What are Israel’s declared strategies and aims in Gaza—and how do they compare to the alternatives?

By Azar Gat, INSS                                                         26 FEBRUARY 2024

This article proposes that the declared aims of the war in the Gaza Strip and the strategy chosen to promote them are fundamentally essential, appropriate for the situation, and achievable, even if they do not lead to a “solution” in the foreseeable future. It reviews the alternatives proposed with respect to the aims and conduct of the war and argues that they lack internal coherence and do not meet the test of reality.

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T. Belman. Nashe points out that the with the deal with the US who in turn made a deal with Lebanon, for ownership of a small gas field that belonged to Israel Also included a promise by Lebanon to rein  in Hezbollah which they have yet to do. Israel is now threateing to cancel the deal if Lebanon does deal with Hezbollah.

TOM NASH REPORT

The international community, through UNRWA, funded a vast portion of Hamas’ operations by freeing it to focus on terrorism rather than health and education. Op-ed.

By Asaf Romirowsky & Alex Joffe       Feb 26, 2024, 8:24 AM (GMT+2)
UNRWA: Jerusalem schoolJamal Awad/Flash90.

The discovery of a Hamas server farm beneath the United Nations Relief and Relief Agency (UNRWA) ‘s Gaza headquarters culminates a catastrophic few months for the world’s largest welfare organization.

Israeli intelligence recently found that at least a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the October 7 massacres, and at least 1,200 had ties to Hamas.

In addition, UN Watch released a report showing tha
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A massive increase in foreign money and students on American campuses is driving radicalization and subsidizing institutional failure

By Nedetu Arnold, TABLET    FEB 27, 2024

Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine on the Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023 in New York City.

By Deborah Heine, AMERICAN GREATNESS     26 February 2024

The scientist who first blew the whistle on the DNA contamination in the COVID mRNA injections last year, said Monday that regulators and fact checkers have been “continually wrong” about his alarming discovery, downplaying its significance and telling flat out lies about the potential dangers.

Last April, microbiologist Kevin McKernan, published a paper establishing that simian virus 40 (SV40), a virus found in monkeys and humans, is present in Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 injections. The discovery was highly significant because SV40 has been linked to cancer in humans, and since the rollout of the mRNA products, the western world has seen a dramatic increase in cancers, especially in previously healthy working aged people.

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T. Belman. This article includes a review of Israel-India relations since ’47 and ’48.

BY ASHOK KUMAR, JACOBIN

Port in Gujarat, India. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the 135th day of Israel’s relentless onslaught on Gaza, a resolute voice emerged from India’s maritime labor force. The Water Transport Workers Federation (WTWF), representing fourteen thousand workers, including 3,500 stationed at eleven of India’s twelve major ports, heeded the call by Palestinian trade unions. They courageously declared they would refuse to handle weapons destined for Israel.

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She Totally Debunks The Western Narrative — MUST READ!!

Maria Mateiciuc @MariaMateiciuc

I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends.

Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie.

The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine “winning” this war.

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Avi Abelow | Pulse of Israel | February 26, 2024

T. Belman. Right from the beginning I questioned the western narrative because their narratives are all gaslinghting. I argued that Navalny was under control, why would Putin have him murdered. And then when Putin released his body to his family, he wan’t concerned with what an autopsy would show.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240226_06/

The head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from a blood clot, denying speculation that he was killed while in prison.

Kyrylo Budanov was quoted as telling reporters on Sunday that “I may disappoint you, but we know he died from a blood clot,” adding that it was “more or less confirmed.”

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DC DAILY JOURNAL    24 February 2024

The White House has a lot of explaining to do. They’ve been caught red-handed.

As a new bombshell report accuses the Biden admin of funding Palestinian terrorists.

Translations of Palestinian media indicate that numerous members of the Palestinian Authority security forces, funded by the State Department, have been implicated in recent assaults against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

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Peloni: I wouldn’t have guessed that the MSM in Australia would be the first to air such an open challenge on the shots, but I doubt it will be the last.  People are sick, and people are dying, and they have no help, no support, and no relief for injuries related to them being coerced into a government imposed medical experiment.

??Sky News Australia reports on vaccine harms and censorship!

it's Judgement Day!@SenatorRennick pic.twitter.com/jVjDDo9457

— aussie17 (@_aussie17) February 22, 2024

T. Belman. Given the western vilification of Russia and Putin, why would anyone want to be become part of Russia?

The answer is simple. Russians love Putin and Russia and want to be part of it.

