by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post   February 23, 2024

https://michaelfreund.org/27568/palestine-is-dead

In recent weeks, various leaders of Western countries have publicly broached the idea of the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, asserting that the time has come to give the Palestinians independence, even in the absence of a negotiating process.

NATO is risking a wider war

By Stephen Bryen, WEAPONS AND STRATEGY          24 Feb 2024

Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian Prime Minister and now Secretary General of NATO should be fired now, before it is too late. He announced he is giving Ukraine “permission” to use its soon to be delivered F-16s to launch attacks inside Russia.

Not only is Stoltenberg an uber hawk, but he totally misunderstands NATO’s purpose.  If he is allowed to stay in office, he will lead NATO into a European war that might well include nuclear weapons.  Above all, Stoltenberg doesn’t grasp that NATO is a defensive, not an offensive, alliance.
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Peloni:  This is outrageous.  As Bibi forms a symbol of unity from which the nation might achieve total victory, Barak acts to redeploy his campaign of pressure and protests to stymie the unified support for the war which could only lead to total defeat.  The very claims of personal interests dominating national interests with which he assails Bibi is in fact a suit far bettered tailored for Barak to wear.

Former PM calls on 30,000 Israelis to encamp outside Knesset for 3 weeks to pressure PM Netanyahu to step down.

Israel National News | Feb 25, 2024

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak shared his plan for how to force the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign.

In an interview with Galai Tzahal (IDF Radio) this morning (Sunday), Barak “We need 30 thousand citizens to encircle the Knesset in tents for three weeks, day and night. When the state is shut down – Netanyahu will realize that his time is up and that there is no trust in him.”

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T. Belman. If you care about free speech, this is a must read.

By Paul Craig Roberts

Don’t let the alarmist sound of this column’s title put you off.  It is not a “conspiracy theory.” This column is a factual report as you will see if you read on.

Everyone needs to understand that the ruling elite in the US are implementing a decision to redefine democracy in a way that eliminates democracy, makes Congress superfluous, voting pointless, and discards the Constitution as an outdated document inconsistent with the power the ruling elite intend to wield over Americans and the rest of the world.
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T. Belman. “Hanegbi said Netanyahu’s key principles for a deal, conveyed to the representatives in Paris, included that “any framework must deal with [the return] of all the hostages” — including those who are dead; that it must provide for “all women and children” to be returned at the start of the process; and that the agreement “can in no way be interpreted” as providing for an end to the war.”

War cabinet votes to send delegation to Qatar for more talks; framework said to include 6-week truce, release of some 40 hostage women, children, female soldiers, elderly, ill

By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES    24 February 2024, 9:37 pmUpdated: Today, 2:29 am

Families of Israelis held in Hamas captivity in Gaza call for the government to find a solution for the release of the hostages in a protest outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, February 22, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

An Israeli delegation of top security officials returned from talks in Paris on Saturday as reports spread of growing hope in Jerusalem that a new hostage release deal with Hamas could be within reach.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In Israel, we’re slowly seeing the country emerge from one of the darkest times since the Holocaust. Evacuees are returning to their homes in the South as the threat from terrorists in Gaza is being eliminated. The transformation from darkness to light is reflected in much of last week’s news.

The dark days of displaced Israeli families have been made a little brighter thanks to donations and kind hosts. A wounded Fauda TV star has been able to see the light of day after being discharged from hospital.  A Hamas terrorist emerging from a dark tunnel shaft with a bomb was seen just in time. And from the dark despair after seeing Hamas murder his wife, a brave, stateless Bedouin and his nine children can have a brighter future as permanent residents of Israel.

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Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed for domestic ones.

Dr. Martin Sherman | INN | Feb 25, 2024

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.- Hubert H. Humphrey

Under the Biden administration, US foreign policy appears afflicted by several perturbing defects. Indeed, it seems to suffer from both a lack of general strategic perspective and of sound theater-specific understanding. Moreover, it appears to be heavily impacted by extraneous factors not having any discernable relevance for the pursuit of American interests across the globe.

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T..Belman. Natasha is absolutely brilliant. She convincingly points out how misinformed the House of Commons was when it passed a resolution in support of a ceasefire. The House debate embraced propaganda and blood libels against Israel as though they were the truth. What a farce.

Peloni:  Speaker Johnson is a good and true friend of Israel.  I look forward to seeing the great accomplishments which he and Trump might achieve following the next election.

Ambassador David Friedman is absolutely correct. This is a shameful decision. 
 
