Israel’s Great Strategic Failure  

E. Rowell:  The US and Israel have been beset by a similar problem:  the infiltration and subversion of critical governmental agencies by Communists, Islamist apologists, and globalists, three constituencies whose goals are completely averse to the survival of the majority of the citizens of each country.  In Israel, the military and intelligence services were/are headed by individuals whose political ideology blinded their capacity to make decisions in the best interests of national security.  People who are charged with a country’s national security and who further the interests of the enemy should be charged with treason.  The security of the people of Israel requires that they be brought to justice.

It wasn’t October 7. It’s the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

By Michael Makovsky, THE BACK PAGES/DAILY SCROLL    30 May 2024

It has become conventional wisdom after Oct. 7 that Israel for years had the wrong policy toward Gaza. While the unfathomable catastrophe of that day has rightly forced a critical examination of all the factors that led to it, it’s arguable that Israel’s broad pre-Oct. 7 policy toward Gaza, in contrast to its strategic conception and military preparation, was at least understandable, if not correct. In contrast, there has been less criticism of Israel’s policy toward Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past two decades. Not only does the policy toward the northern front raise even more troubling questions than Gaza, but also, now more than ever, it looks like a major strategic failure.

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Ben Gvir and Smotrich threaten: We won’t be part of gov’t that agrees to Biden outline  

The right blasts the hostage release deal presented by the US President. Ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir to Netanyahu: We will disband the government if the outline is approved.

  Jun 2, 2024, 5:03 AM (GMT+3)

 

Smotrich and Ben GvirChaim Goldberg, Flash 90

Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir clarified on Saturday night, in response to the plan for the release of hostages which was outlined on Friday by US President Joe Biden, that its implementation would lead to their resignation from the government.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, “I spoke with the Prime Minister and made it clear to him that I will not be part of a government that agrees to the proposed outline and ends the war without the destruction of Hamas and the return of all the hostages. We will not agree to an end to the war before the destruction of Hamas, nor to a serious harm to the achievements of the war so far through the withdrawal of the IDF and the return of Gazans to the north of the Gaza Strip, and not for the wholesale release of terrorists who will return, God forbid, to murder Jews.”

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Mark Regev & Ruthie Blum: Should Israel Apologize for Rafah? | Israel Undiplomatic  

Ruthie Blum & Mark Regev | Israel Undiplomatic | May 29, 2024

An explosion that occurred shortly after an Israeli strike in Rafah killed dozens of Palestinians who were seeking refuge from the fighting. Was it Israel’s fault? Should Israel apologize?

Watch Ruthie and Mark talk about drafting haredim, anti-Israel claims about the Rafah explosions and Saudi Arabia accusing its potential peace partner of genocide.

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June 2, 2024 | 9:28 am | 1 Comment »

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ZOA Condemns Biden’s Outrageous, Dangerous Israeli Surrender Deal Which Empowers Hamas  

Peloni:  The obvious duplicity involved in staging this misrepresentation of Israel’s proposal and its strategic timing on the eve of the Sabbath, demonstrate a great need by the US to have Hamas win this war.  Over and over again, this same point has become a hardening focus of the current regime in Washington as it continues its realignment toward Iran described.

The sad reality is that Israel has no choice but to see this war played out to its already established aims of victory, and while this necessity places both hostages and soldiers in certain peril, this is an unavoidable consequence of not only October 7, but of all the policy blunders which made October 7 inevitable.  Indeed, in the past wars against Hamas, had Israel pursued victory rather than half measured responses, there would have been no slaughter of October 7 as there would have been no Hamas to carry it out.  Today, the paradigm has shifted and Israel has no choice but to pursue victory against its enemies, with or without American support or permission, and that victory begins with the long overdue elimination of Hamas, much to the consternation of the Americans.

