T. Belman. Netanyahu reportedly accepts Biden administration request to ‘pause’ demolition of illegal Arab homes and Judea and Samaria construction. Fir how long. Smotrich and Ben Gvir will never agree to this.

Presumably this “pause” is intended to give time to the US to negotiate a compromise.

Why didn’t Israel demand that illegal Arab construction be stopped.

It is very doubtful the Biden administration can prevent a major outbreak of violence in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria ahead of Ramadan.

By  Yoni Ben Menachem, IH   7.2.23

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Washington disappointed following his meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which was intended to bring about calm in the Palestinian territories and restore security coordination with Israel.

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by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE  •  February 7, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP)

• Just 20 days before [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine]…, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a statement that said their cooperation had “no limits… no forbidden zones.”
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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Many people still sneer at Justin Trudeau for his silly costumes; soft-spoken, even boyish, demeanor; and overt love for all leftist tropes, whether racial, sexual, religious, or anything else. Those people are fools. Trudeau is a dangerous man who is rapidly creating a totalitarian government that grants rights only to those who march in lockstep with Trudeau’s leftist political and social beliefs.

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E. Kossian. We were all lied to but not everyone swallowed the lies, hook, line and sinker.
Every relative I know except one took the experimental gene change shot. Most took on the advise of relatives in their 50’s in medical profession. If I start the conversation now with “ we were all lied to” they readily agree. 8 mo ago they would have argued. A whole bunch of them just got covid.

For me the fear mongering was a tip, though that part I did initially believe and that caused me to do more research on how to prevent covid. The suppression of alternative thought was the strongest warning flag to me, when doctors should have been encouraged to experiment widely. When I finally got covid oct 2021, the hospital did a pcr test and confirmed I had it ( I had severe flu symptoms). I then asked for the number of cycles the pcr was run at. The response from the lab was “ we don’t know”.

By ROBIN KOERNER   JANUARY 31, 2023

Scott Adams is the creator of the famous cartoon strip, Dilbert. It is a strip whose brilliance derives from close observation and understanding of human behavior. Some time ago, Scott turned those skills to commenting insightfully and with notable intellectual humility on the politics and culture of our country.

Like many other commentators, and based on his own analysis of evidence available to him, he opted to take the Covid “vaccine.”
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Scott Ritter –
MOST OF THE WORLD SUPPORTS RUSSIA.
WE ARE HEADED TO A MULTI-POLAR WORLD.

BY ALEXANDER MAISTROVOY

For the third time in its short history, Israel, by the will of fate or metaphysical destiny, once again finds itself in the epicenter of the struggle of the Western world with supranational totalitarian systems. The first time, it became an outpost in the way of the powerful Soviet empire, which sought to establish a communist world dictatorship. The second time, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was attacked by Islamic jihadists, who practiced against it the most monstrous methods of “fighting the infidels.” This onslaught was repulsed, and the jihadists were at least temporarily weakened. The new attack was marked by the advent of yet another, perhaps the most sophisticated, totalitarian ideology: globalism. And again, as before, the Jewish state has become the main battlefield.

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by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses the protests in Iran with Iranian-American writer Roya Hakakian, Iranian-American activist Sherry Hakimi, and British-Iranian actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi at the State Department in Washington on October 14, 2022.

It would be a shame to miss the present opportunity to support the Iranian protesters fighting for their lives. For close to half a year, the Iranian people, first led by their women and then young adults, have called not only for better economic conditions, as they have in the past, but for wholesale regime change.
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by Steve Kramer

There’s way too much hysteria from the left wing over proposed legislation in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Where do world leaders like Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French President Emmanuel Macron get the hutzpah to lecture Israel’s elected representatives? It’s bad enough that the leaders of Israel’s previous left wing coalition  are acting as if the Supreme Court rules cannot be modified. This frenzy over the government’s projected but unspecified alterations to Israel’s Supreme Court is not the end of democracy – as is claimed – but the exercise of democracy. (This right wing government has a larger majority, 65 to 55, than the current American administration or the previous left wing Israeli administration.)
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Kyiv also reportedly says government must agree to treat wounded soldiers, loan $500 million and more, with meeting between Eli Cohen and Zelensky hanging in balance

By ASH OBEL, TOI   

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kyiv has formulated a list of demands it wants fulfilled by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen ahead of an expected visit to Ukraine, among them a public denunciation of the Russian invasion and hundreds of millions of dollars in loans.

The requests, which also include an expression of support for the country’s territorial integrity, medical treatment in Israel and the development of anti-missile technology, fall short of previous asks Kyiv has made for defensive weaponry, but may still force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government into an uncomfortable stance as it seeks to navigate between the warring allies.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  February 6, 2023

A special meeting of the OIC in Islamabad, Pakistan on December 19, 2021. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)

• OPEC and the OIC are infused with nearly incalculable wealth and most member states of the OIC have found themselves upbraided for questionable ethics.
• One critic suggested: “If the OIC Summiteers are serious about the burning issues of justice, freedom and good governance, then they should schedule a special debate on the Transparency International’s (TI) 2003 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) which ranked 38 of the 57 OIC member nations in its latest chart of the corruption levels of 133 countries… [it] is dismal reading for OIC as it is an overall indictment of the failures of the OIC countries to grapple with the problem of corruption…”
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T. Belman.  In theory Mansur is probably correct. In practice though, the Islamists are so dominant that the moderates are afraid to speak out.  The doctrine of abrogation results in the later verses superseding the earlier ones. This doctrine must be expunged. A few years ago Al Sisi called for major reform and MBS is on record wanting reform.

Trump called for the defeat of Islamists “and their ideology”. When he visited Saudi Arabia in 2017 he met with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh and they agreed to set up Global Center for Combating Extremism  intended as a centre of excellence for fighting violent extremism which is conducive to terrorism. That’s a start.

by Salim Mansur, Gatestone Institute July 23, 2013

Since 9/11 the West has been confounded with the question whether Islam and Islamism are one and same, or if there is a critical distinction to be drawn between the two. How this question is answered has profound implications for understanding and explaining the immense convulsion seizing the Muslim world, and on how best to frame a proper response without undermining or eroding the secular and liberal democratic culture of the West.

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T. Belman. Levoritz argues that the US and other globalists don’t want Israel to be able to defend itself or to out-compete the US.  Is he right?

By Jerold Levoritz, AM THINKER

No one offers a reasonable explanation for Biden begging Iran to rejoin the debunked, tawdry, ineffective, and cynical agreement to keep nuclear weapons out of Iranian hands, if just for a while.  Israel keeps providing updates on how close the Iranians are to completing their weapons of mass destruction.  The U.S. government “cooperates” with Israel, holding joint exercises, but keeps weapons out of Israel’s hands that could bring the Iranian project to a screeching halt — namely, bunker-busters and the means to deliver them.
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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

The photo is one of the mind-blowing exhibits at the Museum of Medicine and Science in Hadera, central Israel.

This week’s newsletter is packed with life-enhancing creations from the minds of Israeli scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Cell therapy to fix genetic diseases; Artificial Intelligence to diagnose diseases from biopsies, from retina scans, and from CT-scans; even smart systems to ensure hospitals are never short of essential supplies.

Scientific breakthroughs include efficient fusion energy, satellite quantum communications, growing vegan super-food indoors; heat-generating polymers; sunglasses that convert to reading glasses; continuous mobile Internet; and intelligent robots to replace unresponsive customer service centers.

In the 5th Feb 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
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