Blast at centrifuge assembly facility may have set back development by 2 years, experts tell the NY Times, with series of strikes causing ‘extreme internal and external pressure’

By TOI STAFF 10 July 2020, 10:02 pm

The explosion at a health clinic in Tehran, Iran, on June 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

An alleged Israeli attack on an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility exhibited the complexity of the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian enrichment centrifuges a decade ago, experts and analysts said in a new report Friday.

Officials with knowledge of the blast at Natanz last week told The New York Times that it was most likely the result of a bomb planted at the facility, potentially at a strategic gas line, but that it was not out of the question that a cyberattack was used to cause a malfunction that led to the explosion.

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Phone call transcripts confirm Netanyahu lobbied both Kremlin and incoming Trump administration to curb initiative perceived as incompatible with Israel’s long-term security needs

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The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that phone conversations between U.S. President Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Flynn and former Russian UN Ambassador Sergey Kislyak confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied both the Kremlin and the incoming Trump administration to curb the initiative he perceived as incompatible with Israel’s long-term security needs.

Israel, it appears, learned of the planned move while working against the Obama administration-coordinated UNSC Resolution 2334, the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy. Memorably, the U.S. abstained from voting, enabling the resolution’s passage, in one of Obama’s last acts as president.
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T. Belman. Flipping the school system from indoctination to education, is a challenge Trump is up to.

By Ellie Bufkin, TOWNHALL

President Trump had harsh words for the American public education system on Friday. In a tweet admonishing public educators for being leftist indoctrinators, not educators, the president said he was looking into the tax-exempt status and federal funding of schools and universities.

“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” he said in a Friday afternoon tweet. “Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status ontinues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!”

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T. Belman.  For years I didn’t understand why Britain tolerated Muslim grooming gangs.  I still don’t.

by Raymond Ibrahim, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 11, 2020

According to Sarah Champion, a UK Labor politician and MP for Rotherham (the epicenter of sex grooming gangs), “We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it and if we are going to prosecute correctly for it.” (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

• “[W]e are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes…. It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.” — Sarah Champion, British Labour MP, YorkshireLive, April 29, 2020.

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“Democrats are comfortable with backing a Marxist revolutionary group that funnels its financing through an organization headed, in part, by an unrepentant terrorist. Democrats therefore have no moral high ground from which to complain about Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence.”

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

On Friday, President Trump commuted Roger Stone’s sentence on the ground that Stone was an unfortunate victim of the Democrats’ Russia hoax. Democrats and other leftists responded with the usual outrage.

This outrage seems absurd when one considers the recent report that one of the leading Black Lives Matter fundraisers is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted domestic terrorist who was once on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Rosenberg is relevant to a discussion about Stone because Bill Clinton, on the last day of his presidency, commuted her 58-year-prison sentence after only 16 years.
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This video starts at 20 min. These very smart women all have senior positions in the Trump reelection campaign. They are joined by Leo Terrell to discuss indoctrination in US education system, school choice and school openings.

What the world is witnessing right now is someone hitting Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons and IRGC facilities practically at will.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST   JULY 10, 2020

A handout satellite image shows a general view of the Natanz nuclear facility after a fire, in Natanz, Iran July 8, 2020

Iran is facing a total intelligence breakdown.

With another explosion on Thursday night, reportedly at an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility, the question is not only how anyone has pulled up to seven attacks off in around two weeks, but how has the Islamic Republic repeatedly failed to stop them.

From 2010-2013, the regime succeeded in cracking a CIA cell and eliminated many CIA operatives.

Even when the US and Israel, according to foreign reports, breached Iran’s security for its nuclear program with the Stuxnet virus in 2009-2010, they had to use assets of Dutch intelligence.

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Even though the peer reviewed data proves there is no systemic racism in the treatment of Blacks by the police, you are not allowed to use the data in order to undermine the BLM narrative.

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

In 2019, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (“PNAS”), a peer-reviewed journal, published a study from two psychologists showing that American police were not shooting blacks as disparate rates compared to other races. In the most recent issue of PNAS, the psychologists withdrew the study, not because it was wrong, but because they objected that conservatives were using the study to challenge the Black Lives Matter narrative.

