By Shalom Pollack

Another day another Jew was murdered in the Jewish state, in the Jewish homeland. Today it was two sisters and their mother in critical condition. The strongest army in the Mideast and beyond could not prevent it, again.

It wasn’t always this way.

I remember a time when terror attacks were not a  daily event and one remembered the few that remained in our memories and consciousness. We would refer to particular attacks and recall all their details. Today only computers can remember. Two sisters today, two brothers last week.. who can digest it all?

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by David McGrogan,  The Brownstone Institute,

The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s The Prince.

‘[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ‘must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’

The history of the development of modern governance is essentially a riff on this basic insight. It tells us almost everything we need to know about our current predicament: those who rule us vigorously engaged in the task of making us need them, so that they can retain our loyalty and hence stay in power – and gain more of it.

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By David Zukerman, AM THINKER

It is not that House Republicans are merely lukewarm in their support of former President Trump and  his MAGA program, and therefore, according to the instruction of Machiavelli, in The Prince, will fail in helping this innovator  overcome the fierce opposition of the Deep State. House Republicans are pathetic in their flabby pretense to help Mr. Trump drain the swamp.
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By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

The media say they have always been concerned about big money in elections.

They also say they are very concerned about foreign money in elections, and honest elections, so here is a trial should draw great interest. It also involves a billionaire and stolen money.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  April 8, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani walk as they attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Bishkek on June 14, 2019. (Photo by Vyacheslav OSELEDKO / AFP) (Photo credit should read VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images)

• The Biden Administration has created a vacuum of leadership on the global stage.
• If the US further pulls out of Asia, the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, Ukraine, Latin America — anywhere — the vacuum created will surely be filled by the new axis of China-Russia-Iran. A US pull-out is, most probably, just what they are hoping and waiting for.
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By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND-UP AMERICA

In Remembrance of a Great Nation

The two subjects Democrats like to talk about the most are democracy and existential threats, threats to our democracy and existence. Since  Democrats live in a Bizarro world, everything they say is opposite of reality and priority.  These threats to our existence if made in opposite order of consequence would be Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, and…drum roll, please…the Democrats themselves!
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T. Belman.  This does not come as a surprise to me.  My source in the Arab world told me that Kushner betrayed Israel and reflected the desires of the Arabs. Qatar also bailed Kushner out when he was behind the 8-ball with his 666 Fifth Ave investment. It financed him.

BY NICK ROBERTSON, THE HILL – 03/31/23

Jared Kushner’s private equity fund has received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from the UAE and Qatar, according to a report.

Kushner, son-in-law to former President Trump, was the administration’s adviser tasked with policy in the Middle East, including delivering a peace plan between Israel and Palestine.

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– Most of what you are told by the West about the Chinese mistreatment of the Uyghurs is propaganda.
– China not interested in war.
– The Ukraine War is waiting for the mud to dry up
– US has the best government money can buy.

L. Goudsmit. Words matter. It is the obfuscation and perversion of words that people must pay attention to. In 2008, when Obama promised to transform the nation, he used the word “transform” in the Muslim tradition of taqiyyah – lying in the service of Islam. When a Muslim claims that Islam is a religion of peace, it means the world will be at peace when the whole world is Muslim. That is not how Americans understand the word “peace.” So it is with the word transform – the public did not understand in 2008, that Obama’s Marxist intentions were to collapse America from within. Marxists use word obfuscation to take concepts like freedom and peace and environmental protections, to seduce the public into accepting their destructive policies. The public hears the word freedom, peace, and environmental protection – and that is ALL they hear – they don’t read the fine print. They don’t recognize th huckster and his humanitarian hoax that presents destructive policies as altruistic and compassionate. BUYER BEWARE!

Here is how the globalists take illogical concepts and turn them into pillars of our culture, for instance, that health relies on planetary biodiversity

An example from the UN Environment Program. The plan is laid out for embedding the idea that health and biodiversity are inextricably linked–to push the One Health agenda as outlined below.

