by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE April 9/24

• Had the Biden administration maintained the strong support for the destruction of Hamas that it showed in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7, the fighting might already have subsided and all the hostages been returned. But every time the Biden administration weakens its support for Israel, it strengthens the determination of Hamas to raise its demands and threaten Israel, to the point that Israel cannot possibly agree.
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By Miranda Nazzaro, THE HILL APRIL 7/24

Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump argued election integrity is “vital” in this current cycle, vowing to dedicate resources to ensure nothing is left to “chance.”

“But when you talk about election integrity, it is vital. It is the No. 1 thing that we are focused on, aside from getting out the vote, which, of course, Donald Trump himself will do for us,” Lara Trump said Sunday during Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“We are ensuring that this election, we are leaving nothing to chance,” she continued. “We never before at the RNC have had an Election Integrity Division. All of our resources, we can put into this division as needed.”

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Urban Warfare against Terrorists: Military and Legal Challenges

UKLFI Charitable Trust,     April 7, 2024

This is a recording of a UKLFI Charitable Trust webinar recorded on 7 April 2024, with Major (ret) John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and chaired by Natasha Hausdorff.

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Brigadier General Res Amir Avivi explains why the IDF has moved a division out of Gaza and what this means for the next stage of the war.

Peloni:  Mike Benz, who was in place in the US State Dept to bear witness to the Color Revolution launched against Belarus in 2020, explains the tactics and techniques employed by the US State Dept while conducting a Color Revolution as he plays a documentary of the Color Revolution which was mounted in 2000 against Slobodan Milosevic.  It is a long video, but well worth the time.

Mike Benz,    January 25, 2024

Analysis / commentary starts at 3 minute mark. Enjoy!

The tectonic threat of Iran to Mideast and global stability must be countered head-on.

The targeted assassination this week in Damascus – allegedly by Israel – of General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods forces in Syria and Lebanon, was long overdue.

As part of its post-October 7 updated doctrine of security, Israel can no longer make do with fighting Iran’s proxies, but rather must target Iran itself in response to Teheran’s key role in the current attacks on Israel and destabilization of the region. Israel must now strike directly within Iran, while also taking further action against the Qods Force. Iran’s self-perceived shield of impunity must be pierced.
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By THE NATIONAL PULSE    5 April 2024

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.

According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by “ghost buses” filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.

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By Joel B. Pollack, BREITBART    7 April 2024

Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP

A friend called me from an anti-Netanyahu rally in Jerusalem recently, excited by the turnout.

“So, have you pushed him out yet?” I teased. “Who will you replace him with?”

“That’s the problem,” my friend mused. “There’s nobody.”

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

With so many false accusations, distortions, and propaganda in the Mainstream Media, it is only possible to see the “real” Israel in a newsletter such as this. I recommend this article for a true perspective of recent events.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Israelis have been rebuilding their lives after Oct 7. They have been developing cures for MS, bone cancer, post-surgical complications, chronic pain, and major diseases.  They have continued to promote freedom for its citizens of all religions, while resolving global problems such as drought in rural African villages.

Quite a few of Israel’s latest innovations will in the future provide more protection in a hostile world. They include real-time battle maps, anti-drone systems, cybersecurity for planes and trucks, and systems for safer driving. Meanwhile, Israelis are developing agricultural products to alleviate global hunger.  It is gratifying that Israel has many international friends who can see the real world that Israel exists in.
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E. Rowell:  Biden is America’s puppet-in-chief, whose strings are held by a group of elite psychopaths.  Psychopaths love to create chaos and cause maximum destruction.  They offer you get rich quick schemes such as government handouts and then collapse the government. When everyone is in maximum pain and distress and everything is a pile of ruins, they then depart the scene for their next locale.

The long-awaited Great Fundamental Transformation finally got its moment, crashed, and now has torched the nation—middle-class Americans most of all.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS    8 April 2024

In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Read more…

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  April 8, 2024 at 5:00 am

• The Jordanian authorities have accused the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot, Hamas, of seeking to destabilize security inside the kingdom.
• Behind both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, of course, is the terrorist-sponsoring emirate, Qatar, and its propagandizing television bullhorn, Al-Jazeera.

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The path Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer have chosen means the end of any hope of peace.

