Ukraine puts death toll from New Year’s Eve strike in the occupied city of Makiivka at 400 Russian soldiers.

AL JAZEERA   2.1.23

A M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is fired from an undisclosed location in Ukraine [File: Pavlo Narozhnyy/via Reuters]

Russia has said that 63 of its troops were killed during a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on a makeshift barracks in the partly-occupied Donetsk region.

The ministry said in a statement on Monday that Ukraine’s military had launched six projectiles at the “provisional base” in the eastern city of Makiivka using the HIMARS guided rocket system supplied by the United States.

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T. Belman. In addition to these two challenges, this government is committed to seizing Area C for Israel  which includes massive building there and destroying illegal Arab construction.

Although Bibi has a veto on some of Smotrich’s plans, he won’t be able to restrain him entirely. It remains to be seen to what extent Bibi restrains himself or Smotrich for that matter.

In order to stop Iran, and on the way make peace with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu may have to wait out President Biden’s administration.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Amid the brouhaha of the past several days as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the final touches on his government, he also set his sights on two major personal foreign policy goals. The first is his life’s mission – to stop the Iranian nuclear project. The second – to strike a peace accord with Saudi Arabia and thus put a practical end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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TIMES OF ISRAEL

Gantz: ‘I don’t want to win the civil war Netanyahu is trying to ignite, I want to prevent it’

‘People will die’: Lapid tells Netanyahu he must stop Ben Gvir’s planned Temple Mount visit

Liberman says new Netanyahu government is ‘the end of Zionism’

At defense handover, Gantz warns Gallant not to allow political interference in IDF

By Rachel Alexander, TOWNHALL, Jan 02, 2023,

Distrust in the justice system over its refusal to stop voter disenfranchisement is spiraling after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson dismissed Kari Lake’s lawsuit challenging the results of Arizona’s botched midterm election, where Democrat Katie Hobbs was declared the winner. Hobbs was losing in almost every MSM poll and didn’t bother to debate Lake, prompting one of the most prominent progressive journalists in the state to denounce her hiding in her basement as “political malpractice.” Hobbs was such an unremarkable candidate that she has only 177k Twitter followers to Lake’s 834k followers, over 400% fewer. 

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Unfortunately she died in 2000.

T. Belman. Mecouris goes so far as to contemplate a new axis developing linking Turkey, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. and backed by Russia and China.

6:OO pm TODAY.
WHAT ARE IMPLICATIONS FOR ISRAEL

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Israel is basically being told by the US that its new government may not implement the policies on which it was elected. Oh, really?

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, INN    Dec 31, 2022, 

Rabbi Steven PruzanskyCourtesy

After a series of American objections to Israeli policies (culminating in the annexation of the Golan Heights more than forty years ago) led to protests and suspensions of signed agreements with Israel, Prime Minister Menahem Begin called in US Ambassador Samuel Lewis and gave him a tongue-lashing:

“Are we a vassal state? Are we a banana republic? Are we 14-year-old boys who have to have knuckles slapped if they misbehave?” And Mr. Begin continued: “You cannot and will not frighten us with punishments… Threats will fall on deaf ears… We shall not allow a sword of Damocles to hang over our heads. The People of Israel have lived for 3,700 years without a strategic agreement with America, and will continue to live without it for another 3,700 years.”\
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By Mudar Zahran, AMER THINKER

On 18 November 2022, Jordan’s king’s son and Crown Prince, Hussein, paid a visit to the wake of Abdul Majeed Thunibat, former leader of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood.  The visit was highly publicized by the state-controlled Jordanian media. The story about the visit of condolences was a front page item in most Jordanian daily papers and on all Jordanian news sites.  The king and his son were shoving the visit in everyone’s faces.

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T.Belman.  Doesn’t sound like a loyal opposition to me.

It’s easy for journalists to get sucked into trolling attempts and the reassuring messages of the new coalition regarding LGBTQ rights, but the real dangers are in a combined judicial revolution and military crisis

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ  Jan 1, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government being sworn in, Thursday.

A decade ago, the documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh used the term “gatekeeper” to describe the role of six former heads of the Shin Bet security service in protecting Israeli democracy from terror threats and, paradoxically, from the ethical consequences of the war on terror. The use of the term in Israel has expanded since then, and is often invoked in regard to the struggle to maintain the independence of the legal system.

