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By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH PRESS                            7 March 2024

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS

US President Joe Biden is expected to announced in his State of the Union Address on Thursday night that he will order American forces to coordinate with the Israel Defense Forces in an “emergency mission” to build a “temporary seaport” for Gaza.

The temporary port is intended to open a maritime route for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza from Cyprus, an option that has been discussed for several months. There is no indication that the US will use the port to allow the Gazans to escape from Gaza, and it appears that for now, the US plans to continue leaving the Gazans trapped there, as Egypt has been doing along its shared border at Rafah.

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The meeting, in which right-wing members said that despite being members of the committee, they had no say in the appointment of judges, might have been the catalyst of the tumultuous efforts to reform Israel’s judicial system. 

Netael Bandel, Israel Hayom (March 7, 2024)

The Supreme Court | Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

An exclusive recording obtained by Israel Hayom of a Judicial Selection Committee meeting in 2020 offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the legal system and what might have been the catalyst of the tumultuous efforts to reform Israel’s judicial system.

On Nov. 15, 2020, members of the committee convened in the office of then-Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn following a two-year break due to the multiple election rounds.

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Project, which will be announced in Biden’s SOTU address, will see deliveries inspected in Cyprus before docking in Gaza once temporary structure is built in coming weeks

Jacob Magid, TOI  March 7, 2024

A Palestinian fisherman arrives with a boat at the port Gaza City early on December 1, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

US President Joe Biden will announce in his Thursday State of the Union address that the US military will embark on an “emergency mission” to establish a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, which will allow for the direct delivery of humanitarian assistance from the Mediterranean Sea, senior administration officials told reporters in a briefing.

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By Josh First, AMERICAN THINKER                             6 March 2024

Much talk going on now about how President Trump is supposed to get a stranglehold on the lawless and insubordinate federal bureaucracy if he is elected to a second term this November.  As a former seven-year federal policy bureaucrat who fled the belly-of-the-beast U.S. EPA in 1998, here are my suggestions.  These are based especially on my witnessing the changing of the Senior Executive Service (SES) guard from the Bush I administration to the Clinton administration, and all of the cascading management changes that followed.

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E. Rowell:  Batya Unger-Sargon is the REAL DEAL.  She’s a liberal Jew from Queens who truly understands MAGA and how the elites have sold out hard working Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and the hard working middle class.  She says they are all for Trump now.  Enjoy the article, but even more, enjoy the video at the website.

THIS WILL BLOW YOU AWAY! – BRILLIANT! (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY         7 March 2024

Batya Ungar-Sargon‘s interview this week from The War Room with Steve Bannon was like no other.

Batya, a former liberal from Queens and an opinion editor at Newsweek, shared her journey from hardcore New York leftist to Trump supporter. And it is amazing! The way she describes Trump Nation is just perfect. The left will never get this. The elites will never understand this. And yet this is why they fear him and his MAGA movement.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS  7 Mar 2024

Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded.

The nightmare ended ten months later, after the heroic French defense stopped the final German push. But the respective armies ended up in the same position as when the battle started.

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By Robert Williams, GATESTONE                                    7 March 2024

Pictured: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Doha on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

“Qatar has been playing a deadly double game with the U.S. for many years. It supports all Islamist terrorist organizations (ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, and Hezbollah).” — Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI), November 6, 2023.

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Ehud Barak is endangering Israel’s unity and stability.

by Mordechai Nisan, FPM    March 6, 2024

Ehud Barak, noteworthy Israeli army general with a highly decorated military career, acquired public notoriety last year for his role in masterminding, organizing, and financing, the sweeping protest campaign against judicial reform in Israel.  Throughout 2023, prior to the slaughter of October 7, he and his like-minded political allies sowed chaos in the streets, intimidated citizens, mobilized strikes, incited army reservists, and brought Israel to the precipice of civil war. They engaged in a so-called non-violent struggle for democracy, speaking on behalf of entrenched elites in Israeli society, while charging that the elected government of Binyamin Netanyahu was illegitimate. Now, with the Gaza war still unfolding, the protesters are back in the streets.

