T. Belman. Its gratifying to read an article from a conservative think tank in Israel which makes the same arguments that Markovsky, I and Pelonoi and I have been making. Also it is notable that one of the authors was formerly with the Council of Foreign Relations.

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Public support in the West for the war in Ukraine rests upon three frequently repeated assumptions:

Russia’s invasion was unexpected and unprovoked.
Ukraine is a unified and democratic nation.
Ukraine can win the war and regain its lost territory.

None of these is true.

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E. Rowell:  Israeli military leaders are mindful of the power the US exerts in terms of weapons procurement.  However, there is a calculation to be made in formulating battle plans:  which plan will defeat the enemy most effectively with the fewest IDF casualties?  If the Biden directives call for a plan that will be less effective or ineffective at defeating the enemy AND also cause maximum IDF casualties, how can Israeli military leaders justify honoring them?  Surely weaponry can be supplied to Israel some other way than having to accept degrading terms from the United States.  There is a report of the US discussing the ceasefire with Gallant and Gantz.  There is a word for those who help the enemy in a time of war.

By Jonathan Schanzer, COMMENTARY    1 June 2024

Three soldiers from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were killed on May 28, when they encountered a Hamas booby trap in a building in Rafah. In a separate incident, three other soldiers were killed in a Hamas improvised explosive device (IED) attack on May 18.

The Hamas terrorist organization is undeniably the culprit. And the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas’s top military patron, bears significant responsibility, too. But this is also the unfortunate result of Biden Administration policies that have put Israeli soldiers in greater danger.

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Opinion: Today Israel depends on the US for crucial armaments to defend itself from surrounding enemies but it must end to truly defend ourselves, by ourselves.

Brigadier Genernal (res.) Amir Avivi | YNET | June 1, 2024

Israel must end American dependence

President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Our close and beneficial friendship with the Americans has morphed in the past years into dependence. This state of affairs is harmful to Israel and to its relations with the United States. To protect our interests, and surprisingly, those of the U.S. as well, Israel must return to a pillar concept of Zionism: independence, writes Brigadier General

Although it is now common knowledge that relations between Israel and the U.S. are both deeply strategic and that America is without doubt Israel’s staunchest ally, it is important to remember that this was not always the case.

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E. Rowell: The author does two things in this article:  he outlines and details the history of the Palestinian movement known as the PLO or Fatah, and he explains how the leaders of Western democracies managed the reality to obscure the Nazi origins of this movement so that only they, the leaders, would know the truth.

By Fransisco Gil-White, MANAGEMENT OF REALITY    28 May 2024

• It seems obvious to most that there is no connection between the Arab Palestinian movement and the German Nazi Final Solution: the WWII genocide of the European Jews.
• This belief is crucial to the prestige of the Arab Palestinian movement.
• It is a false belief.

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E. Rowell:  Victor Davis Hanson identifies the Baby Boomer generation as responsible for the destruction of America.  There is a portion of this generation who took up the mantle of socialism and communism.  This portion demonstrated against the War in Vietnam and barricaded themselves in administration offices at Columbia University to protest.  They eventually entered the workforce and many found their way into federal agencies, running for office in the democratic party, becoming teachers and union leaders.  In these positions, these former protestors became crucial to the subversion of every institution in the United States.  The subversion worked because it was done by stealth, by purposely not identifying their goals as the destruction of America.  The other Baby Boomers not inclined towards the wholesale destruction of the US were working in many fields, raising families, and did not realize until it was almost too late what the subversives were accomplishing.  Now Americans are waking up to the totalitarian structures that have been put in place to ensure “right think.”  We see how all our institutions have become perverse caricatures of their former selves. And we are ready to do everything we can to right this sinking ship of state.

A single generation has broken apart the great chain of American civilizational continuance.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS    3 June 2024

Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.”

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E. Rowell:  This supposed cease fire deal follows the established pattern of previous failed ceasefire deals:  Hamas gets everything they want and Israel surrenders; but only after first giving Hamas humanitarian aid and releasing hundreds of Hamas murderers from Israeli prisons.  Israel would not even get all the hostages back before surrendering.  There is nothing in this deal that will lead to peace.  It is designed to perpetuate the war on Israel with help from the Hamas, the USA, Egypt, and Qatar.  That Biden can deliver this with a straight face shows his utter depravity.

