The former prime minister told Maariv that the late Ariel Sharon was very clear when he told ministers Israel’s end goal was to drive PLO into Jordan but they “didn’t understand or pretend not to.”

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF  MAY 2, 2020 04:32

Ehud Barak speaks at a press conference with his Israel Democratic Party.  (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

Former prime minister Ehud Barak gave an interview to Maariv, the sister publication of the Jerusalem Post, and explained that the goal of the First Lebanon War was to drive the PLO out of Lebanon and into Jordan.

The Israeli hope was that the PLO would have “learned the lessons of Black September (1970)”, when it clashed with Jordanian forces and was forced to leave Jordan – turning Jordan into the de facto Palestinian state, he said.

Israel is currently marking 20 years since the IDF pulling out of south-east Lebanon, a decision taken and carried out by Barak when he was prime minister.

The First Lebanon War is usually seen as Israel’s attempt to aid Lebanese Christians in that country’s Civil War in order to gain a regional ally. The plan being that a Christian-dominated Lebanon would have been supportive of the Jewish state as two minority-countries in the region.
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By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA .. January 16, 2020

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,408, January 16, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague has an abysmal record. It has few convictions, yet in the 17 years of its existence has spent more than $1.5 billion. The ICC’s decision to investigate supposed Israeli war crimes is a largely political ruling. Israel should confront the court by exposing that its multiple deficiencies far exceed its merits.

In 1998, a group of world leaders adopted the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC). This independent court was intended to judge and convict those responsible for war crimes. In 2002, the ICC started its activities in the Hague, Netherlands.

In March 2014, Forbes reported that in the 12 years of the court’s existence, it had obtained a grand total of two convictions. Both were Congolese warlords. The second of these was acquitted of the most serious charges against him.

By that point the ICC had accumulated expenditures of $1 billion. Read more…

T Belman. What follows is 61 page analysis of the biggest corruption scandal in American history by far, namely the conspiracy to unseat President Trump. It is extremely well written and researched. It makes for fascinating reading.

Subject: Obama administration disinformation campaign against President Trump.

To: The American Public

From: John Seaman, Retired DEA Supervisory Agent and former Senior Police Advisor for   Anti-Corruption on behalf of DOJ in Afghanistan 2012-2013

As a matter of introduction, I am a retired DEA supervisory agent with over 30 years’ experience in the field of the Rule of law with specialized experience in investigating governmental corruption and transnational narco-terrorist organizations. While in quarantine I took the liberty of doing an exercise, an investigative analysis on all the available open source information1 to ascertain the scope and extent of a False Flag disinformation conspiracy campaign purportedly by the Obama administration and the media in sabotaging the Trump Presidency. 

The purpose of this document is to give the reader all the available open source information so the reader can make their own determination as to the creditability of the information presented. The information in this document describes how the modus operandi the “False Flag disinformation operation,” commonly used technique by U.S. and Foreign Intelligence agencies against their Foreign adversaries was used by both the Russians and Obama administration in the 2016 Presidential election in sowing distrust among the citizenry in the U.S. electoral process. The document also answers the billion dollar question of how could a Russian disinformation document the Steele dossier became the centerpiece for U.S. law enforcement and Intelligence efforts that launched the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign which later evolved into the Mueller investigation which resulted in dividing the country along extreme partisans lines among the two major political parties.

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China prospered while buying off greedy American elites. Now that alarm bells are ringing in Washington, who will answer the call?

By Lee Smith, TABLET

The novel coronavirus that swept out of the Chinese city of Wuhan in midwinter to infect millions around the globe has now forced world leaders to reassess their relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The superpower conflict between the United States and Soviet Union helped push China onto center stage nearly 50 years ago. Over the past three decades, Beijing has come to dominate the international system, thanks not only to the world’s largest pool of cheap, unregulated labor and a burgeoning consumer marketplace, but also the craven delusions and greed of Western political and business elites, especially in the United States. COVID-19 has now compelled the most significant geostrategic rethink since the end of the Cold War.

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016 in part because large sections of the American public, especially in former industrial states, believed that Trump was the only candidate willing to protect them from the devastation wrought on the U.S. economy and social fabric by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their partners in Congress. “China is not our friend,” Trump tweeted in 2013. “They are not our ally. They want to overtake us, and if we don’t get smart and tough soon, they will.”
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Linda Goudsmit. This is an excellent analysis and extremely important because the civilized mind has great difficulty absorbing the malevolence of the globalists and their New World Order. What distinguishes the globalist movement to impose a one-world government is that it arrogantly presents itself as humanitarian and “for our own good!” The coronavirus outbreak and scripted hysteria is the biggest humanitarian hoax of them all Ted. Denial is not a survival strategy. Dismissing the threat as conspiracy theory is childish. I agree with Hohmann – Trump has got to regain his footing as the leader of the America-first, anti-globalist movement. He must open America for business without restrictions.

by Leo Hohmann 4.30.2020

It’s time to make America human again

It should be clear by now to even the slowest of wits. Bill Gates and his corrupt buddies at the United Nations global medical-industrial complex engineered the Great Panic of 2020.