By  Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ MAR 26/24

Let’s imagine that Israel yields to the pressure. Pushed by an American president already under fire from a segment of the electorate that objects to his support for a “genocidal” state, Israel refrains from entering Rafah to finish off Hamas’s four surviving battalions. Israel agrees to the general cease-fire of indeterminate duration that the U.S. administration seems to push amid increasingly virulent antisemitism.

The idea that Washington unconditionally supports Israel is a longstanding myth. While the U.S. often vetoes anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations Security Council, the one that passed Monday was far from the first exception. Recall Resolution 1701 (2006) to halt Israel’s Lebanon offensive at the Litani River—thus sparing what remained of the Hezbollah units.
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David Friedman, former US Ambassador to Israel, sums up the past six months: ‘Israel has the will and strength to eliminate Hamas and release the hostages. Right now, America is holding Israel back.’

Fmr. Ambassador David Friedman, INN     Apr 7, 2024

David Friedman  Arutz Sheva

Quick summary (and it is just a summary) of the past 6 months:

1) On October 7, Israel was brutally and barbarically attacked by Hamas, a Foreign Terrorist Organization under U.S. law. On that day, 1200 Israelis were murdered and 254 were kidnapped. Children were burned and women were raped. Adjusting for population size, this would be the numerical equivalent of 42,000 Americans killed and more than 8000 held hostage (God Forbid).

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Gazans, desperate to relocate, represent less than one percent of recent global immigrations. Help them. 

By Dr. Michael L. Wise Apr 5, 2024,

My grandson has been serving in Gaza since day one. When he had cell phone access, he told me that he saw many people walking south and east. Then he said, “Zeide (Grandpa) Mike. ‘If these people go back up north there will be another war in just a few years.’”

How true. Israel must finally win a war. Peaceful Gazans who are desperate to relocate should be assisted to find homes in new host countries. All Hamas and all Hamas supporters must be removed from Gaza.

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Tragedy strikes.

J.E. Dyer, theoptimisticconservative     April 2, 2024

The first food delivery in March 2024 from World Central Kitchen in the Meals-on-Keels program, floating toward the jetty being newly constructed just south of the Gaza City Port.  Image: IDF via Times of Israel.

This will be two short pings.  The set-up is that PM Netanyahu has acknowledged the IDF role in the strike on 1 April, in which seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen (WCK), traveling in a group of two armored vehicles and one soft-skin vehicle in central Gaza, were tragically killed in an air strike.

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Minister of Defense Gallant held an operational assessment at the Southern Command and discussed the IDF’s departure from parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israel National News      Apr 7, 2024, 7:58 PM (GMT+3)

T. Belman. I asked Markovsky if he could write an article on Putin the “tyrant” or on how Putin made Russia Great Again.  He sent me this.

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER Oct 31, 2022

Speaking in Poland in March 2022, President Biden declared, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

Despite the White House’s denial, it is widely understood that the US policy is a regime change in Moscow and, by extension, the promotion of Western democracy in Russia. However, those who wish that Vladimir Putin would go away and work to that end must be aware that the gods often punish men by fulfilling their wishes too completely.

The Western folly is that Westerners measure Putin per their values. But Russia is different; one cannot understand Putin without understanding the Russian national character, which derives from more than a thousand years of history and embraces different values and ideals than those of Western Europeans and Americans.

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By ROSALIE ABELLA   Jan 9, 2024

Rosalie Silberman Abella is the Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2004 until her mandatory retirement in 2021.

The International Court of Justice is about to hear arguments in a case, brought by South Africa – the country that in 2015 refused to send former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for his contribution to war crimes in Darfur, and instead facilitated his return to Sudan where he continued his crimes – that alleges that Israel has not complied with the Genocide Convention and calls on the Court to order Israel to stop committing acts of “genocide” in Gaza.

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E. Rowell: It is difficult, at times, to maintain one’s sanity in an insane world.  Difficult yes, but not impossible, as Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson points out.

The sooner we denounce the idea, the better

By Boris Johnson, DAILY MAIL    5 April 2024

There are claims of a Cabinet row amid suggestions Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron might soon be prepared to take a tougher line against Israel/©wire image

If you want an example of the death wish of Western civilisation, I give you the current proposal from members of the British establishment that this country should ban arms sales to Israel.

If you want evidence of government madness, it appears that Foreign Office lawyers are busily canvassing the idea — which has not, as far as I can tell, yet been rejected by the Foreign Secretary himself. He seems to have gone into a kind of purdah on the subject.

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