Peloni: And just like that, the three Mc’s will be gone.  The fact that McConnell will remain til after the election will maintain his significant influence on the party during the coming election, but it gives the MAGA team just one more incentive to press forward towards victory in November.  If Trump wins, there will be a real contest for McConnell’s replacement to actually represent the American people and not the Washington elites, RINO establishment, and their Chinese allies.

By MICHAEL TACKETT Feb 28, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.

McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders.

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What’s happened with the rise of the web censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself, backed covertly by the US State Department. It can happen here. Op-ed.

By Ezequiel Doiny, INN                                                   27 February 2024

Ezequiel Doiny

On February 25, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak shared his plan for how to force the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign. In an interview with Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) Barak said ‘We need 30 thousand citizens to encircle the Knesset in tents for three weeks, day and night. When the state is shut down – Netanyahu will realize that his time is up and that there is no trust in him.'”

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B. Kalman: While Biden does need the support of the US Muslim community to win the election, this is only the manifest issue.  The latent agenda is to see to it that Israel does not win the war against Hamas.  The goal is to permanently cripple Israel’s national security or destroy Israel.  Of course they couch it in terms of humanitarian concerns but there is not even a shred of real humanitarian concern behind the constant accusations against Israel.  The truth is, Israel cannot be allowed to survive and thrive.  Those currently in power cannot tolerate a strong national sovereignty of any country, and certainly not that of the nation state of the Jews.  Thus they will try to destroy Israel’s war effort every which way they can.  Let us hope they do not succeed.

By Colonel (res) Gabi Siboni, JEWISH POLICY CENTER

The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security    28 Feb 2024

The IDF is operating in the Gaza Strip to implement the directives of the political echelon. The objectives the cabinet defined for the army at a meeting on October 16, 2023  are: toppling the Hamas regime and destroying its military and governmental capabilities, removing the terrorist threat from the Gaza Strip, creating conditions for the return of the hostages, defending the borders of the state and its citizens while removing the security threat from Gaza, while leaving the IDF full freedom of action without restrictions on the use of force. The IDF is succeeding in systematically dismantling Hamas, although the fighting in Gaza is fierce and exacts painful costs. After more than four months of war, the IDF has taken control of the northern Gaza Strip and has full operational freedom of action in the area. The forces operate in a variety of ways to continue cleansing Hamas infrastructure – above and below ground. Progress has also been made in Khan Yunis, where the IDF is eliminating terrorists and destroying their infrastructure.

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Topics covered by Gen. Avivi:

*War update
*Rafah
*The Day After controversy
*The distinction between the views of the leaders of the IDF and that of the IDFS
*Expected changes in IDF leadership in the future
*The Heredim and the IDF
*The political push towards division in the Israel

Amir Avivi | IDSF | February 26, 2024

Brigadier General Res Amir Avivi provided an update on the war in Gaza and the state of the IDF leadership.

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Peloni: See breakdown on details of Harvard Harris poll below the article

Biden said that the Jewish state’s “incredibly conservative government” risked losing it international support.

JNS / February 28, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night hit back at U.S. President Joe Biden for claiming that the Jewish state’s “incredibly conservative government” risked losing it international support.

“Since the start of the war, I have been leading a diplomatic campaign to block pressure designed to end the war prematurely and to secure strong support for Israel,” said Netanyahu in a video message.

“We have had considerable success. Today, a Harvard-Harris poll was published which shows that 82% of the American public supports Israel, meaning that four out of five U.S. citizens support Israel and not Hamas,” he continued.

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T. Belman.  The purpose of this demand is to give the US the power to say Israel is violating international law, whether they are or not, and therefore weapons will be “paused.  It is similar to their dictates regarding “settler violence”.

There is a distinction between Customay humanitarian law, which nobody follows, and Treaty humanitarian law, that Israel follows better than anyone else.

Officials tell Axios that Biden administration gave Israel until mid-March to sign letter that provides assurances that it will abide by international law while using US weapons in Gaza.

