Report: Blinken pressed Netanyahu to release frozen PA tax revenues  

The Biden administration is furious with Finance Minister Smotrich’s decision to freeze tax revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority.

  Jun 13, 2024, 10:56 PM (GMT+3)

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release Palestinian tax revenues frozen last month by Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Axios reported on Thursday citing three US and Israeli officials.

Smotrich made the decision in May after several European countries, including Spain, Ireland, and Norway unilaterally recognized a Palestinian state.

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June 14, 2024 | 7:01 am | 5 Comments »

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Bygones Be Bygones – Very Interesting Day Amid Republicans on Capitol Hill as Magnanimous Trump Visits  

E. Rowell:  Trump’s remarks may have been more aspirational than realistic.  However, there isn’t much he could do in the situation but focus on the positive and speak in a generous and gracious way towards the Republican conference.  In reality there are only about 8 or so Republicans who are truly interested in representing their constituents and pursuing MAGA goals.  The Republican lineup seems mostly populated by people who are willing to give up power to the democrats for personal monetary gain, as Sundance has repeatedly pointed out.  I am sure Trump knows this. Time will tell how supportive of Trump’s policies the GOP intends to be.

By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE BLOG    13 June 2024

A very interesting day is described by everyone in Washington DC, as President Trump strategically attends both House and Senate Republican conferences.   Magnanimous Trump arrived to heal wounds, appeal for unity and build a larger support network ahead of the Republican National Convention.

It would appear the Dr. Phil approach was attempted as promised.  According to media reports, in the upper chamber President Trump even spoke warmly with Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and the 16 Wall Street DeceptiCons who are insistent upon his permanent removal from politics.

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June 14, 2024 | 1:03 am | 2 Comments »

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Iran’s Attempts to Attack Israel Must Be Confronted  

By Con Coughlin, GATESTONE    13 June 2024

US President Joe Biden meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

  • Netanyahu’s resolve in the face of so many challenges, from splits in his own war cabinet over the conduct of the war in Gaza to incessant pressure from Washington to agree to a ceasefire, has prompted comparisons with British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill, with Andrew Roberts labelling the Israeli PM “The Winston Churchill of the Middle East.”
June 14, 2024 | 12:30 am | 2 Comments »

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SEMITISM vs. ANTISEMITISM (Part 3). The Church (and Western) paradox.  

E. Rowell:  In my reading of history and in my understanding of Judaism, I have never yet come across this concept:  that western culture is paradoxically comprised of both semitic and antisemitic world views.  One reason this concept is important is that it helps explain many things about western culture that heretofore have been inexplicable.

By Fransisco Gil-White, MANAGEMENT OF REALITY    10 June 2024

Is the Roman pontiff wearing a Jewish kippah?

  • PARADOX. The culturally Greco-Roman bosses who led the Church straight into totalitarianism (the Inquisition) declared holy 1) the story of an Israelite slave revolt (Exodus) that begat pro-worker laws; and 2) the love teachings of a Jewish hippie carpenter. How and why did oppressive Greco-Roman aristocrats adopt the subversive literature of lower-class Jewish revolutionaries?

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June 14, 2024 | 12:30 am | 22 Comments »

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It’s All Fixable  

E. Rowell:  There are some who consider Trump just as much a globalist puppet as Biden.  Sundance and millions of Americans think there is no better alternative and that Trump’s history as President is one of many successes.  I might differ from Sundance in how Trump might solve the problem of Gaza, but Sundance probably hasn’t heard of the Jordan Option, which offers the most durable and comprehensive solution to the conflict between the Palestinian people and Israel ever proposed.

By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE BLOG    13 June 2024

When President Obama famously told incoming President Trump the largest foreign policy concern was the potential for near-term military conflict with North Korea, Trump curiously asked Obama, “well, have you talked to Kim Jong-un?

President Trump has never revealed how Obama responded to that question; however, given the nature of the circumstances, what we know about DC and the background involved, we can assume the Obama reply was akin to the lightbringer telling Trump, ‘Things just are not done that way.’

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June 14, 2024 | 12:30 am | 2 Comments »

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Rubio and the $64,000 Question  

Peloni:  While I don’t agree with Sundance’s ambivalence about who Trump’s running mate might be, I do agree with his preference of Ben Carson for the role.  In any event, Rubio must be avoided as a choice for running mate, if for no other reason than the support which he gave to the Russia Hoax, but there are more reasons than even this.

Sundance | June 10, 2024

Treeper Question:

ICTHEMATRIX – […] “Related to the topic of discerning alignment via a question, I would like to sincerely ask you your thoughts on a very real possibility:

What are we to make of President Trump’s possible choice of Marco Rubio as his VP?

