By Rick Maedje, GATEWAY PUNDIT    6 May 2024

Montana State Legislature

Congress is increasingly malfunctioning as far too many lobbying interests, foreign actors and ideologues force the institution to cater to elites over the needs of the people. Voters overwhelmingly agree Congress is broken. The question becomes what can be done about it?

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We have severely compromised our autonomy and mobility due to our longtime dependence on others.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF (May 6, 2024 / JNS)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attend a ceremony at Yad Vashem as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 6, 2024. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Both Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke movingly and powerfully at the Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem. Addressing the larger world in English, Netanyahu threw down the gauntlet, promising that if Israel has to act alone in Gaza, it will. Notably, he also said, “Never again is now.”

These were the words millions of Israelis have been waiting to hear and hope will be fulfilled. They are the antidote to the current situation in which we have either forgotten or been pressured to ignore what brought us to the first hostage release: unrelenting military pressure and success.

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Caroline Glick | JNS | May 6, 2024

As Jews are being attacked on campus and the Biden administration continues to distance itself from Israel, will the ironclad Democratic Jewish vote be affected? Will liberal Jews break with the Democratic Party because they feel unsafe in Biden’s America?

Journalist and author Caroline Glick talks with US election expert and political analyst Richard Baehr to break down the numbers and trends and to understand if this coming US election will be unlike any other.

By Eileen F. Toplansky | American Thinker | May 6, 2024

Alleged pundits scratch their heads in puzzlement and ask: how did all these pro-Hamas outbursts suddenly appear on American universities?

They are, in fact, not some spontaneous eruption, but clearly the product of an ongoing jihadist campaign to infiltrate America’s school system.  Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and Yasser Arafat before them have for decades educated American universities to jihad.  Recent events attest to their disturbing success.

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David Mark | Israel Unwired | May 6, 2024

Shortly after nightfall IDF ground forces crossed into Southern Gaza and advanced on Eastern Rafah while jets pummeled the city from overhead.

Since yesterday’s attack by Hamas on IDF positions in Kerem Shalom crossing killed four soldiers and blew up the faux hostage deal negotiations, Israel’s War Cabinet unanimously voted to push forward with a ground assault even after the US seemed to conspire with Hamas to create a new ceasefire deal. The surprise ground assault occurred 24 hours after Israel started warning residents of Rafah to evacuate.

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After residents of southern most city in Strip told to evacuate to safe zones, ministers vote unanimously in favor of operation following Hamas deadly strike on Kerem Shalom crossing and failure of hostage release negotiations

Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi | YNET | May 6, 2024

Israel’s War Cabinet approved on Sunday the launch of a military operation in Rafah, which began with the evacuation of Gazans from the eastern part of the city near the border with Israel earlier on Monday. Two incidents preceded the decision – Hamas’ insistence on ending the war and the deadly rocket attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing in which four soldiers were killed.

Despite the ongoing public threats, mainly from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sunday marked the first time in the last four months — since an operation in Rafah was put on the agenda — that Netanyahu presented the first phase of the Rafah operation and demanded that War Cabinet ministers state their position on the matter. Ministers raised questions during the discussion, and eventually, one by one, decided to approve the operation’s first stage.

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DAWN is leveraging clout with the Biden administration to push sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON    6 May 2024

Biden, advisers (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images), Israeli settlers (Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Senior Biden administration officials have been coordinating since at least early 2022 with an outside anti-Israel group to isolate Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, internal government emails show.The previously unreported emails show top officials at both the State and Defense Departments fielding concerns from Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a human rights group that is highly critical of the Israeli government and has lobbied the Biden administration to cut off military aid to the Jewish state. Read more…

By ELDER OF ZIYON    6 May 2024

Mass rally inside and outside Madison Square Garden against the Holocaust, July 31, 1944

The best evidence that even the college students who joined the anti-Israel encampments don’t really believe that there is a genocide in Gaza comes from the students themselves.
These camps were not places of anguish, but parties.
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The one-eyed Jack American Left has been flipped over, and what turned up proved frightening.

By Victor Davis Hanson,    AMERICAN GREATNESS    6 May 2024

The current radical and often violent protests on mostly blue-state, supposedly elite campuses have exposed in toxic fashion what the left has become. And yet, in a paradoxical fashion, the campus insanity has offered the nation some moral clarity.

What’s surprising is not that the demonstrators are violent and nihilist, but that they are, on the one hand, so openly and crudely anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-American, and yet on the other hand, so passive-aggressive, narcissistic, and weepy.

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Like the UNC frat brothers, real men will fight back against relentless attacks.

By Lou Aguilar, AMERICAN SPECTATOR    5 May 2024

There was a Code of the West — in the movie West if not the old one. You can mock a man, attack his manhood, humiliate him. You can even believe the things you say to him, and about him. But you’d better be ready when he shows you what he’s made of, or you’ll end up on the saloon floor. The best depiction of this principle appears in the Western masterpiece, Shane.

