“Instead of focusing on all the obstacles and identifying the most important ones, they are singling out the settlement issue and defining it as the most critical,” says Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

By Israel Kasnett

(January 10, 2022 / JNS) The United States and some European nations continue to demonstrate an obsession with Israeli “settlements” and isolated incidents by small groups of radical right-wing Israelis, mostly wayward youths, while completely ignoring the much larger issue of Palestinian violence, incitement and terrorism.

This obsession was made even clearer during a routine meeting several weeks ago at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs between diplomats and ambassadors from 16 European countries and Aliza Bin Noun, the director of the European Affairs Department.

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There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Electricity Law is bad legislation passed by a bad legislative process. 

By Naomi Kahn, Regavim 

Illegal Negev structureRegavim

(JNS) Last week, following stormy committee debates, application of highly unusual parliamentary rules, dismissal of the Knesset Legal Counsel’s explicit and adamant recommendations, and a confrontational plenum session resulting in one of the most unusual votes ever conducted on the Knesset floor, the Israeli parliament passed legislation sponsored by the Ra’am Party that will allow connection of unlicensed structures to national electricity, water and gas systems.

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By Alex Grobman PhD. – 7 Shevat 5782 – January 9, 2022

*Editor’s Note: This is part XII in a series from Dr. Grobman. You can read Part XI, here 

The Fall of France 

After the French surrendered to Germany in June 1940, there were approximately 350,000 Jews in the country, over half of whom were stateless according to Yad Vashem. Jews who were not French citizens, stateless or citizens of countries at war with France were interred in a number of different camps in either the central or southern region of the country according to the American Jewish Committee’s American Jewish Year Book (AJY). In October 1940, the Germans deported 7,500 German Jews who were expelled from the German province of Baden and the Palatinate, and were among 14,00O in the Gurs prison camp in southern France, in the area controlled by the collaborationist French Vichy regime. They arrived at Gurs as communities along with their religious and social leaders, where they were forced to live under the most distressing settings.
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60% of Israelis support imposing restrictions on those unvaccinated for COVID, poll shows

Health Ministry Sunday morning reports 17,521 new COVID-19 diagnoses over the past 24 hours following some 151,000 tests, marking a positive test rate of 11.71%. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett vows to provide free rapid antigen tests for children. Meanwhile, a professor in Cyprus claims to have discovered a “Deltacron” strain, which combines the Omicron and Delta variants.

By  Ariel Kahana , Maytal Yasur Beit-Or and Assaf Golan, ISRAEL HAYOM

A COVID test being processed at a laboratory in central Israel | File photo: Gideon Markowicz

The Health Ministry reported Sunday morning 17,521 new COVID-19 diagnoses over the past 24 hours following some 151,000 tests, marking a positive test rate of 11.71%.

The number of COVID-19 patients listed as seriously ill rose to 206, according to the ministry.

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This study is yet another independent analysis that is difficult to refute: we have been misled by the CDC, FDA, and NIH.

By Steve Kirsch

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By Diane Bederman

It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact that they take up some space. This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people? PM Justin Trudeau

Is it antisemitic to compare the policies of Covid with the policies of Nazi Germany?

I put it to you that it is antisemitic not to compare the two. It means we have forgotten the lessons we were to have learned from the Nuremberg Trials. Trials that were the result of Nazi policies that had led to the eradication of 6 million Jews, and gay and mentally and physically disabled Germans, because they did not fit the German paradigm. The trials exposed the abuse of medicine by evil doctors, like Mengele, which led to the Nuremberg Code, forbidding coercive medical measures, and the Nuremberg Defense which gives one the right and obligation to refuse to follow immoral and unethical orders; no matter who gives the order.
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By Robert Ford  Jumada al-Akhirah

Former US ambassador to Syria and Algeria and researcher at the Middle East Institute in Washington<
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In the year that went by 2021, I saw many people claiming that the United States would abandon the Middle East. These are superficial expectations. The United States is based in the Middle East, wrote analyst Dalia Kay of the University of California-Los Angeles in Foreign Affairs last month.

