co-author of Understanding Urban Warfare.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Israel-Hamas conflict halted those talks. Hamas, with support from Saudi Arabia's mutual enemy, Iran, perfectly timed its attack to undermine a normalization pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We cannot afford to let Iran and Hamas derail what would be a critically beneficial relationship for all sides. America needs to proactively seek out an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Saudi Arabia is in a unique position. The country's oil wealth has given it a tremendous amount of influence and independence. America and China are both heavily invested in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis purchase more than $100 billion worth of weapons and defense equipment from the US each year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To capitalize on this unique standing, Saudi Arabia could lead the way in revitalizing Gaza post-conflict. By focusing on reconstruction, infrastructure development, and humanitarian assistance, Saudi Arabia can ensure that support for the Palestinian people is used constructively, avoiding the pitfalls of previous aid efforts that inadvertently empowered Hamas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If the US and Israel want to expand the Abraham Accords in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict, they must start with Saudi Arabia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These factors give Saudi Arabia a weight that other regional actors lack. If the US and Israel want to expand the Abraham Accords in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict, they must start with Saudi Arabia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Saudis have three broad strategic objectives: Increasing their stature on the international stage, becoming less reliant on oil revenue, and countering Iran.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Saudi Arabia has captured headlines recently with the acquisition of major sports franchises, tournaments, and players in an attempt to make itself an international cultural force. A major obstacle has been a reputation for oppression and human rights violations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By utilizing its wealth and influence to help revitalize the Palestinian people, Saudi Arabia would become a true global ambassador.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority is qualified to lead the Palestinian people. Saudi Arabia, perhaps working alongside more moderate and technocratic Palestinians, could offer both financial stability and leadership support. It would gain a stake and say in the future of the Palestinian people. The money that the Saudis would invest would not be used to fund Hamas, like previous aid from Arab countries, but for reconstruction, infrastructure, and humanitarian assistance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Stabilizing the Middle East also makes sense from an economic perspective. Saudi Arabia needs foreign investors to diversify its oil-dependent economy. A peaceful and stable Middle East, forged mainly by the Saudis, would go a long way towards increasing investments.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The final factor to consider in a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is Iran. Iran is a mortal enemy of both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has been involved in a war against the Houthis, an Iranian proxy, in Yemen. Although there is currently a ceasefire in place, Saudi Arabia and Iran remain deeply hostile towards each other.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An Israeli-Saudi peace agreement would further those two countries' ability to counter Iran and confront the Houthi threat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Recently, the Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea and disrupting international commerce, as well as firing missiles and drones at Israel. An Israeli-Saudi peace agreement would further those two countries' ability to counter Iran and confront the Houthi threat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another significant benefit to an Israeli-Saudi accord would be the possibility of realizing the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">IMEC would consist of a ship-rail-transit network from India across the Middle East to Europe, and would include both Israel and Saudi Arabia. The railway would boost economic growth in the region and beyond, provide an alternative to shipping goods through the Red Sea or around the Cape of Good Hope, and stand as a bulwark against China's Belt and Road initiative.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">IMEC has been put on hold due to the Israel-Hamas war. However, it is another long-term benefit that can be accrued through an Israeli-Saudi deal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The United States must seize this moment to broker a deal that leverages Saudi Arabia's potential as a stabilizing force and a beacon of progress in the Middle East. Such an agreement would not only be in America's interest, but would also herald a new chapter of peace and prosperity for the entire region.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gregg Roman is director of the Middle East Forum and a former official at the Israeli Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Throughout the world, education is the critical element missing in most underperforming nations and America caught the virus some 60 years ago. Now, it must dig it's way out or it will simply decline further.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even if it takes a hammer, use it on the Palestinians. They have hard heads, not much by way of brains and hard hearts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv7537659987heading_block yiv7537659987block-3" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none !important; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td class="yiv7537659987pad" style="outline: none !important; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 560px; word-break: normal;"><h1 style="direction: ltr; font-size: 31px; line-height: 37.2px; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><a class="yiv7537659987" href="https://go.honestreporting.com/e/915271/eds-education-reform--swcfpc-1/dbss7/525653898/h/Arm2VhrVYdrJBIukzYGr9vQ_7v0iv3EFWOManzHrPYI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">For a Bright Post-Hamas Future, Gaza Needs Education Reform</a></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If Gaza is to have a brighter future after the war between Israel and Hamas is over, one of the key ingredients for this renewed society must be education reform, focused on democracy, de-radicalization, and normalization between Israelis and Palestinians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If not, the stage will be set for future years of war and terrorism.</div></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none !important;"><a class="yiv7537659987" href="https://go.honestreporting.com/e/915271/eds-education-reform--swcfpc-1/dbss7/525653898/h/Arm2VhrVYdrJBIukzYGr9vQ_7v0iv3EFWOManzHrPYI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #483d90; outline: none 0px !important;" target="_blank">Read More ➝</a></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would like to attend the attached but I do not believe anything I hear from those who were once in our government and particularly the CIA. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">My cynicism has proven very good and I know it is a shame but I also know my government no longer cares about me so why should I care about what former bureaucrats have to say? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sad but I would rather start reading Seamus Bruner's book: "Controligarchs."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I trust him and what he has to say about the Rockefeller Foundation, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Soros, Klaus Schwab, Larry Fink , John Brennan and all the corrupt DAVOS crowd who want to destroy my life, my freedom, my nation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is evident they have already corrupted the Justice Department, IRS, FBI and CIA.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">REMINDER</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are excited to offer our next </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">program on Thursday, March 21 at 7:30pm ET.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Social Time Starts at 7:00pm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Kristin Wood, Former Fellow on the Intelligence Project at Harvard University Kennedy School Belfer Center and former Chief of Innovation and Technology at the CIA Open Source Center will present:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The Role of Open Source Information in U.S. National Security"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With enormous amounts of data commercially available today, it’s not just the intelligence community that has access to information that can be vital to our national security. Information about what governments and private individuals are doing is in the hands of private companies via satellites and social media, and it is growing. Could effective use of such data help make us more secure? Should our government have an entity to evaluate this “open-source data” to inform our decision making on national security issues? What should be the relationship between government and the private sector when it comes to the information that is gathered? How can key data be protected? One of America’s leading and most thoughtful experts on these crucial questions, Kristin Wood, will help us decipher the issues and will offer recommendations. A 20-year veteran of the CIA, recent fellow at Harvard University and now the CEO of her own tech startup, Kristin will provide her insights on using private sector open and commercial data to help meet our country’s international challenges..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We will meet at the Skidaway Community Church</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(Previously known as the Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">50 Diamond Causeway, Savannah 3141</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The program will be recorded for later viewing on the SCWA YouTube channel, but WILL NOT be Live Streamed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pre-program social time (coffee & cookies) will start at 7:00pm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Our regular $10 per guest program fee will apply for this presentation. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There will be a Q&A session at the end of Ms. Wood's presentation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Kristin Wood is a leading voice in the open-source community, advocating for harnessing the power of private-sector open and commercial data to better understand the world, its opportunities, and its challenges. She spent 20 years at the CIA, where she worked and led teams following five wars, delivered the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) to senior Administration officials, and gained extensive experience in high-consequence analysis, operations, and open-source innovation and technology. Ms. Wood was selected for the Agency’s Senior Intelligence Service and finished her career at the CIA as the Deputy Director of the Innovation & Technology Group at the CIA’s Open Source Center.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Currently, Ms. Wood is the CEO and co-founder of August Interactive, a deep tech start-up gaming studio that is building personalized, immersive games with purpose, offering players positive outcomes, new skills, and a deeper connection to their communities. She believes gaming and extended reality are critical to our economic future. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ms. Wood serves on the advisory boards of numerous deep tech start-ups and venture capital firms. She recently completed a fellowship at the Intelligence Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she focused on climate and the art of the possible for open source. She is an emeritus advisory board member for the International Spy Museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ms. Wood graduated from Occidental College with an A.B. in Political Science.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++</div></span></div></div><p><br /> </p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-47626979400515234042024-03-13T15:13:00.000-07:002024-03-14T12:18:09.910-07:00Last Of Photos. Is There A God? Anything Goes? Fake Numbers? Time To Go After Iran!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXaFT2RxYC4U1AbzSyW7mRdQqY5V6GOZ1-9t4veyVvjeD56yInq_bbgQ00b444hECT8xRm3mL8WNeIu1bk1qAwCUzlJU_xHPoKRd8lgfkFCy-Q6VivhJFc4BYQhV4PROue3j4wnXN23anf4pslUzmxBjp-mH3bMGwZ6JDH6ycYDcfQMBkAELNIu3aTRY/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXaFT2RxYC4U1AbzSyW7mRdQqY5V6GOZ1-9t4veyVvjeD56yInq_bbgQ00b444hECT8xRm3mL8WNeIu1bk1qAwCUzlJU_xHPoKRd8lgfkFCy-Q6VivhJFc4BYQhV4PROue3j4wnXN23anf4pslUzmxBjp-mH3bMGwZ6JDH6ycYDcfQMBkAELNIu3aTRY/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PRLu0Fk0moDkXSe9h9GORr9JP8u3Br4kHSj89gNM7PxW3NAl6y07No4vIF-dv3gFE2CaIc0vjjm8vTK1eSDwh0V4GKPflJfg67STQMQhMPP3-2vcsLfMkWxFyjJl32xFFtRH6H9QF9eK2I-nTM4G9-QG2YK7IkXRG1uSEIQgpFCRHazgFtBuV9-1nrc/s1134/image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="961" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PRLu0Fk0moDkXSe9h9GORr9JP8u3Br4kHSj89gNM7PxW3NAl6y07No4vIF-dv3gFE2CaIc0vjjm8vTK1eSDwh0V4GKPflJfg67STQMQhMPP3-2vcsLfMkWxFyjJl32xFFtRH6H9QF9eK2I-nTM4G9-QG2YK7IkXRG1uSEIQgpFCRHazgFtBuV9-1nrc/s320/image.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last of wedding photos</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbZTsUwr7KqdBH6i2bz7a4-xPp6u0yB3Lz25PKiR-nAPDojnXVfY-_hxO-5D6X2TIOc-lsQneLlxh6uXMOj5-eWNnC_yD1Y_oW4q10miaqP-CfJEWBdGawOM6UYNWO-MFII4fDrVCFAplgfdsLtAY8wiIGBCHKZwzGapXHVLLo-a60Zq1Dh1uySpnPnw/s1408/11%20Jessica%20bouquet%2020240409.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1056" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbZTsUwr7KqdBH6i2bz7a4-xPp6u0yB3Lz25PKiR-nAPDojnXVfY-_hxO-5D6X2TIOc-lsQneLlxh6uXMOj5-eWNnC_yD1Y_oW4q10miaqP-CfJEWBdGawOM6UYNWO-MFII4fDrVCFAplgfdsLtAY8wiIGBCHKZwzGapXHVLLo-a60Zq1Dh1uySpnPnw/s320/11%20Jessica%20bouquet%2020240409.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Bride Jessica</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrg9APpbITQNKGgFYJAMbH1ObySt3tMjw-aK-sjethRau2TdhzBek-ySDo8D83P6MDCyKX03BmU3mxR4xcMaiau3RgD4y3zy_g1Lt5uaI5ZDT6Ahqz3uamhCnu2D52V5q8wBc3xWeYbgGjgwo0QodbbI_2UL-wc41qqE4wpeo0bFIQOtBekOjxLoHsgy4/s2536/21%20NULL%20BEN%20DAVIDs.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1902" data-original-width="2536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrg9APpbITQNKGgFYJAMbH1ObySt3tMjw-aK-sjethRau2TdhzBek-ySDo8D83P6MDCyKX03BmU3mxR4xcMaiau3RgD4y3zy_g1Lt5uaI5ZDT6Ahqz3uamhCnu2D52V5q8wBc3xWeYbgGjgwo0QodbbI_2UL-wc41qqE4wpeo0bFIQOtBekOjxLoHsgy4/s320/21%20NULL%20BEN%20DAVIDs.heic" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Some of Henry's father in law's family</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8y4u_MN6pF3RoLPn8ECGJIvzabrwKCKLdIjiR1jxqjIOkBGkfdtk3R7b6x8CVmEwhXC9kuau7V2-rMyOfp2Ue-dHsfReR1bpLPsUmc5ye-q73FTTydt9yxAeFS2eJNOTFci5TcxF7CQQTfYxQe31t87ttLNFoOjX7QJCpqWhxREuXQ9sdYZ_xwdQRSs/s4032/unnamed%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8y4u_MN6pF3RoLPn8ECGJIvzabrwKCKLdIjiR1jxqjIOkBGkfdtk3R7b6x8CVmEwhXC9kuau7V2-rMyOfp2Ue-dHsfReR1bpLPsUmc5ye-q73FTTydt9yxAeFS2eJNOTFci5TcxF7CQQTfYxQe31t87ttLNFoOjX7QJCpqWhxREuXQ9sdYZ_xwdQRSs/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry, Jessica and Rabbi Under Chuppah</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFsYYbRxQOXHV4pesXYavDvcJngjQtp9sitLvBFXyJu2-GgN1Y2KiSOjappdNDKxajfRwnaC_13nMYXHFK71b0gBjz33n8sZiQcTOq_iCGO3STLfTThwB6zg7C1jz3r96juT4mM94kJ0z9rnaZWBO0pZey23QtPMRsg95Calarfy_utInDMQomUGfRE0/s4032/unnamed%20(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFsYYbRxQOXHV4pesXYavDvcJngjQtp9sitLvBFXyJu2-GgN1Y2KiSOjappdNDKxajfRwnaC_13nMYXHFK71b0gBjz33n8sZiQcTOq_iCGO3STLfTThwB6zg7C1jz3r96juT4mM94kJ0z9rnaZWBO0pZey23QtPMRsg95Calarfy_utInDMQomUGfRE0/s320/unnamed%20(3).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amy's Husband, Steve, with Daniel's Son, Max</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4h3ElQzYFBYmAYi_CHi0pb42hxLKj7AdC30YnwyYu85Lo59EJOu_rsJfO6NjlqKOw00Co01UVuxNVCdQ_ShZuIpujgQ_NT1vZ570EKutn5tp9LH6KuvSKcUIJdbN_ZYpR18ZwavY-YJadzQJBnYYPjByfdO-iy2EXNhs_TpadbGL6dHPwxVanV1emliw/s4032/17%20Jessica%20Henry%20first%20dance.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4h3ElQzYFBYmAYi_CHi0pb42hxLKj7AdC30YnwyYu85Lo59EJOu_rsJfO6NjlqKOw00Co01UVuxNVCdQ_ShZuIpujgQ_NT1vZ570EKutn5tp9LH6KuvSKcUIJdbN_ZYpR18ZwavY-YJadzQJBnYYPjByfdO-iy2EXNhs_TpadbGL6dHPwxVanV1emliw/s320/17%20Jessica%20Henry%20first%20dance.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">First Dance</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJ7JJzXqucUYMUs6Hq8B0uQvcOB2eDD8QaDP_wu8LntILlqAOvF01WRSPNHXeQt2aYzAUnpFBlT-gEiYw3NxUTNiVbhBk1AVE5Pq1hDjvVHC7LRvNvjTzlSNO_ZJd_09Mt8a6PXg-hNFkzJgRn2OQKyIfDXXAuzB79J0PQX-ASnlzqC9Ngt3OzeH8CRA/s4032/unnamed%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJ7JJzXqucUYMUs6Hq8B0uQvcOB2eDD8QaDP_wu8LntILlqAOvF01WRSPNHXeQt2aYzAUnpFBlT-gEiYw3NxUTNiVbhBk1AVE5Pq1hDjvVHC7LRvNvjTzlSNO_ZJd_09Mt8a6PXg-hNFkzJgRn2OQKyIfDXXAuzB79J0PQX-ASnlzqC9Ngt3OzeH8CRA/s320/unnamed%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grandson, Son, Kevin, with Our Family Grandchildren</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When South Africa and the UN Hate,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take Comfort in G-d's Protection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anti-Semitism is so incomprehensible that many of us Orthodox Jewish theologians believe anti-Semitism is G-d’s way of “mowing the lawn”- while making sure we survive. Op-ed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By DOV FISCHER</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our history: We accepted and received G-d's Torah at Mount Sinai in the presence of millions, and we have honored our promise for 3,300 years. We still observe His Day of Rest on the seventh day. We still do not eat the animals, sinews, and fats He declared forbidden to us. We still maintain family purity and the mikveh laws. We still observe the Holy Festivals He declared in the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar/B’midbar) chapters 28-29.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And despite incomprehensible and indescribable antisemitism through two millennia of Exile, we still maintain the world’s best sense of humor and — except for those who have made a Cult of the Holocaust, spending tens of millions building Holocaust Museums and producing Holocaust movies instead of building yeshivot and producing authentic Jewish education — we refuse to see ourselves as “Victims.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Left wallows in Victimology. We are Winners. Proof? We are still here. Jews returned to the Jewish homeland after two thousand years. We revived our language after two millennia of its corruption and dilution, because of innocent ignorance, with German and Polish. And, on the day Israel has the right leaders, it can and will wipe out all proximate foes — and anyone else who gets in the way — in 24 hours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other side, ladies and gentlemen, the People’s Republic of South Africa. South Africa, a failed state with extraordinarily high murder rates. Their history: Cannibals. When they attack Israel, the question is not “What’s eating them now?” Rather, it is: “Who’s eating them now?”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To be born a Jew is to be born with a target on your back. You go to the same movies others do. Enjoy similar foods, although — if you play by the rules — you restrict yourself to kosher ingredients and kosher-certified eating establishments. You root for the same sports teams others do. You like the same books.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But you still know you have a target on your back. Each and every Jew knows this from childhood. Watch “The Fabelman's,” where even Spielberg drops his guard to let you know he knows, too. Israel is his life insurance policy, too. The America that loved “E.T.,” “Jurassic Park,” “Star Wars,” “Indy,” “Jaws,” and “Close Encounters” could throw him out unceremoniously just as Germany threw out Billy Wilder and his cohort of great screenwriters, actors, composers, and Einstein's.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It makes no sense. Germany could have used Einstein during World War II. E = mc2 was not a secret recipe for cholent. But they handed him to America as stupidly as Sharon handed Gaza to Hamas and as Ehud Barak (Israel's Judas Maccabee, without the "Maccabee" part) handed South Lebanon to Hezbollah.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If left alone, Jews would be like everyone else — normal. Our voting patterns would be the same. Our everything would be the same. But mindless persecution has made us different — and caused a certain chunk of us, like the makers of Chunky Monkey, to be not normal, even manifestly sick with self-loathing. Ben and Jerry left their ethnically Jewish New York for Vermont, to live as colonizers on indigent Indian land. So did Bernie Sanders from Brooklyn, to live not only on indigenous Indian land but also indolently on indulgent women’s money. So some Jews become distorted with self-loathing, like a George Soros who grew up as a ward to a Nazi, like a cartoon Robin to an Eich Man, keeping account books for him of property confiscated from Jews, to try proving to non-Jews that “We are just like you, no different at all. See? We even associate with the worst Jew haters and oppose Israel — just like you. So please don’t kill us. We’ll do the books.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And, yet: News Flash: When a person takes the lead in demonizing people of his own ethnicity for no rational reason, and mires himself in the same pigsty where the Rashid Tlaibs, Ilhan Omars, and Ocasios wallow, that is not normal. Normal people simply do not do that. Irish-Americans don’t turn on Ireland. Mexican-Americans don’t boycott Mexico. Italian-Americans don’t attack Italy. Black Americans, like civil rights heroes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, do not lead battles for the women of Congo who face a national epidemic of rape. Arab-Americans do not oppose Hamas rape or “Palestine Authority” terrorism. Rashida Tlaib won't even vote to condemn Arab rape.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It so much “makes no sense” that it makes perfect sense. Two thousand years of blood libels, Crusades to Palestine that got out of hand and turned into bloodbaths along the Rhine and the Seine, false accusations of poisoning the wells of Europe, mass burnings of Talmuds and others of our holy books and manuscripts, false allegations of causing the Black Death, autos-da-fé and burnings at the stake, mass expulsions from countries, forcible conversions to majority religions, being confined in ghettoes, pogroms, Holocausts, “Gentleman’s Agreements,” and such finally do leave some people psychologically distorted. They become deeply sick. This is not about hurling invective; it is diagnosis.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Indeed, antisemitism is so incomprehensible that many of us Orthodox Jewish theologians believe that antisemitism is G-d’s way of “mowing the lawn” when He sees Jews assimilating too much, too many abandoning their Judaic ties, being too much like “the Nations” to the degree that they no longer make the Sabbath Day special, one of delight, and abandon kosher dietary practices. So, along comes Jew-hatred to keep us in check. Maybe that is why we still are around, and will be forever. When too many try to run away, He simply closes all other doors. As the Shoah taught, in contradistinction to the universal aphorism: You can hide, but you can't run. The rabbis of the Talmud say that the evil Haman inspired more Jews to return to G-d and Judaism than did great teachings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don’t look for it. We don’t want it. But it comes. The little Jew-hating snot, Greta Thunberg, knows nothing about climate. Antisemitism is in her forecast, now and forever. As with all storms, it moves from country to country. Where is she from? Sweden? It’s been there forever. It would be nice to have climate change there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Often, it comes from outta nowhere, just when we never felt safer. Our Golden Age in Spain came in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, when some of our greatest scholars arose: poets and thinkers like Rambam (Maimonides), Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, Avraham Ibn Ezra, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol. And then G-d sent Ferdinand and Isabella to convert us forcibly and to burn at stake any Jews who presented as converts but secretly retained their Judaic faith and practiced Judaic rituals privately. Other countries invited us in, and we contributed mightily to their successes, ever grateful for the opportunity. “And then there arose a new Pharaoh who knew not Joseph,” and it was back to the beginning, kicked out and searching for a new land that would take in the survivors.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We never were secure. We first entered Russia, moderately welcomed. Then they turned. We were at the center of the Weimar Republic, never felt safer in Germany. And soon they were painting swastikas on stores and on college dorm rooms, breaking glass windows, burning books and temples, and banning us from the universities. And so it went. Never to find a haven.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">England expelled us in 1290 and did not let us back until 1648. When King Henry VIII searched for a rabbi to interpret the Torah books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy to provide Biblical justification for the Pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, he couldn’t find a single darned rabbi in all of England — because all the Jews had been thrown out 250 years earlier. France threw us out a few years later. We got slaughtered in Germany throughout the 11th through 13th Centuries. Spain threw us out in 1492, Portugal in 1497 when King Manuel married Ferdinand’s and Isabella’s daughter. Italy confined us in those ghettoes, truly “the world’s largest open-air prisons”; that’s why that word, ending in singular in “o,” sounds Italian. Because it is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Segué In my freshman year of college, my dormmate turned out to be an anti-Semite — even before he got to know me. I had no idea until one day a guy from down the hall told me to watch out for him, that he hates Jews. I asked how he knew. He told me: “Last night, he had a few too many beers and caught me alone while I was watching a movie in the common TV room at the end of the hall. He started ranting how he hates Jews and hates that he was placed on a dorm floor where all the other 118 students are Jews. That he and I are the only “Christians” on this ‘whole damn Jew floor.’ I asked him how he knew I was not a Jew, too. He answered: ‘I feel safe with you because you are Italian.’ I asked how he knew. He said “Because your last name ends in an ‘o.’ ”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And that is how I learned that my dormmate was a Jew-hater. Because he had opened up, after a few beers, to Harry Shapiro.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And now Black-Majority South Africa has decided to take the lead as the next great world Jew-hating power. Mighty Black-Majority South Africa. Cultural center of the universe. Think of any great composer from there. Black-Majority South Africa: source of great philosophers and scholars. Think of one. The locus to which all eyes turn at Nobel Prize season. Think of all their laureates. All that comes to my mind are their cannibals. Not cannon balls, mind you. Cannibals. (Christiaan Barnard? White. Degree from University of Minnesota. In today’s South Africa, he would be a bimmy. DEI.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And now Black-Majority South Africa is ready to advance civilization. With eyes on the Jews, they are taking out their forks and knives. They don’t need dishes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What in the world did the Jews ever do to warrant the dirt bags running Black-Majority South Africa joining with Hamas and Arab Muslim terror? If anything, Jews were leaders in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa when that opposition was perilous to lead. The most outspoken anti-apartheid parliamentarian in the country was a Jewish woman, Helen Suzman. The Jews were mostly quite conservative but deeply anti-apartheid. Apartheid is plain wrong. So South African Jews opposed it. And eventually apartheid fell.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And what did the Jews get in return for a decency that Nelson Mandela recognized, acknowledged, and deeply appreciated? The Jews got a loused-up polity that cannot run its own country, a Black-Majority South Africa where 7,000 of their own people in “peacetime” get murdered every three months — that comes to 28,000 murders a year, the highest numbers they have recorded.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet, those Jew haters file a “legal” case in a corrupt United Nations court, accusing Israel of war crimes. Got that? Hamas murderers break into Israel and, in one day, murder 1,200 Jews, slaughter hundreds at an all-night rave dance party for peaceniks who believe Arab Muslims are their friends, then proceed to left-wing Marxist socialist kibbutzim (kibbutzes), populated by leftist Israelis who chose to live near Gaza in order to be peace emissaries to the Arab Muslims in whose good intentions they foolishly believed, and slaughter them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the name of Allah, they stabbed and cut throats, cut fetuses out of the bellies of living mothers and then stabbed the babies and mothers multiple times to horrible death, cut off limbs of living people before murdering them, raped dead women, raped living women alongside dead women, cut off heads, slaughtered babies, in some cases slaughtering so many babies and cutting off so many of their heads in the same nursery room that the religious burial society needed weeks to match the decapitated heads with the right baby torsi for dignified burials consonant with Jewish law; and in the name of Allah, they took other babies and put them in ovens while they still were alive and burned them to death.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2006, Israel gave those Arabs — there is no such thing as “Palestinians” — a land of their own, Gaza, along a beautiful Mediterranean coastline that is no different from the beaches and coasts of Tel Aviv. They could have built a Shangri-la. They were sent $4.5 billion from 2014-2020. They could have built villas, built a national utilities infrastructure. Instead, in 18 years they never built their own electric grid or water system or world class hospital; they chose to rely on Israel for it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instead, they took that by-now close to $8 billion from American taxpayers like you, and from Europeans and Qataris, and they built an underground hell-hole of 400 miles of tunnels that are like the New York City subway system, covering every kilometer of Gaza underground. They built them to store rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, ammunition, rockets and missiles to shoot into Israel, hand grenades, IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), and to hide themselves. They built them under hospitals, UNRWA schools, mosques, residential apartment buildings, even five-star hotels.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel had to fight five wars they launched, and this is the sixth in those 18 years. So it has got to stop, whatever it takes. If Hamas insists on hiding behind human shields, Israel has to do what America did in Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. There is no choice — or From the River to the Sea, Israel Will Cease to Be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">America — as weak as it has become under politically correct governance — still would never stand for what Israelis endure daily. If every single hour of every single day for the past 18 years, Biden and Blinken had to race into bomb shelters — several times daily — to take cover from rockets being fired from Mexico and Canada, that would be a red line even Obama would have to cross.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To hell with Black-Majority South Africa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This, from the non-partisan Wikipedia on South Africa:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[C]rime, poverty and inequality remain widespread, with about 40% of the total population being unemployed as of 2021, while some 60% of the population lived under the poverty line and a quarter under $2.15 a day. . . .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By 2020, numerous warnings have been issued that South Africa is heading towards failed state status with unsustainable government spending, high unemployment, high crime rates, corruption, failing government owned enterprises and collapsing infrastructure. . . Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt said the country is in deep trouble, "South Africans have been getting poorer for a decade". He said he is very concerned because "32 million people get an income from the state. The state cannot afford this anymore."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neal Froneman, CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater, said that crime is out of control, with 'mafia-style shakedowns' for procurement contracts becoming the norm. Professor Eddy Maloka, from the Institute of Risk Management, " Government has collapsed in areas across the country. We are seeing inner-cities collapse and degenerate."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This, from the Arab Muslim Qatari outlet, Al Jazeera:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Quarterly figures showed that the murder rate rose 14 percent between July and September, compared with the same timeframe in 2021, when 6,163 people were killed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Almost 1,000 women were among those murdered during the period in 2022. More than 13,000 women were also victims of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and 1,277 women were victims of attempted murder.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The rate at which women are abused, violated and some killed in South Africa remains worrying and unacceptable,” Police Minister Bheki Cele told a news conference.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The figures also showed that kidnappings doubled to more than 4,000 compared with the same time last year; and rapes, in a country notorious for sex attacks against women and children, were up 11 percent, with 10,000 cases opened across the country.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Car jackings rose 24 percent to more than 6,000.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And between April and September, more than 550 children were killed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those dirt bags have a Gaza Strip right under their own noses, in “peacetime,” on their watch, and yet they bring war crimes charges against Israel? And all the other anti-Israel tropes:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Millions of Arab Muslims are immigrants all over Europe, though not indigenous there. Are they colonizers? So why are Jewish immigrants to the Land of their Fathers called “colonizers” when they are indigenous, predating the Muslims by more than a millennium?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Arab Muslim countries expelled 900,000 Jews in the 1940s and 1950s. Where else did they think those million Jewish immigrants would end up, if not in Israel? There was a population exchange, as with every major war. End of story.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. The Soviet Marxists persecuted Jews from 1917. Of course the Jews wanted out. Once they got out, where did they expect them to emigrate, Saudi Arabia? Yemen? Syria? They already had been expelled from there. Of course they immigrated to Israel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. How can Israel be accused of ethnic cleansing and other Nazi terms of annihilation if actual census data instead evidence that the population of Gaza has increased by 25 percent under Israeli oversight in under ten years? “Since the publication in 2012 of the UNCT’s report on ‘Gaza 2020’1, Gaza’s population has increased by 400,000, reaching 2 million people by the end of 2016. Gaza’s population is projected to further increase to 2.2 million by 2020 and to 3.1 million by 20302 - just 12 years away.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And so, we Jews never know where it will come from. When I was in college at Columbia in the 1970s, I marched against the Soviet Union and communism, and got arrested many times. I also knew that Red China and all Communists were evil and that my parents’ generation had encountered it from Nazi Germany to Vichy France. I knew where we stood with the Arab Muslim countries. But I never imagined I would see South Africa as a new world center of Jew hatred. And yet, I always knew — and know — it will come from somewhere, often a slime-hole of murders, women abuse, kidnappings, sex attacks and rapes, child killings, and car jackings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like Black-Majority South Africa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, South Africa. Yesterday, the Turkey that once was the one remaining Muslim country with which we were allied closely. The day before, Iran that was an incredible ally under the Shah.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tomorrow? It will come from somewhere else that will be so surprising that, for me as a student of Jewish history, it will not be surprising at all. For the late Jimmy Buffet, who loved to party, it was always 5:00 somewhere. For Jews, it always is midnight somewhere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To receive Rav Fischer’s Weekly Extensive Torah Commentaries or to attend any or all of Rav Fischer’s weekly 60-minute live Zoom classes on the Weekly Torah Portion, the Biblical Prophets, the Mishnah, Rambam Mishneh Torah, or Advanced Judaic Texts, send an email to: shulstuff@yioc.org</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rav Fischer’s recent high-energy no-holds-barred encore interview with the Jewish Republican Alliance appears here at bit.ly/3U0Gbv9. In it, he discusses Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the sicknesses on America’s college campuses, opines on Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Charlie Kirk, Tucker, Candace, the ADL, and the 2024 election.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His 10-part exciting and fact-based series of one-hour classes on the Jewish Underground liberation movement (Irgun, Lechi, and Haganah) and the Rise of Modern Israel can be found here at bit.ly/474Wnyg. In it, he uses historic video clips of Irgun, Lechi, and Haganah actions, decades of past Arab terrorist atrocities, as well as stirring musical selections from the Underground and video’d interviews of participants, to augment data, statistics, maps, and additional historical records to create a fascinating, often gripping, and scholarly enriching educational experience about issues that remain deeply relevant today as Israel engages in an existential war in Gaza against Hamas terrorism.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Trump lawfare, Anything Goes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Remember when the Lawyer Left Legions lined up from Broadway to Guantanamo Bay to volunteer their services to imprisoned al-Qaeda terrorists? Ensuring a five-star due-process menu for mass-murderers whose objective was to return to the jihad, we were told, was the best way to promote “our values” globally. (With the globe on fire 20 years later, it’s probably best not to ask how that went.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">In more recent times, progressives have stayed domestic, railing about the “carceral state,” going to bat for violent criminals of color, and maintaining that the justice system is inherently racist. Wait a sec, you think: Isn’t that system run by the Lawyer Left and its top law-school graduates? Now, now, this is no time for such impertinence — not when we still have police departments to investigate!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Ever wondered how lawyers can have no apparent qualms about defending monstrous clients? How they can sleep at night after zealously defending terrorists, murderers, organized-crime buttons, rapists, and every other kind of sociopath? I’ve known and litigated against my share of such lawyers, grown fond of quite a few, and, as for the others, realized their role is vital even if it’s not for me. An old defense-lawyer friend, a talented guy who knew how to charm a jury, told me he was often asked how in good conscience he could put his impressive skill set in the service of such clients. He’d reach into his pocket, pull out one of those booklet copies of the Constitution, and proclaim, “That’s my client.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">I once prosecuted leaders of a street-gang cocaine business. At the very start, before we’d gotten five minutes in, the judge explained to the jury that a criminal trial, which we were about to begin, is “a search for the truth.” “Objection!” came a shrill voice from the defense table. Thereupon the judge, the other lawyers, and I were subjected to a sidebar civics lesson: a defense attorney’s impassioned lecture on how, far from a search for the truth, a criminal trial is the crucible in which we test the government’s adherence to the Bill of Rights. It affords the accused the presumption of innocence, she thundered, giving him every bounce of the ball, compelling the prosecutor to meet the daunting burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. So dedicated are we to these propositions, we proudly acquit even those we suspect may be guilty, since we’d prefer that over the possibility of railroading a potentially innocent man. Finally, pointing at moi, she admonished the judge that our courtroom trial was not “a search for the truth”; it was the Constitution in action, a sacred undertaking in which his sworn duty was to hold my feet to the fire.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">A tad melodramatic? Sure . . . but to this day, I confess to a grudging admiration for it. It put some spring in the judge’s step, which made my job harder. But see, my job was supposed to be hard. Striking the right balance between aggressiveness and fairness, grasping that the presumption of innocence is serious business, something conscientious government lawyers must overcome with evidence, not by gaming the system — that’s the gig. That way, when a clever defense lawyer brandishes a pocket Constitution that he claims is his client, the prosecutor can justly reply, “Yeah, mine too.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">During the Pleistocene Epoch, when I was a young government lawyer, I was given to understand that these were eternal truths. Time-traveling to 2024, I’m left to ask: What would the media-Democratic complex be saying if Republican prosecutors had indicted a Democratic presidential candidate in four different jurisdictions, and were rushing to get him tried and (they hoped) convicted prior to Election Day?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Imagine the howls if the prosecutors were arguing that the four courts should schedule trials without any concern about whether the physical, psychological, and financial burdens of the multiple cases — in different districts hundreds of miles away from one another — would undermine the defendant’s ability to prepare for any one trial, let alone all of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Yet something very similar is happening right now in the real world, except that the prosecutors are Democrats and the defendant is former president Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee to run against the incumbent Democratic president.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">In Trump lawfare, anything goes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">A good example: Last week, I discussed an important proceeding in Florida. Judge Aileen Cannon was considering a new trial date for the Mar-a-Lago documents trial — one more realistic than the current May 20 date. Everyone knows May 20 is unrealistic with the case mired in litigation under CIPA (the Classified Information Procedures Act, the complexity of which invariably makes a slog of any matter it applies to). Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith thus proposed July 8 as an alternative.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">As Politico reports, Judge Cannon seemed to view Smith’s proposal as implausible given the breadth of discovery (mainly, mounds of classified discovery) to which the defense may still be entitled; the sheer number of pretrial motions and hearings that remain to be submitted, conducted, and ruled on; and the fact that the Mar-a-Lago documents prosecution is not the only case on the South Florida federal court’s docket.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">The huge problem, about which prosecutors seem astonishingly apathetic, is that Trump is facing not just one criminal trial, but four of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Normally, this would be a first-order concern for a prosecutor. The government’s lawyer is responsible for ensuring that the defendant gets a fair trial. Though that may sound hokey, it is demanded by due process, which prosecutors are dutybound to uphold. But we don’t just rely on the honor of the government lawyers in this regard; self-interest factors in: Nothing is more likely to get a conviction reversed than denial of the defendant’s fair-trial rights. Prosecutors are supposed to ensure that the trial-court record can withstand the searching review of appellate courts. There is nothing normal about prosecutors in a hot panic to get a conviction by a certain date — specifically, Election Day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">If Trump had nothing else going on but the Florida case, a July 8 trial date would be challenging. There’s too much pretrial preparation that needs to be done. Most significant, in terms of the constitutional right to a fair trial, is the discovery that needs to be reviewed — a task complicated by the mandate that classified discovery may only be perused by government-approved defense lawyers in government-approved secure locations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Of course, Trump has lots going on besides the Florida case. I’m not just referring to the little matter of the presumptive Republican nominee’s national presidential campaign. Among the array of criminal prosecutions pending against him, Trump faces a trial in Manhattan on March 25, about two weeks from now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Any good litigator will tell you that, once you’re within two weeks of a significant trial, preparation leaves you with scant time for pressing matters in your own life, to say nothing of other cases with remote trial dates. The case brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg may be absurd and abusive, but it is inarguably significant — Trump faces 34 felony counts that, statutorily speaking, amount to a century-plus of potential incarceration. According to the latest estimates, the trial will last for up to six weeks, with the court sitting for four days a week, taking Wednesdays off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">At the hearing, Smith’s underlings suggested to Cannon that this Manhattan trial was no excuse to delay the CIPA proceedings in Florida. After all, the prosecutors theorized, those proceedings could be scheduled for Wednesdays.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">What?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">During a criminal trial, non-trial weekdays and weekends are not downtime for the lawyers and defendants. To the contrary, that is the time they use to get ready for what’s ahead in the trial — scrutiny of the discovery, preparing to cross-examine government witnesses, research and writing of any relevant motions, preparing for the defense case and the defendant’s potential testimony, and so on. They are long days, not off days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Moreover, even if there were time to shelve all that necessary work, in the middle of a complicated trial, so the lawyers and defendant could turn to preparation for another trial that is months away, there is the stubborn geographical fact of Manhattan’s being situated over 1,200 miles away from South Florida. There is no way everyone could get down to Florida for a full day’s work on Wednesdays, then be back in the New York courtroom ready to go on Thursday morning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Remarkably, the attitude of Smith’s prosecutors was that this bind is Trump’s fault. It wasn’t that Smith knowingly timed his indictment in a way that made the bind inevitable. It wasn’t that Smith — who could have brought a straightforward obstruction case — elected to bring dozens of Espionage Act charges that have frozen the proceedings in the CIPA tundra. No, no: The blame here lay with the defendant, prosecutors rationalized, because Trump elected to have the same lawyers represent him in both Florida and Manhattan. The implication was that if Trump would just pony up more millions for more legal teams in response to the Democrats’ strategy of indicting him in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, then one Trump team could handle proceedings down south from March through May, while Trump is on trial up north.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">This is breathtaking on two counts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">As the prosecutors well know, absent a conflict of interest, a defendant is entitled to qualified counsel of his choice. What Smith is saying, however, is that this right, rooted in the Constitution, should be nullified because the Biden Justice Department wants Trump tried and convicted before Election Day — notwithstanding unambiguous Justice Department guidelines that forbid prosecutors from basing law-enforcement decisions on electoral considerations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">But it’s worse than that. Cannon quite properly schooled the prosecutors on the more fundamental point of constitutional law: Even if Trump had separate sets of lawyers who could work full time on two different cases (to say nothing of four), a defendant has a constitutional right to be present at all important proceedings in a criminal case. There is no way Trump could be present for classified proceedings that are critical in his Florida case if he is in Manhattan attending his criminal trial. Yet Smith would negate Trump’s constitutional right to be present and meaningfully participate in his defense in the Mar-a-Lago case — again, in service of President Biden’s campaign imperative that Trump be convicted on federal charges before Election Day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">To repeat, Smith intentionally created this bind. Bragg indicted Trump first, last spring, after which Judge Juan Merchan set the March 25, 2024, trial date. Only after that did Smith indict Trump on the Mar-a-Lago charges (now including two other defendants and 42 felony counts). The denial of Trump’s fair-trial rights is not a bug, it’s a feature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">It’s worse than that, actually — much worse. Bragg unsealed his Trump indictment on April 4, 2023. Smith thus waited until the putative Republican 2024 presidential candidate was locked into a March 2024 trial before pulling the trigger on his Mar-a-Lago indictment on July 8, 2023. He then pressured Judge Cannon to set a preposterously early trial date in a CIPA case — which is how we got the scheduled May 20, 2024, trial. Only after he had Trump locked in for a Florida trial likely to be of two-to-three months’ duration starting this spring did Smith finally indict Trump in the 2020 election-interference case (the so-called January 6 case) in Washington, D.C.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">By the time the January 6 charges were unveiled on August 1, 2023, the Biden Justice Department had been investigating the Capitol riot for over 30 months. The evidence against Trump, such as it is, had been notorious for years. There had been an impeachment trial, hundreds of related criminal prosecutions, and extensive congressional investigations. Nevertheless, Smith waited until late summer 2023 to indict, knowing this would enable him to push for a trial smack in the middle of the 2024 campaign — in Trump-hostile Washington, to boot. And once Smith indicted the January 6 case, Bragg — an elected progressive Democrat — signaled that he would defer to the feds. Hence, Smith persuaded Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee with a history of making derogatory statements about Trump, to set a trial date of March 4, 2024.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">That date has now been dashed by Trump’s immunity appeal. Smith first pleaded with the Supreme Court to hear that appeal on an emergency basis by cutting the D.C. Circuit out, and then pleaded with the Supreme Court not to hear it at all once he got a favorable D.C. Circuit ruling — gamesmanship driven by the prosecutor’s futile desperation to preserve a March 4 trial. But let’s be clear: Smith’s original scheme was to have the Republican nominee continuously on trial — in court rather than out campaigning — for six consecutive months: from March through late May in Washington, and then from late May into August in Florida . . . after which, if all went as designed, it would be time to sentence Trump for Washington convictions and potentially have him in custody as he awaited sentence on Florida convictions, all as the November election loomed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Now, with the immunity appeal disrupting the schedule, Smith has revised the plan so that Trump would be tethered to courtrooms for nine months. That is, Bragg would try Trump from late March into May, then Smith would try him in Florida from July into September, and then — with Smith having decided that DOJ’s rule about avoiding law-enforcement actions within two months of an election is inapplicable to Trump — Smith would try Trump in the January 6 case from mid-September right through the November election.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">Let’s put aside that Smith’s objective is to keep the Republican nominee off the campaign trail, where Trump could contrast his energy with Biden’s senescence. The due-process question is: When exactly is Trump supposed to prepare for these trials — convictions in any one of which, at his age (77), could effectively result in a life sentence?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">As far as the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel is concerned, that’s Trump’s problem. We’re not talking here about the case of a foreign terrorist, an urban street gang, or a migrant — the defendants who inspire in the Lawyer Left a Bill of Rights fervor that would make James Madison blush. We’re talking about Trump, so don’t be bothering the prosecutors with such trifles. They’ve got an election to prepare for!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">If this were being done to a Democrat, or even to a common criminal, the righteous indignation of Democrats and journalists would be blaring and incessant. Jack Smith has decided, however, that with Trump in the dock, he can check out of the due-process business. What remains to be seen is whether the courts, too, are indifferent to the fair-trial rights they exist to uphold.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;">+++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. When it comes to Hamas numbers they are to be treated as propaganda traps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The evidence is in their own poorly fabricated figures</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif;">From Rabbi Menachem Schmidt </span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The main source for the data has been the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, which now claims more than 30,000 dead, the majority of which it says are children and women. Recently, the Biden administration lent legitimacy to Hamas’ figure. When asked at a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week how many Palestinian women and children have been killed since Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was “over 25,000.” The Pentagon quickly clarified that the secretary “was citing an estimate from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.” President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that “too many, too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children, including thousands of children.” The White House also explained that the president “was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If Hamas’ numbers are faked or fraudulent in some way, there may be evidence in the numbers themselves that can demonstrate it. While there is not much data available, there is a little, and it is enough: From Oct. 26 until Nov. 10, 2023, the Gaza Health Ministry released daily casualty figures that include both a total number and a specific number of women and children.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first place to look is the reported “total” number of deaths. The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity, as the graph in Figure 1 reveals.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xPSO3XflbokBeX-wfo9p_v9yy6Nr-38wnOHguYgS6SWuvX8QK71z7Fpo9N2lGzC9PcPGyIRC8nxYa6DtGjMJegseFFcgcM9DnRmsuN4yLaXRl55rHc_If9-dlpmCGDdiliWsPuwtjB1LJrQaA-o_2Ym4VqkedR-sS7vIcSPs3x2kGNhaVhKpgnvEUJQ/s1200/unnamed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1200" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xPSO3XflbokBeX-wfo9p_v9yy6Nr-38wnOHguYgS6SWuvX8QK71z7Fpo9N2lGzC9PcPGyIRC8nxYa6DtGjMJegseFFcgcM9DnRmsuN4yLaXRl55rHc_If9-dlpmCGDdiliWsPuwtjB1LJrQaA-o_2Ym4VqkedR-sS7vIcSPs3x2kGNhaVhKpgnvEUJQ/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The graph reveals an extremely regular increase in casualties over the period. Data aggregated by the author and provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), based on Gaza MoH figures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The graph reveals an extremely regular increase in casualties over the period. Data aggregated by the author and provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), based on Gaza MoH figures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This regularity is almost surely not real. One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day. In fact, the daily reported casualty count over this period averages 270 plus or minus about 15%. This is strikingly little variation. There should be days with twice the average or more and others with half or less. Perhaps what is happening is the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers. Unfortunately, verified control data is not available to formally test this conclusion, but the details of the daily counts render the numbers suspicious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly, we should see variation in the number of child casualties that tracks the variation in the number of women. This is because the daily variation in death counts is caused by the variation in the number of strikes on residential buildings and tunnels which should result in considerable variability in the totals but less variation in the percentage of deaths across groups. This is a basic statistical fact about chance variability. Consequently, on the days with many women casualties there should be large numbers of children casualties, and on the days when just a few women are reported to have been killed, just a few children should be reported. This relationship can be measured and quantified by the R-square (R2 ) statistic that measures how correlated the daily casualty count for women is with the daily casualty count for children. If the numbers were real, we would expect R2 to be substantively larger than 0, tending closer to 1.0. But R2 is .017 which is statistically and substantively not different from 0.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kRy3VqOxVigzs7WDq71Jb7xIEX55cfdYEUyXh-ZLmPh85hC17IKjAlDa-qcAMswOul3dAO2sOfWB1PKkfAok5nu_yjVrW95Nyh0DJ0H-S95wJwZ2kF7FN8dHAWy2GTlkVgLZYFgrQPTa2U3FN6hRjjl-APCRfkQIyqm0S3KZj6mDryF5-1P-_qF9mxg/s1200/unnamed%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1200" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kRy3VqOxVigzs7WDq71Jb7xIEX55cfdYEUyXh-ZLmPh85hC17IKjAlDa-qcAMswOul3dAO2sOfWB1PKkfAok5nu_yjVrW95Nyh0DJ0H-S95wJwZ2kF7FN8dHAWy2GTlkVgLZYFgrQPTa2U3FN6hRjjl-APCRfkQIyqm0S3KZj6mDryF5-1P-_qF9mxg/s320/unnamed%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The daily number of children reported to have been killed is totally unrelated to the number of women reported. The R2 is .017 and the relationship is statistically and substantively insignificant.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The daily number of children reported to have been killed is totally unrelated to the number of women reported. The R2 is .017 and the relationship is statistically and substantively insignificant.