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April 16, 2020 | 9,443 Comments »

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  1. @Michael
    Honestly, I was greatly relieved to hear of Orban’s victory, as this was suppose to be a nail-biter election, not a blowout mandate as it turned out to be.. Beyond the fact that the election was suppose to be very close, it is also significant that the election was not conducted by machines, but by hand counts, and that the election results for the entire Hungarian nation was completed in a couple of hours.

  2. Hi, Peloni. re

    Hungarian Prime Minister and Economic Nationalist Viktor Orban Easily Wins Reelection – NATO, Globalists, World Economic Forum and Western War Alliance Very Upset

    They are upset indeed — 70% of Hungary’s voters have endorsed Orban for PM, and this is seen as a blow to democracy. Soros’s own Anne Applebaum went so far as to say,

    Many American politicians would understandably prefer to focus on the long-term competition with China. But as long as Russia is ruled by [Vladimir] Putin, then Russia is at war with us too. So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary, and potentially many others.

    We might not want to compete with them, or even care very much about them. But they care about us. They understand that the language of democracy, anti-corruption, and justice is dangerous to their form of autocratic power — and they know that that language originates in the democratic world, our world.

    — https://www.worldtribune.com/george-soros-apologist-anne-applebaum-declares-war-on-7-nations-in-name-of-democracy/

  3. Sebastien

    The great forces in the world at this point in time are the massive arms of NATO and the United leaders of the Europe and American industrial complex

    This is being played out before our eyes.

    Against that stands the nationalism of Russia, China and India with some others.

    Centred on America they now talk openly about using nuclear in war.

    This is very dangerous for all life on the planet.

    The most dangerous person on the planet on the use of nuclear war is Trump.

    This blustering and reactionary totally clown person and laughable figure but menacing figure too YOU DO NOT NEED OR WANT ON YOUR SIDE

    Look how slavish Netanyahu was and see how Trump treated him

    What will bring you down is your slavishness

    You have now a state. Use it. Stand up like proud Jews and use your state on this our only earth.

    At present you are a pathetic lot. You all show not the spirit of Herzl but of defeat. To any proud Jew Trump and his doings should be laughed at. Please do not embarrass yourselves any more!

  4. @Felix Trump was good to Israel except for his revamped 2 state solution which he exchanged for the Abrahsm Accords. Jerusalem, cut off aid to the PA and UNRWA, Taylor Force Act, allowing Israeli engineers to fix the F35 and sell the fix back to the US, recognized sovereignty over Golan Heights, recognized that Jews living in Yesha was not illegal per se, was prepared to support at least partial sovereignty over Areaa C, extended civil rights protections to Jewish and pro-Israel students, for starters. GOT OUT OF THE IRAN DEAL! Supported all Israeli miltary actions unlike Biden who ordered an end to the last Gaza engagement after 11 days, which is why the Arab violence is exploding because Hamas knows that this government will back down when Biden tells them to so there us little deterrent.

  5. On Ted and Peloni their support for Trump. Trump is dangerous in the extreme on nuclear war. I can post the video later. This is The issue. If honest we have to face this issue.

    John Meirsheimer is very sharp. I admire taking of lessons from Sport.

    I admire Putin being Christian as it shows he is not tied to Marxist as a dogma.

  6. Hungarian Prime Minister and Economic Nationalist Viktor Orban Easily Wins Reelection – NATO, Globalists, World Economic Forum and Western War Alliance Very Upset https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/03/hungarian-prime-minister-and-economic-nationalist-viktor-orban-easily-wins-reelection-nato-globalists-world-economic-forum-and-western-war-alliance-very-upset/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hungarian-prime-minister-and-economic-nationalist-viktor-orban-easily-wins-reelection-nato-globalists-world-economic-forum-and-western-war-alliance-very-upset

  8. @FelixQuigley

    I want to ask you a few things.

    From “Trump” to “this defence is extensive”.

