T. Belman. How can we do this deal with Lebanon when we don’t have diplomatic relations with Lebanon.. Wikipedia reports “Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement on May 17, 1983 which was a peace treaty in all but name. Lebanon signed the agreement under American and Israeli pressure, but it was opposed by Syria.” . UNSC Res 1701 in 2006 called for “Disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon (implying Hezbollah)”. This was never implemented.

If they attack us, does this deal end? It should be contingent on peace being maintained.

IMRA

The efficacy of the Lebanon deal, in particular the status of the swath of area of our northern coast which we unilaterally hold for vital security  reasons, is a question of international law and thus not in the bailiwick of defense experts.

A defense expert can proclaim that this critical area is secured by the deal for all kinds of reasons which are driven by their assessment of the deterrent effect that implementation of the deal may have on Hizbullah rather than any definitive rights which the deal gives to the Jewish State.

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By  David Israel, JEWISH PRESS October 9, 2022

Ambassador Tom Nides told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an exclusive interview last Friday he was enamored with Prime Minister Yair Lapid for “his brave comments on the importance of the two-state solution” in Lapid’s recent speech before the United Nations General Assembly.

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By Professor Hillel Frisch, JISS

The photo of the two terrorists in the shootout with the IDF looked more like models than killers – well-groomed and affluent – and points to the limits of Israeli attempts to assure Palestinian economic well-being to reduce terrorism.

Ensuring the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) economy is doing well will make terrorism less likely.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that the proportion of a Palestinian community’s workforce employed in Israel, where they earn at least twice as much as they do at home, correlates negatively with terrorism participation.

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The idea that a Jewish and a Palestinian state will coexist peacefully is widespread in contemporary academic and political circles but ignores the reality on the ground.

By Professor Efraim Inbar, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced his vision at the UN for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – the two-state solution (2SS). While many countries lauded Lapid, including the US, a policy recommendation based on an illusion is unlikely to succeed. The idea that Israel and Palestine will coexist peacefully is widespread in contemporary academic and political circles but ignores the reality on the ground.

Unfortunately, for two reasons, a stable and peaceful outcome per the 2SS paradigm is unlikely to emerge soon: The Palestinian Arab and the Zionist national movements are not close to reaching a historic compromise, and the Palestinians have proven themselves unable to build a state.

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BY  Jeffrey Tucker, BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE      AUGUST 23, 2022   HISTORY

[Kushner: On March 11, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence asked for my help with the COVID response. I called my friend Nat Turner (left) and Adam Boehler (far right), successful healthcare entrepreneurs who helped me procure lifesaving supplies and equipment from around the world. Avi Berkowitz (center) was a critical source of counsel throughout our government service. (Courtesy of the White House Photo Office)]

The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in the air in early March 2020. The theory of lockdown had been floating around for 15 years but now China was first to try it, and claim enormous success, however fraudulently.

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Dr Turley
Zelensky must cave to Russia or be destroyed.

Final maritime border agreement between Israel and Lebanon reportedly to be signed on October 20.

Israel National News   Oct 10, 2022,

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the agreement on the maritime border between Israel and Lebanon which was reached by Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Netanyahu said that “behind the backs of the citizens of Israel and the Knesset, Lapid and Gantz surrendered to Hezbollah’s blackmail. They are transferring strategic assets of the State of Israel to Hezbollah in a liquidation sale.”

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NATO troops in Ukraine was one of the targets.
Includes a video of two missiles strikes on the bridge at same time as the truck exploded

By Judi McLeod, CANADA FREE PRESS 

‘Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls for NATO to launch ‘preemptive strikes’ (Fox News, Oct. 8, 2022”

“Ukrainian officials have seemingly walked back comments from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who appeared to call upon NATO to launch preemptive strikes into Russia to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats.”

Someone close to me asked me this morning a sizzling, no, a searing, question about Zelenskyy’s calls for NATO to launch ‘preemptive strikes’ in Russia.

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The United States is shackled by a near decade of Russian reset and the aggression it invited on February 23, 2022.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

During the current Ukrainian war, the media has created a mythology that the Left was tough on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And thus, now it simply continues its hard-nosed efforts in Ukraine.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from Biden’s original panic of evacuating American diplomatic personnel from Kyiv, offering a ride out of Ukraine for the Zelenskyy government that would have effectively collapsed his nation’s resistance, and hesitation in selling Ukraine offensive weapons, there is also a prior legacy that had done a great deal of harm.
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The Russian president has confirmed the launch of a major operation against Ukrainian infrastructure in response to the Crimean Bridge attack

RUSSIA TODAY   October 10, 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation via videoconference. ©  Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any further Ukrainian “terrorist” assaults on Russian soil will be met with a significant military response. He was speaking after a wave of missiles struck Ukraine on Monday morning.

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By Ted Belman

Due to the attack on the Kerch Bridge, Russia changed the special military operation into a war.

On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation to protect the residents of the four provinces that had be shelled for 8 years by Ukraine.  The US together with the EU imposed sanctions on Russia and began supply weapons and ammunitions to Ukraine to assist in its defense.  From what I have read, the US wouldn’t let anyone break ranks and seek peace with Russia.

During the last 8 months Putin refrained from hitting civilian infrastructure and went about the business of grinding the Ukrainian forces down. Yet western press called it a war.

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by Micha Gefen, ISRAEL UNWIRED January 12, 2022

Iran has always desired a corridor to the Mediterranean Sea. While Israel’s existence is an anathema to the radical Islamic Republic, its leaders often times use their religious ideology as a means to spur the country to support its empire building desires, but what is their game plan?

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The New Atlas Oct 9,2022

THIS IS EXCELLENT REPORTING

How Soviet Russia created the “peace process” and incited the Muslim world against the U.S.

By Wallace Edward Brand  (first published in Jan, 2014)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) greets Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R), 29 November 1999 during their meeting. Arafat arrived to Russia on a two-day working visit. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

The “peace process” is now, after some 20 years after OSLO, is known to be no more than a charade. The revelations of the highest ranking Soviet bloc defector, Major General Ion Mihai Pacepa, show that the peace process is, and has from the outset, been nothing but a charade.

It all started with the creation of a fictitious “Palestinian People” who allegedly demand political self determination. This collective noun was created by the Soviet disinformation masters in 1964 when they created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the “PLO”. The term “Palestinian People” as a descriptive of Arabs in Palestine appeared for the first time in the preamble of the 1964 PLO Charter, drafted in Moscow. The facts in the preamble to the Charter were affirmed onlyh by the first 422 members of the Palestinian National Council, handpicked by the KGB.

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Redacted with Clayton Morris Sept 20,2022