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So you still believe we have free elections?
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https://thefederalist.com/2024
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https://thefederalist.com/2024
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It is a tragic shame the GOP does not have the votes
to impeach Biden. Even if they did, cannot be sure
they have the guts to act. They are generally either
internally conflicted with the remaining Democrat
leaning within the party (RINOS) or just inept.
The basis for Biden's impeachment are increasing:
a) Alleged personal enrichment and corruption and
a) Alleged personal enrichment and corruption and
selling of the his office.
b) Connecting dots that demonstrate he is
conflicted specifically regarding Russia and China
and that his foreign policy decisions reflect same.
c) Border crisis and his disavowal of his sworn
commitment to defend and protect our nation
against all enemies external and domestic.
d) Disregarding the SCOTUS judgement he has no
authority to cancel student debt.
(SCOTUS is one of the most powerful branches if
officials enforce our laws and the weakest of our
branches because it lacks enforcement powers, ie.
an arm, etc..)
e) Biden's embrace of supporting Obama's illegal
act of calling his Iran agreement as such in order to
avoid his constitutional responsibility to allow The
Senate to execute its authority regarding
approval of "treaties."
Biden has chosen to run roughshod over his
presidential responsibilities either because he is
physically and/or mentally inflicted and/or is
controlled by Obama holdovers or illegal foreign
entities "contributors " who are able to pull his
strings and thereby control his policies.
I realize what I allege will not come to be so it will
be up to voters to end Biden's illicit presidency.
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Israel’s 139th Day of War
By Sherwin Pomerantz
The 139th day of war dawned with a terrorist attack on the road from Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem as cars were in line waiting to be cleared through the check point. Three terrorists opened fire shooting randomly, killing 1 person and wounding 8 others before being neutralized by local forces. Ma’ale Adumim is a suburb of Jerusalem on the other side of the green line
Last night the Knesset overwhelmingly passed a declarative motion against the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by countries in the west. The motion, which does not have enforcement power, passed with 99 votes in favor out of the 120 Knesset members. Rumors have been circulating that the US is considering this although it has not been formally stated by US officials.
Today, Thursday, there is a second summit meeting being held in Paris to try to hammer out a deal to release the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Representatives of the US, Egypt, Qatar and Israel are attending.
Israeli officials have privately admitted that the IDF has no "precise" strategy for the invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Bloomberg reported that "officials acknowledge in private they have no precise strategy for how to attack in Rafah, how long it will take or where the people will go." Speaking to Bloomberg on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his call for the IDF to draw up a plan for evacuating Palestinian civilians from the southernmost city in the Strip.
The IDF's Arrow missile defense system intercepted a rocket launched toward Israel's southernmost city of Eilat and the surrounding towns, the Israeli military confirmed. The target was located and shot down in the Red Sea, failing to cross into Israeli territory. Elsewhere over the Red Sea, two missiles were fired at a vessel in an attack southeast of the Yemeni port ciry of Aden on Thursday, causing a fire onboard, Britain's maritime agency said.
The war sems to have settled into a pattern and everyone here would be very happy to see it wind down and the casualty list drop to zero.
Future Leadership
Another “comer” on the local Jerusalem scene is Ian (Haim) Pear, a Rabbi, lawyer and social activist living in Jerusalem. Together with his wife Dr. Rachel Pear, he founded Shir Hadash, a popular Jerusalem based Synagogue, Educational Institute and Israel Advocacy Center.
Rabbi Pear has also worked for Laster and Goldman, Israel’s premier environmental law firm; and while he decided not to continue as a practicing lawyer, he regularly takes advantage of that experience by teaching groups about Judaism and the environment and engaging in environmental activism. He is also pursuing advanced degrees in law at Hebrew University (in their celebrated Mishpat Ivri division), which further allows him to teach about the interaction of Halacha and secular Israeli law.
Another major interest is leading ‘Spiritual Diplomacy’ efforts on behalf of Israel – which includes hosting, teaching and inspiring high level delegations of non-Jewish Politicians, Academics, Clergy and Journalists, and thereby deepen their connection to the Jewish State and the Jewish People.
A one-time aspiring stand-up comedian, Rabbi Pear received his ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Theological Seminary (and its Jerusalem based Gruss Kollel), and holds a law degree from NYU School of Law and a degree in International Law, Politics and Security from Georgetown University’s School for Foreign Service. He is currently a candidate for the Jerusalem City Council as well and is looking forward to being elected in the upcoming municipal elections.