Rebel government to submit its request to Kremlin during a special congress on Wednesday

By James Kilner, TELEGRAPH     25 February 2024 • 4:37pm

There is ultimately only one way to prevent the massive destruction of areas of major Lebanese cities, and that is for Hezbollah to remove the rockets and missiles embedded in those areas. Op-ed.

By Dr. Aaron Lerner   Feb 26, 2024, 9:06 AM (GMT+2)

US expert urges ‘designation of Qatar as state sponsor of terrorism.’

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | JPOST | FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Officer Nasrallah salutes the Undersecretary of Hamas’ Interior Ministry, General Nasser Maslah (ruc.edu.ps, March 13, 2023) (photo credit: MEMRI)

A shocking new report by the Middle East Media Research Institute revealed that Qatar’s authoritarian state trained Hamas operatives at the country’s police college as recently as 2023.

According to the early February MEMRI report, “Qatar – which is known for supporting Hamas, financing its military activity and sheltering its leaders, and for extending media support to Hamas by means of its Al-Jazeera channel – also trained, in its Police College in Al-Rayyan, officers from Hamas’ Interior and National Security Ministry, which is part of Hamas’ governing authorities in the Gaza Strip.”

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Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the Jerusalem Conference about the attempt to pressure Israel into agreeing to a Palestinian state: ‘I would like to hear Benny Gantz object to this.’

Bezalel Smotrich at the Jerusalem ConferenceHaim Twito

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) has said that an absurd situation has been created, according to which Israel is expected to pay a higher price than it did in the previous deal in order to release the hostages.

Speaking to journalist and political commentator Amit Segal at the 21st Besheva Jerusalem Conference, Smotrich said: “Something strange is going on here. We have returned to fighting with all our strength and the IDF is doing amazingly well in Gaza. The previous deal was somewhat reasonable; one to three terrorists for a hostage and 10 hostages for each day of respite. Logically the upcoming deal should be on even better terms, because we have crushed Hamas and [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar should now be sitting in his hole, broken and ready to surrender and give us our hostages.”

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B. Kalman:  This video reviews the way US funded NGOs go into various countries, develop a network of “dissident” political groups, media, corporations, etc, in order to undermine a government that the US has deemed “undemocratic” and then proceed to create a color revolution to overthrow the government.  The US has done this in countries all around the globe.  Navalny’s activities concerned a US State department funded mission to overthrow the Putin government.  Mr. Berletic discusses the evidence for this so it becomes crystal clear who is responsible for what.  In a related substack (links below) there are concerns that the US likewise is now involved in a potential false flag attack in Poland to blame on Russia and Belarus.

By Brian Berletic, THE NEW ATLAS                        20 February 2024

– Alexei Navalny’s political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself.

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B. Kalman:  This really interesting video explains the efforts that many Islamic countries are making to delegitimize radical and intolerant Islamic voices in the public sphere.  Berman discusses the efforts of Egypt, the UAE, and Indonesia to illustrate that these countries including Saudi Arabia and others have realized that radical Islam will lead their countries to a dead end.  Given that these countries are making their own vigorous attempts to counter intolerant interpretations of Islam with more moderate interpretations, and place national sovereignty above caliphate, shouldn’t US foreign policy play a role in supporting these efforts?

By Ilan Berman, JEWISH POLICY CENTER   22 February 2024

“Multiple conflicts for legitimacy” leave nearly every major country in the Arab-Islamic world “grappling with questions of identity,” Ilan Berman told Jewish Policy Center webinar participants February 22. But pivoting to great power competition with China and Russia from 20 years of counter-insurgency warfare against Islamist movements including the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda, the United States barely competes in “the war of ideas,” he said.

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Peloni:  Bibi responds quite well to a series of loaded questions.  This openly hostile interview with CBS should be shared widely.  He truly is a national treasure.

Watch Margaret Brennan’s extended interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Feb. 25, 2024.

Janet Levy. If you haven’t viewed the Mike Benz interview in its entirety, you’re uninformed. His brilliant, earth-shattering insights on the demise of our cherished First Amendment and the carefully-crafted misinformation industrial complex installed in place of its protections is essential to understanding what has taken place in our formerly free nation.

Tucker Carlson interviews Mike Benz

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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 16, 2024