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April 16, 2020 | 8,669 Comments »

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  1. @fquigley

    Caroline Glick has never…even genuinely reassessed.

    You are wrong on this point. She definitely has reassessed.

    The cause here is … in the structure of the ruling system

    The structure of the ruling system is what led to October 7. It is what made the faux Arab Spring possible. It is what made Ukraine inevitable. The world which gave rise to the existing ruling structure in fact does not exist anymore. It died following the revelations that the ruling system permitted these tragedies, and that these tragedies were even celebrated by some of those who were made powerful by the existing structure of the ruling system.

    In some sense, your call for revolution is finally being heard, though you will hardly be impressed with the fact that the revolutions we are witnessing will bring about a Trotskyite evisioned govt. So, Iran’s days are numbered, just as Syria went first, but as Mudar notes in his recent tweet, this is but the first of many changes which will remodel the structure of the ruling class.

  2. Dreuveni

    “We all need to stay tuned and attuned to the wind of change”

    I remember the gloating over the hanging of Saddam by the Jihad

    I remember how Caroline Glick was embedded in the US war machine

    But there were people who saw the danger in removal of the great enemy of jihadists from the scene then

    The law of cause and effect

    Caroline Glick has never made an apology

    Or even genuinely reassessed.

    And I’m using that occasion just as an example

    I venture this opinion.

    The cause here is not Assad or Assad’s

    Rather in the structure of the ruling system

    EG Ukraine

    There they set the stage for war. At every point along the line they set the stage

    The nature of Fascism was very well understood

    From 1918 up to the present.

    Yes it really is ALL a question of leadership

  3. After reading through the latest posts, I have trouble believing that nobody, including the Shin Beth, Mossad, CIA, FBI, all the other so-called intelligence agencies and Rabbi Herzog had nothing at all to say on how Syria was about to fall, was falling and fell.
    Quite obviously, they were aware of the situation but, for reasons they kept to themselves, declined to enlighten us. How can we trust them in the future when we know that there is a lot to come. The amount of conjecture about Jordan, the gulf states, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon is enormous. We all need to stay tuned and attuned to the wind of change.

  4. MICHAEL-

    NO they don’t. It was revealed 2 years ago that Israel did more than twice the business with the EU countries that the EU did with Israel.

    THEY NEED ISRAEL”S goods. Yet they mostly vote against Israel but o.nly at the non binding UNGA meetings…………..POLITICS guy.,

  5. Drama in Syria| Rebels announce: We have toppled the Assad regime
    Syrian rebels enter the capital Damascus, having earlier taken control of the city of Homs. According to reports, Assad has fled to an unknown location.
    Orli Harari
    Published: Dec 8, 2024, 12:32 AM (GMT+2) Updated: 6:18 AM

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400371

    Intelligence Error: Israeli forces believed Syria’s army would be able to stop rebels
    Israeli intelligence agencies did not foresee the rapid advance of Syrian rebels and the collapse of the Assad regime.
    Israel National News Dec 8, 2024, 8:24AM

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400383

    I cannot believe that the intelligence staff can be THIS incompetent.

  6. Edgar, you said,

    Israel is on excellent terms with many countries. Perhaps not when it comes to unimportant UNGA voting, but very definitely when import-export is involved.

    The UNGA votes do not carry much clout directly, seeing that it is the UNSC that weilds ultimate authority in matters of trade and commerce; but they do have a great symbolic importance. They show the sentiments and TRUE loyalty of the leaders of the UNGA. decision-makers, such as Germany, India, Italy, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, China, etc.

    We’ll see, whether “business is business” rules the day. If that were so, then the cash-rich Dems and Libs would have won in November. They had “business” on their side, raising much, much more cash than MAGA.

  7. FELIX-

    I think you’re “flogging a dead horse” here. In economic deals it’s immaterial whether the buying country hates Israel or not. They most likely also have a reciprocal selling margin to Israel as a balance of economic parity. or close to it.