Israel National News   Feb 28, 2024, 2:09 AM (GMT+2)

The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” February 27, 2024,

Secretary of State Antony Blinken represents conventional wisdom when claiming that “It’s been longstanding US policy… that new settlements are… inconsistent with international law.”

However, conventional wisdom is frequently demolished by the march of facts.

For instance:

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What are Israel’s declared strategies and aims in Gaza—and how do they compare to the alternatives?

By Azar Gat, INSS                                                         26 FEBRUARY 2024

This article proposes that the declared aims of the war in the Gaza Strip and the strategy chosen to promote them are fundamentally essential, appropriate for the situation, and achievable, even if they do not lead to a “solution” in the foreseeable future. It reviews the alternatives proposed with respect to the aims and conduct of the war and argues that they lack internal coherence and do not meet the test of reality.

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T. Belman. Nashe points out that the with the deal with the US who in turn made a deal with Lebanon, for ownership of a small gas field that belonged to Israel Also included a promise by Lebanon to rein  in Hezbollah which they have yet to do. Israel is now threateing to cancel the deal if Lebanon does deal with Hezbollah.

TOM NASH REPORT

The international community, through UNRWA, funded a vast portion of Hamas’ operations by freeing it to focus on terrorism rather than health and education. Op-ed.

By Asaf Romirowsky & Alex Joffe       Feb 26, 2024, 8:24 AM (GMT+2)
UNRWA: Jerusalem schoolJamal Awad/Flash90.

The discovery of a Hamas server farm beneath the United Nations Relief and Relief Agency (UNRWA) ‘s Gaza headquarters culminates a catastrophic few months for the world’s largest welfare organization.

Israeli intelligence recently found that at least a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the October 7 massacres, and at least 1,200 had ties to Hamas.

In addition, UN Watch released a report showing tha
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A massive increase in foreign money and students on American campuses is driving radicalization and subsidizing institutional failure

By Nedetu Arnold, TABLET    FEB 27, 2024

Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine on the Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023 in New York City.

By Deborah Heine, AMERICAN GREATNESS     26 February 2024

The scientist who first blew the whistle on the DNA contamination in the COVID mRNA injections last year, said Monday that regulators and fact checkers have been “continually wrong” about his alarming discovery, downplaying its significance and telling flat out lies about the potential dangers.

Last April, microbiologist Kevin McKernan, published a paper establishing that simian virus 40 (SV40), a virus found in monkeys and humans, is present in Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 injections. The discovery was highly significant because SV40 has been linked to cancer in humans, and since the rollout of the mRNA products, the western world has seen a dramatic increase in cancers, especially in previously healthy working aged people.

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T. Belman. This article includes a review of Israel-India relations since ’47 and ’48.

BY ASHOK KUMAR, JACOBIN

Port in Gujarat, India. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the 135th day of Israel’s relentless onslaught on Gaza, a resolute voice emerged from India’s maritime labor force. The Water Transport Workers Federation (WTWF), representing fourteen thousand workers, including 3,500 stationed at eleven of India’s twelve major ports, heeded the call by Palestinian trade unions. They courageously declared they would refuse to handle weapons destined for Israel.

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She Totally Debunks The Western Narrative — MUST READ!!

Maria Mateiciuc @MariaMateiciuc

I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends.

Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie.

The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine “winning” this war.

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Avi Abelow | Pulse of Israel | February 26, 2024

T. Belman. Right from the beginning I questioned the western narrative because their narratives are all gaslinghting. I argued that Navalny was under control, why would Putin have him murdered. And then when Putin released his body to his family, he wan’t concerned with what an autopsy would show.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240226_06/

The head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from a blood clot, denying speculation that he was killed while in prison.

Kyrylo Budanov was quoted as telling reporters on Sunday that “I may disappoint you, but we know he died from a blood clot,” adding that it was “more or less confirmed.”

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