There’s no alternative to the alliance with the United States. But support from ordinary Americans and the GOP means it doesn’t have to sacrifice its security to please Biden.

The relationship between Israel and the United States has frayed since the start of war against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip. Credit: FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock.

The Biden administration wants us to believe two contradictory things at the same time. Depending on the circumstances or the audience to which President Joe Biden and senior members of his foreign-policy team are addressing, they’re either committed to supporting Israel and in favor of eliminating Hamas. Except when they’re not.

In just the last week, Biden pledged at a Holocaust memorial ceremony that he would always stand with Israel and never forget what the Hamas terrorists had done on Oct. 7. A day later, he flipped the script.
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NYT | May 16, 2024

Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia on a visit to Prague in February. Credit…Michal Cizek/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, a fixture in the country’s politics and known for defying his fellow leaders in the European Union, underwent hours of emergency surgery on Wednesday after being shot five times and critically wounded in a town in central Slovakia, in what officials said appeared to be a politically motivated assassination attempt.

His deputy, Tomas Taraba, told the BBC that the operation appeared to have gone well. “I guess in the end he will survive,” he said.

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Peloni:  The Ukrainian forces are betrayed by the very same corruption which was highlighted to support the two color revolutions in Ukraine over the past 20 years.  Notably, while it was Yankee dollars which were being diverted from the war effort, this corruption has come at the cost of Ukrainian lives on the battlefield and led to a significant advantage for Russia to exploit.

Martina Bohuslavets | Ukrainska Pravda | May 13, 2024

Hundreds of millions of hryvnias could probably steal fortifications in Kharkiv region, where now “rsnya” is actively coming. Multimillion-dollar contracts for the construction of fortifications, which were spent there in total 7 billion hryvnias, Kharkiv OVA poured on the base firms of avatars.

In particular, the Department of Housing and Communal Services (ZKG) and the fuel and energy complex of Kharkiv OW concluded direct contracts for the supply of wood for fortifications with firms with signs of fictitiousness.

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By Abe Greenwald, COMMENTARY    June 2024

In April, a long-haired flower child on the campus of Princeton University was captured on camera. The picture, posted on social media, shows him sitting on his guitar case, guitar in hand, ready to play. Spread on the grass before him, completing this otherwise faithful portrait of hippiedom, is not a peace sign or a tie-dyed bedsheet but the flag of the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Look closer, and you’ll spot the keffiyeh around his neck. But what is incongruous about the picture—the pairing of hippie garb and jihadist imagery—is nothing of the sort in real life. This tree-hugging terrorist supporter is the moronic face of a harmonious marriage.

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By Joseph Ford Cotto, AMERICAN THINKER    15 May 2024

In the annals of American economic history, few measures have left as indelible a mark as the monumental tax relief efforts spearheaded under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

Undoubtedly, his tenure heralded a paradigm shift, championing the cause of the middle class with an unparalleled fervor.

Through the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a landmark legislation of historic proportions, Trump etched his legacy as a stalwart defender of the financial interests of hardworking, upwardly mobile Americans.

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Joe Biden is a weak and evil man who cannot tell good from evil — and he, not Trump, is responsible for wrecking America’s reputation, power, and influence abroad.

By Mark Meckler, INN    14 May 2024

Mark Meckler

During Donald Trump’s presidency, the liberal establishment made it a habit of lecturing him about how his actions were detrimental to America’s reputation abroad.

“Four years of neglect, unilateralism, and failed diplomacy have left America’s alliances in tatters,” fretted Pete Buttigieg. “Indeed, among all of Trump’s foreign-policy legacies, none may be more consequential than the damage he has done to America’s standing, influence, and power in the world by weakening the system of partnerships and alliances the country has created and relied on for decades.”

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E. Rowell:  The idea stated below that Turkey has a “nuanced” stance towards Hamas is not supported by evidence.  Turkey has been a strong supporter of Hamas throughout Erdogan’s administrations.  Oh and the idea stated by President Erdogan that Hamas is “fighting for its liberation” is as accurate a statement as saying Hitler and the Nazis were fighting for their liberation.

