By Richard Kemp, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 2, 2022

• Unfortunately for the inveterate peace-processors and their followers, the Arab world has moved on from their own opposition to Israel. They see the country for what it is: a source of stability and prosperity in the region. They understand the dangers of continuing Palestinian intransigence and animosity and have denied them a veto on progress — a veto that Amnesty and its fellow Israel rejectionists want to see reinstated.
• This report will also provoke increased violence, abuse and boycotts against Jews in Israel and Jews who support Israel in the diaspora, in an era where antisemitic attacks are already at a high point and on the rise. That may not be Amnesty’s aim in producing this twisted document, but they cannot be so blind as to fail to see its bloody consequences, which have played out over decades following similar distorted reports, debates, resolutions and media fabrications.
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T. Belman. As Alex rightly points out the Holocaust was an attack against a people, the Jews. Hitler tried to label us a race.  But “a people” is not synonymous with “a race.”

Whoopi tried to make the case that the Holocaust was ‘not about race”.  In a very narrow sense it wasn’t about race.  It was an attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, not a race. But it was about race insofar as the Nazis thought of the Jews as a race.. Whoopi made the point that the Jews were not a race. i.e they couldn’t be identified by their physical characteristics e.g. the colour of their skin.

As a result of the Holocaust, genocide became a unique international crime “Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.“

Thus genocide is an attempt to kill a group be it distinguished by national, ethnic, racial or religious characteristics.

So Whoopi begged the issue. The Holocaust was about the killing of a group (extermination) rather than a race.

While I am at it, I would be remiss if I didn’t decry the Left, of which Whoopi and the Jewish establishment are  certainly a part, because it tries to universalize the Holocaust into an attempt to exterminate any group. While the left is right to see a genocide in this light, it is wrong to see the Holocaust as merely a genocide.

The Holocaust was an attempt to kill the Jews,  It should not be construed as a Genocide although it was that too. Holocaust museums also fall into this trap and universalize their message against any and all genocides. This is a betrayal against all the Jews who were killed, not because they were members of a group but because they were Jews.

The unconstrained, ideological drive to murder every Jew distinguishes the Holocaust from prior and later ethnocide and mass murder.

By Dr. Alex Grobman, INN

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T. Belman. Whoopi was right when she said the Holocaust was not about race. Its all about a people, the Jews.

Interestingly enough, Aparthied is all about race.

Art II of the Convention : “the term “the crime of apartheid”, which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them: “

Fifty percent of Jewish Israelis are Semites. The Arabs referred to as Palestinians are all Semites. Thus to separate the Arabs from the Israelis can in no way be construed as racial segregation.

Amnesty International all but says the Jewish state shouldn’t exist.

WSJ EDITORIAL
Perhaps you thought Israel had long ago established its right to exist as a Jewish state. Guess again. Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran want to eliminate Israel as we know it, but who would have thought they’d find allies in Amnesty International?

Perhaps we should have known this given some of Amnesty’s sympathies with the global left. But the nonprofit advocate for political prisoners is going far beyond that with its 211-page report labeling Israel an “apartheid” state that deserves the world’s opprobrium and sanction. The report is embargoed until Tuesday, but we’ve obtained the draft from a source other than Amnesty. It deserves condemnation for its bias and lack of understanding about why Israel survives amid hostile neighbors.
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By Tyler Durden,  ZEROHEDGE      FEB 01, 2022 – 09:00 PM

Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times,

Lockdown measures used by governments worldwide to reduce the death toll from the pandemic had little or no impact on COVID-19 mortality, according to three researchers who analyzed 24 studies.

The researchers, led by Steve Hanke, the co-founder of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, screened 18,590 studies to select the 24 papers used for the final analysis.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has control over their rights. This includes Palestinians living in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), as well as displaced refugees in other countries.

The comprehensive report, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity, sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under international law. This system is maintained by violations which Amnesty International found to constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity, as defined in the Rome Statute and Apartheid Convention.
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In an extraordinary move to attain media synchrony, Amnesty International actually pre-positioned an “embargoed” press release to maximize simultaneous anti-Israel impact.

By  Edwin Black, ISRAEL HAYOM

Amnesty International is attempting to bomb the world’s airwaves, news sites and printing presses with yet another fake “Israeli apartheid” report. Last week, in an extraordinary move to attain media synchrony, Amnesty actually pre-positioned a press release emblazoned with a bright red instruction to editors: “Under Strict Embargo until Feb. 1, 2022.”

