It would be political suicide for Benjamin Netanyahu to follow Joe Biden’s advice.

By Walter Russell Mead, WSJ April 15/24

“Take the win,” President Biden reportedly advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attacks against Israel sputtered shambolically to an ignominious end.

As the world waits on tenterhooks for Israel’s response, two things seemed clear. It would be political suicide for Mr. Netanyahu to take the president’s advice, and it would be national suicide for any Israeli prime minister to do so. Mr. Biden is primarily worried about his re-election, a cause he conveniently if sincerely conflates with the survival of democracy in the U.S. and of freedom in the world. Israel is worried about something more tangible—the survival of the world’s only Jewish state.

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T. Belman. I believe Avenatti will do it. The conversations with the defense lawyers have gone on for a year.  Obviously the prosecution attorneys will try to destroy his credibility on solid grounds But I assume Vavenatti will say that Stormy is a liar and that Trump never had sexual reloations with him.  That will blow the case wide open and lead to an acquittal.

Although the defense cannot offer him a pardon or anything like it, Avenatti will figure it is in his interest to do so.

The former attorney who is currently in prison claimed he has been communicating with defense lawyers.

By Jack Phillips, EPOCH TIMES APRIL 21/24

California attorney Michael Avenatti leaves a courthouse in New York following a hearing on May 28, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for adult performer Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, said he has been communicating with former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and may testify against his former client.

Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Mr. Avenatti said that “the defense has contacted me,” referring to the former president’s attorneys. Mr. Avenatti is currently serving out a lengthy sentence for extortion, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, and other crimes.

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T. Belman.  It appears that although the Israeli support was separated from the Ukrainian support, in reality it wasn’t.

“The overwhelming bipartisan support for Israel is a striking testament to the fact that Israel has no closer ally than America, and America has no closer ally than Israel,” stated the Israeli president.

By MIKE WAGENHEIM, JNS April 21, 2024

American Jewish and pro-Israel groups lauded Saturday’s passage of a long-stalled Israel supplemental aid bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Under the threat of losing his job from his right flank, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shepherded the bill—part of a larger foreign aid and national security package—to a successful 366-58 vote, with 37 Democrats and 21 Republicans opposing.

The bill, which now heads to the Senate, includes $17 billion in defense aid to Israel, along with $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gazans and others involved in conflicts around the world.

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Israel’s secret weapon: MARK DUBOWITZ reveals how the Jewish State’s shock strike took out Iran’s air defenses – and did what feckless Biden never could… scare Tehran’s mullahs into silence

By Mark Dubowitz, DAILY MAIL   20 April 2024

Memo to the White House : Time to retire President Biden’s ‘Don’t Doctrine.’ It’s not working.

Mark Dubowitz is chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In 2019, he was sanctioned by Iran for his advocacy.

Memo to the White House: Time to retire President Biden’s ‘Don’t Doctrine.’ It’s not working.

Weeks after an April 1 Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a top Iranian terror general, Biden had one word for Tehran.

‘Don’t,’ he warned, as US intelligence raised the alarm over a retaliatory attack by the Islamic Republic.

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Dennis Prager, Prager University    March 28, 2024

Why don’t people fight obvious evils? If you can’t tell that Hamas is as evil as the Nazis were, it is because you refuse to do so. It’s easy to identify evil decades after the atrocities of the Nazis, Stalin, and Mao. The trick is to call out evil while it’s happening. You have a moral obligation to do so.

By J. B. Shurk, AMERICAN THINKER    21 April 2024

All hail King Deep State!  That is essentially what we have now, is it not?  An unelected, all-powerful, mercurial king — and certainly not a binding constitution limiting government’s authority and preserving Americans’ rights.

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Some 25,000 Israelis reside across the communities.

JNS     April 21, 2024

A resident of the Ramat Migron outpost in the Binyamin region of Samaria, Sept. 8, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich aims to legalize 68 outposts in Judea and Samaria and has instructed various ministries to prepare to provide them with public services.

Smotrich is also a minister in the Defense Ministry with broad authority over civilian issues in the disputed territories.

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E. Rowell:  Klatzkin describes the problem inherent in appeasing a nation led by psychopaths.  However our current day appeasers are also psychopaths.  Their actions are cold calculations for personal benefit only.  They have not the slightest concern for the well being of others, including their countrymen.  Israel’s space for existence lies between two psychopathic nations, that of Iran and her proxies, and that of the current government of the US.

by Shmuel Klatzkin, AMERICAN SPECTATOR     April 20, 2024

Neville Chamberlain, Sept. 30, 1938 in London (meunierd/Shutterstock)

To recognize appeasement, it’s best to learn from a master.

One must not mistake Neville Chamberlain for a Nazi. He wasn’t. His antisemitism was that of T. S. Eliot — an offended sensibility, a mild disgust at there always being some untidy trouble attending them. He was a prim Englishman who dressed the part of the aristocracy, but who was more of an accountant than a man of leisure and noblesse oblige. He was secretive and manipulative when in power; he was easily threatened by brilliance and outspokenness, separately, and doubly threatened when both qualities were combined, to excess, in Winston Churchill.

