Targeting the ‘head of the octopus’  

The tectonic threat of Iran to Mideast and global stability must be countered head-on.

 By  David M. Weinberg April 8/24

The targeted assassination this week in Damascus – allegedly by Israel – of General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods forces in Syria and Lebanon, was long overdue.

As part of its post-October 7 updated doctrine of security, Israel can no longer make do with fighting Iran’s proxies, but rather must target Iran itself in response to Teheran’s key role in the current attacks on Israel and destabilization of the region. Israel must now strike directly within Iran, while also taking further action against the Qods Force. Iran’s self-perceived shield of impunity must be pierced.
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April 9, 2024 | 1:13 am | Comments »

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FBI Orchestrated Jan 6 Riots ‘to Entrap MAGA Americans,’ Explains Congress’ Homeland Security Chief.  

By THE NATIONAL PULSE    5 April 2024

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.

According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by “ghost buses” filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.

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April 8, 2024 | 5:21 pm | 3 Comments »

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VERY GOOD NEWS ISRAEL  

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

With so many false accusations, distortions, and propaganda in the Mainstream Media, it is only possible to see the “real” Israel in a newsletter such as this. I recommend this article for a true perspective of recent events.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Israelis have been rebuilding their lives after Oct 7. They have been developing cures for MS, bone cancer, post-surgical complications, chronic pain, and major diseases.  They have continued to promote freedom for its citizens of all religions, while resolving global problems such as drought in rural African villages.

Quite a few of Israel’s latest innovations will in the future provide more protection in a hostile world. They include real-time battle maps, anti-drone systems, cybersecurity for planes and trucks, and systems for safer driving. Meanwhile, Israelis are developing agricultural products to alleviate global hunger.  It is gratifying that Israel has many international friends who can see the real world that Israel exists in.
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April 8, 2024 | 3:57 pm | 1 Comment »

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Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?  

E. Rowell:  Biden is America’s puppet-in-chief, whose strings are held by a group of elite psychopaths.  Psychopaths love to create chaos and cause maximum destruction.  They offer you get rich quick schemes such as government handouts and then collapse the government. When everyone is in maximum pain and distress and everything is a pile of ruins, they then depart the scene for their next locale.

The long-awaited Great Fundamental Transformation finally got its moment, crashed, and now has torched the nation—middle-class Americans most of all.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS    8 April 2024

In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Read more…

April 8, 2024 | 3:55 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Silky Hand of Qatar Targets Jordan  

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  April 8, 2024 at 5:00 am

  • The Jordanian authorities have accused the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot, Hamas, of seeking to destabilize security inside the kingdom.
  • Behind both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, of course, is the terrorist-sponsoring emirate, Qatar, and its propagandizing television bullhorn, Al-Jazeera.

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April 8, 2024 | 12:34 pm | Comments »

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What if the U.S. Helps Hamas Win?  

The path Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer have chosen means the end of any hope of peace.

By  Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ MAR 26/24

Let’s imagine that Israel yields to the pressure. Pushed by an American president already under fire from a segment of the electorate that objects to his support for a “genocidal” state, Israel refrains from entering Rafah to finish off Hamas’s four surviving battalions. Israel agrees to the general cease-fire of indeterminate duration that the U.S. administration seems to push amid increasingly virulent antisemitism.

The idea that Washington unconditionally supports Israel is a longstanding myth. While the U.S. often vetoes anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations Security Council, the one that passed Monday was far from the first exception. Recall Resolution 1701 (2006) to halt Israel’s Lebanon offensive at the Litani River—thus sparing what remained of the Hezbollah units.
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April 8, 2024 | 12:14 pm | 2 Comments »

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Former Ambassador Friedman: ‘America is holding Israel back’  

David Friedman, former US Ambassador to Israel, sums up the past six months: ‘Israel has the will and strength to eliminate Hamas and release the hostages. Right now, America is holding Israel back.’

David Friedman  Arutz Sheva

Quick summary (and it is just a summary) of the past 6 months:

1) On October 7, Israel was brutally and barbarically attacked by Hamas, a Foreign Terrorist Organization under U.S. law. On that day, 1200 Israelis were murdered and 254 were kidnapped. Children were burned and women were raped. Adjusting for population size, this would be the numerical equivalent of 42,000 Americans killed and more than 8000 held hostage (God Forbid).

