E. Rowell:  We are met with the globalist run phenomenon in a wide variety of democratic countries in both the northern and southern hemisphere, in which the elites wage war on the people, then when the people express their anger, they are identified as a “threat to democracy.”  In waging this war, the elites all but destroy the democracy in the name of saving it.  They cannot win.

Some in the German establishment are trying to disallow a popular opposition party, Alternative für Deutschland.

By Dieter Stein, AM CONSERVATIVE                       2 February 2024

Many American liberals obsess about a possible “Trump dictatorship” should the former President return to the White House this fall. In Europe, the mainstream media have long been haunted by the specter of right-wing politicians like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, whom they claim are undermining democracy and the rule of law. But, at present, it is in Germany where democracy is really under threat.

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by Daniel Greenfield, GATESTONE  •  February 4, 2024

The funeral of Israel Defense Forces Capt. Harel Itach, who fell in battle against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, on December 31, 2023 in Netanya, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

• The moral calculus between the Allies and the Nazis in WWII did not change based on how many German civilians were killed in the bombings and artillery shelling on the road to Berlin. The morality of the American Civil War was not measured in civilian deaths, and neither is any other.
• A nation is actively evil when it sets out to exterminate a civilian population. Whether it is WWII or the Hamas war: only one of the two sides was engaged in a total war of extermination.
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by Pete Hoekstra,  GATESTONE  •  February 4, 2024

• The common thread weaving Hamas, Hezbollah and the Shia militias together is the significant funding and support each receives from Iran, which has in turn received it from the Obama and Biden administrations. When the Biden administration came in, Iran had $6 billion of reserves; it now has, according to former US Army Gen. Jack Keane, more than $100 billion– which is presumably what it used to finance its proxies and its nuclear program.
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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” February 2, 2024,

*For the last 45 years, the US has attempted to pacify the anti-US Iran’s Ayatollahs, via dramatic financial and diplomatic gestures, to advance the cause of human rights and democracy in Iran, and to promote peaceful coexistence between Iran and its Sunni Arab neighbors. In fact, the 45-year-old US diplomatic option toward the Ayatollahs, has downplayed the centrality of the Ayatollahs’ ideology and their track record, assuming that “money talks.”  The US expected that dramatic financial and diplomatic gestures would induce the Ayatollahs to abandon their 1,400-year-old fanatical vision and become a constructive member of the global community.
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Imams and politicians in the Michigan city side with Hamas against Israel and Iran against the U.S.

By Steven Stalinsky, WSJ  Feb. 2, 2024

Thousands march in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Protesters, many with kaffiyehs covering their faces, shout “Intifada, intifada,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “America is a terrorist state.” Local imams give fiery antisemitic sermons. This isn’t the Middle East. It’s the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Mich.

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A few months before Simchat Torah, a concrete warning came from a human source in the Gaza Strip about a “major move” planned by Hamas – a week after Yom Kippur • The information came from a man known as “Mbu’a” – a person who heard from another source about the plan • Despite this warning, the Shin Bet marked the information as “insignificant” – and the attack did occur at the expected time • all the details

Ilana Dayan | Mako | The main edition | 12/27/23

Hamas attack on October 7 | Photo : Reuters

The information that could have prevented a disaster: Months before the Hamas surprise attack, the Shin Bet received concrete information about Hamas’s intention to carry it out, including the planned date – this is what Ilana Dayan and Sharit Magen revealed this evening (Wednesday) in the “Main Edition”. The information came from a human source that the Shin Bet operated in the Gaza Strip – according to which “Hamas is planning a major move in the week after Yom Kippur.”  Read more…

Peloni: The public drama surrounding the removal of Zaluzhny from his position has had all the earmarks of a comedy skit from Zelenksy’s former profession playing out over the course of several days now.  It would, however, seem that the penny has finally dropped concerning Zelensky’s very measured steps in removing his top general.  As the Ukrainian president was notifying the not too well pleased American allies of his commitment to fire the long time leader of Ukraine’s forces, Zahuzhny was brandishing his credentials with the Far Right elements such as Right Sector.  It should be understood that the Far Right elements in Ukraine, including Right Sector have made more than one assault upon the ruling govt of Ukraine and also has been known to have openly threatened the life of Zelensky himself.

This story was first brought to light by Prof. Katchanovski who notably also broke the story regarding the Nazi who was celebrated in the Canadian Parliament last year.

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Zaluzhny on eve of his expected firing by Zelensky shows his backing from far-right, which has power to overthrow Zelensky. Zaluzhny takes selfie with leader of far-right Right Sector; commander of Right Sector brigade of Ukrainian military in front of portrait of Nazi collaborator; far-right OUN leader Bandera & red & black flag of OUN-UPA & Right Sector. facebook.com/story.php?stor…

By Seth Frantzman, JPOST                                             3 February 2024

Iran believes that, in the long term, the US is slowly withdrawing from the region, likely emboldening Iran and its proxies to go for broke when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, attends the funeral ceremony of senior adviser for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital Damascus, in Tehran, Iran December 28, 2023./Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

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Prof. Gerald Steinberg,  EMETonline   January 31, 2024

International attention has not been placed on UNRWA, because of the complicity and activities of many UNRWA employees during the October 7th massacre. However, UNRWA is just one of many so-called “humanitarian organizations” and UN agencies who have aided and abetted Hamas, diverting funding to its terrorist activities, providing indoctrination and misinformation to media outlets throughout the world and to their own schoolchildren to learn to despise Jews.

Professor Gerald Steinberg, Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan, and Director of NGO Monitor will provide an in-depth analysis.

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E. Rowell:  Amongst the options with which to respond to the death of three Americans available for the Biden Administration, attacking Iranian proxies instead of Iran directly showcases to Iran and the Middle East that the US is afraid to stand up to the regional bully, Iran.  This greatly empowers Iran.  While it might buy the administration a few months time, it will lead to a much greater loss of life in the long run.  The US has funded Iraq $3 billion dollars since 2014.

By Tyler Durden, ZERO HEDGE                                   2 February 2024

Update(1715ET): Importantly, there have been no reports of US airstrikes in Iran this evening, and US officials say that the Pentagon does not plan to hit targets inside the Islamic Republic. But the strikes on eastern Syria and in western Iraq were large, and targeted IRGC assets and personnel and their affiliates. According to a CENTCOM statement, the initial wave, which started at 4pm US Eastern Time (interestingly, just after markets closed), included over 85 targets, with some of them hit more than once:

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The Biden administration is leading a push to recognize a Palestinian state that will be a danger to the security of Israel

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS, TABLET   FEBRUARY 01, 2024

When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS    February 1, 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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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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