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This lack of correlation is the second circumstantial piece of evidence suggesting the numbers are not real. But there is more. The daily number of women casualties should be highly correlated with the number of non-women and non-children (i.e., men) reported. Again, this is expected because of the nature of battle. The ebbs and flows of the bombings and attacks by Israel should cause the daily count to move together. But that is not what the data show. Not only is there not a positive correlation, there is a strong negative correlation, which makes no sense at all and establishes the third piece of evidence that the numbers are not real</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAU0bqjn4Qg7Thv499LEQgCasQlx11y0WS6xuvpUXfQ-71MW7FmA2_Q2DzwoAJX8RVAJFqvgUoORE66fii1ClONQPgOUDK7XFA-DCYrtRsvIYY2pwNlLr9gT9aDbaeNPQivGYpKVO3AQkJS34zEPf3mZ_HXn8EB8jUgCrcfTzE8JVlIv9Tho1sMEK0sQ/s1200/unnamed%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAU0bqjn4Qg7Thv499LEQgCasQlx11y0WS6xuvpUXfQ-71MW7FmA2_Q2DzwoAJX8RVAJFqvgUoORE66fii1ClONQPgOUDK7XFA-DCYrtRsvIYY2pwNlLr9gT9aDbaeNPQivGYpKVO3AQkJS34zEPf3mZ_HXn8EB8jUgCrcfTzE8JVlIv9Tho1sMEK0sQ/s320/unnamed%20(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The correlation between the daily men and daily women death count is absurdly strong and negative (p-value < .0001).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The correlation between the daily men and daily women death count is absurdly strong and negative (p-value < .0001).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Consider some further anomalies in the data: First, the death count reported on Oct. 29 contradicts the numbers reported on the 28th, insofar as they imply that 26 men came back to life. This can happen because of misattribution or just reporting error. There are a few other days where the numbers of men are reported to be near 0. If these were just reporting errors, then on those days where the death count for men appears to be in error, the women’s count should be typical, at least on average. But it turns out that on the three days when the men’s count is near zero, suggesting an error, the women’s count is high. In fact, the three highest daily women casualty count occurs on those three days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_v1rkxZVIN6tJkYEx2tcFOvONvnS1tri4NTDqrGD7WyqZoFanTTtR4IKk_aszaqUQQ3uHUD3yCt2rjOzzND9thmjz_zGcThtR-t71aisQNjBkfpgPvPjx3rqqepGV5hadQCdRL1mBnyaDd6IbWCxlOb6wOK6qciN2UDagyjcQNiIEcXCKSpQFhJSJXQ/s1200/unnamed%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_v1rkxZVIN6tJkYEx2tcFOvONvnS1tri4NTDqrGD7WyqZoFanTTtR4IKk_aszaqUQQ3uHUD3yCt2rjOzzND9thmjz_zGcThtR-t71aisQNjBkfpgPvPjx3rqqepGV5hadQCdRL1mBnyaDd6IbWCxlOb6wOK6qciN2UDagyjcQNiIEcXCKSpQFhJSJXQ/s320/unnamed%20(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are three days where the male casualty count is close to 0. These three days correspond to the three highest daily women’s casualty count.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are three days where the male casualty count is close to 0. These three days correspond to the three highest daily women’s casualty count.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Taken together, what does this all imply? While the evidence is not dispositive, it is highly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbers. Most likely, the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily. We know this because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real. Then they assigned about 70% of the total to be women and children, splitting that amount randomly from day to day. Then they in-filled the number of men as set by the predetermined total. This explains all the data observed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are other obvious red flags. The Gaza Health Ministry has consistently claimed that about 70% of the casualties are women or children. This total is far higher than the numbers reported in earlier conflicts with Israel. Another red flag, raised by Salo Aizenberg and written about extensively, is that if 70% of the casualties are women and children and 25% of the population is adult male, then either Israel is not successfully eliminating Hamas fighters or adult male casualty counts are extremely low. This by itself strongly suggests that the numbers are at a minimum grossly inaccurate and quite probably outright faked. Finally, on Feb. 15, Hamas admitted to losing 6,000 of its fighters, which represents more than 20% of the total number of casualties reported.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Taken together, Hamas is reporting not only that 70% of casualties are women and children but also that 20% are fighters. This is not possible unless Israel is somehow not killing noncombatant men, or else Hamas is claiming that almost all the men in Gaza are Hamas fighters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are there better numbers? Some objective commentators have acknowledged Hamas’ numbers in previous battles with Israel to be roughly accurate. Nevertheless, this war is wholly unlike its predecessors in scale or scope; international observers who were able to monitor previous wars are now completely absent, so the past can’t be assumed to be a reliable guide. The fog of war is especially thick in Gaza, making it impossible to quickly determine civilian death totals with any accuracy. Not only do official Palestinian death counts fail to differentiate soldiers from children, but Hamas also blames all deaths on Israel even if caused by Hamas’ own misfired rockets, accidental explosions, deliberate killings, or internal battles. One group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared Hamas reports to data on UNRWA workers. They argued that because the death rates were approximately similar, Hamas’ numbers must not be inflated. But their argument relied on a crucial and unverified assumption: that UNRWA workers are not disproportionately more likely to be killed than the general population. That premise exploded when it was uncovered that a sizable fraction of UNRWA workers are affiliated with Hamas. Some were even exposed as having participated in the Oct. 7 massacre itself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The truth can’t yet be known and probably never will be. The total civilian casualty count is likely to be extremely overstated. Israel estimates that at least 12,000 fighters have been killed. If that number proves to be even reasonably accurate, then the ratio of noncombatant casualties to combatants is remarkably low: at most 1.4 to 1 and perhaps as low as 1 to 1. By historical standards of urban warfare, where combatants are embedded above and below into civilian population centers, this is a remarkable and successful effort to prevent unnecessary loss of life while fighting an implacable enemy that protects itself with civilians.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The data used in the article can be found here, with thanks to Salo Aizenberg who helped check and correct these numbers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> +++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sooner or later, Israel must take out Iran. This is the cancer that must be excised. This will leave Hezbollah and Hamas naked, allow the Saudis to link with the Benjamin Accords, restore a semblance of peace and stability to the Middle East and leave the Palestinians in a more defensive/vulnerable position. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for he genesis of the Palestinian problem, destruction of Gaza and their sad starvation. They brought it on themselves through their support and alliance with Hamas. Once day they need to look in the mirror and see their own POGO!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Big task for a tiny country like Israel but, until Biden is gone, Israel has no alternative if it chooses to survive.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, it might even secure BIBI's position and Israel will need strong leadership if he can pull this off as he eventually must.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Amit Segal in WSJ: 'Biden’s Middle East is a fantasy world'<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 17.5pt; font-weight: normal;">The Israeli political analyst explains how the American administration sees both the Israelis and Palestinians in a light that is disconnected from reality.</span></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli political analyst Amit Segal criticizes the Biden Administration's outlook on the situation which he says is disconnected from reality.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"When Joe Biden and officials in his administration talk about the Israelis and the Palestinians, they describe two peoples that don’t exist in reality," Segal opens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Segal notes that the US leadership believes that the majority of Palestinians strive for peace and reject the Hamas terror organization.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In contrast, the reality is quite different. "According to a November survey by Arab World for Research and Development, affiliated with Ramallah-based Birzeit University, 59% of Palestinians 'extremely support' the Oct. 7 massacre, and another 16% 'somewhat support' it," Segal points out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to Segal, the picture of the Israeli public painted by the US administration is far from reality as well: "Vice President Kamala Harris this week uttered a statement about Israel of the kind typically reserved for dictatorships: 'It’s important for us to distinguish or at least not conflate the Israeli government with the Israeli people.'"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He notes that while there is a significant contrast between Israel’s leadership and its citizens— it is the opposite of what is portrayed by the US government, being that the Israeli public is far more right-wing than the policies of its government.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"While Mr. Netanyahu has previously voiced support for a Palestinian state, a February survey conducted by Midgam for Channel 12 News found that 63% of the Israeli public strongly opposes such a state under any circumstances. While the cabinet implicitly agreed that a renewed Palestinian Authority would control Gaza, 73% of those who expressed an opinion in the survey opposed it," Segal explains.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Alluding to suggestions by Biden's supporters that the President circumvent the Prime Minister and address the Israeli people from the Knesset, Segal concludes: "Maybe Mr. Netanyahu should go over Mr. Biden’s head and speak to the U.S. people directly. According to a recent Harvard Caps-Harris poll, the American public supports Israel much more than the president does. And I’d like to remind my fellow Israelis that it’s important for us to distinguish, or at least not conflate, the American government with the American people."</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">MK Danon: 'Time to go into Rafah, move the population and finish the job with Hamas'<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 17.5pt; font-weight: normal;">'We will go all the way until Hamas is eradicated. Many terrorists found a safe place in Rafah, we have no other option,' MK Danny Danon tells Arutz Sheva.</span></h2></div></div></span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the local political arena, after MK Gideon Sa’ar announced his decision to leave MK Benny Gantz's National Unity party and join the Right, Danon said, “I don't know the political implication of his statement, but one thing I can tell you. We need to change what's happening on the ground in Gaza and I hope that this change will actually lead the cabinet to take more aggressive decisions in order to move forward and finish the job in Gaza.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“We started very strong but now we are pausing, I think it is about time to go into Rafah, move the population to different areas, and to finish the job with Hamas. I think that [Prime Minister] Netanyahu also realizes that we will have to do that. The question is when. I think now that, unfortunately, we don't have a deal regarding the hostages yet, we have to move forward. So we have to implement the plans for evacuating the population from Rafah to other areas and mobilize the military. Many Hamas terrorists found a safe place in Rafah. We have to fight them and win.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On international pressure, US pressure, world pressure, and Biden's statement to Israel warning, ‘Don't,’ Danon said, “We appreciate the support of the US, the UN, the ammunition, but at the same time we have to win this war, and with all due respect to the US election calendar, we have a different calendar and we have to win the war. We cannot stop now, without finishing the fight against Hamas, so we have to tell our allies in Washington, respectfully, we beg to disagree. We cannot stop now. We will go all the way until Hamas is eradicated. Maybe it's not convenient for your elections, but for us, we have no other options. For us, it's life and death.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">MK Danon admitted that he is not surprised to see the pressures, the messages coming from Washington day after day, and added that, “I think we will see more. I know elections in the US and in Israel. I know it will be a hot issue and every once in a while there will be more pressure coming at us. We have to push back and focus on what's important for us. We cannot allow Hamas to stay in power. I don't know who will be in the White House in November 2024, but I can tell you one thing, that after the election in the US, Hamas will not be in Gaza.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the worlds’ silence about the sexual crimes on October 7th, which is still continuing today with the hostages, and regarding the United Nations' publication of the results of the investigation, MK Danon said he believes that, “This is a very important report. For the first time the UN has finally said what we knew for months, that we have experienced atrocities that no one can imagine. The numbers of sexual misconduct, raping and it’s ongoing, ongoing atrocities as we speak. We still have hostages, females, young girls, in the hands of Hamas and I think it is about time that the world will wake up. I hear so many dignitaries speaking about the humanitarian suffering in Gaza, I don't hear them talking about the humanitarian suffering of our hostages in the hands of Hamas. So I expect the UN to do more and to make this report public.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, the head of the UN has made many excuses for what happened on October 7th. MK Danon said, “Secretary Guterres made shameful statements and unfortunately decided then to ignore the facts on the ground, and I hope that he will change the way he conducts business at the UN. He is supposed to be neutral, but even now when you hear about the sexual issues, he had to make the equation of Palestinian women, which I'm not familiar with any allegation, but how can you put that together? How can you make that equation? That's shameful.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The problem in Gaza is Hamas, not how to provide aid</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden’s floating port scheme is a potential trap for both the United</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> States and Israel, as well as an opportunity for terrorists to exploit</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> sympathy for Palestinians.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After months of pressure from left-wing critics and liberal media outlets that seem to only highlight the suffering of Palestinians since Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden felt he had to respond with something big. What he needed was a gesture that would be a tangible demonstration of his sympathy for Gaza civilians, as well as a scheme that would allegedly provide aid to them without helping the terrorists. What he came up with was a plan to build a floating port for the Strip from which food and other supplies would flow to alleviate the shortages that have produced a steady stream of appalling images and heart-rending stories about conditions there.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The main question to be asked about the port is not whether it will be enough to facilitate the aid needed in Gaza. Nor is it the problem posed by Biden’s pledge that not a single American boot will be on the ground in Gaza, which he is highly unlikely to be able to keep. Similarly, the as yet unanswered questions about how the food, fuel or other supplies brought in by the American contraption will actually reach needy Palestinians without being stolen by Hamas are also secondary concerns.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s because, despite the international community’s obsessive focus on shortages in the Strip, the real problem there isn’t about aid or its distribution or the conditions faced by Palestinians. The issue in Gaza is Hamas itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As long as the terrorist group is still armed and in charge of any part of the coastal enclave—and still able to use parts of the tunnel system it built with international aid intended to help ordinary Palestinians—all talk about humanitarian concerns there is essentially a diversion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Why the Palestinians suffer</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The only reason residents in Gaza continue to suffer is precisely because the international community, the media and the U.S. government have been persuaded to treat the impact on Palestinians of the war that began on Oct. 7 war as more important than its cause or the only way it will truly end: by Hamas’s complete defeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">War, as it has always been, is hell. Innocent people always suffer when governments and/or terrorist groups that operate as governments—like Hamas, which ruled Gaza as an independent Palestinian state in all but name since 2007—start them. And the only way the pain can be ended is by ending the war.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s true that many of the same people clamoring for more aid for Gaza—and decrying Israel’s alleged cruelty in prosecuting the war against Hamas in such a manner as to make that assistance more difficult to obtain—do have ideas about ending the fighting. They support Hamas’s demands for an immediate and permanent ceasefire that will more or less return to the status quo on Oct. 6, when the Islamists ran the Strip with an iron fist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel’s refusal to go along with that absurd situation is treated by its critics as proof of its malevolent intentions. But any ceasefire that would put an end to the fighting would essentially reward Hamas for carrying out the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust in its assaults on Jewish communities in southern Israel. And it would make the repeat of that spree of murder, rape, torture and kidnapping a virtual certainty; Hamas has said as much.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The war aim of the Jewish state—supported at least in principle by the United States until Biden issued a “red line” warning demanding that the Israel Defense Forces from entering Hamas’s last enclaves in Rafah—is the complete defeat of Hamas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And it is a reminder that all the suffering in Gaza and the casualties on both sides, no matter how many there actually have been, is the fault of Hamas and Hamas alone. It started the war with cross-border attacks and unspeakable atrocities. And by not releasing the men, women and children it took as hostages and dragged back into Gaza—carrying on with the war despite the hopelessness of its military situation and continuing to hide behind civilians, even if most of them probably support Hamas—it must accept the responsibility for the inevitable consequences.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas still thinks it can win</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But the problem isn’t just their intransigence. It’s the fact that they are counting on the images of Palestinian anguish, which they caused, bailing them out. They see the focus of the international community and the United States on the aid question, rather than on demanding that Hamas end its futile resistance as the key to victory. This goes beyond the unfair criticism of Israel’s military tactics, which far from being genocidal are actually more humane than that of any army in modern history. By acting as if the priority of the moment is to push aid into Gaza, regardless of the fact that most of it is being stolen by Hamas and kept for the use of its cadres, they are prolonging the war and increasing rather than alleviating the pain of Palestinians.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And the same will be true of the port scheme.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The idea for the port is complicated and will require a massive effort from both the U.S. Army and Navy. The conceit of the concept is that U.S. forces will build the floating platform offshore, as well as a causeway that will connect it to the land over which trucks will transport the humanitarian aid. Once ashore, the vehicles will be inspected by unspecified personnel and then allowed to make their way to Palestinians. Reportedly, Israelis will inspect the items heading to Gaza in Cyprus to ensure that nothing will directly help Hamas’s war effort. But there is no plan that can guarantee that any food, fuel or anything else needed by Palestinians won’t eventually be taken by Hamas’s forces inside the Strip. Which is to say that even after all the elaborate logistical planning of this engineering marvel, the supplies it brings to the region may not help anyone but those who have always gained from the world’s generosity: the terrorists themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Creating new problems</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if that were not an obvious flaw in this proposal, the mere act of involving American personnel in Gaza operations opens up the possibility of attacks on them, whether they remain offshore or, as is most likely, Biden’s pledge is not kept. Will an administration that left Afghanistan in a disgraceful rout that involved the deaths of Americans and the betrayal of our allies, as well as the handing over of immense stores of military material and infrastructure to the Taliban, be willing to stand its ground in the face of Hamas attacks? Or will it run away as it did elsewhere, further diminishing U.S. prestige and influence?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And what is the future of the floating port? Will it become the start of a permanent facility that will provide Gaza with an outlet to the sea that will facilitate not just the flow of humanitarian aid but an easier way for Palestinians to import weapons and materials needed to rebuild their military infrastructure?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The history of the last two decades in Gaza should have made the international community far more cautious about easing the isolation of Gaza.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While the creation of a port could contribute to solving a short-term crisis of food distribution, it could also exacerbate a long-term problem by essentially breaking any future blockade of Gaza by Israel and Egypt that was aimed at making it harder for the terrorists to regroup. It’s true that the blockade failed to stop Hamas from arming itself to the teeth and building the equivalent of the New York subway system underneath Gaza. It uses its tunnels for a command-and-control structure where it stores rockets, arms and other supplies. The underground system also shelters terrorists and is being used to imprison Israeli hostages. And it did it by diverting the billions that Europeans and Americans sent to Gaza intended to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians before the start of the current war.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A Trojan Horse</span><span style="font-size: large;">Unless Hamas is eradicated and Israel is in complete charge of all of Gaza, there would be no way to stop the port from solving Hamas’s future supply problems. There’s nothing in the port plan—other than trusting in Biden’s judgment or that of a successor if he is not re-elected—that would prevent it from making Gaza more of a threat to the region than it was on Oct. 6. Rather than being merely a conduit for aid, the port must be viewed as a Trojan Horse that looks like a humanitarian gesture but is certain to provide the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 atrocities with the ability to go on killing and exploiting the Palestinian population.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The administration has succumbed to pressure generated by images in the media and reports of Palestinian starvation that are as likely to be manipulated by a biased press as those of the bogus casualty figures put out by the Hamas Health Ministry. Biden is worried about defections from his intersectional left-wing base that sympathizes with Hamas. Yet the president should have said no to involving American forces and resources in a scheme that could boomerang on him and prolong the war he says he wants to end.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The only way to do that is the same as it has been since Oct. 7: helping Israel to complete the defeat of Hamas and the end of its control of any part of Gaza. Once that happens, the problem of feeding and caring for Palestinians becomes simpler. It takes a degree of foresight and moral courage not to succumb to pressure from those who refuse to see the connection between Hamas’s continued existence and the troubling images of Palestinians in need. But instead of speeding up the demise of the terrorist forces, the port plan, coupled with the pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire before the terrorists are finished, will only mean more privation for Palestinians as well as more blood spilled by Hamas.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">++++++++++++</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Hur probably made the correct decision. Biden is simply a corrupt person OR a lost cause or BOTH. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He should be thrown out of office.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden Under Oath to Robert Hur: Say, Have You Heard the One About the Boy Who Lost His Penis?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">By DUANE PATTERSON</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">By now, you've probably read, seen, or heard the reports about how bad Joe Biden's mental acuity is. It's so bad, according to the 258-page transcript of a two-day interview between the President and Special Counsel Robert Hur and his team of prosecutors, that even though their conclusion was that Biden committed multiple violations of law in the handling of classified documents, the likelihood was that a jury would see the declined state of Joe Biden's cognitive ability and not return a guilty verdict. In short, he's too far gone to understand what is going on around him, and trying to punish him for something he doesn't understand probably wouldn't work with a jury. In layman's terms, Hur and his team concluded Biden's out there where the buses don't run anymore</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Let me state for the record that I am not a lawyer. I never attended a single class in an accredited law school. I've never been the subject of an investigation by prosecutors in which I've been deposed. That said, there is one thing I, and most Americans, intrinsically know. When you're asked a question, if your answer is longer than, "Yes," "No," "I don't recall," or a one sentence direct answer, you're not doing the deposition right. Joe Biden is a lawyer. He had five lawyers sitting in on the interview with him - three from the Office of White House Counsel, and two personal attorneys. Brevity is not the path Biden chose to take.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Kerr and Joseph Simonson over at the Free Beacon have the best reporting thus far not of the House Oversight hearing yesterday with Special Counsel Hur, but of the actual transcript released Tuesday of the two-day interview Biden gave at the White House on October 8-9, 2023. In fact, Biden himself, in a hastily-arranged, angry press briefing on February 8th, the day the Hur report was released to the public, offered up this as a response to the Hur conclusion about his mental fitness to stand trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He was too busy dealing with the international crisis of the Hamas massacre in Southern Israel a day before his interview with Hur. That's why, Biden claims, he wasn't as sharp and focused as he normally is. First, being distracted to the point of not appearing mentally sharp while an international crisis is unfolding is not exactly the best line on a presidential resume when campaigning for another term. But from the actual transcript of the first day of interviews, we read this exchange.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There was one line of text from the transcript on the first day remarking on the President taking a call from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One line. Here, we read half a page of back and forth between Biden, his attorneys, and the Hur team to navigate the truly important stuff - the staff barbecue that was happening later that night. So much for the excuse that Biden was distracted by the 10/7 attacks. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden was asked whether he transferred classified docs from his vice presidential residence to his Delaware residence. Somehow, Joe the lawyer felt the need to add this for context. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"You left everything in place," Biden told Hur in reference to the special counsel’s search of his Delaware lake house. "I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit. Which you probably did. She’s beautiful."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I think I can honestly say I never hope to find risqué pictures of Dr. Jill Biden, either. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Then, this whopper, again reported in the Free Beacon.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During this tangent, Biden revealed a remarkable feat: He hit a target hundreds of yards away with a bow and arrow during a visit to Mongolia in August 2011. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"I’m not a bad archer," Biden said, after referring to Mongolian archers as "gorillas." "But … I hit the goddamn target." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A video uploaded by the Obama administration of the occasion shows Biden shooting a bow into an empty field. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In case you want to see the video, this was put on the WhiteHouse.gov website during then-V.P. Biden's trip to Mongolia. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To be fair, he actually was in Mongolia. I was skeptical, but he was there, along with the Sumo wrestlers. Thankfully, the archers shown were not dark-skinned, or the gorillas line might be a little more problematic than it is. As for hitting the blankety-blank target, look at the video again. There were not 20 hay bales with a target on it hundreds of yards away as Biden claimed in vivid detail during the Hur interview. I've seen the Marvel movies. I watched Hawkeye. Joe Biden is no Hawkeye. He shot an arrow into an open field. If his target was landing an arrow somewhere within 5 acres of dead grass, Biden scored a bullseye. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now, we get to the kicker. Out of the 1968 Syracuse University School of Law graduating class of 85 students, Joe Biden finished 76th. Why so low, you ask? One, he's not terribly bright, as virtually anyone in politics will tell you. But more important, in his first year Torts class, he plagiarized a Law Review article for a paper he had to write and failed the course as a result. That plagiarism, along with three other times during his first presidential run in 1988 he appropriated material not his own, including the most famous incident of academic theft being from Neil Kinnock, caused his campaign to implode. The avalanche of gaffes and lies proved to be too much to overcome.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yet in his interview with Hur's team, Biden took a question from Hur, who doggedly continued all day to rein the conversation back to how classified documents ended up at seven different locations in Biden's private life. Instead, Biden went down this rabbit hole while reminiscing about his failed Tort class at Syracuse. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Later, as Hur attempted to steer the conversation back to how classified documents made their way from Biden’s West Wing office to his personal residences, Biden again veered into an unrelated story about how he "didn’t take law school very seriously," but had a knack for unpacking tort cases on the fly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"We had a really difficult professor," Biden recalled. "He called on me to—you know how they do in law school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden then detailed a bizarre episode during one of his first jobs out of law school involving a 23-year-old construction worker with a seared penis and a missing testicle, and how the case ultimately led him to enter politics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"This poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside," Biden told Hur. "And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he—a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Floyd the Barber told stories out loud to nobody in particular outside his shop on a bench in Mayberry. It was funny when televised on the Andy Griffith Show. It's not funny when the guy with the nuclear launch codes is doing it. Again, this is the guy who's being interviewed about potential felonies he's committed, and he riffs about a young man's burned off genitalia for context? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The President talked a lot about cars, both his Vroomy Corvette (yes, he actually made the sound effect of his car during a deposition on classified documents), and how fast these newfangled electric vehicles can go. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"Damn, they’re quick," Biden said. "You step your foot on the accelerator all the way down until it gets to about 6, 7 grand. Then all of a sudden it will say ‘launch.’ All you do is take your foot off the brake."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">That's not how EV motors work. You don't rev them. There's not a neutral in the traditional sense of the word. If the motor is turning, the wheels are turning. If the wheels aren't turning, the motor isn't just sitting there idling. With some cars, there are ways to manipulate what's actually happening by simulating the equivalent of dropping it into gear or popping the clutch, but there is no flooring it up to 6,000 RPM. That's not how any of this works. If noise is coming out by pressing on the pedal with the brake on, the Vroom is a sound effect playing out of the car's speaker system. It's not coming from under the hood. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If you have any doubts why Hur came to the conclusion he did, all you have to do it read the transcript of the Biden interview. As bad as I can tell you it is, once you read it for yourself, you'll draw the conclusion the President is not fit for office today, tomorrow, or ever again in the future. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">++++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden and Netanyahu at Odds Over Gaza (RightWing.org) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is creating a pressure cooker that could explode at any moment with their aggressive attitude towards Taiwan (ROC/Republic of China) and the other Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries, and President Joe Biden and the rest of the Left seem ambivalent at best.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When it comes to the war raging in Eastern Europe after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his military into Ukraine, the Liberals have already sent tens of billions of dollars worth of military equipment and aid to the defenders, and are looking to authorize almost $100 billion more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When one looks to Israel, one of America’s staunchest allies, which was the victim of an unprovoked attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s proxy terrorist group Hamas that saw unarmed civilians slaughtered, the Leftists — particularly the Progressive arm are…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Singing a Different Tune</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After procrastinating long enough, Biden’s 2024 State of the Union (SOTU) address was given on March 7, making it the latest date that a president has ever delivered one. Afterward, he was speaking to Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), relating an anecdote from a recent conversation with Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu in what ended up being another in his long line of “gaffe machine” moments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden claimed to have said to the PM, “I told him, ‘Bibi [a usually friendly nickname for Netanyahu] you and I are going to have a come to Jesus [moment],'” regarding the ongoing war in Gaza. He cautioned Bennett not to repeat the comment, but unfortunately for the POTUS, the aid who came over to warn him he was on a live mic didn’t get there until the world heard it anyway. One could argue this was two gaffes in one since he had just told the leader of the Jewish nation that he needed to meet — metaphorically at least — the Christian Messiah.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not long after that bungled moment, Biden provided an exclusive interview to MSNBC and seemed to lay the blame for the high number of civilian deaths in Gaza squarely at the feet of Netanyahu, saying that “he must [repeated three times for emphasis] pay more attention to the innocent lives lost” as a result of Israel’s effort at eradicating Hamas. He then played the sympathy card by stating his hope that they can find a way to get a cease-fire in place so that the Palestinians can observe Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, which began on March 12. It didn’t happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The POTUS also opined that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was again the fault of Netanyahu, saying that the fighting is doing more to hurt Israel than to help them in the eyes of the world and deemed it “a big mistake.” In response, the Prime Minister’s office issued a press release which said if the president meant that, he was prosecuting this war to advance a personal agenda or against the will of the people of Israel, he needs to rethink that.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Netanyahu informed Biden that he has the support of the “overwhelming majority” of his citizens in the effort to finally unseat the terrorist group that raises generation after generation steeped in the ideology of religious intolerance. He also says the government and its people are in agreement that they “should resoundingly reject the attempt to ram down our throats a Palestinian state.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps it is not surprising on the narrative the American president is pushing considering the anti-Semitic hate being spewed on college campuses across the country and from the halls of Congress by “The Squad” and other Progressive and Liberal politicians. While all this is going on, there are those pointing to the hypocrisy of blaming Israel for the civilian deaths since it is Hamas that is choosing to use innocent Palestinians as human shields.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Copyright 2024, RightWing.org</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Bernie Sanders will burn in hell.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">ZOA Condemns 8 Jew-Hating Senators (Bernie Sanders & 7 Democrats)’ Libelous, Disgraceful, Pro-Hamas Letter to End Military Assistance to Israel and Biden’s Threats to Do So</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">American politicians help Hamas’ terrorist army and make peace impossible when they libel the Jewish State of Israel and promote cutting off lifesaving military assistance to Israel at this time. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what eight hostile Senators led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) just did in a March 11th letter to President Biden. The other Jew-hating/Hamas supporting signers are: Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); Peter Welch (D-VT); Tina Smith (D-Minn.); Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The 8 Senators’ letter cites VP Kamala Harris’ statement (out-of-context) about children dying of malnutrition in Gaza; and then falsely blames Israel for this, and fails to mention that Wharton statisticians have shown that Hamas casualty numbers are largely false and highly exaggerated and that the real cause of any casualties is Hamas. The eight radical anti-Israel Senators’ letter falsely accuses Israel of “interference with humanitarian operations” and falsely asserts that “Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian access . . . are one of the primary causes of this humanitarian catastrophe.” The letter then demands an immediate cutoff of military assistance to Israel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Shamefully, Biden is also reportedly considering cutting off military assistance to Israel if Israel takes the necessary step of destroying Hamas’ stronghold in Rafah, due to the prospect of “dead Palestinians.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, Israel continues to allow in massive amounts of humanitarian aid and continues to minimize civilian casualties. And if you won’t fight a war due to Hamas supporting civilians dying, Hamas wins and remains in power to massacre more Israelis and Americans.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Remember:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">• Israel was the party that initiated the idea of bringing in humanitarian aid by sea with checks in Cyprus, back during Prime Minister Netanyahu’s conversations with President Biden on October 22 and 31 and January 19. (Despicably, Pres. Biden stated in his SOTU address that he would finally start bringing in aid by sea because “we’re not waiting for Israelis” – when in fact it was the Israelis who were waiting for Biden!)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">• Three Israeli divisions (Israel’s International Cooperation Division of the Strategic Planning and Cooperation Directorate (J5), Coordination and Liaison Administration to Gaza (CLA) of the COGAT Unit, and the 98th Division and the Israeli Air Force) worked in cooperation with five nations to air drop 160 packages of food and medical equipment for the residents of southern Gaza and the Jordanian field hospital in Khan Yunis (including fuel supplies for the hospital).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">• Israel facilitates several hundred tons of humanitarian supplies every day – even though Hamas possesses many essential supplies which it could itself provide to the civilian population. Israel is also providing water to Gaza from its own supplies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">• Israel facilitated the establishment of field hospitals in southern Gaza, floating hospitals in the sea and is working with third parties to establish additional field hospitals. Israel has facilitated the movement of people out of Gaza to receive medical treatment, has facilitated the entry of medical supplies and equipment into Gaza, and itself provided medical supplies to patients and staff in the Shifa hospital during IDF operations to uncover and disable Hamas military infrastructure inside the hospital complex.</span></p><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001U0cUfHAjreeOimRn7TpGaDBwXoRxxp_H0XO_SgHEh_RjfE6rgheysP5gHhy5eUOVjdMLtyH7Q0wk_Mh2iJcNKvoO9xllUafcwC8hRcw2JT1kzUDMuTGMv3SWdmBKyARXTAMhL7pICibZAdVXw-LB-vQH7Ptny24E_oGjs7pXMQnZ9Bo_AjurJpVg1qZL1ksbey6m3LsQE6q1HETYBGg71NYQNfqdLbZ68kT2_cTtc6a0Un3JModNn38R6hflj--psluT4GLBJJbYE-iL9mkR56G15iR_rR5hGMt37eWshZSob93AdlVYwY5Qrpv2XDk2DBo7DS50bzjtnTkHvrQudpzkV3XSexUqkKYX7jpByY8TB_9gp_SnoFAecDy8u_2p%26c%3D59XKfMdn0w0OWGqGDacR8tVjUFwgVJT28jLI4fI3SSXg6IgqW3oEaQ%3D%3D%26ch%3DVG8kLN7EhRLL7tgoRfnjDaVKmEDn5ZctB2bWUQtMxjAhskpY3XIemw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710525830157000&usg=AOvVaw3iG0WTmkKSGI9f2M7VhTa9" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001U0cUfHAjreeOimRn7TpGaDBwXoRxxp_H0XO_SgHEh_RjfE6rgheysP5gHhy5eUOVjdMLtyH7Q0wk_Mh2iJcNKvoO9xllUafcwC8hRcw2JT1kzUDMuTGMv3SWdmBKyARXTAMhL7pICibZAdVXw-LB-vQH7Ptny24E_oGjs7pXMQnZ9Bo_AjurJpVg1qZL1ksbey6m3LsQE6q1HETYBGg71NYQNfqdLbZ68kT2_cTtc6a0Un3JModNn38R6hflj--psluT4GLBJJbYE-iL9mkR56G15iR_rR5hGMt37eWshZSob93AdlVYwY5Qrpv2XDk2DBo7DS50bzjtnTkHvrQudpzkV3XSexUqkKYX7jpByY8TB_9gp_SnoFAecDy8u_2p&c=59XKfMdn0w0OWGqGDacR8tVjUFwgVJT28jLI4fI3SSXg6IgqW3oEaQ==&ch=VG8kLN7EhRLL7tgoRfnjDaVKmEDn5ZctB2bWUQtMxjAhskpY3XIemw==" style="background-color: #b21f24; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: -webkit-center; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CONTINUE READING</a></p><p>And:<br /></p><p>Rabbis Reject Sen. Schumer's Interference with Israeli Leadership</p><p>Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, today rebuked Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) for his "counterproductive interference" in Israel's democratic government, in a floor speech blasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</p><p>CJV President Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld made the following statement:</p><p>The leader who has 'lost his way' here is Sen. Schumer himself, who is using Netanyahu as a bogeyman for hatred directed against Jews for having the temerity to defend Jewish lives. Every Israeli, and every committed Jew, recognizes the malignant hatred of those calling Israel 'genocidal' as it eliminates a genocidal terror organization, or calling for a 'ceasefire' to permit the terrorists to regroup, rearm, and again murder the innocent. </p><p>Leader McConnell is right to call Sen. Schumer's statement hypocritical, but it goes further: Mr. Schumer can best remind us that his name comes from Shomer, Hebrew for guardian, by calling out members of his own party trafficking in classically antisemitic tropes, like Reps. Omar and Tlaib. He should apologize for his counterproductive interference in Israel's democratic governance and self-defense.</p><p>Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) represents over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis as the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America. A 501(c)3 non-profit, CJV promotes religious liberty, human rights, and classical Jewish ideas in American public policy</p><p>Finally:<br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv5061455768paragraph_block yiv5061455768block-5" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td class="yiv5061455768pad" style="outline: none; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; word-break: normal;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 27px; outline: none;"><p class="yiv5061455768" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: none;">If Gaza is to have a brighter future after the war between Israel and Hamas is over, one of the key ingredients for this renewed society must be education reform, focused on democracy, de-radicalization, and normalization between Israelis and Palestinians.<br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" />If not, the stage will be set for future years of war and terrorism.</p><p class="yiv5061455768" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: none;"><strong style="outline: none;"><a class="yiv5061455768" href="https://go.honestreporting.com/e/915271/eds-education-reform--swcfpc-1/dbss7/525653898/h/Arm2VhrVYdrJBIukzYGr9vQ_7v0iv3EFWOManzHrPYI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #483d90; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">Read More ➝</a></strong></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-14910038398974403402024-03-13T13:34:00.000-07:002024-03-13T14:56:37.077-07:00Middle East Mythologies. 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text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mythologies of the Middle East: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part Two </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Victor Davis Hanson</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Posted By Ruth King</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Myth of “Proportionality”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As a general rule, in the long history of war, victory is found only by being disproportionate in the use of force. That is a truism so banal as to need little elaboration. When both sides are “proportionate” in their ability to harm their opponents, the result is either a bloody tactical deadlock such as at Verdun or the Somme, or an open strategic sore like Vietnam and Afghanistan, or decades-long “proportionate” killing such as the Peloponnesian War or Thirty Years’ War.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The whole point of Western aid to Ukraine apparently and logically is to allow it to harm Russia disproportionally, especially given the vast imbalance in resources, both human and material. The great tragedy of this horrific two-year war is the reality that Ukraine has only been able to achieve proportional success against Russia, as the current deadlocked map of the battle space attests.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hamas began its war on October 7, seeking to achieve a disproportionate success; that is, to kill more Jewish civilians in any single day since the gas chambers at Auschwitz. It knew the Israelis possessed a disproportionate ability in strictly military terms to retaliate and do real damage to Hamas. But the Hamas terrorist leaders in turn assumed they had a disproportionate ability to appeal to the larger Muslim and Arab Middle East of 500 million people, as well as hundreds of millions of supporters in the old Third World as well as in the U.S. and Europe. Their logic was brutally simple: while the West, the UN, and the rest would for a moment deplore their tactics, Hamas assumed that privately they either would approve of the damage inflicted on Israelis or at least tolerate it and thus use their various levels of influence to restrain the Israeli response.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In other words, as Israelis sought to destroy Hamas through classical laws of a disproportionate response, Hamas sought to limit the Israeli tactical ability to do so by its own geostrategic disproportionate effort to galvanize Western leftists to force Jerusalem to call off the IDF and to send massive “humanitarian” aid to Gaza. Hamas was confident it would find solidarity with the Muslim Street and thus garner cash and weapons from the Middle East. And it could appeal to the anti-Western block of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Turkey, and assorted rogue regimes to offer them both public support and stealthy resupply. In general, the more thuggish the regime, the more likely it was to openly support Hamas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So we are in a war of disproportionality: the Israelis rush to destroy Hamas tactically to the point it can never recombine to resume control of Gaza, while the Gazans seek to rev up their benefactors worldwide to force the Israelis to accept a ceasefire, after which Hamas will declare victory on the premise it committed the most heinous crimes against the Jewish people since 1945 and survived.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If all belligerents seek to obtain disproportionate and thus victorious strategies and tactics, why does the world seem to demand Israel alone be proportionate? Lots of reasons. It is a powerful Western country and thus supposedly should suffer from the Western Left’s postcolonial, postimperial guilt, especially in a war against the victimized “other.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As a Jewish state, it suffers the added writ of anti-Semitism, as we saw after October 7th when the supposedly careful distinction between “Israeli” and “Jewish” suddenly disappeared, and pro-Hamas thugs began attacking Jewish-Americans with impunity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In realpolitik, there are 500 million Middle Eastern Muslims and 11 million Jewish Israelis, so examine the eerie paradoxes. In the real world of geostrategic power, Israel is vastly outnumbered, at least in terms of population, collective GDP, and area. Yet because it fights individual Arab or Muslim entities successfully, it thus somehow is damned as a bully. In other words, the world sides against Israel in part because the numbers, the oil, and the terrorists are all on the other side, but somehow still fault Israel for ganging up on Hamas or Hezbollah because it proves much more adept than either. And so presto, the underdog is conveniently libeled as the overdog the moment it proves too lethal on the battlefield.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 28.5pt;">Israel Takes the E Out of DEI</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a;"><u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 21.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Jews and Arabs alike reject the ideology sweeping the West.</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><p class="epvx9352 css-1s90smj-AuthorPlaintext" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: "Retina Narrow", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">By </p><p class="epvx9352 css-1s90smj-AuthorPlaintext" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: "Retina Narrow", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">Ian Kingsbury</p></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="epvx9352 css-1s90smj-AuthorPlaintext" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: "Retina Narrow", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is a direct threat to Israel’s existence. That’s what I learned from Jewish and Arab Israelis during my five days in the country in February. They didn’t only say that DEI goes hand in hand with antisemitism, which it does. They also said it sacrifices the merit that has helped Israel survive in a sea of hostility.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I traveled to Israel on a solidarity trip organized by the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Several professors wanted to support Israel while registering their displeasure with higher education’s largely anti-Semitic response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. I joined at their invitation, hoping to learn how Israel approaches the DEI ideology that has swept the Western world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I quickly noticed that Israelis talk about DEI differently, most notably by excluding or redefining the E. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is committed to “diversity and inclusion.” Ditto the Israel Institute of Technology, or Technion. Tel Aviv University keeps the E, but instead of equity, it emphasizes “equality and diversity.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The president of Technion disavowed DEI, telling me that it is an unacceptable answer to the question he asks himself every morning: “Is our work in the interest of Israeli society and Israeli security?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instead of lowering standards in pursuit of equity, Technion is reaching out to Arab communities to find more qualified students. Its efforts have increased the number of Arab undergraduate students by about 80%, from 500 in 2020 to more than 900 in 2023, while the dropout rate has decreased.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I asked an Arab woman who works as a diversity and equity official how her institution understands the topic. She said her school demands equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. The latter, she said, would pit people against each other, deepening divides that Israel has worked hard to close.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Michael Halberthal, director general at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, made a similar point. He told us that “people get promotion into their position according to their abilities, not about their religion, not about their gender, not about anything else. And it works.” Mr. Halberthal said that it is the only hospital in the Middle East where an Arab woman heads the nephrology, or kidney disease, unit. After Oct. 7, the hospital’s Arab employees showed up en masse to treat the expected influx of patients. The hospital’s focus on diversity and inclusion rather than equity appears to have united its workforce.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The most telling comment came from a lieutenant colonel who briefed us at Nevatim Airbase, a focal point of the country’s military response to Hamas. I asked if the Israeli Air Force has any initiatives to increase diversity in its ranks. The officer chuckled, then said that while there are efforts to recruit a broad swath of Israeli citizens, assignments and promotions are based on ability. A person has to earn the pilot’s seat in an F-35, because when Israel is at war, Israel must win. It can’t afford to embrace such a divisive and destructive ideology. Neither can the U.S., the leader of the free world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mr. Kingsbury is director of research at Do No Harm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Food drops are dangerous and Biden's unwarranted death toll rises each day. From Afghan, to Georgia, to Gaza.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Report: Five killed by aid packages airdropped by US<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">At least five dead, multiple injured, after suffering direct hits from humanitarian aid packages airdropped by the US.</span></span></h2><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gaza reports say that at least five people were killed and others injured Friday afternoon after aid packages airdropped by the US hit them directly, west of Gaza City.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Earlier this week, a Gazan "unboxing" aid packages on social media revealed that they contain four nutritious meals, Tabasco sauce, salt and sugar, and, in addition to the meals, Skittles candies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Thursday night, US President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union speech to a Joint Session of Congress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I pledge to all the families that we will not rest until we bring all of your loved ones home,” he said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Hamas could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages, laying down arms, and surrendering those responsible for October 7th,” said Biden, who stressed that Israel has the right to go after Hamas but also “has an added burden” since Hamas hides behind civilians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden also claimed that Israel has a “fundamental responsibility” to protect civilians in Gaza, adding, “This war has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Tonight, I’m directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelter,” Biden said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He promised, “No US boots will be on the ground. A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into the Gaza every day,” but insisted that, “Israel must allow more aid into Gaza and ensure humanitarian workers aren’t caught in the crossfire.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">NEWS RELEASE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ZOA Condemns Biden’s Outrageous, Uncalled-For Attacks on Israel During SOTU Address</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Was the Most Hostile, Anti-Israel SOTU Speech Ever. Biden’s Policies Clearly Intended to Harm Israel and Inadvertently Benefit Hamas and Radical Arabs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After briefly mentioning: Hamas’ sexual violence and massacre of 1,200 innocent people on October 7th; the need to bring the hostages home; the fact that “Hamas could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages, laying down arms, and surrendering those responsible for October 7”; and stating that Israel has the right to go after Hamas, Biden outrageously spent almost three times as long falsely castigating and making dangerous demands on Israel during Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union (SOTU) address. Biden’s policies are clearly intended to harm Israel and inadvertently support Hamas and radical Arabs. Among other things:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(1) Biden hypocritically claimed to be a great friend of Israel while demanding a Palestinian state “solution” that imperils Israel’s very existence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden rewards Arab terrorism by wrongly calling for the creation of a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s longest border adjacent to 70% of Israel’s population on Israel’s lawful land, as the “only solution” and “only path.” A Palestinian state would endanger Israel’s very existence, cause more October 7ths and more rockets to fall on innocent Israelis, and reward and encourage more terrorism. On October 7, Palestinian Authority terrorists filmed themselves bragging about participating in the massacre of Jews, including killing Jews and stepping on their heads. 