The Strategic Significance of the Surrender of Hamas Terrorists

By Col (res) Dr. Eran Lerman, JISS                                                 26 March 2024

Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Debunking the myth that Islamist “heroes” are willing to fight to the death, unlike their secular nationalist predecessors in past wars against Israel, should be among the long-term goals of the present conflict. The evidence is increasingly available. Despite the deliberate lack of full disclosure and official data, it is safe to assert that the number of Hamas armed men (and others belonging to smaller terror groups) who have given themselves up in battle in Gaza has been rising since the beginning of 2024, specifically during the fighting in Khan Younis and Shifa Hospital. Beyond the intelligence value obtained and the possible leverage for the release of Israeli hostages, the symbolic signal that these images send is strategically significant.

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E. Rowell:  This article focuses on one piece of legislation that is part of a corpus of federal laws passed by Congress without the knowledge or consent of the American people and which make quasi-legal the transfer of power from the President to the HHS Secretary and thence to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (US DoD) in a declared “public health emergency.”  For a fuller appreciation of the degree to which laws have been put in place to support the US bioterrorism program, please see:  https://bailiwicknews.substack.com.

By Victor Dalziel, BROWNSTONE                                                 24 March 2024

In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.

On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final ruling to amend a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act. This allowed

…an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than a minimal risk to the human subject…

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BANNON’S WAR ROOM

Superstar journalist Lara Logan joined Steve Bannon on Tuesday to talk about her investigation into the details of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Logan urged listeners to pay attention to a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, emphasizing its catastrophic impact. She detailed how the attack targeted a bridge’s load-bearing pylons, disrupting vital supply chains for years. The speaker criticizes officials’ dismissal of terrorism concerns and highlights the gravity of the situation, urging for a thorough investigation. Logan warned against complacency and emphasized the need to understand the broader pattern of infrastructure vulnerability. She also addresses past security lapses and the potential consequences of ignoring current threats. Overall, they stress the urgency of recognizing and addressing national security risks.

T. Belman. Kontorovich offers the best defense of Israel I have ever listened to.

American Thought Leaders interviews Eugene Kontorovich Mar 30/24

While many say Gaza is becoming another “forever war,” expert Eugene Kontovorich says Israelis are actually on the verge of victory, with just one remaining Hamas stronghold to overcome.

But, he argues, the Biden administration seems to be holding Israel back from achieving this victory. Why?
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T. Belman. First I want to announce that Peloni and Eve Rowell have joined Israpundit as Assistant Editors.

Two days ago, I posted an interview of Mearsheimer on Ukraine and Gaza and said ignore his remarks on Gaza. This interview is also on Ukraine and Gaza but this time I advise to ignore the later part on Ukraine.

Peloni, Eve and I have all commented on what he had to say. Click on Read More and read what we had to say.

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We can see clearly now.

By Celia Farber, THE TRUTH BARRIER                                            24 March 2024

I watched this a few days ago, and some things fell into place.

It was, for the last 35 years or so, unseemly to hold the view that the Clintons were genuine, shock level criminals. Drugs, money laundering, corruption, and elimination of witnesses on a scale so vast it had to become impossible to believe. Since it was. “Unbelievable.”

Americans did not and could not believe it. And with this we were helped, by the fog machines. (Media. Punditry.)

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E. Rowell:  Dr. Nehls explains that the hippocampus is a very small part of the brain that temporarily stores new memories until they can be “uploaded” to other neurons during sleep.  If they cannot be uploaded to other neurons due to stress or inadequate sleep, due to the restriction in size of the hippocampus, these memories will be overwritten the next day, thus losing those prior memories.  If this happens for a prolonged period it results in [partial]loss of autobiographical memory:  the memories that make us who we are.  Note that all memories of experiences are encoded with the time of the experience, the place of the experience, and the feelings experienced at the time.  As a German, Dr. Nehls is warning us of a new kind of totalitarianism:  one that exploits the mind and has the technological capability to change it permanently.

