by the British Columbia College of Nurses

By Amy Eileen Hamm, QUILETTE

In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) informed me that I was under investigation for my “off-duty conduct.” My disciplinary hearing is scheduled to take place from May 30th through June 3rd, and my career as a nurse hangs in the balance. I have been working throughout, apart from a stress leave and various sick days that I have taken to protect my mental health.

The BCCNM is a regulatory body whose stated purpose is to protect the public from harm, and to ensure that nurses and midwives meet defined standards of care and professional responsibilities. It issues a license to practice; and without it, you can’t work as a nurse in British Columbia. I’d never thought too much about the BCCNM before this investigation was announced. I did my job, and believe I did it well. I paid my license fees each year—that was it.

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The Bennett-Lapid government’s courting of world leaders has resulted in nothing of substance in the face of a wave of Arab rioting and violence.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM    04-21-2022 09:07

It’s been almost a year since the Bennett-Lapid government was formed, but we can already express an opinion about the fruits of its diplomatic moves. With President Isaac Herzog, the prime minister and the alternate prime minister came blustering into the diplomatic arena. Each of them set out on a series of international visits (and modestly, no use was made of Israel’s official government plane).

One after another, they met with leaders of countries important to Israel. US President Joe Biden, King Abdullah of Jordan, Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah el-Sissi, the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, and more. A romance developed between Herzog and Sultan Erdogan, whereas Defense Minister Benny Gantz insisted on fluttering around Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In the background, there was the political partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood [Ra’am], and it all culminated in the Negev summit.
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by Pete Hoekstra, GATESTONE  •  April 22, 2022

• The new agreement with Iran, then, is based on an imaginary assistance from Russia and China, when all three countries are committed to unseating America as the world’s leading superpower and evading US sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
• The US, in short, is sacrificing significant progress in the Middle East to help the three greatest threats to America’s international safety and security: these brutal and authoritarian regimes, China, Russia and Iran.
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For the BBC, Guardian, and Reuters, the terrorist that killed 3 Israelis is just an “attacker”.

By Joseph Puder, FPM     Apr 22/22

One can understand the biased propaganda in the Palestinian media. Their conflict with Israel makes them demonize the Jewish state. What is it about the anti-Israel bias, and distortion of facts by many in the western media? They can easily discern fact from fiction, and they’re free to move everywhere in Israel, with access to people and events, yet their reports lack accuracy, and smack of bias.

Media outlets such as Reuters, Guardian, and BBC to name a few, are deliberately avoiding using such words as “terror,” and “terrorist,” in the way they covered the recent terror attack by a Palestinian Arab on innocent Israeli civilians sitting in a Dizengoff street bar in central Tel Aviv, last Thursday, April 7, 2022. This triggered an angry reaction from the Israeli Foreign Ministry to the above-named media outlets over the deliberate omission of the nature of the attack, and the identity of the terrorist attacker who murdered three young Israelis and wounded twelve others.
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Reflecting upon the difficult years as early immigrants to Israel, and the legacy those ‘olim’ left behind

By Michael Oren, TABLET

Under an unseasonably hot winter sun, several hundred mourners gathered recently for the funeral of Stuart Schoffman. Scholar, screenwriter, translator of David Grossman, A.B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, and Meir Shalev, Stuart was born in Brooklyn, the son of a renowned Hebraist, and attended Flatbush Yeshiva. He went on to earn degrees at Harvard and Yale, to report for Fortune and Time magazine, and then to Hollywood where he wrote the screenplay for the action film The Finest Hour, starring Rob Lowe.

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Israel is facing some potentially catastrophic challenges that require supporters of Israel to speak out as never before in support of the Jewish State. Its government is in crisis as well. Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg, INN

This is part one of a two-part series, with the second one being entitled On Leaders and War: Ideological Transformation in the West After Ukraine

Perhaps we have all been so focused on Covid 19 and then on the Russian war against Ukraine, that we have given insufficient attention to other important geopolitical events affecting America and Israel. Surely, the Western world is in a crisis and in times of crisis, good leadership is more important than ever.

One aspect of the crisis is inattention to critical matters. As Covid wanes, hopefully, there is the possibility that on an individual level we shall get preoccupied with all the activities we have missed during the lockdowns – attending movies and concerts, synagogue and public lectures, sporting events, and education. In the case of Israel, we see that Israel is facing some potentially catastrophic challenges that require supporters of Israel to speak out as never before in support of the Jewish State.