A press embargo is an agreement commonly utilized with editors to withhold news until a pre-determined moment, generally to maximize simultaneous impact across outlets.

In this case, the over-hyped Amnesty report is a rehash of old, discredited and falsely premised allegations of “Israel apartheid” – detached from reality. The rehash seems intended to undercut the diplomatic progress that the Jewish state has made with its Arab neighbors via the Abraham Accords and the dynamic ascendancy of its Arab citizens who make up 20% of the population.

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by Jeff Miller, THE REPUBLIC BRIEF   February 1, 2022

Donald Trump criticized his former VP Mike Pence again on Tuesday for not ‘overturning’ the election results, and is now claiming Pence should be investigated for failing to ‘send back’ votes in states where Trump claimed fraud.

He wrote about it in a statement from his Save America PAC – a day after saying Pence ‘did have the right to change the outcome’ and that ‘he could have overturned the Election!’

Having learned that Pence’s former chief of staff Marc Short testified before the House Jan. 6th Committee a day ago, Trump is now calling for an investigation into the vice president. He is also demanding an investigation into Nancy Pelosi, who he accuses of failing to protect the Capitol.

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What is the Saudi Crown Prince up to?

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM   Jan 31/22

Nothing gets published in Saudi Arabia without approval from the government. On January 23 the newspaper Okaz, which is one of the most popular and influential newspapers in the Kingdom, published an opinion piece on why Saudi Arabia should break with the Palestinians. The text is here: “Popular Saudi newspaper says it is time to stop supporting Palestinians,” Elder of Ziyon, January 23, 2022:

…On Sunday, it published an op-ed by Mohammed Al Saed titled, “Is it time to break with the Palestinian cause?” And his answer is an emphatic “yes.” He describes how the Palestinians have been political opponents of Saudi Arabia for over 30 years.

In the year 1990, in the fiercest challenge faced by Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states, following Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait, nobody was surprised by the Palestinian leadership’s support for Saddam. Both inside Palestine and in the diaspora, the Palestinians chanted for Saddam and demanded for him to kill the Saudis and destroy their cities with internationally prohibited weapons. The chants of “Chemical, Saddam, from Khafji to Dammam” still resonate in the Saudis’ memory today.

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TIERNY NEWS

Doug Logan, the man behind the Arizona forensic audit, said that Arizona AG Mark Brnovich’s office has interviewed him numerous times and their 2020 election investigation is reaching a conclusion soon. So there’s work going on behind the scenes on election fraud in Arizona. Will there be ARRESTS and DECERTIFICATION? We shall see.

Meanwhile, it’s 11PM on election night, November 3, 2020, and you went to bed happy, like I did, because it was obvious that Trump already won. When you woke up – you found they stopped counting and rigged all the swing states for Biden – in the dead of night.

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WASHINGTON—Hudson Institute launched its Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East today, which will be dedicated to bolstering American interests in this pivotal region so that the U.S. can prevail in the new era of great power competition.

Under the leadership of Hudson Senior Fellow Dr. Michael Doran, this policy initiative will bring together leading regional experts to focus on: strengthening allies, Israel first and foremost; containing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions; defeating Iranian forces and proxies; and weakening Russian and Chinese efforts to assert influence in the region.

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Boaz Bismuth, who has served as the editor-in-chief since 2017, has found himself increasingly at odds with the Israel Hayom’s revised support of Netanyahu and embrace of Bennett’s premiership

By Itay Stern, HAARETZ   

Editor-in-chief of Israel Hayom Boaz Bismuth is leaving his role after almost five years, a spokesman for the daily said on Monday.

Israel Hayom, established as a free newspaper by tycoon Sheldon Adelson in 2007, swiftly became Israel’s most read paper and played a key role in the Netanyahu’s ascent. Edelson’s wife, Miriam, has taken over the reins of her late husband’s business empire, including Israel Hayom.

In recent years, the newspaper has shifted its editorial line from only supporting Benjamin Netanyahu, to an increasingly favorable stance toward Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, said people with knowledge of the paper’s affairs.