85% of Palestinians support Hamas’ atrocities on October 7th. The Israeli people and Israeli leadership thus oppose a Palestinian state, across the board. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Moreover, the Palestinian leadership firmly maintains that Hamas would be part of a Palestinian state. Biden’s demand for such a terror state thus contradicts his brief lip service that Israel has the right to go after Hamas. (See also “ZOA Strongly Opposes Dangerous Biden Plan for Palestinian Authority (Pay-to-Slay) Terror Regime to Rule Gaza & Create a State,” Jan. 10, 2024, for more details as to why a Palestinian state is untenable.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(2) Biden overstated number of Gazans displaced and “under bombardment,” and never mentioned that 200,000 Israelis are still displaced, living in hotels and people’s homes and tents due to Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies’ destruction of their homes and communities and continuing bombardment; or that all of Israel is under the threat of rocket and other attacks. And that southern and northern Israel is now uninhabitable. Tiny Israel is now even tinier.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden also decried “Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin” in Gaza. But Biden said nothing about the numerous “Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin” throughout northern and southern Israel. Moreover, the Israeli homes burnt and destroyed were the homes of innocent Israelis sleeping in their beds. The homes destroyed in Gaza were homes that harbored Hamas rocket launchers, terror tunnel entrances and terrorists shooting at Israelis. Israel is not carpet-bombing Gaza. Shame on Biden for attempting to give such a false impression.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(3) Biden wrongly demanded that Israel must make assisting and protecting Gazans Israel’s first priority. In other words, according to Biden, Israel’s objectives of rescuing the hostages, preventing attacks on Israeli civilians, and eliminating Hamas’ terror army must take a back seat to assisting Gazans who overwhelmingly support Hamas massacring Jews who danced in the streets, rejoicing the murders, rapes and torturing of Jews.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden’s demand to prioritize Gazan civilians above all else ignores and violates international law. In fact, under international law, the anticipated military advantage of an operation (e.g., to eliminate Hamas’ terror army, prevent attacks against Israeli civilians and rescue the hostages) is weighed against the prospective harm to civilians. A military operation can go forward if the harm to civilians is not excessively out of proportion to the operation’s prospective military advantage. Israel carefully weighs every military operation under international law standards, and often calls off operations when civilians may be hurt. Israel is in fact the most moral army in the world. A far lower proportion of Gazan civilians have been harmed than in virtually any other war around the world, including wars prosecuted by the U.S.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Further, under international law, there is no obligation to supply aid to an enemy population. Israel is also not required to allow others to supply aid to the civilian population if – as is the case here – there is a reasonable concern that the aid will be diverted to military use. Hamas seizes the aid and uses it for its war effort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(4) Biden parroted Hamas’ unverified casualty numbers as fact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden parroted unverified Hamas and Hamas-controlled numbers when Biden stated: “More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed. Most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands are innocent women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to the IDF – which is reliable - at least 12,000 casualties are Hamas terrorists. Moreover, a recent article by AEI Distinguished Fellow Danielle Pletka details huge discrepancies in Hamas’ numbers; Hamas math simply does not add up. Further, Hamas is responsible for all civilian deaths, as it embeds itself among civilians and caused this war.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Interestingly, Biden previously acknowledged that Hamas’ figures are utterly unreliable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Back on October 25, 2023, Biden stated at a press conference that he had “no confidence in the [casualty] number that the Palestinians are using.” And on October 26, 2023, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby similarly stated, regarding Palestinian casualty numbers: “We all know that the Gazan Ministry of Health is just a front for Hamas. It’s a — it’s run by Hamas, a terrorist organization. I’ve said it myself up here: We can’t take anything coming out of Hamas, including the so-called Ministry of Health, at face value.” Why has Biden forgotten and ignored this?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And has Biden also forgotten Hamas’ false claim that Israel bombed Al-Ahli Hospital and killed almost 500 civilians there – when in fact a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket hit the hospital parking lot and caused minimal casualties? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div><table bgcolor="#b21f24" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #b21f24; border-radius: 6px; border-spacing: 0px; border: none; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; width: inherit;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_1081189879641103751button_content-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001PMXidkOMC-2qZgNlEWhVpsTd6cPNy6IcHvgJeLi6Qh0HD1bPFEnhasulqcaNDs4v64BfvT9Z06U203I8D5XLbs-REfvlGnygbHBMCBARSfsHQycnsj_6smmaY1bygMOiy0u8mr3XRE-7Bn-G32PDMr87jz4xI2vMriSlz33ddbvJpwkJ6tKhP7fim0JXCRpgi0-7OIySYC5NRSWs4QBAfSqvPycmovHlA0754VPGajXdUAEJ0wdzFxJ8RbWggw56vfVs_jhfrFZBy3ebHMRVPg%3D%3D%26c%3D5NVgMl8uMndUZpUojMVN10-FL4B7attd9w8prFhnMhBgKsmXIEExsg%3D%3D%26ch%3Dp_rI6CEe-6-jjP_Q9phlpd_trjuxqTY3BHyuzvH87DZqKDRvRlavaw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710404295253000&usg=AOvVaw3t5kvKScwH5ACQk2_N7N8b" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PMXidkOMC-2qZgNlEWhVpsTd6cPNy6IcHvgJeLi6Qh0HD1bPFEnhasulqcaNDs4v64BfvT9Z06U203I8D5XLbs-REfvlGnygbHBMCBARSfsHQycnsj_6smmaY1bygMOiy0u8mr3XRE-7Bn-G32PDMr87jz4xI2vMriSlz33ddbvJpwkJ6tKhP7fim0JXCRpgi0-7OIySYC5NRSWs4QBAfSqvPycmovHlA0754VPGajXdUAEJ0wdzFxJ8RbWggw56vfVs_jhfrFZBy3ebHMRVPg==&c=5NVgMl8uMndUZpUojMVN10-FL4B7attd9w8prFhnMhBgKsmXIEExsg==&ch=p_rI6CEe-6-jjP_Q9phlpd_trjuxqTY3BHyuzvH87DZqKDRvRlavaw==" style="color: white; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CONTINUE READING</a><br />++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"> Trump also needs to go into black churches and help them to think.</span>.<p></p><div>+++</div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Trump's Powerful Pitch to Teamster Leaders: Listen to Your Members, Ditch the Democrats</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Jonathan Tobin (Editor in chief, JNS.org)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">President Joe Biden has spent most of the past few months acting as if the biggest re-election priority was shoring up support from the intersectional Left-wing base of the Democratic Party. But this week, he's taking a break from efforts to try to appease Hamas sympathizers who have been bashing him for giving too much support to Israel since the Oct. 7 massacres and focusing on a far more important problem: the working-class voters who are abandoning the Democrats for former President Donald Trump.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But while he's likely to get a warm reception when he meets with the leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the man who likes to tout himself as "the most pro-labor president in U.S. history" knows that there is one reason the powerful union may hesitate to endorse him: the opinions of their members.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">As is the case with all unions, the people who run the Teamsters largely agree with Biden and the Democrats on most issues. It's not just that they fear Republican support for "right-to-work" laws that make it harder for unions to maintain a stranglehold on industrial workforces and to use that to collect dues from employees that give them political muscle and power. The leadership also agrees with Democrats about spending, taxes and, most importantly, not shutting down the country's southern border through which anywhere from 7 to 10 million illegal immigrants have entered the country since Biden took office.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But while some unions—like those that represent municipal and state—can count on members being in sympathy with the leadership's positions on open borders as well as the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that is an unshakeable orthodoxy of the political Left, the Teamsters are aware that their members can't be counted on to fall in line behind Biden and the Democrats.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That's why the Teamsters made their first significant donation to the GOP since 2004 earlier this year when they sent a check for $45,000 to the Republican National Committee. The odds may be against the Teamsters going so far as to endorse Trump over Biden. But those leading the union need to think long and hard about whether to devote the considerable resources and manpower at their disposal to a push to help the Democrats this year is either politically wise or a move that will cause them problems with their members.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Union bosses are not unaware of the sea change in American politics that has been taking place in the last several years.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Democrats, once the party of the working class and zealous in defense of its interests, have long since abandoned them. Today, they represent the interests of the credentialed elites and the poor and are more interested in heeding Wall Street hedge fund managers' pleas for trade deals that send manufacturing jobs abroad while importing more cheap labor from immigrants—whether legal or illegal—to keep the cost of doing business low. Their adherence to the woke playbook about prioritizing race over everything else has led them to think that it is fair that working class people should pay off the student loans of those with college degrees and making more money than they ever will, something that amounts to a massive regressive transfer of income from blue collar Americans to the professional laptop class.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So it's little wonder that once the Republicans nominated Trump, a man who sought to defend their interests by opposing open borders, bad trade deals, and woke racism, the GOP has shifted from being a Chamber of Commerce party to one driven by the interests of working-class voters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That's why instead of pandering to the pro-Hamas mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, America's jihad capital, Biden should have been worrying more about the votes of auto workers in Michigan. It is the workers' sympathy for Trump, despite their union bosses' endorsement of the incumbent, and not angry Arab-Americans and Muslims, who have created the situation in which Biden trails Trump in the crucial battleground state.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump may not ever win back college educated voters who used to be more likely to back Republicans. But the polls showing Trump leading among Hispanics and making unprecedented inroads among Black voters demonstrates that his return to the White House is being made possible by a shift among working class voters of every race. While the Teamsters' bosses may find it impossible to shake off their allegiance to a party that no longer cares about workers, their members aren't so blind to what is in their best interests.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden can pretend that his party hasn't changed and turned its back on the working class. But Trump has every reason to believe that Teamster members, like so many other Americans who have been shortchanged by the Democrats' contempt for blue collar workers, aren't going to listen to union leaders who are more interested in helping Left-wing political allies than in defending their jobs and their values.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If the Teamsters' leadership is listening to its rank and file, they'll endorse Trump, or at least stay out of a presidential election in which the success of Democrats will mean more misery for union members.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) and a senior contributor to The Federalist. Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org, a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for Newsweek. He is also the host of the Top Story podcast that can be viewed on the JNS YouTube channel and listened to wherever you get your podcasts. He can be reached via e-mail at: jtobin@jns.org. Follow him on X at @jonathans_tobin and on Facebook. Links to articles and videos are at: https://linktr.ee/jonathanstobin.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The scapegoating of Israel</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day as wiith breathtaking arrogance and malice, Cameron presumed to dictate to Israel how to conduct this desperate war for its survival. Biden is the same. Opinion. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Melanie Phillips</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel, has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, The Legacy, in 2018. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">(JNS) The name of David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, is on course to become a synonym for infamy in Britain’s Jewish community to rival that of Ernest Bevin.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Bevin was Britain’s foreign secretary after World War II who took the side of the Arabs in their attempt to thwart the creation of a Jewish state. He imposed severe repressive measures against Palestine’s Jewish leadership and denied the Jewish remnants of the Nazi Holocaust entry into the land, sending the ship Exodus, carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees, back to Germany.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">This week, Bevin’s successor Lord Cameron delivered an astonishing dressing-down to Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz, who stopped off in London after talks in America.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">In a statement about the meeting, Cameron said he had once again pressed Israel to “increase the flow of aid” into Gaza to address its “devastating and growing humanitarian crisis.” He demanded “an immediate humanitarian pause,” increased access for aid and distribution capacity and provision for “shelter and items critical for infrastructure repair.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">He declared that the U.K. government was “deeply concerned” about the prospect of a military offensive in Rafah. And then he issued a threat.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">“The U.K. supports Israel’s right to self-defense,” he began. “But as the occupying power in Gaza, Israel has a legal responsibility to ensure aid is available for civilians. That responsibility has consequences, including when we as the U.K. assess whether Israel is compliant with international humanitarian law.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">What breathtaking arrogance and malice. How dare Cameron presume to dictate to Israel how to conduct this desperate war for its survival?</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Israel isn’t “the occupying power” in Gaza. It is fighting a war there to defend the lives of its people against a genocidal enemy. How dare Cameron demand Israel take measures to weaken that defense through allowing in “items for infrastructure repair”—such as, presumably, the concrete and other building materials used by Hamas to construct its infernal underground infrastructure of terror and mass murder?</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">And if Israel doesn’t thus sabotage its attempt to destroy Hamas, the U.K. is threatening to destroy the Jewish state at the U.N. Cameron himself said at the end of January that the U.K. was considering recognition of a Palestinian Arab state as a way of pressuring Israel to accept a “two-state solution” after a ceasefire in Gaza.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">In other words, unless Israel agrees to allow Hamas to survive, the U.K. will do two things: It will throw the Jewish state to the Hamas-supporting wolves at the U.N. and force into existence a terrorist entity that would put Israel’s heartlands in danger of Oct. 7-style pogroms on steroids.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Similar pressure on Israel has come from the Biden administration. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the humanitarian situation in Gaza “unacceptable and unsustainable.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">State Department spokesman Matthew Miller claimed this week that Israeli government ministers were “obstacles” to aid by blocking the release of flour from the port of Ashdod and supporting protests that blocked supplies from the Kerem Shalom crossing point.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">It would seem that Israel’s principal allies in the U.K. and U.S. are determined to ensure that Israel doesn’t defeat Hamas, and are actually serving as a megaphone for the terror group’s distorted and manipulative claims of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Certainly, there is death and suffering among the civilian population. This is horrible and deeply regrettable as the inevitable consequence of war. But the scale of the crisis is being hysterically exaggerated.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">On January 30, CNN reported: “Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza.” Yet on the same day, COGAT, which coordinates Israeli government activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, published a video of Gazans queuing up at a plentiful shawarma stand in Rafah.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Social media footage has shown well-stocked Rafah markets. There have also been videos of Gazans contemptuously throwing air-dropped ready-to-eat meals into the trash.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Some Israeli politicians and members of the public, maddened by the perception that the aid is helping Hamas, have been trying to stop it from getting into Gaza. But contrary to the Americans’ implication, these protests are countered by the government and have been largely ineffective.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">COGAT says that, over the past two weeks, almost 50% more food trucks have been entering Gaza than before the start of the war. On Wednesday, it says, 257 trucks entered. Over the past few days, more than 100 trucks were transferred to the northern part of the Strip. Over the past two weeks, the number of operational bakeries went up from 10 to 20, providing more than 2.5 million breads per day to the population.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">From the start of the war, more than 750 packages of humanitarian aid have been delivered—mostly to northern Gaza—by 25 airdrops mounted by an alliance of Israel, the U.S., the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and France (not, note, with the participation of Cameron’s Britain).</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">So Cameron’s suggestion that Israel is not fulfilling its legal responsibility to provide aid for civilians is utterly false. Israel is indeed doing so.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">The problems start once the aid arrives.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Israel says there is no limit to the number of aid trucks being allowed into Gaza. There are instead hold-ups at the crossing points because the U.N. is struggling to distribute the aid. And that’s because it uses the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA—which is controlled by Hamas.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">The result is that Hamas hijacks the trucks and steals the food and other supplies, either for itself or to sell to the population on the black market.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">On social media, there are videos of aid trucks being commandeered by armed men. There are also videos of Egyptian drivers warning others not to drive aid trucks into Gaza because they are being attacked with rocks hurled through their windscreens, leaving some badly injured and even killed.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Even U.S. officials are admitting that Hamas is stealing the aid that the Biden administration is accusing Israel of failing to provide.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">One senior official told journalists that the problem was with distribution once the 250 to 300 truckloads of assistance got into Gaza. He said: “This is a product of, if you will, commercialization of the assistance; criminal gangs are taking it, looting it, reselling it. They’ve monetized humanitarian assistance. … The food is there; it’s coming in.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Other officials have confirmed that Hamas is involved in aid distribution.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">David Satterfield, the senior U.S. diplomat involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza, acknowledged that police escorts for aid deliveries include Hamas members, and that Hamas has been using other aid delivery channels to “shape where and to whom assistance goes.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">In the remorseless attempt to demonize Israel, humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day. When dozens of Palestinian Arabs were reportedly killed last month as thousands stampeded aid trucks entering Gaza City, the incident was falsely blamed on Israeli fire—even though the IDF shot at no one other than a few Gazans who threatened to attack them.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Social media is teeming with distressing images of Gazan babies who have allegedly been starved to death by Israel. Even if all these images are genuine, and they are not, it isn’t Israel but Hamas that’s responsible by stealing the food intended for civilians.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Israel is being scapegoated for the war crimes of Hamas. Scapegoating the Jews is the consistent and defining motif of antisemitism through the ages.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">It is also precisely what Cameron and Blinken are doing. As a result, they are giving substance to the “genocide in Gaza” blood libel and stoking yet further attacks on Jews.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Israel’s media spokesman Eylon Levy said this week: “We will accept being scapegoated no longer.”</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large;">Israel isn’t on its knees. The Jews of Britain and America should get up from theirs and publicly tell Cameron and Blinken the same thing.</div><div style="font-size: large;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes even more. Depends on whose mouth they are coming from,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">MLK"s "I Have A Dream Speech" comes to mind.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;">+++</div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Words matter as much as weapons </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Ruthie Blum | (RUTHFULLY YOURS)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Never mind that this actually applies to Jews. The White House must have considered it necessary to tailor the message—and statistics—for Muslims celebrating a month-long holiday.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But what’s Biden’s excuse for not having addressed the explosion of antisemitism in America and elsewhere during his weekend interview with MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart” or in his State of the Union speech the previous Thursday night?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The question is rhetorical, of course, because the answer is obvious. Biden’s bid for re-election is adding heartburn to his already apparent age-related ailments.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Take his increasingly contradictory Israel policy, for instance. It has less to do with his neurological lapses than with his campaign’s impossible objective: to curry favor with the far left without losing the center.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This explains why he continues to supply arms with which to defeat Hamas, yet suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t doing enough to avoid civilian casualties in and provide humanitarian aid to Gaza.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That the latter is a total lie doesn’t matter to Israel’s detractors. Nor does it assuage their anger at Biden for insisting on the Jewish state’s “right to defend itself.”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Herein lies the real rub—that Israel is Jewish.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden is not an anti-Semite. He’s an old-style liberal with ridiculous ideas about the centrality of Palestinian statehood to peace in the Middle East.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But his administration leans in the direction of the radical wing of the Democratic Party, which has been siding openly with Hamas. And rather than serving as a wake-up call to the “woke,” the atrocities committed on Oct. 7 by the Iran-backed sadists became a rallying cry for anti-Semites of all stripes to join forces against the Jews.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Some Jews on the left mistakenly imagine that Hamas cares about the politics of the people it maims and murders. You know, like “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer, who pandered to the anti-Zionists on Sunday night in his Academy Award acceptance speech.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What Glazer and his ilk can’t get through their thick heads is that Hamas makes no distinction between different types of Jews while decapitating them and sexually desecrating their corpses. The victims of Oct. 7, like those of the Holocaust, learned that lesson the hard way.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden should be using every platform at his disposal—yes, including on the occasion of Ramadan—to emphasize the evils of antisemitism and the havoc it wreaks on every society in which it is permitted to flourish. Instead, he keeps taking the opportunity of his position to warn against Israeli aggression.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What he ought to know by now is that words matter just as much as weapons in wars against malign actors. Unfortunately, his are slurred these days, and not only due to his overall decline.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;">Dear Dick,<br /><br />Yesterday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b24220491762653d79d7259a4a3406b2314d885a5bfd39bd0283afe278cfd6d03df4f0090f8d5b59d4d07845a25c415ae62e&source=gmail&ust=1710450140867000&usg=AOvVaw3gWd3dM7Wz_52KAqKe4p0Q" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b24220491762653d79d7259a4a3406b2314d885a5bfd39bd0283afe278cfd6d03df4f0090f8d5b59d4d07845a25c415ae62e" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="blamed">blamed</a> Hamas for refusing to agree to the U.S.-brokered deal to pause fighting in Gaza in exchange for hostages to be freed and a surge of aid into Gaza.<br /><br />"Those who would like to see a ceasefire in Gaza — a ceasefire is on the table today for six weeks to be built on into something more enduring if Hamas would simply release women, wounded, and elderly. And the fact that they will not do so says a lot to me about Hamas’ regard for innocent Palestinian civilians."<br /><br />Sullivan went on to call out the media for failing to properly report that Hamas’ refusal to free hostages is to blame for the lack of a deal.<br /><br />"When it comes to the issue of the hostage talks, one of the things that I have found somewhat absent from the coverage is that what we are talking about in the first phase is women, elderly, and wounded civilians," he stated about the U.S.-backed deal.<br /><br />He also reaffirmed: "Israel had a right and an obligation to take action against Hamas. And Hamas created a set of burdens on Israel’s military operations that are nearly unprecedented by hiding among the civilian population. And that made it more difficult for Israel to conduct its military operations."</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: #efefef; border: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 540px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 540px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2063712564091550154responsive-td" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; width: 540px;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 540px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_2063712564091550154responsive-td" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 8, 34); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 6px 0px 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b><span style="line-height: 33px;">Israel continuing operations to defeat Hamas</span></b></span><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;">Israel <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b24293f063b2946f7a81c98f4b40561ccd1b526aaffda4ed6f55128c07bf24fc8c1abfc63a4a9b25aec99d85d25e1b7c4fa2&source=gmail&ust=1710450140867000&usg=AOvVaw2cfLHqn2ZfOT_YFEE3PJI5" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b24293f063b2946f7a81c98f4b40561ccd1b526aaffda4ed6f55128c07bf24fc8c1abfc63a4a9b25aec99d85d25e1b7c4fa2" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="killed">killed</a> Senior Hamas terrorist Hadi Mustafa in Lebanon today. Mustafa, the leader of Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Lebanon, played a major role in directing terror squads and launching attacks against Israel.<br /><br />Senior Hamas officials have been living and operating out of Lebanon, and the terrorist group conducted attacks on Israel from there – including an operation on October 7.<br /><br />The IDF also <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242e674cecc2b7ad7dd1677335e437bb4bde6609926c803448ad4caad203f04a4453af072ffbf59643bbc82883feb14dd6a&source=gmail&ust=1710450140867000&usg=AOvVaw2-ZKxBDFj1tjIRxSX63UN0" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242e674cecc2b7ad7dd1677335e437bb4bde6609926c803448ad4caad203f04a4453af072ffbf59643bbc82883feb14dd6a" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="eliminated">eliminated</a> Muhammad Abu Hasna, a commander in Hamas’ Operations Unit, today in a targeted strike in Rafah. Hasna has been been involved in stealing humanitarian aid meant for the Palestinian civilians and distributing it to other Hamas terrorists.<br /><br />Speaking today in Gaza, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242d151fd59b16b5bf1d8cc4af5dca1c847460b081e56aa7cd459a9efce1ff5b4f17037cff4f9dfd6971285a7b7608358a9&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw0CkNNHopR14hmOAWl5ZRwl" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242d151fd59b16b5bf1d8cc4af5dca1c847460b081e56aa7cd459a9efce1ff5b4f17037cff4f9dfd6971285a7b7608358a9" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="reiterated">reiterated</a> Israel’s commitment to eliminating Hamas.<br /><br />"We will bring to justice anyone who was involved in October 7 — either we will eliminate them or bring them to trial in Israel. There is no safe place, not here, not outside of Gaza, not anywhere across the Middle East — we will bring everyone to their place."<br /><br />Galant added that the operation in Gaza is continuing apace. "Extraordinary work is being done here above and below ground. The forces reach everywhere, and the conclusion is that there is no safe place in Gaza for terrorists," Gallant said. "Even those who think that we are delaying will soon see that we will reach everyone."</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 30px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 8, 34); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 6px 0px 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b><span style="line-height: 33px;">New op-ed by mother of 19-year-old female hostage</span></b></span><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;">Meirav Berger <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242da787b36c4a960a372583680bd45c21ae69c88c78289be30fbfd9c3f52e301583a455e332f844c8c69d115e83a78bc0a&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw3tL7DJxsmUumkCZ5XAq5mY" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242da787b36c4a960a372583680bd45c21ae69c88c78289be30fbfd9c3f52e301583a455e332f844c8c69d115e83a78bc0a" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="wrote">wrote</a> in the <i>National Post</i> about the "more than 219,150 minutes of sheer terror, utter distress and excruciating dread since I last spoke with Agam," her 19-year-old daughter who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 (pictured below before and after being taken hostage).<br /><br />"Yes, I’m counting the minutes," she writes. "Not the hours, not the days, not the weeks or months. Minute-by-minute, my mind and body are in constant, excruciating pain as I wait for Agam."<br /><br />"The last I heard from the brave hostages who returned from the depths of the Gaza underground, she was in a dark, damp tunnel. They told me she, too, might be a victim of sexual violence."<br /><br /><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242334e820bda4a9348fd36ca25ac0d62aef90b509fc50907346fe472ef2bd559eea553b32a773d93e5502a14e8c44f6d13&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw0PPFxKYQ16hWr0rdmpWPgY" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242334e820bda4a9348fd36ca25ac0d62aef90b509fc50907346fe472ef2bd559eea553b32a773d93e5502a14e8c44f6d13" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="Share the op-ed here.">Share the op-ed here.</a></i></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: #efefef; 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line-height: 20.8px;">Last night, six World Food Program humanitarian aid trucks entered northern Gaza via the "96th" gate on the security fence, near Kibbutz Be’eri.<br /><br />This new operation was carried out as part of a pilot plan to expand the aid being brought into Gaza while preventing Hamas from taking control of the aid.<br /><br />The convoy traveled on a new road constructed by the IDF to transfer more supplies into Gaza.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: #efefef; border: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 30px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 480px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 480px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; 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line-height: 20.8px;">Yesterday, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242c074a995df876806ba8c8dcd96aa43eaf9e65b59cd9fc6333784d7fc90036015422d8826d01d747528f38714ed4a37d2&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw2qv6NIgCv9hdDtRl56MkXS" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242c074a995df876806ba8c8dcd96aa43eaf9e65b59cd9fc6333784d7fc90036015422d8826d01d747528f38714ed4a37d2" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="released">released</a> its unclassified Annual Threat Assessment, highlighting the growing and multifaceted threat of Iran and its increasing alliance with Russia, China and North Korea.<br /><br />"Iran's hybrid approach to warfare — using both conventional and unconventional capabilities — will pose a threat to U.S. interests in the region for the foreseeable future. Iran's unconventional warfare operations and network of militant partners and proxies enable Tehran to pursue its interests and maintain strategic depth with a modicum of deniability."<br /><br />Also yesterday, Iran, China and Russia <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b2429ec97640f9996edfbbf3ce77224c76bf0b5716a959ce6e81375ae7608702e176fb694d352aac3bd4fa15d1f1954cec05&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw1GXuj10kpYbw_361piqgU7" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b2429ec97640f9996edfbbf3ce77224c76bf0b5716a959ce6e81375ae7608702e176fb694d352aac3bd4fa15d1f1954cec05" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="began">began</a> a joint naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, a crucial waterway near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The ongoing drill, known as "Marine Security Belt 2024," includes more than 20 ships as well as naval helicopters. This is the fourth such drill between the three U.S. adversaries since 2019.<br /><br />Continue to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs%3D9b950977cfc5b242add205531b401f05abe67712f26712f03ace4a025ae42562aff5512b66e655b46599c6a657402f451d05bacd02d7f61a&source=gmail&ust=1710450140868000&usg=AOvVaw2u-RYrgxywLhBHSnfrLXSS" href="https://click.act.aipac.org/?qs=9b950977cfc5b242add205531b401f05abe67712f26712f03ace4a025ae42562aff5512b66e655b46599c6a657402f451d05bacd02d7f61a" style="color: #0176d3;" target="_blank" title="follow AIPAC on social media">follow AIPAC on social media</a> for the latest updates.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br /><b>Alisha Tischler</b><br />AIPAC Southeast Regional Director</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;">++++<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Biden's budget request actually cuts our defense</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>expenditures </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">forcing the Navy to reduce by half new</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">submarine orders </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">from </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">2 to 1, where we are still</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">technically ahead.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Biden beholden to China or just your every day corrupt</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">politician? Is he our second Manchurian Candidate</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">President?</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gregg Roman on Moving Israel Towards Victory</span></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />by Marilyn Stern</span><br /><br /><br />Gregg Roman, director of the Middle East Forum, spoke<br /><br /><br />to a February 24 Middle East Forum Podcast (video).<br /><br /><br />The following summarizes his comments:<br /><br /><br />I've just returned from participating in a fact-finding<br /><br /><br /> mission to Israel. Our group found a nation grappling<br /><br /><br /> with the aftermath of its largest-ever "military and<br /><br /><br /> intelligence failure," a series of errors that resulted in<br /><br /><br /> Hamas's incursion, massacre, and kidnap of civilians in<br /><br /><br /> Israel's southern communities on October 7, 2023. A<br /><br /><br /> country at war, Israel is determined to achieve victory.<br /><br /><br /> Although its people exhibit a resilience and unity of<br /><br /><br /> purpose toward that end, the security and political<br /><br /><br /> establishments face a day of reckoning.<br /><br /><br />A third of the returnees to one of the affected towns, with<br /><br /><br /> its destroyed police station now "hallowed ground,"<br /><br /><br /> exhibit "grit" and a "steely determination in their eyes.<br /><br /><br /> They demand that their army and their government do<br /><br /><br /> not stop in Gaza until Hamas and every other<br /><br /><br /> Palestinian faction no longer provides a threat both to<br /><br /><br /> the city and to the nation."<br /><br /><br />The signs of war become even more apparent when<br /><br /><br /> approaching the remnants of the attacked kibbutzim,<br /><br /><br /> some a mere half kilometer from the Gaza border.<br /><br /><br /> Closer still is the Nova Music Festival site, where 300<br /><br /><br /> Israelis were brutalized, raped, and murdered. Scores of<br /><br /><br /> survivors recounted being hunted as they hid or fled.<br /><br /><br />Seeing firsthand the destruction of the homes, knowing<br /><br /><br /> the cruelty perpetrated on their inhabitants, and meeting<br /><br /><br /> with the families of hostages and those who have lost<br /><br /><br /> loved ones in the Gaza War is "heart-wrenching." Some<br /><br /><br /> families of hostages still captive in Gaza call for "a deal<br /><br /><br /> at almost any cost, including the release of thousands of<br /><br /><br /> Palestinian security prisoners from Israeli jails." Some<br /><br /><br /> fear a deal will incentivize another October 7, while<br /><br /><br /> others remain silent so as not to endanger their relatives<br /><br /><br /> serving as senior Israeli intelligence officials or high-<br /><br /><br />ranking officers.<br /><br /><br />The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which mobilized<br /><br /><br /> hundreds of thousands of reservists, are engaged in a<br /><br /><br /> campaign to search out and destroy Hamas. The<br /><br /><br /> military has reached the south of Gaza and is poised to<br /><br /><br /> take over Rafah, Hamas's stronghold at the Egyptian<br /><br /><br /> border. Israel is a "nation that is indeed hardened and<br /><br /><br /> remain[s] on edge," speaks with one voice, and is<br /><br /><br /> determined "to achieve victory" so that such a<br /><br /><br /> catastrophe can never recur.<br /><br /><br />Security experts engaged in debate are "overhauling<br /><br /><br /> intelligence and operational readiness" and instituting<br /><br /><br /> reforms to achieve a heightened level of "transparency."<br /><br /><br /> They are reevaluating the security failures of October 7<br /><br /><br /> with "a mix of skepticism and cautious optimism." A<br /><br /><br /> consensus was reached in the Knesset opposing<br /><br /><br /> Israel's recognition of a two-state solution because "the<br /><br /><br /> days of Oslo are over. Oslo died on October 7."<br /><br /><br />Israel's policy towards the Palestinian Arabs post-<br /><br /><br />October 7 has undergone a "complete rethink" among<br /><br /><br /> the army and politicians. Appeasing Hamas after each<br /><br /><br /> round of violence repeated the pattern of an Israeli<br /><br /><br /> military response followed by a negotiated ceasefire<br />.<br /> The IDF's practice of "mowing the grass" lulled Israel<br /><br /><br /> into complacency, mistakenly believing Hamas could be<br /><br /><br /> deterred. Although Jerusalem's carrot-and-stick<br /><br /><br /> approach permitted Qatari money to placate Hamas<br /><br /><br />, any thought that the demands of governance in Gaza<br /><br /><br /> would temper the terrorists was a fallacy.<br /><br /><br />The Israelis ignored warning signs. Yahya Sinwar, the<br /><br /><br /> head of Hamas in Gaza, for years threatened an attack.<br /><br /><br /> "Tawfan al-Aqsa/The al-Aqsa Flood" was a plan leaked<br /><br /><br /> to the Israeli Ministry of Defense that Israel's "red<br /><br /><br /> teams" warned could happen. What's more, a Shin Bet<br /><br /><br /> warning to Israel's senior military leadership that<br /><br /><br /> "something was [amiss] on the Gaza-Israel border" was<br /><br /><br /> issued mere hours before the breach occurred. Plans to<br /><br /><br /> revisit the warning hours later instead of immediately<br /><br /><br /> sending reinforcing troops to the border were ill-<br /><br /><br />conceived, for by then the massacre had begun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The IDF's practice of "mowing the grass" lulled Israel into<br /><br /><br /> complacency, mistakenly believing Hamas could be<br /><br /> deterred<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br />The realization that "the Palestinians aren't just<br /><br /><br /> something that can be delayed and appeased but have<br /><br /><br /> to be dealt with" has penetrated every Israeli's mind,<br /><br /><br /> from the political left to the right. Going forward, Israel's<br /><br /><br /> strategy will include: deterrence in the form of increased<br /><br /><br /> IDF strength to "demilitarize" growing threats before<br /><br /><br /> they occur; dismantling the Palestinian Authority (PA);<br /><br /><br /> dissolution of the United Nations Relief and Works<br /><br /><br /> Agency (UNRWA); and elimination of Hamas's threat<br /><br /><br /> now and in the future. These aims are pursued "while<br /><br /><br /> still seeking pathways to limited Palestinian local<br /><br /><br /> governance."<br /><br /><br />Ultimately, the urgent need to address "the root causes<br /><br /><br /> of the conflict rather than merely its symptoms" requires<br /><br /><br /> a "policy of deradicalization" of both Palestinian self-<br /><br /><br />governance and the Palestinian education system. The<br /><br /><br /> curriculum in every school in Gaza and the West Bank<br /><br /><br /> must be screened by Israel, and every teacher needs to<br /><br /><br /> be vetted and monitored. This approach applies as well<br /><br /><br /> to Israel's allies and partners who fund Palestinians in<br /><br /><br /> Gaza or the West Bank. "Israel should not do business<br /><br /><br /> with any Palestinian or international entity which allows<br /><br /><br /> their organizations to be a conveyor belt for Palestinian<br /><br /><br /> radicalization."<br /><br /><br />Dismantling Palestinian rejectionism needs a "strong<br /><br /><br /> man" leader who, much like those in Egypt and Jordan,<br /><br /><br /> realizes it is prudent to establish good relations with the<br /><br /><br /> Israeli government. Even if there will not be "true peace"<br /><br /><br /> between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli people,<br /><br /><br /> "peace between [Gaza and West Bank] Palestinian<br /><br /><br /> leadership and Israeli leadership" is a probability.<br /><br /><br />Prime Minister Netanyahu is facing a challenge of<br /><br /><br /> leadership in balancing his political career with the<br /><br /><br /> "long-term geopolitical strategies that Israel requires."<br /><br /><br /> For now, there is little motivation among the Israeli<br /><br /><br /> public to change a wartime government, as any attempt<br /><br /><br /> to do so would result in "political deadlock." Once the<br /><br /><br /> war is over, a commission of inquiry will likely hold<br /><br /><br /> Netanyahu responsible for the October 7 failure.<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />If Hezbollah were to unleash its missiles, Israel would<br /><br /><br /> exact a price Nasrallah is hesitant to pay, namely<br /><br /><br /> suffering a fate similar to Hamas's.<br /><br /><br />Against the backdrop of the Gaza war, Hezbollah's threat<br /><br /><br /> at Israel's northern border with Lebanon still looms.<br /><br /><br /> Some 80,000 Israeli residents have been displaced after<br /><br /><br /> hundreds of homes there were destroyed by Hezbollah<br /><br /><br /> missiles since October 7. The movement's leader,<br /><br /><br /> Hassan Nasrallah, although beset by the challenges of<br /><br /><br /> domestic governance in Lebanon's failing economy,<br /><br /><br /> must justify Hezbollah's existence by maintaining<br /><br /><br /> "resistance" to "the Zionist enemy" in Israel's north.<br /><br /><br />While Hezbollah shares the same rejectionism as Hamas<br /><br /><br /> and the PA towards Israel, its "strategic goal" differs.<br /><br /><br /> With its arsenal of thousands of precision missiles, it<br /><br /><br /> serves as a "strategic deterrent on behalf of Iran" by<br /><br /><br /> providing a "second strike capability." Thus, should<br /><br /><br /> Israel contemplate attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, the<br /><br /><br /> real possibility that Hezbollah would inflict major<br /><br /><br /> damage on Israel's cities could give the Jewish state<br /><br /><br /> pause. However, if Hezbollah were to unleash its<br /><br /><br /> missiles, Israel would exact a price Nasrallah is hesitant<br /><br /><br /> to pay, namely suffering a fate similar to Hamas's. At<br /><br /><br /> present, the U.S. and European powers are pressuring<br /><br /><br /> Hezbollah to move 10 km north so that Israeli assets are<br /><br /><br /> out of range of Hezbollah's anti-tank fire.<br /><br /><br />While Israeli leaders appreciate the Biden<br /><br /><br /> administration's military support fights in Gaza, in the<br /><br /><br /> long-term Israel plans to increase its capabilities so that<br /><br /><br /> it becomes "an equal partner" to the U.S. rather than a<br /><br /><br /> "supplicant or dependent." While past Israeli leaders<br /><br /><br /> have managed threats since its establishment, solving<br /><br /><br /> them has remained elusive. October 7 and its aftermath<br /><br /><br /> finds Israel's leaders "under scrutiny" to secure its future<br /><br /><br /> with policies that are "not just a matter of strategic<br /><br /><br /> necessity, but of moral imperative to protect Israeli<br /><br /><br /> lives." The "seven-front war" that began in Gaza, spread<br /><br /><br /> to the West Bank, and continues in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,<br /><br /><br /> and Yemen "finally ends in Iran." Each front demands a<br /><br /><br /> strategy of "total victory."<br /><br /><br />Marilyn Stern is communications coordinator at the<br /><br /><br /> Middle East Forum.<br />+++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div></div><div><br /></div>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-10825499098740476622024-03-13T06:59:00.000-07:002024-03-13T13:25:14.953-07:00Native Illegals? Defining Terror. No Other Choice. Charlie Kirk/Pastor John. 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1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWY6MTc5MzQxOTA4MTY4MjQ2MjYxMiJd; 4:WyIjbXNnLWY6MTc5MzQxOTA4MTY4MjQ2MjYxMiJd" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://pjmedia.com/matt-margo<wbr></wbr>lis/2024/03/13/here-are-the-<wbr></wbr>most-embarrassing-moments-for-<wbr></wbr>democrats-during-hurs-testimon<wbr></wbr>y-n4927262</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpY18E1uR3aC40wtsvhWuwNAHZijoQg0DlnsoILbqUjgiKSOq3-nYKsdi0HjfuZ1szct1GUen2v1JXt1WM4csEdIZBIbJZ8AUyHi38NdDAA7xMi5GTBPoSpcKCChUcV6i_r9GPlDmqgbrbHn7RWaqWEBj-nKE268mjn9duUxeebZDIQaOb43Wv3IYh7Qo/s402/R8xeBxYXJUaaSuj9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="394" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpY18E1uR3aC40wtsvhWuwNAHZijoQg0DlnsoILbqUjgiKSOq3-nYKsdi0HjfuZ1szct1GUen2v1JXt1WM4csEdIZBIbJZ8AUyHi38NdDAA7xMi5GTBPoSpcKCChUcV6i_r9GPlDmqgbrbHn7RWaqWEBj-nKE268mjn9duUxeebZDIQaOb43Wv3IYh7Qo/s320/R8xeBxYXJUaaSuj9.png" width="314" /></a></div> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone who came to America were illegals according to the natives who were here. That was the way it was back then. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now Islamist terrorists continue to want to take over the entire world as do the Chinese, Russians and Iranians. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">So what's new? Is man is a born predator?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">No, Joe, illegal immigrants didn’t build America<u></u><u></u></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 17.4pt; max-width: 100%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0px;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 12pt;">By Rich Lowry</span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Biden claimed illegal immigrants "built this country" after he referred to Laken Riley's alleged killer as "illegal."</span></span><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden doesn’t have a problem with illegal immigrants. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He’s made that clear in his shame-faced retreat from his impromptu use of the term “illegal” during his State of the Union address.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He regrets using the offending word, doesn’t want to disrespect illegal immigrants and believes that they are absolutely essential to the success of the United States. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Look, they built the country,” Biden told Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC. He added that they are “the reason our economy is growing.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, where would America be without the essential contribution made to its economic vigor by desperate people crossing the border in violation of our laws? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This is all very revealing. Biden certainly sounds more like a president who has had a largely open border rather than one who, as he’s been insisting lately, wants to shut down the border if only Republicans will pass the legislation he wants.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Why, if Biden’s correct, would we deny ourselves the benefits of illegal labor? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It’s true that illegal immigrants overwhelmingly work once they get here; it’s why they come in the first place, after all.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the idea that a fraction of all immigrants, whose numbers have only drastically increased the past couple of decades, “built the country” is a ridiculous fabrication and a profound insult to American workers, past and present.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Prior to today, the highest percentage of all the foreign-born in the US population was 14.8%, around the turn of the 20th century.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Roughly one out of seven people obviously weren’t responsible for the construction of America.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As for illegal immigrants specifically, they didn’t constitute the majority of any job category in America as of 2018.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even construction workers — involved in the literal building of the country’s physical plant — were 65% native-born. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden is exaggerating, too, when he suggests the economy is growing only because of illegal immigrants.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But it is true that legal and illegal immigrants have made an outsized contribution to recent economic growth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which aren’t flawless but capture the big picture, the total number of employed people in the United States increased by 2.3 million between February 2020 and February 2024.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Over those four years, the foreign-born employment level increased by 3.3 million, whereas the level of native-born employment is still down by a million.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that roughly half of those immigrant jobs are going to illegal immigrants.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say, this isn’t the political bragging point that Biden might think.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Bidenomics — it’s been great for immigrants regardless of legal status” is not a slogan the president should want to use in a campaign against Donald Trump.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To attribute our economic growth to immigrants is to ignore the contributions of the 85% of the country that is native-born, and all its work, investment and spending. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The deeper problem is how the surge in immigrant labor coincides with a decline labor-force participation among low-skilled Americans facing direct competition from the foreign born.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A report by Camarota notes that the labor-force participation rate of native-born men without a bachelor’s degree is 75.6%, still lower than the pre-pandemic level of 76.3% in the fourth quarter of 2019, and lower than in 2006 (80.5%) and 2000 (82.6%).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Constantly adding less-skilled immigrant workers to the labor force may increase overall GDP, but it doesn’t make the United States wealthier on a per capita basis, the more important metric.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">According to a Congressional Budget Office analysis, greater levels of immigration will increase GDP “by an average of 0.2 percentage points a year from 2024 to 2034, leaving real GDP roughly 2 percent larger in 2034 than it would be otherwise.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, real GDP per person “would be 0.8 percent smaller.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden gives no indication that he sees such trade-offs. Who’d want fewer of the migrants “building our country” when we can have ever more?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Twitter: @RichLowry</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">They are mainly pathetic tribal interloping leaches who cause trouble wherever they go. They are corrupt and lying murderers as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ask the Jordanians, Egyptians, Saudis. Ask most any Arabs etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Defining terror<u></u><u></u></span></h1><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Biden claims Palestinians are not Hamas but can’t come up with who else they are.</span></span></h2><div><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Ilan Goodman </span></span><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-size: x-large;"> Op-ed.</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the waning days of his first, and possibly last, term as president, Joe Biden is understandably looking to secure his legacy. As recent events have made clear, he pins a great deal of hope on being the man to bring peace at last to the Middle East. To foster this, he has been leaning into his brand as an elder statesman, dispensing advice that he considers both wise and sensible. It is in that spirit that he recently tweeted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“I won't mince words. The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. And Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. In fact, they're also suffering as a result of Hamas' terrorism. We need to be clear-eyed about that reality.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Compared with other questionable statements he’s made of late, it scarcely deserves a mention. But when the leader of the free world makes a claim, it merits further inquiry. In particular, it brings to mind a certain question. If the Palestinian Arabs are not Hamas, who are they?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To be sure, Biden is not the first to make such a claim. In the early days of the war, moderates filled social media with such slogans as “Free Hamas from Gaza.” Celebrities trying to find an unoffensive middle ground are quick to separate Hamas from civilian citizens of Gaza. It’s a very understandable desire. If the Palestinian Arabs are not Hamas, that carries with it two very important implications.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First, it means that the citizens of Gaza are innocent victims of the war, and should be treated as such. Instead of there being 134 hostages remaining in captivity in the Gaza Strip, there would be over two million, and the same heroic effort to liberate them should be made as has been done for Israel’s own people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Moreover, if they are in fact innocent victims, Israel must take this into consideration when planning any future response. To date, Israel has gone above and beyond in limiting civilian causalities, even at the cost of their own soldiers. But if every civilian is a hostage, an entirely new paradigm comes into play.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Secondly, it means that Israel has a viable partner for peace. As this war has made clear to most Israelis, the two-state solution, never viable to begin with, is dead and buried. There is simply no second party to negotiate peace with. Yet even now the United States and Europe cling to long discarded dreams that there is another side with whom to bargain. And if the Palestinian Arabs are indeed a peaceful and separate group, they represent a viable and obtainable peace partner in future negotiations, and any two-state solution becomes once more a possibility.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With so much at stake, the President’s comments are certainly worth investigating. Especially with so much evidence to contradict them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel had only recently left the Gaza Strip when the first legislative elections on 25 January 2006 Hamas won by an overwhelming majority of the vote. After the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas on 14 June 2007, where Hamas executed its Fatah rivals (some by pushing them off rooftops) and claimed themselves as the sole legitimate government of the Palestinian National Authority, the normal citizens of Gaza happily went along with the changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But of course, in our early days, we all make poor decisions that we later come to regret. And perhaps it could be that the good citizens of the Gaza Strip, after so long under Hama’s brutal rule, recognized the error of their ways and repented their rash choices. The most recent PCPSR poll of Palestinian Arabs puts these theories to rest. The pool showed that 72% of all Palestinian Arabss supported the October 7 attacks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">More disturbing still, in the "moderate" 'West Bank', the number was 82%, a nearly 7-1 ratio over those opposed to mass murder and rape. in fact, in the 'West Bank', 85% of Palestinian Arabs are satisfied with how Hamas has been conducting itself since the war began.