‘Substantial’ increase in risk of 20 heart issues one year after even mild COVID-19 infections.

Israel National News 

Since early 2020, it was clear that COVID-19 causes a myriad of cardiovascular problems, including blood clots, heart failure, heart inflammation, and more.

A new study assessed the cardiovascular outcomes for recovered COVID-19 patients, one year after their recovery from the initial infection. The study, which analyzed over 11 million US veterans’ health records, found that the risk of 20 different cardiovascular problems was “substantial” in those who had COVID-19 one year earlier, compared to those who were not infected with the virus.

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by Pete Hoekstra, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  Feb 11, 2022

• Despite multiple attacks on Abu Dhabi, which include an air base that hosts American military personnel, the current American administration seems unwilling to designate the Houthis as the terrorist organization it is. At the same time, however, it wants to put constraints on the use of weapons the U.S. might sell to the United Arab Emirates, whose civilian population has been targeted by the Houthis… For Yemen, this is no longer acceptable.

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And as the US advertises its terrible weakness, Russia and China are watching

By Melanie Phillips

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As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s allies in the region.

The US State Department is waiving sanctions on Iran’s civilian nuclear program. The Biden administration hopes this will persuade Tehran to return to compliance with the 2015 deal that it has been violating since former President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions.

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TIERNEY NEWS

While British imperialism did not call for genocide of the Jews, the abrogation of a Jewish State would have spelled disaster for the Jewish people.

By ELI KAVON, JPOST   Feb 8/22

German soldiers are seen marching in Warsaw following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939.
(photo credit: FLICKR)

World War II broke out on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. The conflict left Europe in ruins, cost millions of lives, and proved a most crushing blow to the Jews of Europe, unspeakable and unfathomable in scope.

Hours after the invasion, far away from battle, a cargo ship with 1,400 illegal Jewish refuges – the Tiger Hill – ran ashore off Tel Aviv. As the British Mandate authorities trained their searchlights on the ship, the Jews sang “Hatikvah” in defiance.

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Hereditary rule is the most risible – and the most loathsome.

By Lloyd Billingsley, FPM

In the dead of winter, thousands of Canadians have been streaming into Ottawa, led by a massive convoy of truckers protesting draconian Covid mandates that have harmed their ability to earn a living. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to meet with the protesters and slammed the freedom convoy as “an insult to memory and truth.” Fils Justin thus invites memories of himself and Trudeau père. 

As Edward Gibbon noted, hereditary rule is always the most risible, and apart from the connection with his father, Canadians would be hard pressed to find any merit in Justin Trudeau his own self. He has no scholarly achievement, no record of publication, and no experience running business. To adapt a phrase from Ray Bradbury’s afterword to Fahrenheit 451,  Justin Trudeau has never said anything that would make a sub-moron’s mouth twitch. On the other hand, he does have a comic side.

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Indeed, investigating the alleged improprieties involving the Pegasus spyware could very well expose how Netanyahu’s indictments came into existence, and the former prime minister appears ready to pounce. 

 By  Mati Tuchfeld, ISRAEL HAYOM

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu said in private conversations this week that he believes the odds of the current government falling during the next winter session are “certainly reasonable.” If immediately after the government’s formation the Likud Secretariat, with broad support, passed legislation stipulating that party defectors are indefinitely barred from returning – now a similar attempt to pass the clause through the Likud Central Committee is encountering problems.

MK Miri Regev is trying to push the initiative with all her might, but Netanyahu, Israel Katz, Haim Katz, and other senior party members are doing all they can to block it, and for good reason. They understand that such laws will only strengthen the government, not the opposite. Recent developments have spurred Likud’s upper echelon to care more about the party’s doors remaining open. The Secretariat’s decision, which targeted Gideon Sa’ar, Ze’ev Elkin, and Yifat Shasha-Biton, is easy to reverse, unlike a decision passed by the Central Committee.

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Are Palestinian historical claims to the geography a lie? Read and decide for yourself.

By Peter Baum, INN

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”.(Sir Walter Scott)

Lies, fiction, false narrative and mythology if told often enough by those with a far-reaching public profile and unconditionally supported by a willing and compliant media create the conditions whereby the uninformed and biased believe in fiction.

Exposing the mythical narrative and the lies in an effort to seek the truth will make unpalatable reading for the enemies of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel. As a political researcher, activist and Middle East editor of this esteemed publication all I can ask of our readers is to comprehend, check and challenge the content of this article. And thereafter decide for yourselves.