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A letter from the IDF Intelligence Corps warning of the Hamas attack was supposed to have been delivered to the Prime Minister. The massacre happened first.

Israel National News | Mar 6, 2024

Hamas invasion of Israel Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Brigadier General Amit Sa’ar, the head of the investigations department in the IDF Intelligence Corps, wrote a serious warning that was supposed to be sent to the Prime Minister and the Political Security Cabinet after the holiday of Simchat Torah regarding a possible Hamas attack.

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Washington Post reports that the United States has delivered thousands of munitions and other lethal aid to Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

Israel National News  Mar 7, 2024, 12:09 AM (GMT+2)

The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began October 7, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing comments made by US officials to members of Congress in a recent classified briefing.

The sales include thousands of precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid, according to the report.

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Very important interview.

Yoram Ettinger | EMET | March 6, 2024

After the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust, many members of the international community have arrived at a single-factor conclusion of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, combined with grandiose plans of how to finally bring peace to the Middle East: the rewarding of this violence with the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state, stretching from Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank) through Gaza. The “dusting off” of this solution, which has been tried, stretches back to the 1937 Peel Commission, the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the 1967 Khartoum Conference, the Oslo Accords of 1993, the Roadmap for Peace in 2002, and the Gaza Withdrawal of 2005.

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Peloni: Highly recommended video. An intriguing discussion of Israel’s efforts to survive the current intrigues and interests of the latest empire trying to master the Levant.

Gadi Taub, Mike Doran & Tony Badran | TABLET | March 5, 2024

King Herod was a master at using the Roman Empire in order to outmaneuver domestic opposition. But the Romans were no less shrewd at using him. The result was, eventually, the demise of Jewish independence in the land of Israel. Is the Israeli opposition attempting the same kind of move by inviting American intervention in domestic politics? Mike, Gadi and Tablet Magazine’s News Editor Tony Badran discuss Gantz’s visit to Washington in light of Tony’s brilliant analysis of the parallels and differences between King Herod’s time and our own.

It is crunch time for Israel.?While there are many disagreements regarding specifics on the war against Hamas and the other Gazan Jihadists, no one in the War Cabinet or the wider security cabinet disagree on the need for sending in the IDF to seize Rafah.
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War update: Ukraine’s ground counterattacks failed but it claims Russian ship sunk with unmanned surface vehicle

By Stephen Bryen, ASIA TIMES                                        6 March 2024

A U.S. M1A2 Abrams fires during the 2022 Sullivan Cup at the Army Armor School on Fort Benning, Ga., April 29, 2022. The Sullivan Cup is a biennial competition held at Fort Benning, GA, to evaluate the performance of the best tank crews from across the Armor Branch, the U.S. Marine Corps and international partner militaries. (Photo by Spc. Joshua Taeckens) Credit: Spc. Joshua Taeckens

A number of counterattacks by the Ukrainians, in some cases using reserve forces, have taken place along the line of contact. While reports are not yet complete, it appears that all the Ukrainian attempts to roll back Russian gains have failed, with the possible exception of Robotyne.

Meanwhile the Russians have either taken or will soon take a number of villages including  Ivaniska, Bilohorivka, Berdichev, Pobjeda and Novomikhailovka.

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By El Gato Malo, BROWNSTONE                                      5 March 2024

There is a wonderful quote from noted scary fascist (back when fascism was still a vogue and “the coming thing”) Oscar Benavides who was president of Peru from 1933-39. it’s as apposite as ever today:

To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law.

It really says it all, doesn’t it?

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by Jonathan Spyer, JNS    March 5, 2024

https://www.meforum.org/65635/israel-must-preempt-hezbollah

The IDF has registered significant tactical successes in the fighting since Oct. 7. Yet, the strategic scoreboard currently favors Iran.

By Arlene Kushner. March 6, 2024

Attribution: https://arlenefromisrael.info  arlene@arlenefromisrael.info

I can hear my readers asking, “But wait! Hasn’t Israel been embroiled in some very tough days for some time now?”

Indeed! But we are gearing up for increased difficulties with the beginning of Ramadan on March 10. Ramadan: the “holy” Muslim month that has a long-standing tradition of violence against Jews.

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