Cotton: ‘Biden administration is trying to flout Congress’s ban on UNRWA funding’

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON  29 March 2024

A Palestinian man rides a vehicle in front of the logistics base of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2019. – An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organisation faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. Lacking natural resources, the Gaza Strip suffers from a chronic shortage of water, electricity and petrol. More than two-thirds of the population depends on humanitarian aid. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS       April 1/24

Two weeks after the IDF’s surprise raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza, a.k.a. Hamas central headquarters, and after the elimination of senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists and the arrests of hundreds of rank-and-file terrorists, the IDF has withdrawn from the largest so-called hospital in the Gaza Strip. An IDF spokesman on Monday morning confirmed Arab media reports that showed hundreds of Gaza Arabs near the destroyed and burned buildings.
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The Channel 14 poll contradicted polls of the other major Israeli TV channels three weeks ago, which showed the opposition leading by a wide margin.

JNS   APRIL 1/24

A Likud-led right-wing bloc will again win the most Knesset seats if elections were held today, according to a survey published on Sunday and conducted by Direct Polls Institute for Channel 14.

Likud and its constellation parties would win 58 Knesset seats against a center-left coalition (52) and Arab parties (10).

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E. Rowell:  The globalist overlords have sacrificed Ukraine but in the process are sacrificing Europe and the United States. They cannot stop themselves from parasitizing the lives of all the citizens and taxpayers of Ukraine, Europe and the US.  Since the people of Europe and the people of America are against all of this destruction taking place, it is just a matter of time before these Satanic predators are forcibly removed from power.

By Arta Moeini, COMPACTMAG                                               25 March 2024

Photo: AP

The West’s Ukraine policy appears to have reached an inflection point. Washington and Brussels have now spent more than $200 billion on the war—a figure that, adjusted for inflation, far exceeds the entire cost of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe in the wake of World War II. After the failure of last year’s much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have found allocating new money to the war effort an increasingly daunting task. The European Union finally pushed through a €50 billion ($54 billion) funding package for Ukraine last month, but this came after months of pushback from Hungary. Meanwhile, war-skeptical parties are surging in the polls in several countries, propelled by voters reeling from the severe cost-of-living crisis the war and Western sanctions have unleashed.

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By Edward H. Kaplan and Evan Morris, NEWSWEEK      MAR 29/24

Jewish and Muslim students give a presentation together at Hebrew University.

We represent a group of 25 Yale faculty who have just returned from a five-day visit to Israel. Our mission was to learn from and make meaningful academic connections with our Israeli counterparts. Much of what we learned and observed astounded us.
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E. Rowell:  I am a little surprised that the attorneys for the plaintiffs did not raise this distinction.  I don’t know how crucial this distinction will be in deciding the case, but the case itself is extremely crucial for a country teetering on the edge of totalitarianism.

The government’s relationship with social media is not analogous to government interactions with print media.

By Aaron Kheriaty, THE FEDERALIST      28 March 2024

DIEGO CAMBIASO/FLICKR/CC BY-SA 2.0

Along with my co-plaintiffs, I was at the Supreme Court last week for oral arguments in our Murthy v. Missouri case, in which we are challenging the federal government’s alleged censorship on social media. The Supreme Court will likely rule in June whether to uphold, modify, or strike down the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ injunction against five federal agencies, in what, the district court judge wrote, “arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

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E. Rowell:  On the individual level, people who want to murder a group of people are people brought up to feel they are victims of non-Muslims’ aggression.  Thus when they kill non-Muslims, they feel a sense of victory or triumph over their previous sense of shame and victimhood. The community around them supports their feeling of triumph, justifies the murder, and honors them.  All of this would need to be addressed at the community and individual level.  In the community, not only would there need to be a zero tolerance policy for violence of any kind, but educational efforts would need to be made to help children grow up feeling a sense of agency and personal responsibility for themselves and their community.

Muslim countries have a key role to play in deradicalizing the strip

By Nachum Kaplan, MORAL CLARITY   30 March 2024

Defeating Jihadism is essential if rebuilding Gaza is to be a success.

Mainstream media is focused on Israel’s diplomatic isolation, but the real story is not how upset Western leaders are with the Jewish state, but how pragmatic key Arab ones are.

Diplomacy takes place behind closed doors more than on the floor of the ineffectual United Nations. While Western leaders are having performative seizures, modernizing Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are talking a different game. They may be dismayed at the death toll in the Israel-Gaza War, but they have told Israel clearly that they would like to see Hamas destroyed, and that they will help rebuild Gaza after the war, including financing it.

