By Shoshana and Stephen Bryen, JEWISH POLICY CTR. 2 Feb 2024

E. Rowell:  This military and geopolitical analysis leads to one clear conclusion:  The US administration’s actions show a desire to protect Iran, even though it costs American lives and countless lives of others across the Middle East.  Appeasement of a bully only invites more aggression.

Tower 22 is a US base in Jordan, just across the border from a US base at al Tanf, Syria. It was attacked early in the morning on January 28th – killing three American soldiers and injuring 47 more. Eight soldiers were evacuated, some with physical wounds and others with concussions, described as traumatic brain injuries.

The Biden Administration has been obscurng the facts to divert attention from Iran’s direct involvement and hide the fact that Iraq has been complicit in the killing and wounding of our soldiers.

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Take the current war with Hamas and multiply it by ten. That’s what war with Hezbollah would look like. And Israelis are not asking if it will begin, but when.

By Matti Friedman, FREE PRESS   January 29, 2024

SHLOMI, Israel — The undercurrents of Israeli life at this moment are darker than I’ve ever seen them: the daily photos of smiling young people, taken at some happy moment before their deaths in combat; glimpses of Israeli girls buried alive in Palestinian tunnels, a short drive from our border and utterly out of reach; a geriatric Israeli leadership uninspiring at best, deceitful at worst; devastation in Gaza; a wall of hate in the Middle East and in growing parts of the West.

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Strikes hit over 85 targets including command HQs, intelligence centers, weapons facilities connected to Iran and regional proxies, in response to assault that killed 3 US soldiers

By TARA COPP, Lolita C. Baldor and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYA

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan last weekend.

President Joe Biden said in a statement: “The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.”

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by Jim Hoft Feb. 2, 2024

In July 2023, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-MI) charged 16 Republican Electors with political crimes in connection with the controversial 2020 Presidential election.

The ALTERNATE electors in Michigan, many of them senior citizens, were charged with eight felonies each, which could mean spending the rest of their lives in prison if AG Nessel has her way.

Each of the 16 defendants was charged with the following felonies:

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How were terrorists able to perfectly time their drone attack without inside information?

February 2, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine

In September 2023, Pentagon Chief of Staff Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant, was accused of having worked as an agent of the Tehran regime. Dissident media outlets produced emails that allegedly showed that Tabatabai had joined an initiative by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to coordinate operations and that she had even run her congressional testimony on Iran’s nuclear program past the head of an Iranian Foreign Ministry think tank.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Front Page Magazine had been among those to take the lead in warning about the potential danger posed by her and enemy agents in the Pentagon.

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By Gadi Taub & Mike Doran,  TABLET February 1, 2024

Team Biden is putting the squeeze on Israel. Washington is pressing Jerusalem to accept an unpopular hostage deal. It is also issuing an executive order sanctioning Israel for “settler violence,” directing the State Department to develop options for American recognition of a Palestinian state, and refusing to answer Israeli requests for arms. Meanwhile, there’s still no retaliation for the attack, by Iranian backed forces, that killed three American soldiers. Mike and Gadi connect the dots between the pressure on Israel and the inaction on Iran. The Biden administration sees “de-escalation” in Gaza as the road to “de-escalation” and stability in the Middle East. Will appeasement if Iran lead to a serious falling out between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Biden? Join us for the discussion.

By Tom Nash                                                                        2 February 2024

E. Rowell:  In this video Mr. Nash discusses that Hamas’ landline communication system appears to be compromised or destroyed and Hamas is close to the end, but Sinwar will never stop fighting even if 2 million Gazans have to die.  In addition he explains the hostage “deal” put forth by the US government essentially saves Hamas while destroying Israel in order for Biden to have a few months of “peace” before the election.  It is the deal from hell.

By Sundance, CTH                                                              2 February 2024

Obama and Biden like Iran.  Obama and Biden are facilitating a pro-Iran policy.  Obama and Biden don’t want to do anything against the interests of their pro-Iran position.  That’s the simple baseline.

As a direct consequence, the same U.S. intelligence community that proclaimed the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, now modify their prior intelligence to proclaim that Iran likely doesn’t have any control over the various terrorist networks they support.  As a result, Biden cannot conduct a retaliatory strike against Iran because Biden cannot prove a direct link to Iran.

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The great Russian writer affirmed both the gift of life and the criminal error of socialism in his 1866 novel “Crime and Punishment.”

>By Walker Larson, EPOCH TIMES

“Semionov-platz Mock Execution Ritual,” by B. Pokrovsky (1849). (Public Domain)

The firing squad leveled their weapons at the prisoners, who stood motionless, as though frozen, like the crystallized Russian winter landscape. Moments before, the prisoners had been made to put on the white shirts of condemned men, and told to kiss the Cross. Then they were tied to a pillar in the Semyonov drill ground, three at a time.