The psychologists, Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland, studied 917 instances, from 2015 through 2019, in which police fatally shot civilians. They were trying to determine whether race could be a factor in predicting shootings. They found that it could not.

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T. Belman.  I submit it is too late.  Besides Res 242 applied to “every state in the area”.  That included Jordan but not a future state of Palestine.  For many reasons both historical and legal, Israel is entitled to keep all of the land west of the Jordan. This land constitutes only 10% of the conquered land and R242 never demanded that Israel withdraw from all of the land.  It is well within the intent of the resolution that Israel keep 10% of the land. Besides Israel has the only legal claim to these lands.

Israel has waited long enough to redeem promises by the UN. Israel is now entitled to begin process of securing its border.

By Shoshana Bryen

(JNS) As Israel considers how and when to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria—drawing its map in cooperation with the United States and leaving a chair at the table for the Palestinian Authority—American Democrats, the European community, parts of the international Jewish community and to an apparently lesser degree the Gulf Arab countries have been busy pronouncing themselves “troubled” by the whole process. The silent party has been the Palestinian Authority.

Until now.
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MAY 2019

Hanson speaks even more clearly than he writes, if that is possible.

This video will blow you away. Malcolm X and the KGB defector clearly foresaw what is happening today.

T. Belman. When everyone was rejecting Trump’s “Muslim ban” in immigration, I warned everyone, including Jews, that Muslims are the most antisemetic peoples in the world and that increased Muslim immigration would result in increased antisemetism. Nobody, except Trump and his supporters, cared.

Recent polls in the US and Canada show a dramatic increase in antisemetic incidents. When I read such polls, I always wonder the origin of such incidents. Not only is that never reported but it is probably racist to ask the question.

by Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun  July 8, 2020  

A July 4 pro-Palestinian rally in the Canadian city of Mississauga featured the all-too-familiar chant, “Palestine is our country / The Jews are our dogs.”

On Saturday, July 4, Mississauga’s Celebration Square witnessed a protest by Palestinian Canadians against the planned annexation of the West Bank into Israel proper.

The organizer of this event wrote: “As Canadians, we need to condemn this illegal annexation and condemn Trudeau’s support of Israel, as well as show our support for Palestine and demand justice for it’s (sic) people. Palestinian or not, this is a human rights issue and we all need to come together to stand against it.”

But far from marching “as Canadians” for a “human rights issue,” the protestors could barely conceal their hatred of Jews and their clear rejection of Canada as their country.

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To learn to deal with terror and protect our citizens, stop criticizing Israel and realize that we must never get tired of winning.Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg , INN  09/07/20

The first front in the war against western civilization is Israel and the second front is the U.S.

On both fronts, but right now mostly in the U.S., we have been witnessing an amazing appeasement of evil by politicians, media and professors and even some Judges. Whether it is the threat from the Islamists, an international menace, or the fascists and communists now threatening U.S. domestic freedoms, peace and security, it is sad to see how the elites give up in the face of violent protests and communist propaganda.

We see, almost every day, concessions granted to violent mobs under the aegis of Antifa or Black Lives Matter. In an age where American schools and universities (and some instructors in Israeli universities) mis-teach their students to hate America and Israel, two of the most moral nations on earth, perhaps the West is losing its desire to fight for liberty and freedom.

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By Monica Showalter, AMERICAN THINKER

Kanye West says it was God’s choice, not his, to run for president against Joe Biden and President Trump.

At first glance, it looks like the height of ingratitude to President Trump, who was pretty kind to Kanye and his wife Kim Kardashian, for their idiosyncratic support of him.

Now that Kanye has spoken to Forbes magazine, it’s pretty obvious that Trump has little to do with this whole shadowbox campaign. Democrats are ones who are getting the kick in the teeth, not Trump.

Here’s how deadly it was for Democrats in this must-read interview from Forbes:

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Tehran admits series of mysterious explosions destroyed advanced and sensitive equipment

By Yochanan Visser, ISRAEL TODAY JULY 8, 2020

PHOTO: In 2018, Netanyahu let the world know that Israel knew everything Iran was up to, and that the Jewish state would act alone if necessary.