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The United Arab Emirates and the Iranian Threat

By  Yoel Guzansky, INSS Insight No. 1553, February 9, 2022

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi meets with UAE’s top national security adviser
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Tehran, Iran, December 6, 2021.

The United Arab Emirates, Israel’s central partner in the Gulf, sees Iran as the main threat to its national security. The challenge that Iran poses to the UAE includes the threats, either direct or by means of proxies, of a kinetic attack on strategic targets, the potential use of subversion and terror, and control over Emirati territory. The UAE has reacted by developing a range of defensive responses, while simultaneously seeking to maintain open economic and diplomatic ties with Iran as much as possible. The UAE’s current efforts to draw closer to Iran are also designed to balance its image as an intelligence and operational aide of Israel. Israel must consider that the UAE role in the so-called front against Iran might change, particularly in view of emerging cracks in the front, and particularly if and when there is a nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers.

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The operative successes of the Arab struggle against Israel put the spotlight on the depth of its strategic failure. Israel’s regional isolation is dissipating, and the principal oil producers are part of a coalition with it.

By Dan Schueftan, ISRAEL HAYOM

Positive momentum in Israel’s regional standing is underway as can be seen by the visits of senior Israeli officials – among them its previous and present prime minister, and the foreign and defense ministers – to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and Morocco, and the visit of a military delegation to Sudan, as well as a military flight over Saudi airspace.

Following the signing of the Abraham Accords, legitimization of ties between Israel and Arab states have moved from being barely justifiable and only in exchange for the return of lands captured in 1967 to the opposite pole of close defense ties and use of Israel’s strength, credibility and capability as an important component of Arab national security. The ties and normalization that were offered in the “Arab peace initiative” as a reward for the territorial and political dictates of the Arabs and the Palestinians are now seen as an Israeli contribution to the defense and welfare of the Arabs.

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When you’re willing to violate international law to please the Palestinians.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM         Feb 9/22

WAFA, the official Palestinian news outlet, has just reported on a telephone conversation Anthony Blinken had with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. If it is accurate, it is another sign that the Bidenites are willing to violate both international law and an act passed by Congress, in order to satisfy the Palestinians, in the hope that this will make them more amenable to negotiating with Israel. A report on this is here: “PA: Blinken says US will reopen consulate; rejects settlements, settler violence,” Times of Israel, January 31, 2022:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the US “rejects” settlements and attacks by settlers on Palestinians, the PA’s official mouthpiece says.

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Over the last seven years, India-Israel relations have warmed up faster than the six preceding decades, thanks to a propitious mix of ideology, pragmatism and geopolitical realignments. How shockproof is the entente now?

By Manjari Singh and Chirayu Thakkar,  HAARETZ    Feb. 8, 2022 

In the last seven years alone, India-Israel relations have warmed up far faster than in the six preceding decades, thanks to a propitious mix of ideology, pragmatism and geopolitical realignments   Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP

This is the only way to begin, just begin, restoring the public’s trust in the legal system. Op-ed.

By Ariel Kahana 

(JNS) With the appointment of a new attorney general, now is the appropriate time to thoroughly, honestly investigate just what the hell is going on with regard to the criminal indictment of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Up until a few short months ago, claims that Netanyahu’s trial was part of a conspiracy seemed far-fetched. Not anymore. Since the very outset of the trial, Israelis’ jaws have been dropped almost daily due to the errors—let’s call them that—that have emerged from it. The accumulation of these errors pins numerous question marks over the system that incoming Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara will start managing next week.

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DON’T MISS THIS.

Meet the Obama mentor and Soros lawyer heading up the ADL’s civil rights.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Obama’s career of political activism began in some ways when he met Eileen Hershenov. He graduated from Columbia University, and as David Remnick put it, “got it into his head to become a community organizer.” After a brief stint actually working for a living, he answered an ad and joined Ralph Nader’s left-wing New York Public Interest Research Group.

His supervisor at the time, Eileen Hershenov, describes having “some really engaged conversations about models of organizing”. After a year, Hershenov pleaded with him to stay, “I asked him if it would help if I got on my knees and begged–and so I did,” but Obama moved on.

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A US State Department official says waiver needed to allow for technical discussions key to talks on nuclear deal return.

AL JAZEERA     5 Feb 2022   

The waiver, rescinded by the Trump administration in 2020, covered the conversion of Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor [File: West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

The Biden administration has restored a sanctions waiver to Iran, a senior State Department official said, as indirect talks between Washington and Tehran on returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement entered the final stretch.

The waiver, which was rescinded by the Trump administration in May 2020, had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to carry out non-proliferation work at Iranian nuclear sites.
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