    And, to answer your question, there are many countries which do not hate Israel, who may vote against or abstain ina UNGA meeting, knowing it’s not binding. There are several Eu countries with which Israel is on the best of terms as you must know.

    Anti-Semitism in a certain %age of the People does not indicate a virtual 100%, but only expresses the personal feelings of an insignificant number of ignoramuses.

    They may hate politically and religiously, but with nations, “business is business”.

    I don’t believe that ANY Israel customer does not export at least a fair amount of goods to Israel as well.

    I’m sure you know this as very little escapes your ken.

  8. @fquigley

    Who of all the countries would Israel find to export to that are not haters of Israel?

    The ones who vote for Israel in the UN (all 8 of them)?

    But they certainly have no need for weapons from Israel, at least not in any amounts which could be called significant.

  9. RINO: Under intense pressure during a Texas GOP meeting, @JohnCornyn made an about face and agreed to support @PeteHegseth and claimed he looks forward to doing more to support his nomination publicly in the coming weeks.

    @Amuse

  10. READER-

    You may not have noticed the A7 report that the US is after Spain for refusing docking space for ships carrying ARMS to Israel.

    This should surely alleviate your “worries” further. ………..!!!

  11. FELIX-

    Israel is on excellent terms with many countries. Perhaps not when it comes to unimportant UNGA voting, but very definitely when import-export is involved.

    According to the constantly rising economic data -that is.

    Unless THAT’s lying -Reader style.

  12. READER-

    Don’t put YOUR words into MY mouth. I said no such thing. Perhaps the US IS slowing down certain deliveries, perhaps just political tail twisting…we’ll never know. BUT…right now The vital need is not there; as fighting seems to be taking a moratorium.

    Anyway, whatever it may -or may NOT be, Israel is coping well.-

  13. Reader

    I was making a general and I believe important point here

    “History without the socialist revolution has to run it’s calamitous course”

    I said then following on…

    “Just like the Irish the road taken by Ben Gurion et al in 1948 comes back to haunt”

    To elaborate on this a little

    That was in 1921 in the Irish situation when the Irish leaders signed the TREATY with the British and from then on (unlike the Bolsheviks in Russia) having cast their lot in with the ideology of capitalism they were ensnared. The exact same was done by the capitalist loving Jewish leadership in 1948 and it opened the door to Israel being used and betrayed by the American Imperialism.

    The only figure who was plotting an independent path for the Jews was Leon Trotsky.

    His assassination therefore for Jews today is coming more and more to have great relevance.

    To be summed up for slow learners like Peloni:

    The burning question remains

    An independent path for Jews

    OR

    Always waiting for someone to help them

    Reader it seems to me that’s your point in recent weeks

    It adds up to an emasculation of this still great people which I maintain is also happening on Israpundit being led by Peloni and Ted Belman. It cannot be otherwise. The process was established at the very beginning in both Ireland and Israel.

  14. Reader and Edgar

    I approach this from another angle

    Who of all the countries would Israel find to export to that are not haters of Israel? Genuine question.

    And it is anyway not the key issue. Which is to make a full critique of Israeli leadership. A to Z.

  15. READER_

    It would be most likely that of the arms thy are exporting, they already have more than enough. They lack other things not weapons but munitions bombs, explosives, possibly protective jackets etc.

    And as the minister says they want to boost their arms companies.

  16. Can someone tell me why would anybody export arms when they do not have enough for themselves, are threatened with arms embargoes and with constant blackmail from their boss/best friend?

    They do the same with food – the best is exported.

    Israel to ease arms exports rules amid growing global demand
    The Defense Ministry’s goal is to boost the competitiveness of Israeli defense firms.

    https://www.jns.org/israel-to-ease-arms-exports-rules-amid-growing-global-demand/

  17. I agree we are at a turning point but (it is wider than the issue of defending Jews) rather we need the Socialist Revolution in which the Jewish cause will be incorporated. And every issue facing humanity. Jews rallied to the Bolsheviks cause in 1917-1918. And must do so again. This is their calling as Jews… To Lead

  18. Michael “Assad’s other ally, Russia, however, has continued helping the Syrian dictator: ”

    I do not normally converse with anyone who is in support of Jihadists and you are such a person.

