E. Rowell:  This is a delightful discussion you won’t want to miss.  But the idea that Halevi has just chosen over 50 new officers for high level posts is an outrage.  It is almost incomprehensible that this was not prevented.  The top generals in the IDF all should all resign and await their trials.  The fighting forces deserve much, much better leaders.

By Gadi Taub and Mike Doran, TABLET                                                 21 March 2024

E. Rowell:  In the United States we can draw a direct line between all the Jewish liberals who supported and still support Obama and Biden, to the normalization of Jew hatred in the USA.  This is the result of the fact that Jews did not push back against Obama and the democrat party (and still don’t).  When Jews abandon their people, heritage, and homeland, let alone their religion, nothing good can come from it.  But this is not just due to Jews in the USA, nor is it strictly due to Obama and Biden.  There are many years of planning by globalists that have gone into this, and their globalist handmaidens also live in Israel right up to the top brass of the IDF.

By Caroline Glick, JNS                                                                                   22 March 2024

According to Canada’s La Presse, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a vampire, and he is poised to suck the life out of the Palestinians in Rafah, Hamas’s final outpost in southern Gaza. The publication that was once a paper of record in Canada ran a political cartoon on March 20 portraying Netanyahu as a vampire, with a huge hooked nose, pointy ears and claws for fingers, dressed in Dracula’s overcoat while standing on the deck of a pirate ship.

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Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer of Israel said Thursday that Israel will enter the town of Rafah, in Gaza, to destroy the last Hamas battalions, even if the United States, under President Joe Biden, opposed it doing so.

By Joel B. Pollak, BREITBART                                                                  21 March 2024

NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

Dermer made his remarks on former George W. Bush administration official and Start-up Nation author Dan Senor’s podcast.

The Times of Israel notes:

Israel will take control of Rafah even if it causes a rift with the United States, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, describing the Gazan city packed with evacuees as a final Hamas bastion harboring a quarter of the terror group’s fighters.

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS          22 March 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2023 Annual Leadership Summit/Gage Skidmore

Before we start, a reminder: when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last spoke before a joint session of Congress, in March 2015, it was followed by Trump’s presidential victory in November 2016. So, omens matter.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) on Thursday told CNBC he will invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, for the second time in nine years.

Johnson said on CNBC’s Squawk Box, “I would love to have him come in and address a joint session of Congress. We’ll certainly extend that invitation. We’re just trying to work out schedules on all this.”

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By Robert Williams, GATESTONE                                                           22 March 2024

Anti-Israel protesters at Dorchester Square in Montreal, Canada, on November 18, 2023. (Photo by Alexis Aubin/AFP via Getty Images)

• “I would walk in every single day and I would see ‘f–k you Jews,’ ‘you are not welcome here,’ ‘we hate Zionists,’ and ‘kill yourself.'” — Samantha Kline, student at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Vancouver Sun, March 6, 2024.
• In 2022, the Canadian government invoked the Emergencies Act to shut down the so-called trucker convoy protests, in which thousands of truck drivers and their supporters rallied to call for an end to the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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By Robert Spencer, PJ MEDIA                                                                       22 March 2024

The Biden regime is in a tough spot. Its far-left base is enraged over its ongoing ostensible support for Israel. Instead of acting with integrity despite the electoral cost and standing by a loyal ally in its time of need, the regime is making a series of moves to betray Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies.

Now it’s mulling over a step that would constitute the biggest betrayal of all and would hand victory to the Hamas jihad terror group. For the unprincipled Biden regime apparatchiks, it’s all about winning in November.

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Peloni:  Very important observations by Dyer:  “The Biden administration is pushing for too many concrete measures to be merely trying to affect the U.S. vote.  Planning to put in a pier in Gaza, with Qatar’s participation, isn’t just an expensive gesture to impress a few thousand voters in Michigan.  It’s a real, concrete measure to open a physical pipeline into Gaza that effectively ends Israel’s 15-year maritime blockade of Gaza and establishes a political presence going forward there for the U.S. and Qatar.”

Bad faith.

J.E. Dyer | The Optimistic Conservative | March 21, 2024

This will be one ping, one ping only, and a short one on the subject.

There’s a distracted and incorrect belief that President Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer are truckling to the immigrant anti-Israel vote in Michigan (and to some extent, potentially, in other states, where similar concentrations of immigrants amplify the impact of a voting bloc).

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Patrick Byrne | March 21, 2024

Patrick Byrne Tweeted the following:

(Please retweet) Kari Lake‘s case against machines in 2024 was dismissed by a federal court in Arizona on the grounds that it was “too speculative“.

Ninth circuit upheld that absurd decision on appeal.

Last week Kari Lake/Kurt Olsen filed at SCOTUS an appeal.

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600 terrorists arrested, 140 eliminated in operation at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital this week, IDF says.

INN | March 21, 2024

The IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit announced that this week, troops under the command of the 162nd Division led the special operation at the Shifa Hospital. The division is operating in northern and central Gaza, significantly reducing Hamas’ terrorist capabilities.

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Peloni: Ukrainians have finally provided a response to the Nazi who was celebrated last year by Zelensky and the Canadian parlaiment, and the response should be very troubling to those who still foolishly cling to the notion that Ukraine does not actually have a Nazi problem.  Indeed, how fitting is it that a Ukrainian SS Nazi received a Ukrainian award named after the notorious WWII Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Stesko.   Yes, Ukraine does have a Nazi problem, and they are in no way seeking a way to deal with it.  It will be interesting to see how many news groups in the West call on Zelensky to respond to this outrage and even more interesting to hear the deafening silence with which Zelensky will provide when he does not comment on the award made to the very real Nazi for whom he himself raised a cheer.