    The reasons people get hung up on certain political personalities are:

    1) they are taught that history is essentially a fight between strong personalities (most of the history books and articles are actually written from this perspective), and the MSM completely supports this view and discusses the current events in this vein;

    2) they are fully convinced that a particular politician is a free agent and if only their favorite won, it would finally cause the justice to reign, etc., therefore, if you try to convince them otherwise, you will cause them a lot of emotional pain;

    3) the reason for (1) and (2) is because the Anglos (including the highest-placed political figures) view their internal and foreign politics as a kind of sport with ongoing matches between different teams where ends always justify the means (at least to the politicians).
    This view is also very useful for the application of the divide-and-rule method, both at home and abroad.

    “Russia has lost”

    I don’t think so, it’s just that their view of politics is totally different from the Anglo view, and for a Westerner it is hard to comprehend. I suspect the “Russians” don’t exactly get the Anglo/Western motivations, either.

    “Now switch it to Israel”.

    Yes, what “the West” is doing to Russia can now theoretically be applied to Israel and to any other state by the united “West”.

    I remember that Ariel Sharon was very disturbed by the NATO’s bombing of Serbia for that very reason (among others, I am sure).

    On the other hand, maybe this situation will stop Israelis from idealizing the US as they have tended to to ’til now.

    “Nuclear war”

    I agree with you but there is nothing we can do since we have no influence over the patients who are running the asylum (other than praying a lot?)

  9. Israel left with no political defence.

    Meirsheimer is silent. McGovern keeps fighting

    What needs to be done is tell the whole story especially the issue of USE OF THE STATE TO INDOCTRINATION post Maidan coup.

    PLease comment.

  10. Reader

    I want to ask you a few things. I have been involved in an issue re Trump.

    It concerns the story from Caitlin Johnstone that Trump armed the Ukrainian Fascists starting in 2017 which is immediately.

    Meirsheimer also mentioned that but added Trump was under great pressure. I didn’t buy that.

    Ted and Peloni have cover to Trump against me

    I believe that Trump is an American Imperialist..

    As is Biden and all Presidents.

    Nothing else matters. Yet we have a continual defence of Trump and this defence is extensive

    Russia has lost. Because following February 2014 Ukraine by now is proxy or totally puppet of NATO.

    This defeat could not be more serious

    Now switch it to Israel and Israel doesn’t actually have a leg to stand on.

    Plus
    Nuclear war will leave .not one human alive. I invite others also.

    Please address these issues in total as they are all connected.

  11. Biden plans to give China over 2:1 nuclear edge by 2026

    “China is now sprinting to achieve nuclear superiority over the United States; the PLA could amass over 4,000 nuclear warheads by late in this decade, while the Biden Administration has limited the U.S. to 1,550 warheads by extending U.S. adherence to the 2010 New Start nuclear reduction treaty to 2026.”
    — https://www.worldtribune.com/bidens-feb-11-indo-pacific-strategy-nullified-by-ukraine-invasion-analyst-lays-out-emergency-taiwan-plan/

  12. A pro-Israel, philosemitic Muslim who is a Facebook friend posted this great story:

    28 Adar II – Purim of Cairo – 1524
    On this day in 1524, the Jews of Cairo were spared from a decree that they should all be exterminated. The day became known to Egyptian Jews as Purim of Cairo.
    When Suleman became the Ottoman Sultan in 1520, he appointed Ahmed Pasha to be the Viser of Cairo. Pasha felt slighted because he expected a much more prominent position in the government, and subsequently began a rebellion against Suleman. As part of his rebellion, he had his name printed instead of the Sultan on local coins. The mint was headed by a Jew Avraham de Castro who asked Pasha to put his request into writing. Castro then went to Constantinople to show the orders to the Sultan.
    When Pasha became aware that he had been betrayed by the Jews, he called in 12 communal leaders and told them that if they could not raise 200 talents of silver (an astronomical amount of money) by the given deadline, all the Jews of Cairo would be slaughtered. The community could only come up with 10% of the amount. Not appeased, Pasha said he would carry out his decree just after his bath. It would be a fateful bath. Pasha was accosted by some of his officials. Though he initially escaped, he was shortly captured and beheaded. The Jews of Cairo had been saved and proclaimed the day Purim of Cairo.
    Naveed Anjum

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  13. @Sebastien Zorn

    The reasons (in my opinion) for the “sudden” rise in terror are as follows:

    1) Israel has been offering more and more concessions to the Arabs (both within and outside the Green Line) which was interpreted by them (as usual) as a weakness and an invitation to demand more by terrorizing the Jewish population (because it works);

    2) a push for the Two-State Final Solution “as the only solution for peace in the Middle East”.