And Biden Falsely Stated Several Times This Was an Israeli Deal

ZOA, June 1, 2024

ZOA strongly condemns the horrendous suicidal-for-Israel proposal announced by President Biden at the White House on Friday, May 31, 2024, approximately half an hour after the Sabbath began in Jerusalem, Israel. The timing of Biden’s announcement appears to have been designed to prevent Jewish Sabbath observers and the Jewish government from promptly responding. Biden contradictorily claimed that Israel had “offered” or “accepted” or “can offer” a comprehensive new proposal which was transmitted by Qatar to Hamas. Biden then outlined this alleged proposal’s terms – which were virtually identical to Hamas’ demands.

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The “peace process” is not dead  

T Belman, Since the first publication of this article in April 2010, Obama committed to the idea that Israel must return to the ’67 lines subject to mutually agreed swaps. Though many argue that the peace process is dead, the truth of the matter is, that the US remains committed, as it always has been, to  ensuring that “the political struggle [between Israel and the Arabs] is settled in [a] manner satisfactory to [the] Arabs.”

By Ted Belman (first published in April 2010)

After his inauguration, President Obama made it his business to end the Mideast conflict within two years. To achieve that end he embraced the “Saudi peace plan” and put enormous pressure on Israel to accept it.

The hallmark of this plan was “ending the occupation that began in 1967 and the division of Jerusalem.

Can we conclude from this that Obama is anti-Semitic, just hostile to Israel, or intent on changing U.S./Israel relations? The answer is not immediately self-evident.

Let’s go back to Israel’s founding, when these relations began.
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Anti-Israeli teaching on American campuses: Origins, Extent, and Remedies  

T. Belman. Russia created the PLO in 1964 but the US embraced the idea of a Palestinian State in 1969, as this article attests, and won’t let go of it

Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state?,

Ken’s Blog Nov 29, 2023

Ken Stein (appeared in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2023), Part I and Part II


Since the June 1967 war, Anti-Israeli sentiment on US campuses has grown to extraordinary proportions merging with previously evolved anti-Zionism that emerged in late Ottoman and Mandate times.  Hamas’s October 7 murderous killing of  1300 lives and 239 hostages was a disastrous tsunami of indiscriminate violence. It hit Israelis with enormous ferocity and sudden force in the villages and kibbutzim on the Gaza border.  In contrast, the ensuing explosion of anti-Israel protests on American campuses and streets was a continuation of simmering anti-Israeli or outbursts.
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Israel wanted Gazan clan to take over after war – but Hamas beheaded it  

T. Belman. I don’t think the clan idea will now be abandonned. The assasination of the leader is just a temporary setback. The assasination emphasizes just how important it is for Israel to take full control before detailing her plan for the day after.

Secret plan derailed when Doghmush group’s leader was executed

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A secret Israeli plan to persuade a powerful Gazan clan to take power from Hamas was derailed when the terror group executed its leader, The Telegraph can reveal.

Israel is now trying to recruit more moderate Palestinian leaders from the West Bank to rule Gaza after the war.

The plan to install Gaza’s Doghmush clan – the most powerful in the enclave – failed after the group’s leader and several of its allies were assassinated, an Israeli intelligence source with knowledge of the plan said.

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Historical videos by Dr. Mike Yeadon – they were a kind of Noah’s Ark for many.  

E. Rowell:  Dr. Mike Yeadon is a British citizen of integrity and courage.  His whole career was spent in creating new drugs.  When he began to analyze the available data on the so-called vaccines for COVID he began to realize that these substances were consciously designed to kill and maim people.  He understood the depth of the evil because he knew exactly how from a pharmacological point of view, these substances could harm human beings.  Over a period of several years he began to speak out in a voice unusual for its clarity, honesty, and horror of the crime he saw unfolding.  He eventually realized, based upon examining the methodology of the field of Virology, that it is a pseudo-science based upon fraudulent experiments.  This article at Suavek’s substack, contains a series of videos Mike Yeadon had made, along with articles he wrote.

