A possible multi-front war needs immediate out-of-the-box thinking  

Preparing for a multi-front war must include the scenario in which there is no resupply from America. 

Israel-Lebanon borderIDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and others, such as Middle East expert Dr. Mordecai Kedar, have warned that we may face war with Gaza, Hezbollah, and others in Lebanon, and even the possibility that Iranian-backed militias in Syria and elsewhere join the fray.

Even under normal circumstances, we simply do not have the resources to simultaneously implement the two separate “playbooks” we have for a war in Gaza and a war in Lebanon.

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May 3, 2023 | 12:33 pm | 2 Comments »

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The US-Israel nexus transcends politics and geo-strategy  

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”   May 2, 2023,

*Notwithstanding the 75-year-old systematic – and sometimes brutal – pressure on Israel by the US State Department and almost all US presidents, US-Israel commercial and defense cooperation has surged to dramatic heights. *The mutually-beneficial US-Israel cooperation has been consistent with US economic and defense interests and with the US mindset about Israel. Unlike the US mindset on most other countries, the mindset on Israel is a bottom-top phenomenon. Thus, US policy toward Israel is a derivative of the worldview of the American constituency, which is generally followed by elected officials in the US House and Senate and acknowledged by the White House.
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May 3, 2023 | 6:40 am | Comments »

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50 Israeli Supreme Court decisions  

These decisions, all handed down since Aharon Barak’s period, show more than any essay could why Israel needs judicial reform. 

There are many reasons for effecting judicial reform in Israel, not the least of them the way Supreme Court judges are chosen and the absolute power held by the unelected legal advisor to the Prime Minister (who also functions as the attorney general) and the legal advisors to the government ministries. Add the absence of a demand for standing, the fact that everything, including religious, military and economic decisions can be (and are) adjudicated in the courts, the fact that a justice’s opinion of the “reasonableness” of an issue allows him to strike it down and that all of the above are particular to Israel.

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May 3, 2023 | 6:25 am | 1 Comment »

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The Very Fabric of This Great Nation Will Be Torn in Ways That Can Not Be Repaired  

By Dr Robert Malone

After the leak of Justice’s Alito opinion on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, there has been an organized campaign to attack the Supreme court’s legitimacy, which really began years ago. The Wall Street Journal writes:

But as the court has grown more conservative in recent years, the left has stepped up the attacks on the court’s “legitimacy,” including character assassination of individual justices, with little objection from mainstream Democrats and plenty of help from the media.

Justice Alito says “this type of concerted attack on the court and on individual justices” is “new during my lifetime. . . . We are being hammered daily, and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us.

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May 2, 2023 | 6:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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How a brave scholar’s intellectual integrity shined a light on the degradation of critical thought in America.   

Fake History and a Profile in Courage 

by Bruce Thornton, FPM  

A culture-war squall occurred recently over a Netflix series about Cleopatra, who is played by a black actress. The biggest protest came not from ancient historians calling out fake history, but from Egypt, where a lawyer filed a complaint with the public prosecutor alleging that the casting promotes “the Afrocentric thinking . . . which includes slogans and writings aimed at distorting and erasing the Egyptian identity.”

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May 2, 2023 | 5:19 pm | Comments »

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Second-Largest Bank Failure in US History Underway, Regulators Seize and Strike Multibillion-Dollar Deal  

By Johnathan Jones, WESTERN JOURNAL  May 1, 2023 at 4:17pm

A San Francisco-based bank collapsed on Monday and was seized by the federal government and quickly sold to JPMorgan Chase following for billions of dollars in what was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. First Republic Bank operated 84 locations in eight states but did not have the capital to hand to handle withdrawals during a bank run that commenced following the collapse of two other mid-size banks in March, the Associated Press reported.

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May 2, 2023 | 5:11 pm | 1 Comment »

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How Palestinians Are Trying to Destroy Lebanon  

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  May 2, 2023

Pictured: Lebanese soldiers stand next to a truck carrying a multiple rocket launcher after confiscating it from Hezbollah terrorists, in Shouayya, Lebanon, on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images)

  • According to these reports, Hamas could not have carried out the rocket attack without the blessing of Hezbollah, Iran’s terror proxy in Lebanon.
  • “[T]here are those who seek to turn Lebanon into a military base. What [Hamas] did [by firing missiles at Israel] will be an incentive for other organizations to carry out similar military actions that could drag Lebanon into disaster.” — Elie Mahfoud, a lawyer for Sovereign Front for Lebanon, Asharq Al-Awsat, April 24, 2023.
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Belgium will be the first Muslim state in Europe  

Europe trampled the biological and cultural laws of the birth, decline and death of a civilization, celebrating its own euthanasia.

The investigation of the monthly Causeur signed by the courageous Céline Pina makes you jump, a shiver in the back.

“The migration agreements signed with Morocco and Turkey and the extreme benevolence towards the most radical Muslim populations fuel the political clientelism of the left in Belgium”, says Causeur. “This opens up a demographic bomb that could make Belgium the first Muslim state in Europe. In Belgium, the Islamists have important relays in the local political class, but also within the Commission and the European Parliament. In May 2021, Sarah Schlitz, Belgian State Secretary for Gender Equality and member of the Greens, appointed a veiled woman Commissioner for Gender Equality”.

