By Randy DeSoto, WESTERN JOURNAL           Feb 5, 2022

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s insensitivity toward the Jewish people apparently dates back to at least the 1990s.This week ABC placed the star on a two-week suspension after she claimed the Holocaust, which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews, was “not about race.” As a brief refresher, Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler wanted to establish a master Aryan race. His plan included exterminating all the Jews, whom he viewed as “parasitic vermin,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more…

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The Azerbaijani flag is displayed on  November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)

Azerbaijan has presided over a tectonic shift in Eurasia, serving as a counterbalance to Iran while slipping out of Moscow’s bear hug more adeptly than any other post-Soviet state. In his latest essay, Dr. Michael Doran argues that Washington must partner with countries that are willing and able to do the hard work of containing our adversaries, and that Azerbaijan could provide a crucial bulwark against Russia and Iran.

See below for key takeaways, and learn more about the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, a new Hudson initiative led by Doran dedicated to bolstering American interests and allies in this pivotal region so that the U.S. can prevail in the new era of great power competition.

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By Soeren Kern, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 5, 2022

• “There is a growing threat that seeks to transform the European Union into an ideologically charged federalist super-state; a corporation which disregards national identity and sovereignty, and therefore democracy, plurality and the interests of the citizens of the nations that form the Union. This drift endangers the Union itself by moving away from the Christian European ideals on which it was founded…. We should cooperate and join forces to protect Europe from enforced ideologies and anti-democratic drift that are leading to its downfall.” — Joint Statement, Madrid Summit, January 29, 2022.
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The return of Syria could happen due to the policy changes of some Gulf countries.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf attend the 30th Arab Summit in Tunis, Tunisia March 31, 2019 (photo credit: ZOUBEIR SOUISSI / REUTERS)<
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While there is no consensus in the Arab League when it comes to re-admitting Syria into the political organization, Iranian media appears to be focused on this issue.

Iran’s Tasnim news published an article based on a piece in The New Arab that analyzed the current issues involved. This comes as The National, a UAE newspaper, reported that “Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that the Syrian regime was unlikely to be present at the next Arab summit, with consensus lacking to readmit the country into the organisation. But Mr Aboul Gheit said member states would discuss letting the regime of Bashar Al Assad back in next month.”“Sources in the Arab League in Cairo said that the UAE has started moves to launch the case,” they reported.

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By Henry F. Smith Jr., MD, AM THINKER

It’s a common occurrence in winter. A patient calls a primary physician to report a nonproductive cough, slight hoarseness, muscle aches, and a low-grade fever. The physician, and likely the patient, realize that this is almost certainly a viral upper respiratory infection. If the patient were in the office, the physician may test for a streptococcal bacterial infection, but it will likely be negative.

This is probably an infection with a rhinovirus, adenovirus, or endemic coronavirus. Despite this, the afflicted patient will happily proceed to the pharmacy to pick up their prescription for an antibiotic. The patient will feel as though the physician was proactive, something the doctor certainly understands.
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By Daniel Greenfield, JEWISH PRESS        February 4, 2022

There’s hardly a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the authorities and the media haven’t tried to spin as mental illness.

Both Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the Syrian Muslim mass killer who shot up a Boulder supermarket, and Faisal Akram, who took a Texas temple hostage to secure the release of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’, had their attacks blamed on mental illness.

But France continues to lead the world in whitewashing Muslim terrorism as mental illness.

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Nova Scotia government “prohibits” all residents from donating or participating in freedom convoy through emergency order

Will Give to Charities Instead

By Omid Ghoreishi, EPOCH TIMES

GoFundMe says it won’t be giving the C$10 million ($8 million USD) raised to support the truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates to the organizers anymore, saying it will instead work with the organizers to send the funds to “established charities verified by GoFundMe.”

“To ensure GoFundMe remains a trusted platform, we work with local authorities to ensure we have a detailed, factual understanding of events taking place on the ground,” the fundraising platform said in a statement on Feb. 4.

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T. Belman. I decided to post this article because Melanie covers the subject broadly where my comments just focused on Whoopi saying “not a race”. Her arguments are always worth reading carefully.  She wrote “The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.”  Hitler defined you as a Jew if at a minimum one of your grandparents was Jewish.  Calling that “a tenuous connection with Judaism” is odd.

