For weeks, Israeli opposition leaders and retired generals have been issuing statements presaging Israel’s imminent collapse and calling for IDF soldiers to refuse to serve.

By Caroline Glick

(April 11, 2023 / JNS) The Israeli public reasonably expected a dramatic announcement was coming when the Prime Minister’s Bureau announced Monday afternoon that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would give a prime-time press conference that evening from the Prime Minister’s Office at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Israel has found itself in the midst of a simultaneous and coordinated assault. It has suffered terror attacks countrywide and rocket volleys from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

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By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon, AM THINKER

The West’s sweeping sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are shaping up to be the West’s most monumental miscalculation in modern history.  The sanctions have not brought the Russian economy to its knees, as was widely predicted.  Instead, it’s the Western economies that are reeling, their economic growth all but stopped.  Many of them are simultaneously suffering from both high inflation and energy shortages.
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As 1970s America unraveled, both radicals posed “uncomfortable questions for comfortable Jews.” What did they ask, and are conditions ripe for similar figures to emerge?

By SAMUEL GOLDMAN, MOSAIC  5.7.22     

Meir Kahane at a press conference in 1984. Gene Kappock/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Liberals tend to assume that the course of human events follows a trajectory of incremental progress. Human character and institutions are imperfect, but over time they get better, as experience shows us our flaws. The process allows us to judge our predecessors reliably even as we recognize that we ourselves shall be judged—and found wanting. The arc of history is long, as Barack Obama famously paraphrased Martin Luther King, who was himself adapting a remark by the 19th-century abolitionist Theodore Parker. But it bends ultimately toward justice.

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An American political scientist and an Israeli media personality talk about the cleavages in Israeli society that have made the present debate over judicial reform so intense.

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To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel’s Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also requires knowledge of Israeli society, and how the founding generations of Israel’s political leadership—which tended to be Ashkenazi, secular, and oriented to the political left—have given way to an Israeli population that tends to be more ethnically diverse, more traditional and religious, and oriented towards the political right. Read more…

By: Amil Imani

Whereas the practice of slavery enslaves the body, the dogma of apostasy ensnares the mind. Whereas slavery is a shameful practice of the past, some shameless religionists still use the doctrine of apostasy to intimidate and severely punish people who elect to choose their own beliefs.

Islam is extremely possessive of its subjects. It is a religion that admits anyone into its fold by the person simply uttering a one-sentence statement of faith, shahada: I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger. By so saying, one becomes Muslim for life and surrenders the right of ever leaving it. Anyone who leaves the Islamic fold is murtad (revert), apostate.
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Lawmakers and critics are sounding the alarm, but the White House supports the agenda

By Alex Newman, EPOCH TIMES    April 11, 2023

Chinese communist party leader Xi Jinping virtually addresses the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2021 in New York. (Spencer Platt/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The United Nations is seeking vast new powers and stronger “global governance” tools to deal with international emergencies such as pandemics and economic crises, a new U.N. policy brief has revealed, and the Biden administration appears to support the proposal.

The plan to create an “Emergency Platform,” which would involve a set of protocols activated during crises that could affect billions of people, has already drawn strong concern and criticism from U.S. policymakers and analysts.

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By Moshe Phillips

“They did it only for one purpose, the dignity of the Jewish people.” -Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On April 19, 1943 Nazi forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with the stated objective of rounding up and deporting all Jews there to death camps but were attacked by organized Zionist fighters. That Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) was created by the Israeli government to be near the anniversary of the Uprising on the Jewish calendar was the correct choice.

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T. Belman. I have trouble with Ettinger’s analysis. Islamic and Palestinian terrorism attack Israel for historical reasons which have nothing to do with it being a proxy of the US..  While Israel would like to defeat the Palestinian terrorists, the US protects them and finances them. Israel wants to attack Iran which supports Palestinian terrorism and prevent them from getting the Bomb, the US wants to embrace Iran and finances it, if given a chance.

If America was so hell bent on defeating Islamic terrorism, why didn’t it attack Saudi Arabia immediately after 9/11.