By Caroline Glick, JNS    2 June 2024

Peloni:  Shaw’s analysis here, while accurate, does not draw the obvious conclusion of Biden’s utter betrayal of Israel and the Jewish people with his ruse to try to force Bibi’s hand to surrender to Hamas.  Indeed, Biden did more than lie, he acted in concert with Hamas to leverage pressure on Bibi to capitulate to a genocidal death cult which still holds as its primary focus, the further slaughter and destruction of both Israel and the Jewish people.  In doing so, he has made his position quite clear that he stands with Hamas and against Israel in this war.  While this is not the first time the American leadership has come to the defense and support of Hamas in innumerable ways, this was the most blatant and clear move made to try to place Israel’s leadership in a state of presumed checkmate.

While Bibi’s released statements over the weekend make Israel’s position quite clear, Bibi needs to put his voice behind those statements and reassure the people that he will not buckle to a minority support of his people for surrender  and that he will not capitulate to the ongoing American vice to save Iran and all its proxies from facing the consequence of having struck Israel in such a visceral and devastating manner as it did on October 7.  At Yad Vashem, Bibi spoke the words ‘Never again is now’ in English to make the point clear, and that point must once again be voiced to shout down the ambitions of our enemies which have been emboldened by Biden’s recent game of Bluff.

No Israeli would have come up with the egregious proposal Biden announced. Opinion.

Barry Shaw | INN | June 2, 2024

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, went in front of the cameras at the White House on 31 May and presented a multi-stage process for an end of war in Gaza that would release all the hostages, declaring it to be an Israeli peace plan.

It would be interesting to learn from Biden which Israeli came up with this plan.

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While the IDF is still destroying Hamas’s military capabilities, there is no non-Hamas affiliated entity willing to accept civilian control of the Gaza Strip. Only the IDF can do this.

Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security    May 30/24

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip, May 5, 2024. Photo by Shachar Yurman/Defense Ministry.

On May 15, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav said that if no alternative to Hamas rule is presented for Gaza, only two options would remain: Hamas rule or Israeli military rule. “Both alternatives are bad,” he said.

“I will not agree to Israeli military rule in in Gaza, Israel must not establish civilian rule in Gaza…I call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a decision and declare that Israel will not establish civilian control over the Gaza Strip and that Israel will not establish military governance in Gaza,” he said.

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E. Rowell:  Julie Kelly aptly describes all that is encapsulated in Biden’s smug and gloating smirk.  He is all she describes, a formerly smooth talking sociopath but now an empty, mumbling, stumbling, demented shell.  Psychopaths not only do not have a soul, they lack humanness itself.  That is why some refer to psychopaths not as he or she, but as “it.”  The thing that poses as President of the United States while clearly mentally disabled, is still capable of untold destructiveness, because that is its essence.  It can still visit torture and pain on innocent Americans, as it attacks all that is good and decent about our country and countrymen.

Successful tyrants also prevail because their opposition is craven, impotent, and feckless. On that score, Joe Biden again drew the luck of the Irish.

By Julie Kelly, DECLASSIFIED.LIVE    1 June 2024

Joe Biden couldn’t even wait 24 hours before publicly gloating about the history-making criminal conviction of former president Donald Trump.

Under the guise of announcing a proposed ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Gaza war, Biden took to a podium in the White House state dining room at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. He began his statement not with details of the peace plan but rather with a lecture about how the “rule of law” prevailed in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump. “Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself,” Biden said of his 2024 Republican presidential rival. “And after careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict.  They found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts.”

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Jewish history is like a tapestry. You tug at a thread from a thousand years ago and a similar thread will be felt hundreds of years later.

What happened on October 7, 2023 in Israel is merely another point in the long history of the rabid hatred of the Jewish people. A single thread connects the persecutions of Haman, Hitler’s Holocaust, and the brutal atrocities committed by Hamas.

But in 2024 we have a resurgence of such vile reprehensible deeds that one can easily despair of civilization.
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E. Rowell:  For those of you who are interested in reading “Stefan Lanka Explains Seven Flaws in Virology” they can be found here.  It is important to understand the degree to which scientists and doctors have been attacked, fired from their academic positions, and delegitimized in the media, if they publicize data that are at odds with the international pharmaceutical criminal racket.  That is why this mathematician prefers to provide these data anonymously.  There are trillions of dollars at stake for these companies and their shareholders and they will do just about anything to prevent the truth from being understood by people around the world.  They not only want the truth about viruses and vaccines sealed off from exposure, they want the truth of their evil deeds from becoming common knowledge.