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Jews are allowed to center ourselves, love ourselves, celebrate ourselves, and remember who we are.

By Mallory Mosner, FUTURE OF JEWISH    19 April 2024

artwork by Nun Aleph

Two years ago, I had a life-changing Passover experience.

I was invited to attend my first modern-Orthodox Seder (Passover ceremony) with none other than Mayim Bialik in attendance — replete with Passover-themed Jewish “Jeopardy.” It was pretty iconic.

Why was this night different than all other nights? For many reasons, not the least of which being that I was raised Reform Jewish, and none of my Seders ever had this kind of spirituality, insight, contemplation, or grounded celebration of Jewish tradition. It was a turning point in my relationship with Judaism.

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President Biden and others claim that President Trump incited the Capitol Riot, falsely described as an  “insurrection,” on January 6, 2021.  This belief explains Colorado’s failed attempt to remove Trump’s name from the ballot because he is an “insurrectionist,” as well as a national YouGov poll that found that 54% of Americans approved of the Colorado action.  It is now used as a justification for Biden to refuse to debate Trump.  This claim remains a serious problem — not only for Trump, but for obtaining an accurate history of what happened on January 6.

A rational evaluation of Trump’s words and actions, and other factors, demonstrates that this claim is nonsense.

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Story by MAARIV ONLINE     April 20, 2024

An ambulance is parked outside the Iranian embassy after a suspected Israeli strike on Monday on Iran’s consulate, which Iran said had killed seven military personnel Damascus, Syria April 2, 2024. (credit: FIRAS MAKDESI/REUTERS)© Provided by The Jerusalem Post

The Bloomberg television network revealed overnight into Saturday that in the attack attributed to Israel at the Iranian consulate in Syria, the entire command hierarchy responsible for the activities of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria and Lebanon was killed. According to the report, “the senior officers were pivotal for Hezbollah’s activities in the region.”

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Report says Blinken to target Netzah Yehuda for violence against West Bank Palestinians; Ben Gvir: I’ll absorb battalion into police; unit was moved north in 2020 after multiple incidents

TOI Staff, April 20, 2024

Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Biden administration is slated to announce sanctions against the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda battalion for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank, the Axios news site reported on Saturday. It would be the first time the US has ever taken such a step.

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E. Rowell:  Ukraine was set up by Obama-Kerry-Biden-Nuland to serve as a major money laundering hub for US political and financial elites.  In addition the goal of arming Ukraine was an attempt to undermine Putin, cause regime change in Russia, and strip Russia of energy resources.  Putin refused to roll over.  Even though it is impossible to win the war in Ukraine, military contractors make money whomever wins or loses. Billions of printed and taxpayer money must be spent in order to create profits for billionaires while the US economy is in danger of an explosion of debt and debt service. Americans suffer under ballooning prices for everything.  It is a satanic plan for US destruction, carried out by the US Congress.

In Conservative Conference in Globalist Belgium, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán Torches EU Leadership, Calls for Change

By Paul Serran, GATEWAY PUNDIT    17 April 2024

There’s really no surprise in learning that Belgium’s government has gone full authoritarian by repeatedly targeting a Conservative conference taking place in Brussels, going as far as shutting down a day of events with a ridiculous excuse in the middle of UK’s Nigel Farage’s speech.

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New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.

By J. D. Tuccille, REASON    18 April 2024

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At press time, the U.S. Senate is debating whether to not only renew the U.S. government’s spying powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) but dramatically expand them. That’s because the House, in reauthorizing the expiring powers last week after an extended battle, adopted language that broadens the definition of those who can be forced to help the government snoop. That leaves the Senate as the last check on already controversial legislation that just became more dangerous before it’s signed by a president eager to exercise its power.
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Mary Lou Robinson, former chief of the Air Force’s High Power Microwave Division, confirmed to DailyMail.com that the missiles are “ready to take out any military target, including nuclear facilities.”

By ILH Staff, ISRAEL HAYOM    20 April 2024

An uranium processing site in Isfahan, 340 km (211 miles) south of Tehran, March 30, 2005 | Photo: Reuters / Raheb Homavandi

According to an exclusive report from DailyMail.com, the US Air Force has quietly deployed a new type of missile that can destroy the electronics of Iran’s nuclear facilities using high-power microwaves, without causing any fatalities.

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By Douglas J. Feith and Lewis Libby, COMMENTARY    19 April 2024

With the world’s attention riveted on the stunning aerial clash between Iran and Israel, it is easy to lose focus on Gaza. But the war there remains unresolved.

President Biden supported Israel against Iran’s April 13 drone and missile barrage. U.S. military forces even shot down some of the Iranian weapons fired at Israel.

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By Caroline Glick, JNS    19 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN-gSY2XvlU