ROHTAK, India, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Thousands of men queued in India’s northern state of Harayana during a recruitment drive to send workers to Israel, where the offensive in Gaza, now in its fourth month, has caused a shortage of labour.

Masons, painters, electricians, plumbers and some farmers said they were looking for jobs in Israel with some willing to risk going into a conflict zone because they could make five times more money in a year than they would at home.

“There is unemployment here and it’s because of it that people want to leave,” said Lekharam, a mason who was among the workers gathered at a recruitment camp in Rohtak, 66 km (40 miles) from the capital, New Delhi.

Peloni: Hmmm… Now this is an interesting development.

Days after Iran launched air stikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Pakistani Army has reportedly attacked multiple target Iran in the early hours of Thursday, as per Pakistan media reports.

TN World Desk  Times Now World  Jan 18, 2024 

Pakistan Retaliates To Iranian Air Strikes, Launches Attacks On Iran. (Photo: X/Zohaibakhter635)

Islamabad: Days after Iran launched air strikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Pakistani Army has reportedly attacked multiple target Iran in the early hours of Thursday, as per Pakistan media reports.

It has been claimed that Pakistan has targeted the positions of Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) and Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). It is reported that after midnight, Pakistani fighter jets arrived and carried out the attacks. However, not much information has been revealed about these attacks.

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Jordan Peterson tweeted the following with a link to the article which follows:
A higher court in Canada has ruled that the Ontario College of Psychologists indeed has the right to sentence me to re-education camp. There are no other legal avenues open to me now.

It’s capitulate to the petty bureaucrats and the addle-pated woke mob or lose my professional licence.

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Peloni: Great speech

Reflections from Rep. Ritchie Torres during Central Synagogue NYC’s MLK Shabbat service on January 12, 2024. Closed Captions available.

How NOT to deter a rogue nation like radical Iran.

By J. E. Dyer, THE OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE      9 Jan 2024

Houthi boats January 2024

It doesn’t help that the U.S. military chain of command was basically, as far as we can see right now, in Status Unknown around the New Year.  It’s being reported that neither the National Security Council nor Congress was informed on New Year’s Day when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was put in intensive care following an “elective procedure” performed sometime before (probably Christmas week).  Austin was in the ICU for four days before the NSC was told.

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E. Rowell:  Caroline Glick assesses the Obama-Biden Iran policy as appeasement of Iran and explains that you cannot have deterrence within an overall policy of appeasement.  Due to this, Iran keeps increasing their aggression throughout the Middle East.  Simultaneously to their policy of appeasing Iran and her proxies, the US policy towards Israel is currently one of claiming to be an ally, but refusing to sell weapons to Israel that Israel needs in order to achieve victory against Hamas.  Thus they show in their words and deeds that they want Israel to capitulate to the terrorists.

By Caroline Glick, JNS     17 January 2024

T. Belman.  Absolutely not. The Palestinians are our enemy. Don’t make a distinction betwee the terrorists and the “innocent”  Palestinians.

Some 90,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank are employed in Israel.

By ELIAV BREUER, JPOST JANUARY 17, 2024 14:18

The Likud’s ministers in the government should not support any decision to allow Palestinian workers from the West Bank into Israel, 12 Likud Members of Knesset (MKs) and two ministers wrote in a petition addressed to the other ministers of the Likud on Wednesday.

The petition followed an admission by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday that Israel was considering a pilot program for the entry of Palestinian workers aged 45 and older, and after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned this week that not allowing Palestinians to work in Israel would strengthen Hamas in the West Bank and ultimately lead to a deterioration in the security situation.

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By Daniel Pipes, MEF                                                   17 January 2024

North Korea operates an illegal arms smuggling network used to finance its nuclear weapons program, across the world, according to US and UN investigators. 

By J. Post Staff, JPOST                                     17 January 2024

NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong Un inspecting nuclear warheads at an undisclosed location.  (photo credit: KRT/via Reuters TV/Handout via Reuters)

During the war in Gaza, the IDF recovered large quantities of weapons from the Gaza Strip that apparently were produced in North Korea, as reported by the South Korean National Intelligence Service.

Since these weapons were seized, new information has been published revealing the current and historical relationship between North Korea and Hamas, as well as other terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Syria, and the Houthis, according to a study by the Stimson Research Institute.

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A new chapter is opening, our people, the Jordanians ?? and Palestinians ?? will see the Israelis ?? and the Jews as our partners in prosperity, not as our competitors.
For nearly eight decades, the forces of evil have been fuelling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and have done…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) January 16, 2024

By Howard Rotberg, NER

“As for legal niceties, the team of august lawyers Israel summoned to the Hague gives a shot in the arm to the ICJ, signalling that Israel concedes the case can be won on legalities. Israel was naive to rely only on jurists to defeat antisemites. One expert on anti-Israel propaganda could be worth a bench full of gowns.”  – Steve Apfel

Starting tomorrow in movie theaters all over the U. S. & on “Hulu”, this trailer will be planted between trailers for the featured movies that are now running. This is to help the hostage families to show the horror movie that they have been living for the last 100 days! pic.twitter.com/fI5Q5b9YAm

— Jeff R (@Jrr614) January 13, 2024

By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
January 16, 2024,

Irrespective of Israel’s wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, Intel, the semiconductor giant, confirmed a $25 billion investment in Israel, leveraging Israel’s brain power, which has enhanced Intel’s competitiveness in the global market.  Over the last 50 years, Intel has invested over $50 billion in Israel, establishing 4 research and development centers, despite the potential for wars and actual wars and terrorism.

Intel will expand its Israeli chip factory, in order to diversify its manufacturing potential amid a chip arms race (New York Times, December 27, 2023).*Challenged by a unique environment – top heavy on terrorism and war, but low on natural resources and rainfall – Israel has bolstered its do-or-die state of mind, with defiance of odds, risk-taking, frontier, pioneering, optimism, patriotism, can-do and out-of-the-box mentality. This has yielded a robust flow of game-changing commercial, defense and dual-use technologies.

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By Martin Sherman 

The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries. 

Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat –Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad– Euripides, a man of letters in ancient Greece (c.?480 – c.?406 BC)

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.—attributed to Albert Einstein

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By: Yigal Carmon, MEMRI

The Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab mosque in Doha (Source: Al-sharq.com, August 4, 2022).

Introduction

Two developments with dangerous and even explosive repercussions for the standing and interests of both the U.S. and Israel in the Middle East occurred in the last few days.

1. The U.S. has extended its presence at Qatar’s Al-Udeid airbase – CENTCOM’s main airbase in the region – for another 10 years: In recent weeks, there has been criticism of Qatar for its sponsoring of terrorism, causing President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to maintain ambiguity about the future of the U.S.-Qatar alliance. This follows years of frequent undeserved U.S. praise for Qatar.

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