She also made the case that the message of the Holocaust was being universalized as I did.

Dennis Prager took a different tack and said the Whoopi was right, the Jews were not a race. He also cited the Torah in support.

The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

(JNS) Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.”

She insisted: “It’s about how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, Jews … everybody eats each other.”

This was clearly idiotic. The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.

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The “war” with Russia is as real as Russiagate.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Biden tried to be FDR and failed at that. Now he’s settling for playing a senile elderly JFK.

If you watch 5 minutes of CNN or any cable news network, you might believe that we’re on the verge of war with Russia. That’s what the same people who claimed that President Trump was working for Putin want you to believe. Their new war with Russia is as real as Russiagate.

Democrats want to fight Russia to the last Republican.
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By Civis Americanus, AM THINKER

Ben & Jerry’s is circling the drain due to its decision to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. VINnews reports that Ben & Jerry’s parent Unilever has lost $26 billion in value (down more than 20%, it seems to have recovered a bit since then) and has laid off 1500 workers partly due to backlash, including invocation of state anti-boycott laws, against Ben & Jerry’s.

BDS supporters believe prices must be paid by everybody but themselves, for the Cause. They will fight to the last Unilever stockholder, the last Unilever employee, the last Ben & Jerry’s franchisee, the last tax-exempt professional organization such as the American Studies Association, and the last tax-exempt union to harm Israel and therefore, by necessity, advance the cause of Hamas.
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Britain joins US and Germany in denouncing findings of British organization that accused Israel of internationally oppressing Palestinians

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI

A journalist holds a copy of Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians,” in Jerusalem, February 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The United Kingdom on Thursday rejected an Amnesty International report accusing Israel of apartheid.

“We do not agree with the use of this terminology,” a spokesperson for the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office told The Times of Israel.

“Any judgment on whether serious crimes under international law have occurred is a matter for judicial decision, rather than for governments or non-judicial bodies,” they said.

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The Untold Details of Latest Israeli Strikes on Syria

JaFaju    Feb 3, 2022

1-Introduction: Middle Eastern media has reported an Israeli Air Force strike on the outskirts of Damascus. The strike reportedly took place in the very early hours of Monday, January 31, 2022.  The media specifically reported that the Israeli strikes targeted Lebanese Hezbollah training camps in various regions of the country.  Neither the Syrian government, nor Hezbollah officials, have confirmed or dismissed the reports, nor have they provided any details or locations.

2-JaFaJ intelligence sources have confirmed that Israel carried out the attack and that it was against Hezbollah terrorists’ camps in Syria, particularly in the village of Khirbat Al-Ward. [COMMENT: Positioned at 33.39841°N 36.36937°E, with a population of a mere 8,000, Khirbat Al-Ward is a village from the Reef Dimashq (Damascus Suburbs) County, south to the Syrian capital, Damascus. END COMMENT].

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The Greens are the same color as Islam: ‘Everyone has the right to freely express their opinion in a way not contrary to Sharia law’.Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

Omid Nouripour is the new leader of the Greens party which now belongs to the new German government. Nouripour, a Muslim, has a special bond with Sharia law. Civil rights activist Ali Utlu condemned a speech by him: “The color of this party is the same as that of Islam. Green. Will homosexuals eventually be killed and limbs cut off?”.

Did Nouripoor, born in Tehran in 1975, say that he was part of the German-Palestinian Society (DPG) which openly supported the boycott of Israel? Responding to an Alternative for Germany (AFD) politician who criticized Sharia law and listed a number of crimes and cases of anti-Semitism, due to the increasing Muslim population in the country, Nouripoor replied: “There are many types of Sharia…Our task is to ensure that the parts compatible with the Basic Law can be applied ”.

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By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”      February 3, 2022,

The anti-US strategy of Iran’s Ayatollahs

The Congressional Research Service highlights SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral Kurt Tidd’s statement that “as a state sponsor of terrorism, Iran’s nefarious involvement in the Western Hemisphere is a matter for concern.” The Admiral noted that Iran expanded ties with Latin America.