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Peloni:  Caroline Glick, who is discussed in the below commentary, retweeted this report a couple of days ago.  The Qatargate scandal in Israel has not received much attention in the English press, but this extensive scandal has been discussed with some import in the Hebrew press, most recently following the irregular move by Gantz to unilaterally decide to travel to the US to converse with his American associates without authorization from his own govt.  As @arbelaue notes, his commentary here is far from a full expose on that scandal, but he does provide some important reflections and assertions as well as sourcing for further inquiry.

@arbelaue, X  March 28, 2024

Photo: Eli Zahar

News 15: Ram Ben Barak and the Fifth Dimension I will not go into the whole story of the Fifth Dimension here (it’s a lot) but only what is related to Ram Ben Barak but before that I need some background, which I will take from Avi Weiss’ website (and edit. Link in comments [0] ).

Background: For a long time now, retired general John Allen has been under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation – FBI on the suspicion that he concealed his activities as an agent of Qatar in 2017, without reporting it. [1]

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Elizabeth Rimini, Rumble  March 31, 2024 – 12 minute video

Prof. Moshe Sharon, one of the greatest orientalists and scholars of the Middle East alive today.

He served as a professor at the Landegg International University in Switzerland, a research fellow at Oxford. He was a visiting professor at Princeton, Michigan, Columbia, New York, Maryland, Wayne State and Northwestern universities, as well as at private universities in Japan. He lectured in the Senate and Congress in Washington and at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and in Finland, and of course he is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was one of the students and friends of the late Prof. Bernard Lewis. He wrote dozens of articles and books, and also dealt with the practical aspects of his research subjects in the field, including living for about a year in a Bedouin encampment, and advising Prime Minister Begin and military officials.

Here he summarizes a long interview with the journalist Akiva Bigman, in which he reviewed the history of the Israeli-Arab conflict and draws his conclusions.

A free society is only as strong as the citizens willing to defend it. Reflections and videos from my time on the ground in Israel.

By Bari Weiss, THE FREE PRESS                                                    12 March 2024

An IDF reservist watches the sunset at the beach on the fourth day of the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas on November 27, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)

This is a special kind of story. Inside my column you’re going to see three mini-documentaries from our recent trip to Israel. The first two cover the massacres at the Nova Music Festival and Kibbutz Kfar Aza and the aftermath of those tragedies. In the third, we travel to the West Bank to talk to ordinary Palestinians about October 7, the war, and their futures. To watch the other interviews I did on that trip, and to make sure you never miss a Free Press video, subscribe to our YouTube channel. —BW

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The Strategic Significance of the Surrender of Hamas Terrorists

By Col (res) Dr. Eran Lerman, JISS                                                 26 March 2024

Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Debunking the myth that Islamist “heroes” are willing to fight to the death, unlike their secular nationalist predecessors in past wars against Israel, should be among the long-term goals of the present conflict. The evidence is increasingly available. Despite the deliberate lack of full disclosure and official data, it is safe to assert that the number of Hamas armed men (and others belonging to smaller terror groups) who have given themselves up in battle in Gaza has been rising since the beginning of 2024, specifically during the fighting in Khan Younis and Shifa Hospital. Beyond the intelligence value obtained and the possible leverage for the release of Israeli hostages, the symbolic signal that these images send is strategically significant.

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E. Rowell:  This article focuses on one piece of legislation that is part of a corpus of federal laws passed by Congress without the knowledge or consent of the American people and which make quasi-legal the transfer of power from the President to the HHS Secretary and thence to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (US DoD) in a declared “public health emergency.”  For a fuller appreciation of the degree to which laws have been put in place to support the US bioterrorism program, please see:  https://bailiwicknews.substack.com.

By Victor Dalziel, BROWNSTONE                                                 24 March 2024

In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.

On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final ruling to amend a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act. This allowed

…an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than a minimal risk to the human subject…

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BANNON’S WAR ROOM

Superstar journalist Lara Logan joined Steve Bannon on Tuesday to talk about her investigation into the details of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Logan urged listeners to pay attention to a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, emphasizing its catastrophic impact. She detailed how the attack targeted a bridge’s load-bearing pylons, disrupting vital supply chains for years. The speaker criticizes officials’ dismissal of terrorism concerns and highlights the gravity of the situation, urging for a thorough investigation. Logan warned against complacency and emphasized the need to understand the broader pattern of infrastructure vulnerability. She also addresses past security lapses and the potential consequences of ignoring current threats. Overall, they stress the urgency of recognizing and addressing national security risks.