The Jewish people have a historic and legal right to live in the land of Israel including in Judea and Samaria – the biblical heartland. It is an absolute disgrace the Biden administration would… https://t.co/ZfqO17WIQT

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 23, 2024

E. Rowell:  Ben Carson, MD is at 1 hour and 3 minutes.  He spoke about his growing up, his mother and what he learned from her, and God.  Dr. Carson spoke movingly about learning how to take responsibility for himself and the terrible trap of victimhood.  President Trump began his speech at 2 hours 25 minutes.  Trump has united much of the United States of America under his movement to Make America Great Again.  He has united white and black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and hard working people from all ethnicities and all parts of America, now including inner cities in NY and Chicago.

By Sundance, THE LAST REFUGE                                    23 February 2024

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When “anti-racists” look at great art, they see only one thing.

By Mark Tapson, FRONT PAGE                                  23 February 2024

One of the great tragedies of progressivism is that its zealots are in the grip of – to borrow William Blake’s phrase – “mind-forged manacles.” Perpetually aggrieved by social injustice everywhere (real or imagined, past and present), leftists are hindered from finding selfless joy, spiritual transcendence, and wonder in the world by ideological blinders that allow them to see only a world of oppression, exploitation, and existential misery.

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B. Kalman:  General Kujat points out first that the War in Ukraine was an attempt by the US to defeat Russia in preparation for the coming war with China.  But by starting this war, the United States has not only weakened her global hegemony but led to the deepening and strengthening of the BRICS organization of nations.

Secondly, General Kujat explains a current 10 year plan intended to keep the Ukraine war on hold in order to outlast a potential Donald Trump presidency by binding agreements with each NATO member that would essentially lead to Ukraine’s NATO de-facto membership by the back door.

By General Harld Kujat, NEUTRALITY STUDIES       22 Feb 2024

Chief Nerd | X | February 23, 2024

Genomics Expert Kevin McKernan Shares a Summary of the DNA Contamination Found in the COVID mRNA Vaccines & Preliminary Evidence of DNA Integration

“The fact checkers who told you this DNA won’t get into the cell are proven wrong by this data. We can see DNA in there. It’s a very high copy number…

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By MEMRI TV                                                                          March 23, 2012

Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad admits Arab forgery right on Al-Hekma TV (Egypt) on March 23, 2012. Have the Arab in Israel (so called “palestinians”) managed to fool you to believe they are Natives in the land of Israel ?  And why they are so intimidated by History and facts ?  In a temper tantrum he could not keep his mouth shut but had to blurt out the truth: that the “Palestinian” people are a fabrication, an invention. There never existed a state called Palestine or a people called Palestinian. And there never existed an invasion of Palestinian land over a territory that belonged to the Jews over 1,000 years before Mohammed was even born.

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On December 29, 2023, referencing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, South Africa instituted proceedings against the State of Israel in the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”). In its Application to the ICJ, South Africa alleged that Israel, through its acts and omissions, breached and continues to breach the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”). South Africa’s Application also contained a Request for the indication of provisional measures “pending the [ICJ’s] determination of the case on the merits.” (Application of Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (S. Afr. v. Isr.), 2024 I.C.J. 82, ¶ 144 (South Africa’s Application and Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures of Dec. 29, 2023)).

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T.Belman. Ritter has shown himself to be very anti-Israel and antisemetic. Nevertheless he is very informed about Russia and Navalny.

By: Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., MEMRI

Across the Middle East, failed states and territories depend on massive amounts of humanitarian aid from the West to feed and care for populations. Many of these are run, de facto, by Iran via proxies. One such proxy is the Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, the organization that controls much of the country, including the capital Sana’a and 70%-80% of the population –and which has, for the past decade, been supplied by Iran with advanced and sophisticated weaponry.

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T. Belman.  I disagree with Pollak.  Although Israel has said that if Hezbollah pulls back, she will be satisfied. Israel believes in pre-emptive action. What better time is there for Israel to attack Hezbollah to destroy it, now that Israel is mobilized and 80,000 Israelis have been evacuated.

Withdrawal will not suffice to get Israel to teturn to normal. Just as Israel finally bit the bullet with Hamas, she will bite the bullet with Hezbollah.

By Joel Pollak, BREITBART

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Friday of naval exercises it conducted in the Mediterranean Sea near Lebanon — a warning to Iranian-backed Hezbollah that Israel intends to strike from the sea, air, and landL.

Clashes along the Israeli-Lebanese border have intensified in recent weeks, as Hezbollah has continued firing rockets and drones at Israel — including one drone that crashed into the back yard of an Israeli civilian in the northern Arab-Jewish city of Acre.

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