  14. @Sebastien Zorn

    I think the US is destroying the European economy and cutting it off from any Russian imports to accomplish 2 things (as a minimum):

    1) to completely take over those imports (or as far as possible).
    Biden ordered to speed up the exploration and production of natural gas (at least), and there are calls to open the US fallow lands:

    Senators call for opening fallow US land to crops amid Ukraine crisis
    GOP lawmakers urge Biden administration to allow farmers to use conservation acreage, help prevent starvation around the world

    https://www.rt.com/news/553195-senators-urge-more-us-crop-planting/

    The above is absolutely stunning in its hypocrisy because the actual aim is to use the situation to enrich the US and completely take over Europe.

    2) to completely isolate Russia and weaken it (ideally inducing a civil war there and breaking it up) in order to be able to deliver a coup de grace to it by the “free and democratic West” to give the US the full control of “Eurasia”.

    It is also possible that the US is destroying the $ in order to make the 31 trillion $ debt a moot point.

    It is possible that the PTB also want to create a “Putin’s” Great Depression to rile up the population for another Good War.

    With the economy, money, and business being the gods of the US, it is impossible to believe that what was done to them since the beginning of 2020 is being done out of stupidity, or incompetence, etc.

    I think it was well planned with multiple possible outcomes all worked out (please, don’t respond to me that “Biden did it”).

  15. In one month: 52 shooting attacks during March
    Number of terror attacks in March highest since 2017, new report shows.
    The Moatti Information Center has published data on the terror attacks carried out by Palestinian Authority Arabs against Israeli targets throughout the month of March 2022.

    According to the report, the number of terror attacks carried out in March was the highest since 2017: 821 “acts of war” were conducted during the month, killing 12 Israelis and wounding 64. Twenty Palestinian Authority Arabs died as well.

    The report also said that 52 shooting attacks were conducted in March, of which 25 terror attacks were conducted near Jenin. There were nine stabbing attacks or attempted stabbing attacks and two ramming attacks.

    Related articles:
    Terrorist promised, ‘Soon you’ll hear about me’
    Interior Min.: ‘Those who rise up to kill you – kill them first’
    Activists demonstrate outside military HQ, demand security
    ‘Tourists afraid to come to Israel’ because of terror attacks
    In addition, terrorists carried out seven arson attacks on military facilities, 255 rock-hurling attacks, and 28 firebombings.

    In addition, there were 296 incidences of conflict with IDF forces, 119 incidents of conflict with “settlers,” and 47 mass protests against the “occupation.”

    Click here to join the official Israel National News – Arutz S

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/212928

  19. From Dr. Zelenko:

    My health update.

    Unfortunately, my cancer has progressed and spread to my remaining lung, and may have also spread to my left hip, and low back.

    I will have biopsies of the hip and back soon.

    There are experimental and alternative treatment options that I am exploring.

    I feel good and have no fear. I may have to scale down some of my smaller media events but fully intend to stay in the fight as long as I have consciousness.

    It has been four years since I was supposed to die. Everyday since has been miraculous and I attribute my continuous survival to the prayers of loving people.

    My Hebrew name is

    Velvel Wolf Zev Ben Leah

    It really isn’t important when and how a person dies. It is much more important how a person lives.