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Also worrisome is that a Hamas presidential candidate would win over Mahmoud Abbas by a nearly 5-1 margin if there were elections today. 60% of those who have an opinion support Hamas as a political party over all other parties combined. It seems that not only are the citizens of Gaza stratified customers, but the rest of the Palestinian Arab world is interested in importing the product.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But then again, these are just polls and actions do speak louder than words. So the actions of the average Gazan are well worth looking into, particularly their actions on October 7th. Hamas spent years creating the most complex system of tunnels the world has ever seen, massively larger than the entire London Underground.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It seems highly unlikely that such work could have gone unnoticed and indeed It was done in the open. Findings show that tunnels appeared as part of the building’s original blueprints. Including Shifa Hospital and the UNRWA headquarters. These tunnels were also dug under schools and even private homes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Weapons were also found stashed in countless houses. If your government is building a vast underground tunnel system under your house and hiding RPGs under your bed, it seems likely that you might notice that something was going on. And the most recently reports find that 40-50% of Gazan citizens did know - not only about the tunnel network but about their intended use prior to the attack.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the day of the program itself, it was the average non-Hamas citizens who followed Hamas terrorists into Israel, they made up the members of the third wave of the massacre. It has now been shown that these same Gazans who we are told are not Hamas, were not only complacent but active participants in all the types of unbelievable horrors that occurred that day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And after the initial horrors had passed, it was these Palestinian Arab 'civilians' who took hostages, many of whom have still not been returned, some of whom are dead. When one hostage escaped, it was these none-soldiers who captured him and returned him to his capturers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s hard to say that Palestinian Arabs are hostages of Hamas. How many hostages have hostages of their own?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It would seem that based on all the evidence, if Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs are different, it is a difference without a distinction Thus far, no other alternative has presented itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Where are the Gazan activists loudly denouncing Hamas?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Where are the protesters taking to the streets calling for the terror group to be overthrown?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Where is any voice issuing from Gaza that refutes anything related to Hamas’ actions?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To be fair, it could be argued that standing against Hamas is deadly. But this has been the case outside of Gaza as well during this war. The world over, Palestinian Arab protestors are quick and vocal to denounce Israel, but nary a word about their Hamas oppressors. Where is the international Palestinian community standing up and showing that they are different?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Who, then, according to Biden, are the Palestinian Arabs? The world may never know. The president has never given an answer. He is apparently content to define something by what it’s not. Perhaps he simply doesn’t know the answer himself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">More likely, the president is willfully turning a blind eye to the answer. It’s an answer that most Palestinian Arabs have made irrefutably clear. That what they want is the genocide of Jews and the total destruction of Israel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just as the president can claim that Palestinians are not Hamas, he might claim that I am not an ornithologist. But I do know that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is very likely a duck.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ilan Goodman is a museum collections professional and exhibition curator. He also serves as a rabbi and educator. He made Aliyah to Israel in 2011 and lives with his wife and children in Beit Shemesh.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel Has No Choice but to Fight On</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">By Bret Stephens</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On Saturday, President Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu’s</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting Israel more than helping</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Israel.” The Israeli prime minister replied the next day that Biden was </span><span>“wrong.” The rift between the two leaders means that Israel risks </span><span>losing its most important pillar of military and diplomatic support.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve argued that Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas as an</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">effective fighting force. Here I imagine a conversation with an</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">intelligent critic of that view.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thousands of Gazan civilians, many of them children, have now</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">been killed, bombed in their homes or out of them. Now they</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">face a humanitarian catastrophe in the form of medicine and</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">food shortages, even starvation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How can you possibly justify it?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Like all wars, this one is horrible and heartbreaking. But I blame</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas, not Israel, for the devastation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Look, Hamas is a terrorist group whose leaders should face</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">justice for the massacres of Oct. 7. But it isn’t Hamas’s bombs,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">missiles or artillery that have leveled Gaza. It’s Israel’s.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Right. And Hamas, which started the war, could put a halt to that rain</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">of fire tomorrow. It rejected a six-week cease-fire that would have</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">paused the fighting and allowed much more aid in exchange for the</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">release of roughly 40 of the remaining 100 Israeli hostages. It could</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">stop the fighting for good by simply surrendering.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas may not want to stop the fighting, but there’s little we</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">can do about that. Israel can stop its assault, and thus spare</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Palestinian lives. And because Biden has leverage on Israel, he</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">should use it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The best way to get Hamas to stop fighting is to beat it. If Israel were</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>to end the war now, with several Hamas battalions intact, at least four </span><span>things would happen.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>First, it would be impossible to set up a political authority in Gaza that </span><span>isn’t Hamas: If the Palestinian Authority or local Gazans tried to do </span><span>so, they wouldn’t live for long. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Second, Hamas would reconstitute its </span><span>military force as Hezbollah did in Lebanon after the 2006 war with </span><span>Israel — and Hamas has promised to repeat the attacks of Oct. 7 “a </span><span>second, a third, a fourth” time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Third, the Israeli hostages would be </span><span>stuck in their awful captivity indefinitely.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fourth, there would never be a Palestinian state. No Israeli</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">government is going to agree to a Palestinian state in the West Bank</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">if it risks resembling Gaza.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">All that is speculative. The reality is that children are hungry, the</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">sick aren’t getting medicine, innocent Palestinians are being</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">killed, now. It’s wrong to avert theoretical harms by causing</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">actual ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It might be more speculative if this weren’t the fifth major war that</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas has provoked since it seized power in Gaza in 2007. After</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">each war, Hamas’s capabilities have grown stronger and its</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">ambitions bolder. At some point this had to end; for Israelis, Oct. 7</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">was that point.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe, but why can’t Israel be much more judicious in its use of</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">force?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you have any specific suggestions for how Israel can defeat</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamas while being more sparing of civilians?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m not a military expert.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I’ve noticed that whenever Israel’s critics lecture the country on better </span><span>calibrating its use of force, they don’t have any concrete suggestions.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Are Israelis smart enough to fight better, but too stupid to appreciate</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the diplomatic consequences of not doing so?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe they’re thirsty for vengeance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The reality of urban warfare is that it’s exceptionally costly and</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">difficult. The United States under Barack Obama and Donald Trump</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">spent nine months helping Iraqi forces flatten the city of Mosul to</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">defeat ISIS, with results that looked even worse than Gaza does</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">today. I don’t remember calls for “Cease-Fire Now” then. Hamas has</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">made it even more difficult for Israel because, instead of sheltering</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">civilians in its immense network of tunnels, it shelters itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even so, that doesn’t relieve Israel of the obligation to prevent a</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">humanitarian catastrophe.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s not as if Israel is not lifting a finger. On Sunday alone, 225</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">truckloads of aid entered Gaza through Israel, according to the Israeli</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>military. But you seem to think that the government of Israel’s primary </span><span>responsibility is to the welfare of the people of Gaza. It isn’t. As with </span><span>any government, its obligations are to its own people.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Israelis are mostly doing fine now. It’s Palestinians who are</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>dying. </span><span>Israel has spent the last five months degrading Hamas’s military </span><span>capabilities to the point that it seems to have run out of rockets to fire </span><span>at Israel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Around 200,000 Israelis are living as refugees inside </span><span>their own country because its borders aren’t secure. No country can</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">tolerate that. Israel didn’t come into existence to showcase the</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">victimization of Jews. It came into existence to end their victimization.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, since you’re alluding to the Holocaust, it surely can’t be in</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel’s interests to be seen perpetrating a version of it in Gaza.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just look at the worldwide explosion of antisemitism since Oct.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">7.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>That analogy is false and offensive on many levels. Israel is fighting a </span><span>war it didn’t seek, against an enemy sworn to its destruction and </span><span>holding scores of its citizens hostage. If Israel had wanted to wipe out </span><span>Gazans as Germans sought to wipe out Jews, it could have done so </span><span>on the first day of the war. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Israel is fighting a tough war against an </span><span>evil enemy that puts its own civilians in harm’s way. Maybe there </span><span>should be more public pressure on Hamas to surrender than on Israel </span><span>to save Hamas from the consequences of its actions.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As for anti-Semitism, the war hasn’t generated a torrent of</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">anti-Semitism so much as it has exposed it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Probably a mix of the two. Still, you make the mistake of</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">imagining that Hamas can be defeated. You can’t kill an idea,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">particularly by generating the terrible resentments that are</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">surely brewing in Gaza and throughout the Arab world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">By that logic, the Allies should have spared Germany because</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">National Socialism was also an idea. You may not be able to kill an</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">idea but you can defang it, just as you can persuade future</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">generations that some ideas have terrible consequences for those</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">who espouse them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So what do you suggest the Biden administration do?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Help Israel win the war decisively so that Israelis and Palestinians</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">can someday win the peace.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And:<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hamas could be expelled from Qatar if deal not reached - WSJ report</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Report: Arab negotiators aiming for an urgent two-day ceasefire before the beginning of Ramadan due to increased Rafah operations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Wall Street Journal published an interview with Senior Hamas official Husam Badran on Saturday, discussing Hamas's hard-line stance of only agreeing to a permanent ceasefire and shedding light on details of the negotiation process that are lesser known to the public.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Badran begins the interview by claiming that Hamas is still willing to negotiate a ceasefire deal, saying claims of Hamas disinterest come from Israel and America. “We didn’t declare negotiations have been stopped. We are the party most keen to stop this war,” he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">According to Egyptian and Hamas officials, Qatar has threatened to expel Hamas officially from their base in Doha if they don't come to an agreement, but Badran denied this claim.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">That being said, he stated that Hamas's official position is still a permanent ceasefire and allowing displaced Gazans to return to their homes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As far as the negotiation process goes, he revealed that the discussion of swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners has taken a back seat to relieving the humanitarian situation and ending the fighting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Israelis demand the release of hostages held in captivity by Hamas, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure of the talks so far. “The only complication in the negotiations is Netanyahu’s stance, who refuses to deal with anything on the table,” he said. “Netanyahu is the most dangerous [person] for the stability of this region. He is the fire starter.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He also claimed that he was "concerned" about rising tensions in the West Bank if a deal is not reached before Ramadan. Later on in the report, however, he revealed that Hamas met in Moscow with other Palestinian officials, including secular politicians and the PIJ, where they agreed to "expand operations in the West Bank and Jerusalem."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The report had details of the negotiation process from statements by Israeli, US, and Arab officials as well, but didn't name them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Other mediators are hoping for a short-term ceasefire with partial hostage releases</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It said that unspecified Arab negotiators were aiming for an urgent two-day ceasefire before the beginning of Ramadan due to increased operations in Rafah.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The report also claimed that Arab mediators are trying to salvage a proposal that involves a 40-day ceasefire and the release of around 40 hostages.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">According to the report, Egyptian officials said that they had hoped to resume talks on Saturday, but neither side was being cooperative. Arab mediators have also confirmed, according to the report, that Hamas has refused to give Israel a list of living hostages as part of a deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Badran denied that claim, saying there had been no official Israeli request for such a list. He said many of the prisoners are held by other factions, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, making them harder to locate and guarantee as part of a deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The report also talked about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who recently broke his radio silence and has also made demands about a potential deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sinwar believes Hamas currently has the upper hand in negotiations, according to Egyptian officials. They based this claim on internal political divisions within Israel, disagreements within Netanyahu’s wartime government, and mounting US pressure on Israel to do more to alleviate the suffering of Gazans. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Arab and Israeli officials said that they fear that Sinwar is deliberately undermining the talks in the hope that Ramadan will galvanize popular Arab support for Hamas and that there will be an escalation of tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement in the name of the Mossad, stating that the Hamas terror group seems uninterested in a hostage swap deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"Mossad chief David Barnea met Friday with the head of the CIA, Bill Burns, as part of the unending efforts to advance another agreement to bring back the hostages," the statement read.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"At this stage, Hamas is redoubling its position as one who is not interested in a deal and is aiming to ignite the region during Ramadan, at the expense of the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"It should be emphasized that at all times, the negotiations and cooperation with the brokers are ongoing, in an attempt to reduce the gaps and advance agreements."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Earlier this week, it was reported that Hamas is unwilling to compromise on the release of archterrorist Marwan Barghouti.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">According to Maariv, which quoted the Jordanian news outlet Al Ra'i al-Youm, Khalil al-Hayya, deputy to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, also sent a document to Egypt's intelligence chief, saying that Hamas demands a cessation of the war in Gaza for one week before the hostages are released, as well as Israel's complete withdrawal from Gaza and international guarantees that the Israeli forces will not return to the area.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hamas is also demanding freedom of movement throughout Gaza and that those evacuated from northern Gaza be allowed to return home. The terror group will also not provide the information on which hostages will be released or their conditions, and the Israeli hostages will be released in stages.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++++++++++++ </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Kirk and "Pastor John" are a breath of fresh air. Their kind might be able to save our union but it will require more, like them, to take risks, be prepared to lose possessions and stand up to the neo Marxists who have taken control.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We gave Henry and Jess a check and I gave Henry Charlie Kirk's "How We Win." Everyone one should read it because it is outstanding, readable and "oh so right on!"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pray for Pastor John’s Resistance Against Woke School Boards</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">TPUSA Faith</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Richard,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“We did the Pledge of The Allegiance, and it was a sham to listen to people get quiet when we said that we're a nation under God."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Was what Pastor John Amanchukwu said when getting up to speak at a school board meeting for Mesa Public Schools in Arizona.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Pastor John is continuing to fight for children as he stands against WOKE School Boards while on his School Board Watchlist Accountability Tour.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He delivered an amazing speech in front of Mesa Public Schools. I’d encourage you to watch it, Richard.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Pastor John Amanchukwu</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://trk.email.tpusafaith.com/c/7/eyJhaSI6OTkyNjA2OTcsImUiOiJiZXJrb2Jyb2tlckBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJyaSI6IjE0Nzk4NTc4NTAiLCJycSI6IjAyLWIyNDA3My0xY2M4MzYwZmUxNWQ0NDIzOGY3ZTdjYWFlZTQ2OWFiYiIsInBoIjpudWxsLCJtIjpmYWxzZSwidWkiOiIzIiwidW4iOiIiLCJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS90cHVzYWZhaXRoL3N0YXR1cy8xNzY2MjEwMTk4OTc1MTc2OTM3In0/Cu07BiyKDYmRcCUD6trsQw&source=gmail&ust=1710425144983000&usg=AOvVaw3Xo8hjwplS8-LC05UIGFr4" href="https://trk.email.tpusafaith.com/c/7/eyJhaSI6OTkyNjA2OTcsImUiOiJiZXJrb2Jyb2tlckBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJyaSI6IjE0Nzk4NTc4NTAiLCJycSI6IjAyLWIyNDA3My0xY2M4MzYwZmUxNWQ0NDIzOGY3ZTdjYWFlZTQ2OWFiYiIsInBoIjpudWxsLCJtIjpmYWxzZSwidWkiOiIzIiwidW4iOiIiLCJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS90cHVzYWZhaXRoL3N0YXR1cy8xNzY2MjEwMTk4OTc1MTc2OTM3In0/Cu07BiyKDYmRcCUD6trsQw" style="background-color: #ef0012; border-color: transparent; border-radius: 4px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto; word-break: keep-all;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Watch the video</strong></span></span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Pastor John needs YOUR prayers more than anything. Pray for him as he goes into the darkness of the school system to FIGHT for your children’s heart and minds</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">These School Boards are pushing polices that allow for your children and grandchildren to read books about transgenderism and homosexuality without the parent’s consent.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, Pastor John is not just combating School Boards; he’s fighting for the hearts and minds of our children, the next generation of believers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My friends at TPUSA Faith are making a stand for the inerrancy of Scripture, the sanctity of life, and the God-given distinction between male and female. And TPUSA Faith is doing this in your children’s and grandchildren’s schools. But we need your help to continue this fight.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Please PRAY for Pastor John as he gears up to continue his School Board Watchlist Tour.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you for standing with TPUSA Faith and Pastor John as we fight for this great nation and to protect our children.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">God bless you</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Kirk</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">TPUSA Faith</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++++++++++++++++++<br />I never doubted it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The truth has a way of coming out as long as good people seek it because it is there underneath scumbags like Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff and you know the rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="18e3730e781f93dd" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1793403582605661149" jsname="r4nke" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1f1f1f; display: inline; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1">NewsLink: Liz Cheney, January 6 Committee Suppressed Exonerating Evidence Of Trump’s Push For National Guard</h2><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="left" class="m_-3554693023097647317button" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" valign="middle" width="18"><br /></td><td align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/link.php?AGENCY%3Djw%26M%3D6888710%26N%3D67415%26L%3D31587%26F%3DH%26drurl%3DaHR0cHM6Ly90aGVmZWRlcmFsaXN0LmNvbS8yMDI0LzAzLzA4L2V4Y2x1c2l2ZS1saXotY2hlbmV5LWphbnVhcnktNi1jb21taXR0ZWUtc3VwcHJlc3NlZC1leG9uZXJhdGluZy1ldmlkZW5jZS1vZi10cnVtcHMtcHVzaC1mb3ItbmF0aW9uYWwtZ3VhcmQvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9ZGVwbG95ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1BTmpnNE9EY3hNQSUzRCUzRCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xpbmsmdXRtX3Rlcm09bWVtYmVycw%3D%3D%26hash%3Dd2b7a82fef27b675b686e025df94bf9688a5fea292a163ab0fd358f88c587d98&source=gmail&ust=1710409815205000&usg=AOvVaw3xl1Bu1dhNWytQWbRvD20O" href="https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/link.php?AGENCY=jw&M=6888710&N=67415&L=31587&F=H&drurl=aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVmZWRlcmFsaXN0LmNvbS8yMDI0LzAzLzA4L2V4Y2x1c2l2ZS1saXotY2hlbmV5LWphbnVhcnktNi1jb21taXR0ZWUtc3VwcHJlc3NlZC1leG9uZXJhdGluZy1ldmlkZW5jZS1vZi10cnVtcHMtcHVzaC1mb3ItbmF0aW9uYWwtZ3VhcmQvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9ZGVwbG95ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1BTmpnNE9EY3hNQSUzRCUzRCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xpbmsmdXRtX3Rlcm09bWVtYmVycw==&hash=d2b7a82fef27b675b686e025df94bf9688a5fea292a163ab0fd358f88c587d98" style="color: grey; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bari Weiss: The Holiday From History Is Over</span><br /><br /><h3 style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;">A free society is only as strong as the citizens willing to defend it. 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padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0px;"><b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: #363737; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/ce46a4b6-7f40-4697-8593-24450c8a5b1c?j%3DeyJ1IjoiOHQyMmgifQ.nqnf7nMQMDkhzUXCLCDz5a3oAgGtQz54DO3O4-QNZN0&source=gmail&ust=1710425825470000&usg=AOvVaw25OB5HLTzaB_jiBJ-yhGWX" href="https://substack.com/redirect/ce46a4b6-7f40-4697-8593-24450c8a5b1c?j=eyJ1IjoiOHQyMmgifQ.nqnf7nMQMDkhzUXCLCDz5a3oAgGtQz54DO3O4-QNZN0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #363737; text-decoration-line: none;">BARI WEISS</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is a special kind of story. Inside my column you’re going to see three mini-documentaries from our recent trip to Israel. The first two cover the massacres at the Nova Music Festival and Kibbutz Kfar Aza and the aftermath of those tragedies. In the third, we travel to the West Bank to talk to ordinary Palestinians about October 7, the war, and their futures. To watch the other interviews I did on that trip, and to make sure you never miss a Free Press video, subscribe to our YouTube channel. —BW</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">KIBBUTZ KFAR AZA — On a recent Tuesday morning I found myself two kilometers from Gaza. Every few minutes we could hear the boom of a 155 mm howitzer sending fire across the border, but I was trying to focus on the historian Michael Oren, who was talking to me not about the war raging around us but about Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman general who walked the world 500 years before Jesus was born, some 200 kilometers from the spot we were standing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Cincinnatus was a farmer. All he wanted was to be at his plow,” Oren told me as the winter rain poured down. “But every time he went back to his farm the Roman Republic came to him and said, ‘We need you to come back. We need you to lead an army.’ ”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“The Cincinnatus myth was the foundational myth for the American Revolution, specifically for Washington himself,” Oren said. “It is also the most foundational Israeli myth. It is David Ben-Gurion. It is Moshe Dayan. It is Ariel Sharon. These people just wanted to farm. But they were called to pick up arms and defend their country. Israel is the Cincinnatus nation.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Many have never heard the name Cincinnatus in Israel, where the Romans are remembered more as the empire that destroyed the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70, slaughtered and sold its inhabitants, and renamed the land Syria Palestina. But the Jewish people—who long outlived that empire and reconstituted the Jewish national home in the land the Romans had once conquered—are also democratic heirs to Cincinnatus. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On the morning of October 7, ordinary Israelis left their offices, closed their laptops, and abandoned their fields to pick up weapons, in many cases without waiting for instructions from the state or its army. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On that black morning, and in the weeks and months since, these men and women have displayed the kind of heroism most thought belonged to the mythic past, or the generation of 1948, when the armies of five invading Arab nations turned every kibbutz and moshav, and every town and village, into a battlefield. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For twenty-first-century inhabitants of the Middle East’s start-up nation, such individual and collective courage had become something to be studied in the past—not enacted in the present. Not inside the land of Israel. Not in the twenty-first century. And certainly not by them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But I met successors to Cincinnatus everywhere I went.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">They are ordinary Israelis like Inbar Lieberman. Lieberman is a 25-year-old woman who is the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am. She killed five terrorists by herself on October 7. The rest of her team repelled an additional 20 over the course of four hours. “I’m not a hero,” she says. “I wasn’t there by myself.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ordinary Israelis like my friend Jessica’s father-in-law, Noam Tibon, a 62-year-old grandfather who got in a jeep with his pistol and his wife, Miri. He drove south from Tel Aviv and shot his way through terrorists to liberate his son and granddaughters, who were hiding in their safe room in Kibbutz Nahal Oz from hundreds of Hamas terrorists who were swarming the kibbutz. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or like Yair Golan, another 61-year-old retired general—his career cut short because of his leftist views—who drove alone through the fields near the Gaza Strip and followed pins dropped by panicked young people hiding in the bushes at the Nova music festival to save them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or like the special forces reservist who had just returned from vacation outside Israel. Then he got the call. “I didn’t understand by any means the scale of what we were about to get into. We’re on our way out and the commander says, all right, guys, load your weapons. We’re about to get into a firefight. And I was like, oh, shit, I did not see my Saturday going this way.” He went on: “There was no centralized command. No one was telling us what to do. We were just doing our job and going from one place to the other and doing our best.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or like Masad Armilat, the 23-year-old Arab Israeli I bumped into at a gas station where we stopped to buy a coffee near the killing fields of the music festival. On that day Armilat, who typically works in the storeroom, saved scores of wounded people. Meantime, his father “left his house and helped close all the paths into Ofakim, where the terrorists would have entered.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or like Rachel Goldberg Polin, who told me more than 100 days after her only son, Hersh, had his arm blown off and was taken into Gaza—she didn’t know if he was alive or dead: “I still think we have so many blessings.” She invoked Psalm 23—the poem King David wrote about his cup overflowing. “Right now it overflows with tears,” she said, “but I know it will overflow with joy again.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or like Arab Israeli news broadcaster, Lucy Aharish, who recalled watching that morning as her husband, Fauda actor Tsahi Halevi, having aged out of the reserves, nevertheless put on his old uniform and walked out the door. She thought through a plan she never imagined she would need: “If the terrorists come into this building, should I hide my son Adam in the washing machine? Or in the closet?” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To understand why this kind of courage—physical and psychological and even spiritual—needed to be summoned, and needs to be still, you need to understand the extent of what happened on that day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This is a necessity not only because without an honest reckoning of the horror unleashed by Iran’s proxy on October 7 it is impossible to understand the existential urgency of the war of defense Israel is fighting, but also because nobody—not even America—is immune from history. And because, ultimately, a free society—including our own—is only as strong as the citizens willing to defend it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Since the earliest hours of Saturday, October 7, we have been reporting on the war in Israel. Within 48 hours of the attack—before we understood that the southern part of Israel was still overrun with terrorists—our team had interviewed dozens of people: survivors who crawled out of the music festival, off-duty soldiers and older men who grabbed guns and headed into the fire, families whose loved ones had been stolen away into parts unknown. In the weeks and months since, we have published more than 50 pieces about this subject.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So I thought I knew. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But there is a difference between knowing something intellectually and standing in a killing field.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">That’s where I met a young woman named Michal Ohana one recent afternoon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Watch Michal and other survivors:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It was a windy day and we sat in plastic chairs in the spot where terrorists came to murder her and her friends. Michal had come from Portugal, where she was surfing, and had come here, to the site of the Nova music festival, because her friends were organizing it and they threw the best parties. She told me about hiding under a tank for seven or eight hours. “At some point I just saw that I was bleeding, and I understood that they had shot me in the leg. It was just war,” she said. “They fired the RPG on the tank. They threw grenades at us. I lost my hearing. And it was just waiting for death. We all knew we were going to die, we just didn’t know which way and when.” She said the Shema and waited.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So did Mazal. She’s Ethiopian Israeli and a new survivor in a land built by the old ones, who smokes as she talks about how the terrorists tied ropes around her legs and started dragging her into Gaza. By some miracle they thought she was dead. Her two best friends were—murdered on either side of her next to the highway. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life. And I’ve seen a lot. And I’ve fought a lot,” Yair Golan, the retired general, tells me of what he witnessed that morning. “It’s hard to explain all this, what it looks like. I drove my car [on the road] between bodies. Bodies were spread all over the route, you know, from both sides of the route. On my right-hand side there were still fighting exchanges in kibbutzim.” He said it was “like entering into hell. Entering into a different universe.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">That’s what the special forces soldier who was early to the scene told me too. He had seen a lot in his more than eight years in service. But he says “nothing came close” to what he witnessed October 7. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“We saw from pretty far off the whole road that it was packed with cars. Hundreds of cars blocking the road, and all of them are blown up, destroyed, run over by tanks on fire. Absolute chaos. That’s the only way I can describe the feeling on this day. It was like a zombie apocalypse. Like those crazy films where you see the beginning when everything just goes to shit. That was the vibe. Everything’s on fire. Everything. You smell burning plastic and bodies and you hear gunshots everywhere.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The fires that raged at Kibbutz Kfar Aza have long since burned themselves out. I stood there in what was once a family’s home but now was just blackened walls with no roof. The people who lived in this home were identified by their bones and their teeth. What was once a floor is now dust.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A few blocks away I stood in the burnt-out shell of a humble bungalow. A young couple named Sivan and Naor once loved each other here. There are remnants of them: a new pair of Sambas. An old bra. Some dirty dishes in the sink. But mostly there are holes. Hundreds and hundreds of gaping bullet holes in the room where the 23-year-olds were slaughtered. There are words scribbled on the wall: “Human remains on the sofa.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Step into Kibbutz Kfar Aza:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“The word pain is a privilege compared to what we feel,” Rachel Goldberg Polin says to me about the experience of Hamas stealing her son, and I feel the words more than hear them. “Trauma is being hit by a truck after the truck has moved on. The truck is still on us. It’s like asking someone who is being raped what being raped was like.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There was not a single conversation that I had in the week I spent in Israel where the person did not say a version of the following: There was an October 6 version of me and an October 7 version of me. I am forever changed. I am a different person. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And that is another sense in which the story of the ancient Roman requires modification. The binary of war and peace, the pastoral and the military, is a retrospective luxury of powerful nations or empires. A small democracy, whose very existence is contested by populous autocracies, does not have the privilege, as Cincinnatus did, of going from the field of battle to the field to till. Israel’s citizen-soldiers are scientists, artists, and farmers, just as they are mothers and fathers, husbands and wives. Israeli citizens, whether they serve or not, are not—as one Hamas leader said of Gazans—someone else’s problem.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s like after you knock your finger with a hammer, you don’t feel anything for a while,” the journalist Gadi Taub said, describing what Israelis have gone through since Hamas’s invasion. “People haven’t begun to understand the extent of this earthquake and how it will change Israel. The tectonic plates have moved, and nothing in the system has yet absorbed or changed to accommodate what happened.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The public intellectual and Bible scholar Micah Goodman told me in Jerusalem that the country went through a collective near-death experience. Imagine an entire society that, between sunrise and sunset, peered together into the abyss. “For the first time in our lives, we had a moment where we could imagine that the whole thing was over. That the whole thing ended. You know how when individuals have a near-death experience, they’re transformed. Because they learned that life should not be trivialized. As a country, we had a near-death experience, and now we’re transformed because we know that Jewish sovereignty should not be taken for granted. It can’t be trivialized.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Israel’s founding fathers and mothers, having known a period when Jews didn’t have a state—a period in which six million Jews were murdered—understood the difference between statelessness and sovereignty in their bones. The paradox of their extraordinary achievement is that modern Israelis, who might appreciate the distinction intellectually, could dismiss the dread alternative even when presented with visible evidence of a fragility they consigned to the past. Or at least they could until October 7. On that day, the thought exercise became real.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If Israel, in other words, is currently fighting a second war of independence—an existential war necessary for the survival of the state, as everyone here believes—then the young men and women of this country are more than soldiers. They are latter-day Ben-Gurions. They are a new generation of founders. Indeed, as Gadi Taub told me in Tel Aviv, one of the slogans of this war is lo noflim midor tachach! Which loosely translates to do not fall short of the ’48 generation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hearing that phrase, I couldn’t help but think of America. These days in the U.S., it is nearly impossible to imagine a modern George Washington—a leader who would charge into battle ahead of the troops, put the nation ahead of himself, and willingly give up power. Can you picture the people running our hedge funds and start-ups leaving them behind for the battlefield? Or a rallying cry about not falling short of the 1776ers? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And yet before October 7, despite the country’s universal draft, many Israelis say they, too, believed that history and heroism were things that belonged to the past. Theirs was a nation, like ours, that was addicted to likes and to TikTok, hopelessly unserious, run by an elite with all of the noblesse but none of the oblige.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Then the most serious thing imaginable was upon them. And the most serious men and women I have ever encountered emerged to confront it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">They sound like the writer Haviv Rettig Gur: “We will continue as our forefathers and foremothers did before us: to live on our sword. We will defend ourselves. We will stand united against enemies who want to destroy us. And they actually want to destroy us. This isn’t World War I–style propaganda. They say it. They’re actually coming for us,” he told me in Jerusalem. “We’ve become humble and we’ve become simple: we stand up for ourselves.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Listen to the voices of Palestinians:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Like everyone paying close attention to this war, I am thinking about the future or death of the two-state solution. I am thinking about Hezbollah in the north and when that front might explode. I am thinking about the impossibility of a nuclear Iran. I am thinking about the Red Sea and Rafah and the young men setting out to those places. I am thinking about the innocents killed in Gaza. I am thinking about the women and children trapped there by terrorist leaders and the kidnapped Israelis still held there—all of them hostages. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the questions that echo inside me since I returned home—flying from a country living inside history to a country where many people believe we are still outside of it, immune to it—are more basic ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Questions like: What would I do? What would the people I know do if we were thrust into a near-death experience? If we had to fight for homes and our families, and the homes and families of our fellow citizens? The kind of seriousness I saw in ordinary Israelis—where does it come from? Does courage emerge spontaneously out of necessity? Or is there a quiet wellspring inside some people or some cultures waiting to be tapped? Do we have that here in America? Would we answer the call if it came? Or would we be like the Americans in this recent poll who admitted that they would flee rather than fight? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Those are questions whose relevance grows more urgent by the day for those of us living in the free world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I asked Haviv Gur if he thinks that a similar waking-up moment will come for America and Americans.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, there was a long period of time when there was nothing in the Pacific that could have stopped a Japanese landing in California. And that sense of vulnerability created what Americans still today think of as the greatest generation,” Gur said. “Everyone should feel safe all the time. But crisis is a powerful and profound and often extraordinarily positive influence on our lives.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Today we feel so far from the truths that reality forced on our greatest generation. So many have lost sight of the fact that there are some things worth fighting for if they are not to perish from the earth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But as Gur put it: “The basic Israeli message is we are still human. We’re still living in a human world. We are still living in history. Be ready.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> I</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">n a previous memo, I mentioned we attended a lecture, by Seamus Bruner, who discussed the coming loss of your freedoms because radical billionaires want government to grow and become all powerful. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">He talked about the various entities, like the Rockefeller Foundation, who are behind all of this and how Bill Gates, Soros and Bezos are making fortunes off greening America. Lo and behold, the story of green cement was in today's WSJ and the benefactors are Bezos, Gates and Soros as Seamus discussed. The same is true regarding Gates purchase of farm land and so it goes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I won't be around to watch those remaining getting stripped of their freedoms and free choices to live as they wish because, through technology, government will control your choices, your every move and even your bank account, savings and investments. Add to the "loss list," the car you drive, the way you heat your home, if you even can afford one, and the list is endless. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1984 is coming to a theater near you and it is going to be staggeringly tragic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, pandemics were meant to control you so expect more as your freedoms dribble away and the billionaires make profits of your misery. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sad indeed!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><table role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8494290098096136134mobile_full100" style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; width: 600px;"><table class="m_8494290098096136134mobile_full100" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1c3b62; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; max-width: 100%; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top;">COURTS</span></span></td></tr><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.youmaker.com/links/UDenjerbeV/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/ASZK0s0Yhw&source=gmail&ust=1710429111756000&usg=AOvVaw2fVzzFnC29aWCUkAR1R7Z3" href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/UDenjerbeV/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/ASZK0s0Yhw" rel="noopener" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span class="m_8494290098096136134mb_fz22 m_8494290098096136134mb_lh25" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 32px;">Judge Drops Charges in Georgia Election Interference Case</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="m_8494290098096136134mobile_hide" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small; text-align: right;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.youmaker.com/links/UDenjerbeV/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/ASZK0s0Yhw&source=gmail&ust=1710429111756000&usg=AOvVaw2fVzzFnC29aWCUkAR1R7Z3" href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/UDenjerbeV/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/ASZK0s0Yhw" rel="noopener" style="background: rgb(177, 5, 5); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(177, 5, 5); color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 21px; padding: 11px 15px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></span></p><p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-64270443128906469882024-03-12T20:41:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:32:56.028-07:00Kiss It Goodbye? Tiny Nation Fights. Positive Letter. Biden Turncoat. J Street Jerks. Emma/Scott<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cg7dSiKUHmoFWljsWaEUhADIPSgmdosC6_eT610F9zSEUsJpnpv7znzj3oLfOJAQDawaM9hygEQHbUuTu7BK8X4lp6fMt3M_s-Ez3Uy58iquIYbKNcrToJdrjWN2NxSgenX9ZcO7qn23uq53rTkXJJASxUGFKsUWHP6XWhvP0WHaExHx1EYsfkbLSxo/s4032/IMG_9752%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cg7dSiKUHmoFWljsWaEUhADIPSgmdosC6_eT610F9zSEUsJpnpv7znzj3oLfOJAQDawaM9hygEQHbUuTu7BK8X4lp6fMt3M_s-Ez3Uy58iquIYbKNcrToJdrjWN2NxSgenX9ZcO7qn23uq53rTkXJJASxUGFKsUWHP6XWhvP0WHaExHx1EYsfkbLSxo/s320/IMG_9752%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">G'Pa Me and Lisa (Henry's Mom)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYyXwzLnFLIG-3y1an7yenbm3UkV6lYQ9ZLpr9I4Rf0WiwWBXHaYkXdCgW9_rhqRAh9nbqZD2dKOPDjjyze_3Ovy3a0QHVLSBXS_Pv0v-_ov4N_zavz3hO7sROimhnYmrHfLYrdmlp8rbEGRPskO3GaEz0e0uklTm8TlPYq9H93lGxNmAhFJFbDs0iGs/s4032/IMG_9635.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYyXwzLnFLIG-3y1an7yenbm3UkV6lYQ9ZLpr9I4Rf0WiwWBXHaYkXdCgW9_rhqRAh9nbqZD2dKOPDjjyze_3Ovy3a0QHVLSBXS_Pv0v-_ov4N_zavz3hO7sROimhnYmrHfLYrdmlp8rbEGRPskO3GaEz0e0uklTm8TlPYq9H93lGxNmAhFJFbDs0iGs/s320/IMG_9635.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg489oWqdxfB-syv9-7v2O5k1mbol0ubhRXPKKr75gOLUggpsRJiJxukheWhDIHrHP4N6jBL-DbA-qBC71_kq9Q_VkjgykZSw7r4aRrqOm5jxdZgDmtqk_RV_CIvN1NECGkFLS1OiHYQA85iWSGTvl_XwQ2-lS7_xiLbVR6VVwTVQnkgAWEhSdkFOggFQ/s4032/IMG_9623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg489oWqdxfB-syv9-7v2O5k1mbol0ubhRXPKKr75gOLUggpsRJiJxukheWhDIHrHP4N6jBL-DbA-qBC71_kq9Q_VkjgykZSw7r4aRrqOm5jxdZgDmtqk_RV_CIvN1NECGkFLS1OiHYQA85iWSGTvl_XwQ2-lS7_xiLbVR6VVwTVQnkgAWEhSdkFOggFQ/s320/IMG_9623.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Kevin - Our Grandson, Debra, Daniel<br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvj5-K0l8yzVn8ZVCR9D2gvaq3nkTigGTnrv4wJtmg7iYF5et9RLwcG9ASm4YqTsTB9fu0Kg06YcFUMYRak_RBFrrXdBmOUyfMXmrNZ7q4Y8JCzj69GRsW5q5x7dPL9AvXTvTLLqioVqsTmbKJIQw6_UaDcR7xKxea1kjKdyOL3XKmr3KyJ8THf-sB1c/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvj5-K0l8yzVn8ZVCR9D2gvaq3nkTigGTnrv4wJtmg7iYF5et9RLwcG9ASm4YqTsTB9fu0Kg06YcFUMYRak_RBFrrXdBmOUyfMXmrNZ7q4Y8JCzj69GRsW5q5x7dPL9AvXTvTLLqioVqsTmbKJIQw6_UaDcR7xKxea1kjKdyOL3XKmr3KyJ8THf-sB1c/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzPoRNkR_Wj0RrVy4c52mtDWh070QhUtTLUMKd6PJzKI3zJPM1HwnVqIWAFKyUuca33bg4v2Q2y2TAbWs2Dag' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vote for Biden and kiss it all goodbye.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br />Buddy get's it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">STATE OF DELUSION</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I went to the House floor on Thursday night expecting to attend a State of the Union address. Instead, I ended up at a Washington Democrat campaign rally – or, at least, that was how President Biden treated it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The president needed to tell the American people three things during his speech: his plan to secure the border, an outline of his budget, which was due February 5th, and his national security strategy. Unfortunately, he missed the mark on each of these points, choosing party politics over the needs of the American people, who are sick and tired of begging this president to do his job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The America that President Biden described was not one I, my constituents, and hardworking taxpayers nationwide recognize. At every turn, this President is putting America last. His policies have kneecapped our oil and gas industry, spiked grocery store prices, killed jobs, left our border wide-open, and made many American cities unsafe to live in, work in, or even visit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Take the border, for example. Here we have a president who has taken 64 documented actions to weaken our border security, has full authority to shut down the border today, and yet used his final State of the Union address to pass the buck – which used to ‘stop with him’ – by falsely pushing the blame onto House Republicans. Nothing could be further from the truth. H.R. 2, the best bill out there to secure our border, is proof of that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That wasn’t the only time he massively missed the mark during his speech. I was especially disappointed by his call to expand government-controlled drug pricing mandates.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The drug pricing mandates in his so-called Inflation ‘Reduction’ Act are some of the worst pieces of legislation I’ve seen during my time in Congress. To hear this president, once again, tout this law as a success – and even call for it to be expanded – is unconscionable and proves that he is completely out-of-touch with patients’ needs. American innovation cures the world. Instead of incentivizing more research and development, this administration is choosing to push unworkable price controls that have already resulted in patients losing access to several cancer drugs. What other cures and treatments will be excluded from patients because of this? The cure for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s? Patients can’t afford to find out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As a pharmacist my top priority has always been, and will continue to be, ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality health care. We need lower prescription drug costs, there’s no question about that; but we can do it without sacrificing research and development by reining in the pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen that are responsible for many prescription drugs being unaffordable and inaccessible. I welcome conversation with the White House about this issue and sent them a letter last week explaining exactly how PBMs rob patients blind and what it will take to fix it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">President Biden said the state of our union is strong. As much as I wish he were right, that’s simply not the reality for everyday Americans. Under President Biden, we are less free, less safe, and less likely to experience economic freedom. The state of our union, like the state of our border, is weak.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This tiny nation is fighting a two front war, they are trying to balance the need to win versus the need to satisfy a president who is running against all odds while demanding a political pound of flesh and yet, Israel remains resilient.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">America once had that kind of "can do" spirit but then "we the people" allowed neo-Marxists to invade our society and infiltrate our critical institutions and everything has gone to hell.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Up and Running - Israel's Positive Newsletter </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-wrap: nowrap;">Five months after Oct 7, Israel is certainly Up and Running - even stronger than before. Residents have returned to battered communities in the south and rehabilitation hospitals and charities have successfully been getting the wounded back on their feet. Meanwhile, an Israeli NGO has even been helping get the devastated Ukrainian healthcare system back up and running.</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> <br />On International Women’s Day, the Israeli news includes the first woman to run an Israeli Air Force base, the women in charge of several Israeli NGOs, and the woman who runs one of Samsung’s Israeli subsidiaries.<br /> <br />Israelis have developed material for putting up buildings and remove greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, up in the air, synchronized Israeli drones extinguish wildfires.<br /> <br />Things are also looking up for Israel’s economy. Employment is up, as is confidence in the Shekel and in the Israeli bond market. Israel’s gas revenues are on the up, and even the avocado harvest is at a record high. The Israeli foldable electric car now can be seen running around town, and Israeli startups ran some 2,000 business meetings at the Mobile World Congress.<br /> <br />Finally, Israeli women and men have again been climbing up on sporting podiums, many more Jews have been going “up” on Aliyah, and even the Kinneret has been filling up, thanks to benevolence from above.<br /> <br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><strong>In the 10th Mar 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the <u><span style="color: red;">highlights </span></u>include:</strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> </span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Regrowing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">A massive project to rehabilitate southern Israel’s farms.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Paramedic" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">He trained the IDF medic who later saved his life.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Hospitals" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israeli hospitals are recognized as First Class.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Women" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Israeli women are a beacon of light to the nations.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Stories" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">An Israeli bedtime story-telling app is now a global educational tool.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Economy" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Huge confidence in Israel’s economy.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Marathon" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The 13th Jerusalem marathon was an especially moving event.