You can see an endorsement of Rabbi Pear by former US Sen Joe Lieberman here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dnVk7GG2R0
He is also the author of three books, including the best-seller The Accidental Zionist, and the father of five children.
Rebbi Pear’s strength is knowing how to build successful organizations from scratch and keeping large groups of people in such organizations relatively satisfied. Not an easy task in Israel but we are a country that desperately needs people with his talents as part of our post-war government. He is certainly someone worth considering for future leadership.
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Dear Dick,
This morning, the IDF’s Arrow long-range missile defense system shot down a ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. It was the sixth time Arrow has been used to intercept an incoming missile since the war began, and the seventh time Arrow has been deployed in live combat.
The United States has invested over $4.5 billion in the Arrow program – a direct byproduct of our work together to ensure Israel has the technologies and resources to defend against any combination of threats.
The IDF announced today that its large-scale operation in northern Gaza is continuing, as Israeli troops raid Hamas sites and eliminate terrorists in the area. Ten Hamas sites were targeted today in the north and 20 terrorists were killed. In southern Gaza, the IDF is continuing to attack Hamas cells in Khan Yunis through a combination of airstrikes and ground raids – killing an additional 15 Hamas terrorists today.
12,000 Hamas terrorists have been killed according to the IDF, with thousands more injured and unable to fight. Israel believes an additional 10,000 Hamas terrorist have embedded themselves in Rafah amid the more than one million civilians reportedly in the area.
Sincerely,
Alisha Tischler
AIPAC Southeast Regional Director
Alisha Tischler
AIPAC Southeast Regional Director
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Ralph Reed’s red flag: Is Biden's reelection driving US Mideast policy?
REED EMPHASIZED TO THE POST THAT ISRAEL DESERVES UNEQUIVOCAL
SUPPORT IN CONCLUDING ITS CONFLICT WITH HAMAS AND ADDRESSING
POTENTIAL THREATS FROM HEZBOLLAH IN THE NORTH AND UNREST IN THE
WEST BANK.
US President Joe Biden's reelection worries are influencing his Middle East policies,
potentially posing risks to Israel, according to American political consultant and lobbyist
By Ralph Reed.
"There's an appearance that US foreign policy, and US policy toward Israel and the Middle East, is being influenced by domestic political consideration," Reed said this week during an interview at the King David Hotel. He said this is both in the rhetoric that the Biden administration is using, such as calling Israel's actions in Gaza "over the top," or in its pressuring Israel to try to bring about a ceasefire for a hostage deal the country cannot accept.
"It's amazing how much of [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken's time and energy is being devoted to this when it ought to be devoted to calling on other Arab states to tell Hamas to surrender and stop fighting," Reed continued. "I think that even the appearance that political considerations with regard to [Biden's] reelection are driving some of this is very concerning."
Reed, the first executive director of the Christian Coalition and the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, was in Israel this week on a solidarity mission organized by the Israel Heritage Foundation. He toured the wreckage of southern Israel and met with top political officials.
Who is Reed backing in the next election?
Reed told The Jerusalem Post that he is supporting Donald Trump, who is poised to secure the Republican nomination to challenge Biden in the upcoming election, because "he's the most pro-life president in my lifetime and he's the most pro-Israel president in my lifetime."
The former president has made negative comments about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel since he left the White House, including saying Netanyahu was caught unprepared by Hamas's attack and accusing the prime minister of disloyalty. However, Reed said that if reelected, "Trump would be as pro-Israel in a second term."
"Trump turned the screws on Iran," Reed said, noting that the former president had Iran down to around 300,000 barrels per day or less in crude oil exports by June 2019 from the more than 2.5 million barrels the country shipped in April 2018, the month before Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal.
He said under Trump, the Houthis were listed as a terrorist organization, and the country defunded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), all policies that Biden reversed.
Trump has said that the Israel-Hamas conflict would have been prevented under his presidency. While Reed didn't explicitly agree, he did suggest that Hamas exploited Biden's support of Iran and his perceived weak foreign policies.
"I think it is difficult to disconnect a projection of strategic weakness on the part of the United States from bad actions being taken by bad actors, and that would be the case with [Russian President Vladmir] Putin going into Ukraine, Iranian-funded militias attacking US forces 160 times and firing missiles with impunity at US naval vessels," and when it comes to Hamas's murderous actions on October 7, Reed said.