    With much love

    Zev Zelenko

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  20. How Israel should respond to the Iranian nuclear deal
    Simple enough: Expand Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley and apply sovereignty now. Op-ed.
    Dr. Mordechai Kedar
    29.03.22 07:34

    ‘…However, we have recently learned that the Palestinian Authority is planning to build two new cities in the Jordan Valley so that these cities and their inhabitants will foil the “Zionist plot to take over the Jordan Valley”. In order to contend with the Palestinian Arab plan and Iran’s war designs, Israel must apply its sovereignty to the Jordan Valley. Once the valley is sovereign Israeli territory, Israel will be able to both thwart the Palestinian plans and stop the Iranian tanks that could cross through Iraq and Jordan in a matter of hours…’

    ‘…Two questions immediately arise. The first: What will Israel’s new allies – the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, who signed the Abraham Accords in return for Israel not declaring sovereignty over the Jordan Valley – say? And the second, what will the world say and do in the face of such an Israeli step?…’

    ‘The answer to the first question is that Israel’s new friends will denounce and condemn Israel in no uncertain terms, but will not do anything. This is because in view of the growing strength of Iran, which is breathing down their necks and threatening their very existence and as the United States twists the knife it stuck in their backs, they have no alternative to their alliance with Israel. They may take some kind of public steps, but in essence will do nothing.’

    ‘The answer to the second question is a little more complicated and is related to the fact that when Israel established its sovereignty in the areas around Jerusalem that it liberated from Jordanian occupation in 1967, the world took no steps at all against Israel. However, although the world does not recognize any part of Jerusalem, not even the western part of the city, as Israeli territory – the sky did not fall. Israel passed Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel and Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, which determine that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and the world did not go berserk.’

    ‘What Israel needs to do is to expand Jerusalem’s municipal jurisdiction to all of the Jordan Valley, incidentally applying these basic laws and Israeli sovereignty to it. The world will rant and rave but will not do much else, just as it did nothing with regard to Jerusalem as it is today.”‘

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324811?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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  21. Russia’s 3-Step Program To Put The Ruble On A Gold Standard

    “…Why can the West not see what is happening? Because they’re myopic. The mainstream financial press is so focused on the “Russia selling gold” angle because they’re deeply Keynesian that they do not understand that gold is money, rather than the paper that they print, and that the paper only has value because it is still exchangeable for gold. This entire article from the Wall Street Journal for example is completely focused on Russia selling gold, rather than Russia buying it, which is what they are actually doing…’
    “Western financial thought has this idea that if they cheapen Russian gold by sanctioning it, they’re hurting Russia by lessening the amount of stuff they could potentially buy with that gold. In fact, they’re actually helping Russia by encouraging gold inflows into the country and making it much cheaper for the Bank of Russia to amass much more gold to back the Ruble at a credible rate when the time comes.

    When is that time? Nobody knows for sure, or if it will ever indeed come, but the 5,000RUB/gram gold window closes June 30. What happens then? Does the Ruble become a fully backed gold substitute?”…

    https://seekingalpha.com/article/4498704-russias-3-step-program-to-put-the-ruble-on-a-gold-standard

    This is an investors blog.

  23. Hello, Will Smith!. Did you hear what Vladimir Putin said about your wife?

    – Zelensky on old fashioned telephone. – Satirical Facebook Meme that popped up.

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  24. Is Bosnia next? Putin cited the bombing of Serbia by Clinton as the beginning of this new cold war. And look at the timing. Bosnian Serb leader declares secessionist aims and Biden imposes sanctions on him in January, Russia invades Ukraine in February. World War I began in Serbia. Russia regards Serbians as close cousins, much the way the US regards England. Solidarity with England got the US into WWI, albeit indirectly.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/bosnia-breakup-an-existential-threat-without-international-involvement-official-warns
    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-imposes-sanctions-against-bosnian-serb-leader-over-corrupt-activities

    “One of the factors that led to the beginning of World War I was close bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Russian Empire. While Russia and Serbia were not formally allied, Russia openly sought political and religious influence in Serbia.
    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rus…
    Russia–Serbia relations – Wikipedia

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  25. Is Bosnia next? Putin cited the bombing of Serbia by Clinton as the beginning of this new cold war. And look at the timing. Bosnian Serb leader declares secessionist aims and Biden imposes sanctions on him in January, Russia invades Ukraine in February. World War I began in Serbia. Russia regards Serbians as close cousins, much the way the US regards England. Solidarity with England got the US into WWI, albeit indirectly.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/bosnia-breakup-an-existential-threat-without-international-involvement-official-warns
    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-imposes-sanctions-against-bosnian-serb-leader-over-corrupt-activities

