JaFaJ January 3, 2023

1. Summary: Jordan has been spiralling into unrest since early December. An ongoing national strike in protests of the King’s economic policies has blossomed into civil disobedience. In response, King Abdullah has recklessly dealt with those taking part in the strike (demonstrators), with the “heavy hand of oppression.” This has made the public more defiant and deepened the crisis. At the same time, some of the very few remaining loyalists to the King’s half-brother, Hamzah, have rekindled their hope of him replacing his brother as King. Still, Hamzah lacks any serious public support or access to either Jordan’s intelligence or army, therefore his chances of ever becoming King are null.
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by Marc Patrone

Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson could be stripped of his license to practice clinical psychology over his sharing of political posts on social media.  The College of Psychologists of Ontario which regulates the profession in his home province has disciplined Peterson over the sharing of political posts on Twitter.

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T. Belman. This is the first step in this governments path to reassert Jewish rights. We are in the right. They are interfering with our sovereignty. We must continue to defy them.

Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif could hurt the new far-right Israeli government’s relations with Arab states and Turkey.

By Adam Lucente, AL MONITOR

This picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows a view of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its Dome of the Rock, Old City, Jerusalem, Jan. 2, 2023. – Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to a contested Jerusalem holy site Tuesday has sparked a diplomatic outcry.

What happened: Ben-Gvir, a hardline politician, took office along with the rest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet last week. Almost immediately, Ben-Gvir began planning a visit to the Temple Mount, aka Haram al-Sharif. The site is holy to both Jews and Muslims and is a frequent flashpoint for Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

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T. Belman. No mention is made of Mudar Adnan Zahran but he will prevail.

Amid Protests In Jordan That Include Calls Against The King And Support For Prince Hamzah, Journalists And Former Ministers Warn: The Sense Of Resentment Is Unprecedented; The Authorities Must Adopt A New Approach

MEMRI

By H. Varulkar and Z. Harel

In early December 2022, a wave of protests broke out in Jordan, following a government decision to raise the price of fuel, which aggravated the already serious economic crisis in the country. The protests took the form of demonstrations, a truck drivers’ strike, general strikes and riots, especially in the southern parts of the country. This protest wave differed from previous ones by crossing an important line: on December 15, during riots in the city of Ma’an in southern Jordan, shots were fired at the security forces, killing the district’s deputy police chief, ‘Abd Al-Razzaq Al-Dalabih. Several days later, on December 19, three more police officers were killed while arresting suspects in Al-Dalabih’s shooting. The suspects, one of whom was also killed during the raid, were caught with extensive weapons and ammunition. The regime referred to them as “a takfiri terrorist cell,” although their militancy was probably motivated by the economic crisis.

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T. Belman. I was totally ignorant and decided to investigate. I could no longer turn a blind eye to the subject. I learned that “0.6%-0.7% of the U.S. population – identify as transgender” of whom, 25% undergo surgery.

“Most people who choose these surgeries experience an improvement in their quality of life. Depending on the procedure, 94% to 100% of people report being satisfied with their surgery results. In general, people who work with a mental health provider before surgery tend to experience more satisfaction with their treatment results.”

Most Gender Dysphoria Established by Age 7, Study Finds

Cedars-Sinai Research Reveals Health Impact on Transgender People from Lack of Early Support and Intervention

Research by urologist Maurice Garcia, MD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program, shows that the majority of transgender patients experience gender dysphoria in early childhood. Photo by Cedars-Sinai.
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By Debra Heine, AM GREATNESS    2.1.23

Inventor of mRNA vaccine technology Dr. Robert Malone is calling for an international tribunal to “investigate and prosecute” all those responsible for the millions of deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus—most notably former NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Eco-Health Alliance president Peter Daszak.

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T. Belman. I might add that as the number of Muslim immigrants rise in America and elsewhere, there is always a rise in antisemitism.

The fruits of multiculturalism.

by Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

For most of the 20th century, Sweden was held up as the very model of a modern welfare state: prosperous and peaceful, a example of social cohesion that was the product not of “diversity,” but of the very lack of “diversity.” That homogeneous Sweden is no longer. The description of quite a different Sweden, the result of more than 1.2 million immigrants, mostly from Muslim countries, can be found here: “Suicidal Sweden: Woman Gang-Raped in a Park by Five Teenage Syrian Muslim Migrants,” by Amy Mek, RAIR Foundation, December 26, 2022 (also, a Jihad Watch report on this incident, featuring a translation from a Swedish news source, is here).

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By Eileen F. Toplansky, AMER THINKER

Thirteen years ago, the Center for Security Policy Press published Shariah: The Threat to America, Report of Team BII.  They pointed out that “[t]he most important entity promoting Islamic supremacism, shariah, and the caliphate… is the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), or in Arabic, the Ikhwan.”

Moreover, “The MB defined this form of warfare as ‘civilization jihad’ in its strategic document for North America [.]”