</span></a></strong></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1439878352521128494_Weddings" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Israeli wedding(s) of the year.</span></a></strong></span></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"></span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Please click here, to <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3c491b65e2%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw03gI5NaqW7lL4vFCQefpDy" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3c491b65e2&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; 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font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) mentoring Jewish and Arab kids relocated from Kiryat Shmona to Haifa. Others helped at Bakehila’s Jerusalem’s communes.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4231b253c2%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw2VgtRmfPfhlinTxmNJFH4t" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4231b253c2&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/gap-<wbr></wbr>year-israelis-mentor-kids-<wbr></wbr>impacted-or-displaced-by-war/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Son of Chabad emissary surprises parents.</strong> (TY Sam Kramer) Chabad emissaries, who thought that their son was fighting in Gaza, were overjoyed when he was invited to join them on stage at a dinner in Florida. Join Israel Good News Only WhatsApp: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D737df6473c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw1ERqk-rDCKkATV8dC1cEsE" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=737df6473c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://chat.whatsapp.com/<wbr></wbr>LH48ij0tIvFHnxg0hL8f8T</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De27ec4d504%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw1mjijiLSlJ1gRBTF-Qsz6F" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e27ec4d504&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386270</a><br /> <br /><strong>Residents of Shlomit return.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df97fdf7a69%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw2ZNysZGqfwCtNbiKGwKrcg" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f97fdf7a69&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">WIN</a></strong>) Residents have returned to the Israeli village of Shlomit, just a few kilometers from Gaza, five months after having been evacuated following Oct 7. They are building a daycare center, funded by JNF-USA., to show that life has restarted and give strength to all the families in the region.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4974b14435%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw3Nw0YcW0e57IjMww_EWSx7" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4974b14435&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israfan.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>29/homecoming-to-shlomit-a-<wbr></wbr>communitys-resilient-return-<wbr></wbr>amidst-ongoing-struggle/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D2cf1c9e089%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw3K-PYejnZBTDE3oc-HR_63" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=2cf1c9e089&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=iPMs4yIcrwU</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Regrowing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Regrowing Israel.</strong> </span>Prior to Oct 7, the 40,000 hectares of western Negev agricultural land supplied 70 percent of Israel’s fresh produce. Regrow Israel (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D260c938618%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw29OYnySr9InO5-VzGQbCG-" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=260c938618&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) intends to help farmers rehabilitate the land. It has support from the VIP non-profit, Israel’s Volcani Center, Ben Gurion University. and the MIGAL Institute.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db76d63cd7f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw2yo0mMcssTZI7xMZ1JAu53" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b76d63cd7f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>farms-deliberately-destroyed-<wbr></wbr>by-hamas-to-get-long-term-<wbr></wbr>rehab/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Aid for the war wounded.</strong> After Oct 7, Israel’s largest volunteer organization Yad Sarah went into war mode. It filled container loads of equipment and relocated them outside hospitals where Yad Sarah didn’t have a branch. It then opened “The Soldier Rehabilitation Unit” to aid disabled soldiers physically and socially.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3fe8787f1f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw2e3Y1mB4uPo3cCX4qfUrwK" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3fe8787f1f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/war-<wbr></wbr>testing-israels-biggest-<wbr></wbr>medical-aid-volunteer-group/</a> <br /> <br /><strong>Massive land purchase discounts to IDF veterans.</strong> IDF soldiers leaving the war can qualify for a discount on the land in the Galilee or Negev regions to build a home. A soldier who does not own an apartment will receive a 90% discount and a combat veteran will receive a 95% discount – making it almost free.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D58471c7b19%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw0-2JGoGEJge_ttUpknWZ2t" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=58471c7b19&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://worldisraelnews.com/<wbr></wbr>idf-vets-to-receive-massive-<wbr></wbr>land-purchasing-discounts/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Ohad goes to Wembley.</strong> (TY Yanky) Freed hostage Ohad Munder (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df47481f5db%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw09S2ozUmo_npKuYLRut8t4" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f47481f5db&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously), who spent his 9th birthday in Gaza, travelled to Wembley to watch his favorite UK team, Liverpool, play Chelsea in the cup final. He also met Israeli international and Tottenham striker Manor Soloman.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df02328fbec%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw1wytpBf1zwolBALVKoC7n9" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f02328fbec&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.thejc.com/<wbr></wbr>community/released-hostage-<wbr></wbr>ohad-munder-gets-to-watch-his-<wbr></wbr>football-heroes-yvne4rgh</a><br /> <br /><strong>So many heroes.</strong> The Middle East forum mission to Israel met a country of heroes. They included Nova massacre survivors who were in uniform a week later to help clean up houses, feed pet fish, find missing cats and dogs, and empty refrigerators and freezers of rotting food. And the resilience of Israelis was everywhere.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dba17d6aee8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw0C_AqffLvohrC-w3y9b8sG" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ba17d6aee8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/israels-<wbr></wbr>heroes-will-ensure-victory/</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Paramedic" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Saved by paramedic who trained in his methods.</strong> </span>Yonati is CEO at Extreme Solutions that trains elite units and emergency organizations to handle extreme emergency situations. On Jan 8, in Gaza, he was hit by six bullets, one piercing his lung. Luckily, IDF medic Litav had taken an Extreme course and saved Yonati’s life.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D661307ac58%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045078000&usg=AOvVaw1HirvxxKgbnVDJxp8qQZUO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=661307ac58&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://5townscentral.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/26/ceo-saved-by-idf-<wbr></wbr>paramedic-who-trained-in-his-<wbr></wbr>own-lifesaving-methods/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Predicting response to cancer therapy.</strong> Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs) are successful in 40% of cancer patients but are invasive and time-consuming. Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a tool that predicts the response based on the metabolic activity in the immune system cells. (See also <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc6aa415a0d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2MhMYiusorJGq5lGcZO55c" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c6aa415a0d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously)<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9aa62ff29a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1MI6iewjDXjAyrb9cqTdlL" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9aa62ff29a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://technionuk.org/news-<wbr></wbr>post/new-tool-determines-<wbr></wbr>cancer-patient-response-to-<wbr></wbr>immunotherapy/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D152c748df7%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1iqYfAT7A4rxKRFIXvx3mr" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=152c748df7&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.<wbr></wbr>gov/37965137/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Lowering the cost of treatments.</strong> The US FDA has approved SIMLANDI – a biosimilar to (and less costly than) Humira for the treatment of adult rheumatoid arthritis and many other autoimmune diseases including IBD. SIMLANDI is a product of the partnership between Israel’s Teva and the multinational Alvotech.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D24930e8072%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0b-_bGbYJauysDyUIq2qUX" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=24930e8072&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.tevapharm.com/<wbr></wbr>news-and-media/latest-news/<wbr></wbr>alvotech-and-teva-announce-u.<wbr></wbr>s.-approval-of-simlandi-<wbr></wbr>adalimumab-ryvk-injection-the-<wbr></wbr>first-interchangea/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Predicting epileptic seizures.</strong> Israel’s NeuroHelp (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D33db99919d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2cqBN3WoZ9QcwMX0jPzuZp" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=33db99919d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has developed a brain scanner that gives a one-hour warning of an upcoming epileptic seizure. It is working on a more compact device that can be worn during the day and a system called Neurofeedback that can help prevent the seizures.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dfcad8889ff%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0H23wnhmBtzPBqekgFYylx" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=fcad8889ff&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://nocamels.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>predicting-epileptic-seizures-<wbr></wbr>an-hour-before-they-happen/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Sleep on it.</strong> James Leinhardt at Levitex Sleep knows how to get the best night’s sleep. It’s all about posture. Protect your spine and neck, reduce back and shoulder pain, prevent snoring, and increase lung capacity by reading his advice. His specialist mattresses and pillows can also help. James is relocating from UK to Israel.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D35c2544d47%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3moHaeJxhBr7HC_0qEdKeZ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=35c2544d47&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>this-man-knows-the-secret-of-<wbr></wbr>how-not-to-wake-up-grumpy/</a> <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd23bd91442%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3dGAgBhOHCxakkuFCIktuO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d23bd91442&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.levitexsleep.com/</a> <br /> <br /><strong>US approves smart skin patches.</strong> The US FDA has approved the Smart Skin product from Israel’s X-trodes (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5df4f41265%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1ojC76VJF4y6nWCjaRxVYZ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5df4f41265&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously). The patches have embedded electrodes and can be attached anywhere on the body, to measure brain activity (EEG), heart activity (EKG), eye movements, muscular activity, and other signs.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D163543478f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3yB29776RLEBc-u9GFoddo" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=163543478f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-fda-approves-x-trodes-<wbr></wbr>monitoring-patch-1001472240</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Hospitals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Sheba again at number 9.</strong> </span>American magazine Newsweek in together with global data company Statista has again ranked Israel’s Sheba Medical Center as the nineth best hospital in the world. Key factors were the 98% survival rate for battlefield injuries, plus Sheba’s leading role in integrated physical and mental rehabilitation.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D55e4c30ef9%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3ze-CHMfigR9-AmdYlny3X" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=55e4c30ef9&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israfan.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>29/sheba-medical-center-a-<wbr></wbr>beacon-of-excellence-and-<wbr></wbr>innovation-in-global-<wbr></wbr>healthcare/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da6261be6b7%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2NITxrqbOilIUQjIfstyaK" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a6261be6b7&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/<wbr></wbr>rankings/worlds-best-<wbr></wbr>hospitals-2024</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>And Hadassah is one of the smartest.</strong></span> Newsweek magazine also named Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center as one of the world’s leading hospitals in oncology, cardiology, and smart technologies. It is the sixth consecutive year that Hadassah has been recognized.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da933fafeda%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2-IMG5pw_WbpdMJXyPP3o6" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a933fafeda&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386136</a><br /> <br /><strong>Rehab with VR.</strong> Tel Aviv’s Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital uses virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) to rehabilitate patients after injury or debilitating illness, even PTSD. It displays a VR or AR scenario, so that the patient performs exercises while immersed in a game or other enjoyable activity or experience.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5cb1a3a596%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2u5E_vyBQvs2PzpFHHz64j" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5cb1a3a596&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://nocamels.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>rehab-reality-using-vr-to-<wbr></wbr>overcome-injury-illness-even-<wbr></wbr>ptsd/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL</u></strong><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Women" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Israeli women</strong><strong>.</strong> </span>(TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Daa75099633%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3QrF-XmZIhZTYBqw3WYjqm" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=aa75099633&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Sharon</a></strong>) International Women’s Day is a farce at the UN, but in Israel it is a time to be proud. Fleur Hasson Nahoum (ex-deputy mayor of Jerusalem); the Presidents of Hadassah, Naamat & AZF; leaders of WZO, Health-tech, scientists, patent lawyers, One Family, survivors, MKs, athletes and soldiers.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dee43c9f31e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0dyN_FjlyQ0OE5PoiuLhAA" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ee43c9f31e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://rjstreets.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>07/photos-of-special-israeli-<wbr></wbr>women-for-international-<wbr></wbr>womens-day/</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>The first female Airforce base commander.</strong> </span>Lieutenant Colonel "Gimmel" is to lead the Ovda Airbase – the first woman to command an Israeli Air Force base. She enlisted in the IAF pilot training course in 2003 and will now be promoted to the rank of Colonel. See also <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D8d1a4e5044%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2y4J4FLJvWE3_GERlB7Pjk" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=8d1a4e5044&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9d1aee8030%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3vagj4Plc-Zc53NdcdKFLj" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9d1aee8030&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.i24news.tv/en/<wbr></wbr>news/israel-at-war/1709576108-<wbr></wbr>historic-appointment-idf-<wbr></wbr>names-woman-as-commander-of-<wbr></wbr>air-force-base</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D7cb9078c4f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw31g6xvuIRylzADsE26Pgzo" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=7cb9078c4f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386215</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>The woman at the top of Harman.</strong></span> Michal Geva is the general manager of Harman Automotive Israel (a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics) and the general manager for OTA (over the air) and cybersecurity at Harman International. 30% of her employees are women in an industry that is predominantly male.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D94018e5197%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3JlSgr1bngsv4kxuG7GMRb" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=94018e5197&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>michal-geva-the-woman-<wbr></wbr>steering-herself-to-the-top-<wbr></wbr>of-the-male-led-car-industry/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Girls in hard hats.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D25908bacc1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3oOyfvjJU6VzZw0WFMm503" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=25908bacc1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Nevet</a></strong>) David Biggio and his daughters Shirel, Lael, Selah, and Sara, are construction workers from Shvut Rachel in Samaria. They specialize in plastering. Their religious employers were originally concerned about modesty, but now they are impressed with how hard the girls work.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3d4c4746d0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2-2nBEYr8JXOpkydzm9AC7" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3d4c4746d0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://tps.co.il/articles/<wbr></wbr>hard-hats-and-high-heels-<wbr></wbr>shirel-biggio-builds-a-new-<wbr></wbr>future-in-construction/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Ukrainian healthcare workers train in Israel.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc09f262c4f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2dkmP77qP-SPemz3XaRrv0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c09f262c4f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Nevet</a></strong>) Israeli NGO One Heart has facilitated the training of surgeons, physiotherapists, mental health professionals, and ocularists at leading Israeli medical centers.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3eae605e24%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2GAFqKJojHSpY8ttTxlVmO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3eae605e24&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.i24news.tv/en/<wbr></wbr>news/international/ukraine-<wbr></wbr>russia-war/1708353833-<wbr></wbr>solidarity-in-the-face-of-<wbr></wbr>adversity-ukrainian-doctors-<wbr></wbr>train-in-israel-amidst-wars</a> <br /> <br /><strong>Aid orgs share $1 million.</strong> Israel’s answer to the Nobel Prize, the $1 million Genesis Prize, has been jointly awarded to five organizations helping the Hamas-held hostages in Gaza and their families. They are JAFI, Lev Echad, Natal, One Family, and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D7d0105e53d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2pd-a9X4freVnWVolbOxAC" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=7d0105e53d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>israeli-hostage-aid-orgs-win-<wbr></wbr>1-million-genesis-prize/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6fdfeabff4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2kKkIK2PYkwlwhC3ACn3jQ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6fdfeabff4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jewishagency.org/<wbr></wbr>fund-for-victims-of-terror/</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Revealing the earliest galaxies.</strong> International scientists including those at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, have analyzed spectra from the James Webb Telescope that reveal very low-mass galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The discovery represents a breakthrough in human knowledge of the cosmos.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D34fbc66be5%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3H19YnKz37PL7I2cX7pP1Z" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=34fbc66be5&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.eurekalert.org/<wbr></wbr>news-releases/1035923</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0c77925735%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3o6WdPDrI3tE6R6k9GwtwD" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0c77925735&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/<wbr></wbr>articles/s41586-024-07043-6</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Stories" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>A great story.</strong></span> Israel’s Storywizard.ai has evolved, in one year, from an app intended for the personal use of parents telling bedtime stories, into a teaching tool used in 1,500 schools worldwide, winning a Global EdTech Startup Award. It makes use of generative AI and supports English, Hebrew, Arabic and six other languages.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3bbeeace4c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw31jCQ3dXj9AE7WjU1Jzb-F" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3bbeeace4c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/<wbr></wbr>storywizard-turns-bedtime-<wbr></wbr>stories-into-english-teaching-<wbr></wbr>tool/</a> <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5ffbdaaba4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0H0F9YR8TXdDkWFRycq_bF" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5ffbdaaba4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.storywizard.ai/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D403743c00e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0tQkgvkwXx6uQBJlAV3GCQ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=403743c00e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>globaledtechawards.org/2023-<wbr></wbr>winners</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6cb37035e0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw15KCzSr81otC0Ii8IM_abt" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6cb37035e0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=cU4l8dtMM9w</a><br /> <br /><strong>Climate-friendly construction material.</strong> A video about the 3D-printed cyanobacteria-derived building material developed by scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd61050201a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2BSBTuV73yTwjTnKZeV7DB" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d61050201a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously). Not only does it avoid the polluting manufacture process of concrete, but the new bio-based material <u>removes</u> carbon dioxide from the air.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db6207705ef%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw08mFD_F-_dF2v5KlYdJrqL" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b6207705ef&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=NCxzqoLICSQ</a><br /> <br /><strong>Plastic waste has been sent packing.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D290fd844f8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3JsfHA4G2c6ObcqT17Dgew" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=290fd844f8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) Israel’s Oceansix (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D60c132d8b6%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0Kxnj2BbL7Hv2hUw9sd0wQ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=60c132d8b6&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) has just patented its revolutionary packaging material made from recycled plastic waste that can be reused up to 100 times.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Decb897a3a1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0817429y10xf1y-NCnDmNE" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ecb897a3a1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://cdn.getmood.io/<wbr></wbr>warehouse/dynamic/457052.pdf</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Ded5de4ae40%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3HB6n5BqWYEKT-yiDs6UYq" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ed5de4ae40&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.oceansix.com/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Fighting fires with drones.</strong> Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has a two-drone solution for fighting wildfires, for presenting at the XPRIZE Wildfire Competition in the US. One UAV sees through the smoke to locate the source of the fire before it gets out of control. The other UAV sprays a flame retardant at that source.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D89c4d94157%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw28eESuUec0zeM5WiOxFGNO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=89c4d94157&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-israel-aerospace-<wbr></wbr>develops-wildfire-drone-<wbr></wbr>solution-1001473135</a><br /> <br /><strong>Micro screens for AR/VR.</strong> (TY <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Df47dd391f2%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2IjoM2o9dKBhvloRUavBBa" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=f47dd391f2&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Atid-EDI</a></strong>) Israel’s Tower Semiconductor has partnered with China’s Tianyi Micro to develop the next generation OLED micro displays for Augmented and Virtual Reality systems.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc23e37493b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1YUzse8Ix0in93dwnEUv08" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c23e37493b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://towersemi.com/2024/02/<wbr></wbr>26/02262024/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D7131e10675%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw0POa7gDK8zdoHmncF3JH7Z" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=7131e10675&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://towersemi.com/<wbr></wbr>technology/cmos_image_sensor/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D18e990feed%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw01QuVNG3Fie1Id5d-FJlfw" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=18e990feed&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://towersemi.com/<wbr></wbr>technology/cmos_image_sensor/<wbr></wbr>3d-gesture-control-face-<wbr></wbr>recognition/</a><br /> <br /><strong>The next Israeli university.</strong> Israel has announced the establishment of the University of the Galilee. It will transform Tel-Hai College into the University of the Galilee in the city of Kiryat Shmona, based on Tel-Hai College and the Migal - Galilee Research Institute.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dcea2c46406%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2wcXExbnHo5S6TQqdQASn0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=cea2c46406&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.telhai.ac.il/en/<wbr></wbr>news/3499</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>ECONOMY & BUSINESS</u></strong><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Economy" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Things are looking better.</strong></span> OurCrowd’s Jon Medved discusses Israel's economy on "Wall Street Week" daily. It helps that many of Israel’s hi-tech workers have returned from the IDF. Israel is good value for investors. Meanwhile, Israel’s annual inflation rate fell to 2.6% from 3% and job vacancies have soared.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc3ff7f3005%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw22pxsX4zGCxGYGfQJty1nE" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c3ff7f3005&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=28OeoD0tgSw</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3a903883d0%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3yb31tlgp6bIjLWGMCIEB0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3a903883d0&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-israels-annual-<wbr></wbr>inflation-rate-falls-to-26-<wbr></wbr>1001471422</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc8e764cd86%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2AzKMewTOkxtmfYIf2yIv6" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c8e764cd86&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-job-vacancies-on-the-<wbr></wbr>rise-1001471444</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>Israel raises $8bn in overseas bonds.</strong></span> (TY Yanky) In a staggering show of support for Israel’s economy Israel raised $8 billion in its first sale of bonds since Oct 7. Demand was so high that the issue was oversubscribed by 4.75 times – Israel could have sold $38 billion. 400 different investors took part, from 36 different countries.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6ff1f02a5b%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3o0ck3oVVqKgmfJrpJfSmV" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6ff1f02a5b&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-israel-raises-8b-in-<wbr></wbr>overseas-bonds-1001473007</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>Shekel needs no support.</strong></span> After Oct 7, the Bank of Israel planned to sell up to $30 billion in foreign currency to support the Shekel if Israel’s currency came under pressure. Confidence in Israel is so high that no sales have been necessary for several months and Israel’s currency reserves increased by over $700 million last month.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D36938b4f07%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3LJ9hie2nUSOyWsggPqS7c" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=36938b4f07&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-israels-foreign-<wbr></wbr>exchange-reserves-rise-again-<wbr></wbr>1001473140</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9fdeb51c00%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2VMqLSwqNVDv2O9mh8Ct35" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9fdeb51c00&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-shekel-gains-to-<wbr></wbr>strongest-for-9-months-<wbr></wbr>against-dollar-1001472492</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>Record gas revenues.</strong></span> Israel’s revenue from natural gas royalties reached NIS 2 billion in 2023, over 23% higher than 2022. Production increased as the Karish field came online. Israel also benefited from a strong Shekel, plus a 25% increase in exports to Egypt and Jordan.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D224dc2fd51%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3FTKEy7Vs4cVdK0SAw5BHW" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=224dc2fd51&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-govt-collects-record-<wbr></wbr>gas-royalties-in-2023-<wbr></wbr>1001472399</a><br /> <br /><span style="color: red;"><strong>A record avocado harvest.</strong> </span>(TY Yanky) Despite the war in Gaza and the difficulties in farming in certain areas, Israel's avocado yield is expected to reach 250,000 tons this season compared to about 150,000 tons in 2023, according to the Agriculture Ministry. The previous record was about 210,000 tons in 2022. <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da2561b3291%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1E6QpvjwwCzP2k7pd6lFVR" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a2561b3291&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.ynetnews.com/<wbr></wbr>culture/article/h18pf2fnp</a><br /> <br /><strong>Proud to be at mobile congress.</strong> The Startup Nation was well received at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 32 Israeli companies arranged some 2,000 business meetings. Israeli innovations included infrastructure, network IOT (Internet of Things), Cloud solutions and AI.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D00fc151c06%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1PTcIvpr7DSRFIe9nWeDEQ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=00fc151c06&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>israelnationalnews.com/news/<wbr></wbr>386344</a><br /> <br /><strong>Nvidia’s success in Israel.</strong> (TY Yanky) US tech giant Nvidia has 3,300 employees in Israel - 13% of its global workforce. In 2019 Nvidia acquired Israel’s Mellanox, now with annual sales of $13 billion, plus Israel-1, the world's strongest supercomputer. Some 1,000 Israeli AI tech companies participate in Nvidia's startup program.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4b45d0f68f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1rZheAKamBrEkuZq3-3PKZ" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4b45d0f68f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://en.globes.co.il/en/<wbr></wbr>article-nvidias-path-to-<wbr></wbr>stunning-success-runs-through-<wbr></wbr>israel-1001472214</a><br /> <br /><strong>Vegan “meat” for Mexico.</strong> Israel’s Chunk Foods (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D6afde92d84%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3EcxwFADwSKW1RDfnMN-wB" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=6afde92d84&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) is partnering Spanish/Mexican Better Balance, bringing the co-branded Chunk plant-based products to Mexico. Chunk Foods will also launch new products that cater to the vibrant tastes and lifestyles of Mexicans.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D01ab9a2efa%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3GSvRfn9SsEJcsZSrlRIXG" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=01ab9a2efa&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.israel21c.org/in-<wbr></wbr>mexico-help-yourself-to-some-<wbr></wbr>israeli-plant-based-meat/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Get ready for the foldable car.</strong> The CT2 from Israel’s City Transformer (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De32abe9ad5%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw18rGt9-vc6EvFJty9dqQxp" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e32abe9ad5&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) is scheduled to hit the roads in July. The foldable Electric Vehicle can seat two adults or one adult plus two children and will cost $17,400. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Da38bb59079%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3kHt7kJrUcK0v9bpEuL-RX" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=a38bb59079&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=XhqZZUpx3ds</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9f6aa7c47f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2b9RfSX646Iuqv8vBjZA-F" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9f6aa7c47f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/<wbr></wbr>a-game-changer-israeli-based-<wbr></wbr>firms-foldable-ev-to-hit-<wbr></wbr>roads-in-july/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Team8’s new half-a-billion-dollar fund.</strong> Israeli fund Team8 has announced the closing of new funds totaling $500 million. Team8 has built 20 companies, invested in an additional 21, and achieved eight exits (including the recent cyber exits of Dig and Talon for a total of around one billion dollars.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dec4ef62dac%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3hg8fpLspUIUSXqs07hju0" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=ec4ef62dac&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.calcalistech.com/<wbr></wbr>ctechnews/article/sjdxaqmpp</a><br /> <br /><strong>Castor seeds for Africa and Brazil.</strong> Casterra (see <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dbb6033d452%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1stcPXObYr0dcTZbCNDfKM" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=bb6033d452&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></strong> previously) a subsidiary of Israel’s Evogen, has signed strategic agreements with existing and new seed producers in Brazil and Africa to increase its production of high-yielding, high-oil castor seeds. Casterra’s seeds are a vital source of biofuels and animal feeds.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D702f4f21ec%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2oe_zul0QOCCpPZ51O4i74" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=702f4f21ec&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://evogene.com/press_<wbr></wbr>release/casterra-announces-<wbr></wbr>new-agreements-with-seed-<wbr></wbr>producers-in-brazil-and-<wbr></wbr>africa-to-meet-growing-demand-<wbr></wbr>for-its-elite-castor-seed-<wbr></wbr>varieties/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db3cf2a8f89%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw1sG8MqxdVXygzoDK0Elc27" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b3cf2a8f89&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://casterra.co/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Retirement? Maybe not now.</strong> Investment advisor Doug Goldstein reports that since Oct 7, Israeli Anglos may wish to re-assess their retirement strategy. Like younger Israelis, many have been invigorated and have no intention to put their feet up. Volunteering, charity, supporting family, travelling; it’s a whole new world now.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D8b83a47994%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw03JHTA6G4AHI_VglJ4HYCD" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=8b83a47994&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://profile-financial.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/03/06/redefining-<wbr></wbr>retirement/</a><br /> <br /><strong>Exits, takeovers and mergers – to 10/3/24:</strong> Israel’s <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D380a710305%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3yH3tcfGuDGHkg1czI8EfB" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=380a710305&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Deel</a></strong> is acquiring Africa’s PaySpace for around <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D636ab26003%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3T6nyctU8J4daRBeWiN0YP" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=636ab26003&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$100 million</a>. US giant <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1954e8d603%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3cqtCMSWaib3D_pE8dooLR" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1954e8d603&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CrowdStrike</a></strong>, which already has acquired several Israeli startups has just acquired Israel’s <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9b3ea548ab%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3UxkYJb4CQtdrBzGZmuSIF" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9b3ea548ab&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Flow Security</a></strong> for around $200 million. Israeli phage therapy company <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dafcb40b57a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3WP_UhGeznBufoTwT_Jyhf" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=afcb40b57a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">BiomX</a></strong> is to merge with US-based Adaptive Phage Therapeutics.<br /> <br /><strong>Startup investment – to 10/3/24:</strong> <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3f49a969d6%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3nucW2rw2qrVwyo9tOaNKr" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3f49a969d6&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Axonius</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0357db2a49%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw2Ps8sGoKtL4ME2eiwoX9qq" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0357db2a49&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$200 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D8381749360%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045079000&usg=AOvVaw3ArccGdR1XE-57Lcg8p_-x" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=8381749360&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Claroty</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db3101f0a44%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw39cyLbeyuvh9K2z7Gk1Kb8" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b3101f0a44&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$100 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De6bad17d4e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw3opgoEgFbHcgughuw8Qjn-" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e6bad17d4e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Sweet Security</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dda3ec57641%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2lIZvK20A7oCYkBLwJ6Wzi" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=da3ec57641&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$33 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D0583d13bd1%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw1-lNODPKTLHeFuqrKkvUE3" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=0583d13bd1&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Healthee</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9db38a184f%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2j7t2TtS4915Inmce5bC7F" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9db38a184f&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$33 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd937644ff8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2yBMNoEARvEw549H4Agvxo" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d937644ff8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Vessi Medical</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D87d3037e6c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw0yd0WpaxUGWn7HYHR-9kRl" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=87d3037e6c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$16.5 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De804a1989c%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw1gxvnZPQf_q3Xb858rMQqH" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e804a1989c&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">FreezeM</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dbd93663f63%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw3bAr2mwdsfCXg2K21YciHg" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=bd93663f63&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$14.2 million</a>; <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db448f3e368%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw0yWsnu703dkykWRSb2nh99" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b448f3e368&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Utila</a></strong> raised <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dc9cee126a9%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw1yYku8XYfmXg_6ejm6iCNu" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=c9cee126a9&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$11.5 million</a>;<br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Film festivals mark International Women’s Day.</strong> LiaFEST at the Jerusalem Cinematheque honors Lia van Leer, the founder of that cinematheque, the Haifa Cinematheque, the film festivals in Jerusalem and Haifa, as well as the Israel Film Archive. The Tel Aviv Cinematheque is also featuring a women’s film festival.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D31899e610a%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw3ehSZK9lk2ePmGim8m2YiG" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=31899e610a&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/israel-<wbr></wbr>news/culture/article-790384</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Marathon" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>Jerusalem marathon’s Bar Mitzvah.</strong> </span>The 13th edition of the race featured a record 40,000 participants, including 15,000 IDF soldiers and 1,800 international runners from more than 70 countries. Many runners participated in full IDF uniform, or with Israel flags, and shirts supporting the hostages.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D24c8df3ddf%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw1t--JCIXVtRDsCPaFcE1oR" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=24c8df3ddf&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/israel-<wbr></wbr>news/sports/article-790950</a><br /> <br /><strong>Gymnastic successes.</strong> (TY Hazel) At the Gymnastic International 2024 in Germany, Israel’s Daniella Munits won the gold medal in hoop and bronze with ball. In the juniors’ competition, Israel’s Alona Tal Franco won gold in hoop and clubs, while Meital Sumkin won gold in the ball and the ribbon.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db4faa95c54%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2S3ktqIdsNhaaZ19eVHiPT" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b4faa95c54&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/nachal_<wbr></wbr>giyus86/status/<wbr></wbr>1764334079246225661</a> <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dbfc1f32ed8%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2KCtE1u99f9j9n8r9hQZsM" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=bfc1f32ed8&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=XjOKtqwnZNM</a><br /> <br /><strong>Other Israeli medalists.</strong> (TY Hazel) Elizabeth Tkachenko and Alexei Kiliakov won silver in the ice dance at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Taipei. Judoka Baruch Shmailov won silver at the Tashkent Grand Slam event. And 2nd-placed go-karter Yam Pinto held up a poster at the CEE Rotax Max Championship.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3De431d71c4e%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw2-_ou-ZEZaPwn7nFv7VJ_i" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=e431d71c4e&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://wjc2024taipei.com/en/<wbr></wbr>elizabeth-tkachenko-alexei-<wbr></wbr>kiliakov-isr/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D1a73c46d0d%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw0GXEafIxtO5xbB6UsP-mna" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=1a73c46d0d&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.goldenskate.com/<wbr></wbr>neset-and-markelov-secure-<wbr></wbr>junior-world-gold-in-taipei/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Dd8bc6cdba7%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw1vB1RF2ggPOnUMAs09cfef" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=d8bc6cdba7&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.judoinside.com/<wbr></wbr>news/6449/Baruch_Shmailov_<wbr></wbr>makes_remarkable_comeback_in_<wbr></wbr>tashkent</a><br /> <br /> <br /><strong><u>THE JEWISH STATE</u></strong><br /> <br /><strong>Rare Judean coin discovered.</strong> The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered a rare coin in the Judean desert from 132 CE with the name “Eleazar the Priest” in ancient Hebrew script. The reverse has the text “Year One of the Redemption of Israel,” again in ancient Hebrew script.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D5eb46c6204%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw3Qy4RegLKpANiJogZ_1Seb" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=5eb46c6204&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://israfan.com/2024/03/<wbr></wbr>05/echoes-of-bravery-<wbr></wbr>unveiling-the-spirit-of-the-<wbr></wbr>bar-kochba-revolt-through-a-<wbr></wbr>newly-discovered-coin/</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D3049e965f7%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw31om0PLP_TyY7emB0oMH5O" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=3049e965f7&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.i24news.tv/en/<wbr></wbr>news/israel/archeology/<wbr></wbr>1709545903-who-was-eleazar-<wbr></wbr>the-priest-coin-found-in-<wbr></wbr>judean-desert-unfurls-new-<wbr></wbr>archaeological-mystery</a><br /> <br /><strong>Useful Aliya sites.</strong> (TY EEJH) Jacob Richman’s latest updates include Israel Traffic Signs, Customs, Etiquette and Behavior, Doing Business in Israel, Megavolt - Electrical Information in Israel, Aliyah FAQ, Lighting FAQ, Tips and Info. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D757ede23f3%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw21ZoW-mkVB_FIGR8uj1ctO" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=757ede23f3&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://jr.co.il/links/#aliyah</a><br /> <br /><a name="m_-1439878352521128494_Weddings" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline;"></a><span style="color: red;"><strong>10 IDF couples wed in one wedding.</strong> </span>In a remarkable display of unity ten IDF soldiers married their partners at a mass wedding in the Tel Aviv Port. It was part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors” initiative and included 10 wedding canopies. Each couple invited 100 guests. 10 glasses were simultaneously smashed.<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D4a693e3051%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw3XG3yh01AaUxZ2eqPVqh3M" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=4a693e3051&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.jns.org/ten-idf-<wbr></wbr>couples-wed-in-massive-tel-<wbr></wbr>aviv-wedding/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3Db84922bb72%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw0VBvnGmosUnwD_CI9_K2yg" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=b84922bb72&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://unitedwithisrael.org/<wbr></wbr>watch-celebration-idf-wedding-<wbr></wbr>marries-10-soldiers-<wbr></wbr>simultaneously/</a><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c%26id%3D9da4c254c4%26e%3D7be877cb0f&source=gmail&ust=1710385045080000&usg=AOvVaw0f2nqXnOMV5fbJcRFp3TLn" href="https://blogspot.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=596f13b39c21f5bf41b15725c&id=9da4c254c4&e=7be877cb0f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://matzav.com/ten-idf-<wbr></wbr>couples-wed-in-massive-tel-<wbr></wbr>aviv-wedding/</a><br /> <br /><strong>A gift from Heaven.</strong> This winter in Israel could be one of the wettest in the country’s meteorological history, reviving nature in the process. The Kinneret is less than 90cm from being full and the ancient reservoir at Tel Megiddo National Park is full. Jordan, despite its hostility to Israel post-Oct 7, has asked Israel for more water.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">++++++++++++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Dick,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel conducted a targeted operation to eliminate one of Hamas' top leaders.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The IDF cleared the airstrike for publication today, but is still trying to confirm whether Marwan Issa was successfully killed. The strike targeted an underground complex in the Nuseirat refugee camp where Issa was suspected of hiding.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Issa is Hamas’ third in command and serves as the deputy of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military command. Together with Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, they masterminded the October 7 massacre.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In a video published today, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "We are on our way to complete victory. We have already killed number four in the Hamas; three, two, and one are on the way."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Number four refers to Saleh al-Arouri — a founding commander of Hamas’ military command and its top military commander in the West Bank — who was killed in January in Lebanon. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We will reach everyone," Netanyahu concluded.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, earlier today, Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets from Lebanon at the Mount Meron area in Israel. In the first barrage, some 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon, of which one was intercepted. In the second barrage, seven rockets were fired, of which six were intercepted, according to the IDF. Israel is now training for logistics supplies under fire as part of its preparations for a possible escalation with Lebanon.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in Gaza, the IDF captured a cache of weapons at a Hamas hideout in a high-rise residential complex in Khan Yunis. The soldiers seized mortars, explosive devices, assault rifles and ammunition (pictured below). The IDF also struck a Hamas site in the area that was used by terrorists who participated in the October 7 onslaught. The strike killed four Hamas terrorists.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the West Bank, Palestinian terrorists wounded seven Israeli soldiers with an improvised explosive device. The soldiers were carrying out a counterterrorism operation when they came under attack.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div>General Petraeus on Hamas threat, IDF success</div><div> </div><div>Today, former CIA Director General David Petraeus spoke about the immense challenge facing the IDF at the Institute for National Security Studies’ (INSS) 17th Annual International Conference in Tel Aviv.</div><div><br /></div><div>"What we did during the surge in Iraq is nowhere near as fiendishly difficult as Gaza is, nowhere near as large an enemy in aggregate, nowhere near the tunnels, the subterranean, the knowledge of the neighborhoods, all of this, the support of the people… I see Hamas as the equivalent of the Islamic State. They are not reconcilable."</div><div><br /></div><div>"I think the IDF soldiers have done a magnificent job on the ground. There has to be much more as I have described, but the key is, I believe, not to stopping until Hamas has been destroyed, rendered incapable of accomplishing its mission without reconstitution, and then a plan is implemented that keeps them from being able to reconstitute."</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Sincerely,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Alisha Tischler</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">AIPAC Southeast Regional Director</span></div><div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><div><span style="font-size: large;">Biden has officially, publicly and formally turned on Israel</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Biden also appeared to suggest that he might pull offensive weapons from Israel’s resupply package.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The State of the Union, strangely enough, was the point at which the Biden administration decided to roll out its public anti-Israel campaign beginning with the staged ‘hot mic’ moment.</div><div><br /></div><div>There had been a drumbeat of leaks and anonymous statements in the weeks leading up to it, but now Biden has gone on record that…</div><div><br /></div><div>1. He’s opposed to Israel’s government</div><div><br /></div><div>2. He wants a ceasefire</div><div><br /></div><div>3. He’s preparing to pull the resupply of weapons</div><div><br /></div><div>Some of these revelations came in an MSNBC interview. It’s no coincidence that this was prepped for an interview with the most leftward cable channel and the one that is the most opposed to Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biden told MSNBC that he wants a “6-week ceasefire” and that Israel going into Rafah to finish off Hamas would be a “red line”.</div><div><br /></div><div>He criticized Netanyahu and claimed that he’s hurting Israel by continuing to fight Hamas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biden defended the pro-Hamas Arab Muslim campaigners in Dearborn claiming that, “What they said was that they’re very upset, and I don’t blame him for being upset… They want something done about it. They’re saying, ‘Joe, do something.’”</div><div><br /></div><div> Biden Administration official refuses to mention who will rule Palestinian state</div><div><br /></div><div>“That’s why I’m doing everything I can to try to stop it.”</div><div><br /></div><div>He also appeared to suggest that he might pull offensive weapons from Israel’s resupply package.</div><div><br /></div><div>Biden blamed Israel for the carnage saying that, “There are other ways to… deal with with the trauma caused by Hamas.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Kamala, as usual, was worse, giving an interview to CBS News in which she stated that, “our work as always as the United States is to do what we must, and what we always have, to stand for the security of Israel and its people, and also to do what we have done behind closed doors and in public around forcing a better path forward in terms of what’s happening currently in Gaza.”</div><div><br /></div><div>She noted that “it’s important for us to distinguish or at least not conflate the Israeli government with the Israeli people.”</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the same language that the administration used toward the so-called “Palestinians” and Hamas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kamala also noted that, “the Israeli people are entitled to security – as are the Palestinians. In equal measure.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The equal measure is a clear withdrawal of any special relationship with Israel or support for it.</div><div><br /></div><div> Biden gives Israel deadline to submit human rights report, conditions military aid</div><div><br /></div><div>After this things are only going to get worse. The Israeli government erred in the same familiar way by thinking that if it did everything possible to meet the demands of D.C., it would be allowed to fight the terrorists.</div><div><br /></div><div>That was always a mistake. And it was a mistake this time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Instead of finishing quickly, Israel assumed that if it focused on avoiding civilian casualties and harm, it would retain the support of the White House.</div><div><br /></div><div>But that support was always going to go away.</div><div><br /></div><div>The government now has a limited window in which to finish the job before the combination of political, economic, and even potentially military pressure makes that prohibitive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Appeasing Biden will no longer work. He’s under too much domestic political pressure. The time to finish the job is now. There will be no later.</div><div><br /></div><div>And:</div><div><br /><div>Biden Draws an Odd ‘Red Line’ for Israel</div><div>He ignores the Jewish state can’t defeat Hamas without taking Rafah.</div><div>The Editorial Board</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>President Biden likes to say that no President has been a better friend to Israel, but of late he doesn’t sound like it. He beat up Israel’s leaders in his State of the Union speech, criticized its war strategy in Gaza with regularity, and on the weekend called Israel’s plans to clear Hamas from its last stronghold in the city of Rafah a “red line” that Israel shouldn’t cross.</div><div><br /></div><div>“It is a red line, but I am never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical. So there is no red line I am going to cut off all weapons, so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them,” Mr. Biden said on MSNBC. “But there’s red lines that if he crosses,” without finishing his train of thought, before adding “you cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead.</div><div><br /></div><div>As is often the case, it’s hard to tell what Mr. Biden means. He wants fewer civilian casualties in Gaza, but so does Israel since the diplomatic consequences fall on the Jewish state, not on Hamas. That’s why Israel has held off on its Rafah campaign until it can put together a plan to let civilians find refuge to the city’s north.