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The latest presentation confirmed everything I have been saying for the last few years.
This is a summation of Efraim's comments:
Iran is not driven by ideology. Iran believes the destruction of Israel is God's will/intention They mean what they say and they intend to finish their nuclear effort and then to use it. They will not be deterred and Israel will have to go it alone because it cannot trust the word of others.
Israel must act not only to protect their survival but to reduce potential destruction and also because they must send a clear message to those Arab nation's who joined the Abraham Accords and are watching whether Israel is going to act in ways they expect/hope. That said, they are still concerned and have been sending ambassadors to Iran as a hedge.
The idea of expecting regime change is a fool's game. Iran's leadership is more than willing to kill their citizens.
Efraim was quite definite that Israel should have already acted and must do so as soon as they are capable. He does not believe Israel is currently capable nor has completed their attack plans. He stated, Israel must devote whatever resources it takes to prepare and then act. Furthermore, he has no doubt Israel is capable of destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and until they act Israel should continue their attacks on those Iranians involved in making their nuclear program a reality.
He stated, though the facilities are underground there is an entry point and even if it takes troops on the ground there are plenty of Israeli military that will volunteer.
He again repeated, Israel is on it's own and will always be on their own.
Efraim is a realist. He and those of his persuasion, should be listened to and heeded simply because against a committed and outspoken enemy he who hesitates is lost.
Iran, China, Russia, N Korea are world enemies. We must not resurrect the ghost of Chamberlain.
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An Iran with 60 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, who has denied inspection access to the International Atomic Energy Administration; the rise and empowerment of an array of terrorist groups on Israel’s borders, many of which are terrorist proxies; the exonerating of terrorist groups who wage war against the citizens of Israel by lofty bodies such as the UN; the rise of cancel culture and wokeness on college campuses and the apparent efforts of the US to withdraw from the region: How does Israel handle all of these challenges and existential threats to its being?
Here to talk to us about this was Dr. Efraim Inbar, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy.
About the speaker: President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Professor Inbar was the founding director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, a position he held for 23 years (1993-2016), and a professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Boston universities; a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow; and a visiting fellow at the (London-based) International Institute for Strategic Studies.
He was president of the Israel Association of International Studies; a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council; chairman of the National Security Curriculum committee in the Ministry of Education; and a member of the Academic Committee of the IDF History Department. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics: Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel’s National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (2008), and edited fourteen collections of scholarly articles. He is an expert on Israeli strategic doctrine, public opinion on national security issues, US Middle East policy, Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, and Israel-Turkey relations.
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Why Israel cannot rely on anyone but themselves. Most particularly not The feckless, anti-Semitic U.N.
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US: Hezbollah’s amassing of weapons on Israel’s northern border must stop
The US warned that UNIFIL peacekeepers are being increasingly blocked from fulfilling their mission.
Hezbollah must stop amassing weapons on Israel’s northern border, the US’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Mills, told the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday, after it voted to renew the mandate of the organization’s peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
“The US shares this council’s significant concern about the state of affairs in southern Lebanon, in particular, Hezbollah’s threatening activities,” he said.
Tensions continue surrounding Lebanon-Israel maritime border demarcation talks
The UNSC vote comes as tension has increased between Israel and Lebanon over their maritime dispute.
On Wednesday, Reuters posted a video of two Lebanese ministers symbolically throwing rocks towards Israel.
Since 1978, the UN has maintained a peacekeeping force along the border between the two countries known as the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Since 2006 it has been specifically tasked with maintaining the cease-fire agreement that ended the Second Lebanon War and that was codified in UNSC Resolution 1701.
UNIFIL currently has a force of 10,500 peacekeepers from 48 UN countries. Its patrols focus on the area between the Blue Line and the Litani River, with an eye to preventing another arms build-up that could lead to another war, particularly by a non-state actor such as Hezbollah.
Israel holds that Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy group.
