L. Goudsmit. Words matter. It is the obfuscation and perversion of words that people must pay attention to. In 2008, when Obama promised to transform the nation, he used the word “transform” in the Muslim tradition of taqiyyah – lying in the service of Islam. When a Muslim claims that Islam is a religion of peace, it means the world will be at peace when the whole world is Muslim. That is not how Americans understand the word “peace.” So it is with the word transform – the public did not understand in 2008, that Obama’s Marxist intentions were to collapse America from within. Marxists use word obfuscation to take concepts like freedom and peace and environmental protections, to seduce the public into accepting their destructive policies. The public hears the word freedom, peace, and environmental protection – and that is ALL they hear – they don’t read the fine print. They don’t recognize th huckster and his humanitarian hoax that presents destructive policies as altruistic and compassionate. BUYER BEWARE!

Here is how the globalists take illogical concepts and turn them into pillars of our culture, for instance, that health relies on planetary biodiversity

An example from the UN Environment Program. The plan is laid out for embedding the idea that health and biodiversity are inextricably linked–to push the One Health agenda as outlined below.

By MERYL NASS
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The agreement is about far more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh.

By Saeid Golkar, a senior fellow at the Tony Blair Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Kasra Aarabi, the Iran program lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

The China-brokered agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last month generated huge buzz, with some observers going as far as proclaiming it a victory for international security.

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Welcome to steady billions of dollars in donations – flowing in every year.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

Elder of Zion has a piece on the latest UN report on poverty in countries around the world. This “Multidimensional Poverty Index” is arrived at by studying health, education, and the standard of living, based on ten weighted indicators. It turns out that in the “State of Palestine,” there is less poverty than in more than one hundred other countries.

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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold.

After deadly terror attack, Gallant orders security bolstered across the country

60,000 end noon prayers at Temple Mount; hundreds hail West Bank attack, wave Hamas flags

Hamas hails Jordan Valley shooting as ‘natural response’ to Al-Aqsa clashes

Police, Shin Bet arrest six Bedouin suspects for throwing rocks at buses in Negev

By Malcolm Dash

It’s still too soon to declare Netanyahu’s governing coalition doomed, though some might argue it’s on life support. Or that the much-needed judicial reforms are dead on arrival; legislation that was demanded by and pledged to the voters during the election campaigns. What’s more, this is a democratically elected, homogeneous government with a convincing majority. So, one may wonder why this crucial legislation has so far not been enacted.

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Iran is eager to outmaneuver Israel, working to forge a regional coalition, but it needs internal consensus for its plans to work. Op-ed.

Dr. Salem AlKetbi, INN

There is a lot riding on the success of the diplomatic agreement inked in Beijing between Saudi Arabia and Iran. While some optimists are hopeful that the accord will bear fruit, skeptics are worried that the Iranian regime will only pay lip service to the agreement, using it as a tactical ploy to navigate through current challenges before resuming their hegemonic ambitions in the region – a strategy they have spent a fortune on.

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By Elliott Abrams, JSTRIBUNE April 2023

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv, Israel show support for US President Biden, for not inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House, March 30, 2023. Photo credit: REUTERS

The streets are seething. Police have clashed with demonstrators and there have been not only arrests but some violence. Hundreds of thousands and likely millions have protested proposed government actions. Unions have called for nationwide strikes. Government reactions have elicited even more fierce opposition.

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The basic idea of liberalism is a positive thing – as long as there are guard rails that go along with it. Yoram Hazony explains clearly that the essential idea of a liberal and free society will not last for many generations if there are no red lines and clarity as to the dangers of doing whatever one feels like doing.

Marxism is simply more attractive to many of the younger Western children than old liberal ideas are. Woke morality looks at all of the old traditional aspects of life such as religion and family, and a loyalty to a national framework, and says that they are all irrelevant and outdated concepts.

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Meanwhile the enemies who have sworn to wipe Israel off the map are courted and indulged.

By Bruce Thornton, FPM        6.4.23

The Romans said of 1^st century B.C. general Sulla that there was no better friend, and no worse enemy. Epitomized in this saying is the ancient ideas of what comprises the just treatment of the gods and other people, expressed by the phrase do ut des, “I give so that you give.” “Friends” are those, humans or gods, from whom you have received, and to whom you owe benefits. “Enemies” are those who seek to injure you, and whom you may justly injure in return. In antiquity this principle of reciprocity defined all relationships.

