by Victor Rosenthal

Like the proverbial old soldiers, anti-Jewish lies never die. But they don’t fade away, either. No matter how often they are proven false, they come back to incite hatred and motivate murder. Blood libels against Jews can be found before the Common Era and as recently as 1912. The pogrom-inspiring Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forged document purporting to be the minutes of a meeting between Jews who conspired to promote war and revolution throughout the world, created around the turn of the twentieth century and thoroughly debunked in the 1920s, is still a best-seller in Muslim countries – and dozens of versions are available in the US as well.

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Scott Ritter

Number of illegal Arab buildings demolished in Jerusalem more than doubles since last year, with similar rise in Judea and Samaria. Same for Area C.

By David Rosenberg, INN   8.2.23

Israeli authorities destroy an illegal home in the village of Duma, February 2, 2023Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90

The number of enforcement operations carried out against illegal Arab buildings in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem rose sharply under the new Netanyahu government this year.

According to data collected by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, (OCHA), the number of illegal Arab structures in Jerusalem which were demolished from January 1st through February 7th of this year is more than double the number reported during the same period last year.

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T. Belman, Wikipedia opens with “Nonie Darwish (Arabic: ???? ?????; born Nahid Darwish, 1949) is an Egyptian-American writer,^[1] founder of Arabs for Israel movement, and is Director of Former Muslims United. Darwish is an outspoken critic of Islam.^[1][2] The Southern Poverty Law Center has described her as an anti-Arab^[3] and anti-Muslim^[4] activist.”

I knew her and published her stuff 15 years ago. I am honoured that she would post such an informed comment.

I think she is much more realistic than Mansur.

Most Muslims who try to distinguish between Islam and Islamism have good intensions, such as Mr. Salim Mansour who describes Islamism as “An ideology fascistic and totalitarian in impulse and action, masquerading as religion.” Meaning that because Islamists are engaged in radical politics and power, then it can’t be a religion, meaning it can’t be Islam. But why not? Every aspect of an Islamist’s beliefs is found in the Koran, Sunnah and all the holy books of Islam. The Islamist did not get his/her ideology outside of Islamic holy books.

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If you liked 2021 and 2022, worse is coming.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM     8.2.23

While millions of Americans, for the first time since the Great Depression, cannot afford to buy  eggs, Biden boasted about his economic successes to applause from special interests and jeers from those representatives standing up for the beleaguered people of the nation.

The Great Depression ended three years before Biden’s birth, but he’s trying to bring it back.

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by Clifford Smith and Jonathan Spyer, National Review,   February 1, 2023

Last week, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, threw the international community into a tizzy when he announced that Sweden should “not expect” Turkey’s support to join NATO after a far-right politician burned a Quran at a protest in front of the Turkish Embassy, ironically, in protest of Turkey’s duplicity concerning Sweden’s bid to join NATO. For months, the addition of Sweden to NATO was treated as a fait accompli by the West, perhaps just requiring a little more cajoling of Ankara, even though Turkey had not technically taken final steps to admit Sweden.

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by Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum Webinar,   January 30, 2023

https://www.meforum.org/64120/seth-frantzman-on-drones-and-the-transformation

Seth Frantzman, a Middle East correspondent at the Jerusalem Post, executive director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA), and author of Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future, spoke to a January 30^th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) about the significance of evolving drone technology and its impact on global conflicts. The following is a summary of his comments:

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By Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen     February 8, 2023

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,179, , 8 February, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israeli public diplomacy is often severely lacking in the face of Palestinian propaganda campaigns designed to blame Israel for collateral damage that sometimes occurs during surgical counterterrorist operations in the West Bank. In the case of several recent tragic incidents in which civilians were killed, Israel missed the opportunity to leverage the dimension of doubt to its own benefit. Israel must be ready to refute and contain biased Palestinian propaganda campaigns before they become rooted in the international consciousness. 

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Sarah Sanders delivers Republican rebuttal to Biden’s SOTU address

By Mordechai Nisan, NEWSMAX

The Israel West Bank Barrier, a symbol of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. (Sean Pavone /Dreamstime.com)

Like most things about Jews, their politics in Israel are also unusual, different, and idiosyncratic. While much of the modern appurtenances of democracy apply to the political conduct of public affairs — human rights, free elections, with a robust party system — there is a noticeable streak of anti-democratic impulses in the body politic.

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Col Douglas Macgregor explains how the US caused this war.
He puts all the blame on the US. 

Jeffrey Sachs

BLAMES THE US FOR THE PRESENT WAR.

US EXPANDED NATO EASTWARD CONTRARY TO ASSURANCES TO RUSSIA.

T. Belman. Netanyahu reportedly accepts Biden administration request to ‘pause’ demolition of illegal Arab homes and Judea and Samaria construction. Fir how long. Smotrich and Ben Gvir will never agree to this.

Presumably this “pause” is intended to give time to the US to negotiate a compromise.

Why didn’t Israel demand that illegal Arab construction be stopped.

It is very doubtful the Biden administration can prevent a major outbreak of violence in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria ahead of Ramadan.

By  Yoni Ben Menachem, IH   7.2.23

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Washington disappointed following his meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which was intended to bring about calm in the Palestinian territories and restore security coordination with Israel.

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