It was the end. What thoughts must have flashed through the prisoners’ minds in that all-consuming moment? One of the men, Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother, gives us a glimpse into the workings of his mind when, as he believed, his life was about to slip away.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke to Arutz Sheva about changes to be made in the humanitarian aid to Gaza and the price that Israel is ready to pay to continue this war until the end so that its citizens can return home safely.

Uzi Baruch, INN    Feb 1, 2024, 9:11 PM 

Minister Bezalel SmotrichArutz Sheva

Peloni:  The US is blocking Israel’s attempt to use foreign workers in place of the Pals from J&S.

The US sent a strong message to Israel to avoid the process of recruiting foreign workers through private companies, for fear of their exploitation. As a result, the Ministry of Justice deleted this course from the plan that will be presented to the government on Sunday. The construction industry can only be saved with Palestinian workers, but Netanyahu fears the fall of his government.

Amitai Gazit, Calcalist  01.02.24

The construction industry is deeply mired in the mud resulting from a lack of workers following the absence of the Palestinian workers . The effort to recruit replacements for them through private personnel companies from foreign countries has so far progressed lazily. But now it seems that the tough conditions that the Ministry of Justice set for the plan to expand this policy will lead to its cancellation or at least a reduction. “Calcalist” has learned that one of the reasons for the demands of the Ministry of Justice is criticism from the American government, which is concerned that the process of hiring foreign workers will lead to their exploitation. As a result, the private route for hiring foreign workers was dropped from the government’s plan to accelerate real estate, which is supposed to go up for government approval this Sunday.

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From Eugene Kontorovich:

“The new sanctions tools against Israelis announced by the Biden Administration is not about settler violence. First, it does not require acts of violence – anyone vaguely involved in doing or not doing anything the WH thinks undermines “peace” and “security” in WB qualifies.

As to violence, the language of the Order does applies to anyone complicit in acts of violence in WB – which should mean the entire PA government should have their accounts frozen because of Pay-for-Slay, which federal law has already determined to be complicity in violence. But we know that won’t happen, because this is really a set of sanctions on Jews the Administration doesn’t like – a revolting response to Oct. 7th.

It will be a massive focus of lobbying by far left groups to target pretty much any Israeli entity in the West Bank, as they see them all as undermining “security.” This and a Palestinian state is how Biden plans to get reelected.”

Order states that such acts of violence ‘undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution.’

Yitz Goldberg, INN  Feb 1, 2024

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to deal with the “threat posed by the situation in the West Bank, including in particular high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction.”

The State Department has listed the four individuals who will be subject to the sanctions: David Chai Chasdai, Einan Tanjil, Shalom Zicherman, and Yinon Levi.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS             1 February 2024

Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times.

Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.

In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing.

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A reflection on who took an active part in Oct 7.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

Naomi Ragen, an Israeli writer, has been posting online a “Gaza War Diary.” A recent installment describes the hardening of Israeli attitudes toward Gazan “civilians,” beginning with those who joined Hamas operatives, and took part enthusiastically in the rapes, tortures, mutilations, and beheadings of Israeli men, women, and children on October 7. These “civilians” who entered Israel in the wake of Hamas also managed to kidnap some Israelis, whom they are presumed to be holding inside Gaza, where those kidnapped are likely being used as sex slaves, or simply as slaves, by these “civilians.” Freed hostages have testified as to how they were spat on and beaten by these “ordinary Gazans” when they were first paraded around Gaza by their Hamas captors. And the “civilians” in Gaza have, according to opinion polls, overwhelmingly approved of the atrocities committed on October 7.

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A new generation of progressives has stumbled on old Soviet antisemitic propaganda

By Gil Troy, TABLET                                                           31 January 2024

E. Rowell:  While this article explores the evolution of a powerful, poisonous, political indoctrination campaign, it underlines the need for radical reform of the US educational system from kindergarten through college graduation to remove the perverse idea that Zionism is racism and that Blacks will never be free as long as Israel exists as the Jewish State.

Yasser Arafat, right, and Rev. Jesse Jackson embrace before their meeting in Beirut, September 1979/AP PHOTO

For over 50 years, the American left has tried rebranding the Palestinian cause by camouflaging Palestinian terrorism with the slogans of America’s civil rights movement. Today, a new generation of would-be radicals has stumbled onto this zombie corpse of ahistoric sloganeering with the confident excitement of college freshmen on their first beer run.

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