By Daniel Greenfield, 15 Apr 11:26 PM

In 2010, the Islamic Society of North America honored one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing.

Also at the ISNA convention were three members of the Obama administration: Rashad Hussain, George Selim and Mazen Basrawi. Hussain went from working as Obama’s envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to serving as Biden’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, while George Selim joined the ADL as its VP of National Affairs.
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T. Belman. In the past, Maistrovoy and I co-wrote these articles.
– RUSSIA AND THE NEW ME -Part IV: Can Russia be induced to use its UN veto to protect Israel
– Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance

In the mid and long terms, the Jewish state may face new existential threat from Russia

By Alex Maistrovoy    DEC 4, 2022,

The war in Ukraine has exposed in its entirety the inefficiency of the Russian military machine, extremely bad management and destructive corruption in all echelons of power. What development of the event can be expected in this country, and how will this affect the Jews and Israel?

Russia – exhausted and drained of blood in the war – will probably face two scenarios, as it has happened more than once in the history of this country. The first option is a turmoil (‘smuta’), followed by an even more cruel and despotic regime. The second scenario is a direct transition to even more bloody tyranny. The results will be same.

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T. Belman. This is really weird and unexpected.

Yevgeny Prigozhin says it would be “ideal” to declare an end to the war. But he says Russia must keep fighting, even if it means humiliating defeat.

By Allison Quinn, THE DAILY BEAST  Apr. 15, 2023 3:28AM ET 

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin says Russia has already accomplished its goals in Ukraine—but must keep fighting even if it means humiliating defeat so that the country can ultimately rise again as a “war monster” that the international community will bow down to.
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JaFaJ INTELLIGENCE    April 14, 2023

1. Summary: the King of Jordan has dispatched his Prime Minister to wealthy Qatar to seek extra financial aid. It is unlikely that Qatar will be providing any additional assistance to Jordan because of its recent reconsolidation with Saudi Arabia and also Saudi Arabia’s normalization with Iran. These political developments have stripped the King of any significance that he has ever had as the “semi-official middleman” between all parties. In addition, the King’s recklessness and arrogant positions and attitudes has cost him friends in the region, especially with the Arab Gulf states who are conscious of their honour and dignity. Strapped for cash and profoundly disliked by his people, the King might face serious public protests and unrest by his subjects by the summer of this year, with no sign from any of his fellow Arab rulers being able or willing to help Abdullah avoid his fate.

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I listened to the whole thing. Very worth while.

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(LifeSiteNews) — BlackRock is one of the most powerful organizations in the world, and its nefarious role in global economics and politics is becoming more apparent.

The investment giant is pushing woke politics in the form of corporate social credit scores (ESG), which includes the dangerous “net zero” and LGBT agenda. BlackRock is also responsible for rigging the financial systems and has control over a significant portion of the world’s wealth.
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T. Belman. If you look at the graph I have posted from the article, it is very hard to support the second amendment. The strongest argument in favour of keeping it is to enable the people to defend themselves from  government overreach. From my point of view, the only reason to support it is that the GOP depends on its supporters to win elections. Please tell me what you think.

BBC

Gun violence is a fixture in American life – but the issue is a highly political one, pitting gun control advocates against people who are fiercely protective of their right to bear arms.

We’ve looked into some of the numbers behind firearms in the US.

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That’s a significantly larger proportion of homicides than is the case in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, and many other countries.

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MACGREGOR ALSO TALKS ABOUT COMPETING WITH CHINA AND DIGITAL CURRENCY.

By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK

Radio Interview on Faultlines 11/04/23

TFIGLOBAL

By Yoni Ben Menachem, JNS

Escalating terrorist and rocket attacks against Israel during Passover are only the first stages in the war of attrition being waged by the “Axis of Resistance” led by Iran.

Tehran’s “uniting the fronts” strategy was devised by the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani, former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. The current round of fighting is only the first stage in Iran’s phased plan to destroy Israel.

The Axis of Resistance estimates that Israel’s judicial reform debate and its recent crises in relations with the United States have weakened the Jewish state. They believe that the Israel Defense Forces cannot fight simultaneously on several fronts while dealing with tens of thousands of rockets, precision missiles and drones launched across several borders, accompanied by a wave of terror in the West Bank.

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It is already hard not to hear these voices in Iraq and Iran: Iran is planning to launch a combined attack on Israel in the foreseeable future that will include all the forces at its disposal in the Arab countries

By  Dr. Mordechai Kedar, MAKOM RISHON 

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif with Syrian President Assad. Photo: AFP

A note to my dear readers. I hesitated quite a bit whether to publish the things that appear below because of the panic they might cause in Israel. However, in the Middle East environment, and in particular in Iraq, these things are known and serve as a topic of open discussion among quite a few, so it is impossible for the public in Israel not to be aware of them as well, and in particular that these things concern him, his security and existence, much more than they concern the citizens of Iraq. In addition, these things come up from time to time in the Israeli media, so I decided to bring them up here.

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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was isolated for years after brutally crushing his country’s Arab Spring uprising. But in most Arab capitals today, the only question is how — not whether — they should deal with him again.

By Vivian Nereim, Raja Abdulrahim and Edward Wong, NEW YORK TIMES

A photograph released by the United Arab Emirates presidential court showing President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, left, and the Emirati ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, last month.Credit…United Arab Emirates Presidential Court /EPA, via Shutterstock

Saudi Arabia, like many other Arab states, had refused to engage with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria for more than a decade after he violently crushed his country’s Arab Spring uprising — bombing, gassing and torturing his own people in a conflict that morphed into a long-running war that is still in progress.

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By Patricia McCarthy, AM THINKER      14.4.23

The President pretends to be Catholic but clearly does not live by Catholic tenets.  He supports abortion up until the moment of birth.  This past week, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to the priests who have been ministering to Catholic patients at Walter Reed Hospital.  He intends to contract outside persons to provide Catholic ministry.  While VP, he supported the persecution of the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing to provide abortion services to their employees. In short, he is about as Catholic and Christian as Nancy Pelosi, another faux Catholic, a classic elitist who has nothing but contempt for actual Catholics, actual Christians.
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Yaakov Amidror is a former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel. He was also the head of the Research Department of Israeli military intelligence.

BY FOREIGN DESK NEWS

On Thursday, former Israeli major general and national security adviser Yaakov Amidror expressed concerns that war with Iran is becoming increasingly likely and that Israel should prepare to attack Iran’s nuclear capabilities without U.S. assistance.

During an interview with an Israeli radio station, the former general said, “We need to prepare for war. It’s possible that we will reach a point where we have to attack Iran even without American assistance.”

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BY ELLIOT NAZAR, FOREIGN DESK   14.4.23

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1. Moderate Republican Lawmakers

Despite socially conservative religious groups rallying their supporters to elect them, some Republican lawmakers at the state and local levels describe themselves as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. In states like Wyoming, a Republican-dominated state, one analysis from Evidence-Based Wyoming found that around 31 state legislators considered themselves “very liberal,” with all but two having the Republican label behind their name, placing 29 Republicans further to the left of several Democrat state lawmakers.

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