Five Lessons From Three Years Of Authoritarianism  

BY TYLER DURDEN, ZERO HEDGE

Three years ago few of us knew the impending storm that was brewing; one that would upend the very fabric of global democracy, destroy whole communities, businesses and families and cause a vast number of children and adolescents to become unmoored and disengage from society, among many other deleterious outcomes.

Perhaps most chilling of all has been the sinister turn in those three years of what was once seemingly a force for good, “public health;” which changed into a punitive and authoritarian entity that wilfully engages in iatrogenesis and the disenfranchisement of those skeptical of the medical-industrial complex through widespread and draconian vaccine mandates.
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March 3, 2023 | 12:37 pm | 3 Comments »

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Israel’s ‘Top Gun’: The US-Israeli aircraft that can take down Iran  

Top Israeli officials have all made direct threats against Iran. US-Israeli F-35 aircraft drills have helped make this option a possibility.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST      25.2.23

PREPARING FOR a joint mission? US and Israeli fighter jets participate in the Juniper Oak drill over the Negev in January.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

White, yellow and purple fire erupted from their engines like a volcano.

The force of the explosion in their engines was deafening, even at a distance of a couple of hundred meters, and slightly shook the entire area.

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March 3, 2023 | 10:25 am | 4 Comments »

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Report: Netanyahu almost announced suspension of judicial reform legislation  

PM reportedly was going to agree to freeze bills for up to ten days yesterday, relented when Justice Minister Levin threatened to resign.

Israel National News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intended to announce the suspension of the legislation on the government’s planned judicial reforms during his speech last night on the widespread protests against the reforms, according to a report by Channel 13 News.

Netanyahu reportedly intended to propose that the advancement of the legislation be frozen for a week to ten days to allow for negotiations with the opposition to take place under President Isaac Herzog’s proposal.

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March 3, 2023 | 6:24 am | 1 Comment »

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Does violence actually spike during Ramadan? The data suggests not.  

Israeli officials and the media continuously warn about the dangers of the upcoming Islamic holy month – but is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?

By Hillel Frisch, IH    3.2.23

It has become commonplace for officials, analysts, and correspondents to warn about the dangers of the upcoming month of Ramadan and the Palestinian violence that will ensue. This has especially been the case after the May 2021 Hamas campaign against Israel, and even more so since the election of the “most right-wing” government Israel has ever had.
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March 2, 2023 | 3:14 pm | 1 Comment »

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UN Promotes Anti-Israel, Pro-Beijing Policies: US Ambassador  

By Andrew Thornebrooke, EPOCH TIMES    1.3.23

U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaks during a press conference at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on March 1, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.N. consistently demonstrates an anti-Israel bias and is overly beholden to authoritarian regimes, including China and Russia, according to testimony during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on March 1.

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March 2, 2023 | 3:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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Europe warns Israel against ‘game-changer’ death penalty legislation  

T. Belman. The death penalty may not act as a deterrent but it certainly delivers justice and is a fitting punishment for the crime. What would act as a deterrence is the termination of all financial support given by the PA to the murderers. By financially supporting the PA, the EU and the US both support the the terror which it advocates.

Germany’s foreign minister, diplomatic official voice opposition to legislation making its way through Knesset amid spike in Palestinian terror attacks

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI 1 March 2023, 4:57 pm

As Israel advances a bill that would allow courts to impose the death penalty for deadly terror attacks against Israeli citizens, a European diplomat warned that its successful passage would transform relations between Israel and the continent.

The Knesset plenum on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to the bill, an item that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party has long been pushing for. It is set to be discussed by the high-level security cabinet, which is seen as likely to insert modifications.
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March 2, 2023 | 1:22 pm | 7 Comments »

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Polls Show Most Palestinians Don’t Support a Two-State Solution  

by David M. Litman, ALGEMEINER

Masked Palestinian youths clash with Israeli security forces on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad

In yet another display of Christiane Amanpour’s prioritization of her disdain for Israel over journalistic integrity, the CNN anchor appears to have fabricated poll results to falsely suggest that the Palestinian side supports the two-state solution with Israel.

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March 2, 2023 | 12:53 am | 4 Comments »

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Brazil Welcomes Iranian Warships  

The White House keeps the visit quiet around Lula’s visit to see Biden.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ


A Brazilian flag waves while the Iranian warship IRIS Makran sails on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 27,PHOTO: CARL DE SOUZA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

The arrival of two Iranian warships in Brazil on Sunday is unsettling for democracies in the Western hemisphere. Worse is that the Biden Administration seems to have been complicit in trying to bury the news.