</div><div><br /></div><div>The best way to protect civilians would be for Egypt to let them cross the border into Sinai until the fighting stops. But Mr. Biden hasn’t been willing to lean on Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, despite some $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Cairo.</div><div><br /></div><div>Israel can’t avoid a Rafah campaign if it wants to achieve its war aim of destroying Hamas. Surely Mr. Biden knows this. The U.S. didn’t let ISIS retain its stronghold in Mosul in Iraq, and the siege of that city also had unintended civilian casualties.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Biden and the White House are also letting everyone know they’re especially unhappy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Biden was overheard saying after his State of the Union speech that Mr. Netanyahu needs a “come to Jesus moment” with the U.S. President. Mr. Netanyahu should bring his whole war cabinet. As our Elliot Kaufman reports from Israel (see nearby), Mr. Netanyahu’s domestic political opponents also want to clear Hamas from Rafah.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Biden’s vocal criticism of Israel can’t be separated from his desire to appease his party’s increasingly insistent anti-Israel wing. He wants to avoid a protest spectacle at the Democratic convention in August, and he’s worried about losing Michigan as young people and Arab-Americans defect. It sounds like his Israel policy increasingly runs through Dearborn, Mich.</div><div><br /></div><div>This also explains the urgent efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and hostage swap that Israel keeps accepting but Hamas rejects. Mr. Biden’s new proposal to have U.S. troops build an offshore pier to deliver aid to Gaza is also in part a U.S. domestic political play.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are costs to this Dearborn strategy toward Israel—not least its message to Hamas and its backers in Iran that their strategy of putting civilians in harm’s way is working politically. Why agree to a hostage swap if their current strategy is driving a wedge between Israel and the U.S.?</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Biden’s red-line threats don’t help Israel or his political standing at home. The best way he can help himself politically is to let Israel win the war as rapidly as possible.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally:</div><div><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;">PM says at officer's course graduation ceremony that anyone who tells Israel not to go into Rafah is telling Israel to lose the war.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant participated this afternoon in an officer's course graduation ceremony.</div><div><br /></div><div>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the ceremony that the goals of the war are the elimination of the evil of the Hamas regime, the return of the hostages. and the removal of any future threat from Gaza to the State of Israel.</div><div><br /></div><div>Netanyahu also said at the ceremony, "We will operate in Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas, whoever tells us not to operate there is asking us to lose the war - it will not happen."</div><div><br /></div><div>Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, "We are achieving the goals of the war - the dissolution of Hamas as a military and governmental body and the return of all the hostages. The results of this just and important war will mark a new chapter in the history of the State of Israel, and they will be the starting points for processes that will last for many years, in everything related to the strategic position of the State of Israel in the Middle East - the treatment we will receive from our friends, and the deterrence we will create against our enemy."</div><div><br /></div><div>"This is a war for our home, this is a war for our values as a people - this is a war for our right to exist as a Jewish and democratic society, in the heart of a hostile area," Gallant said.</div></div></div><div>+++++++++++++++</div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.youmaker.com/links/5Z98bx2MzO/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/Y2WNRwmeLg&source=gmail&ust=1710383793860000&usg=AOvVaw3LqiFelyTsJAKt4_iB9btI" href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/5Z98bx2MzO/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/Y2WNRwmeLg" rel="noopener" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span class="m_-1868692726140399154mb_fz22 m_-1868692726140399154mb_lh25" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 32px;">Pompeo Breaks Silence on Serving Trump Administration Again</span></span></a></div><div><span class="m_-1868692726140399154mobile_hide" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; text-align: right;"></span><span class="m_-1868692726140399154inlineBlock" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="display: inline-block; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.youmaker.com/links/5Z98bx2MzO/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/Y2WNRwmeLg&source=gmail&ust=1710383793860000&usg=AOvVaw3LqiFelyTsJAKt4_iB9btI" href="https://lists.youmaker.com/links/5Z98bx2MzO/HhryKHE6n/U2LlNQS4GTTK/Y2WNRwmeLg" rel="noopener" style="background: rgb(177, 5, 5); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(177, 5, 5); color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 21px; padding: 11px 15px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></span></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBw0y4Wfbh9yMNmaGpPiRCeCTj3n1QzRRWTjtzfAgHIjPqcmp9n_CYCWJcOpiE4Mi8qgKV_XtdP7TFtmyYqfgPVh_4wyUofCoPhy21SKa_FwRM63Trkfic2PC-aj0yBU3OjeSewKRLRfTp_ZuuUKH7IgJRzJqwEQ2UaDG5yuMzkeCUZ7vPFWU_lfRdx4/s1038/unnamed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBw0y4Wfbh9yMNmaGpPiRCeCTj3n1QzRRWTjtzfAgHIjPqcmp9n_CYCWJcOpiE4Mi8qgKV_XtdP7TFtmyYqfgPVh_4wyUofCoPhy21SKa_FwRM63Trkfic2PC-aj0yBU3OjeSewKRLRfTp_ZuuUKH7IgJRzJqwEQ2UaDG5yuMzkeCUZ7vPFWU_lfRdx4/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it were me I would drop the J Street crowd in Gaza on the food pallets and let the get a good taste of how brainless and corrupt they are.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">J Street Jerks Manipulate Wiesel’s Words</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">TJV news </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By Phyllis Chesler- Published First in The Spectator</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Monday, a J Street and Democrat party operative posted a piece at her Substack. I am choosing not to name her or to link to the piece because I don’t want even more people to read it. The piece is titled in this way: “Elie Wiesel on indifference. A child killed in Gaza every 15 minutes. Two mothers every hour. Seven women every two hours. Are you OK with that?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The piece then proceeds to trot out a series of mainly fake news talking points about the deaths of women and children in Gaza, hour by hour, day by day. How many J Streeters have expressed similar moral outrage about the much larger body counts in Ukraine (an estimated 30,457 civilians and 31,000 combatants, or 61,500 all together) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (an estimated 5 to 6 million civilian deaths thus far)? We cannot trust the estimates of civilian and/or combatant deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, China, North Korea, Sudan, Somalia, and so on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To the best of my knowledge, few J Street–style journalists have presented the much larger body count in Ukraine and warned us against being indifferent to it — at least, not again and again, day after day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The above-mentioned Substack piece is in gruesome lockstep with the New York Times, which, on the very same day, had five full pages of photos of murdered Gazans, all identified by age, name, and profession. In the paper’s pages, murdered Israelis rarely appear, nor do the many hundreds of thousands of displaced Israelis. They remain nameless and faceless, as do the Israeli hostages who’ve been hidden in Gaza for five months while they’ve been beaten, raped, tortured, starved, and murdered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I sometimes wonder whether both the New York Times and J Street are on the Hamas/Iran payroll, whether they are simply funded by Soros — or whether they are true-believing Jew haters. One damning piece of evidence that they are Jew haters is their refusal to acknowledge Hamas’ complicity in civilian deaths. Hamas doesn’t just hide behind civilians when they are available; Hamas operates and maneuvers mostly in civilian areas, a clear violation of international law. Given this, and despite Israel’s almost suicidal efforts to prevent civilian deaths, J Street argues that Israel has no right to fight back against those trying to destroy them. (READ MORE from Phyllis Chesler: Silence of the Feminist Lambs: Not a Word on Hamas Horrors)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The piece up at Substack essentially dares to turn Elie Wiesel’s moral authority into a sock puppet in order to use his Holocaust-era perspective to condemn Israel and to warn us against our own “indifference” to Gazan civilian suffering. What Wiesel said, however, was far more relevant than the phrase quoted at Substack. Please allow me to quote from an interview given by him to Merle Hoffman in 1991, as reported in On the Issues magazine (full disclosure: I was the magazine’s editor at large at the time):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">HOFFMAN: You have been severely criticized for not condemning Israel about the intifada. What is your current position on the Palestinian situation?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">WIESEL: I have been criticized for many things… Yes, I refuse to systematically condemn Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">H: For anything?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">W: There are certain red lines that I will not cross. If I had known at the time that Israel was involved in torturing I would have spoken out, but it was too late. When I found out, a commission had already been formed and justice prevailed, but I don’t feel I have the right to apply public pressure on Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">H: But you have the moral authority.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">W: But what if I’m wrong?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">H: Can’t you afford to be wrong?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">W: Yes, but only if I pay the price. What if I am wrong and they pay the price? What if I apply such pressure on a decision and that decision may bring disaster or at least tragedy to Israel? Do I have the right to do this? It is their children who will pay the price, not mine. I do go to Israel and speak to the leaders there[.] I can say what I feel. But here, especially here, I have no right to speak out publicly…. I am offended when I see Jewish intellectuals who all of a sudden remember their Jewishness only to use that Jewishness to attack Israel. These are men and women who have never done anything for Israel [and] all of a sudden they remember they are Jews.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I hope and pray that J Streeters and Democratic Party operatives pay attention to these words of Weisel as well as to those they manipulate in order to condemn Israel.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++++++++++++++++++</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitU0uw6gSxlPXo-gxsQBhf_Kh6qw_Gg73E1cBpuTv8Ksyf5a_HnICHUiCsmGMfq7Xi5tONFwnAFYCLorEDly-efVXHpYRr-bbG1nKhT8H5TKftMH6W0lfavs7V24oVr8VCrm6n6svGaz3-_MrD_i5H7GjyuscfdFtQP5qrQ1CRFfYm8xuN8bQtFL5heQ0/s1200/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitU0uw6gSxlPXo-gxsQBhf_Kh6qw_Gg73E1cBpuTv8Ksyf5a_HnICHUiCsmGMfq7Xi5tONFwnAFYCLorEDly-efVXHpYRr-bbG1nKhT8H5TKftMH6W0lfavs7V24oVr8VCrm6n6svGaz3-_MrD_i5H7GjyuscfdFtQP5qrQ1CRFfYm8xuN8bQtFL5heQ0/s320/unnamed.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was sent to me by a very dear friend and fellow memo reader. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Carson was on, it was a different America and he personified the period when America was at it's best.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now we have "late nighter's" who I no longer watch because they put me to sleep.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy_7RXdn4plxYKOChs0b20dgqjwl5_4diOSvAz6kJxzpQ6uZUI0SedJoj-C2i8mWemNMDzB_2jpgwVS4TbQdQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last few memos, as is this one, are devoted to our expanding family. I am proud of each and every one and only wish my parents and grand parents were here to get as much pleasure as they give me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is from Emma, our granddaughter who is a very talented graphic designer for The Marriott Corporation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">her art work is very stylized and reminds me of Alex Katz's work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">She allowed me to post this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her husband, Scott, is a master carpenter and also a well regarded Museum Installation maven. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">He can do just about everything with wood and is now rebuilding their kitchen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Emma Darvick</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Overall Summary</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Manager Rating</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Manager Comments</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Associate Comments</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am proud of the work that I have done this past year, but along with the actual work; I'm proud of how </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have grown as a person. Rebecca's departure forced me to take on more responsibility, with less oversight </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and I rose to the challenge. In the past year I</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">have developed my communication skills and am more comfortable taking lead, speaking in meetings, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">sharing my views and knowing my opinions are valued. This has not only improved the work itself, but improved my satisfaction at work as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">——————————————————————————</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Evaluation Topics</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Manager Comments</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have only been Emma’s Manager for a few months. In light of this I will keep my comments brief, and allow her </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">glowing peer reviews to speak for themselves. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Emma is brimming with creative talent. It’s obvious that she’s an exceptional illustrator. But she also has an untapped </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">gift for concepting and developing ideas across various formats. I was very impressed with Emma’s contributions during our one-day design team workshop. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tasked with developing creative graphics for a social campaign, she took the brief and ran with it. Emma developed a millennial-forward, engaging, humorous social campaign. Every creative decision worked in harmony: from photo selection to copywriting to adapting for channels. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I see that her strengths and capabilities go beyond the projects she’s often tasked with. She is a creative powerhouse who should be tapped not just for her excellent illustration and design skills, but also for her sharp conceptual thinking and awareness of the cultural zeitgeist. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On an inter-personal level, Emma is incredibly supportive </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">of her colleagues and teammates. She’s eager to offer help, to celebrate wins, and to give time and space to everyone’s point of view. She is a proactive collaborator, planner and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">problem solver. She is a consistent (and very eloquent) voice of reason. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Emma truly sets an example for others. I am personally grateful for her partnership as I ease into my role at Marriott. I’m so looking forward to making excellent work with Emma this year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2023 Performance Review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">General Feedback From Others</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Emma is a gift! Her collaborative spirit and creative vision always manage to align with brand while feeling unique to individual asks and projects.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Emma is an incredibly talented designer and illustrator, both in her ability to produce custom work herself and to provide art direction for others. She skillfully captures Marriott Bonvoy’s</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">branding, while adding her own stylistic flare and distinguishing touches to her illustration work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She designs and illustrates from a considered and intentional point of view, tailoring work to fit each task while also elevating it beyond initial proposed concepts. She is great at providing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">thoughtful feedback and direction, and she can articulate her reasoning and thinking well. She handles receiving and applying feedback well. A great communicator, she is proactive in seeking clarification or a second opinion when needed. She also readily helps her coworkers in dividing up projects, ensuring bandwidth is evenly distributed and manageable for all parties “</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“She is adaptive, kind, and secure in her abilities.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Project Shout Outs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Travel by You Quiz – When we were left without a Design Director, Emma was a key collaborator and helped to solidify a final look and feel for the quiz illustrations. She curated a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">color palette using colors from Traveler’s illustration library, determined how the icons would appear on the quiz questions, and created a set of 36 unique icons. (Yeji designed the ones for the outcome pages.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">MBV x Rolling Stone Mural – This project required significant lift and arose unexpectedly, and Emma met the challenge. What started as an initial ask to create three city illustrations</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">became a full mural wall piece and ground graphics with only a few weeks to complete and print. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Emma not only created the city illustrations but also illustrated other key components, including landscapes and landscape elements, that were used throughout the full activation</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">design. She dedicated a huge amount of time to prioritize this project both within normal working hours and overtime hours, ensuring timely completion against an already tight deadline.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The final product was far better than what Rolling Stone initially proposed and was successfully displayed at the Life is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas in 2023. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">YouTube Redesigns – I was not heavily involved in this project, but Emma was the primary designer for this. She updated all YouTube thumbnails and banners, working with Riotthaus Art Director Jess Menk to come up with design templates for each series that could easily be leveraged for future videos. She has been the primary designer handling YouTube design asks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">17th Floor Mural – Emma was critical in providing considered, specific feedback and direction that helped Yeji iterate and improve on her illustrations until the final product was produced.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2023 Performance Review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">F1 —</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“A major win for Emma is her ability to take ownership on asset creations for F1. Her desire to create beautiful and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">engaging assets led us to adapting and creating a clear briefing process which led to team growth as we all </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">became more efficient in our Review process as well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All F1 assets were great, but I do have to highlight how the F1 asset had multiple rounds of feedback given that all MGM teams needed to give input on how their brands were showcased and Emma was not only able to adapt, but predict their needs and deliver content that was shared far and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">wide amongst the stakeholders as they were so proud to see their brands showcased. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The work she has done for F1 is not only beautiful and inspiring it is worthy of award submissions (which</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">we have now done for Shorty Awards).”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Areas/ Opportunity for Improvement</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I love hearing Emma’s insights – she has a really valuable perspective and I’d love to hear it voiced more as we work together on bringing editorial to life through design.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I would love to see Emma take on creative liberties with the work I brief her on, because when she does the work turns out even better than what we imagined it could be. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Associate Comments</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Adaptability</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My adaptability was truly tested this year when after less than 4 months of starting on the Content Design team, my boss abruptly quit with no notice and left us completely in</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">the dark. The first few weeks/months after Rebecca left were a time of extreme stress that forced me to confront my place at Marriott. Instead of getting discouraged and succumbing to the stress I turned to my team for support. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What followed was a test of creative, personal, and professional bravery; collaboration, innovation, and trust.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am extremely proud of the work that I produced during those tumultuous first few months, specifically the Travel By You quiz. When Rebecca left, the design team met with Annie to discuss the upcoming projects and what we could handle on our own vs what we would need push until there was a new CD. We were asked if we felt comfortable taking on the Travel By You Quiz without a CD; and while all of us were internally extremely hesitant, we said bring it on let’s give it a shot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ordinarily in a large project like this, Rebecca would have done the mood boarding, set the art direction, presented all ideas, and given us specific instruction on what to create. At the time of her departure all we had to go on was a color palette and a few images on a mood board. I took the mood board ideas, and developed the concept for the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">polaroid/sticker effect with Kia and Yeji. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I recall the palette she had set was not at all to my liking and I was questioning my “authority” to change it, but I realized that I need to reframe the way I see myself here, and step confidently into my role as a senior designer- and change the palette </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I did! I was so proud, when I presented the work to Annie, Robin, Zac and Kristen and everyone responded so positively to the palette.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Especially the risky shock of neon green that I included which really helped give the quiz the youthful and sophisticated quality that Annie wanted; I believe the word she</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">used was “zing.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">None of this would have been possible if I was not able to take my situation, look at it head on and find the confidence needed to not only continue making great art, but to use my voice, trust in my artistic knowledge and rely on my incredible team mates, because all of our success is dependent on one another.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All of this is to say I absolutely take initiative and am able to work with all different levels/styles of management, and can roll with the punches even when; especially</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">when, it's a challenge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Communication</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I make it one of my top priorities to make myself available and respond to people quickly and keep communication open.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have no qualms with feedback, and take is a sign that we’re one step closer to landing on the right “answer”, (answer is used loosely in a design setting). I also am able to</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">deftly communicate our preferences as a design team and when/how to respectfully push back on feedback.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Whenever I learn something new I am eager to share it with the team, and am NEVER one to gate keep knowledge. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am a very thoughtful person, which translates into my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">communication where I strive to be welcoming, open, genuine and always respectful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Quality of Work</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2023 Performance Review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To talk about me and not talk about my incredible follow through on deadlines would be a miss! When there is work to be done, I do not mess around. I have never missed a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">deadline, and usually aim to get things done ahead of schedule. While this is an incredible quality, this year I have also come to see the value in using the time that I</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">have. I see that often, when I give the work a rest and come back the next day with fresh eyes, I’m able to make the piece even better than it was the day before. I come</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">from 5 and a half years in publishing where tight deadlines are king; but we have more wiggle room here, and I’m glad that I can see that now because I’m a better artist for it and it shows in the work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Team Work & Building Relationships</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Before Rebecca left I didn’t really feel like I was on a team; we hardly met, rarely talked, and would never share what we were working on/bounce ideas; I understood work to be a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">solitary venture, and it was fine. But what happened after she left was the coolest; we actually became a team. And it’s not just with design; it’s Traveler, it’s everyone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The in person weeks go such a long way in making me feel like I am apart of something and I make sure to use that time to connect with people, because I am really feeling the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">benefits of knowing one’s colleagues. The benefits are not just having a better time at work (which is so important) but because of that, how much the work itself improves and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">expands. For example Sandy Sirriat and I connected on one of the in person trips and realized we want to work together more; fast forward some months later and we just</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">wrapped up work on the amazing Moxy x Sanctuary collab. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That kind of collaboration, is so exciting and I look forward to even more of that in the year to come.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Technical Acumen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am a rockstar illustrator, and I find it intolerable to submit work I am not proud of. I do not settle, I love to improve and will never stop learning. My thirst for knowledge is what</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ensures that I won’t get stale. If I don’t know how to do something I google and figure it out; I take classes, I learn from my coworkers and am determined to improve my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">already incredible skill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While working on the Mystic Moxy stickers I really wanted to animate an eye opening and closing seamlessly, something I had no idea how to do…now I do! Linked here I might get a bit intimidated by a task, but I never let that stop me from conquering it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Before this year I had never designed a mural; I can’t say that anymore! I have over 250 feet of mural, both wall and floor under my belt and the photos from Las Vegas to prove</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">it. It was a shining moment of my career when someone asked me to take a picture of them in front of my design; they had no idea I was the designer, but I knew, and it was a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">feeling of accomplishment like no other.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++</div></span></div><br /><div><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-25964287370422655032024-03-12T10:42:00.000-07:002024-03-12T20:26:07.851-07:00California/Wedding Photos. Biden's Budget Fraud. 159th Day. Much More.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF4Gq3_2fLAGe2UC8GAm40P6ThN1om53IQb-G5x9JbzS-G7WvNT4bNN4slk4T-6RUWaVU6zijjhzOwP_N8QbAW_gC2qeCtMdULMSPJ5UuqNaP1qzYWowveHneoBGFN9Y1WFo0xIEmZAN5FSaTJD-VPkZ2RwXP3muqd2d-rokgXgbEdhYHiluPyLtrRyR0/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF4Gq3_2fLAGe2UC8GAm40P6ThN1om53IQb-G5x9JbzS-G7WvNT4bNN4slk4T-6RUWaVU6zijjhzOwP_N8QbAW_gC2qeCtMdULMSPJ5UuqNaP1qzYWowveHneoBGFN9Y1WFo0xIEmZAN5FSaTJD-VPkZ2RwXP3muqd2d-rokgXgbEdhYHiluPyLtrRyR0/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrJvDfvrLR7gvOtAmap0iBAgJPzAooPcrNbFfdyYgQqakbR_F9k4L3tjXlHVXze2znZUqQOZ-2jn3RXTUD1_VMhhyCG_MYauNCPb0ksfeY58fakEPF8GwpLfqPsRsjnsEBu1XuGkWJ8IR23yD4sy5cdsaNPqjcqXd5x6SCKPmDy-mw2kY4nEFtk8g_LI/s688/432585244_10227670036629046_3494628069154057204_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrJvDfvrLR7gvOtAmap0iBAgJPzAooPcrNbFfdyYgQqakbR_F9k4L3tjXlHVXze2znZUqQOZ-2jn3RXTUD1_VMhhyCG_MYauNCPb0ksfeY58fakEPF8GwpLfqPsRsjnsEBu1XuGkWJ8IR23yD4sy5cdsaNPqjcqXd5x6SCKPmDy-mw2kY4nEFtk8g_LI/s320/432585244_10227670036629046_3494628069154057204_n.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">More wedding pictures of the Darvick Clan.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel, Lynn and Abby</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigemMtTLDnnIU3HUBQ_ersSOSseFURa6OAz84jSOfjb6uXCHxep3jaB7Q6XwU0gKbMVHtV1inPogRRZQUI6i8V3ATcoB6MeXTH_yNWm_gZTDoktxbtxw7Sun7AExCZEsw3Qzlxhsi01m2tVWa4LgoGDi-FJyQ22AnFtD1nDGzStG-QFoSKTeNVSk_38-Q/s4032/image0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tammy, Abby, Debra, Amy and Lisa - Daughter in Law and 4 Daughters</span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+++</div><div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden's proposed budget where he claims he is saving $3 trillion over 10 years does not compute, is a typical attempt to sucker punch tax payers and is a total lie.</span></p><p>+++<br /><span style="font-size: large;">This is the scariest chart I’ve ever made. This is what it looks like when a country is heading toward a financial precipice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">By Robert Sterling</span></p><p>Each color shows $1T getting added to the national debt.</p><p>Not that long ago, it took six years to add a bar.</p><p>We’re now adding one every 90-120 days.</p><p>The explosion of debt has been the only bipartisan phenomenon of my lifetime. For us conservatives, we can’t blame it on just Biden and Obama. For you Democrats, you can’t put this on just Trump. It’s both parties, all presidents, and every Congress.</p><p>The acceleration started under George W. Bush. Bush went into 2002 with less than $6T of debt. Thanks to GWOT military spending and tax cuts we probably couldn’t afford, $6T grew to $7T in 23 months, $8T in another 21 months, and $9T in 23 months.</p><p>Then the Great Recession hit. We added the next trillion in 13 months, crossing $10T for the first time in American history. And we haven’t looked back since.</p><p>During the second Obama term, with spending reined in by the Tea Party movement, annual deficits reduced to less than $1T, and growth in the debt slowed down. At the end of Obama’s tenure, it took nearly 20 months to go from $19T to $20T.</p><p>That would be the last time it took a full year to add a trillion dollars to the debt.</p><p>In 2017, a real-estate developer got inaugurated as president. And, if there’s one thing we all know—and love!—about real-estate investors, it’s that they understand the value of leverage.</p><p>Under Trump, even as the economy surged, deficits grew, and national debt once again spiraled. We ended 2019 with a little over $24T in debt.</p><p>Then Covid hit, along with consumer stimulus, PPP loans, massive government spending, and reduced tax receipts. Over just two months in 2020—April and May—we added $2T to the national debt. Ever since, we’ve been adding $1T every 160 or so days.</p><p>With Biden in the White House and a narrowly divided Congress, we’re now adding $1T to the debt every three to four months. It took just 91 days to go from $32T to $33T. 104 days to get to $34T.</p><p>And it’s not slowing down. Biden has another 300+ days in office this term. When he or Trump enters their second respective term in office in 2025, the debt will likely be above $37T.</p><p>Where does it end? As deficits continue to pile up and borrowing costs remain relatively high compared to where they were over the previous 20 years, how is any of this sustainable?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyr93PnnxITRwK_b1q-g0ZkPbXhVnTj-3J8F03pCDyLgl7NxZcIPxvZ0wYda3noe4du6yog9jAgx3ZkdQCAmfaXFA4l1X4gQczObi_tyYseuXFOVN_kEABIWybA3KAgxSwzUuRxyw9nQm6ODHHml8IN1nqEWFn6vPHxnxn28iCioCXb2FKXulPH0cIDvI/s680/GIawByCWoAAc5wU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="680" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyr93PnnxITRwK_b1q-g0ZkPbXhVnTj-3J8F03pCDyLgl7NxZcIPxvZ0wYda3noe4du6yog9jAgx3ZkdQCAmfaXFA4l1X4gQczObi_tyYseuXFOVN_kEABIWybA3KAgxSwzUuRxyw9nQm6ODHHml8IN1nqEWFn6vPHxnxn28iCioCXb2FKXulPH0cIDvI/s320/GIawByCWoAAc5wU.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 159th Day of Israel’s War Against Hamas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By Sherwin Pomerantz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On this, the 158th day of the war and the 1st day of Ramadan, it was announced that last ditch efforts by the Egyptians and Qataris to broker a pause in the fighting have been unsuccessful. The reluctance of Hamas to provide a list of hostages and Israel’s requirement for that for the talks to proceed have stymied the negotiators.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A day after President Biden asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel,” Netanyahu dismissed that contention as “wrong,” escalating the leaders’ increasingly public dispute. The Prime Minister, in an interview with Politico that aired on Sunday night, challenged Mr. Biden’s assessment of Israel’s military strategy in the Gaza Strip, saying that his policies represented the “overwhelming majority” of Israelis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I don’t know exactly what the president meant, but if he meant by that that I’m pursuing private policies against the majority, the wish of the majority of Israelis, and that this is hurting the interests of Israel, then he’s wrong on both counts,” Netanyahu told Politico. Netanyahu was responding to comments Biden made on Saturday in an interview with MSNBC that aired on Sunday night. Biden rebuked Netanyahu over the rising civilian death toll in Gaza, even as he reaffirmed our right to defend ourselves. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“In my view, he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel,” Mr. Biden said, appearing to refer to Mr. Netanyahu’s military strategy. “It’s contrary to what Israel stands for, and I think it’s a big mistake. So, I want to see a cease-fire.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The sparring comes amid a mounting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the United Nations and aid agencies warning of looming famine in the besieged enclave of 2.2 million. Health officials in Gaza reported that at least 25 people, most of them children, had died from malnutrition and dehydration in recent days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the New York Times published a disturbing picture of a starving child that looked as if she had been in a concentration camp. The article claimed it was a picture of a child in Gaza. After the damage to Israel’s reputation was done OneIsrael.org showed that the picture was not from Gaza at all but was taken in 2014 in Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus, Syria during the Syrian civil war. So much for truth in publishing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The U.S. military said on Sunday that the General Frank S. Besson logistics support vessel had set sail carrying equipment to build a floating pier on Gaza's coast to deliver humanitarian aid by sea. The Israeli military will help coordinate the installation of the pier, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Saturday. Britain, the EU and the UAE said on Friday that they would join a separate maritime initiative to get aid into Gaza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Hamas Al-Majd security website on Monday warned Palestinian individuals or groups not to cooperate with Israel to provide security for aid humanitarian aid convoys. Those who did would be treated as collaborators, the site said, quoting a security official in Palestinian militant forces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Future Leadership</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have geneally tried not to feature people who have already been in politics, but am making an excpetion today for Dr. Erel N. Margalit, the founder and Executive Chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners and Margalit Startup City. He is one of the chief architects of the startup nation, having brought innovation and entrepreneurial leadership to the country’s most pressing political, economic, and social challenges</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Erel founded Jerusalem Venture Partners 27 years ago and turned it into a globally recognized brand that combines business and social impact. He was chosen by Forbes as one of the world’s leading non-American venture capitalists, one that combines social profit along with smart investment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based on his vision, the Margalit Startup City Model was established creating centers of excellence in Jerusalem, Beersheba, the Galilee, Haifa and New York incorporating investments, opportunity and impact. He facilitated 36 company exits along with 12 Initial Public Offerings on NASDAQ. With over 160 investments, JVP’s portfolio companies continue to drive global markets until today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">During his tenure as a Member of the Knesset from 2013–2017, Erel served as a Member of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee and Finance Committee. Erel led the Knesset’s Cybersecurity Taskforce and the Taskforce developing the North and South of Israel, implementing various economic development initiatives around the country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Along with the business successes, Erel and his wife Debbie recognized the socio-economic gaps among Jerusalem’s disadvantaged children and it propelled them to create the social impact program Margalit Startup City Community “Bakehila.” What started in Jerusalem twenty years ago is now a nationally renowned educational non-profit that raises academic achievements and promotes personal and societal growth. More than 40,000 students nationwide, Jews and Arabs, have attended the Margalit Startup City Community programs as the program continues its reach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We could do worse than having Erel return to the public sphere and share his expertise as we rebuild the country after the war.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Finally for those interest in seeing how the Gazan Ministry of Health fakes casualty numbers, feel free to read this piece from Tablet Magazine which you can access here…..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would like to return to Biden's trashing of Bibi at this stage in the Hamas War.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">a) Biden spouts figures of Palestinian civilian victims that were pronounced by Hamas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden obviously never checked these figures but uses them because they serve his cynical purposes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">b) Israel has gone overboard in fighting Hamas terrorists and many IDF are dead as a result. No comment from Biden.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">c) The CIA has begun releasing their dark cloud assessments in order to co-ordinate their anti-Bibi attack with Biden's two faced effort. Why aren't they both spending their time plotting the undermining of Iran's Ayatollahs instead?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">d) The release of hostages is a sadistic but effective method. Yet no one demands anything of Hamas because they know it will not work. Always beat up on the vulnerable nation because it is responsive. The height of hypocrisy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">e) The mass media no longer has an interest in posing the type of questions that could expose Biden's "knife twisting" because they no longer care about tough investigative probing, are too much in bed with Democrats, are just incompetent or a combination of all four.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="article-header css-exmfr e1wkb4h43" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: var(--article-direction); grid-area: article-header; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="css-j6808u e1noyqgz8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><div class="crawler css-1skj0ht-Box e1vnmyci0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-spacer-8);"><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-size: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-size); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;">Biden Draws a ‘Red Line’ for Israel</h1></div><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-size: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-size); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;">He ignores that the Jewish state can’t defeat Hamas without taking Rafah.</h2><div>By The Editorial Board</div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px;">President Biden likes to say that no President has been a better friend to Israel, but of late he doesn’t sound like it. He beat up Israel’s leaders in his State of the Union speech, criticized its war strategy in Gaza with regularity, and on the weekend called Israel’s plans to clear Hamas from its last stronghold in the city of Rafah a “red line” that Israel shouldn’t cross.</span></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“It is a red line, but I am never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical. So there is no red line I am going to cut off all weapons, so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them,” Mr. Biden said on MSNBC. “But there’s red lines that if he crosses,” without finishing his train of thought, before adding “you cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead.”</p><div class="paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As is often the case, it’s hard to tell what Mr. Biden means. He wants fewer civilian casualties in Gaza, but so does Israel since the diplomatic consequences fall on the Jewish state, not on Hamas. That’s why Israel has held off on its Rafah campaign until it can put together a plan to let civilians find refuge to the city’s north.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The best way to protect civilians would be for Egypt to let them cross the border into Sinai until the fighting stops. But Mr. Biden hasn’t been willing to lean on Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, despite some $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Cairo.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Israel can’t avoid a Rafah campaign if it wants to achieve its war aim of destroying Hamas. Surely Mr. Biden knows this. The U.S. didn’t let ISIS retain its stronghold in Mosul in Iraq, and the siege of that city also had unintended civilian casualties.</p><div class="ad-portal" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"></div><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mr. Biden and the White House are also letting everyone know they’re especially unhappy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Biden was overheard saying after his State of the Union speech that Mr. Netanyahu needs a “come to Jesus moment” with the U.S. President. Mr. Netanyahu should bring his whole war cabinet. As our Elliot Kaufman reports from Israel (see nearby), Mr. Netanyahu’s domestic political opponents also want to clear Hamas from Rafah.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mr. Biden’s vocal criticism of Israel can’t be separated from his desire to appease his party’s increasingly insistent anti-Israel wing. He wants to avoid a protest spectacle at the Democratic convention in August, and he’s worried about losing Michigan as young people and Arab-Americans defect. It sounds like his Israel policy increasingly runs through Dearborn, Mich.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This also explains the urgent efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and hostage swap that Israel keeps accepting but Hamas rejects. Mr. Biden’s new proposal to have U.S. troops build an offshore pier to deliver aid to Gaza is also in part a U.S. domestic political play.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">There are costs to this Dearborn strategy toward Israel—not least its message to Hamas and its backers in Iran that their strategy of putting civilians in harm’s way is working politically. Why agree to a hostage swap if their current strategy is driving a wedge between Israel and the U.S.?</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mr. Biden’s red-line threats don’t help Israel or his political standing at home. The best way he can help himself politically is to let Israel win the war as rapidly as possible.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">And:<br /><br />Fetterman get's it.</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: 17px; line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">+++<br /></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senator Fetterman blasts Hamas ‘cowards’ hiding behind Ramadan </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Posted By Ruth King</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">https://worldisraelnews.com/senator-fetterman-blasts-hamas-cowards-hiding-behind-ramadan/</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Pennsylvania Democrat says Hamas ‘must be destroyed,’ gives backing to Israel’s counter-terror campaign.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on a Jewish holiday on Oct. 7—50 years and a day after a group of Arab nations launched a surprise attack on the Jewish state during the High Holiday of Yom Kippur.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Many world leaders, including in Washington, are saying that Israel should halt attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is not one of them.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Sharing a Wall Street Journal article titled “Hamas bets on Ramadan to help it survive Israel’s assault,” Fetterman wrote, “Of course. Hamas cowards hide in tunnels, hospitals, schools and refugee camps. Now, behind a holy time.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">“Hamas must be destroyed, and Sinwar brought to justice or eliminated,” he added, of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “I fully support Israel’s campaign to achieve this.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">David McCormick, a Republican candidate for the other Pennsylvania senate seat, agreed with Fetterman. “He’s right,” McCormick wrote. He added of his opponent, “It’s past time for Bob Casey to agree.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, also responded to Fetterman’s post.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span><span style="font-size: 17px;">++++++++++++++++</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I went to hear Seamus Bruner today (Tuesday, 12 March) Seamus is Peter Schweizer's researcher. and wrote "Controligarchs," with a forward by Peter. The book exposes the billionaire class who want to dominate our lives, and are actively doing so, while raking in more billions in the process.</span></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will be reviewing the book after I read same.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">What I find fascinating is radical Democrats are actually destroying Democracy yet, they are the ones who accuse Trump and us deplorables of doing so.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">These neo-Marxists have perfected the art of Projection.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, conservatives have yet to learn how to respond and therefore, when the bad mouth is put on them, they stand like deer caught staring at headlights.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Anti-Democratic Democratic Are Destroying Democracy While Accusing Others Of What They Are Doing. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Victor Davis Hanson</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Posted by Ruth King</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2021, buffoonish riot.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aside from the fact that storming the Capitol Rotunda sometimes is apparently deemed permissible—as in the recent pro-Hamas takeover of it—or aside from the fact that disrupting a federal government proceeding is deemed exempt—as in the recent pro-Hamas throng that blocked the route of the presidential motorcade and thus delayed the State of the Union address to the nation by 26 minutes—who really is attacking democracy?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take the Supreme Court. After the Court went to a 6-3 conservative majority, liberal law professors, progressive activist groups, and many ends-justify-the-means Democrats in Congress began advocating “packing the court” to gain additional new billets for left-wing judges.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, the left had little confidence that it would hold the White House and the Senate when a judicial opening came up, so it sought to force the issue while it had the power in both.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Formerly, any such notion would have been written off as lunatic and dangerous, given that the nine-justice Supreme Court has been canonized for 155 years since 1869. Second, during the last time Democrats attacked the nine-justice Supreme Court over its supposedly too conservative rulings—Franklin Roosevelt’s 1937 notorious court-packing scheme—even fellow liberals opposed the toxic gambit. They knew that it would only lead to a tit-for-tat fluid court every time a new administration took power.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then there was the public demonization of the court, which saw efforts to scare it into “correct” rulings. The effort was multifaceted.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the left-wing method was direct intimidation. So in 2020, then Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led a throng of pro-abortion protestors to the court’s very doors, threatening Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name. He was not subtle in his warnings: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hit you? Pay the price?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Later, when left-wing mobs thronged at the private homes of some conservative judges with the intention of intimidating them and leveraging their decisions—in violation of a 1950 federal law—the Biden administration did nothing. No wonder a potential assassin soon showed up near the home of Justice Kavanaugh, and, fortunately, did not go through with his planned attack.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nor was the 2022 leaker ever found who illegally disclosed confidential memos on the court’s future rulings on abortion. In the recent State of the Union address, Joe Biden spoke directly to the seated justices and seemed to level yet another threat: “With all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral or political power…You’re about to realize just how much.” In some sense, Biden was following the precedent of Barack Obama, who in his 2010 State of the Union address made a direct attack on the justices of the Supreme Court, many of whom were in attendance.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">In sum, during the years of liberal majorities, the left once defended the sacrosanct nature of the third branch of government. Now, when rulings do not always go their way, they seek to discredit and impugn it. And they employ direct intimidation, willful blindness to threats to the justices’ private homes, and plans to alter the makeup of the court to fit their ideological agendas.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democracy is also endangered by radical efforts to alter decades of voting protocols to achieve short-term political advantage. Never has a political party organized its state attorney generals and kindred courts to ban their likely opposing presidential candidate from state ballots.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet Colorado, Illinois, and Maine did just that in an effort to erase Trump’s name from their state ballots, on grounds that he was an “insurrectionist,” despite never being charged with, much less convicted, of “insurrection.” The anti-democratic effort was designed to deprive millions of voters of their right to vote for the candidate of their choice and to diminish the chances of down-ballot state and local Republican candidates.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2020, under the guise of the COVID lockdowns, anti-democratic liberal activists sued or sought out sympathetic bureaucrats in numerous states to overturn state voting laws, a right traditionally given to the state legislatures by the Constitution. They proved so successful that, in a historical first, 68% of Americans in 2020 did not vote on Election Day. By design, the vast majority of them were Biden voters—even as the rejection rate of less verifiable mail-in and early voting ballots radically declined.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">At various times since the 2017 Trump inauguration, Democratic activists have sought to neuter the 235-year-old Electoral College by circumventing it through the so-called “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.” The effort would force electors to reflect the national rather than their own states’ votes. Earlier, following the 2016 election, the Left organized a concentrated effort—saturating the media with ads featuring Hollywood celebrities— to convince electors to reject the popular vote counts in their states that Trump had won, and instead to become “faithless electors” and swing the election to Hillary Clinton.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The anti-democratic left has railed about ending the 187-year-old filibuster—but only when Democrats are a minority in the Senate. And many in the Democratic Congress have lobbied to admit Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, as states in order to gain four new left-wing senators, thus ending the 65-year-old 50-state union.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Never before had impeachment been envisioned as a normal political ploy to weaken a first-term president once he lost his House majority. Yet the Democratic House majority, for the first time in history, impeached a first-term president twice. And also, for the first time, Democrats tried him as a private citizen in the Senate and rushed to judgment without a special counsel investigation or report.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are two themes in the left-wing assault on American democracy’s rules, protocols, and long-held traditions. One, the left advocates changing or ending an institution only when it has lost control of it. And two, it would charge as “insurrectionary” any similar Republican effort to do the same.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The January 6, 2021, riot was a stupid and dangerous gambit. But the buffoonish act was certainly not an “insurrection” that justified militarizing the capital for weeks, stocking a congressional investigating committee with partisans, or using the day to permanently delegitimize the Trump candidacy.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">No one arrested was armed. Many of the rioters were let into the Capitol by law enforcement. And we now know that Trump actually did request 10,000 guardsmen to keep the peace, a fact covered up by the January 6 committee.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Insurrectionists do not advise their partisans to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol. Of the five who died on January 6, four likely died from natural causes. The left spread a gargantuan lie that Capitol Officer Sicknick was killed by “insurrectionists.” But in fact, he died the following day from natural causes.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The left also suppressed news of the circumstances surrounding the one violent death of Trump protestor Ashli Babbitt—the unarmed military veteran who was lethally shot while entering a broken window. The name of the shooter, an officer of the Capitol police, in a first, was deliberately suppressed by the media for months.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">A prize-winning New York Times reporter claimed that the FBI informants were numerous among the crowd. The number, nature, and purpose of such informants were never disclosed by the FBI.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, not all riots that threaten federal property and functions are deemed the same. In summer 2020, Antifa and BLM fueled 120 days of street violence. The result was $2 billion in property damage, 35 deaths, 1,500 officers injured, and 14,000 arrests.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The violent looters, arsonists, and demonstrators likewise focused on government facilities. But rather than swarming the Capitol, they torched a federal courthouse, a police precinct, and a historic Washington, DC, church. They tried to swarm the very White House grounds and harm the president, who was whisked by the Secret Service to a secure bunker—a fact mocked by the New York Times.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are two other symptoms of the Democratic assault on democracy. One is the use of the courts to nullify the candidacy of the left’s presidential opponent in the 2024 election. Many things can be said of the lawfare waged against Donald Trump, but two themes are uncontestable: one, if he had not run for reelection in 2024, he would not have been targeted; and two, were he a man of the left, he now would have no legal worries. Trump’s fate, by design, will be in the hands of big blue-city, left-wing prosecutors, judges, and jury pools.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are commonalities in such lawfare: Laws are being used in novel fashion solely to “get Trump.” Statutes of limitation are suddenly waived to go after Trump. Federal laws are being bootstrapped by state prosecutors. Some of the prosecutors are themselves compromised and have likely either violated judicial canons or may be subject to prosecution.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judges are not shy about expressing their dislike for Trump from the bench. Some prosecutors have coordinated with the White House. And the application of justice is blatantly asymmetrical, given that Trump is being tried for some crimes that Biden himself has committed but has been exempted from.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">So our institutions have been corrupted in an anti-democratic and purely partisan fashion. The FBI, along with the Clinton campaign and its paywalls, hired a foreign national, Christopher Steele, to smear a presidential candidate in conjunction with the 2016 campaign. The agency also contracted social media censors to suppress news deemed unhelpful to the 2020 Biden campaign.