The Paper Stefan Lanka Hoped Would Change The World

By Michael Wallach, THE VIRAL DELUSION    1 June 2024

In late 2020, with the world now entirely locked down and the threat of forced or nearly-forced injections rising daily, the extraordinary Dr. Stefan Lanka, a former virologist, emailed out a short paper by a mathematician in Hamburg with astounding consequences.

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Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Second Class captures the elite assault on blue-collar America.

By Jenny Holland, SPIKED    27 May 2024

CHICAGO – JUNE 22: Workers listen to Alan Mulally, President and CEO of Ford Motor Company, and other VIPs speak at a ceremony celebrating the launch of the new Ford Taurus at the Torrence Avenue Ford Assembly Plant June 22, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Ford builds the new Taurus, Taurus X crossover vehicle and the Mercury Sable at the plant. Nearly 3,000 people are currently employed at the facility which was first opened in 1924 to build the Model T. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Batya Ungar-Sargon’s first book, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy, was a barnstormer of a read. This was partly because it was punching up and pointing out the hypocrisy of America’s super-privileged woke journalists.

Reading Ungar-Sargon’s new offering, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, was an entirely different experience. Here she explores, largely through interviews, the lives of those living at the opposite end of the social ladder to America’s cultural elites. She arrives at a distressing conclusion: for countless hard-working people, the American Dream is increasingly out of reach.
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E. Rowell:  I disagree with the author when he states that Zionism has exacerbated antisemitism.  Antisemitism predates Zionism.  Antisemitism is as old as scape-goating itself, a practice described in the Bible.  It is the means by which individuals place the blame on all Jews for their own failures, their own acts of destructiveness.  Zionism did not exacerbate this; antisemitism would have continued had there been no State of Israel in existence.  When progressive Jews blame Zionism for being a “colonial enterprise,” they are ignorant of history. They are using Zionism as a scapegoat, a way of saying “mea culpa” i.e. “We Jews are guilty of using our advantages at the expense of others.”  That is an expression of their neurosis.  In their desire to show “compassion” for others less fortunate, they feel the need to placate these others by diminishing the power of Jews and the State of Israel.  In addition they are carrying water for those who truly hate Jews.

Israelis are defending the West, which is essentially our own creation to the extent that the West is ultimately a product of Judaism and Christianity.

By Saul Goldman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    1 June 2024

An Israeli Air Force plane prepares for takeoff. (photo: Israeli Air Force/X)

Today, many all over the world, including Jews, are calling Israel’s underlying Zionist ideology into question.

There are Jews apparently so ignorant of Judaism that they claim Zionism is not Judaism. They reject Zionism as if it was some sort of non-Jewish ideology. Therefore, in their ill-conceived conclusion, being “anti-Zionist” is not being anti-Jewish.

People have distorted the term “Zionism” by emphasizing the way early Zionists embraced socialism and ignoring the Biblical and rabbinic ideas pertaining to the centrality of the land of Israel in Judaism. Perhaps the mystical notion that prior to redemption a spiritual transformation of Israel must take place further removed the connection between redemption and homecoming.
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E. Rowell:  A US State Department Fact Sheet on US Security Cooperation with Israel (19 October 2023) has buried within it a description of a 10 year MOU (2019-2028) that provides for billions of dollars of military assistance to Israel provided that Israel purchase these missile defense and other programs from the US.   “…through Off Shore Procurement (OSP).  Via OSP the current MOU allows Israel to spend a portion of its FMF on Israeli-origin rather than U.S.-origin defense articles.  This was 25 percent in FY 2019 but is set to phase-out and decrease to zero in FY 2028.”  This means Israel agreed to purchase almost all the military supplies and programs from the US through 2028.  In 2019, Israeli military procurement leaders who signed this agreement did not envision that in four years time, Israel would suffer the most devastating attack since the Holocaust, and the signers also did not know the extent to which her sometime ally, the US, would turn against her.  But being responsible for national security, they should have considered all possible future ramifications.

But this is nothing new. They have been lying since October 7th — and way before then as well.

By Joshua Hoffman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    2 June 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (courtesy: The White House)

On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden gave another Israel-Hamas speech deeply rooted in domestic American politics, but with international implications that whoever wrote his speech does not care for, enjoys lying about, or is just incompetent.

