T. Belman. Nash is wrong to conflate Russia with the USSR at least during the first two decades of this century.
Part II: The Russian courtship of Israel during the first two decades of this century.
Part III: Russia’s Predicaments both foreign and domestic
Part IV: Can Russia be induced to use its UN veto to protect Israel
By Tom Nash 1 March 2024
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US officials tell NBC News that despite increasing pressure, US President Joe Biden remains unwilling to fundamentally shift his policy in support of Israel by placing conditions on military aid to Jerusalem.
Biden has privately expressed skepticism to some Democrats that withholding weaponry to Israel would be effective, arguing that while Jerusalem would like more security aid, it does not currently need it, NBC News reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Even though I knew about the violence of Oct. 7, I was still shocked to see the evidence of these killings at the kibbutz and the music fair site firsthand. This evil is why Hamas must be destroyed.
By Fred Fleitz, AM GREATNESS 1 March 2024
General Keith Kellogg (pictured right) and the author at the Kfar Gaza, Israel Kibbutz.
This week, I visited Israel with General Keith Kellogg, my colleague at the America First Policy Institute, to learn about the state of the Israel-Hamas War and Israel-U.S. relations. As part of our research, we met with senior Israeli officials and toured two sites where the horrific October 7 Hamas terrorist attack took place.
What we learned was disturbing and shocking. It confirmed our strong belief that America must stand with Israel in its efforts to destroy Hamas and not agree to a peace agreement with the Palestinians without major, generational reforms.
By Adam Andrzejewski, REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS 3 Mar 2024
Topline: The U.S. government has given $1.2 billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency since April 2021, according to a report from OpenTheBooks.com.
UNRWA exists to provide humanitarian support for Palestinian refugees. But 10% of the agency’s employees are believed to have connections to the terrorist group Hamas, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
At least 12 employees were directly involved in the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel, including one teacher who allegedly kept a hostage in his attic for 50 days.
A Democrat-controlled Congress might vote to disallow a GOP Electoral College victory and hand the election to Biden or a replacement.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, THE FEDERALIST 29 February 2024
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Democrats have spent the last three years labeling former President Donald Trump and any other Republican who questioned the 2020 presidential election results as “insurrectionists.” But as their efforts to either imprison Trump or throw him off the ballot have shown, they are ready to do just about anything to ensure he can’t win a second term in 2024. But with President Joe Biden falling in the polls and Trump demonstrating that he could win, they need a backup plan if the courts won’t do their bidding.
By Victor Davis Hanson, March 1, 2024
“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.”
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (d.17 ) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless.
Former US Ambassador to Israel’s new proposal calls for full Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, alongside Palestinian enclaves with maximum civilian autonomy subject to Israeli overriding security control.
Ambassador David FriedmanINN
Friedman presented an outline of the proposal at an event of the Keep God’s Land movement during the National Religious Broadcasters Conference which was held in Nashville, Tennessee, last week.
By Alex Newman, EPOCH TIMES February 28, 2024
Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.
IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari presents new video showing IDF tanks securing aid convoy retreating as mob stormed the convoy.
Israel National News Feb 29/24
IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari delivered a statement this evening (Thursday) regarding this morning’s incident involving a humanitarian aid convoy in northern Gaza and the IDF’s ongoing humanitarian aid efforts.
“This morning, the IDF coordinated a convoy of 38 trucks to provide additional humanitarian assistance to the residents of northern Gaza. This humanitarian aid came from Egypt, went through a security screening at the Kerem Shalom humanitarian crossing in Israel, and then entered Gaza for distribution by private contractors,” Hagari began.
Peloni: Thankfully, an armed reservist was on site to neutralize the threat from the Fatah terrorist PA policeman. Israelis should be armed. The number of lives which Aviad Gizbar saved with his timely response will never be known, but it would be dwarfed by the lives which could be saved if Israelis were armed and trained to respond to such a threat as some random PA Policeman seeking his million dollar prize money. The public should be able to defend themselves, their families, their communities, and their nation amid the ongoing slaughter which is being waged on the streets of Israel. The army can not be everywhere, even as the terrorists can strike anywhere.
Yitzhak Zeiger, 57, murdered by terrorist at entrance to Eli, remembered as a volunteer medic who worked to ensure all Jews had proper burials.
Israel National News | Feb 29, 2024
It was cleared for publication that Yitzhak Zeiger, 57, is one of the two Israelis who were murdered in a terrorist shooting attack at a gas station at the entrance to Eli this afternoon (Thursday).
Zeiger volunteered with the police, with the ZAKA organization, and the Magen David Adom organization, and as a medic in the community of Psagot where he lived. He leaves behind his wife, three children and two grandchildren.
Peloni: Bibi makes the case for opposing DM Gallant’s demand that the Heredi Draft bill be passed only with unanimous support. The notion that such a divisive topic should only be resolved with full support in the midst of a war is suited to simply bring down the govt. The fact that the High Court forced this issue to the fore just following Bibi’s demonstration of strength while refusing foreign dictates should not be overlooked. Also, the fact that Gallant chose to exacerbate the challenge made by the High Court in the midst of the war while knowing the consequence of his demand for unanimous agreement is both puzzling and revealing.
Bibi’s speech is linked with the first video below.
“What is the utility of general elections now?” asked Netanyahu. “General election means the end of the war.”
By MICHAEL STARR | JPOST |FEBRUARY 29, 2024 19:55
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Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference on February 29, 2024 (photo credit: NIMROD KLIKMAN/POOL)
General elections would mean the end of the Hamas-Israel War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in a Thursday evening speech, necessitating a compromise on the haredi draft law issue.