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Peloni: This has been long overdue.  The govt should follow this up by defunding Haaretz and ending govt subscriptions to a new organization which, contrasting with Al Jazeera, provides an Israeli perspective much aligned with Al Jazeera and whose reportings are routinely used to attack the Israeli govt and undermine the state by all of Israel’s enemies and many of her ‘friends’.

Israel’s communications minister lauded the decision as ‘an end to the network’s well-oiled incitement machine’; Israel Police raided the channel’s Jerusalem office and confiscated equipment; Al Jazeera slammed the decision, calling it a ‘slanderous and deceptive move’

Jonathan Lis | Haaretz | May 5, 2024

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the Knesset.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi

The Israeli government voted unanimously on Sunday in favor of shutting down the broadcasting of Al Jazeera, the Qatari television station, in Israel due to its coverage during the Gaza war.Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office following the decision.Video circulated online showed plainclothes officers dismantling camera equipment in a hotel room. The Al Jazeera source said the hotel was in East Jerusalem.

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“The UN cares nothing for Israeli blood. It is a collaborator with the Nazis of our day. Working to ensure Hamas’ survival and even reward them for murder and rape. I have no words,” Erdan stated.

By Tovah Lazaroff | JPOST | May 1, 2024

he United Nations’ hatred of Israel helped spark the new wave of antisemitism surrounding the Gaza war including on American college campuses, Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said in a blistering speech he delivered Wednesday to the UN General Assembly.

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By Jeffrey Tucker | Brownstone Institute | May 5, 2024

Fascism became a swear word in the US and UK during the Second World War. It has been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It is not a system of political economy but an insult.

If we go back a decade before the war, you find a completely different situation. Read any writings from polite society from 1932 to 1940 or so, and you find a consensus that freedom and democracy, along with Enlightenment-style liberalism of the 18th century, were completely doomed. They should be replaced by some version of what was called the planned society, of which fascism was one option.

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This is absolutely necessary, but this must be done intelligently and with minimal impact on its economic and social fabric.

By BOAZ GOLANY | JPOST | May 4, 2024

Since October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been embroiled in high-intensity battles across multiple fronts, both within and outside of Israel. The replenishment of damaged military platforms and components and the provision of essential ammunition have become paramount to the war effort. However, two key factors have significantly complicated this mission.

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An impeachable quid-pro-quo that could kill millions of Americans.

Daniel Greenfield | Front Page Magazine | May 6, 2024

The Biden administration and the Saudis are reportedly cooking up a deal.

Under the terms of the agreement, the Saudis will get nuclear capability, defense guarantees and a terrorist state inside Israel. And what will the United States get? Temporarily lower prices.

The Saudis are not offering to boost oil production to bring down prices as a favor to America, but to Biden. And it’s an election quid-pro-quo that may cost millions of Americans their lives.

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J.E Dyer’s comment: From a former State Dept official who understands the Impoundment Control Act. Note that Axios says shipment halted, Times of Israel says shipments proceeding. Possible layers of meaning.  The Hill has article suggesting US might “need to beat a deadline” of 8 May to continue w/shipment, before requirement to certify Israel’s use of US munitions doesn’t violate US policy. Hill article guaranteed to be admin-approved for Biden push-narrative to pressure Israel. Creates context for doubt & latent threat regarding munitions transfer. From available info, wpns in question wd be artillery shells, 500/1000-lb air-delivered bombs, prob JDAM kits & some Iron Dome-fam components

JNS | May 5, 2024

An Israeli official downplayed the report, saying that “the flow continues” and Jerusalem was “not aware of a policy decision to stop it.”

U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

The Biden administration has halted a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two officials in Jerusalem.

According to the U.S. news outlet, last week’s decision to place the shipment on hold left the Israeli government concerned, as it is the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre that the U.S. has halted military aid to the Israel Defense Forces.

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Live Broadcast of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 Opening Ceremony at Yad Vashem

PM Netanyahu’s Speech [English translation] :

Don’t miss the portion of the speech which Netanyahu directly addresses the world, as he spoke to them in English.

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By Victor Rosenthal  May 5, 2024

The struggle to establish and maintain a Jewish sovereign state in Eretz Yisrael has lasted more than one hundred years. Since 1948, the existence of the state has hung in the balance several times. This is one of them.

Our endless war is primarily with the Palestinian Arabs, but other nations join in confrontation from time to time. The war is at bottom a tribal/religious war, between Muslims and Jews over this land. Despite various shifting alliances, and despite the involvement on either side of various non-Muslim powers and their maneuvering for access to the resources and strategic aspects of the Middle East, one single fact is unchanging and underlies the hostility directed at Israel: Muslims cannot tolerate a sovereign Jewish entity in Dar al Islam. It is an affront to Islam and an affront to the honor of the Muslims who have been defeated – to their minds, only temporarily – by Jews.
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