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Germany is no longer a nation, it is a condominium and the rest of Europe is following its lead. We haven’t seen anything yet. Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti?, INN

Shortly after playing time for the German football championship match between Augsburg and Mainz, the referee, Matthias Jollenbeck, stopped the match to allow Muslim footballer Moussa Niakhaté to break his fast for Ramadan and quench his thirst at sunset. For the first time, a Bundesliga match was stopped for this reason. But the initiative was welcomed by the German Football Association and will not be the last.

Europe is changing so rapidly that we haven’t even noticed it. From concession to concession, we have capitulated on everything.

Let’s stay with Germany, which for me is no longer even a nation, but a condominium.
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There’s a constant cycle of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians. Can @IsraeliPM @naftalibennett spend political capital to finally end that? He says, “I object to the notion of ‘both sides’… When they do attack us, I have to fight back & hit them at their terror bases.” pic.twitter.com/0bTPKTbUPC

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) April 20, 2022

By Ted Belman

Two days ago I posted

Vaxxed Pilot Goes Into Cardiac Arrest in Cockpit: Freedom Flyers EXPOSE MASSIVE Airline Cover-up

Leon Kushner wrote;

I am no doctor, virologist or expert on diseases but I see that the world has gotten sicker in the last few years. Almost everyone around me has been ill with mysterious symptoms that the doctors can’t explain. Some have died young while others suffer from paralysis and other chronic ailments. I myself who took the 2 initial shots under duress (my daughter had twins and warned me that I would not be able to see them unless I got the shots), have suffered with breathing issues and existing issues like arthritis in my knee has never been worse. Can I say with 100% certainty that this is all due to the vaccines? Of course not. But I still have some common sense and I’ve been saying from day 1 that the cure can’t be worse than the disease. In this pandemic reaction, it absolutely has been! I can’t see the world recovering from this over reaction any time soon.

Glad to hear that you and others are fighting back!

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Laura features Prager U’s Amaala Ekpunobi

T. Belman. Prager U “discovered” Candace Owens very early on in her career. Now she is a megastar outshining Tucker Carlson who features her regularly. Similartly he “discovered” Amaala Ekpunobi who is featured in this monologue and is a regular contributor to Prager U.

Amala Ekpunobi grew up believing that policing in America was systemically racist. An outspoken activist, she marched for Black Lives Matter and advocated to defund the police. A chance encounter with a kind police officer made Amala begin to question her assumptions. Eager to validate her long-held beliefs, she investigated the facts behind the “racist police” narrative. The deeper she dug, the more her doubt grew, ultimately leading to a confrontation with the truth that transformed her entire worldview. Don’t miss this video!

By Andrew Benjamin, AM THINKER

The E.U. is corrupt, tyrannical, autocratic, and undemocratic.  It expresses the very characteristics of which it has accused Hungary, Poland, and its leaders.

On the take, bribed, spiteful, woke, and unjust, the E.U. has come unhinged after their plans to dominate Hungary’s people failed after the elections of March 3.

One of the key players aligned against Hungary is the billionaire oligarch George Soros, who backs a well funded web of NGOs, media, and lobbyists.  Uncle “Gyuri” has been clear about his desire to punish Hungary using the E.U.’s sanctions mechanism: “I call on the EU to make Hungary a test case.”
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T. Belman. Israel should declare that if Jews are not permitted to pray on the Temple Mount, then the Arabs will not be permitted to pray there. This can be done legally. Since the Court has empowered the police to prevent violence by restricting access to Jews, the the same rationale would authorize them to prevent Arabs from access to the Temple Mount to prevent violence.

Officials were also caught off guard by the United Arab Emirates’ criticism of Israel after violent clashes broke out between police and Palestinians on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

An Israeli source accused Jordan on Wednesday of playing a “double game” with regard to the statements senior Jordanian officials have made against Israel after violent clashes between police and Palestinians erupted on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount earlier this week.

“They’re playing a double game – speaking out against us with intolerable and unacceptable harshness, then explaining behind closed doors that this is their way of calming demands from the street to sever ties with us,” the source said.

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In Jordan and Israel, clashes at the holy site not only concern defenders of freedom of worship, but also serve political rivals who could topple the governments in both countries.