    Go to hell with your Bandera scum.

  19. A really rotten decision by the UN – I hope Israel will declare sovereignty over the whole place ASAP, state that Jordan IS the 2nd state and will start using the “12 Deceptions” format (text rewritten) for an overwhelming worldwide propaganda campaign.

    UN passes resolution for conference on ‘two-state solution’, 8 countries vote against.
    Israel, US and six other countries vote against General Assembly resolution calling for the organization of a high-level conference aimed at achieving a two-state solution. 157 countries vote in favor, seven abstain.

    Israel National News Dec 4, 2024, 1:14 AM

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400184

  20. Hi, Peloni

    Our God is the King of the Universe. We are his children, who play a game which we might call “Universe” The girls call it “House”, and the boys call it “War”. It’s the same game, played in thousands of languages. This is how we learn social skills.

    There are a few main rules to this game, the first of which is,

    “Dad is in charge, and He makes the real rules.”{

    In every age, God has chosen the leaders, and they aren’t always nice. For the past 200 years or so, the leader has been the current world order; which in Europe is called “NATO”. I thank God every day, that it isn’t some alternative.

  21. Hi, Peloni. You said,

    Israel’s interests are less clear cut than either of you seem to suggest.

    I don’t know that I’ve ever been accused of making things seem to clear!

    I suppose I ought to say, “Thank you!”

    Concerning NATO, it’s one of the closest, longest-lived multi-national treaty in history. The Jewish-Roman alliance lasted longer, of course.

  22. @Felix
    @Michael

    No defence yet, even now, of Assad and Syria on the israpundit site

    Somewhat shameful

    Assad’s time is over. He hasn’t ruled his country in many years, but has seen it turned into a fiefdom from which Iran has exploited his incapacity to more fully wage war against Israel, both directly from Syria and indirectly thru the arms shipped to Lebanon thru Syria. At the same time, the Jihadi forces displacing Assad in the wake of Iran’s diminished controlling interest in Syria, are no allies of Israel. So, as the video I posted a few days ago on the topic of the parties in Syria suggests, this entire struggle in Syria is a bit messy, and Israel’s interests are less clear cut than either of you seem to suggest.

    An important report on Syria and Israel will be posted shortly, just FYI.

    As to Michael’s assertion that

    The US has a strong alliance with [Turkey]!

    it should be recalled that the US tried to overthrow Erdogan, and neither he nor they have overcome this clearly challenging aspect of the so called “strong alliance” between them. Erdogan is not the solution in the Middle East, but the leader of the Sunni Axis, as Avivi explains in today’s IDFS briefing, and as such, his move to fill the void created by the Iran’s imploding suzerainty over the region, should be seen as the very real threat for which it stands.

    So there are no White Hats in this ongoing struggle in Syria. Just a pair of Black Hats fighting it out to see which might rise to try to dominate the region and eliminate Israel.

  23. Yet another “Hello”, Felix. I see you also posted this:

    My reading of situation is that America is behind Turkey and Isis

    Yes, of course the Biden regime supports Turkey! The US has a strong alliance with them! (i.e. NATO).

    If it will bring you comfort, I expect this relationship to go lukewarm, probably after Donald Trump is inaugurated. The Bible predicts this:

    Ezek.38
    [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog (Erdogan), the land of Magog (Turkey), the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
    [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
    [4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
    [5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
    [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
    [7] Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
    [8] After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
    [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
    [10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
    [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
    [12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
    [13] Sheba (Yemen), and Dedan (Saudi Arabia), and the merchants of Tarshish (the US and the rest of NATO), with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
    [14] Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

  24. Hello again, Felix. You said,

    fquigley
    December 2, 2024 at 9:31 pm

    Michael

    N Korean infantry in the Kursk area

    You seem sure???

