Beijing will pitch its own peace plan. Europeans are predictably skeptical.

BY STUART LAU, HANS VON DER BURCHARD AND LILI BAYER, POLITICO  18.2.23

MUNICH — China is trying to drive a fresh wedge between Europe and the United States as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine trudges past its one-year mark.

Such was the motif of China’s newly promoted foreign policy chief Wang Yi when he broke the news at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that President Xi Jinping would soon present a “peace proposal” to resolve what Beijing calls a conflict — not a war — between Moscow and Kyiv. And he pointedly urged his European audience to get on board and shun the Americans.

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TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS   17.2.23

We all know that Dominion voting systems is suing Fox News, Mike Lindell and others for reporting on the stolen election and implying that Dominion machines played a part in that scheme. Since 2020, tons of evidence has come out from video, eyewitness testimony, data analysis, machine analysis & whistleblowers to prove the election was stolen.

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T. Belman. The Left keeps fighting any rule that would suppress the vote such as requiring Voter ID. Now the C of A dismissed the argument that the machine screw up in republican dominated areas suppressed the vote because “voters were able to cast their ballots”. So much for “suppression of the vote”. We’ll see what the SC will do with that argument and all the other claims that were dismissed.

Lake Moves To Take Election Fraud Case To Arizona Supreme Court

by Liza Carlisle, REPUBLIC BRIEF    17.2.23

When Arizona Republican Kari Lake lost to Democrat insider Katie Hobbs in the November race for governor, there was voting chaos in the news in Maricopa county. As viewers watched, polls experienced problems with machines, sending voters to alternate locations and causing late and missing ballots. Hobbs was declared the governor in the match, but Lake has been protesting the integrity of the election ever since. So far, her lawsuits have not been successful in Arizona, the very state where all this occurred.

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By James Bacon, REVOLVER

Ever since President Trump announced his 2024 campaign, the mainstream media silence has been deafening — in stark contrast to the media frenzy that exploded in the aftermath of President Trump’s now legendary ride down the escalator. The mainstream media blackout of President Trump (which includes Fox News to a large degree) is only one such vector of attack from an establishment that is increasingly desperate to neutralize President Trump and the historic America First political movement he created.
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Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish,”

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Depressed? Lonely? Having trouble getting out of the house? Just kill yourself or have the government do it for you. Underage? Mentally unstable? The Canadian government will kill you too. No extra charge.

“Canada should expand assisted dying to include mature minors and patients with mental illnesses”

Mature minors who will never mature.

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By Anthony Gonzalez, AM THINKER

Former president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign criticized former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (R) after she announced her candidacy for president.

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T. Belman. I find this shocking. What happened? I can’t believe it.

From CNN’s Devan Cole, Marshall Cohen, Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed     18.2.23

Portions of the highly anticipated report from a special grand jury in Georgia that investigated Donald Trump’s actions in the state after the 2020 election were released Thursday, revealing two findings of its months long probe but leaving many key questions unaddressed.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the limited release earlier this week, writing in his order that the report’s introduction and conclusion, as well as concerns the grand jury panel had about witnesses lying under oath, will be made public.

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By MARK SLEBODA, REAL POLITICK   18.2.23

It is widely acknowledged that the conflict in Ukraine has become a war of attrition fought to a very great degree with artillery, the proverbial “king of the battlefield”, returned to prominence.

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T. Belman. Greenfield is brilliant. Internationalism is a code word for the New World Order. He argues, “And internationalism invariably undermines the nation by prioritizing an ideology over the rights and interests of the citizenry. Internationalism is always unsustainable.”

In my essay, Particularism Before Universalism, I wrote, about universalism,

“Everything and everybody is to be tolerated, even those who don’t tolerate you. It is easy to see that this is the ultimate destination of universalism. It seeks to render valueless the particular, whether religious or national.”

By Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish   Mar 26, 2013

Iraq and immigration have one thing in common. Both are founded on the assumption that national political philosophies can be universally applied to any population with the same results.

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Watchman Newscast

Continuation of Naomi’s Wolf’s report 56 from yesterday – devastating

https://rumble.com/v29scem-naomi-wolf-autopsies-revealed-catastrophic-lesions-on-many-organs-likely-ca.html

If the 1,000-year-old holy book sells for near its estimated value, the Codex Sassoon would become the most valuable printed text or historical document ever sold at auction, Sotheby’s said.

