By Neil W. McCabe | Red State | April 17, 2024
An Army whistleblower has told RedState why he is speaking out about the actual decisions and actions by three Army generals in the Pentagon on January 6, 2021. Those decisions delayed the District of Columbia National Guard from responding to Capitol Hill protesters for roughly three hours, he’ll testify at Wednesday’s congressional hearing.
The party and the organizations dismiss allegations as political persecution, while far-right parties claim vindication for previously accusing Ra’am of supporting terror
Sam Sokol, TOI April 16m 2024
Ra’am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Two nonprofits associated with MK Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am, or United Arab List, party are to be dissolved over alleged links to terror financing, the Corporations Authority announced on Tuesday.
By Conor Gallagher, NAKED CAPITALISM 14 April 2024
I recently came across this piece from the Century Foundation titled “A Bolder American Foreign Policy Means More Values and Less War.” Its central argument is that the US must “recenter values” like “multilateralism and human rights that are core to its identity.”
The Century Foundation calls itself a “a progressive, independent think tank,” and this particular piece appears to mean well but is just as disconnected from reality than all the neocon think tanks’ war mongering policy papers saying Washington will prevail as it takes on Russia, China, Iran, and whoever else it feels like.
The Century Foundation authors possess a Hollywoodized idea of America that isn’t a land filled with brutal class struggle but virtue, which flow out into its foreign policy that stands for international humanitarian or human rights law. I think anyone with a basic understanding of current events or recent history knows how ridiculous this is, and yet it is repeated ad nauseam by every purported think tank. I suppose this is a classic example of Upton Sinclair’s saying that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” but I think the Century Foundation is onto something with its focus on values. It’s just that it has it backwards. The problem is that values are what has the US on the brink of starting World War III in multiple locations.
E. Rowell: In these days of surging antisemitism online and in the streets, this article describes the essence of both semitism and antisemitism. Gil-White delineates the fabric of meaning throughout the long history of the semites and those who want the semites dead.
By Fransisco Gil-White, MANAGEMENT OF REALITY 16 February 2024
Once thought to be the mask of Sargon of Akkad, this is now believed to be, on stylistic grounds, the mask of Naram-Sin, his grandson. Credit: Wikimedia.
Imagine that history class were like plunging into the millennia-spanning, action-packed, multi-novel adventure worlds of Frank Herbert (Dune), Isaac Asimov (Foundation), or J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings). No child would ever get bored!
So why are teachers boring them?
I ask because the political history of Western Asia—which includes Europe—does have that fantasy/science-fiction structure: it’s been a 4,300-year clash between two great ideological forces.
By Ron Wright, AMERICAN THINKER 16 April 2024
Image by Ai
Joe Biden has proven to be a puppet of the Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian oligarchs—a true Manchurian Candidate. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s princeling, raked in millions of dollars at arm’s length from Uncle Joe for the Biden crime family from adversaries for no credible business reason. Why?
By Amil Imani|April 17th, 2024
I have repeatedly said that the mullahs ruling Iran are not Iranians. They truly despise Iran and its glorious past. Genetically, they are mostly Arabs. They even hate its name. There were never any questions about the Islamists denigrating Iran and exalting Muhammad. These creatures owe their very livelihood to the lucrative business that Muhammad launched for their parasitic, shameful existence. It is vital for these leeches to continue trumpeting the sainthood of the founder of their business and driving all the competition out of business.
Just recently, Sayyid Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami became a senior Iranian cleric, as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts, also Tehran’s Friday prayer leader. He once proved me right. Give this worm credit for paying homage to the source of his shameful livelihood.
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Daniel Greenfield, 16 Apr 08:25 PM
On Saturday night, Iran launched its attack, codenamed “Ya Rasool Allah” or “Messenger of Allah”, on the Jewish State, after Israel had taken out the Iranian mastermind of Oct 7.
The attack began with waves of drones to swamp Israel’s air defenses, followed by cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. While the British and the French took out some drones, U.S. forces accounted for about half the total of drones and some of the ballistic missiles, leaving the rest for the Israelis to deal with. By the time it was over, 99% of the attack had been intercepted.
Caroline Glick, JNS April 1
Iran launched the largest combined missile and drone attack in history on Saturday (April 13th, 2024) against Israel. Now, it stands behind the effort to paralyze the global economy. All the details and analysis about what it means for Israel and the U.S. on Caroline Glick’s In-Focus.
Washington Times op-ed expresses concern over illegal Palestinian construction in Area C in Israel and US backing.