UN reiterates Lebanese Army should be only armed force in country
The UNIFIL resolution approved Wednesday reiterated the UN position that the Lebanese Army should be the only armed force in the country. It also called for UNIFIL to be given the freedom of movement needed to fulfill its mandate.
Mills said the resolution “reaffirms UNIFIL’s authority to operate independently and to conduct both announced and unannounced patrols.”
“We urge the Lebanese authorities as the host state to facilitate UNIFIL’s full and timely access to UNIFIL’s entire area of operations,” Mills said.
He echoed a concern raised many times by Israel about the Lebanese failure to ensure that UNIFIL has freedom of movement in its area of operation.
“UNIFIL peacekeepers are blocked with increasing frequency from conducting their mandated tasks and accessing sites of concern,” Mills said.
The area of between the Blue Line – the internationally recognized border that has yet to be ratified by both countries – and the Litani River “must be free of weapons except for those used by the government of Lebanon and UNIFIL,” he added.
“With this resolution [renewing UNIFIL’s mandate] the security council has made clear that Hezbollah’s continued amassing of weapons must stop,” Mills said.
He took particular issue with the actions of a non-governmental environment group called “Green Without Borders” believed to be an affiliate of Hezbollah that operates in southern Lebanon.
US accuses Hezbollah of obstructing UNIFIL
Mills accused the group of obstructing UNIFIL’s actions by placing containers near the border with Israel.
“The proliferation of prefabricated containers placed by Green Without Borders obstructs UNFIL’s access to the Blue Line and is heightening tension in the area, further demonstrating that this so-called environmental group is acting on Hezbollah’s behalf,” Mills said.
UNIFIL must also have access to the tunnels, he said, referring to the sites where Israel has documented that Hezbollah has dug attack tunnels along the border.
The UNSC votes annually to renew UNIFIL’s mandate. This year it added a paragraph to the renewal resolution that is largely the same from year-to-year, to strengthen the language showing its opposition to Hezbollah’s armed presence on Israel’s northern border and to the continued transfer of arms to that group.
The new paragraph stated that the UNSC “condemns the continued maintenance of arms outside the control of the Lebanese State by armed groups in violation of resolution 1701 (2006).”
It “recalls paragraph 15 of resolution 1701 (2006) according to which all States shall take the necessary measures to prevent, by their nationals or from their territories or using flag vessels or aircraft, the sale or supply of arms and related materiel to any entity or individual in Lebanon other than those authorized by the Government of Lebanon or UNIFIL.”
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WW 2 ended in 1945 & this is video was made in 2016. That means the YOUNGEST surviving WWII veteran is 88. Keep that in mind when you watch the video. Quite a few do not look their age. And to think this is the year 2022 and the youngest World War 2 veteran is 94 years young. Be sure to give the veterans their respect, and thank them for your freedoms. The video link below is about 8 minutes long.
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Opposing voter I.D is an insult to our "founding fathers."
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John Fetterman’s reasons for opposing voter ID are an insult to black Americans
Adam B. Coleman
We’ve all repeated some form of tribal rhetoric because the underlying narrative came from people we strongly associate ourselves with. It becomes tribal rhetoric because it’s widely believed and accepted uncritically by those within the tribe.
I’d love, for example, to meet this mysterious black person I keep hearing about from politicians who is completely incapable of getting to the DMV to receive a photo ID.
When you apply critical thinking to the narrative that it’s racist to require people to provide photo ID to vote and it’s a Herculean effort for minorities to meet the request, you begin to realize how tribal thinking has perpetuated condescension of certain segments of our population.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate in the state’s high-profile Senate race, says he opposes voter-identification laws because poor people and “people of color” are, according to him, “less likely to have their ID at any one given time.”
Fetterman is far from being the only Democratic politician to repeat the line that black people, and by extension other minority groups, are incapable of gaining photo identification.