In many columns and pages, you have chronicled the multiple failure points of Senator Rubio…his service within the corrupted Intelligence committee, and his non-MAGA compromises. I fear this could become another massive moment of fatally poor judgement.”

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June 13, 2024 | 12:54 pm | 6 Comments »

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Jordan Peterson: The Ideology of Hamas | John Spencer  

Peloni:  This was a fascinating conversation in which Peterson presses Spencer for detailed answers to specific questions.  It covers the topics of the ideology of Hamas, how that ideology can be defeated, the capture of American universities, the desire to see mass casualties as a path to ultimate victory, how to determine when victory might be achieved, the war against the Gazan civilians by the Western world, the role which the UN plays in Hamas, the sustainability of the Abraham Accords, and much more.  Highly recommended.

June 13, 2024 | 12:25 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Most Inspiring Sight in America  

Jeffrey A. Tucker | June 11, 2024

Panoramic aerial view of the Statue of Liberty (Sergi Figurnyi/Shutterstock) 

If you had to choose one word to characterize the normal operation of society, would it be cooperation or conflict? That choice turns out to be crucial for history and the future. Some ideologies imagine the whole of the social order is and always has been about seething and intractable conflict.

Others see such conflicts as constructed and unnecessary, a result of toxic systems and ideologies.

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June 13, 2024 | 1:52 am | 4 Comments »

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Correspondence reveals: Sinwar on Gaza civilian casualties: ‘Necessary sacrifices’  

Wall Street Journal reveals correspondence between Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas terrorists, showing that Sinwar does not mind civilian casualties, believe they ‘work to his advantage.’

INN | June 11, 2024

Yahya SinwarAttia Muhammed/Flash90

The Wall Street Journal on Monday night revealed damning correspondence between Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his closest associates in the terror organization.

Sinwar has for months refused to agree to a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal that does not include a complete end to the war and a withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza – two conditions which would leave Hamas in power and able to regroup, and which would allow the terror group to fulfill its promise of carrying out repeat “October 7th” massacres in the future.

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June 13, 2024 | 12:46 am | 1 Comment »

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Dr. Naomi Wolf Responds to UK Media Regulator OfCom  

This is Dr. Wolf’s statement to the Royal Courts of Justice, London, United Kingdom, on June 11, 2024.

DR NAOMI WOLF, DAILY CLOUTJUN 12, 2024

Dear Mrs Justice Farbey

I am here today because OfCom, the media watchdog agency, concluded that my presentation of information from scientific reports about the Pfizer injection, on Mark Steyn’s TV show in October 2022, caused “harm.” Ofcom also referred to me in public documents as a “conspiracy theorist,” using that discrediting characterization of my work, as part of its decision to penalize Steyn for airing the show in which I brought forth the evidence I did.

I wish to describe to the court please the nature of the evidence I presented on GBNews. I then wish to describe my credentials, and lastly, I wish to make some points about the history of censorship.

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June 13, 2024 | 12:32 am | 4 Comments »

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Who Truly Deserves a State? The Kurds or the Palestinians?  

By Victor Sharpe  2012

 There are over twenty Arab states throughout the Middle East and North Africa, but the world demands, in a chorus of barely disguised animosity towards Israel, that yet another Arab state be created within the mere forty miles separating the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan.

Israel, a territory no larger than the tiny principality of Wales or the state of New Jersey, would be forced to share this sliver of land with a new and hostile Arab entity to be called Palestine, while seeing its present narrow waist reduced to a mere and suicidal nine miles in width — what an earlier Israeli statesman, Abba Eban, described as the Auschwitz borders.

Remember, there has never existed in all of recorded history an independent sovereign nation called Palestine — and certainly not an Arab one.  The term “Palestine” has always been the name of a geographical territory, such as Siberia or Patagonia.  It has never been a state. Read more…

June 13, 2024 | 12:32 am | 2 Comments »

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Belgium’s Extremely Alarming Antisemitism  

E. Rowell;  This increase in and normalization of Jew hatred has all been planned well in advance.  It is the globalist plan for first ridding the world of Jews and their belief in freedom, and then their planned totalitarian enslavement of the rest of mankind.  Meanwhile, the eugenics pharmacological plan is also proceeding effectively.

By Alain Destexhe, GATESTONE    12 June 2024

Pictured: An Orthodox Jewish man walks past army trucks stationed in a Jewish neighborhood of Antwerp, on November 20, 2015. (Photo by Luc Claessen AFP via Getty Images)

  • What is striking about the survey is that, for every question, anti-Semitic prejudice is much higher in Brussels than at national level. It happens that the population of the capital of Belgium and the EU is between 30% and 40% Muslim.
  • In the country as a whole, 43% of Muslims think that Belgian Jews are not really Belgians like the other inhabitants of Belgium.
June 13, 2024 | 12:30 am | 2 Comments »

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Shooting Attacks Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Israel  

E. Rowell:  The PA has a police force, essentially an army, of 60,000?   And the US has been arming them?  Is there any effort to kill innocent Israelis the Americans in command haven’t tried?

