War update: Ukraine’s ground counterattacks failed but it claims Russian ship sunk with unmanned surface vehicle
By Stephen Bryen, ASIA TIMES 6 March 2024
A U.S. M1A2 Abrams fires during the 2022 Sullivan Cup at the Army Armor School on Fort Benning, Ga., April 29, 2022. The Sullivan Cup is a biennial competition held at Fort Benning, GA, to evaluate the performance of the best tank crews from across the Armor Branch, the U.S. Marine Corps and international partner militaries. (Photo by Spc. Joshua Taeckens) Credit: Spc. Joshua Taeckens
A number of counterattacks by the Ukrainians, in some cases using reserve forces, have taken place along the line of contact. While reports are not yet complete, it appears that all the Ukrainian attempts to roll back Russian gains have failed, with the possible exception of Robotyne.
Meanwhile the Russians have either taken or will soon take a number of villages including Ivaniska, Bilohorivka, Berdichev, Pobjeda and Novomikhailovka.
By El Gato Malo, BROWNSTONE 5 March 2024
There is a wonderful quote from noted scary fascist (back when fascism was still a vogue and “the coming thing”) Oscar Benavides who was president of Peru from 1933-39. it’s as apposite as ever today:
To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law.
It really says it all, doesn’t it?
by Jonathan Spyer, JNS March 5, 2024
https://www.meforum.org/65635/
The IDF has registered significant tactical successes in the fighting since Oct. 7. Yet, the strategic scoreboard currently favors Iran.
When I was resident in northern Iraq in the summer of 2019, an Iranian acquaintance told me that in understanding the regional strategy of his country, I should bear in mind that while “other nations will kill you with iron, the Iranians will kill you with cotton.” The phrase stayed with me. I later learned that it is a famous Persian expression. In the context in which we discussed it, my friend wanted me to grasp the subtle, patient and slow moving nature of Iranian strategy in the Middle East. He also wanted me not to confuse patience with an absence of lethal seriousness of purpose.
By Arlene Kushner. March 6, 2024
Attribution: https://arlenefromisrael.info arlene@arlenefromisrael.info
I can hear my readers asking, “But wait! Hasn’t Israel been embroiled in some very tough days for some time now?”
Indeed! But we are gearing up for increased difficulties with the beginning of Ramadan on March 10. Ramadan: the “holy” Muslim month that has a long-standing tradition of violence against Jews.
Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., senior research scientist in epidemiology specializing in chronic diseases at the Yale University School of Public Health, on Monday provided compelling testimony on what he believes accounts for the “crushingly obsessive push to COVID-vaccinate every living person on the planet.”
By Michael Nevradakis Ph.D., CDM 27 February 2024
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles covering Monday’s U.S. Senate roundtable discussion, “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?” hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Read earlier coverage here.
Government officials covered up the origins of COVID-19 and “forced” the vaccination of millions of people worldwide to “protect the integrity of the bioweapons industry,” according to a senior research scientist in epidemiology specializing in chronic diseases at the Yale University School of Public Health.
Exports to China, Venezuela soar as Iran-backed terror forces target Western cargo ships
By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON 4 March 2024
Iranian oil tanker in Carabobo, Venezuela (Getty Images)
Illicit Iranian oil sales have hit $90 billion under the Biden administration, with the proceeds helping Tehran’s regional terror proxies fund an unprecedented wave of attacks on Israel, American forces, and Western shipping vessels.
Caroline Glick | JNS | March 5, 2024
UNRWA launches an investigation against Israel as further evidence proves their collusion with Hamas, Kamala Harris demands a ceasefire comparing Palestinians to blacks in the US, and Gantz discovers there is an Israel problem not a Netanyahu problem.
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.
