MK Cohen to Arutz Sheva: ‘Europe made a big mistake when it opened its door to all the immigrants and now they are paying the price, but they have to understand this is not the maximum price. The price will be very much higher.’
By Hadassah Chen, Mar 5, 2024, 11:28 PM (GMT+2)
By Jay Solomon, SEMAFOR 4 March 2024
Federal Bureau of Investigation – public handout
The U.S. government is intensifying a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence operative who the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes has been plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including one-time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The FBI’s Miami field office on Friday issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani, a suspected member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, who the Bureau alleged has been recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials.”
By Nigel Drake, THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN 5 March 2024
IN HIS address to the nation on Friday, Rishi Sunak said: ‘Islamist extremists and the far right feed off and embolden each other.’ This casual reference to ‘far-right extremists’ is made again and again, almost always as some sort of leavening to placate all those people worried about right-wing extremists who, so the narrative runs, are lurking in the shadows, ready to revisit the horrors of The Third Reich upon us. But there is a problem. Not only is there, as Douglas Murray once remarked, a bit of a supply side shortage when it comes to right wing extremism, there is no such thing as the far right in politics.
E. Rowell: Think about these data when the WHO declares its next “pandemic.”
By Thomas Verduyn, PANDA UNCUT 28 February 2024
By Mordechai Ben-Menachem 11-03-2024
(Prepared for Israel News Talk Radio (oral presentation) and Israpundit (written presentation)
As is well known, the Gaza Strip is riddled with a vast complex of underground facilities, tunnels, bunkers, command centres and more. Many, if not most of these are interconnected as a complex network; some have rail lines, electricity and sewage facilities. The network consists of between 500 – 800 kilometres of tunnels, with thousands of peers (access points) from within virtually every United Nations / UNWRA facility, schools, clinics, kindergartens and in some areas, virtually every home.
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The PalestiNazis, if we are to put this in a nutshell, aspire to complete what the Nazis failed to do – the destruction of the Jewish people. The time has come for us to finally take them seriously and simply believe them, that they fully intend to do what they say. As now, it is not only their words that speak for themselves, but their actions too.
By Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM 3 March 2024
Palestinian rioters burn a Star of David with Swastika in Samaria | Screenshot: Social media
“Hitler” – the preacher Massoud Rian once informed his audience – “was sent by Allah to punish the Jews for their bad behavior… and the Jews well and truly deserve their punishment.” Rian delivered his inflammatory filth as part of the “enlightened” Jewish-Arab struggle against the demolition of the illegal construction site of Khan al-Ahmar, not far from the location of the fatal terrorist attack perpetrated by three PalestiNazis near the town of Ma’ale Adumim just last week. His “illuminating” words were broadcast live on Palestinian TV.
By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE 5 March 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is welcomed by PLO Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh, in Ramallah on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
T.Belman. The Jordan Option provides that Israel will be the sovereign from the river to the sea. In adition, It is also a two state solution. Jordan will be renamed Palestine and the Jordan River will be the border between the two states as it is now.
Netanyahu agrees with this when he says Israel ‘s military will remain in control. That makes us the sovereign.
Annexation of both Gaza and the Territories will provide us with a secure homeland from the river to the sea; the sooner we embrace this concept, the sooner our future, with G-D’s help, will be assured. Op-ed.
By Daniel Greenfield, 04 Mar 11:03 PM
After Biden came home from his Caribbean vacation, the Deputy Defense Secretary came back from hers and the Secretary of Defense was on the verge of being released from the hospital, airstrikes were finally authorized against the Houthi Jihadis attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Biden said that the air strikes sent “a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes.”
T. Belman. Coming from Gantz, the messge was all the more important than if it came from Bibi. According to most surveys, Gantz is expected togarner more seats than Likud. His message shows how united Israel is.
‘Ending the war without clearing out Rafah is like sending a firefighter to extinguish 80% of the fire,’ Minister Benny Gantz tells National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Israel National News Mar 5, 2024, 8:40 AM (GMT+2)
Among other things, Gantz told National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that “ending the war without clearing out Rafah is like sending a firefighter to extinguish 80% of the fire,” Israel Hayom reported.
Peloni: The result of the leaked proposal will be nothing more than a more egregious replay of the failed Gas Deal which the US forced Israel to accept to no benefit under the lame duck premiership of Lapid. The need to not repeat such a pursuit of failure is made even greater in wake of the Simchat Torah Massacre. The only settlement possible must result in Hezbollah complying with UNSC Res. 1701 and 1559. The Chamberlain-esque efforts to advance the interests of Hezbollah over Israel must be utterly rejected.
A ceasefire should not become an end in itself. The goal needs to be the security of civilians on both sides of the border. That is not what the leaked proposed agreement provides.
Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi | INN | Mar 5, 2024
Lt. Col. (Res) Sarit ZehaviAlma Research Center
According to a report broadcast several days ago on Israel’s Channel 11, various Lebanese media reports carried new details of the plan being promoted by US envoy Amos Hochstein. The plan contains a ceasefire framework for Israel and Lebanon.