The global war on humanity’s mental immune system

By Michael Nehls, MD, Ph.D.                                                           25 March 2024

The Indoctrinated Brain unveils a previously unidentified neurobiological mechanism of indoctrination that significantly alters personality. Overwhelming evidence suggests that battles against perpetual pandemics (with COVID-19 just the beginning, as per the WEF Risk Report 2023), uncontrollable climate change, and national borders are merely aspects of a singular, covert war on the human brain. The real battlefield is our autobiographical memory, and thereby the mental immune system of our society. The sharp decline in mental health across all age groups is not mere collateral damage of a flawed anti-COVID-19 strategy, but the logical outcome of a stealthy and sophisticated neuropathological indoctrination process. This process aims for a Great Mental Reset, positioning humanity to “willingly” accept a new totalitarian system from the outset, despite its fundamental incompatibility with human nature.

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By Allan J. Feifer, AMERICAN THINKER                                         30 March 2024

Image: AI’s understand of the common man speaking truth to power.

The America that I knew regularly performed miracles. We put men on the moon, dug the Panama Canal, invented the atomic bomb, and created the transistor. There was no limit to what we could do. Nothing seemed impossible.

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E. Rowell:  I agree with the author that the globalists have penetrated every aspect of the US governing elite and are hard at work trying to bring forth the Great Reset.  But at this point in time something quite different is going on.  It can only be described as A Great Awakening.  People of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, across the political spectrum are learning about the psychopaths governing us, and with every day comes new knowledge that our overlords have tried to keep hidden.  But despite having a censorship mercenary army and all mainstream media available they have failed to keep their crimes secret.  I disagree with Orwell’s comment that the masses never rise up on their own.  The Jews did, and the colonists in the “New World”  rose up against the mightiest empire in the world and won.

Biden just proclaimed this Easter Sunday as a “Transgender Day of Visibility.” NOT KIDDING.

By Peggy Tierney      30 March 2024

He also banned kids from using Christian designs at the White House Easter art contest and egg hunt! He wants to take Christianity out of Easter!

The Communists are now calling Christians “Easter worshippers.”

Do you get it yet? Valentine’s Day is now a day of Gun Control and Service to honor the Parkland Massacre.

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T. Belman.  This is crazy, Israel has the best record of avoiding civilian deaths. No one else comes close.

Yet the US says We will not accept any more thousands of innocent deaths in Rafah, like in Gaza and Khan Yunis.”

imra@imra.org.il

Joint Command Center and targeted raids: the American outline for activity in Rafah.

The American position that was conveyed to the Chief of Staff: “We will not accept any more thousands of innocent deaths in Rafah, as in Gaza and Khan Yunis.” In addition, the Americans expressed frustration that Israel had not yet prepared plans regarding the control of Gaza the day after.

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THE ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS YOU SEE IN JORDAN ARE ALL STAGED BY QUEENLET RANIA HERSELF, WHO CONTROLS JORDAN’S INTELLIGENCE. In reality, nobody could even come close to the Israeli embassy’s building without the Jordanian police facilitating it, let alone holding mass rallies right…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) March 30, 2024

E. Rowell:  What Nash describes appears to be a potential turning point in the war started by Hamas.  The UAE is offering to build the pier and is telling Team Biden that they have all the money and they do not have the hatred of Jews and Israelis that Qatar has.  The US has wanted the Iranian axis to have control of the Middle East, so they are most likely to try to stick with Qatar.  But doing so might just be an end run around Israel’s attempt to defeat Hamas.  Because if Qatar controls shipping into the port of Gaza, that will allow Hamas to re-supply and remake themselves.  If, on the other hand the US chooses the UAE, it will be a game changer.  It would be supportive of not just Israel, but of all the countries in the Middle East which are being threatened by Iran.

