The invasion has not worked out as Moscow seems to have planned, but its troops can continue to target civilian areas in Ukraine.

By  David Baron, ISRAEL HAYOM      03-10-2022 16:50

Two weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one thing is clear: President Vladimir Putin and the Russian military have failed in their goals abysmally.

Not only have Kyiv and Kharkiv not fallen into the hands of Russian troops “within two days,” but no large Ukrainian city has. This great failure is also reflected in the Kremlin’s draconian censorship of the country’s media, banning any criticism of the “special operation.”

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President Joe Biden “now faces the challenge of selling to Americans why enduring some impact to our economy for Ukraine matters. That is not going to be easy,” Edward Frantz, a historian at the University of Indianapolis says.

By  AP and ILH Staff     03-06-2022

Not long after winding down 20 years of war, President Joe Biden now finds the United States entrenched in a conflict in Ukraine, even without sending in US troops, that could have a more far-reaching effect on a larger cross-section of Americans than Afghanistan or Iraq ever did.

Fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq cost the lives of more than 6,900 US troops and more than 7,500 US contractors, and American spending topped $2.3 trillion. But those wars had little impact on how the vast majority of Americans lived their daily lives. It was a 20-year period where people experienced both the Great Recession and the longest US economic expansion, touchstones that were little influenced by the two grinding conflicts.

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Jewish academics speak up after faculty letter full of “antisemitic stereotypes” attacks Cotler for speaking at event about antisemitism.

Israel National News 

More than 300 Jewish faculty members from the University of Toronto have signed an open letter denouncing a letter by 45 faculty members that “relied on antisemitic stereotypes and false statements” to attack Canada’s antisemitism envoy Irwin Cotler.<

The letter addressed to the acting dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM), which was signed by 316 Jewish professors, was written in response to a letter signed by the 45 faculty members who accused Cotler of “contributing to anti-Palestinian racism.”

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While the Bennett-Lapid coalition lost a record 32 votes over five months, one bill remains a threat on the final day of the Knesset’s winter session

By Michael Hauser Tov, HAARETZ

Knesset Speaker and coalition member Mickey Levy at the Knesset after he mistakenly voted against a coalition-sponsored bill, in July.

The Knesset’s winter session will end this week with several failures for the governing coalition.

Due to coronavirus quarantines, Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s pet project, a bill to set term limits for the prime minister, won’t be brought for a vote. And since no agreement has been reached with the United Arab List, a reform of the conversion process important to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party will also wait until the Knesset reconvenes in May.

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As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues, Iran and Hezbollah remain officially neutral. Patron and proxy have neither backed Kyiv’s struggle against Russian aggression – despite their own pretenses to anti-imperial resistance – nor their partner Moscow, which guaranteed their victory over the Assad regime’s opponents in Syria. At different moments, Tehran and Hezbollah’s leadership have even expressed sympathy with both belligerents.

But their neutrality is superficial. A careful analysis of their leadership’s pronouncements, alongside their media outlets, reveals that both are stealthily pro-Russian, hoping its war in Ukraine will erode American global influence, while being officially agnostic.

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T. Belman. Black comes out in support of NATO giving Zelensky the support he needs to achieve “an acceptable result”. He does not define what he considers “acceptable”. Obviously the more support we give the more acceptable the result will be assuming it acts as a deterrent. . My problem is, that such added support may result in escalation rather than de-escalation. How much escalation, with its concomitant death and destruction, is he prepared for. Or is he arguing to win at all costs.;

Secondly, he assumes that this is a conflict between the democratic west and the totalitarian Russia. Many have argued that it is really a struggle between the New World Order and what Dr Turley calls a civilization state. Others call it the Nation State or nationalism.  The NWO doesn’t have a lock on democracy and the rule of law. Just look at what America has become under its direction. Not only has it subverted the rule of law and the constitution but it has overturned the Judeo Christian morality on which it was founded. Many would argue that the NWO is a danger to the kind of life we led and the kind of life we want to live.

By Conrad Black, EPOCH TIMES   March 7, 2022

All of modern history could be ransacked in vain to find a more ludicrously implausible and self-defeating policy than the Biden administration’s deliberate suppression of American oil and gas production, which has scorched the world oil price upwards and financed the barbarous Russian invasion of Ukraine that the United States rightly condemns and vigorously opposes.
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NATO IS DIVIDED

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”

Irrespective of the final outcome of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it should serve as a wake-up call for Israeli and Western policy-makers and molders of public opinion.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the flawed nature of certain assumptions, which have impacted the worldview of the Western establishment – but not the worldview of most of the world – while attempting to induce/coerce Israel into adopting these assumptions.

For example:

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Just watch the first 7 minutes.
Zelensky
1. Ukraine will forgo membership in NATO
2. Willing to compromise on two eastern provinces which declared independence.

