By Michael Ordman, VGNI

• Two charities have donated bullet-proof Search & Rescue ambulances to Israel.
• Israelis have re-engineered a parasite to deliver medical treatments to the brain.
• The income of Arab-Israelis is growing faster than the national average.
• Take a close look at Israeli augmented reality (AR) spectacles.
• Hi-tech employees provide over one third of Israel’s income tax revenues.
• Israel’s Wiz turns down a $23 billion exit offer and keeps growing in value.
• A record-breaking Olympic games for Israeli medalists.
• A new Torah scroll has been dedicated to the Israeli hostages.

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by Clare M. Lopez, Newsmax, August 14, 2024

The Iranian regime’s full court press against former U.S. President and current Republican Party presidential candidate Donald J. Trump continues across a spectrum of operations.

The Tehran regime’s fear of a second Trump administration in the White House has been on full display through a series of assassination plots, online influence operations, and now, most recently, suspected Iranian hacking attempts against the Trump campaign.

As noted in this earlier Newsmax op-ed piece, the Iranian regime has spewed a steady stream of threats against Trump as well as former officials who served in his prior administration.

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By Matt Kane, AM THINKER | August 18, 2024

Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).

A plot to steal the 2024 election from President Trump is well underway, and not just by suppressing information online or dragging Trump through the court system. Those are instances of throwing anything and everything at the wall hoping something sticks, but not the master plan. The real plots have a much more direct impact on the election results rather than just swaying voter perception. We know this because those behind these plots are openly revealing them.

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By Victor Rosenthal | August 18, 2024

Israel has been in crisis mode for two weeks, waiting for a promised attack from Iran. At the same time, the Biden-Harris administration is trying to force Israel to accept a cease-fire agreement with Hamas. How are these things related?

The US administration is heavily invested in stopping the Gaza war and preventing Israel from obtaining full security control over Gaza both for domestic political reasons, and in order to advance its long-term goal of unifying the Palestinian territories under the control of single authority that can be a candidate for statehood.

The US has no leverage over Hamas, so the approach is to apply pressure to Israel, its client state, and to Iran, which is concerned that the US does not interfere with its progress toward nuclear weapons, which is currently at an advanced stage.

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Peloni:  Sarah Ben-Nun interviews Jonathan Hessen, editor-in-chief for TV7 News, discusses the failures of the Biden administration to contain Iran.

Interview begins at 13 min

Opinion: Zionism is an ideology, not a political stance and bridging our divides requires recognizing this; mislabeling Zionism as political poses an existential threat to Israel, and safeguarding this distinction is paramount to our survival

Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi | August 17, 2024

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The principles of the IDSF movement’s activity are exclusively anchored in Israel’s security concerns. Why then is the IDSF movement occasionally pegged as a “right-wing” movement asks Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi?

Zionism itself has become somewhat of a political concept. According to the movement’s approach, the fundamental rationale for Israel’s security is the ultimate belief in the rightful claim of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. In other words, this belief has no affiliation or leanings neither to the left nor to the right of the political map.

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Peloni:  In fact, the policy of de-escalation is nothing more than the continuation of the Status Quo, and this preserves and escalates, rather than eliminates, the existential threats which lay on Israel’s borders, all of them.  This would be more than a defeat, as it would be a surrender to the permanence of the menacing forces which lay in the North, the South and in J&S.  What is more is that the Sunni nations, who would be pressured towards peace by an Israeli victory, would be pressured towards a very different path by Israeli capitulation to maintaining the Status Quo which oversaw the slaughter of October 7 and the resulting retreat of Israelis from their own borders.  The continuation of the Status Quo is incompatible with Israeli permanence in the region and simply perpetuates and exacerbates the difficulties which Israel will face in the future.

Iran’s war on Israel and America will continue until the mullahs’ regime is removed.

by Shoshana Bryen | August 14, 2024

The most prevalent rumor regarding a possible Iranian attack on Israel was that Iran would strike over Tisha B’Av, Judaism’s somber commemoration of the loss of the Jewish Temples in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 C.E. (makes you wonder who the “colonizers” are, doesn’t it?), as well as other difficult moments in Jewish history.

A lot of people opined that the mullahs’ government would see the irony of adding to Jewish mourning, but there is also irony in the fact that Tehran considers the Jewish link to Jerusalem to be of interest.

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Peloni:  Gen. Avivi shares one of his seminars which he provides to foreign dignitaries who visit Israel.  In it, he describes two narratives, one which leads to victory and the other which leads back to October 7 at sometime in the future.  Avivi also explains that the need to deal with the threat in the North is an existential need and he observes that the threat from the PA in J&S is another existential threat, and that all of these threats must be met.  In conclusion, he explains the title of this episode and how Israel allowed Gaza to emerge as a terror enclave within Israel.

