I came away from this journey through hell with even greater admiration for the remarkable courage and resilience of the people of Israel.

By Sam Hilt, FUTURE OF JEWISH            25 March 2024

The burned-out cars of Israelis who attended the Nova Music Festival on October 7th (photo: Gadi Cabelo)

This is a guest essay written by Sam Hilt, author of the forthcoming book, “Paradigm Wars.”

You can also listen to the podcast version of this essay on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.

Before my recent departure for Israel, several of my friends who follow the international news tactfully expressed their concerns about my travel plans.

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GREAT REVIEW OF LAST WEEKS EVENTS

A “Day After” Idea That Ought To Be In The Conversation

By Andrew Pessin                23 March 2024

[Be sure to check out my new novel, Bright College Years—about how the campus used to be, and perhaps could be again, before it devolved into dangerous self-mockery!…]

There are many competing ideas about “the day after” the Israel-Hamas war, about how to fill the dangerous vacuum left in Gaza should Israel succeed in destroying Hamas. Overlooked, however, is a particularly intriguing suggestion by the anonymous blogger Elder of Ziyon that deserves wider attention.

What are the main possibilities?

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T. Belman. Been there, done that.  Isn’t that how Hamas go started?

Security sources claim that it will be impossible to form a governmental alternative to Hamas, without armed groups in Gaza that are not affiliated with Hamas.

Israel National News    Mar 24, 2024, 10:01 PM

Security sources in Israel are examining the option of distributing guns to local leaders and clans in Gaza for the purpose of self-defense, Kan News reported on Sunday evening.

These leaders had been threatened with their lives after Israeli security officials contacted them and suggested that they replace the Hamas regime.

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By Daniel Greenfield, 24 Mar  24

At the heart of everything from the debate over the Gaza War to DEI to toxic interpersonal relationships is a disastrous loop known as the “self-reinforcing victim/villain” cycle.

The self-reinforcing victim/villain cycle is a deceptively simple and incredibly destructive paradigm for any kind of relationship, national, communal or personal, in which one party constantly attacks the other while claiming that it is the victim fighting against oppression.

The paradigm is guided by the idea that there is a permanently fixed victim and villain, that the victim is constantly suffering attacks from the villain and that anything the victim does is justified because he or she has no agency except to resist the assaults of the villain.

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by Jay Valentine at Omega4America.

Leftist election fraud happens every 2 year cycle – it just happens a little differently each time.

In 2024, the unique new fraud scheme – demonstrated in the data – at scale, in multiple states – now – is allegedly registering illegal aliens, flown in via the Biden Express, delivered to newly formed homeless addresses – then sending the migrants on their way – and collecting their ballots – and voting them.

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– Starring Joe Biden and Kamala (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY      Mar. 24, 2024 8:45 am

President Trump released an absolutely BRILLIANT campaign video on Joe Biden’s campaign lies.

Shocking video was released last week of hundreds of lawless illegal migrants rushing the southern border wall and breaking through razor wire to illegally enter the country.

Hundreds of illegal aliens from Africa, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela made a rush for the border in El Paso, Texas after they were pushed south of the concertina wire in the middle of the night by the National Guard.

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The U.S. taps Qatar to tap Hamas to build a humanitarian pier in Gaza, antisemitism goes medical, “Drag Show for Palestine,” and more!

By Joshua Hoffman, FUTURE OF JEWISH                                     24 March 2024

Editor’s Note: “What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.

Footage out of Gaza this past week showed that the free international aid is being sold in outdoor markets throughout the strip. Palestinians do not even bother taking it out of the aid boxes. Thus, the Palestinians can congratulate themselves on another successful scam pulled against the gullible West.

Other footage showed Hamas terrorists taking control of aid trucks the moment they cross into Gaza, escorted by International Red Cross and UNRWA vehicles. One of these trucks even had an interesting portrayal of Israel on it.

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By Victor Rosenthal, March 24, 2024

It is with great sorrow – and trepidation – that I observe America taking the side of Hamas in what is nothing less than the first phase of a war against the existence of the Jewish state.

Despite the declarations of “unbreakable bonds,” and “unconditional support,” the Biden administration is demanding that Israel not invade Rafiah, the last remaining stronghold of Hamas, the location of its leaders – and perhaps also of many or all of the roughly 100 living hostages still held by Hamas.

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Public sector unions worry they may lose grip on government

By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Friday, March 22, 2024

Swamp Creatures in Biden White House Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump learned many lessons from his four years in the White House. Perhaps none hits home harder than discovering the chief executive of the United States isn’t actually in charge of the federal government.

At every step of the way, Mr. Trump’s initiatives were thwarted by minor functionaries in his administration, egged on by corporate-owned media outlets lionizing members of “the resistance.”

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Peloni: A warning call written nearly three years ago regarding the relationship between Blinken and Malley and their disastrous policy of realignment with Iran which foreshadowed the growing crisis which is still unfolding today as that policy is still being pursued, long after Malley has been removed from his post for still unexplained reasons.

