It is unlikely Israel’s Patriots will head for the Scrap Heap

Stephen Bryen, Weapons and Strategy Substack    May 1, 2024

GEM-T Missile Launch

While Europe is in the process of setting up a production line to manufacture GEM-T missiles for European Patriot batteries, Israel has decided to take its Patriot systems out of service. Do the Israelis know something the Europeans do not?

The GEM-T, or Guidance-enhanced tactical missiles, are part of the Patriot PAC-2 air defense system. This missile can intercept aircraft, drones,helicopters and some tactical missiles. It may be able to hit glide bombs like the ones being used by the Russians in Ukraine.

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Former president Donald Trump has blasted “brainwashed” anti-Israel protesters arrested by the NYPD after the Columbia University campus was raided on Tuesday night (local time).

NYPD officers dressed in riot gear were filmed climbing through the window of the university campus which was being occupied by anti-Israel protesters.

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Maya Platek calls for dialogue at a school overrun by an angry and defiant mob.

By William McGurn, WSJ April 29/24

Main Street: Joe Biden may be in for a rerun of 1968, with a ruinous Democratic Chicago convention. Image: Jaime Carrero/ZUMA Press Wire

Meet the surprising president-elect of the student body of the School of General Studies, one of Columbia University’s four undergraduate colleges. Her name is Maya Platek. She is a proud Israeli who once worked for the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson’s unit.

Anyone watching the goings-on at the university’s Morningside Heights campus these past two weeks might easily mistake Columbia for a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas Inc. Ms. Platek’s election throws a wrench into the protester narratives. It signals that at least some at Columbia want students to be able to walk the campus without harassment—and life to get back to normal.

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T. Belman.  It looks like Pennsylvania is in the bag for Trump.

By Cristina Laila, GATEWAY PUNDIT Apr. 30, 2024 5:40 pm

Last month the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail-in ballots with no dates cannot be counted by Pennsylvania election officials.

Democrats use this tactic frequently to add more ballots to their candidate’s totals following election day.
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By Jennifer Van Laar | Red State |     April 30, 2024

Parent @UCLA gave permission to release this audio of her phone call with @UCLAPD as they describe the school's directive to allow protestors to restrict the movement of Jewish students.

"Are the protestors allowed to block students who are paying tuition from classes? No, but… pic.twitter.com/qBo9TKci3v

— Stephanie? (@stephsvox) April 30, 2024

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By Matthew Xiao, FREE BEACON APRIL 30/24

A Monday poll found that nearly three-quarters of Americans support Israel’s planned military operation to enter the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and eliminate the remaining Hamas terrorists there.

Seventy-two percent of Americans think Israel should “move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties,” while 28 percent believe the Jewish state should “back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza,” according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.

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by JERUSALEM POST STAFF,    April 27, 2024

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Columbia University has elected Israeli student Maya Platek as Columbia student government president for the 2024-2025 school year, the organization Students Supporting Israel (SSI) announced Friday.

The election of an Israeli student for the role comes as the Columbia campus experiences an overwhelming wave of anti-Israel protests and encampments.

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T. Belman. Of course, that’s before election fraud kicks in.

Trump leads Biden in the seven swings states both in a head-to-head matchup, as well as when third-party candidates are added in.

By Johnathan Jones, WESTERN JOURNAL  April 30, 2024 at 8:05am

While universities across the country have let anti-Israel demonstrators take over their campuses, the University of Florida has taken a different approach.

Not only will school administrators not think twice about removing disruptive agitators from university property, but a UF spokesman tacitly fired off an insult at pro-Hamas, American lost youth on Monday.

Nine people were arrested in Gainesville after protesters chose to ignore warnings from the school in regard to what would and wouldn’t be allowed on campus.

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By Park Macdougald, THE SCROLL    26 April 2024

The Big Story

By Peachy Keenan, AMERICAN MIND    29 April 2024

It’s time for me and the other “far-right” natalists to admit defeat. Liberals are committing genetic suicide and going extinct, despite our efforts to talk them out of it. They are running right off the cliff and into oblivion. New baby data shows that last year saw the lowest American birth rate ever. It’s the lowest since they started tracking it. Yikes!