By Moshe Phillips, JEWISH LINK    11 June 2024

Nobody in the State Department or the United Nations or at J Street headquarters, is talking about the recent terrorist shooting attack on the Israeli town of Beit Hefer, less than 12 miles from the coastal town of Netanya. This is because it shattered the premise at the heart of all their proposals concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Hamas terrorists standing within the municipal boundaries of Tulkarm, a Palestinian Authority-governed city, unleashed a barrage of gunfire aimed at the nearby Israeli town of Bat Hefer. Then they posted a video of the shooting on social media.

It was the third such shooting attack on Bat Hefer in two weeks. The Times of Israel pointed out that there have been similar attacks targeting Kibbutz Meirav, which is next to the PA city of Jenin. Once again, terrorists within the boundaries of the city were able to shoot into an Israeli community without ever having to go beyond the borders of their PA-ruled city.

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June 13, 2024 | 12:30 am | 2 Comments »

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Eight ISIS Linked Illegal Alien Border Crossers Arrested in Philly, LA and New York  

E. Rowell:  More proof daily that those in command of the United States want us dead.

By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE BLOG    11 June 2024

Eight illegal aliens previously released into the U.S. homeland by border officials, were arrested by ICE after the FBI intercepted their communication related to bomb plots and asked DHS to detain them.

Think about this….  DHS released ISIS terrorists into the USA, the terrorists planned terrorism, the FBI intercepted the plans, then asked DHS to pick them up.

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A SYSTEM TEST (Part 2). How I developed my research question.  

E. Rowell:  This article traces the results of a global media blackout on the Nazi roots of Palestinian jihad represented by the PA, which allowed for the insertion of an Iranian statelet inside Israel through the Oslo Accords. The leftists in the US and Israel were either useful idiots or knowingly complicit with the Jewish genocide that would follow.  Can anyone justify the fact that Israeli political leftists complicit with Palestinian genocidal intent have positions inside the Israeli military and intelligence agencies?  Is this not treason?

By Fransisco Gil-White, MANAGEMENT OF REALITY    3 June 2024

The University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), where my system test was incubated.

  • I was hired at an ethnic-conflict think tank at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Everybody there was interested in the Oslo ‘Peace’ Process, created by US bosses to bring PLO/Fatah into Israel.
  • But nobody there ever mentioned Hajj Amin al Husseini, top leader of the German Nazi Final Solution, and creator of PLO/Fatah.
  • What gives?

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June 13, 2024 | 12:30 am | Comments »

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Israel Alone: The International Community’s Use of Lawfare Against the Jewish Homeland  

Peloni:  Lauri Regan interviews Avi Bell about the basis of international law, the ICJ as well as the ICC.  Among other things which Bell explains is that Israel has been very badly advised to interact with in the current preceedings, which he also explains will very likely never go to trial.  He also weighs in on the current political intrigues which are being pursued in and against Israel by Hamas, the US and the international community, as well as the current political struggles between Bibi and the Gantz faction which has now left the govt.

June 12, 2024 | 10:05 am | 1 Comment »

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Hillel Neuer testifies before U.S. Congress on UNRWA and the Colonna Report  

Peloni:  Neuer provides evidence before the US Congress demonstrating that the Colonna Report, which was intended to be an independent report on UNRWA’s ties to terrorism,  was in fact rigged from the beginning of that investigation to exonerate UNRWA of all such charges.  Neuer also explains that, among other matters, rather than being the best organization to facilitate aid to the Gazan people, UNWRA has had multiple reports of its employees stealing and selling the aid, all of which went unaddressed by URWRA.

June 12, 2024 | 9:18 am | Comments »

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A chance to take off the gloves  

T. Belman.  This opinion piece was published after Gantz and Eisenkot left the goverment. Fisher, as always, is spot on.

Bibi now is on trial. They no longer are in his way, and he cannot blame them for obstructing him. 

That is what Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has right now, with Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot gone. A chance to take off the gloves. Thus, Bibi now is on trial. They no longer are in his way, and he cannot blame them for obstructing him. We now find out whether they interfered with him, or whether he procrastinated and held them up.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has an opening now to have a real War Cabinet. Avigdor Liberman hates him, but he seems to have the right idea about the Arabs in Gaza. Same with Gideon Sa’ar. And, really, if they want to be admitted into a new inside circle, they have to accept that Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have earned the right, too. Either everyone calls everyone else unacceptable, and they paralyze the process, or they work together as a team of rivals.

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June 12, 2024 | 8:00 am | 1 Comment »

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