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by Khaled Abu Toameh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  January 31, 2022

• The Arabs say that the Biden administration made a mistake when it decided last year to remove the Houthis from the international terrorist list. The Biden administration’s move, they noted, has emboldened one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the Middle East and endangered international peace and security.
• Ultimately, the terrorism of Iran and its terrorist groups will reach the US, and, as with Afghanistan, it is the Biden administration that will justly be blamed.

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Smotrich: “Gantz has given Mahmoud Abbas a green light to take over western Samaria.”

By Hezki Baruch, INN 

Religious Zionism MKs with Yossi DaganNir Devush, Samaria Council

On Sunday morning, Knesset members belonging to the Religious Zionism party toured western Samaria, focusing on areas in Area C (designated to remain in Israeli hands in the event of a partition) that are de facto being taken over by Palestinian Arabs. Accompanying them was Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan, who told the MKs about the efforts being made to counter Arab encroachments. Several community council heads also joined the tour, from the towns of Alei Zahav, Bruchin, Leshem, Barkan, and Kiryat Netafim, as did representatives from community land planning councils.

At the start of the tour, Dagan noted that Arab encroachment includes the paving of new roads, erection of buildings – illegally constructed – and other actions.

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By Vasko Kohlmayer, AM THINKER

“Israel’s daily COVID-19 cases reach record 83,653,” says Wednesday’s news wire.

“COVID-19 in Israel: Serious cases increase tenfold in span of a month, continue to rise,” announces a recent headline from the Jerusalem Post.

Elsewhere we learn that Israel’s positive test rate is a staggering 29.63 percent. This means that nearly one-third of all Covid tests taken by Israelis are coming back positive.
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by Gregg Roman,  JNS  January 30, 2022

https://www.meforum.org/62981/biden-should-beware-of-russia-and-qatar

Haggling with dictators, such as Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right), to secure the free world’s energy supply is bad policy.

Russia and Qatar are at opposite ends of the European natural-gas supply crisis, sparked by fears of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia is seen by the West as a provocateur; Qatar is framed as an erstwhile savior, expected to make up for potential Russian losses.

Counter to this perception, the two countries share indistinguishable policy positions towards Europe and the United States, and their leaders are acting in a similar fashion. Indeed, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is as much of a threat to the West as Russian President Vladimir Putin, and should be treated as such by U.S. President Joe Biden.

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“Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism.”
By Daniel Greenfield, FPM      Jan 31/22

After the Hamas, kidnapping and murder of three Israeli Jewish teens, resulting in Israeli forces aggressively pursuing the Islamic terrorist group over the horrifying atrocity, Tema Smith retweeted and praised an article titled, “There Are No Good Guys In The Gaza-Israel Conflict”.

The article, among other things, claimed that, “Hamas — and the Palestinians as a whole — have desperately real and legitimate grievances against Israel.”

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The Truth is This is a “Pandemic of the Vaccinated” – And the Vaccine is Killing Us

By Assistant Editor, GATEWAY PUNDIT  

By Wayne Allyn Root

This week has been eye-opening. Even for me – and I’m the guy who has warned for over a year, in commentary after commentary, and often 3 hours a day on my nationally-syndicated radio show, that the Covid vaccine is dangerous and deadly and will lead to catastrophe.

I stuck my neck out like no other talk show host in America to warn the vaccine would not prevent illness, in fact it would damage the immune system – thereby causing more illness and death. And not just from Covid-19, but also injuries and death directly from the Covid vaccine itself.

Eight months ago, I warned it was time to suspend the vaccine program, pending an investigation of the mounting deaths, grievous injuries and permanent disabilities. I titled my commentary, “What if this experimental Covid Shot is Killing People? Don’t Americans Have a Right to Know?”

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Eric Zemmour and The Future of France (Part 1)

By Hugh Fitzgerald, JIHAD WATCH     JAN 30, 2022

One of the pleasant stories that the French have been telling themselves is that while the first generation of Muslim migrants may hew to their Muslim ways, and be difficult to integrate, their children will increasingly leave some of those beliefs behind as they try to fit in to their new society. This turns out, alas, not to be true. “Éric Zemmour: France’s Last Chance for Survival?,” by Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute, January 23, 2022:

According to a poll published in September 2020, 74% of French Muslims under the age of 25 said the laws of Islam were more important than the laws of the French Republic. Another poll published two months later showed that 57% of French Muslims under the age of 25 wanted to live under Islamic sharia law.

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