Peloni:  For further details, see Beattie’s tweet thread summary or his comprehensive article on Revolver News.  Revolver has been an important source of investigative reporting since its founding, but this recent revolation was in a class all of its own.  Highly recommended.

by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge Friday, Jan 19, 2024 – 07:20 PM

“If the Republicans step up, if the speaker steps up, if the relevant congressional figures step up, this is the chance to utterly demolish the January 6th narrative that the regime is using to weaponize the national security state against the American people, and to take Trump off the ballot.”

Having acquitted himself extremely well (and calmly) during the ZeroHedge Debate on January 6th, Darren Beattie brandished his considerable tome of facts to discuss with Tucker Carlson the impact of newly-released footage surrounding the pipe-bomb incidents of January 6th (well 5th).
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The Israeli public is in no mood today to give Palestinians a state, but the U.S. keeps pushing it.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ Jan. 18, 2024

Liberal policy on the Middle East is like a machine with a part missing. No matter the input, its output stays the same. Hamas launches the most gruesome invasion of Israel imaginable? Create a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority glorifies the massacre, prepares to compensate the killers and pledges solidarity with Hamas? Create a Palestinian state.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out in Davos on Wednesday the perennially failing solution to Middle East problems. “If you take a regional approach, and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that’s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years,” he said. “Iran is suddenly isolated,” he envisioned, “and will have to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.”

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By: Hugh Fitzgerald, JIHAD WATCH January 18, 2024:

For decades, the Israelis have worried about the quality, and reach, of their hasbara — the “explaining” to the world why Israel does what it does. And nothing has cried out for more ”explaining” to the world than the campaign in Gaza to uproot the Hamas terrorists. It’s been little more than three months after the Hamas atrocities on October 7, and already, the shock has worn off for most of the world.

There are pro-Palestinian marches in major cities in the Western world with protesters in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, denouncing Israel, as if it, and not Hamas, had inflicted atrocities. These protesters demand an immediate end to the Gaza war, which would leave Hamas still standing, chant about a Palestine “from the river to the sea,” which means the obliteration of Israel and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state, and inveigh against Israel as a “settler colonial apartheid state.” Most recently, these marchers have described Israel as guilty of “genocide’ and called for the Jewish state to be declared guilty of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  January 20, 2024

The USS Enterprise, which played a key role in Operation Praying Mantis, is shown in the Persian Gulf on December 15, 1998. (U.S. Navy photo by Michael W. Pendergrass)

By Javier Milei, TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS               19 January 2024

Javier Milei gave an important speech at Davos that I think every American needs to hear and digest. Milei is an economist and the new conservative President of Argentina. He explains, in simple terms, why the West and free-market capitalism is worth fighting for. Here is an edited, abbreviated transcript of his speech, that I prepared, that you can read in 10 minutes.

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Israel has no obligation to restore the lives and homes of those who tried to destroy ours because we don’t owe them that consideration.

By Cookie Schwaeber-Issan, JPOST                          20 January 2024

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week. (photo credit: DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS)

In his need to be clever and come up with new creative ways to achieve the goal of Palestinian statehood, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has now resorted to the threat that “Arabs won’t pay to rebuild Gaza without a path to Palestinian statehood” (The Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2024).

In short, Blinken is making it clear that unless we want to absorb the full cost of rebuilding Gaza, we are going to have to offer to make nice with the Palestinians by incentivizing their willingness to take on the massive restoration project. And under what framework would that incentive come? Being agreeable to the acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish one.

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T. Belman. I disagree with the title and the sub-title. Remember if Ganz leaves the emergency government it will still be in effect as Saar and his party remain.  If Saar also leaves , it will signal the end of the “emergency government” but the original government with 64 seats will remain. But I don’t think Saar will leave.  Saar hopes to merge his party with Likud and replace Bibi as the leader and prime minister. He is even positioning himself to the right of Netanyahu.  The public wants right-wing policies. All other leaders stand to the left.

The question is no longer whether an election will take place in 2024, but rather when in 2024.

By YANIR COZIN, JPOST    JANUARY 19, 2024

‘The Americans have realized that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is incapacitated because of the political situation he is in,” a senior official from one of Israel’s opposition parties informed me last week.

Kevin Roberts, January 19, 2024

(Jan 18, 2024) Kevin Roberts: “It’s laughable that anyone would describe Davos as protecting liberal Democracy… It is equally laughable to use the word dictatorship at Davos and aim that at President Trump. That’s absurd… With all due respect, nothing personal, you are part of the problem.”

