Report says Blinken to target Netzah Yehuda for violence against West Bank Palestinians; Ben Gvir: I’ll absorb battalion into police; unit was moved north in 2020 after multiple incidents

TOI Staff, April 20, 2024

Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Biden administration is slated to announce sanctions against the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda battalion for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank, the Axios news site reported on Saturday. It would be the first time the US has ever taken such a step.

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E. Rowell:  Ukraine was set up by Obama-Kerry-Biden-Nuland to serve as a major money laundering hub for US political and financial elites.  In addition the goal of arming Ukraine was an attempt to undermine Putin, cause regime change in Russia, and strip Russia of energy resources.  Putin refused to roll over.  Even though it is impossible to win the war in Ukraine, military contractors make money whomever wins or loses. Billions of printed and taxpayer money must be spent in order to create profits for billionaires while the US economy is in danger of an explosion of debt and debt service. Americans suffer under ballooning prices for everything.  It is a satanic plan for US destruction, carried out by the US Congress.

In Conservative Conference in Globalist Belgium, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán Torches EU Leadership, Calls for Change

By Paul Serran, GATEWAY PUNDIT    17 April 2024

There’s really no surprise in learning that Belgium’s government has gone full authoritarian by repeatedly targeting a Conservative conference taking place in Brussels, going as far as shutting down a day of events with a ridiculous excuse in the middle of UK’s Nigel Farage’s speech.

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New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.

By J. D. Tuccille, REASON    18 April 2024

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At press time, the U.S. Senate is debating whether to not only renew the U.S. government’s spying powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) but dramatically expand them. That’s because the House, in reauthorizing the expiring powers last week after an extended battle, adopted language that broadens the definition of those who can be forced to help the government snoop. That leaves the Senate as the last check on already controversial legislation that just became more dangerous before it’s signed by a president eager to exercise its power.
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Mary Lou Robinson, former chief of the Air Force’s High Power Microwave Division, confirmed to DailyMail.com that the missiles are “ready to take out any military target, including nuclear facilities.”

By ILH Staff, ISRAEL HAYOM    20 April 2024

An uranium processing site in Isfahan, 340 km (211 miles) south of Tehran, March 30, 2005 | Photo: Reuters / Raheb Homavandi

According to an exclusive report from DailyMail.com, the US Air Force has quietly deployed a new type of missile that can destroy the electronics of Iran’s nuclear facilities using high-power microwaves, without causing any fatalities.

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By Douglas J. Feith and Lewis Libby, COMMENTARY    19 April 2024

With the world’s attention riveted on the stunning aerial clash between Iran and Israel, it is easy to lose focus on Gaza. But the war there remains unresolved.

President Biden supported Israel against Iran’s April 13 drone and missile barrage. U.S. military forces even shot down some of the Iranian weapons fired at Israel.

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By Caroline Glick, JNS    19 April 2024

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E. Rowell;  Biden said he told Netanyahu “not to move on Haifa.”  Is he the decision maker?   If a US President is non compos mentis, how can someone not elected and not even willing to show him or herself to the public have the powers vested in them by the Constitution that are vested in an elected President?  And if they do not have the executive power and privilege of the elected President, aren’t they taking control over the government illegally, as in a coup?  If so, aren’t they committing treason?  How can other heads of state negotiate with a President who has difficulty knowing where he is or what he is supposed to do?  How can they determine a course of action vis à vis the US when the President is being led and instructed by individuals who insist upon staying hidden and making decisions in stealth and secret?

The U.S. posture in this war has rattled Israel and the U.S.’s Sunni allies to their core.

By Caroline B. Glick, JNS    18 April 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with member of the national security team regarding the unfolding missile attacks on Israel from Iran on April 13, 2024, in the White House Situation Room. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Three reports published since Iran’s April 13 combined missile and UAV assault on Israel stand out for what the tell us about the nature of U.S. policy in relation to the war.

First, on Sunday Reuters reported that Turkey mediated between Iran and the United States to agree on the size and scope of Iran’s assault on Israel before Iran carried it out. A Turkish diplomatic source told the news agency that, “Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel…[and] Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be ‘within certain limits.’”

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Historically speaking, he’s even a bigger deal than you may think.

April 19, 2024 by Bruce Bawer, FPM

On June 16, it will be nine years to the day since Donald Trump rode down that golden escalator in the Manhattan tower bearing his name and announced his candidacy for president of the United States. During those nine years, his name and image have dominated not just American political discourse but the entirety of American culture, and even world culture,  in a way that may well be without precedent in the entire history of the Republic. Yes, the name and image of Franklin D. Roosevelt loomed over the country during his twelve years in office, just as the name and image of Abraham Lincoln were ubiquitous during his four-year presidency. But FDR’s centrality was wrapped up in the Great Depression and, then, World War II, and to think of Lincoln is to think, first and last, about the Civil War. By contrast, Trump’s predominance is in one sense just about Trump himself – Trump as symbol – and in another sense about something even larger than the colossal historical events associated with FDR and Honest Abe.
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Peloni:  In a sea of madness, Tommy Robinson has presented a clear voice of sanity, heralding the Western world to recognize the war which they are losing and the nature of the evil to which they are capitulating.  May he go from victory to victory as he continues to fight the scourge of Jihad which has infected the West, and may his enemies never succeed in silencing him.

Tommy Robinson, Mahyar Tousi TV    April 18, 2024

“We have an Iranian funded proxy army operating and influencing the public.”