Signs greet voters at a voting location in Ruckersville, Virginia in 2020 requiring ID. Signs greet voters at a voting location in Ruckersville, Virginia in 2020 requiring ID. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
It’s widely repeated tribal rhetoric that uncritically spreads from one Democrat to another because it supports their foundational belief of black Americans’ inherent victimhood based upon insurmountable obstacles that are distinctive to us and no one else.
Cemented in the Democratic Party is the view that black Americans need to be paternally pitied, making it an applaudable accomplishment when one of us rises above their meager expectations.
John Fetterman has never applied critical thinking to the matter because he is a tribal creature repeating a condescending narrative about the very people he claims to care about.
To be fair, as a former Democrat, I was much like Fetterman for a brief period of time as I repeated what I heard from political pundits who were on my supposed team as they exaggerated our incapability. It was upon my own personal reflection and application of logic to this narrative that I realized I was perpetuating not only a falsehood but a demeaning belief about people who look just like me.
When I was a child, we were homeless on multiple occasions, yet my mother had a license and car the entire time. I’ve known people who were on welfare who had driver’s licenses. Matter of fact, in order to get on welfare, you need identification.
Sixty percent of black Americans live in 10 states, and you’re likely to guess those states based on the major cities within them. The majority of black Americans live in either highly populated urban centers or their surrounding suburban districts. Are we to say that in highly populated areas, they are incapable of finding a DMV to receive a photo ID?
If 61.2 percent of black Americans are middle class, how are they able to sustain this lifestyle without ever using photo identification? Even the economic poor need ID to perform basic adult tasks and gain employment. Are we to assert that most black people work “under the table” as well? The reality is that around 87 percent of black Americans already have government IDs.
Citizens vote at a polling location in Illinois on Election Day of 2020.Citizens vote at a polling location in Illinois on Election Day of 2020.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
Democrats assume there’s an access issue, but gaining photo identification is a one-time function you won’t have to do again for years, not a weekly trial, and if most black Americans live in or near highly populated cities, it’s unlikely a DMV isn’t remotely accessible.
This tribal rhetoric of black Americans being incapable of obtaining a photo ID is not only condescending but riddled with racist tropes: You’d have to believe we are too dumb, incapable or lazy to truly accept that this singular requirement would keep millions of black people from participating in the voting process.
In politics, sometimes you need something or someone to leverage to implement or prevent policies, and the Democratic establishment has decided that black Americans are their most convenient tool to fight back against the GOP’s demand for photo identification for voting to prevent fraud and illegal voting by non-citizens.
The Democratic establishment has manufactured this perverted tribal rhetoric about black people for political power. Nothing more.
Adam B. Coleman is the author of “Black Victim to Black Victor” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing.
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Common sense wins almost every time. That is why progressives reject the concept.
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Florida Is Looking Better And Better For Conservatives
Florida is currently experiencing the highest rate of domestic immigration in the country, putting a huge stamp of approval on the state’s moves to keep the madness plaguing much of the country out of the state.
Florida ranks as the best state in the U.S. for both fiscal and economic freedom. The libertarian Cato Institute’s “Freedom in the 50 States” index gave the nod to the Sunshine State for the second straight year.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick to tweet the news. Besides the top ranking for fiscal and economic matters, Florida ranked second in both education freedom and overall freedom in the country.
Part of the Cato Institute’s conclusions came from the aggressive way the state stood behind business freedoms during the pandemic. While much of the country raced to lock doors, the Republican-led state took the lead in permitting companies to make individualized and common sense choices.
The Institute defined freedom as the ability of individuals to “dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.”
Much of the state’s high ranking came from its government limiting taxation and debt. The report noted that tax collections, government consumption, and obligations are all lower than the national average.
In DeSantis’ state of the state address earlier this year that opened the 2022 legislative session, he declared the state to be the freest in the nation. He called Florida “freedom’s vanguard” and criticized those that crush their citizens under high taxes and oppressive regulations.
As more and more conservatives decide to pick up and head to Florida, the state appears to be strengthening the Republican majority, which — hopefully — will assure a safe space for those who want to maintain some semblance of the America now being destroyed by the left.
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