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

Israel’s and the US’ counter-terrorism

*Islamic and Palestinian terrorism consider Israel as a critical beachhead – and a proxy – of the US in the Middle East and a significant collaborator with the pro-US Arab regimes. They perceive the war on “the infidel Jewish State” as a preview of their more significant war on “the infidel West” and their attempts to topple all pro-US Sunni Arab regimes. Therefore, Islamic and Palestinian terrorism has been engaged in intra-Arab subversion, while systematically collaborating with enemies and rivals of the US and the West (e.g., Nazi Germany, the Soviet Bloc, Ayatollah Khomeini, Latin American, European, African and Asian terror organizations, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba).
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‘Lucy and I had discussed this before,’ widower Rabbi Leo Dee says after his wife’s heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys were transplanted and shortly before her funeral

By RENEE GHERT-ZAND, TOI

From left: Lucy Dee is seen with her daughters Rina and Maia. The two sisters were shot dead in a terrorist attack in the West Bank on April 7, 2023. Their mother, critically hurt in the attack, died on April 10, 2023. (Courtesy)

The organs of terror victim Lucy Dee were transplanted Tuesday hours before her funeral, saving the lives of five people, the National Transplant Center said. Her widower, Rabbi Leo Dee, explained the decision by surviving family members to donate the organs — a practice that some Orthodox Jews consider forbidden by Jewish law.

“Since the tragedy, the remaining four of us in the family make decisions together. When the doctors told us the news [that Lucy was brain dead] and also in a condition where she could donate her organs, I brought the family together and we decided to donate the organs,” Dee told The Times of Israel.

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By Venus Upadhayaya, EPOCH TIMES

Chinese leader Xi Jinping prepares to address the Leaders’ Summit on Peacekeeping at the 70th annual UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 28, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)<
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The United States and its allies faced a China blockade at the UN on March 17 when they tried to spotlight the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea.

Russia joined China in what analysts increasingly see as a trend of multi-faceted sabotaging of the United Nations–its principles, practices, and institutions.
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T. Belman. Kutniki laments that Israel supports appeasement rather than confrontation and victory.

By Adina Kutnicki, AM THINKER

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein

“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” — King Solomon

“Six of one, half a dozen of the other.” — British Naval Officer Ralph Clark
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https://t.co/cuDrnpG5KZ. Why Washington's allies cheat it. The Egyptian president sends 40,000 missiles to Russia.

— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) April 11, 2023

By: Amil Imani

The more I read about Islam, the more concerned I have become about its threat to democracies everywhere. I truly understand how it is that the people in Islamic nations cannot question Islam for fear of death, but I cannot for the life of me see how an educated person can fall victim to this falsehood. I thank Anwar Shaikh for my awakening to Islam being an imperialistic doctrine, as opposed to a religion. “Freedom Is Not Free,” and it takes vigilance to keep it free. In the past, I spent many hours contacting American Congressmen to get our country off dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Fortunately, America is now a major exporter of oil and gas.
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The Caroline Glick Show

By Howard Rotberg

Over the last twenty years in four books and dozens of essays, I have sought to understand the bizarre transition in the West from supporting the goodness of liberty, non-violence, justice and other Judeo-Christian values to what I now realize is an almost complete submission to evil values and ideologies, including those of the so-called Palestinians.

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T. Belman.  I sent Hohmann my article Trump calls muslim immigration the all time biggest “Trojan Horse” which I believe makes the same case.

JAMIE GLAZOV 

Jamie Glazov interviews Leo Hohmann, author of “Stealth Invasion” which expresses concerns about Muslim immigration from countries that hate the U.S. and Europe and have the goal of changing countries from within.  Amazon has banned the book, labeling it as “hate speech”.

The conspiracy to shrink Israel by Ted Belman.
Tolerism: The bizarre transition in the West, by Howard Rotberg

By Ted Belman   Oct 3, 2021

I asked Victor Rosenthal, Malcolm Dash, Mordechai ben Menachem, Howard Bochner , Ron Jager and Victor Sharpe the following:

I am just beginning to write an article in which I identify the interests of the US and EU which are being served in supporting the Palestinians.

It used to be that it was all about currying favour with the Arabs in particular and the Muslims in general. That case is harder to make today with the advent of the Abraham Accords and US self sufficiency in energy.

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The Iranian proxies ramp up their attacks on the Jewish state.

Israeli police walk inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, April 5.

A sequence of dramatic events over the past three days has brought Israel to the brink of war with Iran-backed militias in Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. This is the product of a continuing effort by Tehran and its various franchises to “unite the arenas” of engagement with the Jewish state against the background of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It isn’t yet clear if Israel has developed a coherent strategy to counter this Iranian effort.

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by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE  •  April 10, 2023

• America can stop China’s nuclear weapons development and other monumental programs.
• The Chinese Communist Party needs America for, among other things, money, and the U.S. does not have to provide it.
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