By FRAUD PREVENTION HOTLINE    1 June 2024

Foreword

by Suavek

For many people, Dr. Yeadon’s historical videos represent nothing less than their own survival story. If you don’t know what’s happening, your chances are slim.

Dr. Mike Yeadon, former vice president of Pfizer and now whistleblower, has been tirelessly warning the world about the “COVID” pseudo-vaccines since 2020. Those who believe him can survive.

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The Spy Who Never Came in From the Cold  

The horrifying death of the CIA’s Beirut station chief at the hands of Hezbollah

By Gordon Thomas, TABLET MAGAZINE    29 May 2024

The bombed American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, April 19, 1983 AP PHOTO

On Friday morning March 16, 1984, William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, began his 343rd day in Beirut. He was alone in his 10th floor apartment in the al-Manara apartment building in the western suburb of the city. Beyond the windows of his living room were views of the Chouf Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. It was going to be one of those sublime days which compensated for what Lebanon had become for the few foreigners still living here: a dangerous and volatile hell hole.

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Marxist Globalism Will Not Survive  

By J.B. Shurk, AM THINKER

In the end, Marxist globalism will fail.  The Machiavellian push for One World Government will fail.  The World Economic Forum’s master plan for a small cabal of egomaniacal “elites” to rule over Earth’s eight-billion-plus inhabitants will fail.  Why?  Because those who conspire to foist such despotism upon the rest of us have no meaningful vision for the future.

Surviving in tiny apartments in mega-metropolises, owning nothing of our own, subsisting on a diet of bugs and Soylent Green, anesthetizing our minds with narcotics and virtual reality, and remaining in a perpetual state of fear over man-made “climate change” is no way to live.  Existence without struggle, adventure, growth, or purpose is hollow.  “Shouting your abortion” and volunteering for government-assisted suicide inspire no-one.  Self-censoring speech breeds conformity, not creativity.  Obsessing over what is “politically correct” leaves no space for original thought.  Constantly worrying about being punished for spreading “disinformation” or being “cancelled” for offending the State is psychological torture.
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Trump Verdict Is Indictment Of GOP Leaders Who Can’t Be Bothered To Resist Republic-Wrecking Lawfare  

E. Rowell:  The GOP in the House and Senate and the RNC all seem to be missing in action in vital areas in vital ways.  The Republican party is split:  The elites want an elitist party, meeting the needs of globalist billionaires.  The base of the party:  millions of Americans, want a non-elitist, non-globalist party, that meets the needs of all American citizens, not just the ultra wealthy.  Meanwhile, it seems to me that money talks:  all those who could have come to Trump’s aid before now have either been already bought off or hope to be bought off in future.  The RNC appears to be clueless about the CCP involvement in registering voters and putting their people on election boards, including those who process the ballots.  Are they clueless or are they bought off too?

By Brianna Lyman, THE FEDERALIST    31 May 2024

IMAGE CREDIT GAGE SKIDMORE / THE STAR NEWS NETWORK / FLICKR/CC BY-SA 2.0

Former President Donald Trump was convicted Thursday by 12 jurors in Democrat-dominated New York City for a crime no one can articulate that was brought by a George Soros-funded district attorney and overseen by a Biden donor. But the conviction wasn’t just an indictment of Democrat lawfare — it was an indictment of how feckless Republican “leaders” have become.

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Israel Under Fire – Detention, Prosecution, and Punishment following the October 7 Massacre  

E. Rowell:  This is an exhaustive review of the legal consequences Israel can apply to the murdering, raping, beheading, and burning psychopaths of the 7th of October 2023.  It is difficult to comprehend that Israel, the victim of this genocide, thinks in great detail about the justification for the punishment for these atrocities, while those who commit them feel it is their sacred duty to commit genocide.  They kill, rape, and maim as easily and with no more forethought or afterthought than putting out a cigarette.