    “One of the factors that led to the beginning of World War I was close bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Russian Empire. While Russia and Serbia were not formally allied, Russia openly sought political and religious influence in Serbia.
    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rus…
    Russia–Serbia relations – Wikipedia

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  26. Edgar I wrote two long replies to you but I cannot see them

    I said Russia is justified and it is in a war which is existential

    I also said that tactically although right is on the side of Putin that he and we must find different and new methods to oppose and defeat this awful evil

    Which is

    US Imperialism

    British and EU Imperialism

    Their brutal hammer… NATO

    If Edgar you disagree with this and in any way take THEIR side in this

    Then just spell it out

  27. The first major massacre in the ‘Holocaust by bullets’: Babi Yar, 80 years on

    Issued on: 29/09/2021 – 10:06

    https://amp-france24-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.france24.com/en/europe/20210929-the-first-major-massacre-in-the-holocaust-by-bullets-babi-yar-80-years-on?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16485513770202&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.france24.com%2Fen%2Feurope%2F20210929-the-first-major-massacre-in-the-holocaust-by-bullets-babi-yar-80-years-on

    This is an important report by a reputable outlet but the paragraph which interests me most

    “The victims were led to the ravine in small groups. Members of Einsatzgruppen C opened fire, alongside two groups from the German Order Police and troops from the collaborationist Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. The shooting carried on throughout the day – and into the next.”

    That’s interesting.

    “troops from the collaborationist Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.”

    My obvious questions:

    Who are they?

    Has Welensky spoken on that?

    Perhaps site comments can respond?

  28. Edgar it is little to do with me and as you put kit my ideology.

    It is rather that there is an objective world which exists outside of individual consciousness.

    This is the question of Ukraine today.

    “According to historian Jeffrey Veidlinger, “Over one quarter of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, approximately 1.5 million people, were killed within the territory of what is now Ukraine.”

    Veidlinger told this dark history in his Jewish Telegraphic Agency op-ed in response to Zelensky’s speech:

    In hundreds of locales with the assistance of local Ukrainian collaborators, [the Germans] gathered Jewish men, women and children, marched them to the outskirts of town, stripped them naked, and shot them in ravines or trenches…

    The largest [massacre in Ukraine] is Babyn Yar, in the suburbs of Kyiv, where over 33,000 Jews were killed on September 29-30, 1941. Weeks before Babyn Yar, 23,600 Jews were executed in the fortress town of Kamianets-Podilskyy. By January 1942, some 500,000 Jews had been killed in Ukraine…

    Because so many Jews were killed at close range, near their homes, by conventional weapons, historians have termed German atrocities in Ukraine the “Holocaust by Bullets.” Indeed, by the spring of 1942, before most of the death camps in German-occupied Poland began operating, nearly two-thirds of Jews in territories now part of Ukraine had been exterminated.

    For some Israelis, this history looms large in the current crisis. When Corey Gil-Shuster, creator of “The Ask Project,” polled Israelis on the question, “Do you support Ukraine or Russia?” one woman responded, “The Ukrainians slaughtered us. The Russians during the Second World War saved the Jews and supported them, and the Ukrainians completely slaughtered us.”. ”

    Is it possible that what she says there is the truth?

    Remember that there were at least two strands to Hitler’s Fascism

    1. Jew Hatred

    2. Russia hatred

    Number 2 has come to the fore.

    And it today marries with Biden Trump Hannity Johnson et al

  29. Flynn Intel Group Business Partner Bijan Kian Granted A New Trial

    (As first reported by Josh Gerstein of Politico): Bijan Kian of the Flynn Intel Group and former business partner of @RealGenFlynn has been granted a new trial related to FARA charges brought by the Mueller Investigation.

    Judge Anthony Trenga stated in an extraordinary ruling,

    “The Court finds and concludes that [Kian’s] convictions … were so against the great weight of the evidence that it would be unjust to convict him on either Count and a new trial is warranted in the interests of justice … ORDERED that Defendant [Kian’s] convictions … hereby are, VACATED, and his renewed motion for a new trial …. hereby is, GRANTED”

    By: Adam Carter

    As first reported by veteran Turkish journalist Cüneyt Özdemir and TWP, Joe Biden may have dispatched his brother, Jim Biden, to personally interfere in this case 4 days before Biden’s announcement to run for the Presidency. If true, that could possibly constitute witness tampering, obstruction of justice, or some other criminal act; and potentially constitute “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”.

