Past covert ops and sabotage provide clues to the apparently deliberate destruction of Nord Stream pipelines

By Rachel Marsden, RUSSIA TODAY

This handout photo taken on September 28, 2022 from an aircraft of the Swedish Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) shows the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. ©  Handout / SWEDISH COAST GUARD / AFP

Speculation abounds since both Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, designed to carry cheap Russian gas to Europe, were damaged this week in what officials widely describe as deliberate acts of sabotage. Who could be responsible? Incidents buried in the past may provide a clue.

Speculation abounds, and typically in a direction colored by the preexisting biases of the person speculating – which is hardly helpful.

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By Mike Konrad, AM THINKER

At the core of human society is the family. Extend that family to cousins, and you have the tribe or clan. Extend that and you have the nation.

The Book of Genesis in Chapter 10 is often called the Table of Nations. Whether taken literally or metaphorically, it describes seventy groups of people who would go on to found nations. They were driven from Babel — run by a world dictator, Nimrod — and sent out with separate languages. What is interesting is that they were seen as starting with progenitors, that is to say: families.
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The war against the Jews is also the war against western civilisation

By Melanie Phillips

Blowing the ram’s horn shofar on Yom Kippur

Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews.

Writing in Mosaic, she ponders the effect of liberal ideologies espoused by the media and the universities which are promoting antisemitism and damaging foundational American values.
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21 Apr 2022

“It’s like putting the Ku Klux Klan in government,” says official in American-Jewish organization.

Israel National News

Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben-GvirAvshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Are the Americans meddling in Israeli elections? According to a report in the Thursday edition of Israel Hayom, officials from within the Biden administration as well as Jewish organizations in the United States have expressed their concern at the possibility that the head of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit party, MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, will be appointed a minister in the next Israel government, if opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu succeeds in forming a coalition following elections to be held in early November.

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T. Belman. Bastards!!!

Leftist leaders destroyed Israel’s chance of permanently securing its national and strategic interests in Judea and Samaria. Op-ed.

By Caroline Glick   Sep 30, 2022, 5:38 AM

(JNS) In an interview with Maariv last week, former Israeli Air Force commander Amir Eshel made several startling admissions about the role he and other IDF generals played in scuttling former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant strategic policies. His most startling admissions related to former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

In 2019, then-Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz appointed Eshel to serve as his interlocutor with the Trump administration and its Middle East peace plan. In this position, Eshel accompanied Gantz to the White House to meet with Trump on Jan. 27, 2020, the day before Trump and Netanyahu presented the plan.
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NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
“During the first Gulf War journalist Jon Alpert evaded his government controllers and censors to smuggle evidence of civilian casualties out of Iraq to show the American public the truth about the war’s devastating consequences. His higher-ups at NBC News had different ideas, however, and fired him rather than show the shocking footage. And then CBS News fired a producer who tried to bring Alpert on. It’s an appalling story of self-censorship in favor of war propaganda in the US news media.

“Jimmy and Hard Lens Media’s Kit Cabello discuss the levers used by the corporate-military-government establishment to prevent the truth about war from escaping.”

Palestinianism makes the conflict in the Land of Israel a zero-sum game.

By  Victor Rosenthal, ISRAEL HAYOM

Palestinianism is a closed system of memes that includes a historical narrative, a cause to which its believers aspire and an idiosyncratic language in which familiar words have special meanings. In this, it is similar to Marxism, which is not surprising, given its origins. Believers in this system include those who self-identify as Palestinians and many in the Western left who support the Palestinian cause.

Palestinianism originated in the 1960s and was created by the cognitive warriors of the Soviet KGB. At the time, the Soviets were supporting pan-Arab nationalists like Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in order to counter American and British influence in the Middle East. With the decline of pan-Arabism, Palestinianism became a useful way to incite the Arab world against the West. It also provided an excuse for opposing Israel, which the USSR now considered an enemy. Ironically, the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had initially hoped that Israel would join the socialist camp, but it had become clear by the mid-1950s that Israel was drawing closer to the West.

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There will be increased fighting on the West Bank – but not by the Palestinian Authority against the IDF.

by Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

A former Palestinian intelligence officer predicts that after Mahmoud Abbas dies, there will be increased fighting on the West Bank, not by the Palestinian Authority against the IDF, but in a “gang war” pitting three different factions of Fatah against one another, each trying to gain control of the PA. His analysis can be found here: “PA not interested in military showdown with IDF – ex-PA intel commander,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, September 18, 2022:

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A later video said she wasn’t succeeding.

SEPT 26,2022

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

Israeli raids on militant strongholds, especially in the Jenin area of the West Bank, have become a near-daily occurrence, especially since the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatus has all but given up on trying to maintain a semblance of order in the town.
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No. 42 on The Jerusalem Post’s Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Shurat HaDin founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB  

Shurat HaDin founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Once upon a time, it was mostly terrorism financers who rued the day that Nitsana Darshan-Leitner founded Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center in 2002. The organization has won mega-judgments against Iran, Syria, North Korea and the Palestinian Authority (though the PA judgment fell on appeal).
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By Maya Carlin, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY

As prospects for a revived joint U.S.-Iranian nuclear agreement fade in Vienna, the West is growing more concerned with the Islamic Republic’s proximity to acquiring nuclear capabilities. While the Iranian regime has boasted that it is just “one step away” from blowing up New York City, its escalating threats toward Israel indicate the Jewish state remains its top regional target. Iranian officials claimed to possess a long-range missile capable of reaching the city of Haifa last month, in the latest in a string of hostile acts of aggression toward Israel. As Iran inches toward its nuclear goals, the Jewish state is technically instructed by its Begin Doctrine to take out this threat before it comes to fruition. If Israel acted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, the regime would likely turn to its prime modes of weaponry- proxy warfare and ballistic missiles.

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