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April 8, 2024 | 9:07 am | 4 Comments »

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Let the people go!  

Gazans, desperate to relocate, represent less than one percent of recent global immigrations. Help them. 

By Dr. Michael L. Wise Apr 5, 2024,

My grandson has been serving in Gaza since day one. When he had cell phone access, he told me that he saw many people walking south and east. Then he said, “Zeide (Grandpa) Mike. ‘If these people go back up north there will be another war in just a few years.’”

How true. Israel must finally win a war. Peaceful Gazans who are desperate to relocate should be assisted to find homes in new host countries. All Hamas and all Hamas supporters must be removed from Gaza.

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April 8, 2024 | 7:51 am | 6 Comments »

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J.E. Dyer: Two pings on strike that killed food-aid workers in Gaza  

Tragedy strikes.

J.E. Dyer,

The first food delivery in March 2024 from World Central Kitchen in the Meals-on-Keels program, floating toward the jetty being newly constructed just south of the Gaza City Port.  Image: IDF via Times of Israel.

This will be two short pings.  The set-up is that PM Netanyahu has acknowledged the IDF role in the strike on 1 April, in which seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen (WCK), traveling in a group of two armored vehicles and one soft-skin vehicle in central Gaza, were tragically killed in an air strike.

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April 8, 2024 | 7:34 am | 2 Comments »

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Minister of Defense: ‘IDF left Khan Yunis to prepare for action in Rafah’  

Minister of Defense Gallant held an operational assessment at the Southern Command and discussed the IDF’s departure from parts of the Gaza Strip.

  Apr 7, 2024, 7:58 PM (GMT+3)

MInister Gallant and Major General Yaron FinkelmanShira Kenan

During the situation assessment, the Minister was presented with the main points of the operational activity in Khan Yunis and the Shifa Hospital area, as well as the operational preparation for the dismantling of the Rafah Brigade.

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April 8, 2024 | 6:10 am | 1 Comment »

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Who is Putin… and What if He is Gone?  

T. Belman. I asked Markovsky if he could write an article on Putin the “tyrant” or on how Putin made Russia Great Again.  He sent me this.

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER Oct 31, 2022

Speaking in Poland in March 2022, President Biden declared, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

Despite the White House’s denial, it is widely understood that the US policy is a regime change in Moscow and, by extension, the promotion of Western democracy in Russia. However, those who wish that Vladimir Putin would go away and work to that end must be aware that the gods often punish men by fulfilling their wishes too completely.

The Western folly is that Westerners measure Putin per their values. But Russia is different; one cannot understand Putin without understanding the Russian national character, which derives from more than a thousand years of history and embraces different values and ideals than those of Western Europeans and Americans.

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April 8, 2024 | 12:04 am | 39 Comments »

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The genocide case against Israel is an abuse of the postwar legal order  

By ROSALIE ABELLA   Jan 9, 2024

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Rosalie Silberman Abella is the Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2004 until her mandatory retirement in 2021.

The International Court of Justice is about to hear arguments in a case, brought by South Africa – the country that in 2015 refused to send former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for his contribution to war crimes in Darfur, and instead facilitated his return to Sudan where he continued his crimes – that alleges that Israel has not complied with the Genocide Convention and calls on the Court to order Israel to stop committing acts of “genocide” in Gaza.

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April 8, 2024 | 12:03 am | 2 Comments »

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It would be insane for Britain to ban arms sales to Israel  

E. Rowell: It is difficult, at times, to maintain one’s sanity in an insane world.  Difficult yes, but not impossible, as Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson points out.

The sooner we denounce the idea, the better

By Boris Johnson, DAILY MAIL    5 April 2024

There are claims of a Cabinet row amid suggestions Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron might soon be prepared to take a tougher line against Israel/©wire image

If you want an example of the death wish of Western civilisation, I give you the current proposal from members of the British establishment that this country should ban arms sales to Israel.