The administration of President Joe Biden completed a major review of US military deployments around the world in November. As expected, the study concluded that China is the biggest strategic challenge, but as analyst Rebecca Wasser wrote in the strategic website War on the Rocks in December, the aforementioned review did not call for any major changes in the deployment of US forces in Middle east.

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In the 9th Jan 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• An Israeli professor makes a cancer breakthrough in a gene with her name on it.
• Jewish, Muslim, and Christian doctors save Myanmar girl in Israeli hospital.
• More good news about the Moslem and Christian citizens of Israel.
• Israeli scientists have produced electricity from seaweed.
• 2021 shattered previous records for investment in Israeli companies.
• Israeli biodegradable plastic has now reached Australasia.
• A blind Israeli took part in the Abu Dhabi marathon.
• Take a virtual tour of the City of David.

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Ex-official predicts protests likely ‘to accelerate Putin’s desire to do something’ in Ukraine, but lawmaker says Moscow lacks ‘the capability of handling 2 crises simultaneously’

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, TOI      Today, 12:54 am

 
In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Belarusian peacekeepers leave a Russian military plane at an airfield in Kazakhstan, January 8, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s decision to send paratroopers into Kazakhstan, where a crackdown on violent anti-government protests has left dozens dead, injects additional uncertainty into upcoming talks over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The question is whether the unrest in Kazakhstan has changed the calculations of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he weighs his options in Ukraine. Some say Putin may not want to engage in two conflicts at the same time, while others say Russia has the military capacity to do both and he will decide separately on whether to attack Ukraine. The instability in Kazakhstan may even add new urgency to Putin’s desire to shore up Russia’s power in the region.

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By Judah Rose, AM THINKER

The COVID vaccines are experimental drugs.  Even if the FDA were still functioning as intended and serving a productive role in protecting the public from dangerous products, these drugs are not approved.  It is true that the FDA, after putting aside its normal procedures intended to better ensure safety, has approved a version of the vaccines known as COMIRNATY.  But as all public health authorities admit, COMIRNATY is not available anywhere.

The drug companies cannot accept any liability for the damages their products are causing, because they know full well they would be bankrupted.  A fully approved drug would not have the complete liability protection that a drug under Emergency Use Authorization has.  That there is an approved version means that under the law, the EUA must be pulled.  This is just another law not being followed due to this “emergency.”  Without the protection of the EUA, there would be no liability protection for the manufacturers.  The upshot is that there are no available fully approved COVID vaccines.
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By Robert W Malone MD, MS     Jan 6/22

So, not that what happens to me is so special – but last night Linkedin decided I was not a fit human to be on their platform. In another blink of an eye of big tech, Linkin flushed my 30,000 connections and platformed me. No explanations, no warnings were given. I can say that I rarely post anything on Link-in that is controversial anymore, since they de-platformed me and then apologized for it last summer. This was not a surprise – just more of the same censorship that is happening everywhere.

All I can do at this point is laugh about it. This is about resiliency: like water off a duck’s back.

In two weeks since Twitter de-platformed me, my GETTR account has gone over 212,000 followers. Other social media venues are doing well also. My Substack is over 100,000 people. My Gab account is 88,000 strong. My fan run telegram account also has 189,000 subscribers. I am recording 8-10 podcasts and TV interviews a day. If  I could clone me, I could do five times that number. I will not let my voice be silenced, because the cause is too great.

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by Victor Davis Hanson,   ZERO HEDGE         January 6, 2022:

Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.

As a result, the left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.

A cynic might suggest that they praise democracy when they get elected, only to claim it is broken when they lose.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping, and then-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Shanghai Cooperation Summit on June 14, 2019 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.  (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

While much attention in global capitals is being paid to Russian troops amassing on Ukraine’s border, Lithuania is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ of global order, argue Hudson Senior Fellows Tod Lindberg and Peter Rough in The Wall Street Journal. NATO member Lithuania faces a united front of Sino-Russian pressure designed to test U.S. and European commitment to their democratic partners. If the U.S. and NATO allies fail to support Lithuania, the impact of Sino-Russian cooperation will be felt far beyond Vilnius. See below for further analysis, and join us next week for a discussion on China’s economic slowdown and the implications for its political stability.

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