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Minister Goldknopf explained his statement that there is no housing crisis and stated: ‘We have a special duty to army veterans.’

By Itzik Brandwein, INN    Jan 1, 2023, 

Ze’ev Elkin and Itzhak GoldknopfYonatan Sindel/FLASH90

An exchange ceremony was held today (Sunday) at the Ministry of Construction and Housing between outgoing minister Ze’ev Elkin and Yitzhak Goldknopf of the UTJ.

At the ceremony, Goldknopf explained his statement that there is supposedly, “no housing crisis in Israel.” In addition, he detailed plans for solving the said crisis, which would include building in Judea and Samaria and providing benefits to IDF veterans.

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D. Nussbaum. Santa Klaus Schwab and what his Globalist/Green/Woke wind-ups have planned and are implementing behind almost everyone’s back, deliberately not publishing all of what they plan for society on Mainstream Media. Elon Musk’s recent Twitter revalations are an example of the collusion between Globalist politicians and Globalist media giants in censoring important information that counters the elites’ narrative to short-circuit democracy. For the skeptics, go onto the World Economic Forum, look at their Leadership, Young Leaders, and groups they support to destroy independent countries from within. This is not information acquired from a “rightwing” source. It is from their own organizational Website. You can believe tyrants when the inform their “True Believers” what they plan to do. You can look around to see what they have done already.

Redacted with Clayton Morris

By Michael Ordman

This newsletter publicizes new Israeli therapies that allow us to look forward to eradicating solid tumors; to safer spine operations; to printing spare parts for the eye and other organs; and the elimination of pathogens altogether.

We anticipate the future success of the Technion’s new sustainable research program; the worldwide adoption of Israeli drought-resistant crops; reduced food waste thanks to Israeli bio-friendly fruit preservation; and less vital resources spent on raising animals for their meat, thanks to Israeli plant-based alternatives.  The Israeli economy looks to have a bright future, with dozens of Israeli companies understanding the importance of partnerships to develop and implement new technologies; building more Israeli homes; new Israeli airline routes; and investment from novel international sources.
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Netanyahu’s new coalition is dedicated to protecting Israel’s rights & safety. That’s not “extreme”.

ZOA President Morton Klein, Jan 1, 2023, 7:04 AM

The new government Amos Ben Gershom, GPO

The Zionist Organization of America congratulates Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, his Likud party and his coalition partners on Netanyahu’s announcement yesterday that he will be able to form a coalition government. In these times, when Israeli citizens are being subjected to seven terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinian Arab terrorists every day, it is vital that Israel have a strong government such as the incoming coalition, which is dedicated to protecting Israel’s rights and safety.

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By Joe Hoft, GATEWAY December 31, 2022

The GOP is expected to take over the US House of Representatives in 2023 next week.  Here are the first 10 actions they should take after taking control. 

1. Launch investigation into Biden Crime Family – based on extensive evidence from Hunter Biden laptop

The Biden regime is already suggesting they will not comply with House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) and their outstanding oversight requests.

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UNGA resolution passes 87-26, calls for IJC’s 1st Israel probe since 2004; all Arab peace partners vote yes; investigation to cover settlements, Jerusalem, ‘discriminatory’ laws

By LUKE TRESS, TOI

A UN General Assembly vote December 30, 2022, on a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Screenshot/UN)

NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly approved on Friday a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli “annexation” and the “legal status of the occupation.”

The resolution promoted by the Palestinians passed by a vote of 87 in favor, 26 against, with 53 abstentions.

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T. Belman. After writing  UNSC Res 242 and the Misrule of Law, I was reminded of this excellent post.  I am now working on a new article on this theme entitled “With Friends like America, who needs Enemies“. which is based on ignoring what the US says regarding Israel and focusing what they do and have done.

By Francis P. Sempa, AM THINKER

American foreign policy elites and their counterparts in allied countries, especially in Europe, repeatedly instruct us that diplomatic and military power should be used to “uphold” the “rules-based international order,” which has been defined as “a shared commitment to conduct international affairs in accordance with laws, principles and practices embodied in institutions such as the United Nations, regional security arrangements, trade agreements and multilateral financial institutions.”

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