    I am not sure they are officially “infantry”; but they are certainly armed foot soldiers.

    North Korean Troops Enter Kursk Where Ukrainians Are Fighting
    Nov. 18, 2024 | By David Vergun, DOD News |

    It is likely that about 11,000 North Korean troops have moved into Russia’s Kursk region, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh, who spoke to the media today.

    https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3968230/north-korean-troops-enter-kursk-where-ukrainians-are-fighting/

    The last I read from a Ukrainian blogger (yesterday), the Koreans were combat-unready, with minimal training.

  25. Quigley, You said,

    No defence yet, even now, of Assad and Syria on the israpundit site

    Somewhat shameful

    Apparently, the logjam is Israel, who has been fighting Assad’s ally Hizbullah.

    “Some Hezbollah and Iran-backed Shiite militia fighters were moved from Syria to contend with the Israeli ground invasion in Lebanon in October. Thousands more were killed and wounded by Israeli air raids, ground forces, and special operations like the stunning attacks in September in which thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploded on their owners..’

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/rebels-in-syria-take-advantage-of-israels-successes-against-a-weakened-iran-axis/

    Assad’s other ally, Russia, however, has continued helping the Syrian dictator:

    “Syrian rebels take over Aleppo as Russia pledges to assist Assad regime”

    https://kyivindependent.com/syrian-rebels-take-over-aleppo-as-russia-pledges-to-assist-assad-regime/

    I’m sure others are also supporting Assad. Have you checked up on North Korea?

  26. Hezbollah fires mortars at Israel on day 6 of truce
    The Iranian-backed terrorist organization took responsibility for the attack.

    https://www.jns.org/hezbollah-fires-mortars-at-israel-on-day-6-of-truce/

    US follows France in warning Israel over ceasefire violations
    Restraint “from all sides” is necessary for the truce to hold, U.S. sources told Israeli media.

    https://www.jns.org/us-follows-france-in-warning-israel-over-ceasefire-violations/
    Washington has backed up Paris’s assertions that Israel is violating the terms of last week’s ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, that formally ended 14 months of hostilities with the Hezbollah terrorist group.

    It is NEVER Hizballah’s fault!

  27. Hi, Tanna

    Thanks. the whole world is going to hell, and I could not stay informed. But we can now!

    There is an active theater of warm from NW Russia down to Yemen and beyond, involving the same belligerents throughout — from N. Korean infantry in the Kursk area to Turks and their surrogates in NW Syria, to US navy vessels in the Red Sea.. Throughout the war zone, Russia and its allies are opposed to Israel and its allies.

  28. Michael, thanks for your suggesting. I must of had some kind of feed back loop running on my system which redirected my click from anywhere on Israpundt.. As I said every click and path I followed took me to Chit chat. Any who, logged off Israpundit, shut down the system, did a scan and now we can read Polini’s and Ted’s handiwork. Thanks. the whole world is going to hell, and I could not stay informed. But we can now!

  29. Peloni

    “Sarah Netanyahu spends dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.”

    Are you serious Peloni why is that relevant?

    Trump has turned into sweet old grandpa

    He has nothing to say and allows Biden to walk all over him.

    The position of trump to Putin is now as a traitor to American people who wanted peace

    Trump is effectively a Stepan Bandera man now

    He allows these Bandera fascists free rein against Russia without a squeak from him

    Trump is a fool and sure acts like one

    And to be honest this site doesn’t figure any more

  30. What should Assad do?

    Israel had to defend itself and this has weakened the fight against Isis

    Assad must mobilise the Syrian people on a more independent basis and break from Hizbolah and Iran.

    This will work if he turns to the Syrian people

    This is the key to everything in the defence of Syria

    My reading of situation is that America is behind Turkey and Isis

  31. It turns out, the 29th of November was a holiday – The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

    The date was chosen in honor of the approval by the UN General Assembly of the Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 which happened on the 29th of November.