If you want evidence of government madness, it appears that Foreign Office lawyers are busily canvassing the idea — which has not, as far as I can tell, yet been rejected by the Foreign Secretary himself. He seems to have gone into a kind of purdah on the subject.

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April 8, 2024 | 12:02 am | 4 Comments »

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Two Weeks to Flatten The Curve Became Eight Months to Change the Election  

E. Rowell:  It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the efforts herein described constituted a coup d’état designed to ensure a Biden victory through diverse forms of ballot fraud.

By BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE    1 April 2024

In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots.

But Covid served as a pretext to overturn that tradition. Just 25% of votes in 2020 occurred at the polls on Election Day. Mail-in voting more than doubled. Key swing states eliminated the need to provide a valid reason to cast absentee ballots. The virus and racial justice became justifications to disregard verification methods like signature requirements.

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April 8, 2024 | 12:01 am | 1 Comment »

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When U.S. troops kill aid workers, it’s ‘friendly fire’. When Israel does, it’s a ‘war crime’.  

The double standards are nauseating

By Richard Littlejohn, DAILY MAIL    4 April 2024

ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in Iraq in 2003 after a U.S. soldier shot at the 4×4 vehicle he was travelling in that was clearly marked ‘TV’/Reuters

The call came through as I was leaving Twickenham after an England rugby international in March 2003. My old friend Terry Lloyd, the brilliant ITN correspondent, had been killed in Iraq.

He was on the outskirts of Basra, travelling in a 4×4 clearly marked ‘TV’. When the fog of war lifted, it was determined that the fatal shot had been fired by a U.S. soldier, who has never been identified. Terry’s translator also died and his French cameraman was missing, presumed dead.

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April 7, 2024 | 10:05 pm | 5 Comments »

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Biden Exploits a Tragic Israeli Mistake  

He forgets the mistaken U.S. missile strike that killed 10 innocents in Kabul in 2021.

The Editorial Board, WSJ    April 4, 2024

Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2. PHOTO: ISMAEL ABU DAYYAH/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel did the right thing this week by immediately investigating, taking responsibility and apologizing for its missile strike on Monday that killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza. Read more…

April 7, 2024 | 9:08 pm | 1 Comment »

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What happens if Israel does not go into Rafah? Look at Afghanistan  

The international community seems to have learned nothing from previous battles against jihadis

By Col. Richard Kemp, JEWISH CHRONICLE    3 April 2024

Humanitarian aid is dropped over the Gaza Strip as seen from Al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

There is no doubting Israel’s spectacular military success so far in Gaza. I have been on the ground inside the Strip several times since the war began, and have seen first hand the remarkable combat actions of the IDF.

They have all but taken apart Hamas as a coherent fighting organisation, while doing everything in their power to minimise civilian casualties and working round the clock to get humanitarian aid to the Gazan population, which I have also witnessed.

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April 7, 2024 | 9:05 pm | Comments »

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Dominion Voting Machine Fraud?  

Peloni: Highly recommended 18min video. More context for the explosive report recently shared by Patrick Byrne regarding the Uppercut submitted to SCOTUS

WolvesAndFinance    March 31, 2024

There have been shocking developments in the court cases with Dominion voting machines. Dominion has been suing anyone who suggests that the company was involved in cheating in the 2020 election. Now, I do not want to be sued. So, I am going to be breaking down what has happened using Dominion’s own words. And we are going to answer the question, has Dominion committed fraud?

**Links to all Source documents for this video are on my website at WolvesAndFinance.com.

April 7, 2024 | 8:07 pm | 1 Comment »

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UK Lawyers for Israel rebut anti-Israel letter to PM Sunak  

A letter to PM Sunak was published signed by a number of UK lawyers urging their Government to stop selling arms to Israel and to continue sending money to UNRWA, claiming that otherwise it may be in breach of international law. UK Lawyers for Israel responded.

By Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI    Apr 6, 2024, 11:23 PM (GMT+3)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in IsraelREUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP

10 Downing Street

London SW1A 2AA

4 April 2024

Dear Prime Minister

Below is an Open Letter from UK lawyers dated 3 April 2024

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April 7, 2024 | 7:20 pm | 1 Comment »

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