Peloni. Here is the link for the interview on X where it won’t be taken down (Thank you Musk):
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1744777758507504061

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX

Critics say exemption neuters sanctions meant to choke off Iranian proxy’s resources.

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON                                  19 January 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 02: U.S. President Joe Biden/Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Biden administration’s recently announced sanctions on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels will include a carveout that permits the terror group to engage in lucrative energy and fuel-related transactions with Americans, a decision that congressional critics say effectively neuters the sanctions.

A license issued by the Treasury Department and circulated to Congress this week authorizes “transactions related to refined petroleum products in Yemen involving Ansarallah,” otherwise known as the Houthi militant group. This includes authorization for the “sale of refined petroleum products for personal, commercial, or humanitarian use in Yemen.”

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The U.S. secretary of state is pushing a plan for the Palestinian Authority to take over Gaza.

By Caroline Glick, JNS                                                    18 January 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Nov. 3, 2023. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Is Israel on the cusp of political upheaval? In recent days, evidence has grown that two key actors—the Biden administration and Israel’s security establishment—are both pushing the country in that direction to advance their longstanding common goal of ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the religious-right bloc from power.

The Biden administration showed its hand on Tuesday when U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave Israel an ultimatum to support Palestinian statehood or risk demonization by the administration.

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By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

The federal government essentially has ordered electric car companies to commit fraud.

Here’s the headline:

The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal

A government rule makes them look nearly seven times as efficient as they are.

Here’s what’s from the article:

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Ep. 63 When do the architects of the COVID catastrophe go on trial? We asked Alex Berenson. pic.twitter.com/bbZpOzHJ3u

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 11, 2024

Thje truth about the vaccine

Abedalela Amaala tweeted:

The Hashemite regime and Abdullah II are complicit with the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad in killing innocent people in Suwayda Governorate. The bombing of the people of Suwayda in Syria is in order to stop the Syrian uprising in Suwayda Governorate against the rule of Bashar al-Assad. The hidden has been revealed to the Hashemite rule. Jordanian warplanes did not bomb any Iranian military militia. Abdullah II officially joins Iran, Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis, Asaib al-Haq, and the Iraqi Fatimids to the axis of evil. Bashar al-Assad’s regime provides the coordinates of the homes of leading citizens opposed to the Syrian regime to the Hashemite regime in order to bomb them with Jordanian warplanes. A huge scandal involving the Hashemite regime in cooperation with the Bashar al-Assad regime

By Prof. Louis René Beres, BESA    January 18, 2024

T. Belman. This is an odd title. The West did this by choice. It was not an error.

Unfortunately the Israeli government accepted the distinction. This was a big mistake.

The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinian Arabs is largely spurious.

By Melanie Phillips,

(JNS) In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza.

This distinction, however, is largely spurious.

An article in The Washington Free Beacon that drew upon interviews given to Israeli TV by freed hostages has confirmed that ordinary Gazans were deeply involved in the Oct. 7 pogrom and subjected the hostages to cruelty, abuse and starvation.

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Peloni: Tony Badran’s expertise on the Levant offers an important perspective on the US position in Lebanon.  He relates the importance of the Lebanon maritime deal forced on Israel as it relates to being used as the basis of a Lebanon land deal which will likewise be forced on Israel.  He also goes into details as to the end goals of the Washington establishment, both on the Right and the Left, and why they are aligned with Iran.

JOEL B. POLLAK, BREITBART   17 Jan 2024

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution,” and that Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu reportedly rejected the idea.

NBC News reported Wednesday that Blinken, and Biden, are therefore trying to work around Netanyahu — the democratically-elected leader of Israel — in a departure from the Biden administration’s posture as the supposed defender of democratic ideals:

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T. Belman.  This is a great interview..  Tamar let Mudar answer at length and didn’t interrupt him. At the same time she wasn’t shy about challenging him.

The Tamar Yonah Show January 17, 2024

He has ‘inside’ contacts in Gaza and has something he wants to say.
Tamar Yonah speaks with Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian politician and the head of ‘Jordan’s Opposition Coalition’.
He speaks about:
* Israel’s border with Egypt————————-
* Gazan Arabs and Arabs in Judea & Samaria – Who supports the Hamas?
* How he would free the hostages
* The Houthi threat
* Iran and its proxies
+ more!