And if it’s left to them, things are not going to return to normal.  Ever.

They have the monopolistic power of Google-YouTube on their side, censoring out dissident perspectives from brave physicians like Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi.

They have the mainstream media on their side.

They have almost every Democrat governor and mayor on their side.
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T. Belman. Actually, McEnany’s star has been rising for a decade. “After leaving school, she majored in international politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.[9] and then spent a year at the University of Oxford.[10] After graduating from Georgetown, McEnany spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show.[11]

McEnany enrolled at the University of Miami School of Law, before transferring to Harvard Law School, where she graduated in 2016.[12] According to the Miami School of Law, McEnany was the recipient of the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence, a scholarship awarded to students in the top 1% of their class.[13]” Wikipedia.

In my opinion, the President hit a home run with the appointment of McEnany.

Kayleigh McEnany holds first briefing as WH press secretary Questions start at 4:33.

High Court is trying to de-Judaize us

11 justices vs. 1.3 million voters

The danger of allowing the court into the political arena is, first and foremost, to the court itself. This country’s greatest legal minds have always understood this.

By Gideon Sa’ar, ISRAEL HAYOM

This writer believes wholeheartedly that any democracy worthy of its name must have an independent judiciary. Moreover: Some legislation passed in the Knesset, on rare and extraordinary occasions, should be subject to judicial scrutiny. In the country’s 72 years, the executive and legislative branches have respected the judicial branch and upheld its standing, even amid growing criticism from the people and their elected representatives. There is one danger from which no one can protect the judiciary from – itself.

It’s enough to note the Supreme Court’s rulings just this past week, spanning Memorial Day and Independence Day: Abolishing the Deposit Law for illegal migrants and infiltrators; abolishing the use of the Shin Bet’s cellular location technology for coronavirus patients; a temporary injunction preventing a 3-month extension of acting State Attorney Dan Eldad’s tenure; ruling that hospitals cannot prevent people from bringing their own food into their premises during the Passover holiday.
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After series of Israeli airstrikes in southwestern Syria, observer group reports explosions targeting Hezbollah positions in northern Syria.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Israeli strikes in Syria

Explosions were reported in northern Syria Friday morning, hours after airstrikes attributed to Israel rocked southwestern Syria, near the Israeli border.

The latest explosions were again attributed to Israeli warplanes, which reportedly struck Hezbollah targets on the road between the city of Homs and Palmyra.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitored the explosions, the explosions were the result of Israeli missile strikes on weapons depots at a Hezbollah base, called the “Hassan bin Al-Haytham” camp – a former school now used by Hezbollah terrorists as a regional headquarters. Read more…

PA says it will assist the International Criminal Court in The Hague in prosecuting “Israeli war criminals”.

By Dalit Halevi, INN

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Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, on Thursday praised what he described as the “courageous and responsible” report of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, who ruled that “Palestine” is a state and the ICC has jurisdiction involving its cases.

Erekat said in a statement that Bensouda had asked the preparatory committee to determine that the area of ??jurisdiction of the ICC includes the “West Bank” and eastern Jerusalem as well as the Gaza Strip.

“The arrival of Palestine at this stage sends a message of hope to our (Palestinian) people that the date is coming on which a criminal investigation will be launched against those in Israel who have committed war crimes against the Palestinian people,” Erekat said.
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Some Arab regimes are trying to prevent the dissemination of information in an effort to conceal their ineptitude, but many are already predicting, based on growing online dissent, that once the pandemic is over and the true economic fallout becomes clearer, another Arab Spring could erupt.

By Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM 04-30-2020

Unlike Iran and Turkey, where the coronavirus has killed thousands and infected many more, the numbers in most Arab countries are negligible in proportion to the sizes of their populations, while morbidity rates remain suspiciously low. The devil, as we know, is in the details — or lack thereof. In the Arab world, apparently, there are those who believe an abundance of information is a sign of weakness, and that a dearth of such information is a source of strength and might. After all, without modernized healthcare services and only minimal testing, patients can’t be found and deaths cannot be traced to the disease.

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The international community fiercely opposes the move, but what would it do about it? In this time of pandemic, ‘there will be little patience with Israel,’ ex-Mossad chief warns

By Raphael Ahren, TOI

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell addresses a video press conference at the conclusion of a video conference of EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels, April 22, 2020. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

On November 16, 1980, prime minister Menachem Begin was asked during an interview with NBC how he thought the international community would respond to an Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights. At the time, a bill extending Israeli law to the disputed area had been introduced on the Knesset floor, but Begin’s government had not yet announced its support for the move.

“As we didn’t yet take any decision about it, I think it is premature to speak about reactions,” he told the interviewer.

About a year later, Begin pushed the Golan Heights Law through the Knesset. The international community’s response was unsurprising, with the United Nations Security Council condemning Israel’s de facto annexation as a “continuing threat to international peace and security.” Resolution 497 passed unanimously, including a “yes” vote by the Reagan administration. Read more…

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