By MERYL NASS
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The agreement is about far more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh.

By Saeid Golkar, a senior fellow at the Tony Blair Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Kasra Aarabi, the Iran program lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

The China-brokered agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last month generated huge buzz, with some observers going as far as proclaiming it a victory for international security.

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Welcome to steady billions of dollars in donations – flowing in every year.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

Elder of Zion has a piece on the latest UN report on poverty in countries around the world. This “Multidimensional Poverty Index” is arrived at by studying health, education, and the standard of living, based on ten weighted indicators. It turns out that in the “State of Palestine,” there is less poverty than in more than one hundred other countries.

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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold.

After deadly terror attack, Gallant orders security bolstered across the country

60,000 end noon prayers at Temple Mount; hundreds hail West Bank attack, wave Hamas flags

Hamas hails Jordan Valley shooting as ‘natural response’ to Al-Aqsa clashes

Police, Shin Bet arrest six Bedouin suspects for throwing rocks at buses in Negev

By Malcolm Dash

It’s still too soon to declare Netanyahu’s governing coalition doomed, though some might argue it’s on life support. Or that the much-needed judicial reforms are dead on arrival; legislation that was demanded by and pledged to the voters during the election campaigns. What’s more, this is a democratically elected, homogeneous government with a convincing majority. So, one may wonder why this crucial legislation has so far not been enacted.

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Iran is eager to outmaneuver Israel, working to forge a regional coalition, but it needs internal consensus for its plans to work. Op-ed.

Dr. Salem AlKetbi, INN

There is a lot riding on the success of the diplomatic agreement inked in Beijing between Saudi Arabia and Iran. While some optimists are hopeful that the accord will bear fruit, skeptics are worried that the Iranian regime will only pay lip service to the agreement, using it as a tactical ploy to navigate through current challenges before resuming their hegemonic ambitions in the region – a strategy they have spent a fortune on.

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By Elliott Abrams, JSTRIBUNE April 2023

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv, Israel show support for US President Biden, for not inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House, March 30, 2023. Photo credit: REUTERS

The streets are seething. Police have clashed with demonstrators and there have been not only arrests but some violence. Hundreds of thousands and likely millions have protested proposed government actions. Unions have called for nationwide strikes. Government reactions have elicited even more fierce opposition.

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The basic idea of liberalism is a positive thing – as long as there are guard rails that go along with it. Yoram Hazony explains clearly that the essential idea of a liberal and free society will not last for many generations if there are no red lines and clarity as to the dangers of doing whatever one feels like doing.

Marxism is simply more attractive to many of the younger Western children than old liberal ideas are. Woke morality looks at all of the old traditional aspects of life such as religion and family, and a loyalty to a national framework, and says that they are all irrelevant and outdated concepts.

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Meanwhile the enemies who have sworn to wipe Israel off the map are courted and indulged.

By Bruce Thornton, FPM        6.4.23

The Romans said of 1^st century B.C. general Sulla that there was no better friend, and no worse enemy. Epitomized in this saying is the ancient ideas of what comprises the just treatment of the gods and other people, expressed by the phrase do ut des, “I give so that you give.” “Friends” are those, humans or gods, from whom you have received, and to whom you owe benefits. “Enemies” are those who seek to injure you, and whom you may justly injure in return. In antiquity this principle of reciprocity defined all relationships.

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We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.

The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.

It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

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T. Belman. I gave this talk in Jerusalem, early in Obama’s presidency. When he was campaigning prior to the his election, I followed him very closely and thus knew a great deal about him. I believe that his alleged father was not his father and that he was not born in the US and therefor not eligible to be President. Plus I believed him to be a Muslim. These details and many more details of interest are set out in this talk.

This handout photo from March 3, 2023, shows IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, left, meeting with visiting Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday that while security cooperation with the US is beneficial, it is not “essential” and Israel knows how to act on its own.

“Israel knows how to work alone in the face of any security challenge, but it is good to see the US by our side,” Halevi told Army Radio in a relatively rare interview.

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