Putin also wants Crimea to be recognized as part of Russia. Putin will demand that NATO guarantee any deal they strike and lift all sanctions.

T. Belman. Given the fact that 100,000 eligible refugees are expected, I see no need morally or otherwise, to also admit 25000 non-eligible Ukrainians. We have enough on our plate with the “Jewish” refugees.

Minister Shaked announces 20,000 Ukrainians not covered by Law of Return already in Israel to be allowed to stay, 5,000 more allowed to come

Israel National News 

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked announced Tuesday evening that Israel is prepared to temporarily host 25,000 Ukrainian citizens who are not covered by the Law of Return in light of the humanitarian crisis.

“The sights of the war in Ukraine and the suffering of its citizens shock the soul and do not allow us to remain indifferent. These difficult events also have a direct impact on the State of Israel, which is currently preparing to absorb, according to estimates, about 100,000 Jews and those entitled to the Law of Return and their family members fleeing the battle zones,” Shaked said.

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Are you ready for the global cabal’s ‘Plan B’?

With Covid now a fading memory, phase two of the Great Reset will surely ‘get your attention’

By Leo Hohmann

The U.S. administration of Joe Biden is now fully engaged in stoking World War III, but before any Americans can be sent to die in the Ukraine, we must feel more economic pain here at home.

If you haven’t already begun to feel it, you will soon. Gasoline has now reached an all-time record high with a national average approaching $4.50 per gallon. Expect it to reach $5 within a week, and we all know how that will affect the price of everything else, from food to hard goods to lumber, building supplies and automobiles.

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Everything we read is that evil Putin is on the ropes and is running out of options. It will only get worse for him.

But the truth is, that Biden is desperate and on the ropes. He can’t win this war.

All talk is about escalation rather than capitulation. Why not end this fiasco by agreeing to the neutrality of Ukraine.

Dr Turley    Mar 8/22

By Peg Tierney    3/8/22

Those who know me know that I don’t watch many long videos or news shows because there are only so many hours in a day – and I can cover more ground, and learn more, by reading multiple sources. And I am pretty much deaf – so there’s that!

It also came out yesterday that Biden gave the media (FOX, Newsmax, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS and more) over ONE BILLION to promote vaccines and mandates. NOT KIDDING. Yes, our Government gave the fake news our tax dollars to help Big Pharma. So, I’m guessing that Biden is also giving the fake news our money to push war in Ukraine & demonize Putin. Now it all makes sense.

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Biden doesn’t want to stop the invasion. He wants to use it.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM     Mar 8/22 

The Biden administration is doing everything possible to exploit the Ukraine crisis without doing anything to actually stop it. Its policies are a laundry list of leftist agendas that cynically betray the people fighting and dying on the ground without doing anything to actually halt the invasion.

An unpopular administration has been gifted a crisis by Putin and is seeing to it that it doesn’t go to waste. Biden had been unable to evade the blame for rising gas and food prices, but going forward the skyrocketing price of gas and food, in particular anything with wheat, will be blamed on the Russian invasion. While the invasion will certainly impact energy and food prices, the fundamental force driving the price hikes is still inflation caused by government spending.

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Netanyahu on Monday lambasted the government for what he called its “silence” vis-à-vis the emerging nuclear deal with Iran,

By  Yehuda Shlezinger, ISRAEL HAYOM     03-08-2022

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lambasted the government for what he called its “silence” vis-à-vis the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying their actions are “engendering Israel’s future.”

Speaking during a Likud faction meeting, Netanyahu asserted that “the Bennett-Gantz-Lapid government shows only weakness, weakness, and more weakness. They have capitulated to the US administration when agreeing to a policy of zero surprises – meaning that Israel will not act against the Iranian nuclear program without first coordinating it with the Americans, who will undoubtedly oppose such action and may even jeopardize things by leaking them.”

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  March 8, 2022

• [A]t least two men from Iran’s Quds Force… are planning to assassinate former US National Security Advisor John R. Bolton…. However, Biden administration officials do not want to indict the Iranian assassins, for fear of disrupting the “progress” in Vienna, Austria, of a globally catastrophic “nuclear deal,” during which the interests of the United States are being negotiated by – Russia!
• Similar assassination plots, according to the report, also exist against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other officials serving the United States now or who have served.

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TREEHOUSE

March 3, 2022 | Sundance | 329 Comments>

Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Narendra Modi (India) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), the BRICS group.

The BRICS alliance is a strategic geopolitical partnership between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  The nature of the alliance is based on trade and big picture economics.

Readers familiar with our discussions of trade and international finance, will remember the importance we previously discussed with BRICS after the 2016 election and President Trump representing economic nationalism for the first time in several generations.  In this outline, we are going to share the bigger picture of why BRICS should now be back on the center stage of American focus.

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