The U.S. secretary of state and his regional envoy Robert Malley played in the sandbox together as children in Paris but speak different languages when it comes to American foreign policy. The results may be the same.

by  Martin Peretz, Tablet Magazine,  April 13, 2021

Original photos: Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images; Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Antony Blinken has been secretary of state for less than 100 days. On the most important strategic issue facing the United States, China, and on the most important moral issue, human rights, he has marked those days with a brand of muscular internationalism that has been absent from Foggy Bottom for too long. He has labeled China’s treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority as genocide and taken a tough stance on trade imbalances, while committing to work with China on issues like the environment—using exact but firm language backed by coherent policy.
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E. Rowell:  Most of the coverage of this case has been discouraging at best.  Finally, someone with common sense and deep knowledge of American history puts the case in context.

It is obviously un-American for the government to develop a ‘hit list’ of citizens to mute in the public square through secret pressure on communications monopolies.

By Joy Pullman, THE FEDERALIST                                                     21 March 2024

NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE / X

The Biden administration attempted to distract the Supreme Court from the voluminous evidence of federal abuse of Americans’ speech rights during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri Monday. It sounded like several justices followed the feds’ waving red flag.

“The government may not use coercive threats to suppress speech, but it is entitled to speak for itself by informing, persuading, or criticizing private speakers,” said Biden administration lawyer Brian Fletcher in his opening remarks. He and several justices asserted government speech prerogatives that would flip the Constitution upside down.

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E.Rowell:  From Sun Tzu we learn: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”  The US is a country that, by Sun Tzu’s description, knows neither itself nor the enemy.  This is why the US has succumbed in every battle following World War II.  This article discusses the problem that inheres when the US government attempts to give advice to the Israeli government, which has won every battle it has fought.

Opinion: By continuing to assume Hamas wishes for the best for Palestinians in Gaza, the US falls for the terror group’s trap when it refuses to see it as the main cause of Gazan suffering.

By Atar Porat, YNET NEWS          21 March 2024

Recently, in one of the Pentagon’s press conferences ahead of the American mission to establish a causeway for aid in Gaza,

Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder was asked how the Administration was going to ensure the humanitarian aid reaches civilians and not Hamas.

In other words, the Israeli allegation is that the bulk of the aid gets stolen by Hamas the minute it enters the Gaza Strip via the land crossings. It does not reach the civilians – which helps Hamas maintain its war machine.

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But the Oneness that is the heart of both America and Israel is stronger and will survive.

By Shmuel Klatzkin   AMERICAN SPECTATOR                        23 March 2024

Separation wall erected by Israel to defend against terrorist attacks (Saeschie Wagner/Shutterstock)

The Berlin Wall was an emblem of oppression. Driven through the heart of a city, it spoke of immense and brutal power set against human liberty, by people so in love with their utopian vision that they would break up the lives and legacies of whatever they thought stood in their way.

A divided city, a divided country, speaks of divided lives. It is something good people may have to suffer. It is something that bad people create. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Is Chuck Schumer Motivated by Honor or Power?)

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By Con Coughlin, GATESTONE                                                                     24 March 2024

US Army mariners construct a “Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore” causeway adjacent to the MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher off the coast of Bowen, Australia, July 29, 2023. This is the type of floating pier that the US military has been tasked with building on the Gaza shore. (Photo by Sgt. Ashunteia’ Smith/U.S. Army via Getty Images)

NATO can’t save Ukraine from defeat and Europe’s leaders fear what happens next when that day inevitably arrives

By Stephen Bryen, ASIA TIMES                                                              22 March 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested sending NATO troops into to fight Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces in Ukraine. Image: Tass

Europe is facing defeat in Ukraine as its policies on the war go sideways. Europe’s approach is increasingly unreflective of the growing reality on the ground while growing efforts to punish Russia and promote sending troops to Ukraine appear counterproductive.

A good example of this is Germany, which has indicated it will keep supporting Ukraine and push its anti-Russia agenda. Chancellor Olaf Scholz no longer refers to Vladimir Putin as Russia’s president and now only speaks of the Russian leader by his last name, Putin.

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Douglas Murray, Sky News Australia  March 23, 2024

Author Douglas Murray has called for Israel to “extinguish” the war in Gaza by completely destroying Hamas and making sure they are never operationally capable again.

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Former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen warns against a Palestinian state: We need to explain to the world that we are dealing with a population that behaves in barbaric and sadistic manners.

Israel National News, Mar 24, 2024

Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen told Channel 12 News in an interview on Saturday night that he is “closer than ever” to joining politics, but added that he has not yet made a final decision on the matter.

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Peloni:  The move by the White House to preserve Hamas has never been based upon an electoral calculus.  It is simply part of the US realignment towards Iran and away from Israel.

Ian Schwartz, Washington Free Beacon, March 22, 2024

Former president Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 8 points in Michigan, according to a CNN poll released Friday.

The poll shows 50 percent of likely Michigan voters supporting Trump, with only 42 percent supporting Biden. Biden only holds a 35 percent approval rating in the state, while 40 percent of voters view Trump favorably.

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