Cheryl Chumley, editor of the op-ed section in the online Washington Times, published a scathing article against the illegal Palestinian construction in Area C.
The Oslo Accords ruled, and it was internationally accepted, that Area C was designated as a ‘no-construction zone,’ controlled by Israel. But there are both completed houses and houses under construction on this land. There is a new set of roads and signposts with phone numbers offering those interested in building or buying a house to call. What is going on here,” Chumley wondered.
Representatives of haredi parties agree to Draft Law which would see enlistment of up to 50% of yeshiva students in the coming years, report says.
Israel National News Apr 16, 2024
Haredi near the recruitment officeChaim Goldberg/Flash90
According to the report, the main delay in advancing the law is connected to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has tied his support of the bill to Minister Benny Gantz’s approval of it. Gantz opposes the current draft.
Alan Dershowitz Podcast
By AG Staff
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is drawing fire from conservatives in Congress for his pushing of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) Act for Ukrainians. The REPO act would allow the administration to seize between $5 to $8 billion in Russian assets and use the money to finance Ukraine’s recovery.
Congressman J.D. Vance (R-OH) has noted that the bipartisan legislation could be used by Donald Trump’s opponents to control him should he be reelected to another term.
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Iran’s Failure to Comply with its Nuclear Agreements
Contrary to panicked assessments, the exit of troops from Khan Younis doesn’t signal the end of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
By Ruthie Blum, ISRAEL HAYOM 04-11-2024 14:57
“We have eliminated 19 of Hamas’s 24 battalions, including senior commanders,” he said. “We have killed, wounded, or captured a large number of Hamas terrorists. We have cleared out Shifa [Hospital in Gaza City] and other terrorist command centers.”
E. Rowell: Recent observations of online “conservative” commentators has revealed a surprising number of previously either neutral on Israel or pro-Israel supporters who have developed one of a number of conspiracy theories about Israel wanting to start World War III. This is part of the meme war: the PSYOP created by foreign policy establishment. I suspect this is a form of hybrid warfare directed at Israel’s supporters.
Will Israel retaliate?; Israel’s Arab allies; Is WOL an IRGC front?
By Park Macdonald, THE SCROLL 15 April 2024
The morning after we published our special edition on Saturday night, predicting that President Biden would attempt to dissuade Israel from “escalating” in response to an “appropriate” Iranian drone-and-missile attack that had been green-lit by Washington, Barak Ravid reported that the White House had responded exactly how we said it would. In a Saturday evening phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden reportedly told the Israeli leader that the United States would not support any Israeli counterattack against Iran. “You got a win. Take the win,” the president said.
By DAVID SOLWAY, PJ MEDIA 9:07 AM ON APRIL 16, 2024
AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File
You either write a commentary or a code—each is a distinct task in itself.
Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
Peloni: The video linked below was a fascinating. It is split into two parts – Avivi’s rise thru the ranks and much of what is discussed in the body of this article, and what took place on October 7, and the current crisis. The video is in Hebrew, and the translation is difficult to follow at times, but well worth the effort.
The chairman and founder of the “Habithonist” movement, Brigadier General Amir Avivi told in the ‘Melting Pot’ about his experiences with the security establishment, how the army never pressed to defeat terrorism, and about his experiences from Oslo’s Gaza
Lt. Col. (Res.) Amir Avivi, the chairman of the “Habithonist” movement and its founder, was a guest on the “The Crucible” podcast and analyzed with Schneor Weber the processes that took place during his service in the IDF, since the Oslo Accords, which led to the strengthening of Hamas and the shocking massacre on October 7.
Israeli-American technology expert Hillel Fuld offers insights into the reasons why the Israel-Hamas war has been long and drawn out — and unprecedented.
By Joshua Hoffman and Hillel Fuld, FUTURE OF JEWISH 16 April 2024
Israeli soldiers operating in the urban warfare environment of the Gaza Strip (photo: Israel Defense Forces/X)
Hillel Fuld is an American-Israeli technology expert who recently provided some prescient insights into the nature of the Israel-Hamas war. He wrote:
se every single person killed is presented as innocent, a lie the world has completely adopted and used to pressure Israel. So Israel wants minimal death. Hamas wants maximum death. Chess and basketball.
Also, we define victory as getting our hostages back and eliminating Hamas. They define victory as literally anything else. If one Hamas terrorist is left alive, in their book, they won this war. In fact, in a sick and twisted way, their leadership already thinks they won the war by the very fact that Israel is still fighting.
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