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Who perpetrated the Lviv pogrom of July 1941?

BY JOHN-PAUL HIMKA, TABLET      JULY 06, 2023

The day after the proclamation of Ukrainian nationalist leader Yaroslav Stetsko’s state of Ukraine, on July 1, 1941, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) pasted posters around Lviv with Mykola Mikhnovsky’s slogan, “Ukraine for Ukrainians,” printed in white letters against a red background. On the same day in Lviv and in many other localities of Galicia and Volhynia, another poster appeared, authored by Ivan Klymiv sometime earlier; it instructed Ukrainians: “People! Know! Moscow, Poland, the Hungarians, the Jews are your enemies! Destroy them!” These posters issued a clear signal as to what non-Ukrainians in Lviv could expect. And under the conditions of Nazi occupation, the only non-Ukrainians who could be targeted with impunity were Jews.

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Bahraini Journalist: It’s time for the Palestinians to take responsibility.

“Laxity and submission.”

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

So the latest round of rioting in France seems at last to have burned itself out. In the end, it didn’t expand into a Muslim revolution; it didn’t succeed in overthrowing the French Republic; it didn’t lead to the first transformation of a Western republic into a sharia state. But this doesn’t mean that France won’t eventually be brought down in such a way, and sooner rather than later. All it will take is one more minor police action that triggers the nation’s Muslims into a tsunami of fierce and extraordinary violence – a tsunami that, unlike this time, doesn’t end until it makes the Reign of Terror look like a scene from Gigi.
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By Lawrence A. Franklin, GATESTONE  •  July 5, 2023

US soldiers take position as they patrol in al-Qahtaniyah in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province, on June 14, 2023. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

• The primary agenda of the Russian-Iranian meeting was reportedly “to discuss expelling the United States from Syria, which may indicate Russia’s intent to facilitate Iranian-backed attacks on US forces.”
• Above all, the US presence is important as a blocking force to deny Iran an uninterrupted land bridge to Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean, and to check the Iranian regime’s long-term expansionist dream of “exporting the revolution.”
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T. Belman. Our former PM, Ehud Barak, who offered Arafat a Palestinian state on 73% of the West Bank, now has issued a call to arms, virtually  “to stop the destruction of freedom, equality and the rule of law.” “It is the right and duty of every citizen to act without violence to stop the destruction of freedom, equality and the rule of law.” He is destroying democracy on the alter of protecting democracy. The government, on the other hand is exercising their democratic right to correct the imbalance that currently exists in the Judicial System.

The fact that Barak doesn’t recognize this right is itself undemocratic.

When the bill limiting the use of the reasonableness standard is submitted to the Knesset for the first of three votes next week, Israel will face the most severe crisis in its history

By Ehud Barak, HAARETZ

The moment of truth is upon us. This is the most severe crisis in the history of the state. On Monday, the bill limiting the use of the reasonableness standard will be submitted to the Knesset for the first of three votes in the legislature. When the voting ends, Israel will be three hours away from a de facto dictatorship.

Tel Aviv District police chief Ami Eshed’s resignation speech Wednesday evening triggered a volcanic eruption. He spoke of political dismissals. Itamar Ben-Gvir demands blood and broken skulls. And the protest soared. The biggest skeptics and some of the opponents now understand: This protest will not be stopped. This protest will prevail.

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T. Belman. The goal of the globalists is to upend sovereignty. George Soros who declared, “Sovereignty is an anachronistic concept.” Soros, who considers himself “a citizen of the world,” says, “the principle of sovereignty stands in the way of outside intervention in the internal affairs of nation-states.”

In my article Can the UN impose a solution on Israel?, I wrote:

“While the Charter pays lip service to national sovereignty by pledging to maintain “the sovereign equality of all its Members,” for no one would have joined otherwise, it is all about limiting such sovereignty.”

By Rachel Ehrenfeld @ The Daily Wire*

President Biden, known for embellishing his political and personal records, has never bragged about his cooking skills. He should have. It took “Chef” Biden just two and half years to transform America’s melting pot into a boiling pot.

The reformation of U.S. immigration laws is long overdue. Instead of proposing legislative changes to Congress, however, the president is ruling by fiat, issuing executive orders contradicting and violating the Constitution and the criminal code. Citing “compassion” as its pretext, the administration uses so-called “temporary humanitarian programs” to allow millions of economic migrants — many with unverifiable backgrounds from virtually every country on the face of the earth — to enter the United States. Any criticism is met with denial and slander of “racism” and “fascism.”

