After that period, the Israeli military will shift to a more targeted phase 

By JOSHUA MARKS

Israeli forces during operational activity in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 10, 2024. Credit: IDF.

(February 19, 2024 / JNS)  Jerusalem expects intense fighting to continue in Gaza for another six to eight weeks, including in Rafah city, before scaling back the war effort, Reuters reported on Monday.

“Military chiefs believe they can significantly damage Hamas’s remaining capabilities in that time, paving the way for a shift to a lower-intensity phase of targeted airstrikes and special forces operations,” the report stated, citing two Israeli officials and two regional officials familiar with the strategy.

Despite international concerns about potential civilian casualties in Gaza’s southernmost city, Jerusalem is determined to proceed with the ground operation in Rafah, according to the Israel Defense Forces Hamas’s last bastion in the Strip.

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B. Kalman: The Health Freedom Movement began in response to fascist government power grabs across the Western democracies

There are a couple of different groups within the movement:  one group views the SARS COV2 as a novel virus due to GoF manipulation, another group views SARS COV2 as not a novel virus, just another cold virus that had been in circulation for years but had not been previously identified.  Still another group questions that viruses actually exist since the elements needed to prove the existence of a new micro-organism have never been met (Koch’s and River’s postulates).

This article deals with the first two groups.

Why it matters:  1. Because the group that is saying that SARS COV2 wasn’t GoF is trying to save the biochemical weapons industry by doing so.

2.  It matters because it turns out that the US gave bioweapons to Iraq and started the Iraq war based upon the predicate that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

By Dr. Ah Kahn Sayed, ARKMEDIC’S BLOG                   18 February 2024

Those of you paying attention to twitter and substack over the last few weeks should have noticed a few strange things happening. Rather than going into the detail there is a common theme, which is that people in the “medical freedom movement” seem to be all fighting each other. It’s not organic of course, but simply reflects the reality that the intelligence community and its tentacle agencies run chaos agents to break up any groups gaining traction in highlighting corruption, criminal activity and war crimes committed in the biological sciences.

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Peloni:  It would appear that the time to test the relevance and import of Ukraine’s Nazi problem as it relates to the political establishment may be fast approaching.

The insurrection being charged by Kiev against Azov during its action in Avdiika in light of the significant losses it suffered there are particularly relevant to Bryen’s claim, but so too is the very unpopular new draft bill as well as a new tax measure to make up for the drop in foreign aid, both of which are being pushed thru by a president who has outlive his re-election date.  And it is Zelensky’s refusal to stand for reelection which will be used to cover the coming coup, if it does in fact come.  Unlike the parliament, Zelensky has no current mandate to remain in office past next month and no legal basis upon which to disregard the now expired deadline for elections.

This being stated, there may be a potential for Zelensky to make amends with his Nazi problem, much as he did following the debacle at Zolote in 2019 when he was threatened for pushing forward with the Minsk Accords, something which he immediately coarse corrected after being publicly threatened by the army, the irregular forces, and even members of his own parliament.  Of course, Zelensky’s current dilemma is far more complicated and far more intractable than was his simple overstep of 2019.

Stephen Bryen, Weapons and Strategy Substack  February 19, 2024

Washington has fondly hoped that it could bring about regime change in Russia. Now it seems even more likely that there will be regime change, but not in Russia –in Kiev.

The catalyst for regime change in Kiev is the bloody and now ended battle over Avdiivka.

Avdiivka is very close to Donetsk city, the capital area of the Donbas region. Donetsk is about halfway between Mariupol on the Sea of Azov and Luhansk in the north. Both Donetsk and Luhansk are regions (oblasts) in eastern Ukraine with mostly Russian-speaking populations. Both Donetsk and Luhansk, along with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, were annexed by the Russians in September 2022.

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B. Kalman:  While perhaps it never was “stated” US policy, the Biden State department certainly made clear to Israel they were going to push for a Palestinian State, whether or not Israel agreed. What Lew is doing now is damage control.  The Biden Administration is so unpopular, they are behaving as if they are “Conservatives Lite.”   The goal is to do and say anything they think will get Biden over the finish line.  They have backtracked on just about every progressive policy which has failed so completely and miserably that Biden’s poll numbers are at 33% who favor him.  That is lower than any President in US history.  Do not believe this administration, once voted in, they will go back to destroying the US and every other sovereign nation on earth.

“We have never said that was our policy,” Lew told the Conference of Presidents when quizzed about the matter on Sunday night.

By Tovah Lazaroff, JPOST                                                   19 February 2024

US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew attends a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem/Tzachi Kraus

US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew dismissed reports about potential US unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, as he underscored that such a future state would be demilitarized.

“We have never said that was our policy,” Lew told the Conference of Presidents at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, when quizzed about the matter on Sunday night.