His 1945 address to American troops drew a lasting connection between the Passover story and the nation’s consciousness

by Stuart Halpern, Tablet    April 19, 2024

With Hamas still holding Israeli hostages and global antisemitism rampant, as Jewish families sit down to read the Passover Haggadah this year on Monday evening, April 22, the passage “in every generation, there are those who rise up to destroy us” will no doubt be particularly resonant. While most Jews are aware that the phrase—like the phenomenon of Jew-hatred it describes—is centuries old, few fully appreciate the role the Passover story has played in offering Americans of all backgrounds comfort and inspiration during difficult times. The Haggadah, in fact, has long been America’s guidebook for liberty.

At 5 p.m. on March 26, 1945, in Washington, D.C., Vice President Harry S. Truman addressed the annual Passover service at the Jewish Welfare Board during WWII. The speech, broadcast to the Jewish men and women in the Armed Forces, praised both the miracle of Jewish historical survival and the contributions of Judaism to the West. It encapsulates how the story of the Exodus has left an indelible imprint on the American consciousness.

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Peloni:  As more details are emerging with regards to the how the 20202 and 2022 elections were rigged, Mike Benz explains how the US govt was weaponized against its own citizens by turning outward facing tools of coercion inward to target the American people.

He explains that the use of artificial intelligence tools was employed by the foreign policy establishment (ie Blob) to develop a plan to create a censorship nerve center which could stop the rise of populist movements all across NATO.  The silencing of the voices of people like Le Penn, Salvanatti and Trump became a priority for the Blob because they feared that if they continued to lose elections, their long entrenched International Rules Based Order would collapse, making it an imperative to kill free speech on the internet.  A censorship capacity was created within the US State Dept in 2014 called the Global Engagement Center which used a Darpa platform to engage with Social Media to suppress specific narratives by way of artificial intelligence.  So in 2016, as NATO made its policy shift from “Tanks to Tweets”, this  they shifted the use of this Darpa developed technology began to target populist political groups instead of terrorists and criminals.

Among other details discussed by Benz is the effort by Obama to federalize the US elections, which was later reaffirmed under the Trump administration.  A must hear discussion as the 2024 elections are coming fast.

Mike Benz and Stephen Gardner,    April 11, 2024

Mike Benz, a former State Department official and cyber expert, delved into the concerning trend of government weaponization and censorship during his interview. He highlighted the risk of the government manipulating information and stifling free speech, particularly targeting conservatives.

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Israel has a moral duty to send Iran a message…a real message. How? By going after its proxy…Hamas. Opinion.

Jack Engelhard, INN    Apr 19, 2024
Smart move to keep the Mullahs guessing and in suspense. The rest of the world is also waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Or has it?

I am braced for the usual criticisms from Bibi-haters, and mine own accusers, but I will go on. First, though, some old business.

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Groups led by former VP Pence also call for Iranian foreign minister’s American visa to be revoked

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON   18 April 2024

Iran’s Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, U.N. secretary-general António Guterres (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Biden administration is under pressure from a coalition of outside advocacy groups to cut American funding to the United Nations over the international organization’s appointment of Iran to several leadership positions.

“Following Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel, it is reckless for the United States to continue funding the United Nations while Iran abuses its position on several UN committees, conferences, and forums,” a group of 20 foreign policy experts and think tanks wrote to the White House on Thursday, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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By Joel B. Pollak, BREITBART     16 April 2024

JERUSALEM, Israel — Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Sunday evening that it was time for “regime change” in Iran, due to the threat that the Iranian government posed to the Middle East and the world.

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A new survey reveals an alarming degree of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias in American literary circles and institutions

By Maxim D. Shrayer, TABLET MAGAZINE    16 April 2024

Over the course of February 2024, I had exchanges and conversations, formal and informal, off and on record, with about 90 Jewish poets and translators, the majority of them living in the U.S., although some in Israel. They include some of today’s best known American poets as well as poets who are mainly known to other Jewish poets and readers.

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By Harold Rhode, JEWISH POLICY CENTER    17 April, 2024

Americans often say, “Let bygones be bygones,” “That’s history,” means something is no longer of importance. But the American view of compromise and conciliation is not universal, and may be preventing the US from taking necessary steps to secure American and allied interests in the Middle East.

Join us for a conversation about how allies and adversaries in the region relate to Washington’s overtures – both positive and negative. Scholar of Islam Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for more than two decades.

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An emboldened Iran is a feature, not a bug of the Obama–Biden foreign policy doctrine.

By Josh Hammer, AMERICAN SPECTATOR    19 April 2024

President Joe Biden, Feb. 6, 2024 (Adam Schultz/The White House)

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli — an act of war — under international law.

Of course, Iranian proxies spread across the Middle East, such as Lebanon-based Hezbollah, Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Yemen-based Houthis, have committed countless previous acts of war against Israel. But last weekend was something different entirely: For the very first time since fanatical Islamists overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and took power in 1979, Iran launched such attacks directly from its own soil.

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By Steve McCann, American Thinker    April 19, 2024

On April 13, 2024, Iran, deploying more than 300 drones and missiles, launched a premeditated aerial assault on Israeli military and population centers. While ninety-nine percent of the weapons were intercepted, Irans’s attack is equivalent to a formal “Declaration of War” against Israel.

Since 1979 and the Iranian revolution, Iran and Israel have been undeclared enemies as Iran has used its proxy terrorist groups in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to attack Israel. However, and most significantly, the April 13th attack was launched directly from an emboldened Iran.

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Eve Barlow, Blacklisted Substack    April 19, 2024

It’s the Supreme leader of Iran Khameini’s 85th birthday, and boy is he having a blast…

Yep, Israel has struck back against the Islamic Republic after last weekend’s declaration of war. Many happy returns, Ayatollah!

So far several reports are circulating that Israel has hit military targets in Syria, Iran and Iraq, including at least one military air base near Isfahan where several of Iran’s nuclear facilities and military bases are located.

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