By Lt.-Col. (res) Maurice Hirsch, JCPA    29 May 2024

Captured members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force in an Israeli prison (Israel Prison Service)

Executive Summary

On the morning of October 7, 2023, more than 3,000 terrorists from Gaza, including members of Hamas and other terror organizations, invaded Israel and conducted a heinous massacre. The terrorists were joined in the massacre by Gaza residents. In response, Israel launched a war against the Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria. During the war in Gaza thousands of terrorists were killed and thousands more were detained, including terrorists who participated in the massacre and other terrorist activities.

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June 1, 2024 | 4:37 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel’s government needs roaring lions  

E. Rowell:  The progressive left in Israel, serving in the defense and intelligence agencies, defanged the Israeli fighting forces so successfully that despite all the high tech military technology and intelligence capabilities, the 7th of October massacre occurred.  Progressives on the Israeli Supreme Court made the Kach party illegal.  Whatever the merits or demerits of the Kach Party, this article speaks to the need for Israel’s national security to be much stronger on offense.  Jews cannot survive against genocidal enemies by playing defense all the time.

The existing parties won’t save Israel. The country needs roaring lions, and it needs to find them. Here’s how. Op-ed.

By Dr. Elliot Resnick, INN   30 May 2024

Knesset Plenum/Danny Shemtov, Knesset spokesperson

Israel’s war again Gaza is going as planned. Many Israelis, however, would prefer a harsher campaign. They would love to find a way to obliterate Hamas in a fire-and-brimstone operation that future Arab generations will only speak about in hushed tones. Alas, Israelis can’t vote for that kind of fight, as the only party that would wage it was banned by Israel’s Supreme Court. Read more…

June 1, 2024 | 4:06 pm | 9 Comments »

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Covid Shots are Essentially Murder  

E. Rowell:  As a retired MD I have watched the entire field of medicine being deconstructed during the course of what was called a “pandemic,” on the basis of exactly zero scientific evidence.  Doctors became either willing or unwilling agents of government-assisted death and disease by encouraging their patients to take a completely untested “vaccine,” something no doctor in the past would have done.  As Dr. Fukushima points out, so many harms have been done in the name of “science,” that it amounts to evil.  From my perspective, if the WHO does not investigate what happened it should be disbanded or re-labeled World Death Organization.

Dr. Masanori Fukushima has called on the World Health Organization to lead an investigation of the harmful outcomes of the COVID shots.

By Emily Mangiaracina, 2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD        26 May 2024

The most senior medical oncologist in Japan recently slammed the COVID-19 mRNA shots as “the work of evil” that has caused “essentially murder.”

In an interview published April 19, Dr. Masanori Fukushima, who spearheaded the first cancer outpatient clinic at Kyoto University and launched the first course in pharmacoepidemiology there, listed a slew of problems with the COVID mRNA jabs, evidencing what he called an evil “abuse of science.”

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June 1, 2024 | 12:00 pm | 2 Comments »

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Bipartisan leaders officially invite Netanyahu to address Congress  

Peloni: Finally some good news.

Michael Schnell | The Hill | May 31, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially been invited to deliver an address to Congress, according to a letter obtained by The Hill.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday sent Netanyahu a formal invitation to speak during a joint meeting of Congress, and the invitation featured the signatures of all four Congressional leaders: Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

“We join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize regional stability,” the letter reads. “For this reason, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, we would like to invite you to address a Joint Meeting of Congress.”

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Israel Update: ONE LAW FOR ELITES, ANOTHER FOR THE MASSES  

Gadi Taub & Mike Doran | Tablet | June 1, 2024

Turmoil in Israel over a video of a reservist soldier addressing Prime Minister Netanyahu, and telling him that the army his behind him, but also calling on Minister of Security Gallant to resign if he is not determined to win this war, and that if he does not, the army will not follow him. The press filled with outrage against this “sedition.” An investigation was promptly launched. Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the tiny Labor Party, General Yair Golan, called on reservists not to report to duty until the government calls for new elections. Mike and Gadi discuss. (We apologize for the poor sound quality on Gadi’s side).