Peloni:  The problem with being an American puppet is that sooner or later the puppet loses its appeal for the puppeteer, as it appears Zelensky is currently discovering.  Like all American puppets, Zelensky failed the Americans in the most meaningful way in which an American proxy might, he projected weakness when his American masters demanded victories.  Still, Zelensky fulfilled the role which he was ultimately designed to play by the West, and that was to kill Russians at the expense of the Ukrainian masses, with the resulting Slavic slaughter registering as a win-win in the West.  Yet, when Zelensky goes, be it either the way of the Shah or the way of Diem, the truth of the Ukrainian butcher’s bill will finally and honestly embraced in Ukraine, and it will not be either Zelensky nor his Western masters who will reap the whirlwind for this tragedy, but most likely it will be the Ukrainian Jewish community who have always fulfilled the default focus of Ukraine’s historic bloodlust over and over again throughout its history.

Has Zelensky Become a Rogue Actor?

Stephen Bryen | Weapons and Strategy | August 17, 2024

Andromeda yacht

Both Germany and the US have put out numerous stories about the destruction of the Nordsteam pipeline. They say the pipeline was destroyed by the Ukrainians.  The latest story, headlined in the Wall Street Journal, would have us believe that the plot to blow up the pipeline was approved initially by Vladimir Zelensky and carried out by the former Ukrainian Armed Forces chief, Valery Zaluzhny.  Following the story, after the planning was done by a motley crew of army officers and civilians, mostly soaked in alcohol, Zelensky tried to call off the attack because he was warned by the US not to carry it out. Zaluzhny, however, carried on, saying he had no way to call back the operation.

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By Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  August 17, 2024

• This conflict is a battle for survival not only for Israel but for the region, and ultimately for Europe and the United States.
• Israel understands the stakes: Iran’s belligerency requires an unequivocally committed response from the United States. In that part of the world, wishy-washy means a green light, open season. The consequences are assumed to vary from minimal to non-existent – and often even a profit!

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By Allen West, American Constitutional Rights Union, August 13, 2024

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing. With some, the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf do not agree upon a definition of the word liberty.”

President Abraham Lincoln, Baltimore Sanitary Fair, April 18, 1864

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FDD | August 16, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Spokesman: Army Has Improved Readiness, Preparing to Strike in ‘Lebanon, and in All Arenas’ | IAF Destroys Some 30 Gaza Targets in Past Day | Analysis: IDF Making Significant Progress in Destroying Hamas Military Capabilities | COGAT: 11 Field Hospitals Operating in Gaza, Three More Being Established | Latest FDD Analysis

IDF Spokesman: Army Has Improved Readiness, Preparing to Strike in ‘Lebanon, and in All Arenas’: In a Thursday evening press briefing, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated that the IDF is gathering intelligence and is preparing to strike “in the skies of Lebanon, and in all arenas,” adding that the military has “improved and increased” its readiness in the past week. He noted that as of now, there is no change in Home Front Command guidelines, adding that if there is, the army will provide an immediate update. Turning to Gaza, Hagari mentioned that IDF operations are ongoing in central Gaza and in Khan Younis and Rafah, both in southern Gaza. In the past week, Hagari said, the IDF destroyed some 50 tunnels near the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the border between Egypt and Gaza. Some, he said, are not “active tunnels,” and some are “very old,” but the IDF is working to destroy them all. In addition, the IDF has so far eliminated more than 17,000 terrorists in Gaza.

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Peloni:  Kassandra Troy provides and excellent collage of much of Mike Benz’ recent commentary with ancillary commentary and links.  Very well done!

by Kassandra Troy | The Dystopia of Paradise | August 16, 2024

Aug. 14, 2024 War Room: MSM Reports Of Hunter Biden Lobbying Work Shows Burisma A Vassal Of American Diplomacy.

Lately we have been doing some posts with commentary of Mike Benz, Executive Director of the free speech watchdog, Foundation for Freedom Online (website). He has been informing us not just about the censoring activities of the Western security apparatus (also known as ‘the blob’) (read the primer), but also on their machinations in the geopolitical sphere where they organize so-called ‘color revolutions’ in order to effect regime change, mostly to protect US economical and political interests. Lately there has been hightened activity. Last Tuesday night Benz was Natalie Winter’s guest on the War Room where she fills in for political prisoner, Steve Bannon. Benz once again did not disappoint. There is an aspect to it that directly concerns the US Ambassador to Greece in 2019-22 and its energy policies. Just as a matter of side interest, what happened to the gas field in the EastMed at the intersection of Israel, Cyprus and Greece?

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By Andrea Widburg | AM Thinker | August 16, 2024

Image made using AI and a photo by Niccolò Caranti.

Before George Soros came along, most people assumed that elected prosecutors were committed to law and order and deviated from that principle only through either incompetence or graft (think: Chicago). The rise of the Soros prosecutors, however, introduced a whole new element to local prosecutors: Ideologically driven racist Democrat prosecutors who don’t want to follow laws with which they disagree. The last time America saw this was in the post-Reconstruction South when racist Democrat prosecutors also refused to apply laws with which they disagreed.

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Resa WARCHICK Kirkland | August 7, 2024

There’s a reason that our forefathers were wise enough to declare that this Republic’s future and fortune be decided by the majority of Americans rather than any of the individual groups of minorities. This was a new nation then, filled with the rejects, the hopeful, the wounded, the ambitious from many lands, and it was important that we come together and start thinking like a united and unique country. For anything to be accomplished in this great experiment called America, people were going to have to be capable of coming to a consensus, regardless of their roots, and voting accordingly.

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