By Stephen Bryen, ASIA TIMES                                 20 February 2024

According to Ukraine State Police The Russians attacked Selydove late in the evening on February 13. They hit a five-story building in which 12 apartments were completely destroyed, with people trapped under the rubble. Photo: Ukraine State Police

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.

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In ’48 Ben Gurion defied all odds and took on the world and won. Bibi is facing most the the world that opposes Israel and may even have to ignore a UNSC resolution ceasefire.  He should maintain his call for Total Victory.

By Malcolm Dash

Ever since assuming power, Netanyahu has been subject to irrational hate and abuse from Post Zionist radical progressive elites. And for many of those years he’s been on trial for what many reputable legal experts claim are deeply flawed, politically trumped-up charges.

The Prime Minister could have avoided this debilitating legal ordeal if he had consented to a plea bargain and stepped away from the national political scene. However, he has been resolute in trying to establish his innocence. Only a few select leaders possess the fortitude necessary to shoulder the responsibility of governing a nation while  dealing with a taxing trial, deflecting daily, harsh media criticism, public demonstrations, and a vacuous political opposition.

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B. Kalman:  The author makes a patient, understated analysis of the decision making in the Biden DoD and it is a devastating critique.  It is difficult to believe this is the same military that was once considered the greatest in the world.

If the Biden Team stopped the flow of funds to Iran and used DI-EFIL effectively, the “Military” instrument of power wouldn’t be needed.

By John Mills, GATEWAY PUNDIT                          20 February 2024

USS Eisenhower/ Image United States Navy

Since the Jan. 28 drone attack on Tower 22 in Jordan and the Nov. 19, 2023 seizure of the M/V Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea, a routinized normalcy of air and missile strikes by mainly U.S. forces has developed. Normalcy and routine can’t be found in Clausewitzian principles or Sun Tzu’s writings.

Normalcy and routine are the antithesis of “offense” and “momentum”—key elements of Clause-Tzuian tenets. “They hit us a bit, we hit them back a bit” isn’t a roadmap or strategy to a positive end state. There are multiple instruments of national power to leverage in the achievement of national objectives.

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Cases of a blood clot condition called CVST were found to be three times higher than expected among the vaccinated.

By Naveen Athrappully, EPOCH TIMES   2/19/2024
A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in a file image. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

A multinational study of over 99 million vaccinated people has identified higher incidences of neurological, cardiovascular, and blood disorder complications than what the researchers expected.

The peer-reviewed observational cohort study, published in the Vaccine journal on Feb. 12, aimed to evaluate the risk of 13 adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination. The AESIs spanned three categories—neurological, hematologic (blood), and cardiovascular.

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B. Kalman: This incident is in keeping with the pattern in Western former-democracies which have been taken over by martial law and globalist predators: There is no concern for democratic norms, nor for the legal rights of individual citizens. Instead, those in command care only for the maintenance of their power. They support violent criminals at the expense of law abiding citizens and patriots. Their goal is to maximize chaos which will ultimately allow them to justify total martial law and the institution of CBDCs and social credit systems like those of the CCP.

By Lord Austin, Former Labor Minister, Daily Mail  18 Feb 2024

Housing has long been an issue close to my heart. Back in 1989, I started work at COPEC, a housing charity in Birmingham. And later I served as Labour’s housing minister when we made massive progress in tackling rough sleeping.

I was therefore delighted last year to be appointed to chair Midland Heart, one of the country’s leading housing associations.

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A senior administration told Reuters they didn’t believe ‘a rush to a vote is necessary or constructive’

By Benjamin Weinthal Fox News    February 19, 2024 

President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AP | Getty Images)

JERUSALEM — The Biden administration is reportedly taking its goal of a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war to the U.N. Security Council as early as Tuesday.

The administration is said to have proposed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution which in part would call for a temporary cease-fire and call on Israel not to go into Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

According to Reuters, the U.S. text states in part that it “determines that under current circumstances a major ground offensive into Rafah would result in further harm to civilians and their further displacement including potentially into neighboring countries.”

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By Michelle Nichols,  Reuters  February 19

Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint, as Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (Reuters) – The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters.

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Defense minister says terror group’s Khan Younis Brigade ‘has been defeated’ while remaining forces hang on single IDF decision; ‘There’s no one coming to their aid – no Iranians, no international assistance’

By Yoav Zitun, YNET                                                        18 February 2024

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during Sunday’s situation assessment at Southern Command /Defense Ministry

During a situation assessment at the Southern Command, Gallant said that Hamas was shopping around to determine who would control the Gaza Strip, as “Hamas’ Gaza operation is unresponsive, without local leadership for dialogue, prompting external leaders to seek a new internal head.”

Gallant added that in a major blow to Hamas’ military capability, 200 terrorists surrendered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, with additional dozens surrendering at Amal Hospital in the same area. He stated that these surrenders indicate a significant loss of morale among Hamas operatives.

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By Tom Nash                                                                        18 February 2024

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…