    For those reasons, Joe Biden needs to be asked 3 simple questions. “What was said during this meeting, what did he know, and when did he know it?”

    Don’t Ignore This Case

    TWP’s reporting seemingly was later corroborated in an interview by @TracybeanzOfficial of Bijan Kian’s co-defendant @EkimAlptekin. Revealed for the first time in the interview, Alptekin detailed how Jim Biden and wife Sara traveled to Istanbul after repeated requests by the Biden camp for a meeting, and offered to have former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder represent him in his criminal trial related to FARA charges brought by the Mueller Investigation.

    “Alptekin reveals associates of Joe Biden had been reaching out, through his attorneys, requesting a meeting with him. Having been railroaded for the better part of two years, Ekim explained he was unwilling to meet with attorneys or intermediaries, and would only agree to meet with a member of the Biden family directly. After a period of time, he received word that Jim and Sara Biden were requesting an invitation to meet with him in Turkey. The trip would need to be a arranged through a “proper organization”, presumably Alptekin’s own Turkey-U.S. Business Council.

    Alptekin proceeds to drop a new bombshell that wasn’t mentioned even in his Turkish language interview with Cüneyt Özdemir. He revealed Jim and Sara Biden recommended he hire former Obama Attorney General and self-described Obama “wingman” Eric Holder, who by that time had left public office and returned to his position as a partner with Covington in the Washington D.C. office. The same Covington that had prepared the FARA filings that were at the heart of the indictments related to Flynn Intel Group and were currently representing Gen. Flynn in his criminal trial.”

    https://twpundit.com/2021/07/04/biden-doj-has-an-inherent-conflict-of-interest-in-the-trial-of-bijan-kian/

  30. FELIX-

    We are supposed to be living in enlightened days where only the savage, barbaric, dictator run nations attack and actually invade a neighbouring country. \You may be influenced by your ideology, but I am not.

    Was this a matter of self defence, like Israel in the 6 day war??

    Ukraine is very much smaller and weaker than Russia militarily and had no intention of invading Russia. But you seem to know much more than I, which is not difficult.

    I and many billions around the globe see the bare facts, it is Russia which is the aggressor, and has acted accordingly with condemnations and sanctions etc.

    I don’t regard Trump as an Imperialist, but a strictly nationalistic figure

    Biden is senile andit is his Hnadlers who are dictating policy. I don’t know about Johnson….. Lyndon Yes but Boris ??

  31. Edgar

    In brief as I usually use one finger on a phone these days

    1. Russia were TOTALLY justified in invading Ukraine

    Why…needs elaboration

    2. But on consideration of the experience Russia and all of us must never use this method again

    Why? Again need elaboration

    But in very brief form…we must from now on be very aware of the mad dogs of Imperialism

    Biden Trump Johnson

    But sadly with no exception all of them

    3. We have some good researchers but must focus on all facts of the Holocaust in all aspects into the present… especially the Denial part

    (Please!!!)

    This is a bit disjointed but the comment from RT which Reader put up must be dealt with..that so many Americans would use nuclear war is so sobering

  32. The Russians, or “RUS” were originally descended from Vikings with eventual Slavic admixture.

    They went up the Western Dvina that runs into the Gulf of Riga, (my dear late father was born on those very same river banks, where my grandparents had a bakery). when they got to the source they portaged to the head of the Dnieper, and down that river. Some went all the way to Byzantium and were known as Varangians, the Emperor’s personal guards. Others founded Novgorod and captured Kiev which became the capital of their new country. They were called Kievan Rus.

  33. @FELIX-

    Re the “murder” of Maxim Ryndovsky, I wouldn’t take this too seriously, all being the product of an amateur mysterious video. it is totally unproven, there has been no mention of it in any sporting outlet. I am a member of several and posed the question as a topic, and received about 75 negatives, several pointing out that they were positive that the torture picture is very badly photo shopped. Some are computer experts and know their business.