Netanyahu said that he believed he could pass a draft law arrangement that would not tear the nation apart and would be supported by a majority in the Knesset. Such an arrangement could not be done with democratic compromise — complete agreement, he said, only exists in non-democratic countries.
B. Kalman: NATO policy, like all current US decision-making, appears to be on a dangerous path. There is little evidence that these decisions have involved seasoned judgment, careful military analysis, or consideration of consequences. Our current military leaders seem to be lacking the guidance systems we have come to expect in airplanes, for example. And they certainly no longer consider themselves serving the people nor the US Constitution.
Putin Warns About Nuclear Weapons
By Stephen Bryen, WEAPONS AND STRATEGY 29 Feb 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
If NATO is so much against sending troops to Ukraine why doesn’t NATO demand that the soldiers already there be sent home?
On Monday, February 26, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany would not provide its Taurus long range cruise missiles to Ukraine because doing so would require German troops to be sent there to operate them, just like the British are operating the Storm Shadow air launched cruise missiles.
The proposal “protects Israel’s security, respects biblical covenants and affords civil rights and human dignity to all.”
By Alex Traiman, JNS 29 February 2024
Then-U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the Jewish Federations’ annual General Assembly in Tel Aviv, Oct. 24, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Israel suffered the worst massacre in its history on Oct. 7, at the hands of Hamas—an Iranian terror proxy that was voted into power and continues to be supported by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. The attack proved longstanding Israeli fears that any independent Palestinian entity without overriding Israeli security control would become a staging ground for barbaric terrorism against the Jewish state.
And now, as Israel fights to permanently remove Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization, from the Gaza Strip, key members of the international community, including the United States and the United Kingdom, are doubling down on calls for the creation of a Palestinian state in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. These nations are considering official recognition of Palestinian statehood, while Israel fights to restore order in the region, whether or not Israelis or Palestinians support a two-state outcome, let alone are willing and able to reach an elusive agreement.
by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE • February 29, 2024
T. Belman. Pollard condemns the US for setting us up for the US and the UN to be able to condemn us and pause the munitions which they are supposed to be giving to us.
Janet Yellen also demanded that we not withhold any money due to the PA.
For the past two decades, Gershon Hacohen has been a lonely dissenter in the highest ranks of the IDF. Unfortunately, he was proven right.
Four-and-half months after Hamas commandos overran the police station in the center of Sderot, all that remains is a dusty lot of twisted rebar. Although the city’s police killed over two dozen terrorists before the IDF arrived late in the morning of Oct. 7, it took over a dozen tank shells to bring down the hijacked station, where outnumbered officers had fought Hamas’ Nukhba forces to a bloody impasse. An Israeli tank had never fired on an Israeli building on Israeli territory in combat before.
The precedential investigation procedure could dramatically impact the entire trade relationship between Israel and the US.
By YEHUDA SHARONI | JPOST | FEBRUARY 28, 2024 11:22
An Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery deployed near the southern Gaza Strip in southern Israel March 29, 2019. (photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
In an unprecedented legal proceeding, the American government opened an investigation into Finkelstein Metals and is examining the government’s conduct, Maariv reported Wednesday morning.
According to the American authorities, grants received by the company due to activities in a development zone constitute a prohibited government subsidy, and they allowed the company to sell its products in the US at inflated prices. The decision to open the investigation and sanctions against Finkelstein has puzzled Israeli officials.
Peloni: And just like that, the three Mc’s will be gone. The fact that McConnell will remain til after the election will maintain his significant influence on the party during the coming election, but it gives the MAGA team just one more incentive to press forward towards victory in November. If Trump wins, there will be a real contest for McConnell’s replacement to actually represent the American people and not the Washington elites, RINO establishment, and their Chinese allies.
By MICHAEL TACKETT Feb 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders.
What’s happened with the rise of the web censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself, backed covertly by the US State Department. It can happen here. Op-ed.
By Ezequiel Doiny, INN 27 February 2024
Ezequiel Doiny
On February 25, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak shared his plan for how to force the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign. In an interview with Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) Barak said ‘We need 30 thousand citizens to encircle the Knesset in tents for three weeks, day and night. When the state is shut down – Netanyahu will realize that his time is up and that there is no trust in him.'”
B. Kalman: While Biden does need the support of the US Muslim community to win the election, this is only the manifest issue. The latent agenda is to see to it that Israel does not win the war against Hamas. The goal is to permanently cripple Israel’s national security or destroy Israel. Of course they couch it in terms of humanitarian concerns but there is not even a shred of real humanitarian concern behind the constant accusations against Israel. The truth is, Israel cannot be allowed to survive and thrive. Those currently in power cannot tolerate a strong national sovereignty of any country, and certainly not that of the nation state of the Jews. Thus they will try to destroy Israel’s war effort every which way they can. Let us hope they do not succeed.
By Colonel (res) Gabi Siboni, JEWISH POLICY CENTER
The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security 28 Feb 2024
The IDF is operating in the Gaza Strip to implement the directives of the political echelon. The objectives the cabinet defined for the army at a meeting on October 16, 2023 are: toppling the Hamas regime and destroying its military and governmental capabilities, removing the terrorist threat from the Gaza Strip, creating conditions for the return of the hostages, defending the borders of the state and its citizens while removing the security threat from Gaza, while leaving the IDF full freedom of action without restrictions on the use of force. The IDF is succeeding in systematically dismantling Hamas, although the fighting in Gaza is fierce and exacts painful costs. After more than four months of war, the IDF has taken control of the northern Gaza Strip and has full operational freedom of action in the area. The forces operate in a variety of ways to continue cleansing Hamas infrastructure – above and below ground. Progress has also been made in Khan Yunis, where the IDF is eliminating terrorists and destroying their infrastructure.
