David Friedman, former US Ambassador to Israel, sums up the past six months: ‘Israel has the will and strength to eliminate Hamas and release the hostages. Right now, America is holding Israel back.’

Fmr. Ambassador David Friedman, INN     Apr 7, 2024

David Friedman  Arutz Sheva

Quick summary (and it is just a summary) of the past 6 months:

1) On October 7, Israel was brutally and barbarically attacked by Hamas, a Foreign Terrorist Organization under U.S. law. On that day, 1200 Israelis were murdered and 254 were kidnapped. Children were burned and women were raped. Adjusting for population size, this would be the numerical equivalent of 42,000 Americans killed and more than 8000 held hostage (God Forbid).

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Gazans, desperate to relocate, represent less than one percent of recent global immigrations. Help them. 

By Dr. Michael L. Wise Apr 5, 2024,

My grandson has been serving in Gaza since day one. When he had cell phone access, he told me that he saw many people walking south and east. Then he said, “Zeide (Grandpa) Mike. ‘If these people go back up north there will be another war in just a few years.’”

How true. Israel must finally win a war. Peaceful Gazans who are desperate to relocate should be assisted to find homes in new host countries. All Hamas and all Hamas supporters must be removed from Gaza.

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Tragedy strikes.

J.E. Dyer, theoptimisticconservative     April 2, 2024

The first food delivery in March 2024 from World Central Kitchen in the Meals-on-Keels program, floating toward the jetty being newly constructed just south of the Gaza City Port.  Image: IDF via Times of Israel.

This will be two short pings.  The set-up is that PM Netanyahu has acknowledged the IDF role in the strike on 1 April, in which seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen (WCK), traveling in a group of two armored vehicles and one soft-skin vehicle in central Gaza, were tragically killed in an air strike.

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Minister of Defense Gallant held an operational assessment at the Southern Command and discussed the IDF’s departure from parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israel National News      Apr 7, 2024, 7:58 PM (GMT+3)

T. Belman. I asked Markovsky if he could write an article on Putin the “tyrant” or on how Putin made Russia Great Again.  He sent me this.

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER Oct 31, 2022

Speaking in Poland in March 2022, President Biden declared, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

Despite the White House’s denial, it is widely understood that the US policy is a regime change in Moscow and, by extension, the promotion of Western democracy in Russia. However, those who wish that Vladimir Putin would go away and work to that end must be aware that the gods often punish men by fulfilling their wishes too completely.

The Western folly is that Westerners measure Putin per their values. But Russia is different; one cannot understand Putin without understanding the Russian national character, which derives from more than a thousand years of history and embraces different values and ideals than those of Western Europeans and Americans.

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By ROSALIE ABELLA   Jan 9, 2024

Rosalie Silberman Abella is the Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2004 until her mandatory retirement in 2021.

The International Court of Justice is about to hear arguments in a case, brought by South Africa – the country that in 2015 refused to send former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for his contribution to war crimes in Darfur, and instead facilitated his return to Sudan where he continued his crimes – that alleges that Israel has not complied with the Genocide Convention and calls on the Court to order Israel to stop committing acts of “genocide” in Gaza.

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E. Rowell: It is difficult, at times, to maintain one’s sanity in an insane world.  Difficult yes, but not impossible, as Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson points out.

The sooner we denounce the idea, the better

By Boris Johnson, DAILY MAIL    5 April 2024

There are claims of a Cabinet row amid suggestions Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron might soon be prepared to take a tougher line against Israel/©wire image

If you want an example of the death wish of Western civilisation, I give you the current proposal from members of the British establishment that this country should ban arms sales to Israel.

If you want evidence of government madness, it appears that Foreign Office lawyers are busily canvassing the idea — which has not, as far as I can tell, yet been rejected by the Foreign Secretary himself. He seems to have gone into a kind of purdah on the subject.

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E. Rowell:  It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the efforts herein described constituted a coup d’état designed to ensure a Biden victory through diverse forms of ballot fraud.

By BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE    1 April 2024

In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots.

But Covid served as a pretext to overturn that tradition. Just 25% of votes in 2020 occurred at the polls on Election Day. Mail-in voting more than doubled. Key swing states eliminated the need to provide a valid reason to cast absentee ballots. The virus and racial justice became justifications to disregard verification methods like signature requirements.

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The double standards are nauseating

By Richard Littlejohn, DAILY MAIL    4 April 2024

ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in Iraq in 2003 after a U.S. soldier shot at the 4×4 vehicle he was travelling in that was clearly marked ‘TV’/Reuters

The call came through as I was leaving Twickenham after an England rugby international in March 2003. My old friend Terry Lloyd, the brilliant ITN correspondent, had been killed in Iraq.

He was on the outskirts of Basra, travelling in a 4×4 clearly marked ‘TV’. When the fog of war lifted, it was determined that the fatal shot had been fired by a U.S. soldier, who has never been identified. Terry’s translator also died and his French cameraman was missing, presumed dead.

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He forgets the mistaken U.S. missile strike that killed 10 innocents in Kabul in 2021.