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March 2, 2023 | 12:05 am | 2 Comments »

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Israel-US relationship heading toward a boiling point  

T. Belman. Yes, the US is openly challenging this government and will not back down. This time, hopefully Israel has the strength and determination to say “no”.

Anyone who doesn’t see how President Joe Biden’s administration is quietly marching toward a Kissinger-level pressure doesn’t know US diplomacy or is willingly blind.

By  Dan Margalit, IH    03-01-2023 

America is probably the most tolerant, liberal, and democratic empire ever seen in international relations. The founding father George Washington cast it as a new world that would have nothing to do with the old ways of the corrupt Old World. He saw the ocean as the best way to protect it. Read more…

March 1, 2023 | 5:11 pm | 7 Comments »

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Police fire stun grenades toward protesters against judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv  

Tear gas also fired at crowds blocking Ayalon Highway, with several reported wounded; police use water cannons, horses in bid to break up rally

TIMES OF ISRAEL IS LIVE BLOGGING EVENTS TODAY.


Protesters clash with Israeli security forces during a demonstration against the government’s controversial justice reform bill in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

The protestors are doing their best t make the protests newsworthy. The more laws they violate, the more attention they get from the media.

Ben Gvir with Netanyahu’s support permitted police to use water cannon and stun grenades to quell the lawless protestors.

March 1, 2023 | 3:53 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Derailment of Candace Owens  

T. Belman. Think this article is too harsh on Candace. I also watched her video and she explains herself very well. I think Trump will have to adjust his position on the efficacy of the vaccines, the sooner the better.

By Janet Walters Levite, AM THINKER

Candace Owens

Lately I’ve been lost in thought, lamenting the diminishing presence of Black women in Donald Trump’s America First movement.  In doing so, it’s impossible to think about the movement without the now pop-culture-laden Candace Owens rearing up our thoughts. She was formerly a commanding presence as a Black woman in support of President Donald J. Trump.   But I will be frank and reveal that Candace Owens lost me very early in my Trump journey.
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March 1, 2023 | 2:48 pm | 3 Comments »

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Cancel culture comes to the Conference of Presidents  

Shockingly, CoP’s directors violated the leadership mission’s purpose by refusing to give podiums to the major elected ministers and Israeli leaders who are in the forefront of promoting Israel’s judicial, anti-terror and other reforms

ZOA head Morton KleinArutz Sheva

Several days ago, I returned from attending the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (“CoP” or the “Conference”) leadership mission in Israel, along with the leaders of approximately 20 other American Jewish organizations that are Conference members. The mission’s sole purpose was supposed to be to learn directly from Israel’s key elected leaders about vital and serious issues that confront Israel so that American Jewish leaders can be better informed when they address their communities, the media and Congress back in the United States.

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March 1, 2023 | 2:30 pm | 1 Comment »

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Germany’s Dollars for Palestinian Terror  

Helping to kill Jews.

    28.2.23


The nation that is responsible for the murder of Six Million Jews in Europe during World War II, also known as the Holocaust, is now knowingly funding the murderers of Israeli Jews, through the “good offices” of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Germany’s funds are being used by the PA to make payments to families of terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands, and terrorists currently in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian practice is better known as “pay to slay.”

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February 28, 2023 | 5:48 pm | Comments »

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Americans’ crush on Zelenskyy could end up bolstering Iran  

T. Belman. The West should cut its losses, pronto, and sue for peace. They should accept that Crimea and the four provinces which have been annexed to Russia are no longer part of Ukraine and that Ukraine is to be demilitarized and de-nazified. Thus Ukraine will be saved and will keep Odessa with its access to the Black Sea.

Many critics have questioned whether the territorial integrity of that Ukraine is really a US national interest, let alone the most important thing going on in the world.

By  Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM   28.2.23

The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving master to those who specialize in predicting the course of international relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 surprised most international observers and the Biden administration. Not many, if any, in the ranks of veteran diplomats, think-tank denizens and journalists who make up the foreign policy establishment thought that the illegal act of aggression would turn into an increasingly bloody stalemate into which much of the rest of the world would be drawn.

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February 28, 2023 | 5:17 pm | 7 Comments »

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While the U.S. and Europe back Ukraine, most of the southern hemisphere supports Russia  

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER


Image: The British Empire in 1886 – one reason for lasting hostility. Public domain.

When it comes to the Ukraine-Russia war, Ukraine gets its strongest support from Europe, which has a long history of fearing Russians, and America, which has a penchant for the underdog and, possibly, has politicians with Ukrainian money lining their pockets. However, barring the New Zealand and Australian anglosphere, most of the southern hemisphere supports Russia. That is, it’s not just China that aligns with Putin; it’s almost everywhere in that part of the world.
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