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Wars Being Waged, and the Left’s New Strategy

Peloni:  Harper is one of the greatest statesmen of our age, and his focused support of the Jewish people endures to this day, as does his sense of decency, justice and reason.

It is foolish to think a two-state solution will emerge while so many Palestinians still reject the existence of a Jewish state.

Stephen J. Harper, National Post Feb 18, 2024

Photographs of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip are placed on a house that was destroyed by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

During the night of Oct. 7, my wife Laureen woke me to show horrifying images from Israel appearing on her cellphone. Like millions in Israel and around the world, we were shocked and sickened on multiple levels.

We had already spent a year and a half watching the unprovoked onslaught of the Russian military on its peaceful Ukrainian neighbour. We had seen the dead bodies, the broken families, and the shelled-out communities. It is sadly, only one of many violent conflicts in the world today. Each such image wounds our hearts. Read more…

Congress gave international organizations immunity from civil liability. It’s time to establish an exception.

By Eugene Kontorovich,  WSJ Feb. 16, 2024 4:28 pm ET

Imagine the consequences if an American municipal government were found to have allowed a known terror group to build a major base under City Hall. What if employees of a local public library had provided terrorists with supplies or joined in a campaign of murder, torture and hostage-taking? At the very least, everyone involved would be accountable for large damages to the victims in civil suits. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or Unrwa, has done exactly these things in Gaza. Yet no one in Turtle Bay is worried about being hauled into court.

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i24NEWS                                                                               18 February 2024

An IDF reservist describes his recent deployment on the northern front

BY EMILY BENEDEK, TABLET

The incident unfolded while the aircraft traversed airspace known to be frequented by Houthi rebels, heightening fears of potential sabotage.

i24 NEWS                                                                              18 February 2024

El Al flight takes off in Tel Aviv, IsraelYossi Aloni/FLASH90

In a concerning sequence of events for Israeli aviation, hostile elements reportedly attempted to seize control of the communication network on an El Al flight traveling from Phuket, Thailand, to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.

The incident unfolded while the aircraft traversed airspace known to be frequented by Houthi rebels, heightening fears of potential sabotage, according to a report from Israeli public broadcaster Kann.

Despite the alarming nature of the attempted takeover, the flight managed to reach its intended destination and land safely, averting a potentially catastrophic situation.

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Assessment says ‘Israel takes effective action’ to prevent human rights violations; Biden’s continued support for Israel draws increased criticism

By TOI STAFF  Today, 12:59 am

An Israeli fighter jet releases flares as it flies over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, December 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Biden administration is preparing to send a new weapons shipment to Israel that would add to its arsenal even as the US seeks to rein in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and pushes for a pause in the fighting, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing current and former US officials.

According to the report, the proposed shipment includes around a thousand units of MK-82 bombs, fuses, and Joint Direct Attack Munitions guidance kits, which add precision guidance to bombs.

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February 18, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Conference of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations.

Going all the way back to the 1940s, presidents or other senior US officials occasionally have said some ugly things about Israel or Jews.

By  Rafael Medoff, IH     02-18-2024

US President Joe Biden is reported to have used profanity in two recent outbursts against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sadly, such eruptions are nothing new. Going all the way back to the 1940s, presidents or other senior US officials occasionally have said some ugly things about Israel or Jews.

In 1943, Samuel Rosenman, the chief speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confided to a colleague that the president was “much displeased” to learn that four hundred rabbis were planning to march to the White House to plead for the rescue of Jewish refugees. Rosenman said FDR was so upset that he “used language that morning while breakfasting which would have pleased Hitler himself.”

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The government must act swiftly to end the network’s broadcasts from Israel.

 David M. Weinberg, IH    02-18-2024

The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network is an evil empire. It glorifies Hamas, including its “heroic” massacres of Oct. 7 and ongoing “resistance” against Israel, and all forms of Iranian proxy terrorism against Israel. It aids Hamas by reporting on IDF troop movements in Gaza and on IDF forces concentrated along the Gaza border. It is actively drumming-up Ramadan terrorism against Israelis too.

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Future proof is when something has been designed to anticipate and minimize the effects of unwanted future events.  This could apply to so many Israeli achievements and even to its current war against terrorism.

This week’s positive Israel newsletter includes Israeli medical innovations that promise a better future for those with dementia, autism, PTSD, tumors and the war-wounded. It includes a healthier future environment from Israeli innovations that cut pollution, save energy, feed humanity, and cool the planet.

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by Linda Goudsmit   February 18, 2024

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite themselves. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.

We have discussed the weaponization of education in American schools and its sinister political objective to eliminate high literacy, individual agency, and independent intelligence. Dr. Dennis Cuddy, historian and political analyst, wrote an extraordinary article published on NewsWithViews, April 26, 2021, “An Unaware and Compliant Citizenry.”[i]
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