"If every other sentence out of your mouth is, 'We don't want war with Iran,' then don't be surprised if they do whatever they want to do," he continued. "Regardless of where you stand on Israel's prosecution of the war in Gaza with Hamas, it is enormously destabilizing to the region – and not just to the region but to the entire world."
Reed emphasized to the Post that Israel deserves unequivocal support in concluding its conflict with Hamas and addressing potential threats from Hezbollah in the North and unrest in the West Bank.
He said he was in the country representing the 2.7 million members of his Faith and Freedom Coalition and, more broadly, the 70 million to 80 million Evangelicals in the United States who support Israel.
"We want the government of Israel, and the people of Israel, to have the support they need to win this war," Reed said, defining victory as defeating Hamas and destroying its infrastructure, demilitarizing Gaza and deradicalizing the local population.
Reed spoke to the Post a week after new data was published by Prof. Motti Inbari of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Dr. Kirill Bumin of Boston University showed that support for Israel among young Evangelicals under the age of 30 has plummeted by over 50% in just three years, posing a potential threat to American backing for the Jewish State.
Reed said he was not "overly concerned" about the data.
"If you go out and survey the American people today, by a fairly healthy majority, they're supportive of Israel. It is not what it used to be, but they're supportive." However, he admitted if the survey were only of Americans ages 18 to 30, the results would skew much less pro-Israel.
"But for the younger Evangelicals, this is not a function of their Evangelicalism or their faith. It is a function of their youth," Reed explained. "As they move through the course of their lives, graduate college, get married and have children, they start to come our way."
He said this is true not only when it comes to Israel but also on conservative issues, such as abortion, same-sex marriage, gender, etc.
"I don't want to be overly optimistic, but I am as optimistic as I can be that as long as there is a large and vibrant Evangelical community in the United States, the United States is going to be pro-Israel," Reed stressed. "I can tell you that the community I represent stands 100% behind Israel."
Reed said, "Israel's struggle is our struggle, and Israel's enemies are America's enemies."
The war in Gaza is not a battle between Israel and Hamas, he added. "This is a civilizational struggle between democracy and human rights on one side and barbarism and terrorism on the other. We have to prevail."
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Honest Reporting:
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Failing to Hold Palestinians Accountable
Since the Israel-Hamas war began, there have been 199 terrorist attacks – shootings, stabbings, car rammings, and explosive devices – inside Israel.
Another 626 attempted attacks were thwarted by Israeli security. That’s almost 6 terrorist attacks that have been attempted or carried out each day since October 7. Not counting the horrific massacre that occurred on that day.
Just yesterday, three Palestinian terrorists opened fire and murdered Matan Elmaliah, 26, and injured a pregnant woman and seven other commuters.
Yet, with 134 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, the world continues to demand a ceasefire…from Israel.
Imagine if that energy was instead put toward demanding an immediate ceasefire of Palestinian terrorists who target Israeli civilians.
Instead, the international community continues to hold Israel to impossible standards while infantilizing the Palestinians.
HonestReporting is leading the charge in holding the media accountable for their biased reporting, and setting the record straight when the media doesn’t report the full story.
Take a look at our social media content from the past week to go beyond the headlines of Hamas’ duplicity, the reason why a blockade is not the same as an occupation, and some important details you’re not hearing about the casualty count in Gaza…
Sincerely,
Gil Hoffman
Executive Director and Executive Editor
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Justice Thomas speaks truth.
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How Biden Can Avenge Navalny’s Death
By Bret Stephens
President Biden said last week that he was “looking at a whole number of options” to make good on his 2021 warning to Vladimir Putin that Russia would face “devastating” consequences if Aleksei Navalny were to die in prison. Now that Putin has treated that warning with his customary contempt, Biden needs to act as a matter of moral clarity and personal credibility, and for the strategic imperative of demonstrating to a dictator that American threats aren’t hollow.
But how? Some analysts suggest that the administration, which on Tuesday vowed to impose tougher sanctions, will struggle to find ways to make them more effective, and that the best single policy to hurt Putin is to continue supporting Ukraine militarily. They’re right about the second point. As several close Russia watchers told me, however, there’s much more to be done about the first.
There are four broad approaches.