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May 2, 2023 | 3:50 pm | Comments »

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Khan al-Amar showdown threatens Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine  

T. Belman. Singer misleads by writing

“My humble opinion: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu needs to confirm to the Court, if true, that one of his senior officials has been discussing implementing the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution or alternative solutions in alleged secret back channel meetings with a senior PLO official for the last three months.”

He offers no evidence that it is true or that it threatens his Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

The Khan al Ahmar issue is solvable but two practical solutions were rejected by the illegal residents who seem to want confrontation. Op-ed

  May 2, 2023, 9:49 AM (GMT+3)

A showdown between Israel’s Government and High Court of Justice on 1 May concerning the demolition and evacuation of an illegal Bedouin encampment-cum-village – Khan al-Ahmar – threatens to shred the implementation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution and cause an international uproar.

Three judges of the High Court of Justice on 24 May 2018 unanimously rejected a final appeal by the 200 residents of Khan al-Ahmar to demolish the illegal settlement and evacuate its residents – finding the Government had that right “under the letter of the law”.

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How Pfizer Bribes Led to Vaccine Mandates  

https://rumble.com/v2k5xy0-exclusive-report-holy-sht-pfizer-secretly-funded-who-114-stay-free-with-rus.html

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola   Fact Checked

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • In 2022, Pfizer became the first drug company in history to break $100 billion in annual sales. That year, Pfizer spent $2.8 billion on ads, an increase of $800 million from 2021
  • But Pfizer’s success isn’t due to direct ads. It’s because a) the U.S. government spent $1 billion of taxpayers’ money to promote the experimental COVID jab, and b) Pfizer paid millions to consumer, medical and civil rights groups that lobbied for COVID jab mandates on Pfizer’s behalf
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Decoupling or not, China still opening wide its economy  

T. Belman.  China intends to bolster the private sector.

Beijing has ramped up self-reliance rhetoric in face of US trade and tech wars but remains wholly committed to economic opening

By XIRUI LI, ASIA TIMES        

Despite trade and tech wars with the US, China is still committed to opening to foreign investors. Photo: China Daily

The private sector and foreign investors have become increasingly skeptical about doing business in China since Covid-19. The risks of shutdowns, travel restrictions, disruptions to normal operation and supply chains, and liquidity shortages resulting from China’s zero-Covid policy have significantly shaken their confidence.

May 1, 2023 | 4:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Mess in Israel  

In November 2022, for the first time in a nearly a decade, an election in Israel had a decisive outcome. The government that emerged from that election two months later was instantly unacceptable to other Israelis, who have since taken to the streets.

Over the past two months, the question I have been asked more than any other is: Can you explain what’s going on in Israel? The answer is not difficult: The right is seeking to enact an activist agenda, and that agenda angers, alarms, and/or terrifies everybody who didn’t vote for the parties of the right.

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May 1, 2023 | 4:26 pm | 2 Comments »

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“It’s over,” the protesters are saying — and they no longer mean just judicial reform  

We may be on the verge of a sea-change; what it will be is far from clear

By Daniel Gordis

Why the dinosaurs? What’s about to become extinct?

Listen carefully to the audio of the very brief clip (below) from Saturday night’s protest, and you’ll hear, in part what you’ve been hearing all along. At the very, very end of the clip you hear the protesters—in what was for Jerusalem a massive protest, in Tel Aviv the numbers went from 120,000 to 180,000 on the eve of the Knesset’s returning from its recess—chanting what they’ve been chanting all along. De-Mo-Krat-Ya. You don’t need to speak a lot of Hebrew to know what that means.

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May 1, 2023 | 4:21 pm | 2 Comments »

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Israel Extends Detention of Jordanian Lawmaker Who Smuggled Weapons at Border Crossing  

T. Belman. McCarthy just met with the King in Aquba to discuss the matter.  He is now talking with the Israelis.

Pressure ramps up on Jordanian King Abdullah to secure parliament member Imad al-Adwan’s release
By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ    30.4.23


The weapons that according to reports were seized from Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan.Credit: Use under Section 27A of the Copyright Law

An Israeli military court extended on Sunday the detention of a Jordanian lawmaker who was arrested by Israel for allegedly smuggling large quantities of weapons in the West.

Last Sunday, Jordan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry alleged that Jordanian lawmaker Imad al-Adwan was arrested for smuggling a large quantity of weapons into the West Bank. The court extended the detention by eight days.

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Can Israel be unified?  

Israel’s future depends more on repairing a modicum of national unity and even global Jewish accord than it does on countering Iran. But competing visions of Israel’s essence and identity are at play.

 By  David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM
It is clear to almost any observer of this country that internal disputes are more threatening than external threats; that Israel’s future depends more on repairing a modicum of national unity and even global Jewish accord than it does on countering Iran. In fact, the latter may be impossible without the former.

One can even argue that there is a significant correlation between Israel’s social and spiritual state and the geopolitical reality it faces. The divine promise in the Bible to help Israel surmount its enemies is conditional. It is predicated upon Israel’s adherence to a rigorous code of law and ethics.

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