  32. If this had to do with Muslim students, the US Justice Department would have gotten involved by now.

    UCLA Cultural Affairs Commissioner accused of refusing to hire Jews
    Jewish student newspaper leader files complaint after UCLA Cultural Affairs Commissioner tells staff not to hire “Zionists” and creates a blacklist, allegedly resulting in all applicants who identified as Jews to be rejected.
    Gary Willig Dec 1, 2024, 7:56 AM (GMT+2)

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400020

    A day earlier, A Chabad Lubavitch rabbi at UCLA was assaulted by the anti-Israel activists. According to Shabbos Kestenbaum, an American Jew, the students called their victim a “Zionist pedophile rabbi,” and told him to “go back to Poland.”

    Apparently, when they need to insult a Jew, there are no limits to the freedom of speech.

    I would love it if there were 2,000-3,000 aliyah applications A DAY, maybe then the Jewish Agency will wake up.

  33. Hi, Felix.

    Welcome to the Last Days! I’ll give you the latest situation map, though it will probably leave most people here in a state of confusion:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Syrian_Civil_War_map_%28November_29%2C_2024%29.svg.png

    Let’s start with the Golan Heights, and sweep counter-clockwise to the Russian naval base at Tartus (N. of Lebanon, in Syria):

    RED is controlled by Bashar al Assad, the Alawite president of Syria, along with his Russian and Hizbullah allies.

    GREEN is the American toehold

    GREY is the remnant of ISIS

    YELLOW is the Kurds, who are supposedly fighting for and against everyone

    LIGHT GREEN are the Turks, a NATO member, presumably supposedly protecting their border against Kurdish “terrorists”, and

    WHITE are the FSA (Sunni) rebels, supposedly at peace with everyone, who staged the latest invasion.

    In answer to your questions,

    1. Biden, representing the US, has presumably celebrating having just brokered an histori “peace” deal between Israel and Hizbullah. It’s all BS, of course.

    2. The REAL ISIS forces are actually roaming around in eastern Syria; but the main Sunni news sources call everyone who doesn’t support Assad “terrorists”.

    3. Turkey is a NATO member, under US protection. The main US airbase, where we have stationed nuclear weapons, is in Inciliyk, Turkey..

  34. Tanna, I generally get on board like this:

    1. Log in

    2. Under “CHIT CHAT”, I click on “Comments”. This puts the latest posts in the middle-column area and “POST COMMENT” appears.

    3. After posting there to “CHIT CHAT”, followed by “Enterr”, my new comment on CHIT CHAT appears in the side board (but not in the middle column).

    4. To bring up the “Edit Comment” box, I click once more on “Comments” under “CHIT CHAT”

  35. Does anyone have a problem when they try to open an article it will not open and it takes you to a page showing all recent comments and even if I follow the link that says, “Better to view the contents of this Newsletter, Here” it will not allow me to read the articles. This happens from time to time, have never been able to resolve…. after a few days it seems to resolve it’s self. Any Ideals? I even opened a new browser window and put in https://www.israpundit.org – and get the same page of all the latest comments but no ability to open articles. Thanks.

  36. Françafrique continues to implode.

    Chad announce its decision to end the defense cooperation agreement with France.

    OSINTdefender

    Senegal announces its closing France’s military base in the country.

    Visegrad 24

  37. Michael

    Why can your mind not open up to certain points

    I think because of stunted ideology.

    The greatest event was the 1917 Revolution where the WORKERS took power of the state

    This was the key turn in history. The ruling classes got a shattering jolt.

    This is the real meaning of Churchill’s unique hatred of Jews.

    When the Jews in Ukraine joined Trotsky Churchills understanding of that new situation was amazingly acute.

    He went on the attack and adopted the Jewish Bolshevism myth and from there there could be no going back to Lord Balfour. And eventually Balfour was defeated.

    When Trotsky spoke in 1937 these issues were still unresolved.

    But they held the key.

    Agree or disagree?