Finances: “The single most important thing we can do to hit back at Putin is to enact legislation to confiscate the $300 billion of frozen Russian bank reserves for the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine,” Bill Browder, investor and political activist, wrote me on Monday. Browder is best known as the moving force behind the Magnitsky Acts, which put sanctions on Russian officials implicated in corruption and other abuses.
Browder’s suggestion isn’t new. And it’s been resisted by U.S. government officials who fear that it exceeds what American law allows and would encourage a flight from dollar assets. But as the Harvard legal scholar Larry Tribe and a team of experts from the firm of Kaplan, Heckler & Fink noted last year in a report for the Renew Democracy Initiative, seizing Russia’s assets is explicitly allowed as a “countermeasure,” an act designed to compel an aggressor to come into compliance with international law. As for the flight-from-the-dollar argument, it might otherwise be persuasive if the need to save Ukraine and punish Russia weren’t more urgent.
Seizing Russia’s assets “would be like two fingers in the eyes from the West,” Browder added. “Putin doesn’t care how many soldiers are killed, but he cares profoundly about his money. To top it off, all countries should call this new legislation the Navalny Act.”
Recognition: “Do not recognize Putin as the president of Russia after March 17 — that simple,” Garry Kasparov, the legendary chess and human-rights champion, told me by phone from Berlin. “Do not recognize the regime as legitimate.”
Kasparov was alluding to next month’s sham presidential election, in which Putin is running for a fifth term. But he’s also nodding to a deeper point, which is that while Putin might be indifferent to questions of legality, he craves and is keenly attuned to the trappings of political legitimacy, particularly internationally, which bolster his claims to rule.
It’s a point that was underscored to me by the economist Konstantin Sonin, a professor at the University of Chicago who this month was arrested in absentia by a Russian court. “Putin and his henchmen should be recognized and treated as a gang whose hold on power in Russia is based on brute force rather than any kind of legitimacy,” Sonin said. “It does not make sense to negotiate with Putin as any kind of agreement will have to be renegotiated when his regime falls.”
Dissidents: When Natan Sharansky called me from Jerusalem, that great Soviet refusenik, who exchanged letters with Navalny last year, turned almost immediately to Vladimir Kara-Murza, another imprisoned dissident. Like Navalny, Kara-Murza, 42, also survived poisonings and comas. Like Navalny, he’s being held in a “strict regime” penal colony on a 25-year-sentence for his opposition to Putin.
“If there are no changes” to Western policy, Sharansky said, Putin “could kill Kara-Murza tomorrow. The West needs to understand that these dissidents are the real friends of the free world, and they have to be seen as candidates for prisoner exchanges.” Sharansky was particularly critical of the 2022 exchange of a Russian archfiend, Viktor Bout, for the basketball star Brittney Griner, which surely enticed the Kremlin to arrest Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, last March. “America showed they are a bad bargainer,” Sharansky lamented.
Sharansky is seconded by Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former C.I.A. case officer and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The great Soviet dissidents taught us that they were fortified by Western attention to their plight,” Gerecht told me. “Today, we don’t know what Russian dissident, what Russian on the cusp of going ‘rogue,’ might galvanize Russians who loathe the regime.”
Power: One of my sources for this column asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of his current position, but he’s a long-admired expert on energy markets. “America’s liquefied natural gas is now part of NATO’s arsenal against Russia,” he told me. Biden, he advised, could “restore U.S. credibility as an L.N.G. exporter by lifting the administration’s ‘pause’ on new L.N.G. permits and thereby give Europe and Japan confidence to stop importing Russian L.N.G.”
While Russia’s oil and gas revenues have fallen steeply since the Ukraine war began, they still came to close to $100 billion last year — enough to finance the Kremlin’s war machine. What else could hurt? David Petraeus, the retired general and former C.I.A. director, had a specific suggestion: “The White House should announce the provision of the Army Tactical Missile System to Ukraine, which would double the range to approximately 300 kilometers of the missiles provided by the U.S. to date.”
Along with everyone I spoke with, Petraeus recognized that those missiles could be provided only if the $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine that the Senate approved last week can overcome a wall of Republican opposition in the House. Every Republican with a memory of what their party once stood for has an obligation to vote for that bill, just as Biden has a duty to ensure that evil will not go unpunished, and that Navalny did not die for nothing.
Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The Times, writing about foreign policy, domestic politics and cultural issues. Facebook
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Damn right he knew and was up to his arms carrying the loot to the bank.
