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!

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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