Moreover, according to the Washington, DC-based Lawfare Institute: “…. U.S. authorities believed that Hezbollah [Iran’s proxy] helped the Sinaloa cartel build smuggling tunnels under the US-Mexican border, drawing on expertise from Hezbollah’s work digging tunnels under the Lebanese-Israeli border [and Hamas’ experience in building tunnels from the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza and from Gaza to Israel, smuggling weaponry and terrorists]…. Hezbollah has been suspected of partnering with Mexican drug cartels such as the Sinaloa cartel, the preeminent drug trafficking organization in that country for much of the 2000s…. Iran’s area of influence is not limited to its region. Over the past decade, it has launched operations, either through Hezbollah or its own agents, around the world—including in Latin America, Eastern Europe, East and South Asia, Western and Central Africa, and within the United States itself….”

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Terms of any new agreement are likely to leave Tehran in position to amass fuel for bomb in significantly less than a year, shorter than 2015 deal, officials say

By Laurence Norman, WSJ   Feb. 3, 2022

Delegates at a meeting in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal in December last year.

The Biden administration expects a restored nuclear deal would leave Iran capable of amassing enough nuclear fuel for a bomb in significantly less than a year, a shorter time frame than the one that underpinned the 2015 agreement, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.

Administration officials concluded late last year that Iran’s nuclear program had advanced too far to re-create the roughly 12-month so-called breakout period of the 2015 pact, the U.S. officials said.

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The new laser defense system is no answer to the threats posed by Hezbollah, and is a delayed response to Hamas.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST

Police officers check a unit at a laser system aimed to intercept incendiary balloons, near the Gaza border. (credit: ISRAEL POLICE)

Those who read carefully Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s speech about a new laser defense system will realize that less was promised than some of the loud headlines the speech produced.

Besides the positive value of trying to attract additional investment into these systems, much of the headlines to the speech was a bluff because lasers are not predicted to provide real defense against Hezbollah and Hamas for several years, more than the one or two years that were tossed around.

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by Conrad Black, OHIO STAR

The crisis on the Russian-Ukrainian border has been a surreal spectacle for some weeks. This is not how invasions occur and wars begin. The potential aggressor does not mass large forces on the border of a possible target country before full international view and issue continuous statements to the international media about its intentions. And the senior military officials of great powers do not—as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley ( leading man of the Afghan debacle) and some of his colleagues have done—publicly speculate on the psychology and likely intentions of the leader of the country implicitly threatening to start a war. Whatever Milley’s talents may be, there is no reason to believe that mind-reading is among them. It is, in any case, not part of his brief to give regular bulletins on what he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions may be.

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Ingsoc, Amsoc, and life in Stalinist Covidistan.

By Lloyd Billingsley, AM GREATNESS January 31, 2022

The gap is actually decades wider because, as readers in the USSR and the Soviet Bloc understood, 1984 was all about 1948, and Orwell was on record that the book was anti-Stalin. The Stalinist conditions of 1948 are now going on, big time, in the United States of America.

Under Ingsoc, English Socialism, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. As Winston Smith observes, only the Thought Police are efficient. The subjects of Oceania must not only follow Party orthodoxy but show the requisite level of enthusiasm, lest the Thought Police arrest them for facecrime or ownlife, living in any way at odds with Party orthodoxy.

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The allegation is unjustified and malicious — deeply harmful to Israel for those who take it at face value; damaging to Amnesty’s credibility for those who know better

By DAVID HOROVITZ , TOI

No, Amnesty International. Israel is not practicing apartheid against the Palestinians — not, as ridiculously alleged in Amnesty’s malicious new report, in Israel itself, not in Hamas-run Gaza, and not in the profoundly troubling reality of the West Bank either. (The report also accuses Israel of enforcing apartheid “outside” these territories as well; words fail.)

In fact, Israel’s own Arab minority — a little over a fifth of the population — enjoys full rights in the Middle East’s only democracy, including equality before the law, equal political representation, free press and freedom of speech.

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By Victor Rosenthal

I still follow the rabbi of the largest (Reform) synagogue in the small California city where I lived before returning to Israel some 8 years ago. Yesterday, I saw that he wrote on his Facebook page that he and his institution, and I presume others of good will, “stand together,” against racial, religious, and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred, and “against all those who seek to divide us…all those who make people into ‘others.’”

He wrote this in response to a news report that several historically black colleges had received bomb threats for the past two days.
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