T. Belman.  Absolutely not. The Palestinians are our enemy. Don’t make a distinction betwee the terrorists and the “innocent”  Palestinians.

Some 90,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank are employed in Israel.

By ELIAV BREUER, JPOST JANUARY 17, 2024 14:18

The Likud’s ministers in the government should not support any decision to allow Palestinian workers from the West Bank into Israel, 12 Likud Members of Knesset (MKs) and two ministers wrote in a petition addressed to the other ministers of the Likud on Wednesday.

The petition followed an admission by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday that Israel was considering a pilot program for the entry of Palestinian workers aged 45 and older, and after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned this week that not allowing Palestinians to work in Israel would strengthen Hamas in the West Bank and ultimately lead to a deterioration in the security situation.

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By Daniel Pipes, MEF                                                   17 January 2024

North Korea operates an illegal arms smuggling network used to finance its nuclear weapons program, across the world, according to US and UN investigators. 

By J. Post Staff, JPOST                                     17 January 2024

NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong Un inspecting nuclear warheads at an undisclosed location.  (photo credit: KRT/via Reuters TV/Handout via Reuters)

During the war in Gaza, the IDF recovered large quantities of weapons from the Gaza Strip that apparently were produced in North Korea, as reported by the South Korean National Intelligence Service.

Since these weapons were seized, new information has been published revealing the current and historical relationship between North Korea and Hamas, as well as other terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Syria, and the Houthis, according to a study by the Stimson Research Institute.

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A new chapter is opening, our people, the Jordanians ?? and Palestinians ?? will see the Israelis ?? and the Jews as our partners in prosperity, not as our competitors.
For nearly eight decades, the forces of evil have been fuelling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and have done…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) January 16, 2024

By Howard Rotberg, NER

“As for legal niceties, the team of august lawyers Israel summoned to the Hague gives a shot in the arm to the ICJ, signalling that Israel concedes the case can be won on legalities. Israel was naive to rely only on jurists to defeat antisemites. One expert on anti-Israel propaganda could be worth a bench full of gowns.”  – Steve Apfel

Starting tomorrow in movie theaters all over the U. S. & on “Hulu”, this trailer will be planted between trailers for the featured movies that are now running. This is to help the hostage families to show the horror movie that they have been living for the last 100 days! pic.twitter.com/fI5Q5b9YAm

— Jeff R (@Jrr614) January 13, 2024

By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
January 16, 2024,

Irrespective of Israel’s wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, Intel, the semiconductor giant, confirmed a $25 billion investment in Israel, leveraging Israel’s brain power, which has enhanced Intel’s competitiveness in the global market.  Over the last 50 years, Intel has invested over $50 billion in Israel, establishing 4 research and development centers, despite the potential for wars and actual wars and terrorism.

Intel will expand its Israeli chip factory, in order to diversify its manufacturing potential amid a chip arms race (New York Times, December 27, 2023).*Challenged by a unique environment – top heavy on terrorism and war, but low on natural resources and rainfall – Israel has bolstered its do-or-die state of mind, with defiance of odds, risk-taking, frontier, pioneering, optimism, patriotism, can-do and out-of-the-box mentality. This has yielded a robust flow of game-changing commercial, defense and dual-use technologies.

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By Martin Sherman 

The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries. 

Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat –Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad– Euripides, a man of letters in ancient Greece (c.?480 – c.?406 BC)

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.—attributed to Albert Einstein

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By: Yigal Carmon, MEMRI

The Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab mosque in Doha (Source: Al-sharq.com, August 4, 2022).

Introduction

Two developments with dangerous and even explosive repercussions for the standing and interests of both the U.S. and Israel in the Middle East occurred in the last few days.

1. The U.S. has extended its presence at Qatar’s Al-Udeid airbase – CENTCOM’s main airbase in the region – for another 10 years: In recent weeks, there has been criticism of Qatar for its sponsoring of terrorism, causing President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to maintain ambiguity about the future of the U.S.-Qatar alliance. This follows years of frequent undeserved U.S. praise for Qatar.

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By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE BLOG 14 Jan 2024

NBC published an extensive article outlining how the DC administrative state is responding to the potential for another President Trump victory [SEE HERE].

Once again, a very specific name surfaces who is part of the organizational effort to stop Donald Trump.

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As time goes by.

By J.E. Dyer, OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE     15 January 2024

Bonus: the Houthis are firing at U.S.-linked shipping.