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Trump Verdict Won’t Matter, CIA Preparing To RIG Another US Election!!  

Mike Benz | Stephen Gardner | May 30, 2024

Stephen Gardner and Mike Benz https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber go deep on the Trump Trial scam and why a verdict won’t end in Trump’s favor. however, regardless of the outcome he will rise in the polls. We discuss the Georgia election scam. The Hunter Biden Laptop and the filth of the Biden family. Mike Benz concisely communicates why the Biden’s are working so hard for Ukraine. I was shocked. Has the USA been hijacked by the CIA? YES!!

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Does Biden reject Israel’s right to self-defense?  

The administration’s effort to stymie military action, coupled with its continued criticism as to how Israel is conducting a just war against a terror group, puts the Jewish state at risk in the region and the world.

Caroline Glick | JNS | May 31, 2024

Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip on May 21, 2024. Credit: IDF.

The most basic function of all governments is to provide for the collective defense of the governed. The most basic foundation of sovereignty is a state’s right to defend its country from aggression. Take away a state’s right to self-defense, and you’ve effectively transformed it into a non-sovereign state.

Six Biden administration actions and policies subvert Israel’s right to self-defense. Whether analysed separately or all together, they make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the administration’s ultimate end is to undermine to the point of ending Israel’s right to self-defense, and so end Israel’s sovereignty, for all intents and purposes.

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Biden’s Deal Gives Hamas Everything It Wanted  

Peloni:  This ‘deal’ as described by Biden is no deal, it is simply a surrender to Hamas as Greenfield notes.  The Prime Minister’s Office released the following response in a tweet on X:

“Statement by the Prime Minister’s Office: The Government of Israel is united in its desire to return the hostages as soon as possible and is working to achieve this goal.

The Prime Minister authorized the negotiating team to present a proposal to that end, which would also enable Israel to continue the war until all its objectives are achieved, including the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.

The actual proposal put forward by Israel, including the conditional transition from one phase to the next, allows Israel to uphold these principles.”

These two statements are in no way consistent.

Hamas retakes Gaza and we spend billions rebuilding it so it can attack all over again

Daniel Greenfield | Front Page | June 1, 2024

On Oct 7, Hamas had a Plan A and a Plan B.

Plan A was to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. Plan B was to pull back, stage ambushes and cry genocide while making up fake casualties and staging atrocities until its Islamist and leftist allies managed to save it while using hostages and their bodies as negotiating leverage.

Biden, who had announced back in December that he had bailed out on supporting Israel, now announced his proposed deal that consists of 3 (actually 4) phases.

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Is Ukraine Going Rogue Or Did It Attack Russia’s Early Warning Systems With American Approval?  

E. Rowell:  This action, whether initiated by Kiev or Washington DC, puts the world in uncharted territory.  No country has ever done this to another country before.  It is one more sign that those making these decisions are high functioning psychopaths with a desire for personal gain that overrides all other considerations, such as the future of human life on this planet.  It is one thing to want to end Communist subversion of our country.  It is another thing to chance a nuclear war in hopes of destroying Russia.

Russia’s answer to this question will determine its response to any conventional NATO intervention in Ukraine.

By ANDREW KORYBKO’S NEWSLETTER    31 May 2024

Russian-US relations deteriorated further than ever in late May as a result of three developments. First, the US set the ball rolling by more openly allowing Ukraine to use its arms to strike targets inside of Russia, then Poland said that the US will hit all of Russia’s forces in the special operation zone if Moscow uses nukes, and finally, President Putin signaled that he expects NATO to majorly escalate the conflict by sometime this summer. All of this is bad enough, but it’s made even worse by what Ukraine just did.

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May 31, 2024 | 8:08 pm | 24 Comments »

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