It was not a coincidence that former U.S. President Barack Obama was standing just a few steps from Biden as he delivered this speech — and you can bet your mortgage that Obama personally proofread and signed off on it ahead of time.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Israelis might not have the wisdom of King Solomon, but some of their inventions, innovations, and achievements are extremely clever.

Israeli electronic sensors can restore the sense of touch to damaged nerves.  Doctors are 3D-printing prosthetics for amputees in Israeli hospitals. An Israeli smart catheter is the first device specifically designed to clear blocked veins. And Israeli long-distance tele-medicine is treating and caring for patients across Israel and in Africa.

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E. Rowell:  The US and Israel have been beset by a similar problem:  the infiltration and subversion of critical governmental agencies by Communists, Islamist apologists, and globalists, three constituencies whose goals are completely averse to the survival of the majority of the citizens of each country.  In Israel, the military and intelligence services were/are headed by individuals whose political ideology blinded their capacity to make decisions in the best interests of national security.  People who are charged with a country’s national security and who further the interests of the enemy should be charged with treason.  The security of the people of Israel requires that they be brought to justice.

It wasn’t October 7. It’s the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

By Michael Makovsky, THE BACK PAGES/DAILY SCROLL    30 May 2024

It has become conventional wisdom after Oct. 7 that Israel for years had the wrong policy toward Gaza. While the unfathomable catastrophe of that day has rightly forced a critical examination of all the factors that led to it, it’s arguable that Israel’s broad pre-Oct. 7 policy toward Gaza, in contrast to its strategic conception and military preparation, was at least understandable, if not correct. In contrast, there has been less criticism of Israel’s policy toward Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past two decades. Not only does the policy toward the northern front raise even more troubling questions than Gaza, but also, now more than ever, it looks like a major strategic failure.

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The right blasts the hostage release deal presented by the US President. Ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir to Netanyahu: We will disband the government if the outline is approved.

By Hezki Baruch, INN  Jun 2, 2024, 5:03 AM (GMT+3)

Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir clarified on Saturday night, in response to the plan for the release of hostages which was outlined on Friday by US President Joe Biden, that its implementation would lead to their resignation from the government.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, “I spoke with the Prime Minister and made it clear to him that I will not be part of a government that agrees to the proposed outline and ends the war without the destruction of Hamas and the return of all the hostages. We will not agree to an end to the war before the destruction of Hamas, nor to a serious harm to the achievements of the war so far through the withdrawal of the IDF and the return of Gazans to the north of the Gaza Strip, and not for the wholesale release of terrorists who will return, God forbid, to murder Jews.”

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Ruthie Blum & Mark Regev | Israel Undiplomatic | May 29, 2024

An explosion that occurred shortly after an Israeli strike in Rafah killed dozens of Palestinians who were seeking refuge from the fighting. Was it Israel’s fault? Should Israel apologize?

Watch Ruthie and Mark talk about drafting haredim, anti-Israel claims about the Rafah explosions and Saudi Arabia accusing its potential peace partner of genocide.

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Peloni:  The obvious duplicity involved in staging this misrepresentation of Israel’s proposal and its strategic timing on the eve of the Sabbath, demonstrate a great need by the US to have Hamas win this war.  Over and over again, this same point has become a hardening focus of the current regime in Washington as it continues its realignment toward Iran described.

The sad reality is that Israel has no choice but to see this war played out to its already established aims of victory, and while this necessity places both hostages and soldiers in certain peril, this is an unavoidable consequence of not only October 7, but of all the policy blunders which made October 7 inevitable.  Indeed, in the past wars against Hamas, had Israel pursued victory rather than half measured responses, there would have been no slaughter of October 7 as there would have been no Hamas to carry it out.  Today, the paradigm has shifted and Israel has no choice but to pursue victory against its enemies, with or without American support or permission, and that victory begins with the long overdue elimination of Hamas, much to the consternation of the Americans.

And Biden Falsely Stated Several Times This Was an Israeli Deal

ZOA, June 1, 2024

ZOA strongly condemns the horrendous suicidal-for-Israel proposal announced by President Biden at the White House on Friday, May 31, 2024, approximately half an hour after the Sabbath began in Jerusalem, Israel. The timing of Biden’s announcement appears to have been designed to prevent Jewish Sabbath observers and the Jewish government from promptly responding. Biden contradictorily claimed that Israel had “offered” or “accepted” or “can offer” a comprehensive new proposal which was transmitted by Qatar to Hamas. Biden then outlined this alleged proposal’s terms – which were virtually identical to Hamas’ demands.

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