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By TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS    29 April 2024

Justice Kavanaugh wrote this opinion about separation of powers, Presidential immunity and Presidential power in the Minnesota Law Review in 2009 – long before he was a SCOTUS Justice. IMHO, it is important to read it again in 2024, 15 years later.

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By Gordon Chang, GATESTONE    30 April 2024

Pictured: China’s President Xi Jinping greets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

• This was more than a slight. Aside from a calculated insult to the dignity of the United States, the move indicates Xi Jinping is making clear that the accepted norms of diplomacy will not be respected by China anymore.” — Charles Burton, former Canadian diplomat who served in Beijing, to Gatestone Institute, April 27, 2024.

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Don’t expel just Hamas supporters – expel the neo-Nazi Left.

Daniel Greenfield, Front Page     April 30, 2024

Who would have ever expected that the first terror bases in the country would be on campus?

Anyone who was paying attention.

In 2008, David Horowitz traveled around the nation’s universities warning about “Hamas on Campus” and a “movement for a second Holocaust of the Jews” supported by Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association.

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By Pete Riehm, Renew America     April 25, 2024

The mess in the Middle East is bigger and worse than at any other time in half a century. The hatred of Israel by radical Arab and Muslim groups and nations is documented and expected. So, it’s obvious the basic conflict is that Israel has been defending itself for 75 years against those who seek their destruction. The USA has stood steadfastly by Israel for most of those 75 years, but the American policy toward Israel changed about 15 years ago. Democrat administrations still pay lip service to defending Israel, but their actions are confusing and contradictory. With a feckless American foreign policy, Iran is emboldened, Israel is isolated, and America is weakened.

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The deadlock in negotiations for the release of Israeli captives, coupled with American accusations against the group, has paved the way for the offensive.

(April 30, 2024 / Israel Hayom)

As signs of an imminent IDF operation in Rafah intensify, there is growing concern that Israel will unnecessarily exercise self-imposed restraint by acting with insufficient force, so as not to upset the Biden administration, the Egyptians, or the ICC prosecutor at The Hague.

Meanwhile, Hamas is exploiting the prolonged waiting period and preparing well for the ground operation in this sector, which will undoubtedly pose complex operational challenges for the IDF. Despite the political pressures, Israel’s decision-makers must make it a top priority to attain the objectives with minimal risk to the lives of our forces.

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Journalist Amit Segal explains how the most politically sound move for Netanyahu is to ensure victory over Hamas.

INN    April 29, 2024

Netanyhu

CNN interviewed Israeli journalist Amit Segal about the current status of the hostages negotiations.

“Hamas has been demanding one thing that Israel cannot give – the end of the war. That is why I am pessimistic about the negotiations – they understand that they will be finished if the war continues for just six more weeks.”

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Peloni:  And herein is where the rubber meets the road, as Islamists of every persuasion feel welcomed at the court of the duplicitous Hashemite kinglet.  This is a great distinction from what will characterize the operational phase of the Jordanian Option, as no Islamists will be tolerated by Mudar in Jordan for the simple fact that Mudar and the Islamists, all of them, are mortal enemies.  Hence, the sea change which will take place under the enactment of the JO will see the Islamists completely isolated from a realm in which they have exercised significant influence and in which they still currently hold significant authority.  This is why Marzook stated clearly that if they are forced from the comforts which they currently hold in Qatar that they will seek similar comforts under the protection of the Hashemites.  For those who refuse to recognize that the Hashemites represent an obstacle to peace rather than any solution to it, this revelation should be seen as a significant surprise.  It shouldn’t, however, be surprising to any of us, as Mudar has been warning us of this fact for many years now.

‘We (Hamas) will determine the fate of the war, not the Zionist regime or the USA, who thought they could destroy Hamas in a week.’

INN     April 29, 2024

Mousa Abu Marzook

Mousa Abu Marzook, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, denies reports regarding the Hamas leadership leaving Qatar, calling them ‘media propaganda with no basis in reality’.

In an interview with the Iranian channel ‘Al-Alam’, Abu Marzook said that the reports were intended to pressure Hamas in the context of indirect negotiations on a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange (hostages in exchange for security prisoners).

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Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge    April 29, 2024

Gen. Syrskyi and President Zelensky

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has just issued a new dire assessment confirming widespread international reports that Ukraine forces are getting beaten back from the frontlines.

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