    The pictures showing him as normal, side by side with his being supposedly tortured are very obviously photoshopped. Have another look, and you will see that in both pictures the heads are exactly the SAME size, but in the “tortured” one, the lips are NOT puffed or bruised in any way, which would be the very first thing expected. Also the torture body is enormously elongated,and has a “swerve”…. as well as the “bruises” palpably painted on with no fading out edges but clear edges….and much more

  35. Two Border Police officers killed, 6 seriously wounded in Hadera terror attack
    Terrorists open fire in coastal city of Hadera, killing Border Police officers Yezan Falah and Shirel Abukarat.
    David Rosenberg
    Published: 27.03.22 21:04 Updated: 28.03.22 02:03
    Shooting Attack
    Hadera

    Border Police officers Yezan Falah and Shirel Abukarat were murdered in Sunday’s terrorist attack in the city of Hadera.

    Falah, 19, from Kisra-Sumei, enlisted in the Border Police about a year ago. He is survived by his parents, a brother and a sister.

    Abukarat, 19, a resident of Netanya, enlisted in the Border Police about six months ago. She is survived by her parents and a brother.

    Four other fighters were lightly wounded during the shootout between the Border Police fighters and the armed terrorists and were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Hospital.

    The commander of the Border Police, Superintendent Amir Cohen, said, “The fighters fought heroically, we send condolences and embrace the families of the heroes Yezen and Shirel who defended civilians with their bodies and thus saved many lives. A highly motivated young man and woman who gave their lives for the security of the citizens of Israel.”

    The police said before midnight that there were no civilians among those wounded in the shooting attack in Hadera.

    A total of 12 victims were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Hospital. One of them is in serious condition, one in modeate condition, three are in light condition and the rest suffered from shock.

    Initial reports said six people were wounded, including two police officers, when two terrorists carrying automatic weapons opened fire on passersby on Herbert Samuel Street in Hadera.
    …
    United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shlomo Skittel, who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “This was a very difficult scene. Unfortunately, two of the passersby who were shot were pronounced dead. Additionally, together with other first responders at the scene, I treated two people who were in serious condition, one person in moderate condition, and three people who sustained light injuries. All of the injured were transported to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center for further care.”

    Otzma Yehudit Party chief MK Itamar Ben-Gvir said in response Sunday night: “Jewish blood is not cheap! Terror attack after terror attack – you can’t stand it already, all the suffering and destruction. We said and we warned that a government which is dependent on the Islamic Movement will, in the end, seriously harm the country’s security – and that is what is happening.”

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324732

  38. Hi, Reader

    When I lived in Australia, still in my teens, the international group living in our boarding house was having a discussion about the prospect of nuclear war. Probably a majority scoffed at the idea that anyone would “press the button”. Then they asked me, as the only American present, whether I would obey the order if told to launch the fatal attack. I said I would, without hesitation.

    The scoffing ended then, and we moved on to a different subject. We had all been drinking, but the conversation quickly sobered up.

    It doesn’t take a concensus, for a nuclear war to start. It only takes one leader, giving the order.

  40. @Michael S.

    About the poll and the willingness to start WWIII.

    I think the reason for the belligerence is that neither these people nor their ancestors ever experienced war in their homeland.

    All they know about war is “our heroes fighting in (fill in the blanks) for our freedoms (whatever that is supposed to mean)” in the far off lands populated by some weird barbarous aborigines whom you can carpetbomb because there always be more left than they started with.

    And it feels great to live in a country which is the best and the freest and which literally owns the whole world (or it seems this way) and tells everybody what to do because it is always right, and if someone refuses to toe the line, that someone will be beaten into submission (for all the right reasons and for their own good).

  41. Hi, Reader. You said,

    More than a third of Americans willing to risk nuclear war over Ukraine – poll

    That poll is probably accurate. The willingness to start WWIII is due to people, like some even here on Israpundit, who are convinced that a nuclear exchange will never happen. The best intelligence analysis of the current situation I have seen, is Dr. Pry’s comments of March 23, 2022:

    https://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/peter-pry-march-24-2022

  42. Worth considering, before volunteering to fight for Ukraine:

    On Wednesday, War is Boring relayed information that wounded foreign fighters were being fatally shot by their own in order to prevent them from falling into Russian hands.