By Tom Nash                                                                                              29 March 2024

Biden claims he is a lifelong friend of the Jewish people and a Zionist, but these empty words are cover for a decades-long antipathy

BY JULIE STRAUSS LEVIN, TABLET

For some American Jews, the months since Oct. 7 have felt like a horror movie, as they watch, with increasing alarm, as our president—for whom many voted, and in whom many placed inviolable trust—seemed to, moment after crucial moment, throw Israel under the bus.

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As Defense Minister Gallant met with US envoy Amos Hochstein in DC, escalations by Hezbollah cast doubt on notion anything but a military solution will deter the terror group

Troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout image published January 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

The last few days on the Israeli border with Lebanon can be defined as violence-heavy. Both sides are on an escalatory ladder, and both are climbing it, trying to stay on top — while avoiding stepping too high.

A symmetry of sorts has taken shape in the north over the last five months, as Hezbollah has maintained its near-daily attacks on Israel and the Jewish state has responded in kind, a symmetry reflected not just in strikes but in the civilian toll as well. Just as Israel felt compelled to establish a kind of “security zone” in the north, evacuating tens of thousands of residents from towns near the border, similar action has been taken in south Lebanon. Some 80,000 residents of northern Israel have been forced to leave their homes amid the hostilities. According to Israeli estimates, more than 120,000 Lebanese have become internally displaced by the fighting.

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John Spencer / Times Radio / March 28, 2024

“Somebody who says 30,000 people dead is too much, even though it’s an existential threat to Israel… That means they want a much more violent world.” John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the War Institute, says there is no such thing as the right number of civilian casualties in Israel’s fight against Hamas: “that’s not the way war works.”

E. Rowell:  I thank the author of this article for her act of kindness in sharing these thoughts with us.  It shows how one act of kindness grows into other acts with effects unknown and unknowable far beyond earlier kindnesses.

By Julie Ponesse, BROWNSTONE                                                            29 March 2024

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.

Naomi Shihab Nye

It was one of those days.

Nothing catastrophic happened but it seemed that, if a little thing could go wrong, it did. The morning that began with a symphony of micro-disasters — stepping into a deceptively deep puddle and forgetting to put grounds in the Moka pot — culminated in a comical exit from the local grocer. One too many bags in one hand and an exasperated toddler in the other, just as I was getting a grip on my chaotic entourage, one of the bags gave way to a tumble of bruised bananas, runaway limes, and an upside-down carton of half-cracked eggs. Threads unraveling, whits end, all that.

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Americans are drowning in thousand-page rule books that stifle liberty.

By Donald Devine, AMERICAN SPECTATOR                               29 March 2024

Philip K. Howard speaks on fixing broken government in 2011 (Long Now Foundation/YouTube)

What would you think about a Washington insider who was a partner in a big D.C. lobbyist law firm called Covington & Burling, the founder of a self-identified “nonpartisan” advocacy group called Common Good, and was a self-described “radical centrist,” whose main goal was to reform government administration to make it more effective?

Your first impression would probably be wrong.

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Peloni: Tobin once again provides clarity for the path facing Israel:

“Those who care about Israel must take these lessons to heart and realize that the only solution to its current situation is for Jerusalem to ignore its critics and push through to victory, no matter how difficult that might be in terms of its military and diplomatic challenges.”

The answer to the Jewish state’s diplomatic dilemma is victory. Heeding the world’s demands to stop the war and let Hamas win will only make it worse.

Jonathan Tobin / JNS / March 29, 2024

Israeli flag. Credit: Pixabay.

Israel’s critics and outright foes are right about one thing: Nearly six months after the Oct. 7 massacres, its isolation is growing. With each day that the war against Hamas continues, more allies of the Jewish state are turning into critics, and more critics are turning into outright enemies. And those enemies are increasingly open about their belief that the problem isn’t so much the supposedly brutal tactics of the Israel Defense Forces in pursuing the elimination of Hamas terrorists as it is their belief that the one Jewish state on this planet is illegitimate.

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