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">FBI directors have lied under oath or pled amnesia before Congress when questioned about the agency’s efforts to interfere in the election process. The Department of Justice has also been weaponized. It has sought to exempt the Biden family, violent pro-abortion protestors, and various radical groups from prosecution, even as it goes after pro-life activists and parents at school board meetings. It has segregated January 6 protestors in solitary confinement without charges being filed for months.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">On campuses, it is the anti-democratic left, not the right, that has de facto suspended the First Amendment and denied free speech and expression. The left has repeatedly violated both the spirit of the Civil Rights Act and the letter of the law in its use of racial discrimination (the “good” “anti-racism”) to hire, promote, and admit on the basis of race and gender.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has neutered the right to due process in its frequent kangaroo courts as it tries students for anti-woke thought crimes. And universities have violated freely and brazenly various civil rights statutes that prohibit racial segregation in housing and public spaces, as they institutionalized racially separate graduations, safe spaces, and dorms.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most disturbing has been the weaponization of the U.S. military. It was on record, in promising to scour the ranks for so-called white supremacists. Yet by December 2023, the Pentagon admitted it discovered no such cabals. But it did drum out some 8,400 veteran soldiers for not being vaccinated, despite most having developed natural immunity from prior infections.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">It instituted race- and gender-based protocols for recruitment and promotion and inaugurated an entire woke DEI apparat. Yet now it faces a shortfall of some 40,000 recruits. Mostly the dearth of manpower is due to the fiasco in Afghanistan, coupled with the loud accusations from the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on down that whites as a collective are somehow under automatic suspicion—supposedly dangerously embittered by the new Diversity/Equity/Inclusion woke Pentagon protocols.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The country has become wary of its own officers. During 2020, retired generals and admirals brazenly violated the uniform code of military justice by openly and publicly smearing and slandering their own Commander in Chief.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some, along with a former Pentagon lawyer, called for a military intervention, a veritable coup, to remove the president, well apart from scheduled elections. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs freelanced by contacting his communist Chinese counterpart to apprise him that should his own president call a state of emergency possibly involving nuclear weapons, Gen. Mark Milley would first forewarn the Chinese about the actual nature of the threat and intent of the American president.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Left talks grandly of “democracy dies in darkness” as Joe Biden beats the dead horse of January 6 to warn that democracy is in its greatest peril. But all such rhetoric is projection. The verbiage masks the most comprehensive effort in modern American history to radically change, destroy, or warp American laws, customs, and traditions for the short-term aim of gaining and retaining political power.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rationale is that the left is of such superior morality and wisdom that it has the right to violate the Constitution or the hallowed traditions of the country to achieve the higher end of ensuring a progressive agenda.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">In sum, the defense of those destroying democracy is that they are doing it to prevent others from doing what they would do, should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually Hamas are entitled to be surprised because Israel chose not to respond as they should have. Israel should now be destroying Iran but like Godot, what are they waiting for?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hamas Leader Admits to Surprise at Israel’s Response to Attack</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">(RightWing.org) – A senior member of the terrorist group Hamas has gone public with his organization’s thoughts about the war with Israel. It seems that when it launched the October 7 atrocities that started the conflict, members didn’t expect Israel to hit back so hard. Now the men who ordered kidnappings, mass sexual assaults, and the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust are whining that the Jewish state is being “barbaric.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">What Did Hamas Expect?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists broke through Israel’s border defenses and launched an unspeakably brutal attack on civilians, leaving over 1,200 dead and at least 250 more abducted and held hostage. In response, Israel launched a major ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which has now been running for over five months. Air raids and ground combat have left thousands of civilians dead; the survivors of Hamas’s military wing have been pushed back into the southern city of Rafah, which the Israeli military is now preparing to occupy. Enraged by the atrocities inflicted on it by Hamas, Israel is determined to destroy the Iran-backed terrorist group.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hamas seems to be surprised by this.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">On March 6, Mousa Abu Marzook, a US-educated Palestinian who’s a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, gave an interview to Al-Ghad TV, an online news channel based in London and Cairo, Egypt. When the interviewer asked him if Hamas had any expectations about what would happen after the October 7 attack, Marzook whined “The consequences of the attack… Nobody in the whole world expected them to be so barbaric.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marzook went on to accuse the US, Britain, and other Western countries of “gather[ing] their armies” and fighting against Hamas, which suggests he doesn’t have a particularly strong grip on reality. However, it was notable that he couldn’t answer the question — what did the terrorist leaders think Israel would do in response to the massacre of hundreds of its civilians?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel once flew a commando team 2,500 miles to rescue 106 of its people from Entebbe Airport in Uganda. It launched major operations to retrieve one kidnapped soldier. Hamas’s terrorists deliberately unleashed unspeakable horror on Israeli towns; did they seriously believe Israel’s response wouldn’t be ferocious?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Online commenters are struggling to believe this. Dozens of replies on X (formerly Twitter) ridiculed Marzook’s claims. One said, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” Another said, “Translation: We didn’t expect the Jews to fight back.”</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Hamas attack was against all the laws of armed conflict. Civilians were deliberately targeted, viciously abused, and then slaughtered. For the architects of this horror to complain about the “barbarity” of the Israeli response is hypocritical beyond belief. What’s clear is that Hamas isn’t happy with how the war they started is turning out — and it’s too late to take it back.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Copyright 2024, RightWing.org</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><div class="ad-portal" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><div><br /></div></div>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-34835540350259895622024-03-12T06:34:00.000-07:002024-03-12T13:41:08.189-07:00Henry Marries Jessica. Anguished Voice. My Comment. Much More. Videos and Cartoons.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuIjwLLP-zvo2zwwSLYDnXDLyLntGYmlxM-7WnRJQ1kaFiBixnJYDEqfK3ErhBay2_rnEteFKNDUEMtW_smir2jTxrkXxS7LyAfLI7b2xjEdD9UDnvuoiTzKOKaXBlSbubXN2WqdY7wy2L91z9hj3x9iLB7lG9r_cuNgYQC4zKhhDPXdIsGGa5dKN_RQ/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYuIjwLLP-zvo2zwwSLYDnXDLyLntGYmlxM-7WnRJQ1kaFiBixnJYDEqfK3ErhBay2_rnEteFKNDUEMtW_smir2jTxrkXxS7LyAfLI7b2xjEdD9UDnvuoiTzKOKaXBlSbubXN2WqdY7wy2L91z9hj3x9iLB7lG9r_cuNgYQC4zKhhDPXdIsGGa5dKN_RQ/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="font-size: large;">While in California. attending our grandson's wedding . I caught most of Biden's speech to the nation. Since there has been plenty of commentary, I have little to add except to say it was pathetic, mean spirited and typical Biden.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He needs to be defeated and flushed down the toilet . If not, then America will take his rightful place.</span></p><p>+++</p><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--font-title); font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Voice Of Anguish Amidst Biden’s SOTU Chaos</span></h1><div class="post-header__byline d-md-flex my-2" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--text-color); display: flex; justify-content: space-between; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="author d-flex align-items-center" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/johnnantz" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="John Nantz" class="align-middle thm-author-sm" src="https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/authorimages/ad53ac4b-43fa-4ee2-8dd9-bb6f8e056c32.jpeg" style="aspect-ratio: auto 9 / 8; border-radius: 5px; border: 0.3px solid rgb(138, 138, 138); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;" /></span></a><div class="d-flex flex-column flex-lg-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/johnnantz" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">By John Nantz</span></a><div style="font-size: var(--post-author-size);"><br /></div></div></div></div><p>Joe Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech last week was a bizarre tirade marked by stretches of manic speed reading. Biden stood at the storied podium and squinted with coal black eyes over the gathered political class, including Democrat women festooned in white, like a cadre of sanitarium staff awaiting the next Biden cerebral infarction. </p><p>On cue, Kamala Harris stood, cow eyed, and clapped like a seal expecting an oily mackerel. Biden was amped up. Though, I suspect, it was more an effect of narcotics than an affectation of vigor. Biden’s dark eyes being indicative of dilated pupils — induced by a medically prescribed cocktail of stimulants. </p><p>The SOTU was simply a campaign event — botched — much like his perfunctory appearance at the dignified transfer of thirteen service men and women, who’d fallen victim to Biden’s colossal ineptitude. Later, their remains were subjected to his shocking callousness. Famously, he made a mockery out of the dignity of that moment by repeatedly checking his watch. Similarly, Biden made a mockery out of the SOTU by lashing out at Republicans and the Supreme Court. He took the opportunity to stump for infanticide, a moral crime for which he’ll give account before the Judgement Seat — which, given his age and infirmity, will likely be in his near future. </p><p>It’s not surprising, then, during the tweeker-in-chief’s address to a gobsmacked nation, that a gold star father should stand outraged and protest his son’s senseless death at the hands of an obvious imbecile. </p><p>Mr. Steve Nikoui did a tremendous service for his nation, during Biden’s political screed, by reminding us of the terrible price paid, not just by his son, but by twelve other service members as a result of Biden’s complete bungling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. In politics, a year is practically a lifetime, and the criminal mishandling and initiation of a pandemonium retreat in Kabul, which occurred in 2021, is practically ancient history. </p><p>The public has been barraged by an endless series of Biden administration outrages, so it’s easy to forget the opening salvos of his lethal ineptitudes. The nation has been witness to an invasion of millions of illegal aliens, the deadly consequences of which were highlighted by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) before and during the SOTU. Biden’s subsequent gaffe has reverberated through the body politic — befuddled, he called the murder victim Laken Riley, “Lincoln Riley” despite her name being printed in bold text across the button held in his cadaverous hand. </p><p>And, Biden has presided over a full blown war in Europe, the Ukrainian people suffering brutalities at the hands of Russia’s Putin. Followed by the eruption of violence in the Middle East, an attack of such scale and barbarity on jews not seen since the Holocaust. All Biden seems capable of is weakly bleating for a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages held by the primitive, Mohammedan Hamas.</p><p>So, Mr. Nikoui’s outburst during Biden’s SOTU brings to the fore an essential piece of history. The value in this is inestimable. To draw from a Biblical example, the children of Israel were prone to forgetting their miraculous history. So, they were reminded of those events frequently. As a people, we’re no different from the ancient Israelites and just as inclined to forget the past, even if only removed by a few years. </p><p>Mr. Nikoui stood during Biden’s SOTU and shouted, “Do you remember Abbey Gate?” We all know the answer to that question. Without onboarding heavy pharmacological support, Biden staggers through his days and fails to remember which side of the stage to exit. Remembering an event, which was clearly of no consequence to him at the time, is clearly beyond his capability. Of course, Mr. Nikoui’s question wasn’t meant for Biden, but for us, and the gathered members of congress who may possess a shred of patriotism and conscience. </p><p>The Spectator published a thorough interview with Mr. Nikoui and he related how he felt during Biden’s speech. “None of them [politicians] would exist without men and women like my kid.” A sentiment easily shared by countless American families who’ve suffered similar loss. “They’re able to play their games because of kids like ours, and that kind of infuriated me…I felt like I was in the Coliseum. We’re all in the upper tier. And here are the players down there.” </p><p>Mr. Nikoui detailed what he perceived to be a double standard during the proceedings, “As I’m watching him talk and lie, and they’re cheering for him…I didn’t think you’d be arrested for saying something, I didn’t have any idea of that. I probably would not have done it. And who knows? Maybe if I wasn’t as loud, maybe I wouldn’t have gotten arrested. I don’t know.” Nikoui was arrested, but was complimentary of his treatment by Capitol Hill Police (CHP), saying the officers were “very courteous.” </p><p>Arrests of this sort are made on a fairly routine basis. CHP provided a statement to The New York Times stating, “This is a routine charge on Capitol Hill. People…typically are released after they pay a $50 fine, so the misdemeanor charge is resolved without going to court.” The American people will be waiting to see if Nikoui gets the usual treatment. Though recent government acts of politicization don’t give the public much confidence. </p><p>Nikoui’s case isn’t unique. During former President Donald Trump’s SOTU in 2020, the father of a victim of the Parkland shooting, Fred Guttenberg, admitted to The Washington Post that he’d been arrested for his outburst. But, this isn’t 2020 and instead of a president committed to civil liberties and making America great again, we’re saddled with a Demi-potentate busy implementing tyranny through an obsequious Department of Justice. We owe more than just lip service to Nikolai’s bravery. We owe it to him to watchdog any pending legal action and leap to his aid should he require it. “I’ve watched three State of the Unions, and I’ve never heard them honor our kids.” </p><p>And:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I will make this comment. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden has been outstanding in supporting and arming Israel initially in it's war with Hamas. Now he has reverted to the cynical, petty, amoral politician he always has been. Here is the ammunition and when the vote tide turned he resorted to don't shoot even if it means more October 7's. I will do everything I can to help Hamas and I expect Israel and Bibi to do the same. I will drop food even if the pallets kill those in need of the food, I will build a port and I will demand Israel cease before winning the war.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden's instinct always lead him in the wrong direction and causes him to make the worst decisions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And:</span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">Biden’s Zionism</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white;">“</span><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;">It should be alarming to American Jews that Biden’s recent turn against Israel is motivated, many say, by a desire not to lose the “Arab vote” in the fall election. Apparently, he does not fear losing the Jewish vote! Will American Jews see the writing on the wall? It is there, in neon lights</span><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white;">” </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white;">And:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white;">Bibi's comments.</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">Netanyahu: 'We can't leave a quarter of the Hamas terror army in place'</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">PM Netanyahu says 'victory is at hand,' adds that without Rafah operation, 'Hamas will reconstitute itself with these four battalions, reconquer Gaza.'9vg</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to US President Joe Biden's statements that a military operation in Rafah is a "red line."</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">"The President and I have agreed that we have to destroy Hamas," Netanyahu told Fox News. "We can't leave a quarter of the Hamas terror army in place. They're there, in Rafah. This would be equivalent to saying that after the Allies fought back, gone through Normandy, went through Germany and you'd say, 'Well we'll leave a quarter of the Nazi army in place and we won't go into Berlin, the last stronghold.'"</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">He added that if Biden means to say that Israel should enable the safe departure of the civilian population from Rafah before going in, then, "We agree with that, we don't need any prompting."</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">Biden also "says that he agrees that we have to destroy Hamas as a fighting organization, that's what we intend to do," Netanyahu explained. "It's either Israel or Hamas. There's no middle way. We have to have that victory. We can't have three-quarters of a victory, we can't have two-thirds of a victory, because Hamas will reconstitute itself with these four battalions in Rafah, reconquer the Gaza Strip, and do the October 7 massacre over and over again."</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">Netanyahu also stressed that his position is not personal, but supported by the vast majority of Israeli citizens. "They're really united, like never before," he noted.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">"We have our agreements on the basic goals but we also have disagreements on how to achieve them," he noted. "Ultimately, it's Israel that has to decide. Our neck is on the line. Our people were murdered. Our women were raped and beheaded."</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">"I'm telling you that we're not getting off the gas. I'm telling you that we have to take care of Israel's security and our future. And that requires eliminating the terrorist army. That's a prerequisite for victory. That victory is important not only for us, it's important for the civilized world as we're fighting these barbarians.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">"To the extent that the world thinks that American and Israel are united, that helps the war effort and it helps our effort to achieve victory and obviously the release of the hostages. To the extent that Hamas believes there's daylight between us, that doesn't help. I appreciate the support that President Biden and the administration have given us since the beginning of the war and I can only hope that it will continue to victory. Because victory is at hand, victory is close.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">++++</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="background-color: white;">And:</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">ZOA’s Mort Klein: Biden’s Policy is to “Intentionally” Harm/Endanger Jewish State - Clearly Influenced by Obama’s Israel-Hatred</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">By Joshua Klein</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">(March 11, 2024) President Joe Biden has been “clearly influenced” by ex-President Barack Obama’s “hatred of Israel,” according to Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein, who accused the Democrat president of “intentionally” seeking to “harm the Jewish State,” while highlighting how he has boosted Iran since taking office, and has “never criticized the Israel-haters in Congress.”</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Monday, Klein, who has led the nation’s oldest pro-Israel group for more than thirty years, slammed the current U.S. administration’s foreign policy toward America’s strongest ally in the Middle East.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">“The Biden State of the Union (SOTU) speech, clearly influenced by Obama’s hatred of Israel, now makes it crystal clear that Joe Biden is not merely critical of Israel, but intentionally wants to harm the Jewish State,” he said.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">Klein argued that the president’s insistence on a Palestinian state communicates a dangerous policy, especially given that such a state would likely fall under the influence of Iran and Hamas, both of which are hostile entities towards the West, including both Israel and the U.S.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">“He has strongly insisted on establishing a Palestinian Arab state which would surely be controlled by the terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy, the radical Hamas terror group, along with [Palestinian Authority President] Mahmoud Abbas,” he said.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">The long-serving Abbas — who has remained PA president for nearly two decades despite a four-year term limit — leads the supposedly “moderate” Fatah Palestinian faction that endorses a perspective paralleling that of Hamas.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">While his security forces have participated in scores of deadly terror attacks against Israelis, he himself has a history of conveying inciting antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. Governments and leaders across the globe voiced outrage over “horrifying” remarks in a recent speech he delivered in which he claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was not an antisemite and that the Jews of Europe during his era were not killed due to their Jewish identity, but due to their “role in society,” including “usury.”</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="font-size: large;">“Abbas brags that his people participated in the Hamas October 7 slaughter and rape of Jews, pays Arabs lifetime pensions to murder Jews, names his schools and streets after Jew-killers, and promotes violence and hatred of Jews in his schools and mosques and speeches glorifying and incentivizing Jew-killing,” noted Klein.</span></p><table bgcolor="#b21f24" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #b21f24; border-radius: 6px; border-spacing: 0px; border: none; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; width: inherit;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_477838828127415582button_content-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001_Qmz8qpQo5pM11k2Cp5J4KuHc8ZrZF32eKz60F4EzPSoplT-1_2izlaAZ2p1GzX9xSqIH3folROsV1nUMsmTlBEltgDNTqCSfIH8qE-n4aGLBQuQqlgCa85ANN_-l1JcPzSV7Xdn0I7jchYfgxeUlrD-m5QA-bCdtzsYTLAhhrCVu1RLBMgbc0ESHKz-5nRTGtGUvcYWTnXfF2EjuPOqKOiQaH9sn4aWn69YmRI7jTaBFF3p_ID1iyn0a6Henc3fAZu9uZJBQpIY_wYcwwvfh42KgwVnIxGcAA7hDX7tvEM0H6yZt4pXXCNzApye4K50v6T8ianWdP0%3D%26c%3DzA9tMVJL-MP4DLOnLXEaKq11v9PrADqqHrSBpnU0TD-baaQmkfRkNA%3D%3D%26ch%3DVwp2XVVEV9gD_ok7LfD25IfaxJ3pnr8kzbDbdBWTagdCFRbZCFev8w%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710337365182000&usg=AOvVaw2G0K-xR4nmvDtbvZWQP2GE" href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_Qmz8qpQo5pM11k2Cp5J4KuHc8ZrZF32eKz60F4EzPSoplT-1_2izlaAZ2p1GzX9xSqIH3folROsV1nUMsmTlBEltgDNTqCSfIH8qE-n4aGLBQuQqlgCa85ANN_-l1JcPzSV7Xdn0I7jchYfgxeUlrD-m5QA-bCdtzsYTLAhhrCVu1RLBMgbc0ESHKz-5nRTGtGUvcYWTnXfF2EjuPOqKOiQaH9sn4aWn69YmRI7jTaBFF3p_ID1iyn0a6Henc3fAZu9uZJBQpIY_wYcwwvfh42KgwVnIxGcAA7hDX7tvEM0H6yZt4pXXCNzApye4K50v6T8ianWdP0=&c=zA9tMVJL-MP4DLOnLXEaKq11v9PrADqqHrSBpnU0TD-baaQmkfRkNA==&ch=Vwp2XVVEV9gD_ok7LfD25IfaxJ3pnr8kzbDbdBWTagdCFRbZCFev8w==" style="color: white; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CONTINUE READING</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>++++</p><p>Finally:<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden should draw red lines for Hamas — not Israel</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">By Richard Goldberg</span></p><p>President Biden suggested he might cut off aid to Israel if it continued its planned military operation in the city of Rafah.President Biden suggested he might cut off aid to Israel if it continued its planned military operation in the city of Rafah. AP Photo/Josh Reynolds</p><p>President Biden on Saturday suggested he might cut off US military assistance to Israel if it moved forward with a military operation to dismantle Hamas’ last stronghold in the Gazan city of Rafah.</p><p>An Israeli victory over Hamas is now a red line for a president surrendering to a pro-Hamas political base.</p><p>Americans should understand the consequences of that red line: A guarantee that Oct. 7 will happen again, that hostages will never come home, that an emboldened Iran will escalate on all fronts and that Hamas-oppressed civilians will suffer indefinitely.</p><p>After dismantling Hamas’ operational control over northern and central Gaza, Israel today is fighting to destroy the group’s infrastructure in the southern city of Khan Younis.</p><p>Israel believes that Hamas’ top commanders are hiding, and holding an unknown number of hostages, in miles of underground tunnels between Khan Younis and Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah, which sits along the Egyptian border.</p><p>Once Khan Younis falls, Rafah will be Hamas’ last stand.</p><p>Israel’s stated objectives since Oct. 7 have been clear: Remove Hamas from power in Gaza and prevent Gaza from ever again becoming a launching pad for terror attacks on Israel.</p><p> Rafah’s suspected weapons-smuggling tunnels running into the Sinai, four Hamas battalions and a likely underground fallback for the Hamas leadership, destroying Hamas there could be the deciding factor in whether Iran’s terror proxy survives the war.</p><p>The impact of this outcome on Israel’s long-term security cannot be understated.</p><p>The atrocities committed on Oct. 7 have few comparisons in modern history — the Holocaust being one.</p><p>Iran funded, equipped, trained and coordinated Hamas’ terror activities for decades — just as it continues to do for Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Syria and Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen and terror cells throughout the West Bank.</p><p>Hamas is one of Tehran’s appendages — and if that appendage is not completely cut off and destroyed in response to Oct. 7, that massacre is guaranteed to be an opening act for other horror shows to come.</p><p>As for the civilians of Gaza — Hamas’ shields in war and media props for disinformation — few if any will publicly break from Hamas while the group remains in power.</p><p>Smuggling from south to north Gaza is already a problem, and it will grow exponentially.</p><p>Hamas is already threatening to kill any Palestinian who “collaborates” with Israel to deliver humanitarian aid to those in need.</p><p>Indeed, the terror-sympathizers who chant “Free Palestine” and oppose Hamas’ destruction in Rafah care nothing for Gaza’s civilian population.</p><p>Hamas, of course, could end the war quickly by surrendering and releasing all its remaining hostages, including six American citizens.</p><p>Moreover, if Israel located and killed Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ top two operatives in Gaza, mass surrender could follow.</p><p>But for now, Sinwar and Deif are entrenched underground — counting on Biden to pressure Israel into a permanent ceasefire that allows them to declare victory and build back their terror infrastructure.</p><p>Biden today is wielding Hamas disinformation as a weapon in pressuring Israel not to enter Rafah.</p><p>An estimated 1 million Palestinians who fled south during the war have taken refuge there, and the White House claims it has seen no plan from Israel to safely evacuate that population before commencing major operations against Hamas.</p><p>Washington and Saudi Arabia could put pressure on Egypt to open its border and allow for temporary tent cities to be established in the Sinai.</p><p>The Saudis could finance this with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees coordinating aid.</p><p>This would be the easiest way to minimize civilian harm, yet Biden chooses to pressure Israel into a Hamas victory instead of threatening American aid to Cairo if Egypt doesn’t comply.</p><p>In the face of Egyptian intransigence, Israel is reportedly planning to establish 15 sites with medical field clinics across the southwestern part of the Gaza Strip.</p><p>It did everything possible to enable civilian evacuation in every other major city where it defeated Hamas — and it will surely do the same in Rafah.</p><p>A recent poll found 75% of Israelis from across the political spectrum support completing the takedown of Hamas in Rafah.</p><p>They know the alternative puts an egg-timer on Israel’s future.</p><p>When given the order, Israel’s military will do what it does best: destroy the enemy, minimize civilian casualties and defend the Jewish state.</p><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he has his own red line: that Oct. 7 never happens again.</p><p>With 34 Americans dead and six held hostage, that should be America’s red line, too. </p><p>Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is a former National Security Council official and senior US Senate aide.</p><p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVSl3hVQN8kB8_hTI1zDLCfZjixQbhSm0PmCvkYl45yznHdbEAVK3AAlzBpYUliZ1DsRqIVfz2YY_Q3BBjetGQ5GCNgwW0K6WqFnYwrCrV8miObvMrYSreh3jqWuZ8X4autIRpfmIsGP9m_ofWbyPlPr5eVeDc4e5azwwlT11w_0AZ4mtivwR0znPBu2Y/s481/unnamed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="481" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVSl3hVQN8kB8_hTI1zDLCfZjixQbhSm0PmCvkYl45yznHdbEAVK3AAlzBpYUliZ1DsRqIVfz2YY_Q3BBjetGQ5GCNgwW0K6WqFnYwrCrV8miObvMrYSreh3jqWuZ8X4autIRpfmIsGP9m_ofWbyPlPr5eVeDc4e5azwwlT11w_0AZ4mtivwR0znPBu2Y/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hunting Jews</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Europe OKs banning the practice of Judaism</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS</span></p><p>Anti-Semitism, or more bluntly hatred of Jews and Judaism, takes many forms. We saw one on Oct. 7, 2023, when hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza slaughtered well over 1,000 Israelis.</p><p>We saw another form on Feb. 13, 2024, when the so-called European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Belgium was entirely free to ban kosher slaughter.</p><p>The European Convention on Human Rights seemed like it might protect the Jews. The text of Article 9 (“Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion”) states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.” And Article 14 (“Prohibition of discrimination”) states that “The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.”</p><p>Clear enough? Not for the Jews. In the case called Affaire Executief van de Moslims van België et Autres c. Belgique, the court found that kosher and halal slaughter can be banned because a country or provinces in it (the ban applies to Flanders and Wallonia, but not to Brussels) had legislated rules requiring stunning the animal before slaughter. Now, it’s true that Article 9—about religious freedom—reads like it would protect shechita, or kosher slaughter, and says nothing about animals. The court acknowledged that “Article 9 of the Convention did not contain an explicit reference to the protection of animal welfare in the exhaustive list of legitimate aims that might justify an interference with the freedom to manifest one’s religion.” Quite so. In fact Article 9 states that “Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”</p><p>The court found that the practice of Judaism endangered ‘public morals.’ This, on the continent where the very existence of Jews was not so long ago considered a threat to public morals.</p><p>So how did the court torture that text into a meaning that did not protect the practice of Judaism? Simple—where there’s a will, there’s a way. “The Court considered that the protection of public morals, to which Article 9 of the Convention referred, could not be understood as being intended solely to protect human dignity in the sphere of inter-personal relations. The Convention was not indifferent to the living environment of individuals covered by its protection and in particular to animals, whose protection had already been considered by the Court. Accordingly, the Convention could not be interpreted as promoting the absolute upholding of the rights and freedoms it enshrined without regard to animal suffering.”</p><p>Gobbledygook eliminated, the animals trumped the Jews. And this, the court had to acknowledge, despite the fact that the provisions about freedom of religion are expansive—and do not even mention animal welfare. Let’s be clear: The court found that the practice of Judaism endangered “public morals.” This, on the continent where the very existence of Jews was not so long ago considered a threat to public morals. Nor is Belgium alone; kosher slaughter is also banned in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, and Slovenia. So far. The president of the European Jewish Congress, Ariel Muzicant, said after the February ruling that “We are already seeing attempts across Europe to follow this Belgian ban, now sadly legitimised by the ECHR.”</p><p>Now, this ruling would be bad enough taken on its own terms. But it cannot be. There is no country in Europe, not one, that bans hunting.</p><p>Think about that for a moment. Kosher slaughter, a critical element of Jewish observance and theoretically protected by the religious freedom clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, cannot be tolerated. But in every single country in Europe forms of hunting are quite tolerable. Hunting—meaning, the shooting dead of animals who may die in pain and torment, is OK.</p><p>In 2021 the European Commission proposed banning hunting and fishing in “strictly protected areas” in Europe to promote biodiversity. No dice. The website of “Hunters of Europe,” in a posting titled “Move to ban hunting in 10% of the EU considered unjustified by Member States,” noted that “hunting will not interfere with the natural processes” of biodiversity loss and climate change.</p><p>Melanie Phillips wrote of a previous and similar court ruling that it sent “a devastating cultural signal. This is that the core principle of Western modernity, that minority groups can freely practice their religious precepts in a private sphere within which they pose no threat to the majority, has now been junked in Europe.”</p><p>As she noted, “The stag suffering painfully from a bullet wound, the mink dying of its injuries in a trap or the fox torn to pieces by a pack of hounds all meet a far more cruel death than does the animal slaughtered according to the rites of kashrut and halal.”</p><p>Phillips proposed a theory, that the “European strain of universalist Enlightenment thinking that forms the values of the European Union” contains a “vicious hatred of religion.” That anti-religious view had “given rise to the West’s predominant ideology of moral and cultural relativism, which has propelled the rise of paganism and the veneration of the animal and natural world at the expense of humanity. And that now has Jewish and Muslim religious practices squarely in its sights.”</p><p>I would not disagree with her view, but would add to it that accommodations meant to allow Jewish and Muslim life in Europe to flourish may be exactly what many Europeans do not want. Kowtowing to “animal rights” may reflect not only antisemitism, but as well Europe’s desire to deal with its rising Muslim population and the impact it’s having on European societies and cultures without saying so. Banning Jewish practice at the same time is a twofer: it is a way to appear more evenhanded, singling out neither Jews nor Muslims, and including Jews may be a way to avoid a Muslim backlash. For Muslims, whose population in Europe has grown so greatly in the last decades, there is little threat to survival. But for Jews in Europe, whose population has diminished so dramatically in the last 90 years, it is a far more serious blow.</p><p>As Muzicant, the president of the European Jewish Congress, put it, “Restrictions on fundamental aspects of Jewish religious freedom of expression, coupled with a background of massive increases in antisemitic attacks on Jewish communities, lead us to seriously consider whether Jews have a future in Europe.”</p><p>Rulings that elevate vague animal welfare notions over explicit protections of religious freedom, and that place the interests of animals over those of Jews under “public morals” standards, are bad enough. That this occurs in a continent where hunting remains legal everywhere really gives the game away. Not so long ago, hunting Jews was happening all over Europe. Today, hunting still seems to have greater protection than Jews do. As I noted at the start, antisemitism takes many forms.</p><p>Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the Vandenberg Coalition.</p><p>+++++++++<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trump has been branded a criminal because by doing so two things were meant to happen:<br /><br />a) It would prevent him from being able to run again</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyone not biased knows. Pelosi contrived to create conditions that were conspiratorial. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even Schumer voluntarily warned Trump not to challenge the various intelligence agencies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The CIA's John Brennan, not Gen. Flynn, should be in jail.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And:<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">b) By suing Trump for "trumped up charges" those who hate him would have reasons to do so even though, in America, it once was "you are not guilty until proven so." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We know radical Democrats will stop at nothing to have their way regardless of the law, the constitution, morality, even decency. They love walking over their victim's bones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">+++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jason Andrew for The New York Times</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Testimony Fleshes Out Account of Trump’s Demand to Go to Capitol on Jan. 6</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But a newly released transcript of an interview of the Secret Service agent who drove Donald Trump’s vehicle that day disputes that he tried to grab the steering wheel or lunged at another agent.</span></p><p><a class="m_3951886616269610847css-sdwaa1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EnVF2PA5_dSCsRMd9ANb9g~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn0ecJP0T1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMy8xMS91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9qYW4tNi10cnVtcC1tb3RvcmNhZGUtc2VjcmV0LXNlcnZpY2UuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0xOTAmZW1jPWVkaXRfdWZuXzIwMjQwMzExJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExNzMzMSZubD1mcm9tLXRoZS10aW1lcyZyZWdpX2lkPTEzMTI5MTM5OCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MDQ3OCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9MzllYTU0NTUzYjlkOTZkYmFjYzdjZTljOTFmNjhlNDdXA255dEIKZeIJYu9lc79Q-lIVYmVya29icm9rZXJAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD&source=gmail&ust=1710273626909000&usg=AOvVaw2j190gCWHVFJ8DC8-4y1He" href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/EnVF2PA5_dSCsRMd9ANb9g~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn0ecJP0T1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMy8xMS91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9qYW4tNi10cnVtcC1tb3RvcmNhZGUtc2VjcmV0LXNlcnZpY2UuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0xOTAmZW1jPWVkaXRfdWZuXzIwMjQwMzExJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExNzMzMSZubD1mcm9tLXRoZS10aW1lcyZyZWdpX2lkPTEzMTI5MTM5OCZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MDQ3OCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9MzllYTU0NTUzYjlkOTZkYmFjYzdjZTljOTFmNjhlNDdXA255dEIKZeIJYu9lc79Q-lIVYmVya29icm9rZXJAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD" style="background-color: white; color: #286ed0; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;" target="_blank">Read more</a></p><p>+++</p><p>The 156th Day of Israel’s War Against Hamas</p><p>By Sherwin Pomerantz </p><p>While the war did not end on Friday as I predicted last week, things did happen at the end of the week to demonstrate that Washington is beginning to put the screws to Israel in a number of ways. At his State of the Union address on Thursday evening President Biden announced that the US intends to build a temporary pier in Gaza to allow the shipment of humanitarian aid to the strip without using land crossings from either Egypt or Israel. Theoretically, this was done in coordination with Israel which will provide security for its operation. </p><p>Over the weekend the Biden administration warned Israel of the risks of attacking Rafah, intensifying efforts to get us to rethink the conduct of the five-month-old war. Senior US officials said they are cautioning Israel against a direct ground and air attack, doubting that Israel can develop an effective plan to move the civilian population out of harm’s way ahead of the assault, according to a report in today’s New York Times. In a sign of growing White House concern about Rafah, President Biden warned Saturday that an Israeli attack would cross a “red line” and left open the possibility that the US might withhold some types of military assistance to Israel if the operation caused extensive civilian casualties. But he added that a complete cutoff of weapons shipments wasn’t an option.</p><p>“It is a red line, but I am never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical. So, there is no red line (where) I am going to cut off all weapons, so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them,” Biden told MSNBC, referring to the antimissile interceptors. “But there’s red lines that if he (i.e. Netanyahu) crosses…. You cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead.” Fueling the administration’s concern is the faltering effort to secure a six-week cease-fire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins this evening, when US officials fear violence will surge in the midst of Palestinian protests.</p><p>Speaking to lawmakers in the House chamber after the speech, Biden was overheard saying on a live mic that he would have even tougher words for Netanyahu in private. “I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting,” Biden confided to Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, before an aide cautioned the president that his words were being broadcast live.</p><p>Meanwhile on day 156 Israel continues its work in Gaza with the IDF finding and neutralizing additional terror cells in both Khan Yunis and Rafah. The IDF destroyed the Al Masri tower in Rafah today as Hamas was known to be using the facility to house human shields for its terror attacks on Israelis There were no reported civilian casualties. </p><p>On the northern border, Hezbollah launched 35 rockets from Lebanon at the Mount Meron area of Israel’s Upper Galilee on Sunday morning, according to the IDF. Several of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s air defense array.</p><p>Following the barrage, there were reports from Lebanon of Israeli artillery strikes in the areas of al-Habariya and Kunin in Southern Lebanon, Overnight Saturday, Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the area of Ayta ash-Shab, an anti-tank missile launch post in the area of Maroun El-Ras and a military structure in which Hezbollah terrorists were identified in the area of Khirbet Selm, the IDF reported on Sunday morning.</p><p>In the aftermath of a military operation in Rafah, Israel assesses that the Palestinians will attempt an initiative that will try freezing or suspending Israel's participation in the United Nations General Assembly discussions, as well as its ability to vote in the debates, according to a report on Israel radio N12 made public on Saturday. For the record a suspension of membership from the General Assembly is a complicated move that requires a vote by all members of the UN Security Council, along with a two-thirds majority of the assembly. Sources at the Foreign Ministry estimate that this is the path the Palestinians will want to take, per the N12 report. The fear comes amid leaks from political officials of the Arab League, and following remarks made by Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour last week, in which he stated, "Israel cannot continue to sit among us."</p><p>The Foreign Ministry’s legal advisers are working on a move that will show this effort to be fundamentally baseless, according to N12. However, whether the move succeeds or not – this would be very damaging for Israel’s image. A similar step occurred only once since the UN was first established. In the 1970s, South Africa's participation in the General Assembly discussions was suspended because of its apartheid regime.</p><p>Future Leadership</p><p>Today I highlight another individual with potential for national leadership, Dr. Akiva Sternberg, a researcher of the history of Halacha but someone who has also served professionally in various positions of responsibility in the Israeli banking system.</p><p>Until a few years ago he was Senior Vice President and Chief Internal Auditor at Union Bank of Israel Ltd. He had served previously as Chief Risk Manager, Head of the Investment Department, Head of the Financial Management and International Banking Department as well as Deputy Head of the Foreign Business Department, Deputy Head of the Capital Market Department, Head of the Economic Planning and Analysis Department and the person in charge of the information center.</p><p>He is an expert in the development and implementation of models for assessing credit risks, liquidity, market and operational risks in the banking industry. He also developed generally accepted models for macroeconomic forecasting</p><p>As a historian he researches the history of Halacha, from the time of Rashi and the Tosfot to the modern era. His books give the reader the ability to follow the halachic negotiations, while presenting and analyzing the social impacts in their various dimensions, the mutual consequences for the public and the thinking of the rabbis on halachic rulings</p><p>A native of Boston, he has lived in Israel for the past 43 years. He holds a BA in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master’s degree in Management Sciences from Boston University/Ben Gurion University and a Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University’s School of Business Administration.</p><p>Dr. Sternberg has taught at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (now Reichman University). His courses in banking and risk management, in the local and international program, focused on the disruptive process of banking activity and the effect of Fintech on the future of banking.</p><p>No doubt a future finance minister would be very happy to have some like Akiva as part of the country’s financial management team. </p><p>And:</p><p>The 158th Day of Israel’s War Against Hamas</p><p>By Sherwin Pomerantz</p><p>On this 158th day of the war, alarms sounded in the Galilee and the Golan Heights in northern Israel as a barrage of at least 100 rockets were launched in their direction Tuesday morning, according to a report in Israeli media. Crashes were sighted in open areas in the open areas of Ein Kuniya, Snir, Sha'ar Yashuv, and Kfar Szold. Additionally, the IDF attacked launchers in Lebanon that had fired towards the north of Israel. IDF fighter jets also attacked three launchers that fired toward the Golan Heights, the IDF reported. </p><p>In Gaza the IDF claims it killed the Hamas Chief of Staff, the 3rd in command of the terrorist administration. The IDF reported further progress in the assault on the Hamas infrastructure in the Rafah and Khan Yunis areas.</p><p>In some positive news, the humanitarian aid ship that was scheduled to leave Cyprus for Gaza over the weekend has finally left port and should arrive in Gaza before the end of the week. It is just a 320km (200 mile) trip but the ship is being towed by a barge that travels at 3 miles/hour.</p><p>A new American intelligence assessment released on Monday raised doubts whether Prime Minister Netanyahu could stay in power, as the C.I.A. director said a hostage deal was the most practical way to halt, at least temporarily, the war in Gaza. The article in the New York Times made reference to the CIA’s 2024 Annual Threat Assessment which expressed concerns about Israel’s vision for the end of the war and said that Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition “may be in jeopardy.”</p><p>“Distrust of Netanyahu’s ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections,” the report said. “A different, more moderate government is a possibility.” The report also predicted Israel would struggle to achieve its goal of “destroying Hamas.</p><p>“Israel probably will face lingering armed resistance from Hamas for years to come, and the military will struggle to neutralize Hamas’s underground infrastructure, which allows insurgents to hide, regain strength and surprise Israeli forces,” the report added.</p><p>Israeli Arab Ali Ziadna, who has family members being held hostage in Gaza, confronted Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Monday in New York after the UN Security Council’s debate on sexual violence committed by Hamas, and criticized him for allowing his family members and other fellow Muslims to wallow in Hamas captivity, according to a video posted on X. Ziadna was part of a delegation of family members of hostages in Gaza, that accompanied Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan to a UNSC debate over the recently submitted UN report on sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7.</p><p>Future Leadership</p><p>Another new face for the post war government might be Sivan Yaari. She is an Israeli businessperson who founded Innovation: Africa and serves as its CEO. Born in Israel, raised in France and educated in the United States, she holds a bachelor's degree in finance from New York’s Pace University and a master's degree in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University.</p><p>Founded in 2008 Innovation: Africa is a nonprofit organization that brings innovative Israeli solar, water and agricultural technologies to rural villages throughout Africa. The organization has completed over 900 projects in remote villages, providing electricity and clean water to more than 4.2 million people across 10 African countries. </p><p>The organization maintains headquarters in both New York and Israel Since 2012, Innovation: Africa has had a special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council (UNESCO).] Thanks to Innovation: Africa's transparent and live monitoring of its projects, it was granted the United Nations Innovation Award as well.</p><p>Sivan;s honors include receiving the "Light of Israel Award" from Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has been recognized as one of the most "Inspiring Israelis this Decade" by Grapevine; one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Israel” by Forbes; one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Israelis in International Business, Science, and Culture” by NoCamels; and one of the “Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life” by Algemeiner Journal. She was also a torch lighter at last year’s Independence Day celebration.</p><p>The new government will need people who think outside of the box and also have the ability to bring such thoughts to fruition.</p><p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Biden has turned America into a circus of illegal clowns. We no longer have a country. We are fast becoming a zoo of illegal specimens .</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw5fn-rt2lnWwque5XFir7rK0umTTqiuAn41gMJHmtROP-dDLr0gCe_unoNHKKZLzSM-I9s0_2O983j3qCyKQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxFoY3LdYLbRMgYicqfXflIwlXabc5sLEpbuw-Cjm_k5zeyF6Qdl-W1lBIyeBpz5jCjRjYJPFqiY17nBJKmgA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULk-9KwzmYivi5lMJRnlfgA4TETkIhEvIzveXGVxvaQ9_mSyTHOZzAzokc6kMN_Ct5no6KsDYG3aZ2pLiU8tSmGdNUyEyU_Ja1vNupi9CwxPK_0lMseUAmGq2s9jbQeDg0tWjhNbDAs5ojaDeFRP8tWhyQpokiVjr-sMQN0M2-p-UotuO21jKHj7I0H0/s506/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="506" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULk-9KwzmYivi5lMJRnlfgA4TETkIhEvIzveXGVxvaQ9_mSyTHOZzAzokc6kMN_Ct5no6KsDYG3aZ2pLiU8tSmGdNUyEyU_Ja1vNupi9CwxPK_0lMseUAmGq2s9jbQeDg0tWjhNbDAs5ojaDeFRP8tWhyQpokiVjr-sMQN0M2-p-UotuO21jKHj7I0H0/s320/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-79773554830410018752024-03-12T06:21:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:26:17.296-07:00Our Oldest Grandson, Henry, Marries, Jessica.<p>Our oldest grandson was married this weekend in Pasadena, California, to Jessica. and I was asked to make a few comments. (see attached.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I am Dick Berkowitz, Lisa’s father and Henry’s grandfather My wife, .Lynn and I, are your co hosts and we welcome you and are delighted you came. </p><p>I have prepared a few remarks and that will surely scare the hell out of my family. For those who are alert you may notice I moved away from my wife who has been known to kick me under the table. These comments are really for Jessica because she has about 24 hours to ret-htink.</p><p>I was an only child and tomorrow our family will number 30. I just learned a secret that in August we will be 31 as our 5th great filly will be born. We are short on mares in our family. The ratio will be 7 to 2.</p><p>We also have 7 dogs from several large rescues, to one that probably cost more than the first house my parents bought. When we take this 6 lb ball of fluff out for a walk we also have to take a bat for fear an eagle will swoop down and carry her away. A granddaughter also has a caged creature and we have been known to dispose of some fish down the toilet.</p><p>Our family is unique in many other ways. No one smokes, even after sex, no one is into drugs, we are productive, charitable, self employed and/ or privately retired.</p><p>We live in California, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Kentucky, Florida and Georgia.</p><p>We go to great lengths to keep the first cousins in touch with each other and when we get them all together they bond beautifully.</p><p>Some of my more generous and aggressive family members are dissatisfied I don’t own a cell phone. So, one Chanukah they bought me a monster. I could barely lift the apparatus and around the following Purim it died from a virus called "vibrating neglect" on my desk. I donated it to the Museum at the anti-Semitic Ivy League university called Harvard, and took a significant illegal tax deduction. I too was graduated by an Ivy League anti-Semitic university and no longer wear clothing in public that identifies this fact. Ben surely is turning over in his grave.</p><p>We are a politically schizophrenic family but when we come together at Thanksgiving i disregard the mishagas of the turkeys around the table and we focus on our, now deceased, invited famous New York butcher friend who carved the turkey. We enjoy playful banter and depart stuffed and in good spirits.</p><p>Meanwhile, Henry seldom listens to me. I am the burr beneath his saddle, but fortunately he did listen several years ago when he brought Jessica to Savannah and I remarked we thought he had found a KEEPER.. I also informed Henry, because of my advanced age, he does not have forever to learn I am always right, and if he listened to my erudite teachings his life would be enriched. </p><p>For those who cannot understand my accent I am referring to Jessica not a yarmalke.</p><p>When one of my daughters married into a family that owned a lot of banks, my father, who began his law practice during the depression, was overjoyed. No doubt the depression flavored his thinking and he remarked every family should have some banks. He called her his little Rothschild.</p><p>Finally, I want to thank Jessica’s family for their courtesy and hospitality. We are delighted to have another limb added to our Savannah live oak, moss laden family tree. We look forward to their initial visit to Savannah, our beautiful, historic town.</p><p>Incidentally, Jessica is not pregnant, it is our daughter’s daughter who is having their first child in August.</p><p>So tomorrow we shall be treated to what will be a beautiful wedding and I propose we wish Henry and Jessica a long and fruitful life together. la Chaim.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6PCmaLXBaflW4bbR1BFHHI_mYM5fNzAL0aDq7wycRBwo-JWyGRUDR-gZhGsT6vbcI_Pox8PHPb6oAtCvhzoq9qgsfiMQiTzAGZ-zJYF0ui76hivEiveTtpci4rPBC-Vt35MOIX4atvrUG280Mk_R-PpkAyo6dccEnAHTt07mPlGCwhPssnSn6VJ2Iqk/s320/IMG_9617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6PCmaLXBaflW4bbR1BFHHI_mYM5fNzAL0aDq7wycRBwo-JWyGRUDR-gZhGsT6vbcI_Pox8PHPb6oAtCvhzoq9qgsfiMQiTzAGZ-zJYF0ui76hivEiveTtpci4rPBC-Vt35MOIX4atvrUG280Mk_R-PpkAyo6dccEnAHTt07mPlGCwhPssnSn6VJ2Iqk/s1600/IMG_9617.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-52102761072127616192024-03-07T04:29:00.000-08:002024-03-07T06:44:11.384-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyyr-LuAgVHuRRe9tRCNvK8SclDWbBYx7EXU1vdnSqlmjzZZ4Cl6mNnfVIHMGabsfoDJUXGoCE4DA-na9dMC10I77eMfMGd3PxgNzrqk-40xsAUjbOy-v2QjFvyre1cKq_fki5zfKK3lsxatSP1baOz3UDzdrw9-GN52qNjvgSGOf6mNd3O9FYe4mBas/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyyr-LuAgVHuRRe9tRCNvK8SclDWbBYx7EXU1vdnSqlmjzZZ4Cl6mNnfVIHMGabsfoDJUXGoCE4DA-na9dMC10I77eMfMGd3PxgNzrqk-40xsAUjbOy-v2QjFvyre1cKq_fki5zfKK3lsxatSP1baOz3UDzdrw9-GN52qNjvgSGOf6mNd3O9FYe4mBas/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Same applies to Israel and Hamas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">+++<br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ukrainian Verdun The only thing worse than an armistice with</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">no clear winner or loser is an endless war with more than a million</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">casualties. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Victor Davis Hanson</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Posted By Ruth King</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/07/the-ukrainian-verdun-2/</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The nightmare ended ten months later, after the heroic French defense stopped the final German push. But the respective armies ended up in the same position as when the battle started.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After the failed preemptive Russia attack on Kyiv in February 2022 and the subsequent collapsed Ukrainian 6-month-long “spring” counter-offensive of spring 2023, the Ukrainian war has now similarly deadlocked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Russia has failed to annex Ukraine. It has not expanded much beyond occupied Crimea and Donbass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yet Ukraine seems unable to push back the Russians to where they started in February 2022, much less recover lost areas grabbed earlier in 2014.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Although neither side has published reliable and comprehensive dead and wounded statistics, the war has now likely reached a horrific Verdun-like total of 600-700,000 combined casualties.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Perhaps 10 million of Ukraine’s prewar population have fled the country. Due to the massive refugee exodus, the country may have shrunk below 35 million.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In other words, Russia now has a population seven times larger, a gross national product ten times greater, and an area over 30 times the size of current Ukraine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Still, if NATO and the United States can continue to arm Ukraine, it is as unlikely that Russia can annex Ukraine, even as it is doubtful that Ukraine can ever regain territory lost prior to 2014.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As human costs grow and the stalemate continues, talk of peace agreements arises each month.