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/opinion/despite-media-spin-theres-still-overwhelming-evidence-joe-biden-knew-of-familys-business-dealings/
Despite media spin, there’s still overwhelming evidence Joe Biden knew of family’s business dealings
By Miranda Devine
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Salena Zito goes to a fish fry.
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The impact of a tiny country church fish fry is immeasurable
By Salena Zito
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania — If you make a fish fry dinner, people will come for miles around. They will even cross several state lines to get to your church basement if the fish sandwich is fresh and spilling out of both sides of the bun, the macaroni and cheese is homemade with just enough crisp on top, and the coleslaw is crunchy and tangy.
It turns out that people will return if, when they leave, they aren’t just pleased with the food they’ve eaten but they’ve also found new friends among the hundreds of strangers that were sitting on the wooden folding chairs along the long, cafeteria-type tables. Especially if the fish fry money goes to a meaningful cause.
That is just what has been happening for the past 19 years here at the Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian Church in the middle of this tiny Washington County village. This event, held every Friday during Lent, has raised a whopping $500,000 over the years for missions to serve the underserved.
Eric Cowden, one of the organizers of the Upper Ten Mile church fish fry, said, “We’ll make about 10,000 meals this year that will serve both the lunch and dinner crowds.”
Not bad for a tiny country church located in a town that has maybe 30 houses from end to end and a congregation that attracts about 80 to 90 faithful every Sunday for church services.
full story here: https://www.
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In less than 30 years, England will be no more. The once glorious empire will be overrun by Muslims and the Brits will be living under their rule. Demographics don't lie. Politicians do.
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Flail Britannia
Yesterday, the British Parliament changed the way it operates because the Speaker was afraid that some parliamentarians would be murdered if they couldn't be seen to vote for a ceasefire in a war on the other side of the world.
This isn't democracy. This is a country that is unwilling to live by its own rules in order to placate a violent mob.
And efforts are already being made to sweep this reality under the carpet as they did with the murder of Sir David Amess. We can't afford that. We have to be honest and admit it:
We have a problem with Islamist extremism that requires immediate and drastic action. Appeasement doesn't work. If intimidation and threats of violence produce results like the one we saw yesterday, this will only encourage more intimidation and threats of violence.
The government, both the major parties, the police and the security services need to understand we no longer have the luxury of pretending this issue away.
People who threaten violence should be arrested and locked up for a very long time. If the threats are directed against elected MPs, that is an attempt to subvert our democracy and should be treated as such, i.e. met with severe sentences.
Foreign nationals who engage in, call for, fund or glorify violence, religious hatred or other violent extremism should be deported immediately.
We must be honest with ourselves. If we do not act now, as sadly I am certain we won't, the result will be more violence and more intimidation. It is not a pleasant truth to have to admit but things will only get worse if we refuse to speak it.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his plan for “the day after” Hamas is defeated in Gaza to his Cabinet on Thursday, calling for local officials without links to terrorism to run the government, and Israel to exercise military control.
Netanyahu’s goal in leaving those contentious issues undefined appears to be to satisfy the demands of the Biden administration on the one hand, and his right-wing coalition partners on the other. But on several other issues, Netanyahu is absolutely clear. One is that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must control Gaza’s borders and must have complete freedom to operate within Gaza to stop terrorism. The Gaza Strip is to be entirely demilitarized, from a Palestinian point of view, except for a civilian police force. Another is that Israel will establish a kilometer-wide buffer zone within Gaza, a no-man’s-land that will protect the Israeli border communities that Hamas attacked on October 7. The Biden administration has insisted, in contrast, that Gaza not lose territory. Finally, the plan insists Gaza be “deradicalized.” Netanyahu envisions a possible role for the United Arab Emirates and for Saudi Arabia, but appears to sideline Qatar, which shelters Hamas; and also rules out the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The Times of Israel notes that Netanyahu’s plan stipulates that “Israel will only allow the reconstruction of Gaza to begin after the completion of the Strip’s de-militarization and the commencement of the ‘de-radicalization process'” to end terrorist influence.
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Jewish professor who quit MIT over its handling of antisemitism accepts post at Yeshiva U.
Y.U. President: 'As a top tier professor in his field and a leader who lives his values with integrity and authenticity, Prof. Karchmer is a role model to us all.'
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