Hochstein is the US Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, and he has been conducting shuttle diplomacy between Israel and Lebanon in an effort to broker a ceasefire.
A US official tried to convince Turkey to provide more funds after Washington froze its donations following Israeli claims that Unwra staff were involved in the 7 October attack
By Ragip Soylu | Middle East Eye | 4 March 2024
A man carries aid distributed by Unwra in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 3 March (AFP)
The US encouraged Turkey to provide additional donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) during high-level diplomatic talks earlier this year, despite pausing its funding to the organisation.
Rep. Cory Mills and David Makovsky, President & CEO, JINSA
Hamas terrorists. As Israel prepares to enter Hamas’s final stronghold, Rafah, the United States should ensure Israel has as much time as it needs to fully defeat Hamas.
Fighting terrorists who wear no uniform in urban terrain is complicated—as one of us learned during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, battlefields that, however terrible, were simpler than Gaza. Operating in such a complex environment takes time, particularly for a military as dedicated to protecting civilians as the IDF.
By C. Douglas Golden, WESTERN JOURNAL/GATEWAY 4 Mar 2024
Is this how you end a war?
On Saturday, The Times of Israel reported U.S. forces made the first airdrop of supplies over the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip — roughly 38,000 meals for the people in the place that elected the terrorist organization that launched the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
U.S. Central Command said it and the Jordanian Air Force “conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza … to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict.”
By Eddie Scarry, THE FEDERALIST 22 February 2024
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America isn’t free and elections can’t be fair if a former president can be the subject of a shakedown by his political opposition.
Voters in a few months are supposed to cast a ballot for their preferred presidential candidate. Meanwhile, we just watched one of our major political parties attempt to literally bankrupt the likely nominee of the other, and seize his property.
Whatever you want to say of America anymore, it can’t possibly be called free and our elections aren’t anything close to fair.
Opinion: Proposing a cease-fire with Germany without the complete surrender of the Nazis would’ve been considered insane; same goes for the axis of evil which has already announced that as soon as Israel holds her fire, it will renew its effort to destroy the Jewish state.
By Ben-Dror Yemini, YNET NEWS 3 March 2024
Pro-Palestinian rally in Cyprus/Photo: REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
When the Luftwaffe carried out the blitz on London, it was a war crime. When the Americans and British bombed Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed. But it was not a crime. This was a necessity in order to defeat the Nazi axis of evil.
When the U.S. launched the war on terror, bombing Fallujah, Mosul and Raqqa among others to defeat al Qaeda or ISIS, hundreds of thousands were killed. This was not a war crime. It was a necessity, even though there was no existential threat to the West.
The world is pressuring Israel about the crisis in Gaza, while ignoring the men, women and children who are being abused and starved in Hamas captivity.
By Ruthie Blum, JNS 3 March 2024
Palestinians receive food supplies at an UNRWA school in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 28, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
The day after President Joe Biden announced that the United States would begin airdrops of humanitarian aid to Gaza, U.S. military planes parachuted pallets of food and water over the beach in the southwest of the Strip.
Biden made this declaration during a joint press briefing on Friday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who claimed that the “humanitarian crisis [in Gaza] is our No. 1 priority.”
Pressure on Israel to agree to pay an exorbitant ransom for the hostages that will grant victory to Hamas isn’t just politically motivated. It’s a betrayal of American interests.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM 3 March 2024
A late-night comedy show isn’t the place you generally go for insights on the prospects for stability in the Middle East. But the appearance this week of President Joe Biden on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” gave us more than just another example of the broadcast network’s daily in-kind contributions to the Democrats and Biden’s re-election campaign.
The fawning interview served up softballs to the 81-year-old president, intending to undermine concerns about his age and declining abilities. It also served as an opportunity for him to tell us just what the United States stands for in international affairs. The fuzzy rhetoric of the president about being a “Zionist” notwithstanding, his statements about what he wants to happen in the Middle East showed that he was primarily interested in currying favor with his party’s intersectional left wing that despises Zionism and that is well-represented in Hollywood. Working to ensure that Islamist terrorists no longer pose a threat to Israelis or Americans wasn’t high on his “To Do” list.
Despite the spittle-flecked protesters on college campuses chanting in fascistic unison that “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which means, if properly understood, that the tiny Jewish state should disappear in order that it might be replaced by a twenty-third Arab one, despite the anti-Israel animus displayed on the nightly news and in the major newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, despite the Bidenites’ distancing themselves from Israel as it fights its fourth war for survival — the previous three being those of 1948, 1967, and 1973 — and so much attention is given to the civilian casualties in Gaza by those who fail to understand that Israel has a lower civilian-to-combatant ratio of deaths in the current war (4:3) than has been attained by any other army in the world, it turns out that the Americans, or more than four-fifths of them, support the plucky little state whose existence has never been a given.