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For Ukraine and its allies, there is a growing, but private, realization that Kyiv will not recover majority Russian-speaking Donbass and Crimea that were lost a decade ago during the inert Obama administration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Indeed, during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, there was no effort either in Ukraine or among its allies to take back by force what Russia had de facto absorbed in 2014.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So what could possibly be the outlines of the armistice agreements that are increasingly being floated in the media?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Perhaps something near what Ukraine and Russia reportedly discussed a few weeks after the failed 2022 Russian invasion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That plan would result in the institutionalization of the decade-long Russian control of the Donbass and Crimea, coupled with guarantees of Ukrainian sovereignty along the pre-February 2022 lines.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Some have further suggested that Ukraine would not become a member of NATO but would be armed to the teeth to deter or destroy likely future Russian aggressors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If such plans were previously floated and are reportedly now revisited, what would be the advantages and downsides for both Russia and Ukraine?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Putin would have to explain—as much as any dictator does—to his people why he started a war that cost some 500,000 Russians dead and wounded, shattered his military, and resulted in no additional territory but a vastly diminished Russian reputation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">His supposed upside would be that he alone finalized the absorption of the resource-rich Donbass and Crimea and stopped Ukraine from joining NATO.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ukraine could counter that its bravery and allied aid inflicted the most grievous damage to the Russian military since World War II. Furthermore, guarantees to rebuild and rearm the now-veteran Ukrainian military could deter the 71-year-old Vladimir Putin from a repeat invasion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ukraine would lose its valid claims to the Donbas and Crimea. But again, apparently neither the Obama, Trump, prewar Biden administration, NATO members, nor Ukraine itself ever had any agenda or ability to forcefully wrest back what Putin had stolen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But what if there is no deal?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By the end of 2024, the current status quo may well result in a combined million dead and wounded.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">European nations will still talk aggressively. But increasingly, they will taper off their aid and quietly consider Ukraine out of sight, out of mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The emerging toxic anti-Western alliance of China, Iran, and Russia will likely strengthen. Third-party opportunists like Turkey, Vietnam, the Middle East, and southern hemisphere nations will increasingly be drawn closer into this new Axis orbit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Measures to break the years-long deadlock will mount, with Ukrainian calls for far more and deadlier Western weapons, even as their manpower declines.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Demands will increase for strategically logical, but otherwise dangerous, escalatory attacks on Russian bases and supply depots inside Mother Russia and against the Black Sea Fleet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Russia, in turn, will up its now-serial nuclear threats and keep targeting civilians. Deadlocked wars have a way of turning the once frightening and unimaginable into the normal and likely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There is already crazy talk about the insertion of NATO ground troops into the war, while Russia threatens to attack other Western nations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The only thing worse than an armistice with no clear winner or loser is an endless war with more than a million casualties.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If The White House Staff have decided to let Biden be Biden then they also must allow BIBI to be Bibi and Israel be Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Report: Israel set deadline for agreement with</span></h1><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 23.5pt;">Lebanon<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><span face="-apple-system-font, serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 17.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Israel has informed Western countries of last date to reach agreement with Lebanon ahead of widescale war.</span></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, has reported that Israel has set a deadline for a diplomatic agreement to calm tensions on the border.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to the report, Israel informed Western countries that it will wait until March 15 to achieve a diplomatic agreement with Lebanon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If such an agreement is not achieved by March 15, Israel is preparing for to expand the IDF's operations in Lebanon to a widescale war.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Since the start of the war with Hamas, Hezbollah terrorists have fired missiles on a near-daily basis towards northern Israel, injuring a large number of people and killing multiple others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Earlier this week, an Indian man, Patnibin Maxwell, was killed by an antitank missile launched towards northern Israel, and seven others were injured in the strike. Following Maxwell's death, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Likud) warned Senior Advisor to President Biden Amos Hochstein that "Hezbollah’s aggression is dragging" both countries "to a dangerous escalation."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In January, Barak Ayalon (48) and his mother Merav were killed when an antitank missile struck a home in Moshav Yuval in northern Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In December 2023, a 60-year-old Israeli farmer was killed when an antitank missile was fired towards the northern Israeli town of Matat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In November 2023, Shalom Aboudi, a 56-year-old father of two, was killed by an antitank missile in the town of Dovev in the Upper Galilee; and Meir Moyal, a 55-year-old resident of Kiryat Shmona, was killed by an antitank missile as he left an IDF post where he had delivered water.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In October 2023, during the first week of the war with Hamas, Staff Sgt. (Res.) Matanya Alastar, 22 years old from Sde Ilan, was killed by an antitank rocket fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I wrote, in a previous memo, Israel would eventually produce it's own weaponry and depend less and less on America. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Never Again" is driving their decision.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No nation can fight a war having to beg for weapons. Ask Ukraine how that feels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israel Prepares to Go It Alone</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By Seth Mandel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Sen. Joseph Lieberman retired in 2012, it was the end of an era in American politics: Lieberman was the last Scoop Jackson Democrat, a staunch Cold War hawk and defender of liberalism at home and abroad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When Joe Biden retires, he will not be the last pro-Israel Democrat. But he may be the last of his kind of pro-Israel Democrat—the Catholic who proclaims himself a Zionist from the Oval Office and lectures his critics on the moral imperative of letting the Jewish people control their fate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Biden has spent decades, of course, getting into rows with Israeli leaders, and he’s been on the wrong side of many of them—including recently, as we’ve written here. He is neither more Catholic than the pope nor more Israeli than the Israelis. It’s just that there seems to be one line that Biden cannot be pressured to cross, and that is forcing Israel to stop fighting when it cannot afford to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He will almost certainly be the last Democratic president, at least for some time, who is able to withstand the immense pressure from within his party and cross that line. In truth, I can’t think of a president of either party who has been hounded by his own party over Israel the way Biden has been. His vice president and presumed successor, Kamala Harris, clearly cannot wait to fold.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And the Israelis seem to have noticed. Yediot Ahronot reports that Israel went on a shopping spree to stock up on U.S.-made rifles while also setting into motion plans to build similar versions domestically to ease its reliance on American weapons. Israel will also produce a domestic line of bombs for its air force.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As the Times of Israel’s Lazar Berman points out, “A production line is expensive. It wouldn’t be opened if the IDF wasn’t committed to buying from it for years to come.” Berman also suggests this could be related to the recent decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade to challenge the subsidies received by Finkelstein Metals. That company is, as the Jerusalem Post explains, “the sole Israeli producer of brass, bronze, and copper alloy products,” with which it supplies major Israeli defense firms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Among the systems dependent on Finkelstein Metals: Iron Dome, Israel’s missile defense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Israeli officials stressed to Yediot that part of this changeover is designed to increase weapons uniformity across IDF brigades that use similar, and now would use identical, guns. “The move will allow for great maintenance flexibility, will prevent [adjustment challenges] for soldiers who will move from regular to reserve, will provide a uniform spare parts market and will save logistical costs over the years,” said one senior IDF officer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Israelis hope to have the domestically produced rifles ready in 2025.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Democrats have been locked in a fight over conditioning aid to Israel, which itself is something of a compromise position intended to take the air out of the tires of the progressive wing’s drive to reduce or eliminate military aid to the Jewish state.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Last week, hours after the debunking of the claim that Israel had sprayed bullets into Gazans trying to get food off of aid trucks, Elizabeth Warren stood on the Senate floor and repeated it to support her argument in favor of limiting wartime aid to Israel. Bernie Sanders used the occasion to insist Israel “open its borders” to let more aid into Gaza. “Failure to do so should result in the immediate halt of all military aid,” he said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The “moderates,” folks like Tim Kaine and Dick Durbin, the latter being among the party’s Senate floor leadership, have been the ones to argue for “merely” conditioning aid to our ally.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The writing is on the wall. And whether it’s written right to left or left to right, Israelis have no trouble reading it. Next time—and unfortunately for Israel, there is always a next time—they might need a Plan B.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Why the left must lie about Hamas and rape</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Journalists and those who post on social media deny the atrocities of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oct. 7 because of the false narrative about Israel being a “settler-</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">colonial” state that enables anti-Semitism.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By JONATHAN S. TOBIN - JNS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">You don’t have to read left-wing publications like The Intercept or The Nation or watch the “Democracy Now” program available on NPR and Pacifica to have encountered denial about the atrocities of Oct. 7. They’re commonplace on social media, and unless you only follow or interact with small bubbles of pro-Israel posters, it’s hard to avoid. But the push to deny that rape was not merely widespread but an important element of Hamas’s plans and tactics in their cross-border assaults isn’t rooted in genuine skepticism about events.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Far from an honest effort to get at the truth, the widespread scoffing about Israeli rape victims on Internet platforms is almost always accompanied by rhetoric that goes beyond the facts about Oct. 7 and the Palestinian pogroms that swept through Jewish communities in southern Israel. Instead, the posters take umbrage that anyone should feel sympathy for the victims or outrage at the perpetrators. Such discussions aren’t really about whether the evidence and testimony from numerous victims and witnesses about the horrendous crimes committed by Hamas operatives, as well as ordinary Palestinians who crossed the border in their wake on Oct. 7, proves that rape was a constant factor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instead, what they focus on is a litany of talking points from the woke ideology playbook in which Palestinians in “occupied” Gaza, who were actually living in an independent Palestinian state in all but name, were engaging in legitimate acts of resistance against settler-colonialism white oppressors. The rape deniers aren’t so much interested in erasing the suffering of women raped by Palestinians as they are in denying that Jews have any right to live in their ancient homeland, and because they do, must consider murder, rape, torture and kidnapping as their just desserts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Civil war at ‘The Times’</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That is the context for the bizarre argument over Hamas rapes that broke out among leftist journalists in recent weeks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The focus of the controversy was the belated New York Times article that finally acknowledged the reality of the horror of Oct. 7. It wasn’t published until Dec. 28, nearly three months after the crimes were committed. This was much like some of the other acknowledgments of Oct. 7 by publications and groups that should have spoken out or published their work with the alacrity that they usually show when sexual offenses are reported. But the Times article, titled “ ‘Screams Without Words:’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 was both thorough and pulled no punches as it unraveled a story of “rape, mutilation and extreme brutality” on the part of Palestinians against Israelis. Much like the videos of some of what happened on Oct. 7 that were often taken by Hamas operatives themselves as they boasted and gloried in their criminal behavior, it makes for difficult reading. Indeed, as many of those who commented on it on the Times website noted, it’s hard to imagine how any person with a shred of decency could support Hamas or oppose Israel’s efforts to eradicate it after reading it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But though the publication with arguably the greatest resources at their command was slow to get the article published, the mere fact that it did so was intolerable for some on the left, who didn’t even wait for Israel’s counterattack against Gaza to begin before flipping the narrative from one of terrorist outrages to one about the plight of Palestinians, including the majority of them who supported Hamas’s launching of a genocidal war aimed at destroying the Jewish state.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It was hardly surprising when The Intercept—a publication that leans harder to the left than even the Times—published not one but two pieces purporting to debunk it. The efforts seized on certain disputes among the Israeli victims and primarily focused on trying to delegitimize an Israeli freelancer who worked on the story because of social-media posts in which she vented her anger at Hamas and the Palestinians after Oct. 7. This is hypocrisy on steroids coming from left-wing journalists who make no secret of their bias. Still, nothing published by The Intercept undermined the basic truth of the Times‘ reporting or the evidence of the way sexual crimes were an integral part of the Hamas assault on Israel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But anger about the story wasn’t confined to those who work at The Intercept.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As was soon revealed, many on the staff of the Times were also unhappy about “Screams Without Words.” The story was supposed to have served as the basis for an episode at “The Daily,” the Times popular podcast that explores the news via the paper’s reporting. The podcast staff, supported by others in the newsroom, were apparently outraged that their publication had documented Palestinian war crimes. In what can only be described as an echo of social-media posters who refuse to accept any evidence of Hamas wrongdoing and their use of rape, those involved in putting out “The Daily” were determined to poke holes in it and to treat those who had produced it as pro-Israel propagandists.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This, too, isn’t surprising. The Times staff was shown to have acted like a left-wing mob when it turned against some who worked on their opinion section when a piece critical of the Black Lives Matter riots by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was published in June 2020. The subsequent purge of the opinion staff also led to Bari Weiss deciding to resign from the paper because it had become an “illiberal” environment where activism was more important than journalism.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The next twist in the story came when those in charge at the Times, who were unhappy about being blasted by The Intercept, woke up to the fact that the attack on their solid story was largely based on leaks from Times staffers. According to reporting by NPR, that led to an investigation by the Times into which employees on their payroll were serving as sources for an outrageous assault on the newspaper’s credibility.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That, in turn, generated outrage from the Times staff, which claimed that journalists of “Middle Eastern and North African extraction” were targeted in the leak investigation and that this was evidence of discrimination. The Times rejects the charge as “preposterous.” But the upshot of the controversy is that the Times management is on the defensive. And, it should also be noted, despite the most recent—and also belated—confirmation of the sexual crimes committed on Oct. 7 by the United Nations, the Times podcast still hasn’t touched the story, despite having already done a number of episodes focusing on the Palestinians’ situation during the war.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Activists pretending to be journalists</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That says a lot about the contemporary culture of American journalism. It was already clear that many of those who work at the most prestigious publications and for broadcast outlets, especially those who have begun work in the last decade and those who specialize in non-traditional journalism like digital media or videos, are committed to a view of their profession as a way to advance their partisan views rather than a search for objective truth. Their attitudes towards the war against Hamas speak primarily to the way that the spread of critical race theory and intersectionality, as well as related ideas about white privilege, have similarly tainted their understanding of the Middle East.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is, after all, largely the same group that regards the #MeToo movement as a pivotal moment in American society and culture. It enthusiastically promoted the idea that “believe all women” was the only way to approach even those controversies involving sexual harassment about which reasonable doubts had been raised.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But just as there were double standards when it came to accusations of sexual misconduct in the United States related to partisan affiliation—accusations against Republicans like Justice Brett Kavanaugh were accepted at face value while the woman who alleged that President Joe Biden had assaulted her with just as little proof was depicted as crazy and unreliable—it is equally clear that responses to the use of rape as a weapon of war are similarly determined by how you feel about Israel. This is not so much a measure of the hypocrisy of Israel-haters as it is a function of ideology. If, like so many Americans on the left—particularly those young people who have been indoctrinated in woke mythology—you are always ready to believe that Israel is in the wrong and the Palestinians are victims no matter what they do, then you are merely doing what the teachings of intersectionality dictate. When faced with accusations against people regarded as oppressors, the woke believe all women. When it is their allegedly powerless victims who are committing the crimes, they demand evidence and dismiss the facts even when they are presented with them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The controversies over Hamas rapes on Oct. 7, coupled with the wars being waged inside publications like the Times about them, are an indication of just how much the toxic influence of critical studies has warped both journalism and public discourse. It has exposed the dishonesty of feminist groups and international bodies that have stayed silent when they should have spoken up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Above all else, it conclusively demonstrates the connection between the new leftist ideological orthodoxies that dominate academia and popular culture—and the crudest sort of Jew-hatred. The mobs on the streets chanting for Israel’s destruction and terrorism against Jews are no different than the mobs in liberal newsrooms; they are equally disinterested in the truth. What they care about is aiding the war on Israel and the Jews, and if that means engaging in what can only be described as the 21st-century version of Holocaust denial, then that is what they will do. But as we know from past discussions about Holocaust denial, no one should be under any illusions about the questions raised about the veracity of reports about the slaughter and mistreatment of Jews. Such talk is always a reliable indicator of anti-Semitism</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_8058726664291380700mceBlockContainer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 12px 24px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="m_8058726664291380700mceText" id="m_8058726664291380700dataBlockId-3" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 612px;"><h1 style="direction: ltr; font-size: 40px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">In Case You Missed It</h1></div></td></tr><tr><td class="m_8058726664291380700mceBlockContainer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 12px 24px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="m_8058726664291380700mceText" id="m_8058726664291380700dataBlockId-4" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 612px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em><span style="color: black;">Please consider sponsoring an EMET webinar featuring top experts offering critical </span></em></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">insights impacting Israel and U.S. national security. Policymakers and the general </span></em></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">public need to hear these voices. <br /></span></em></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">[TRANSCRIPT WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust, many members of the international community have arrived at a single-factor conclusion of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, combined with grandiose plans of how to finally bring peace to the Middle East: the rewarding of this violence with the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state, stretching from Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank) through Gaza. The “dusting off” of this solution, which has been tried, stretches back to the 1937 Peel Commission, the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the 1967 Khartoum Conference, the Oslo Accords of 1993, the Roadmap for Peace in 2002, and the Gaza Withdrawal of 2005.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Before we launch into this, it is important to explore the following questions: Have the Palestinians behaved as a friend or ally to the United States in the past? How have the Palestinians behaved in their host Arab countries? Have they been a stabilizing influence or a destabilizing influence? What have the Palestinians, themselves expressed in terms of their affinity towards Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as opposed to the “so-called” more moderate groups of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, and what is the real distinction between them? If established, how stable would a Palestinian Authority government be?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here to answer these questions and more is Ambassador Yoram Ettinger.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">About the Speaker: Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger is an insider on US-Israel relations, Mideast politics and overseas investments in Israel’s high tech. He is a member of the American-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG), which has documented dramatic flaws behind demographic fatalism on one hand and a Jewish demographic momentum on the other hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He is a consultant to members of Israel’s Cabinet and Knesset, and regularly briefs US legislators and their staff on Israel’s contribution to vital US interests, on the root causes of international terrorism and on other issues of bilateral concern.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger’s OpEds have been published in Israel and in the US, and he has been interviewed on Israel’s and US’ TV and radio. He was a speaker at AIPAC Annual Conference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger – who did his graduate studies at UCLA and undergraduate at UTEP – served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington (with a rank of an ambassador), Israel’s Consul General in Houston and Director of Israel’s Government Press Office. He is the editor of Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom and Boardroom newsletters on issues of national security and overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mother Superior's Michelle, Jill and Hillary belittle many Americans thinking we are all White Supremacist's "deplorables."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I think of American's as being Bassett Hounds. Often odd in our physical appearance and manners, lovable but stubborn but very devoted and loyal We are also generous, to a fault, and probably still brave.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I also believe, the world is better because of American's. We have accomplished miraculous things which have blessed mankind and made human life better and are a sharing, generous people. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As for our government, America is unique, we are the envy of the world. We have made our share of mistakes but our Constitution both allows and encourages us to correct them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Compared to our adversaries, they are the true deplorables.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">+++.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18235554641932785875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155113810111716841.post-36542909645904390162024-03-06T18:33:00.000-08:002024-03-07T04:14:36.970-08:00All WSJ Op Ed's.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkSmi-8WKkBhIQME_t97E6w_qcIDFeLL7UKrmOIA1BiTpQamgZnOKixURwriVzCwbRGpRYVlqZwFU8fBiMTuVNhZo0JvhozKKnyqkDhZddLG5xBFMeyPNVlo4zNRBM1ZujZfw3Ce5tQWs4AZUfyXlfRlgnogmQkTMmjNbIszz05750JBfoJcWH0H35B8/s320/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="320" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkSmi-8WKkBhIQME_t97E6w_qcIDFeLL7UKrmOIA1BiTpQamgZnOKixURwriVzCwbRGpRYVlqZwFU8fBiMTuVNhZo0JvhozKKnyqkDhZddLG5xBFMeyPNVlo4zNRBM1ZujZfw3Ce5tQWs4AZUfyXlfRlgnogmQkTMmjNbIszz05750JBfoJcWH0H35B8/s1600/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This memo is solely devoted to attached pertinent WSJ Op Ed's </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-spacer-8);"><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats’ Hubris Paves the Way for a Second Trump</span></h1><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Term</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden promised an end to chaos and lunacy. He barely</span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">won, </span>then utterly failed to deliver. </h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Gerard Baker</span></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The state of our union is strong, President Joe Biden will doubtless insist on Thursday night. But as a description of America in 2024, the claim has about as much credibility as the protestations from the White House that the president has the mind of a chess grandmaster and the stamina of a thoroughbred.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Biden presides over a weakened, divided, fearful nation whose voters face a bleak choice about their future.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It must have dawned on Democrats by now that eight months from Election Day, it’s getting awfully late. Mr. Biden’s approval ratings remain in Jimmy Carter territory. In poll after poll, swing state after swing state, he is losing to the man he beat in 2020.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Incumbent presidents are blessed with often-decisive advantages. Donald Trump was only the fourth elected president in a century to lose re-election. But unless something changes Mr. Biden is set to join him on that short list, even as he adds his predecessor to the even shorter roll of third-time’s-a-charm candidates.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Democrats have made three critical miscalculations that have brought them here.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The first was to underestimate Mr. Trump and to overestimate their ability to dispatch him. Except for a few empathic souls, most Democrats have never really understood the former president’s appeal. They like to ascribe it, in their own words, to a “basket of deplorables,” “bitter clingers” or, in Mr. Biden’s characteristically less imaginative phrasing, “semi-fascists.”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">They gaze out from their Ivy League casements and Hollywood balconies on a Hobbesian hinterland of racists, bigots and fools, fed a diet of “misinformation” by right-wing media. From those secure perches they don’t see people who feel betrayed at home and abroad by successive leaders, American communities battling devastating health and financial crises, workers whose incomes have struggled to keep pace with costs, parents who fear their children’s lives will be worse—all told by a modern aristocracy that their American values are wicked, that people from other countries who have no legal right even to be here are entitled to the same privileges, even when they commit violent crimes.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Never having grasped how validating it is for many Americans to hear someone who gets this, Democrats thought they could put him down with ease. But 2024 isn’t unfolding by that script. They thought Mr. Trump would fail to make it across a criminal-law minefield, being convicted before the first votes are cast. But he has always had a charmed ability to slip between the interstices of the law. And many voters, whatever they think of his flaws, are uneasy about the spectacle of Democratic state prosecutors and a Democratic administration’s Justice Department striving to put their principal opponent in jail.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The second miscalculation was Mr. Biden’s own misplaced self-belief that despite his declining powers he was the only candidate for the job. If the president had kept the implicit promise in 2020 that he would be a caretaker president, he wouldn’t now be asking Americans to take the terrible risk of voting for a ticket that consists of a man who may not finish his term and a designated successor who shouldn’t be allowed to.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s simply untrue that the Democrats have a hopelessly weak bench. Vice President Kamala Harris may have demonstrated her unfitness for the office, but there are a slew of governors who could have made a strong case. Gavin Newsom may be too oleaginous and too Californian for swing-state voters, but Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Wes Moore of Maryland all have strong credentials and are at least a generation younger than Mr. Biden and his opponent.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The third miscalculation was the decision to interpret the narrow victory of 2020 as a mandate to rewrite the social contract. At the presidential and congressional levels, the Democrats won a squeaker four years ago and decided they were the reincarnation of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The implementation of the left’s agenda—dismantling the border, a massive stimulus into a supply-constrained economy, the regulation of American capitalism and a federal industrial policy, taxpayers forced to foot the bill for the education of the privileged, the rewriting of social relations in line with the dictates of the “diversity, equity and inclusion” ideology—all this would have been ruinous in a country that had actually voted for them. In a country that simply sought to escape the chaos and lunacy of the Trump years, it is almost criminal.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The common element in all these miscalculations is the familiar flaw in the left’s mindset—hubris, the absolute self-assurance that they alone know what is good for the rest of us. Disdainful of the concerns of regular people, supremely confident that, even in their dotage, they should make choices for us that we can’t be trusted to make for ourselves, their unshakable faith in the ability of government to order our lives better than we can.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">As I said, it’s getting late. There may still be time. Perhaps at least their hubris about Mr. Trump may prove justified. More likely, nemesis awaits.</span></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><div class="css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-spacer-8);"><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Netanyahu’s Bold, Realistic Plan for ‘the Day After Hamas’</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gazans appear ready to rebuke the terrorists and work</span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">with </span>Israel to create a new governing body.</h2></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By Daniel Pipes</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div style="font-size: x-large;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month presented Israel’s security cabinet with a short document: “The Day After Hamas.” Its key passage states that Jerusalem plans to work primarily with Gazans to rebuild their territory. “Civil affairs and responsibility for public order will be based on local actors with ‘management experience,’ ” it says, and “not identified with countries or organizations supporting terrorism” or receiving payments from them.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">In a step toward this program of self-rule, the Israeli military has begun an informal pilot program of what it calls “humanitarian pockets” in parts of north Gaza cleared of Hamas. These local governing bodies consist of community leaders, whose duties will include distributing humanitarian aid and revising school curricula.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">The concept of Israelis working with Gazans is brave, bold and contested. It faces two main criticisms. First, the U.S. and other governments want to hand Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, which rules most of the West Bank and seeks Israel’s destruction. Second, many Israelis and Palestinians alike insist that Jerusalem won’t find those “local actors” to work with.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">Yet Mr. Netanyahu’s plan, and the optimism implicit in it, is correct. The proposal envisages a decent Gaza run by decent Gazans. That isn’t inconceivable. It recognizes that Gazans have endured 17 years of unique hell: exploitation by their rulers as cannon fodder for public-relations purposes. Unlike other dictatorial regimes, which sacrifice soldiers for battlefield gains, Hamas sacrifices civilians for political support. The more misery Gazans endure, the more convincingly Hamas can accuse Israel of aggression and the wider and more vehement its global backing becomes.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">A trove of evidence, however, suggests that Gazans reject being used as pawns in the terror group’s strategy. Two surveys taken before Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre signal that Gazans want to live normal lives.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">One, conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in mid-2023, found that 61% wish that more Israeli jobs were offered to those living in Gaza and the West Bank. Sixty-two percent want Hamas to preserve the cease-fire with Israel, and 67% believe that “the Palestinians should focus on practical matters, . . . not on big political plans or resistance options.” Seventy-two percent say “Hamas has been unable to improve the lives of Palestinians in Gaza,” and 82% agree that “Palestinians should push harder to replace their own political leaders with more effective and less corrupt ones.” Eighty-seven percent find that “many people are more preoccupied with their personal lives than with politics.”</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">The second survey, taken by Arab Barometer days before the war began, found that “the vast majority of Gazans have been frustrated with the armed group’s ineffective governance as they endure extreme economic hardship.”</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">These findings have been borne out on the ground. Since Oct. 7, videos have shown crowds of Gazans chanting “Down with Hamas,” cursing Hamas leaders, and proclaiming: “The people want to end the war. . . . We want to live!” Hamas’s stealing of humanitarian aid has likewise reportedly provoked local anger and tension.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">The same resistance has begun to break through in popular media. Live interviews of Gazans on Arab media networks often inadvertently broadcast sentiment critical of Hamas and its state backers. In a Nov. 5 interview with Al Jazeera, an elderly, wounded man said of Hamas members: “They can go to hell and hide there.” The journalist cut him off.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">These and other data points indicate that many Gazans want to be liberated from Hamas. However hostile to the Jewish state, they desperately want to move on from their present squalor, even if that means working with Jerusalem.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">Israel, therefore, can reasonably expect to find many cooperative Gazans ready to establish a new governing authority capable of taking on a range of tasks, from policing, utilities, municipal services and administration to communications, teaching and urban planning.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">A decent Gaza will require tough Israeli military rule, overseeing a tough police state along the lines of what exists in Egypt and Jordan. In those countries, citizens can lead normal lives so long as they stay out of trouble and refrain from criticizing the ruler. Under such conditions, Gaza could become decent and economically viable. As others such as Singapore and Dubai have shown, democracy isn’t necessary for such a project to succeed.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">If the Israelis have the acumen and stamina to make this happen, they will have retrieved something positive out of tragedy.</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">Mr. Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum and author, most recently, of “Islamism vs. the West: 35 Years of Geopolitical Struggle.”</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">And:</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="article-header css-exmfr e1wkb4h44" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: var(--article-direction); grid-area: article-header; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="css-j6808u e1noyqgz8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><div class="crawler css-1skj0ht-Box e1vnmyci0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-spacer-8);"><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ballistic Missiles Allow Iran to Act More Boldly</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has fired them into Iraq, Syria and Pakistan, and Israel is</span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>within</span> their roughly 900-mile range.</span></h2><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Behnam BenTaleblu</span></h2></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><div>While the world focuses on the threat posed by Iran’s growing nuclear program and its terror proxies, Iran’s ballistic-missile program is underwriting the expansion of both. Over the past decade, Iran has transformed much of its ballistic-missile arsenal, the largest in the Middle East, from mere tools of terror to battlefield-ready systems. Iranian missiles are more precise, mobile, lethal and abundant than ever before—giving the regime more dangerous options when it wants to throw its weight around.</div><div><br /></div><div>Iran spent decades mastering the art of covert and deniable military action by using proxies. It still does that, as we’ve seen since Oct. 7, but Iran also has a newfound confidence, which has reduced its threshold for the use of overt and attributable force.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since 2017, Iran has engaged in at least 11 separate ballistic-missile operations from its own territory against Kurdish, U.S., Islamic State, Baluch and other targets and interests across Iraq, Syria and Pakistan. Iran is likely to use these missiles to respond to any serious or perceived provocation in the future. Citing this newfound missile power, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in 2018 that “the enemy knows if he hits one, he will receive 10.”</div><div><br /></div><div>In January, Iran launched four medium-range ballistic missiles at Syria in response to Islamic State attacks. Though the strike was on Syrian territory, the projectiles also sent a message to Israel. Their stated range of 900 miles is roughly the distance between Iran and Israel, and the missile’s name—Kheibar Shekan or “Breaker of Kheibar”—invokes the destruction of a Jewish stronghold in seventh-century Arabia by the prophet Muhammad’s armies.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 2023 the regime claimed to have developed its first-ever hypersonic missile and celebrated with a poster in Persian, Arabic and Hebrew proclaiming that it needed only “400 seconds” to strike Tel Aviv. In late 2021, Tehran built a mock-up of Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona and struck it during a military drill using ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones. Iran also fired ballistic missiles at a mock-up of the Star of David in 2017 and has emblazoned anti-Israel slogans on a host of ballistic missiles.</div><div><br /></div><div>These declarations and drills aren’t merely performative. Ukrainians and Israelis have learned the hard way not to play down the irredentist or genocidal intentions of their adversaries. Leaders often mean what they say and will spend time and resources to effect ends they desire. No one has ever accused the Islamic Republic of shying away from telegraphing its intentions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some experts see the regime’s recent missile operations as sign of internal weakness and external limits. In response to Israel’s killing of an Iranian general in Syria in December, Tehran opted to launch missiles at what it alleged was a Mossad stronghold in Iraq—in reality, the missiles hit the home of a Kurdish businessman—rather than attack Israel directly. In this case, Iran used its missile capability to save face.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better missiles don’t mean that Iran will become a conventional military power overnight, and the regime isn’t expected to shun its carefully cultivated proxy network. But the West should fear how Tehran might incorporate its improved long-range strike capabilities into a larger strategy in pursuit of its ideological goals.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tehran is already taking advantage of its missile capability to provide cover for other escalatory acts against the U.S. and Israel. When Israel thinks about how to respond to Hezbollah’s attacks, it must take into account a deadly and potentially direct Iranian response. This, on top of Hezbollah’s Iran-supplied precision-guided munition capabilities, helps deter Israel and is keeping 80,000 Israelis from returning to their homes in the north. The missiles also distract from Iran’s nuclear progress, which could provide the clerics with the ultimate sword of Damocles to dangle over the Jewish state. To date, Israel hasn’t been able to stop either threat from advancing, largely because of the costs of a potential Iranian reprisal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tehran can also use its missile capabilities to limit the options available to its adversaries, forcing them into grudging accommodation. One need only look at Saudi Arabia, which for years was under a barrage of Iran-supplied missiles and drones via the Houthi rebels in Yemen and has settled for a not-so-cold détente with Iran.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the gap between Tehran’s missile capability and its braggadocio narrows, the risk of harsh Iranian responses to threats grows considerably. Missile mastery has emboldened the Islamic Republic, making it keen to take more risks and to respond to fire with fire.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Taleblu is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.</div></div><div style="font-size: x-large;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="viewsHeader" data-test-id="views-title" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><h1 class="viewsHeaderText" style="color: var(--neutral-foreground-rest); font-family: "Eb Garamond"; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; max-height: 160px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opinion | What We Learned From the Biden Family Depositions</span></h1><h1 class="viewsHeaderText" style="color: var(--neutral-foreground-rest); font-family: "Eb Garamond"; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; max-height: 160px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="viewsAttribution viewsAttributionNewRR" style="color: var(--neutral-foreground-rest); display: inline-block; font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 14px 0px 22px; min-height: 19px; opacity: 0.8; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span class="viewsAuthors" style="line-height: 22px; overflow: hidden;" title="The Editorial Board"><span class="viewsOpinionWord" style="font-style: italic;">by The Editorial Board</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif;">•</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span></span></h1></div></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />House Republicans have released transcripts of their depositions with Hunter and James Biden, and we’ve read them so you don’t have to trust what other papers don’t want to report. Far from Democratic claims that they show nothing wrong, the testimony confirms the story of political influence peddling and family profiteering. Even if he didn’t get a dime himself, Joe Biden willingly assisted his son Hunter and brother James in schemes to cash in on the Biden family name.<br /><br /> Under hours of questioning, Hunter and James acknowledged unsavory facts revealed by prior witnesses. Hunter finally admitted that former partner James Gilliar was indeed referring to Joe when he envisioned an equity partnership that included “10 held by H for the big guy” as part of a 2017 deal with Chinese energy company CEFC. This is notable after years of Democratic claims that the laptop on which this email was found was “Russian disinformation.”<br /><br />Hunter also confirmed former business partner Tony Bobulinski’s testimony of a meeting that same year in Los Angeles with Hunter, James, Tony and Joe—in the midst of the CEFC deal-making talks. He didn’t “contest” former partner Rob Walker’s testimony that Hunter introduced Joe to the CEFC chairman at the Four Seasons hotel in New York.<br /><br />He conceded former partner Devon Archer’s testimony that Joe showed up at business dinners that Hunter hosted in Washington’s Café Milano with Kazakhstan and Russian oligarchs, and that he put his father on speakerphone during other meetings.<br /><br />Several witnesses have explained Hunter’s role as selling the Biden family “brand”—that is, his father’s influence in Washington. Mr. Archer, who sat on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma with Hunter, told the committee: “Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it.”<br /><br />Mr. Bobulinski said Hunter’s speakerphone calls were engineered so Joe could impress would-be clients, “enabling the transaction.” A recent Politico piece about James Biden’s ill-fated venture with a hospital operator cited executives who said James invoked Joe while “wooing potential business partners.”<br /><br />Yet even as the duo confirmed all this, they want the public to believe that testimony by the same witnesses about influence peddling is dishonest. Hunter said his father’s calls were merely coincidental bonding moments—doesn’t everyone put dad on speakerphone during business meetings? He said the “big guy” email was Mr. Gilliar engaging in “pie in the sky” dreams of working with a “former Vice President,” and that Hunter “shut it down.” He explained that Joe sojourning to Café Milano to say hi and order spaghetti was different than Joe coming “for” dinner.<br /><br />Hunter didn’t claim his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions, but he did reveal a conveniently spotty memory. Hunter couldn’t recall reading the famous “big guy” email, or writing threatening texts, and he disclaimed knowledge of the origins of the $142,000 used to buy him a luxury car. (Mr. Archer said it came from a Kazakhstan oligarch.)<br /><br />James claimed not to recall his specific interactions with Mr. Bobulinski during the CEFC deal, even as he insisted Mr. Bobulinski never met Joe—a claim contradicted by Hunter. Hunter blamed his faulty memory and bad behavior on being “out of his mind” at times on alcohol and drugs, yet he suggests his substance abuse never caused him to cross ethical lines when it came to his father.<br /><br />Joe’s involvement with CEFC and the “big guy” email occurred shortly after he left the Vice Presidency. This suggests Joe thought his political career might be over and was out to make money in the Beltway habit. That was his right, but then why didn’t he say that in 2020? The facts from the House investigation show he lied to the public about the extent of his knowledge and involvement with the Hunter-James businesses.<br /><br />The interviews verified that Hunter and James made a bundle from their overseas work, though both struggled to describe what they provided in return. Both men failed to provide compelling explanations for their Escher-like financial accounts, which often involved odd payments, wires and entities. The committee has found more than $20 million from foreign sources that went to Hunter, James and business associates.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div>Republicans plan to invite Hunter for a public hearing, and they may move to impeach President Biden. The latter won’t go anywhere in the Senate, and it could backfire politically by mobilizing Democrats in the President’s defense. They’d accomplish more by educating the public about the Biden family’s influence peddling, and letting voters decide if they want to reward it with a second term.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-spacer-8);"><h1 class="css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-family); font-style: var(--font-style-italic); font-weight: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-headline-opinion-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Letitia James Sacrifices the Rule of Law to Get Trump</span></h1><div><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-size: large; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);"><br /></span></div><div><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-size: large; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);">Her dubious civil fraud suit is more damaging</span></div><div><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-size: large; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);">to the market’s </span>integrity than his conduct is. </span></div></div><h2 class="css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-size: large; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);">By Alleysia Finley</span></h2></div><div><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight);"><br /></span></div><div><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">New York isn’t Venezuela, but its political system is going the way of Caracas. Whatever <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="phrase" href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/donald-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Donald Trump</a>’s financial transgressions, they pale in comparison with Attorney General Letitia James’s desecration of the law in service of destroying a political opponent.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last week, a New York appellate court rejected Mr. Trump’s petition to stay a legally dubious $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appealed the verdict. Ms. James is threatening to seize Mr. Trump’s properties if he doesn’t pay up by March 25. His appeal suggests he lacks the liquid assets to do so and might be forced to sell or mortgage properties.</span></p><div class="paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It would be one thing if Ms. James were seeking restitution for victims. She isn’t because there are none. Instead she’s seeking financial penalties against Mr. Trump, which Democrats in Albany will spend on rewarding government unions and other political allies. This is the stuff of banana republics.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. James ran for office in 2018 on the promise of taking down Mr. Trump. That she turned up evidence of inflated assets on financial statements he provided banks to obtain loans should have come as no surprise given his penchant for puffery. But her investigation into his vast business dealings failed to produce evidence of fraud.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No bank claimed to have lost money by lending to Mr. Trump, or to have been deceived by his financial legerdemain. Nor did any witnesses at trial say his alleged misrepresentations changed its loan terms or prices. Ms. James’s 2022 lawsuit lacked any evidence that Mr. Trump profited from any alleged wrongdoing.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A former Deutsche Bank risk manager <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.courthousenews.com/witness-ties-trumps-phony-finance-statements-to-125-million-deutsche-bank-loan/" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">testified</a> at trial last year that the bank’s loan decisions were based on its own analysis, not Mr. Trump’s word. Banks know regulators can punish them for failing to do due diligence when underwriting loans.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before the 2007-08 housing meltdown, banks qualified borrowers for larger loans than they could afford, often based on inaccurate financial records. Regulators later dunned them for slipshod underwriting. Yet Ms. James bizarrely argued that banks have somehow been victimized by Mr. Trump’s alleged misrepresentations even though they made money from the loans.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because she couldn’t demonstrate that banks relied on Mr. Trump’s misrepresentations—a critical element of common-law fraud—she rested her case on a sweeping state civil fraud law known as Executive Law Section 63(12). The statute substantially mirrors federal criminal fraud statutes.</span></p><div class="ad-portal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet in the interest of limiting freewheeling prosecutions, federal courts require proof of property loss or damage to prove fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year in <em class="css-i6hrxa-Italic e1ofiv6m0" data-type="emphasis" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ciminelli v. U.S</em>.—a case involving New York public corruption—that misrepresentations aren’t enough. New York courts, on the other hand, have given a broad sweep to the state’s fraud law.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The state trial judge, Arthur Engoron, ruled on Feb. 16 that Mr. Trump’s false financial statements, no matter whether they harmed anyone, deserve to be punished. He required Mr. Trump to “disgorge” $355 million in “ill-gotten gains.” How did he come up with this figure? Financial legerdemain.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. James hired a financial expert, who assessed the “interest rate savings” that Mr. Trump supposedly netted as the difference between what he paid and what he would have paid on his loans had his statements been accurate. The judge then tacked on the profit Mr. Trump putatively made on properties for which he submitted false financial statements.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On top of that, Judge Engoron added roughly $99 million in “pre-judgment interest” dating back to March 4, 2019—the day the attorney general launched her investigation—to punish Mr. Trump’s “corrupt intent or desire for personal profit.” Who cares that the lawsuit was motivated by Ms. James’s desire for political gain and government profit?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. James last week jeered that Mr. Trump owes an additional $114,553.04 in interest to the state each day he doesn’t cough up the moolah. It could be argued that the grossly inflated penalties against Mr. Trump constitute ill-gotten gains for the state. Mr. Trump enjoys playing the victim, and Ms. James is more than enabling him.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If the judgment isn’t stayed or sharply reduced, Mr. Trump will have no choice but to dump his properties in a fire sale. Yet it’s doubtful Ms. James actually wants to seize those assets. That would require the state to operate and maintain them before auctioning them off, which it is manifestly incapable of doing. New York City public housing, Q.E.D.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Trump’s lawyers rightly argue that the state is trampling the rule of law by “unwinding complex commercial transactions between sophisticated parties” even when nobody has been harmed. What’s to stop the attorney general from doing the same whenever she disagrees with how a bank or business has valued an asset?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. James says punishing Mr. Trump is necessary to preserve the integrity of the financial marketplace. But she’s doing more damage than Mr. Trump is.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/xjhldymplljtdplptpdhmtnbbctbbpcmsshyqdjdvvvsrgc_akkkbymsdbdnmtblsmdmbb.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Biden Campaign Focusing on Going for 'Trump's Jugular'</a><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" />By <a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/kvlklzgrkkdjlrkrjrlmgjbsspjssrpgffmzqldlhhhfvlt_akkkbymsdbdnmtblsmdmbb.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Matt Vespa</a></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); 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font-family: "Source Serif Pro", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Liberal Reporter Notices Something Odd About California's Democratic Primary Results</a></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">By <a href="https://www.townhallmail.com/aylzmcwyzztnmyzynymdwnvpplnppylwssdcgmtmkkkshmk_akkkbymsdbdnmtblsmdmbb.html?a=5c23a0028f366cf9ff23ef7b869c7ccb656f335278266261138b6351143b5a39&b=20418303" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Matt Vespa</a></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">++++</p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); 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