T. Belman. It is significant that the NYT published this letter.  It supports the narrative I have been publishing.

Signers say the conflict will be ‘our undoing’ if we don’t ‘dedicate ourselves to forging a diplomatic settlement that stops the killing.’

by Blaise Malley, RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT   17.5.23

An open letter calling for a swift diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine was published on Tuesday in the New York Times. The letter’s 14 signatories consisted mostly of former U.S. military officers and other national security officials, including Jack Matlock, Washington’s former ambassador to the Soviet Union; Ann Wright, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat; Matthew Hoh, a former Marine Corps officer and State Department official; and Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff.  
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Galina:

Scott Ritter

In Russia, he is presented as a retired Marine Corps intelligence officer and former US Rapid Deployment Force analyst.

His military career was “put an end” after he was suspected of working for foreign intelligence. Scott married Marina Khotiashvili, a former Soviet translator who was linked to the KGB by US intelligence agencies. Ritter was fired and forced to testify before the US Senate. After those events, he immediately became an insane critic of the international policy of the United States and NATO, and later a sympathizer of the Kremlin.
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by Avi Abelow, ISRAEL UNWIRED     January 5, 2023

17,000 Scientists and Physicians warn that the COVID vaccine, which they identify as an experimental gene therapy injection must end.

These doctors are concerned because the believe the data now clearly shows that the shots cause far more harm than good, with those who get vaccinated actually being more at risk of disease and death than the unvaccinated. They are concerned because they see a huge uptick in damage to the heart, brain, reproduction, lungs, and immune system directly linked to the vaccine.

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By Mordechai Ben Menachem

I disagree with Walter Russell Mead’s arguments in

The Citizens of this Extraordinary State have every Reason to look Forward with Hope

“Disregarding Truman’s pleas and warnings from Western military leaders that they faced certain defeat, the Jews of Palestine voted for independence. They went on to win the War of Independence, thanks largely to an influx of Soviet-bloc weapons from Czechoslovakia, but 75 years later questions about its future still swirl around the Jewish state.”

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By: Z. Harel, MEMRI   18.5.23

Introduction

The Kingdom of Jordan has lately increased the level of its involvement in the Palestinian Authority (PA). There seem to be two main reasons for this. One is the security escalation that has occurred in the absence of any progress towards a resolution to the Palestinian problem, and the other is Jordan’s fear that chaos may erupt in the West Bank after the departure of 87-year-old PA President Mahmoud ‘Abbas, especially given the poor performance of the PA and the absence of a clear mechanism for the transfer of power, as well as the deep intra-Palestinian schism.

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Zelensky says Ukraine shot down 16 of the 18 missiles
Macgregor said the opposite is true. The 18 missiles were very successful.

by Alisha Rodriguez, REPUBLIC BRIEF    May 17, 2023

A project run by The Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit organization that controvertibly utilized Mark Zuckerberg’s money to increase Democratic voter turnout in the 2020 election, is buying space for regional election offices to store voting equipment and ballots.

The Alliance for Election Excellence (AEE), led by Tiana Epps-Johnson and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), started with almost $100 million in April 2022 and is responsible for providing private funding for the nation’s election infrastructure. According to reports, the CTCL disobeyed local election officials and used mail-in voting in the 2020 campaign to boost turnout in districts that were virtually entirely Democratic. The CTCL allegedly used hundreds of millions of dollars from the founder of Facebook’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to get mail-in votes before the election, demonstrating the partisan conflict of interest by supporting the conversion of many election offices to vote-by-mail.

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The Christie’s auction had drawn criticism because it featured gems from the estate of a woman whose husband bought businesses from Jews pressured to sell because of Nazi persecution.

By Zachary Smal, SHURAT HADIN May 15, 2023

The jewelry sale was controversial because the fortune that helped to purchase items, such as this Bulgari colored diamond and emerald bracelet, was built in part on the discounted purchases of Jewish businesses. Credit…Christie’s, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Criticism from historians and Jewish organizations did little to dim the sale at Christie’s of jewels bought with a fortune built in part atop profits made from the Aryanization of Jewish businesses during the Holocaust.

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By Olesya Astakhova, REUTERS   and Parisa Hafezi

MOSCOW, May 17 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday oversaw, via video-link, the signing of a deal to finance and build an Iranian railway line as part of an embryonic international North–South Transport Corridor.

The Rasht-Astara railway is seen as an important link in the corridor, intended to connect India, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and other countries via railways and sea – a route that Russia says can rival the Suez Canal as a major global trade route.Report an ad

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Republicans and Democrats have run their course. Throw the bums out. All of them.