Last week, Israel Today reported on a mysterious blast at a secret Iranian facility in Khojir, twenty kilometers east of Tehran.

It later appeared Iran had been working on the development of long-range ballistic missiles or even intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM’s) at Khojir and that this facility was the target of what seemed to be a new cyber attack.

An American weapons expert said, based on the images she reviewed and that showed a huge orange fireball, that the explosion was in a factory that produces ballistic liquid-fuel missiles.
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Peter Beinart claimed to speak for Jewish critics of Israel. Now he wants to replace it with a binational state, leaving Jews defenseless. Is anyone really surprised?

By Jonathan S. Tobin, jns

(July 8, 2020 / JNS) There’s a reason why most Israelis find it difficult to listen patiently to lectures from liberal American Jews. For Israelis, their country is a real place filled with real people and perplexing dilemmas that have no easy solutions. But for all too many American Jews, Israel is a dreamland—a place for intellectual tourism where we can project our own insecurities and anxieties on the Jewish state while expressing our moral superiority over the lesser beings who live there and lack our wisdom.

Which brings us to the problem of Peter Beinart.

Beinart, the former editor of The New Republic and columnist for The Atlantic, sought to carve out a place for himself as the leading liberal critic of Israel with his 2012 book The Crisis of Zionism. The book was as spectacularly ignorant as it was arrogant in its refusal to acknowledge the reality of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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by Steve Kramer

Jew-hatred (politely termed antisemitism) has returned to the US and the West, jolting some Jews but befuddling others who fail to recognize the phenomenon. We baby boomers grew up in era of acceptance of the Jew community. But this ancient hatred has reverted to the mean as the shock of the Holocaust has receded and Israel has become a powerful nation.

Even more Jew-hatred can be expected in the near future, now that the last Holocaust survivors are dying and its deniers becoming more outspoken. A disturbing phenomenon is the many organizations which include Jew-hatred with their efforts to radically change America and the West in general, following the doctrine of intersectionality: the conglomeration of many progressive goals, such as environmentalism and gender fluidity, with Jew-hatred. Adding to our apprehension is the disturbing trend of liberal Jewish organizations’ identification with some of the worst offending organizations. (see Appendix)

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by Gary C. Gambill, ME FORUM June 25, 2020

Mustafa al-Kadhimi was chosen as prime minister by Iraq’s parliament after five months of deadlock.

Amatzia Baram, emeritus professor of history and director of the Centre for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa, spoke to participants in a May 15 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the promising future of Iraq’s new prime minister.

“I am a bearer of good news,” Baram declared at the outset, explaining that on May 7 the Iraqi parliament elected Mustafa al-Kadhimi as the new prime minister, a man who is simultaneously “best for Iraq … for America … [and] for peace in the Middle East.” Kadhimi previously served as head of the Iraq Memory Foundation, which documented the crimes of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; as a journalist for the U.S.-based publication Al-Monitor; and most recently as head of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, the “equivalent of the American FBI,” where he earned widespread respect from all quarters in Iraq.

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While American conservatives consider COVID-19 restrictions an infringement on their freedom, Israelis of the same political bent believe that abiding by regulations is a civic duty.

By Ruthie Blum, ISRAEL HAYOM 07-08-2020

Nothing better illustrates Thomas Mann’s famous statement that “everything is politics” than the response of opposing ideological camps to the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

This makes sense. The global COVID-19 crisis affects two fundamental aspects of the human condition. Yes, health and finances affect us all and are a source of obsession for many. It is no wonder then that the first fights surrounding the spread of the highly contagious disease – a novel strain of an existing virus – centered on its point of origin.

Indeed, no sooner had the world begun to grasp that the microbe – initially pooh-poohed by skeptics as merely another type of flu – was stumping doctors and epidemiologists alike, than the battle about blaming China entered the debate. The question of whether it came from bats sold in wet markets or was manufactured in the laboratories of Beijing seemed to override discussions of symptoms and cures.

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