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T. Belman. Amb. Ettinger says “*The proposed Palestinian state, on the one hand, and US values and national security, on the other hand, constitutes a classic oxymoron.” And so does the US kissing up to Iran not make sense. Obviously something else is going on here that Ettinger does not even allude to.

So the real question is, why is the US doing this? I suggest when you identify the goal of the US, their embrace of Palestine and Iran won’t be such an oxymoron.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” July 5, 2023

According to the late Prof. John Galbraith, the enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of facts, which may expose conventional wisdom as useless or dangerous.  Prof. Galbraith also suggests that conventional wisdom does not accommodate itself to the real world, but to a certain view of the world.
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T. Belman. I agree with Spyer, except when he refers to Russia’s “floundering invasion of Ukraine” and “ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine” and “faltering war effort”. The truth is just the opposite.

The latest events confirm the emergent strategic alliance between Russia and Iran.

By JONATHAN SPYER, JPOST

AN IRANIAN woman passes in front of a sign that says ‘Made in Russia’ at the International Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Exhibition in Tehran last month. (photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA/REUTERS)

The failed mutiny launched by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group last week has returned Russia to the global headlines. As of now, however, despite the former caterer’s efforts, it appears that the regime of President Vladimir Putin remains securely in power.<

As such, it is an opportune moment to take a close look at some of Russia’s less-remarked-upon activities, far from the road to Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and the Ukrainian front. The first leader who Putin chose to call, once it was clear that he had survived the Wagner mutiny, was President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran. Not by chance.

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T. Belman. All Israel’s bashers including some of her friends, know nothing of the rules of war. For those who wish to know read this. Bomb Gaza before invading

White House Says Civilians Must Be Protected .  Wrong. IDF soldiers must be protected. The Rules of War say civilians can’t be targeted.

American Jewish Committee rejects claim by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel used excessive force in Jenin.

Israel National News    7.7.23

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Thursday rejected the claim by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel used excessive force in its operation to capture terrorists in Jenin.

“We strongly reject the assertion made by UN Secretary-General Guterres that Israel used excessive force during its counter-terrorism operation in Jenin,” it said.

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T. Belman. The only occupation there is , is the Arab occupation of our land.<

by Moshe Dann, ISRAEL UNWIRED      July 6, 2023

According to the European Union, which influences policymaking in the international community, Israel’s occupation of the “West Bank” (areas that the IDF conquered in 1967) is a “violation of international law” – the Hague and Fourth Geneva Conventions – and is illegal; therefore, Israel must withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines.

While this is a powerful and effective emotional and psychological weapon against Israel, few understand that, for Palestinians, “the occupation” includes all of Israel, everything “from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.”

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By Miranda Devine, NY POST

Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft laid out his bribery allegations against President Biden’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.

The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.

In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.

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FirstOneThrough   h 7.6.23

39 immigrants suffocate in a truck in Bucharest.

Over 60 migrants die when their boat breaks apart off the coast of Italy.

53 migrants die in the sweltering heat in the back of a truck in San Antonio.

Between 79 and 600 refugees drown when their boat sunk off Greece.

Boat packed with as many as 750 fleeing migrants capsizes off Greece in June 2023<
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By Tom Elliot

The more we learn about the 2020 election, the more undeniable it becomes that Biden owes his “victory” to blatant political corruption. To wit:

1) An IRS probe into the Biden’s money laundering payments from hostile nations — the normal outcome of which would have ended his candidacy — was instead given a stand-down order

2) The FBI & IRS wanted to search Biden’s house in September 2020 but were given a stand down order. 

3) The FBI authenticated Hunter’s laptop a year before the NYPost first reported on its contents
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Into the fray: My appearance on Politics Live

How the BBC captioned the Politics Live segment on Israel’s counter-terrorism operation in Jenin

I took part this week in an edition of the BBC TV show Politics Live. My fellow guests were the veteran human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, the Conservative peer Lord Bethell and the libertarian Spiked writer Ella Whelan. You can listen to the audio of the show at the link below. The segment on Jenin starts at around 29 mins into the audio recording.

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