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

“The Jordanian traitor, one of the great normalizers of relations with Israel, is the main reason for the defeat in 1967 and the presence of the Zionist occupier in Palestine to this day,” read a post on social media. At the moment, social media feeds are rife with cursing and accusations directed at King Abdullah II. A petition signed by 86 members of the Jordanian parliament calls for breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel and nullification of the peace treaty between the two countries.

The sharp verbal attacks are also being directed at the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, who has been derided as the king of normalization with Israel at the same time that he heads the Al-Quds Committee on Jerusalem established in 1975.

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T. Belman. Since the High Court has ruled that Jews have a right to pray on the Temple Mount and are prevented from doing so because of Arab violence, Israel must ban both Aras and the Jews from entering until the Arabs agree not to instigate violence.

Over Ukraine, they side with the victims. Over Israel, they side with the aggressors

By Melanie Phillips Apr 20

Arabs throw Molotov cocktail from inside the al Aqsa mosque

It is sickening — if unsurprising — that not only the western media but also the Biden administration, which unequivocally condemned Russia for attacking Ukraine, refuse to condemn the Arabs who have been hurling boulders and firebombs at Israeli Jews this past week and instead hold Israel responsible for the escalation in violence.

In the Old City of Jerusalem, Arabs have been rioting on the al Aqsa compound on Temple Mount. Al Aqsa is the third holiest site in Islam; Temple Mount, the site of the Jews’ two Biblical Temples — on top of which the Muslims subsequently built al Aqsa — is the most sacred site in Judaism. It’s also a sacred place for Christians.

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Through the terror assault that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called a “wave” combined with the riots on the Temple Mount, the Palestinians are launching a diplomatic offensive, and Israel is losing.

By  Amnon Lord, ISRAEL HAYOM

Less than two weeks ago, a Palestinian terrorist from Jenin murdered three Israelis at a bar in Tel Aviv. After the terrorist was eliminated, the events were described as follows in a typical headline in The Guardian: “Israeli forces kill Palestinian after Tel Aviv shooting leaves two dead.”

This is no less than an inversion of the truth. The events on the Temple Mount are seen in conflicting ways by Israelis and Muslims. It is a complete inversion of who is the aggressor and who is the victim when the police, trying to restore order in Jerusalem, are presented as the aggressor.

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T. Belman. The Supreme Court has ruled that Jews have a right to pray on the temple but the police have the right to deny that right if  praying will promotes violence.

Palestinian rioters hurling patrol bombs spark small fires at mosque, amid minor clashes; Israeli parade organizers say it will go ahead, despite police ban on current route

By TOI STAFF  Apr 20/22

A general view shows the Dome of Rock mosque in Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount compound, on April 18, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)<
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Minor confrontations were reported at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Wednesday morning between Israeli police and Palestinians, with heightened tensions in the city ahead of a planned right-wing march that has not been approved by authorities.

Videos from the mount showed rocks and Molotov cocktails being hurled at cops, including from within Al-Aqsa.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he expects Israel to aid in custody transfer of Alexander’s Courtyard to Moscow, after recent court decision set back move.

TOI

People walk outside the Alexander Nevsky Church in Jerusalem’s Old City, on January 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the transfer of church property in Jerusalem’s Old City to Moscow’s hands is at the top of the Israeli-Russian diplomatic agenda.

“The topic of Alexander’s Courtyard has long been at the top of the agenda of Russian-Israeli relations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, a day after Hebrew media reported that Putin had sent a letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett demanding that the property be handed over.

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by Ahmed Charai, JS TRIBUNE        April 2022

The latest battle zone in the Russia–Ukraine war was in the quiet, mostly mannerly halls of the United Nations. There, in the UN’s iconic New York headquarters, the world voted on Russia’s largest invasion since World War II—revealing fractures and fissures in global support for democracy.

Suspending Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council was technically the issue put before the delegates. But every diplomat knew it was really a vote on Russia’s assault on Ukraine. The consensus for democracy and self-determination was fragile: only 93 states (out of 193) voted for removing Russia from the human rights panel, and therefore condemning its actions against its smaller, weaker neighbor. Another 24 nations (including China) voted with Russia. Most worrisome, 58 countries abstained, refusing to take sides in what many see as a duel between the great powers. Others feared that energy, food, and fertilizer prices might continue to climb if the conflict escalates. (Both Russia and Ukraine are major producers of oil, gas, wheat, and fertilizing petrochemicals—all of which are a matter of life and death for developing nations.) Fear and food are more important to many developing nations than democratic ideals.
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