Terror group’s plans reportedly found by Israeli army in Gaza home of senior official

By Foreign Staff, TELEGRAPH    14 May 2024

Hamas planned to set up a base in Turkey from which to carry out sabotage and assassinations, according to documents reportedly found by the Israeli army in Gaza.

The papers, shown to The Times, were discovered in the home of Hamza Abu Shanab, chief of staff to Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, the Israeli military said.

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The rift is all about the U.S. State Department’s desire to reassert control.

David Wurmser | JNS | May 9, 2024

The chattering class in Israel is struggling to understand American behavior. They ask: How did the United States go from supporting Israel in the first days of the war with Hamas in Gaza to essentially shielding the terror organization? The Israeli right asks: What happened to the Americans? The left asks: What has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu done to destroy U.S.-Israel relations?

I believe I have some insight into this. I held a senior policy position at the U.S. State Department for several years. Afterwards, I was a senior advisor to the vice president from 2001 to 2007 and then to the Trump administration’s National Security Advisor John Bolton. I also served a decade in the Pentagon as a senior intelligence officer. I have learned a great deal about the mentality of these bureaucracies.

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Ironically, Biden’s decision has freed Israel’s leadership of some of their reluctance to counter American dictates. Oh, and its also helping Trump’s campaign.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF, JPOST MAY 15, 2024

In his never-ending attempt to cultivate the “Where would they go anyway?” Arab vote in Michigan and other possible swing states, US President Joe Biden has opened a Pandora’s box that he is likely to regret.

I suggest that he has just succeeded in creating for himself a “four-bag error,” one with potentially decisive significance, by refusing to arm Israel with kits to be used for providing greater precision for missiles and shells in attacking Gaza.

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Peloni:  Fatah is Hamas.  They are both genocidal terrorists whose rule must be ended, their organizations must be eliminated, and their leadership must be executed.  This should be the only role offered to them and their like in pursuit of peace.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military arm of Fatah led by Mahmoud Abbas, confirms that its fighters participated in the brutal attack on Gaza surrounding villages and IDF bases on October 7th and kidnapped ‘many Zionists.’

Dalit Halevi | INN | May 14, 2024

Kibbutz Be’eriTomer Neuberg/Flash90

Abu Muhammad, the official spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the military arm of the Fatah movement led by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), confirms in an official statement that the organization’s fighters participated in the October 7th attack on Gaza surrounding villages and IDF bases.

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Nan Jacques Zilberdik  | Palestinian Media Watch | May 13, 2024

Mahmoud Abbas: “The independence of the State of Israel…is a big lie… there is no independence”

PA TV preacher [last week]: It is our “duty to fight” Israel “Palestine will return free, from its [Mediterranean] Sea to its [Jordan] River”

PA doesn’t recognize Israel in any borders – countless maps denyIsrael’s existence

“Map of Palestine” includes Israeli cities “Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, and Ramle” and is “drawn in Martyrs’ blood”- Fatah official

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The Oct. 7 attacks pumped badly needed economic and political capital into a failed state

by Judith Miller | Tablet  |   May 14, 2024

Last fall, Egypt was on the brink of economic collapse. A decade of debt-fueled spending on a pharaonic-scale had emptied its Central Bank coffers. By February, Cairo’s public debt was 89% of its gross domestic product. External debt had soared to 46% of GDP. The pound, its currency, was one of the world’s worst performing. Unable to import supplies and repatriate profits, foreign companies were leaving, or threatening to leave Egypt in droves. Annual inflation was over 35%, and double that for some food staples. Egypt seemed on the verge of a sovereign default—its first ever.

Then came Oct. 7.

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T. Belman. Biden’s concern that the bombs shouldn’t be used in crowded areas just at a time when UN cuts by more than half the number of women, children ‘identified’ as killed in Gaza and Israel is in the process of evacuationg all civilieans from Rafah.

The obvious question is, what did Israel have to agree to in return?