The Editorial Board, WSJ    April 4, 2024

Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2. PHOTO: ISMAEL ABU DAYYAH/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel did the right thing this week by immediately investigating, taking responsibility and apologizing for its missile strike on Monday that killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza. Read more…

Peloni: Highly recommended 18min video. More context for the explosive report recently shared by Patrick Byrne regarding the Uppercut submitted to SCOTUS

WolvesAndFinance    March 31, 2024

There have been shocking developments in the court cases with Dominion voting machines. Dominion has been suing anyone who suggests that the company was involved in cheating in the 2020 election. Now, I do not want to be sued. So, I am going to be breaking down what has happened using Dominion’s own words. And we are going to answer the question, has Dominion committed fraud?

**Links to all Source documents for this video are on my website at WolvesAndFinance.com.

A letter to PM Sunak was published signed by a number of UK lawyers urging their Government to stop selling arms to Israel and to continue sending money to UNRWA, claiming that otherwise it may be in breach of international law. UK Lawyers for Israel responded.

By Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI    Apr 6, 2024, 11:23 PM (GMT+3)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in IsraelREUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

HAARETZ

The IDF says that the army’s 98th Division has left the Gaza Strip and that no troops actively maneuvering in the southern Strip.

The army explained the move as the outcome of the exhaustion of all intelligence and combat operations in the region, denying it is the outcome of a U.S. demand from Netanyahu.

An army official said that “the logic that leads us today is mistaken… We are willing to operate whenever we’re needed, but there’s no need for us to remain in the sector without an [operational] need… The 98th division dismantled Hamas’ Khan Yunis brigades and killed thousands of its members. We did everything we could there.”

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE April 6, 2024

E. Rowell:  I hope Likud is working on a plan for cleaning the Augean Stables once the war is over.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS    4 April 2024

The head of research at the IDF Intelligence Division, Brigadier General Amit Sa’ar, is retiring after being diagnosed recently with a malignant tumor that requires immediate treatment, the IDF reported Thursday morning.

On March 13, Brigadier General Sa’ar declared he would retire from his post after the conclusion of the investigations into the negligence that led to the massacre of October 7, 2023. “As soon as the investigation is finished, the ones who will rebuild everything in military intelligence will be other commanders,” he said.

Now it appears that the IDF brass is hell-bent on replacing one conceptzia intelligence researcher with his doppelgänger.

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E. Rowell:  Mike Benz has done as much as anyone to reveal the “all of government” approach to creating a mercenary censorship army.  Private corporations, think tanks, NGOs, governmental agencies, and departments all work to staff this army whose job is to try to destroy the truth and the truth tellers.  Their goal is to end public debate and destroy freedom of speech.  Ultimately they hope to destroy the representative republic of the USA.  These are acts of treason.

By Thomas Buckley, BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE    5 April 2024

Fact-based expression.

That is what the once vaunted now openly vile Poynter Institute – a pivot point of the international censorship-industrial complex – wishes to “strengthen…around the globe.”

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E. Rowell: Despite the date of this video and report, if you watch the video you will see that it could have been made today.   The Biden Administration’s treatment of Israel is the fruition of years of efforts between post-world war II Nazis inside the CIA who joined with genocidal Islamists to bring us the US/CIA foreign policy of the late 1940’s to the present.  Formerly hidden from Americans, this foreign policy to strengthen Islamic terrorism at the expense of Israel and western civilization was made overt by Obama and Biden.

By THE AMERICAN REPORT      10 July 2015

The Betrayal Papers, Part I-Under Obama the US is captured by the Muslim Brotherhood

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Peloni: Bryen speaks about the Russian election, the Crokus attack and how the Ukraine war might end, nuclear and non-nuclear possibilities.  Also, at the 30min. mark he discusses the US betrayal of Israel.  Additionally, he discusses Taiwan, North Korea and the home threat to America.

War and Peace in the 21st Century – Episode 53

Lyric Hughes Hale, The Hale Report    April 5, 2024

My guest for the 53rd episode of The Hale Report is Dr. Stephen Bryen, now Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute. He is a highly respected security and defense analyst. He served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy and was the founder and first director of the Defense Technology Security Administration. Read more…

E. Rowell:  This is an interesting discussion of the definition of innocence and the idea of responsibility for one’s emotions and actions.  An individual with genocidal aspirations or actions often justifies these through the feeling of being a victim of the other’s aggression.  Throughout the world, supporters of Hamas portray Palestinians as innocent victims of Israeli aggression, as they justify the barbarity of the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas.  But a psychological defense mechanism (i.e. projection) is not a legal defense in a court of law, nor should it be a legal defense in the court of public opinion.

History has presented the Palestinians with the same choice as the “ordinary German” during World War II.

By Saul Goldman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    5 April 2024

There is a difference between the presumption of innocence in a court of law and innocence or virtue in real life.

Significantly, the word “innocence” also connotes ignorance. So even in a court of law, innocence or ignorance cannot be one’s defense.

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