Moreover, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed credit itself for an attack in Iraq that would equate to the most recent attack on U.S. assets in Erbil.

That’s a major escalation:  an “in your face” political signal.

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It is the tiny disconnected far left elites in the media, universities, and Jewish-progressive foundations who have tremendous influence on IDF senior officials and career government staff, many of them retired failures, and want us to repeat their terrible mistakes.

By Avi Abelow, INN      Jan 16, 2024, 7:00 AM

Senior leadership of IDF and Shabak are now “advising” the government to allow Arab Muslim workers from Judea and Samaria to work in Jewish communities throughout Israel again as well as advising the government to strengthen the Palestinian Authority.

Many Israelis are in shock, because that was the exact “expert” advice they gave about allowing Gaza workers to work in Israel and giving Hamas money, to help them out economically and prevent terror. In the end, the massacre on Oct. 7th proved that theory tragically wrong. In the end, Gazan workers acted as spies, took part in the massacre, and celebrated with the whole Gazan population as the massacre was taking place. Israelis are in shock that the defense establishment is still stuck with the flawed strategic thinking of Oct. 6th!

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T. Belman. Ritter shows himself as antisemitic and pro-Palestinian. That aside he paints a very bleak picture for Israel and the US. Neither can sustain a regional war economically. The US can’t defeat the Houthies backed by Iran and Israel can’t defeat Hezbollah. If Israel attacks Lebanon, she may lose the Galilee to Hezbollah. China and Russia are lurking in the background, looking to take advantage of any opportunites that may arise.

Whether you agree with him or not, you should be aware of his arguments, Macgregor also paints a bleak picture for Israel and even said Israel will not exist in 20 years. In his last video he also claims that Eliminating the US Military from the ME is inevitable. Glick says Eisenkop wants Israel to accept defeat and cut her losses. So who is gas-lighting whom?

The Caroline Glick Show

Peloni : May the best man win…What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. We will see come November when Trump wins his historic third election in a row against the Uniparty’s best efforts of skullduggery, shenanigans, and cheating.

AP News, January 15, 2024

Donald Trump has won the Iowa Republican caucuses. The Associated Press declared the former president the winner based on an analysis of early returns as well as results of AP VoteCast. Initial results showed Trump with far more than half of the total votes counted as of 8:31 pm. ET, with the rest of the field trailing far behind. AP VoteCast shows Trump with sizable leads among both men and women, as well as every age group and geographic regions throughout the state. At stake are Iowa’s 40 delegates to the Republican National Convention, as well as bragging rights and momentum heading into the New Hampshire primary next week and next month’s contests in Nevada and South Carolina.

Peloni:  An important discussion relating to the October 7 failures by the IDF.  Also Mike raises the concern that the war with Hamas has shifted the priorities from Iran to Hamas on a host of different ways, and thereby provides Iran with just one more victory to hearald from October 7.  In addition to this, Gadi raises the issue that Israel ‘dodged the bullet’ on October 7 when Hamas acted alone in attacking Israel.  Mike and Gadi both agree that this war was intended to be waged after Iran had the bomb, but that Hamas ‘jumped the gun’.  A very informative conversation as usual.

BY Michael Doran & Gadi Taub, Tablet    JANUARY 14, 2024

A newly published investigative piece in Israel’s daily Yedioth Ahronoth recounts the blow by blow failure of Israel’s army on that fateful morning. How could a low-tech relatively small terror organization outsmart a high-tech giant with a modern state behind it? Michael Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the main findings. Evidently, Hamas understood exactly how the IDF operates, while the IDF made erroneous speculations about Hamas’s intentions at the expense of studying its MO and its capabilities.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS                          14 January 2024

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a meeting with Police officers from the Riot unit, in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni

Following a Saturday night report that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had stormed out of a war cabinet meeting when his aides were asked to leave, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attacked Gallant and Minister Benny Gantz in an interview on the popular right-wing news panel, “The Patriots.”

Ben Gvir’s main point was that Gantz and Gallant don’t like it when fellow ministers ask them tough questions during cabinet meetings.

“I’ll put it this way,” Ben Gvir told the right-wing Channel 14 panel, “There are those who try to silence us. It’s no secret that we ask questions, myself, Miri Regev, Smotrich, too. And unfortunately, there is someone out there who wants to discourage us from asking questions.”

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