by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE • January 28, 2023
28 January 2023,
By MARK SLEBODA 27.1.23
The cries have risen up shrilly as one across Western MSM, commentariat, and governments.
Everything that the collective West has supplied to the Kiev regime in Ukraine – more than $120 billion taxpayer dollars’ worth of weapons, military aid and support in the last year alone – is NOT ENOUGH!!!
by Micha Gefen, ISRAEL UNWIRED
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing the reorganization of global society for a number of years. Their main tool to do this has been their “climate change” policy.
This is also why they keep on pushing sanctions on the Russian energy sector. By driving the prices pf oil and gas up and thus destroying the Western economy, the WEF believe they can actually force the transition away from fossil fuels. Obviously the direct out come of that is their control over our movements.
By Melanie Phillips
Benjamin Netanyahu informs Aryeh Deri he is firing him “with a heavy heart”.
So how’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faring in his supposed programme to smash democracy at the behest of the religious extremists in his government?
Well, as Israel’s newly-minted dictator he’s not doing too well in that regard.
The United States and Israel have had a close political and security relationship for decades, because — in the main — they see both democratic norms and the requirement for security as mutually reinforcing. Iran’s willingness to kill its own citizens in the streets and provide military support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have brought Washington closer to Jerusalem’s view of the most important and most imminent threat to stability in the region. But it isn’t a smooth transition, as American diplomats are still insisting on defining Israel’s politics in place of and in opposition to Israel’s voters.
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(January 27, 2023 / JNS) The Iranian revolutionaries plod into the fifth month of their uprising against the regime with little tangible help from the outside world. To date, more than 500 Iranian revolutionaries have been killed by regime forces directed by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. More than 18,000 have been arrested.
So too, unfettered by restrictions on its nuclear activities enacted under the long-abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, the ayatollahs continue spinning their advanced centrifuges and stockpiling enriched uranium.
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By Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ 26.1.23
U.S., Israel Hold Largest-Ever Joint Military Drill
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH—Thousands of American and Israeli military personnel joined forces this week for an unprecedented exercise intended to send a message to adversaries like Iran that the U.S. isn’t turning its back on the Middle East, even as it focuses on the war in Ukraine.
After four days of military exercises stretching from the Mediterranean Sea up into space, the U.S. and Israel fired more than 180,000 pounds of live munitions in the largest joint exercise ever carried out by the two allies. U.S. jet fighters roared off this ship, which served as a key hub for the military exercise off the Israeli coast, as top generals from both countries gathered on board to take stock of the week’s operations.
T. Belman. Revivi reminds us why the Judiciary is held in such low esteem in Israel..
Israel’s High Court’s Chief Justice delivered a speech recently in which she brought up important issues about the stability of the judiciary. She blamed the criticism leveled at the judiciary she heads on the lack of a large enough number of justices.
To my mind, what was lacking in the speech was some soul searching and perhaps even a plea for forgiveness.
T. Belman. This is a defeatist assessment, not a sober one. Israel must not defer to American progressive Jews or the Democratic Party, nor to the present or future members of Abraham Accords. The benefits flowing from the AA are minuscule compared to annexing most of Area C.
As for the need to have the US on board should we attack Iran, then attack Iran now before we annex.
The decisive victory of the conservative-religious bloc in the recent Knesset elections may have roused hopes in the nationalist camp that the current government cannot live up to. Paradoxically, the room for manoeuver of the current government is less constrained domestically than in the international arena.
T. Belman. Israel’s priority should be fight the terrorists and to keep Area C. Peace with Saudi Arabia can wait.
Security forces operate in JeninIDF Spokesperson’s Unit
Saudi Arabia on Thursday blasted the Israeli counterterrorism operation in Jenin, during which several Islamic Jihad terrorists who were plotting attacks against Israelis were eliminated.
The Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement quoted by Reuters it denounced Israeli forces’ “storming of the city” that led to “the fall of a number of victims”.
Straight talk with Col Douglas MacGregor
Tesla Fans
It seems that every free and democratic vote that results in a victory for conservatives marks the “death of democracy.” If you Google “death of democracy in America,” you get 54,800,000 results. No social media “influencer” can match that. Among the first 10 results is Al Jazeera’s prediction of doom: “Unless that simple, yet hard realization is embraced by folks now, America’s dark days will only become dimmer.”
Today, 5:51 am
Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg seen at the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, November 3, 2019. (Peter Barreras/ Invision/ AP)
JTA — Jews made up nearly half of America’s biggest philanthropic donors last year, according to a calculation by Forbes of who gave the most money away in 2022.
In a year that saw their fortunes take a hit amid declines in the stock market, America’s 25 “most generous givers” donated a collective $27 billion, up from $20 billion in 2021, for a lifetime total of $196 billion, according to Forbes. They included 12 billionaires with Jewish backgrounds — a dramatic overrepresentation when compared to the proportion of Jews in the overall US population.
T. Belman. There are no “negative legal implications for Israel on the international stage.” and nothing wrong with annexation, de facto or otherwise.
Today, 7:48 am
Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich arrives for coalition talks with Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Senior legal authorities within the defense establishment reportedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting this week against the transfer of civilian authorities in the West Bank under the Civil Administration to far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and argued that the move could have negative legal implications for Israel on the international stage.
Scene from this morning’s operation in JeninREUTERS/Ali Sawafta
A senior IDF officer has revealed further details of Thursday morning’s successful counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp, in the course of which terrorists actively plotting a major attack were eliminated.
“We eliminated a ticking time-bomb in the form of Islamic Jihad terrorists who were planning a series of attacks on the homefront,” the officer said.
Mordechai ben Menachem. The first 11 minutes are ‘technical’ and one can take them or not.
But from 11 minutes he discusses the geostrategic view and his discussion is superb. As usual, one may agree or disagree with what he says, but his logical thoughts are some of the best.
The initiative by the newly elected government to enact a far-reaching reform of the legal system is an inevitable result of the ongoing process of erosion of public trust.
According to the University of Haifa’s annual index for public sector performance, the public’s level of trust in the Israeli judicial system is at the lowest level since the index was first published in 2001.—i24News, Nov. 6, 2018.
After a decade in which left-wing voters expressed a 44 percent confidence in the judiciary, their confidence has eroded since 2017 to 25 percent in 2020.—Haaretz, Jun. 4, 2020.