Strana Today | March 19, 2024

Ternopil Regional Council awarded the serviceman of the SS division “Galichina” Yaroslav Gunku with the honorary insignia “For Merits to Ternopil” named after Yaroslav Stetsko.

This is stated in the order of the head of the Ternopil Regional Council of February 6, 2024 No. 22.

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E. Rowell:  This case has not been decided yet, but the tenor and tone of the Justices’ questioning led to the demoralizing concern that the Supreme Court of the United States of America is about to cave in and allow the demolition of the First Amendment.  Freedom of speech is the sine qua non of a free people, the bedrock on which all our liberties are based.  If it goes, so also goes the Republic, down the rat hole of fascism.

If oral arguments were any indication, it appears the government may prevail and eviscerate our First Amendment in the process.

By Ben Weingarten, THE FEDERALIST                                                  21 March 2023

On Monday, the censorship-industrial complex was put on trial when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the landmark free speech case Murthy v. Missouri.

Evidence in the case revealed that in the run-up to the 2020 election, and increasingly thereafter, a raft of federal agencies both directly and via cutouts cajoled, coerced, and colluded with social media companies to censor wrongthinking Americans at a magnitude of millions of posts on matters ranging from the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story to the integrity of mass mail-in balloting and the efficacy of Covid vaccines.

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By Sha’i ben-Tekoa, AMERICAN THINKER                                      21 MARCH 2024

Image: Abraham sending away Hagar and Ishmael by Georg Pencz. Public domain

The Gods of Political Correctness dictate that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “…three great Abrahamic religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.” All three of these sacred cow clichés need to be slaughtered on the altar of truth.

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Had Mr. Schumer told the truth, he would have said this: Israel’s being a pariah among the world’s nations tells us much more about the world’s nations than about Israel.

By Dennis Prager, AMERICAN GREATNESS                                    21 March 2024

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) twice described Israel as a “pariah” among the world’s nations:

“Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah. … [The Israeli public] understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”

It was for that reason that the majority leader said that Israel should choose a leader other than Benjamin Netanyahu, its current prime minister. Then, Schumer implied, Israel will presumably no longer be a pariah.

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By World Tribune Staff                                                                                        17 March 2024

British MP Andrew Bridgen / Video Image

British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen last week called for the death penalty for Bill Gates and the “Covid cabal” which he said committed “crimes against humanity” during the Covid pandemic.

“Heads of governments around the world and others below them have engaged in what is tantamount to treason against the public,” declared Bridgen in response to a rebuttal from his colleague Penny Mordaunt, who is a long-term World Economic Forum (WEF) member.

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“The inability to differentiate between the attacker and the defender is absolutely stunning,” Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova tells JNS.

By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS                                                                                   21 March 2024

Czech Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova (center) takes a break from picking zucchinis and cherry tomatoes at Moshav Mivtahim near the southern Gaza Strip, March 29, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of the Embassy of the Czech Republic.

The outburst of antisemitism across the West following the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7 and the world’s inability to clearly differentiate between the attacker and the victim indicates that the lessons of the Holocaust have not been learned, the Czech ambassador to Israel said on Wednesday.

“I was very surprised how soon after October 7 this eruption of antisemitism came even before the Israeli military operation in Gaza began,” Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova told JNS in an interview. “I had thought that classic antisemitism was much weaker than it is.”

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By Kobi Michael, INSS                                                                                20 MARCH 2024

Bitter rivalry—attempts at reconciliation—and a new crisis: This is how the cycle of relations between Fatah and Hamas has looked for many years. It seems that this cycle will not be broken in the near future, which significantly reduces the possibility of the Palestinian Authority’s control of the Gaza Strip “the day after.” In the absence of another solution, that rivalry could pave the way for a temporary Israeli military rule in Gaza.

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By Jonathan Pollard, INN                                                                                 21 March 2024

Jonathan Pollard

When tasked with conducting long range strike missions, the IDF has traditionally relied upon the Israeli Air Force, which is why the latter is unofficially known as the “long arm” of the Israeli Army. Two successful long range IAF missions exemplify their remarkable capabilities: the 7 June, 1981 Operation Opera, which destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad and the 1 October, 1985 Operation Wooden Leg that destroyed the PLO’s headquarters in Tunis. Today, however, the IAF’s future effectiveness against Iran’s nuclear weapons establishment has been called into question by a number of complicating factors.

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By Caroline Glick, JNS                                                                               20 March 2024

T. Belman:  Ben-Gvir is a pariah because he declares without apology that the Jew has an organic right to reside in the Land of Israel, not the Arab, and that that right was bestowed upon us by G-d Himself.

Ben-Gvir is a pariah because he declares without apology that the Jew has an organic right to reside in the Land of Israel, not the Arab, and that that right was bestowed upon us by G-d Himself.

Rabbi Yehoshua Mizrachi | INN | March 20, 2024

Ben Gvir

Kudos to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir!

An international pariah, an obstacle to peace, an outcast on the world stage. What a breath of fresh air this man is!

As a student of Meir Kahane, HY”D, he is automatically labeled a racist, a Jewish terrorist and a hater. Yet here is a sampling of Kahane’s “extremist” thinking and worldview:

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Peloni:  Bibi continues to resist American dictates to end the war, and instead reasserts that a decisive victory will be achieve, which of course includes conquering Rafah.

“We always did what was necessary for our safety, and we will do so this time as well,” the premier said in an address to Israeli citizens.

Jonathan  Tobin | JNS | March 20, 2024

Israel Defense Forces troops will enter the Hamas stronghold of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with or without support from the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed on Wednesday.

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