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

On Monday morning, the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, under the auspices of the Defense Ministry, uprooted a vineyard near the Yitzhar community in Samaria, following a petition submitted by PA Arabs to Israel’s High Court of Justice, Regavim reported.

The petitioners did not provide a smidgen of proof of ownership of the land on which the vineyard had been planted some four years ago, and yet the vineyard’s Jewish owners were handed a “Disruptive Land-Use Order,” a unique military order permitting the removal of agricultural assets even when no conflicting claim of ownership is submitted or proven.

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Excellent. Covered best by General Michael Flynn himself a couple of days ago

“Ukraine is at the very top – Human Trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking and weapons trafficking – globally. This is what Ukraine does, and has done for many many years. pic.twitter.com/r9kJO7cwae

— Lisa Paje (@PajekLisa_) January 3, 2023

By Guy Benson, TOWNHALL  3.1.23

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump opened 2023 by offering his explanation for why Republicans won fewer seats than expected in November’s midterm elections.  As Leah noted yesterday, Trump began his ‘Truth’ Social message with “it’s not my fault,” then proceeded to lay blame at the feet of pro-life voters and the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.  Here’s the post itself, followed by commentary:

NEW ATLAS    Jan 2/23
Brian says Russia is on offense all over and is holding in Kreminna. Continues to decimate the Ukrainian Army.

There were many countries that voted against Israel that Israel would consider “friends,” yet many ask, “what determines whether a country is a ‘friend’?”

By HERB KEINON, JPOST  1.1.23

Members of the International Court of Justice attend a hearing for alleged violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity between Iran and the U.S., at the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands August 27, 2018. (REUTERS/PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW)

Forget for a second the long-term significance and potential ramifications of the latest UN move to refer Israel’s “occupation, settlement and annexation of Palestinian territory” to the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion.

It was clear once the resolution was brought to the UN it would pass, the only question was by how large a margin. For most people, all of these anti-Israel resolutions, after a while, seem the same and fade into the generic haze of “the UN is against us.”

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The student protesters leading political unrest in Iran: Meet young activists striking fear into regime 

• EXCLUSIVE:  The Iranian regime says it has ‘lost control of the universities’
• Leaked documents seen by MailOnline show Iranian police asking for a pay rise 
• Student-led resistance units are targeting Basij bases using Molotov cocktails
• The students have been standing up to Iran’s guards despite brutal executions

By TOM BROWN FOR MAILONLINE    2 January 2023

The Iranian regime has ‘lost control of the universities’ and says ‘the young are speaking a language we don’t understand’, according to leaked documents seen by MailOnline.

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Ukraine puts death toll from New Year’s Eve strike in the occupied city of Makiivka at 400 Russian soldiers.

AL JAZEERA   2.1.23

A M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is fired from an undisclosed location in Ukraine [File: Pavlo Narozhnyy/via Reuters]

Russia has said that 63 of its troops were killed during a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on a makeshift barracks in the partly-occupied Donetsk region.

The ministry said in a statement on Monday that Ukraine’s military had launched six projectiles at the “provisional base” in the eastern city of Makiivka using the HIMARS guided rocket system supplied by the United States.

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T. Belman. In addition to these two challenges, this government is committed to seizing Area C for Israel  which includes massive building there and destroying illegal Arab construction.

Although Bibi has a veto on some of Smotrich’s plans, he won’t be able to restrain him entirely. It remains to be seen to what extent Bibi restrains himself or Smotrich for that matter.

In order to stop Iran, and on the way make peace with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu may have to wait out President Biden’s administration.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Amid the brouhaha of the past several days as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the final touches on his government, he also set his sights on two major personal foreign policy goals. The first is his life’s mission – to stop the Iranian nuclear project. The second – to strike a peace accord with Saudi Arabia and thus put a practical end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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TIMES OF ISRAEL

Gantz: ‘I don’t want to win the civil war Netanyahu is trying to ignite, I want to prevent it’

‘People will die’: Lapid tells Netanyahu he must stop Ben Gvir’s planned Temple Mount visit

Liberman says new Netanyahu government is ‘the end of Zionism’

At defense handover, Gantz warns Gallant not to allow political interference in IDF

By Rachel Alexander, TOWNHALL, Jan 02, 2023,

Distrust in the justice system over its refusal to stop voter disenfranchisement is spiraling after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson dismissed Kari Lake’s lawsuit challenging the results of Arizona’s botched midterm election, where Democrat Katie Hobbs was declared the winner. Hobbs was losing in almost every MSM poll and didn’t bother to debate Lake, prompting one of the most prominent progressive journalists in the state to denounce her hiding in her basement as “political malpractice.” Hobbs was such an unremarkable candidate that she has only 177k Twitter followers to Lake’s 834k followers, over 400% fewer. 

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