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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Review of Behind the Silken Curtain

by Amir Taheri, GATESTONE  •  April 20, 2022

• “If my experiences in the days and weeks devoted to this problem have taught me any one thing, it is that everywhere the need is felt for an American foreign policy — a foreign policy so firmly embedded on principle that it will hold equally for United States troops in China or the atom bomb, or Palestine.” — Bartley Crum.
• [Crum’s] account … clearly shows that President Truman, who always… sided with the forces of freedom and progress, was often opposed by his own State Department that practiced a value-free diplomacy in the name of preserving the status quo.
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by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE  •  April 20, 2022

• If Saudi Arabia were to break the tradition of pricing its oil in US dollars, as it is contemplating doing, others could well start to price oil in Chinese yuan or other currencies — negatively affecting the US dollar’s status and potentially the entire US economy.
• “China must brace for a full-blown escalation of the struggle with the United States and prepare to gradually decouple the Chinese yuan from the US dollar.” — Zhou Li, former deputy director of the Communist Party’s International Liaison Department, South China Morning Post, July 5, 2020.
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T. Belman.   Retired Swiss Military-Intelligence Officer: ‘Is it Possible to Actually Know What Has Been And is Going on in Ukraine?’ I sent this very important article to my friend Alex Markovsky. as I thought he would be very interested in it. He holds degrees in economics and political science from the University of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow

He wrote back to inform me that he wrote a very similar sentiment five years ago.

His article reminded me of the satirical movie, The Mouse  That Roared. In it, a small principality, in dire financial straits, decided to declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American largesse toward its defeated enemies to rebuild the defeated nation’s economy.

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER     Mar 26, 2017

The future of American-Russian relations and the balance of power in Europe will – at least in the short run – depend on a resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.

While  President Trump expresses the desire to have good relations with Russia, his UN envoy Nikki Haley stated, “The United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation of Crimea.” She added, “Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine”– the administration unaware, apparently, that the historical experience of “return” is hardly a Russian specialty.
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TIERNEY NEWS

 Whistleblowers, who will be featured in Dinesh’s upcoming documentary called 2000 Mules, said that evidence of voter fraud was presented to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in August 2020, before the stolen 2020 election, but he chose to do nothing about it.

“They could have stopped this.”

Two men in Yuma County, Arizona, David Lara and Gary Snyder, took down a San Luis ballot trafficking operation using undercover cameras during the 2020 primary election. Their evidence, which was presented to Arizona AG Mark Brnovich, resulted in felony forgery and conspiracy charges filed against Guillermina Fuentes, a member of the San Luis School District Board.

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My sentiments exactly