    “They don’t try and help you,” one source told War is Boring’s editor, Andy Wolf. “If you’re hit, you are finished.”

    Similar accounts were also relayed on Telegram, confirming the source’s firsthand accounts.

    “Foreign mercenaries who were wounded in the #Volnovakha hospital were shot by their own before leaving the city so that they could not tell anything. All shot in the temple or the back of the head,” Mango Press reported, “According to Yan Gagin, an adviser to the head of the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic.”

    The graphic video attached to the notice showed the bodies of what are believed to be foreign fighters.

    According to The Intelligencer, many of the foreign volunteers are American, Canadian, and British.

    — https://warisboring.com/us-army-veteran-fighting-in-ukraine-says-he-went-awol-because-it-was-a-trap/

  43. @Sebastien Zorn

    There is no way to stop it, change it, or fight it.

    We need to get out and the Government of Israel needs to understand it ASAP.

    Jews like to discuss things to death and to grossly overestimate their ability to change or influence things.

    It is much simpler than the esteemed professor thinks, it is about GETTING OUT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!

    The Jewish organizations need to direct all their efforts and funds to accomplish this.

  47. Palestinian Authority TV falsely claims Jews began to ‘to curse Prophet Muhammad inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque’
    MAR 19, 2022 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
    https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/palestinian-authority-tv-falsely-claims-jews-began-to-to-curse-prophet-muhammad-inside-the-al-aqsa-mosque

    It seems to me that Far from the contention of the left that the “Occupation” made life more dangerous and difficult for Jews, Perhaps the main reason that there was the least amount of terror within Israel when Palestinian Arabs lived under Israeli military rule, behind the green line until 1966, and in Yesha and Gaza from ’67 until the Oslo, , is obviously that anttisemitic incitement in any form was simply not permitted.

  48. @FelixQuigley

    Thanks for the great video documentary!

    The truth about the Maidan and Donbass.

    who on Israpundit will take this horrible event seriously

    I wouldn’t be too optimistic.

    Most people want to run with the majority, and if you try to tell them the truth which happens to be different from the accepted emotional response, they will simply refuse to listen and start yelling “Don’t tell me! Don’t tell me!”

    I’ve had this experience within my own family.

  49. @Felix Thankyou for posting this documentary from the Donbass point of view. Eye opening. I had long been wondering why there was no reportage from Donbass where all sides agreed the 8 year shelling and fighting cost 15, 000 lives.

    The same poster has two more videos documenting the history. also on the ground. I just started watching the first of them.
    Interviews with survivors.
    https://youtu.be/t7jTR0sjkbA

    https://youtu.be/-J5q6kiJDj4

  50. To Reader and Sebastien

    I want to see who on Israpundit will take this horrible event seriously (apart from you)

    Or will it be silence?

    All on Israpundit should (if they’re Jews real Jews that is) be striving to publicise this murder because it tells us everything about Zelensky whom Caroline GLICK promoted so strongly.

    The murder of Maxim Ryndovskiy needs to be a vital issue because it tells who Putin has been forced to fight.

    By the way GLICK placed on her article on Israel Hayom a picture of Putin as Hitler???

    I also await to see who on Israpundit is going to write on the facts which are contained in many videos I have placed on Israpundit. I will follow with a fuller list but this video of some 50 minutes tells how Fascist forces rooted in the Holocaust (which Caroline GLICK seeks to hide from Jews today) lie behind the Government of Ukraine. The Government led by her now biggest hero Zelensky.

    It is this that placed Israel in such deep peril.

    Where I stand it is the very worst form of Holocaust Denial I’ve ever come across.

    Let GLICK answer me. She and other such are practicing Holocaust Denial when they seek to hide the historical roots to those in today’s Ukrainian Government.

    And the video I referred to

    https://youtu.be/BM0iVJeqeE0

    Maidan Road to War