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We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.

The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.

It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

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T. Belman. I gave this talk in Jerusalem, early in Obama’s presidency. When he was campaigning prior to the his election, I followed him very closely and thus knew a great deal about him. I believe that his alleged father was not his father and that he was not born in the US and therefor not eligible to be President. Plus I believed him to be a Muslim. These details and many more details of interest are set out in this talk.

This handout photo from March 3, 2023, shows IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, left, meeting with visiting Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday that while security cooperation with the US is beneficial, it is not “essential” and Israel knows how to act on its own.

“Israel knows how to work alone in the face of any security challenge, but it is good to see the US by our side,” Halevi told Army Radio in a relatively rare interview.

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Not all hatreds are equal Bigotry in the US is steadily declining against most minorities but drastically increasing against Jews. 

By Matthew M. Hausman, JD, INN 5.4.23

 There’s no doubt that antisemitism is increasing in the United States while prejudice and hate crimes against other minorities are generally on the decline. This trend is reflected by US law enforcement statistics, but is also apparent to those of us who have witnessed or experienced it personally. Rioters have harassed Jews and vandalized their property in urban areas and suburbs, Orthodox Jews are assaulted in New York with impunity, Jewish students are attacked on college campuses, and conspiracy theories regarding Israel and the Jews are spewed in university classrooms by leftist professors.<
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T. Belman. Please Bibi , stop calling for calm. Take a more assertive stand.

Jordan, in partnership with Egypt and Palestinian Authority, calls emergency session to discuss overnight unrest as Passover begins

By ASH OBEL and AFP   Today, 3:30 pm

The Arab League was set to meet for an emergency session Wednesday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight and clashed with Palestinians inside.

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The ongoing pro-judicial reform demonstrations reveal that the conflict reflects long-standing political divisions and puts to rest the misleading notion that the battle is not a struggle for democracy

By Naveh Dromi, YNET NEWS     4.4.23

The right-wing protests have yielded many positive outcomes. They have spared us of more national “days of disruption,” “paralysis,” and “resistance”; women dressed as characters from the Netflix show “The Handmaid’s Tale” have given us a short breather from their hysteria; right-wing elected officials now understand that they are obligated to pass the reforms, and not let it fall between the cracks; and maybe the most important outcome of all – we can finally rebut the demagogic, childish, and manipulative claim that the ongoing affairs are “not a matter of left or right.”

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T. Belman. Yes it has but it did so long before Trump was indicted.

By Rajan Laad, AM THINKER

Yesterday was doubtlessly among the darkest days in the history of the nation.  It was the day that the inglorious tradition of using government agencies to target political opponents achieved another ignominious low in the United States of America.

President Donald Trump was formally processed and arraigned in a Manhattan courthouse on 34 charges related to allegedly ‘hush payments’ to former porn actor Stormy Daniels and another woman during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Daniel Greenfield, 04 Apr .23

In the early days of March, a small crowd of leftists gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv holding up signs reading, “Biden help!” and “Biden, Blinken, Our democracy is sinking”.

A speaker at the rally appealed to Biden to “save us from ourselves”.

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“While we were ‘pivoting to Asia,’ Asia was pivoting to the Middle East,”

By Andrew Thornebrooke, EPOCH TIMES

A man holds a local newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties, in the Iranian capital Tehran on March 11, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)[/caption]

Communist China’s apparent efforts to broker peace in the Middle East are part of a larger campaign to undermine global U.S. influence, according to one expert.

The regime’s role in brokering a diplomatic detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March was just as much an attempt to gain an advantage over the United States as it was to stabilize the region, said Alex Vatenka, founding Director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute think tank.

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T. Belman. How can she be so confident when as she said, “We have not yet heard what the other side is proposing.”? I remain pessimistic.

MK Kathrin Shitrit, who represents Likud in talks on judicial reform, discusses her optimism that a compromise will be reached.

By Dudi Ben Chamo, INN   5.4.23

MK Kathrin Shitrit, who represents the Likud in the negotiations taking place at the President’s Residence in an attempt to reach compromises regarding the judicial reform, told Israel National News on Tuesday that she feels very optimistic about the possibility of reaching agreements.

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