First major deal since president said he would stymie sales of offensive weapons includes ammunition for tanks, mortar rounds and tactical vehicles

By AP  Today, 5:04 am

Backdropped by smoke rising to the sky after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli tank stands near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from southern Israel, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP/Leo Correa)

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.

It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 high-payload bombs — on hold earlier in the month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.

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Douglas Murray dedicated his Hamilton Award to the people of Israel for their national response to the October 7th massacre.

INN | May 14, 2024

British author Douglas Murray was honoured with the Hamilton Award recently, and in his speech mentioned the October 7th massacre and the resultant Swords of Iron War.

“On the 8th of October I went down to Times Square, and there were these men and women waving signs celebrating the massacre of the previous day. They weren’t calling for a two-state solution,” he said.

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It is time to tell Rich Uncle Joe and Chuck the Schumer to take their money and stuff it. They can go take weapons and stuff it. They just gave us the excuse to flatten Rafah.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

Have you ever personally been in a position in which you always relied on someone else’s financial support so that you could realize your goals and dreams? Like a father or mother or rich uncle. Or, let’s say, like a miserable dictatorial tyrannical father-in-law? (Just saying . . .)

And did that support sometimes come with strings? Strings that not only tied your hands but curtailed your dreams? (Just saying . . .)

>Have you ever reached a moment in your life where you decided “Either I spend the rest of my life toeing to his every command, and later look back ruefully on my deathbed wishing I could go back in time and live the life I had wanted to live — or I tell him right now to stuff his money, and I will be liberated to return to living the life I was meant to live, to pursue my dreams? (Just saying . . . )
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By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER    14 May 2024

In two separate appearances, Tom Cotton has delivered clear, insightful, and completely accurate statements about Israel’s right to defend herself and about Joe Biden’s disastrous policies vis-à-vis Israel and Hamas in the ongoing war between the two. If you’ve been struggling for a way to articulate your feelings about what Biden’s doing in the Middle East, Cotton has you covered.

One of the problems with intellectuals is that, if they lack a moral compass, they can delude themselves into believing that completely unethical things or people are, in fact, good ideas. This is how Peter Singer, the current Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, could be a vegetarian extremist in order to protect animals while simultaneously arguing that parents should have up to a month after a child is born to abort “defective” babies. Being credentialed doesn’t mean being either wise or good.

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By Seth Mandel, COMMENTARY    13 May 2024

The United Nations has announced that the Gaza casualty figures it has been using are bogus and it is adjusting its figures downward.

“The revisions are taken … you know, of course, in the fog of war, it’s difficult to come up with numbers,” UN spokesman Farhan Haq said at a press briefing in response to a question from JNS. “We get numbers from different sources on the ground, and then we try to cross check them. As we cross check them, we update the numbers, and we’ll continue to do that as that progresses.”

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Seeking the Breakup of Ukraine’s Army

By Stephen Bryen, WEAPONS AND STRATEGY    13 May 2024

Yuriy Halushkin

There is a large Russian operation going on in Ukraine focused on the Kharkov area.  At the same time, the Russians are also attacking elsewhere, primarily in Donbas but also in Zaphorize.  The threat in the north has compelled Ukraine to pull troops deployed elsewhere, including Chasiv Yar, to try and hold the line in the Kharkov area.

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“These are difficult times, but we have to hold our heads up high,” says Ezequiel Pachter, who immigrated to Israel from Argentina in 2022 with the aim of joining the IDF.

By Josh Hasten, JNS    14 May 2024

Israeli soldiers during Gaza ground operations, March 19, 2024. Credit: IDF.

On Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day), Israelis celebrate the bravery and heroism of those who fought in the 1948 War of Independence to ensure the survival of the fledgling Jewish state.

In the wake of Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel, the country now has many more heroes to celebrate. Included in that group are immigrant “lone soldiers” (soldiers without family in Israel) who were forced to fight for the country’s survival very nearly “fresh off the boat,” just as their predecessors did 76 years ago.

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