By  Reuters and ILH Staff   16.2.23

Sotheby?s art handler Tony Yori with the Codex Sassoon, the earliest and most complete known Hebrew Bible, during an auction preview for the centuries-old manuscript at Sotheby?s in New York, New York, USA, February 15, 2023 | Photo: EPA/Justin Lane

The world’s oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby’s said on Wednesday.

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What is at stake is not just judicial reform; after 100 years a large part of the people has awoken to claim its share of the leadership, not just based on ethnic grievances.

By  Dror Eydar, ISRAEL HAYOM    17.2.23

1. There is no way back. The metaphorical gun has been placed on the table, senior Opposition members have made insane and irresponsible threats; we cannot fold. There is however room for dialogue and compromise and we must bring on board members of the opposition who support restoring the balance between the branches of power and reining in the Supreme Court. But we cannot pull back. If the coalition gives up this historic opportunity, there will be no way back for the masses who voted it into power
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BY ELLIOT NAZAR, FOREIGN DESK    17.2.23

New information revealed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been “mapping” the locations of the Jewish diaspora as part of laying the groundwork for a political assassination campaign if the state of Israel decides to strike the country’s underground nuclear facilities, according to Catherine Perez-Shakdam who has gained access to high-level members of the regime.

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T. Belman. The diplomatic situation is very complex. US and the EU want Israel on board in their condemnation of Russia and support for Ukraine. Israel wants them on board with its plans for construction in and annexation of Area C. and also with her plans for attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities..

And obviously, Israel doesn’t want to alienate Russia and wants to continue to attack Iran with Russian consent.

Top diplomat had to take two overnight trains to meet President Zelensky in freezing Kyiv, giving Netanyahu a little breathing room with the West

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI    Today, 12:05 pm  

KYIV, Ukraine — Only six weeks into his tenure as foreign minister, Eli Cohen embarked on a trip that was as complex logistically as it was diplomatically.

Disagreements causing tensions in the Israel-Ukraine relationship have persisted since Russian forces invaded its neighbor 51 weeks ago. Kyiv wants Israel to stand firmly with the West, taking a clear moral position against Moscow and President Vladimir Putin. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s Jewish president, also wants the Jewish state to offer its vaunted air defense technologies as a frustrated Russia attacks civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones.

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A new book is essential to understanding the lunacy over Israel and the global jihad

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

Palestinian Arab who helped lynch two Israeli reservists in Ramallah, 2000

One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs — casting the former as evil and the latter as sanctified victims — has been absorbed by so many people.

Still stranger, this narrative seems to be the driver of progressive politics. It’s not just that “intersectionality” demonises the Jews, but that it is driven by an obsession with Palestinianism.
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Israel may still end up having to take on Iran’s nuclear program on its own, says former intelligence official.

BY YAAKOV LAPPIN

(February 16, 2023 / JNS) On Jan. 26, the historic five-day joint Israeli-American military exercise called “Juniper Oak” came to an end. The exercise saw unprecedented levels of cooperation between the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for the Middle East, and the Israel Defense Forces.

“Juniper Oak” tested Israeli-American readiness and boosted the operational connection between the two militaries to enable them to deal with “regional threats,” according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, but the intended target audience for this message seems to have been Iran.
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Palestinian terrorism and disinterest in a two-state solution ensure that peace is impossible. But the United States and its allies prefer to focus on Israeli housing starts.

By Jonathan Tobin

(February 16, 2023 / JNS) When the spokespersons for the U.S. State Department and the foreign ministries of America’s Western allies churn out press releases condemning the building of homes for Jews, it’s all a matter of finding a similar document in the archive, and just cutting and pasting the text and slapping a new date on it. Their joint statement denouncing Israel’s announcement of approval for the planning and building of 10,000 new homes in Judea and Samaria, as well as the government authorization of nine “outpost” settlements, was strictly by the book. It contained the requisite language about “unilateral acts,” “tensions” and opposing actions that “undermine efforts to achieve a negotiated two-state solution.”

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