T. Belman. Kontorovich offers the best defense of Israel I have ever listened to.

American Thought Leaders interviews Eugene Kontorovich Mar 30/24

While many say Gaza is becoming another “forever war,” expert Eugene Kontovorich says Israelis are actually on the verge of victory, with just one remaining Hamas stronghold to overcome.

But, he argues, the Biden administration seems to be holding Israel back from achieving this victory. Why?
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T. Belman. First I want to announce that Peloni and Eve Rowell have joined Israpundit as Assistant Editors.

Two days ago, I posted an interview of Mearsheimer on Ukraine and Gaza and said ignore his remarks on Gaza. This interview is also on Ukraine and Gaza but this time I advise to ignore the later part on Ukraine.

Peloni, Eve and I have all commented on what he had to say. Click on Read More and read what we had to say.

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We can see clearly now.

By Celia Farber, THE TRUTH BARRIER                                            24 March 2024

I watched this a few days ago, and some things fell into place.

It was, for the last 35 years or so, unseemly to hold the view that the Clintons were genuine, shock level criminals. Drugs, money laundering, corruption, and elimination of witnesses on a scale so vast it had to become impossible to believe. Since it was. “Unbelievable.”

Americans did not and could not believe it. And with this we were helped, by the fog machines. (Media. Punditry.)

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E. Rowell:  Dr. Nehls explains that the hippocampus is a very small part of the brain that temporarily stores new memories until they can be “uploaded” to other neurons during sleep.  If they cannot be uploaded to other neurons due to stress or inadequate sleep, due to the restriction in size of the hippocampus, these memories will be overwritten the next day, thus losing those prior memories.  If this happens for a prolonged period it results in [partial]loss of autobiographical memory:  the memories that make us who we are.  Note that all memories of experiences are encoded with the time of the experience, the place of the experience, and the feelings experienced at the time.  As a German, Dr. Nehls is warning us of a new kind of totalitarianism:  one that exploits the mind and has the technological capability to change it permanently.

The global war on humanity’s mental immune system

By Michael Nehls, MD, Ph.D.                                                           25 March 2024

The Indoctrinated Brain unveils a previously unidentified neurobiological mechanism of indoctrination that significantly alters personality. Overwhelming evidence suggests that battles against perpetual pandemics (with COVID-19 just the beginning, as per the WEF Risk Report 2023), uncontrollable climate change, and national borders are merely aspects of a singular, covert war on the human brain. The real battlefield is our autobiographical memory, and thereby the mental immune system of our society. The sharp decline in mental health across all age groups is not mere collateral damage of a flawed anti-COVID-19 strategy, but the logical outcome of a stealthy and sophisticated neuropathological indoctrination process. This process aims for a Great Mental Reset, positioning humanity to “willingly” accept a new totalitarian system from the outset, despite its fundamental incompatibility with human nature.

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By Allan J. Feifer, AMERICAN THINKER                                         30 March 2024

Image: AI’s understand of the common man speaking truth to power.

The America that I knew regularly performed miracles. We put men on the moon, dug the Panama Canal, invented the atomic bomb, and created the transistor. There was no limit to what we could do. Nothing seemed impossible.

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E. Rowell:  I agree with the author that the globalists have penetrated every aspect of the US governing elite and are hard at work trying to bring forth the Great Reset.  But at this point in time something quite different is going on.  It can only be described as A Great Awakening.  People of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, across the political spectrum are learning about the psychopaths governing us, and with every day comes new knowledge that our overlords have tried to keep hidden.  But despite having a censorship mercenary army and all mainstream media available they have failed to keep their crimes secret.  I disagree with Orwell’s comment that the masses never rise up on their own.  The Jews did, and the colonists in the “New World”  rose up against the mightiest empire in the world and won.

Biden just proclaimed this Easter Sunday as a “Transgender Day of Visibility.” NOT KIDDING.

By Peggy Tierney      30 March 2024

He also banned kids from using Christian designs at the White House Easter art contest and egg hunt! He wants to take Christianity out of Easter!

The Communists are now calling Christians “Easter worshippers.”

Do you get it yet? Valentine’s Day is now a day of Gun Control and Service to honor the Parkland Massacre.

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T. Belman.  This is crazy, Israel has the best record of avoiding civilian deaths. No one else comes close.

Yet the US says We will not accept any more thousands of innocent deaths in Rafah, like in Gaza and Khan Yunis.”

imra@imra.org.il

Joint Command Center and targeted raids: the American outline for activity in Rafah.

The American position that was conveyed to the Chief of Staff: “We will not accept any more thousands of innocent deaths in Rafah, as in Gaza and Khan Yunis.” In addition, the Americans expressed frustration that Israel had not yet prepared plans regarding the control of Gaza the day after.

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