By Dan Gelernter, AM GREATNESS  May 15, 2023

I said before the 2022 midterms that our choice of candidates doesn’t matter—and the elections won’t matter—unless we address voter fraud. That remains the case today, as we look forward to the next presidential election.

Democrats have known for a long time that voters by and large do not want them running the country. Voters don’t want to live in a feudal oligarchy where they work their entire lives to subsidize a jet-setting elite who tell them they can’t own gas stoves or prevent drag queens from visiting their children in school. And while it was enough, for a time, simply to lie about what they intended to do, Democrats discovered that it was more effective in the end to disconnect voters from the process of choosing who runs the government.
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Why the Deafening Silence from Antisemitism Envoy Deborah Lipstadt?

Zionist Organization of America President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

On Monday, the United Nations General Assembly hosted a “Nakba 75” orgy of lies that demonized Israel’s existence as a “catastrophe” and falsely accused Israeli Jews of every imaginable evil. The scene was reminiscent of the Nazi Germans’ vile anti-Jewish libels and “the Jews are our misfortune” displays. It is sickening and obscene that our U.S. tax dollars are paying for the United Nations to promote extreme anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate and libels.
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T. Belman.  This push by Biden is more about blocking China’s expansion in the Middle East than on getting a peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. He knows that if he doesn’t do it, Trump will in ’24.

Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was a debacle. China’s brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia further diminished Biden. Winning back Saudi Arabia into the American Camp is of huge strategic importance. It will restore American influence in the entire Arab world. Benefiting Israel is the least of his concerns.

The Obama/Biden Iran card has been upended by the new China, Russia and Iran axis warranting increased involvement in the ME, rather than diminished involvement as has been touted.

Two US officials say the White House wants to make diplomatic push for Saudi-Israeli peace deal in the next six to seven months.

Israel National News     May 18, 2023, 4:03 AM (GMT+3)

The White House wants to make a diplomatic push for a Saudi-Israeli peace deal in the next six to seven months before the presidential election campaign consumes President Joe Biden’s agenda, two US officials with knowledge of the issue told Axios’ Barak Ravid on Wednesday.

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T. Belman. This is a good article except he makes it sound like Israel is only a dependent of the US.  He totally ignores the benefits the US gets from partnering on innovation particularly, military innovation.

A corollary to this is that the US certainly doesn’t want Israel partnering with China. Furthermore if China dominates the ME, it will dominate Africa.

Israel at 75 Is Threatened but Strong
It can no longer take its relationship with the U.S. for granted, but it may not need to.

By Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2023

It’s been 75 years since the Jewish community in British Palestine rejected a last-minute plea from the Truman administration and declared independence as the last British forces left the embattled land. It wasn’t the most auspicious moment. One day earlier, the strategically located Gush Etzion bloc of Jewish agricultural settlements fell to Arab assailants following a bitter siege.

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T. Belman. Fitzgerald is more optimistic than I am.  The Democratic Party tolerates the antisemitic remarks by members of the Squad, and supports the Palestinians who want to kill us. Muslim immigration continues to increase as does antisemitism in the US. The Dems may support military aid to Israel but it the Israel in their image, not the Israel that Israelis voted for.

Is anti-Israel sentiment in Congress the wave of the future?

by Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM   17.5.23

Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) has promised to “kill” any resolution in the House that attempts to place conditions on aid to Israel, including such demands on Israel as ending all new settlement building in Judea and Samaria. Gottheimer is a liberal Democrat and one of many who are unswerving in their support for Israel, giving the lie to those who claim that Israeli can no longer count on the support of liberal Democrats. More on his statement can be found here: “US Lawmaker Pledges to ‘Kill’ Growing Efforts to Condition Aid to Israel,” by Andrew Bernard, Algemeiner, April 26, 2023:

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Image: The Altar of Mount Ebal (Joshua’s Altar) by Hoshvilim. CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of the important things to remember about Biblical archeology is that our modern understanding keeps changing as the earth keeps disgorging materials hidden for millennia, and new technologies allow us better to understand those discoveries. That’s the case with a Bronze Age tablet that reveals something consistent with one of the Bible’s oldest and most consequential narratives.
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The Caroline Glick Show

T. Belman. While we are on the subject read;

Bomb Gaza. Win the War.

Don’t muddy the waters.

by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

Image from tweet made by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Twitter account @francediplo_EN.

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