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Pity is not an Antidote for Contempt, and Respect is Better than Friendship  

 by Victor Rosenthal

Mickey Levy, the Speaker of the Knesset, went to Germany on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and spoke to the Bundestag, the German parliament – in Hebrew. He ended his speech with a recitation of the Kaddish, during which his voice broke and he covered his face with his hands. He said later in an interview on Israeli radio that it was an incredibly emotionally affecting experience, and a great honor.

I listened with mixed feelings. No, I admit it, they were not mixed. I was horrified. I was disgusted. Everything about this affair was wrong, the content of his speech (I’ll get to that), his recitation of the Kaddish, his expression of emotion there in the Bundestag.

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January 30, 2022 | 2:22 pm | 2 Comments »

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Lebanese foreign minister rejects Gulf nations’ demand that Hezbollah disarm  

Iran-backed terror group is a ‘Lebanese party par excellence’ and handing over its weapons is ‘out of the question,’ says Abdallah Bouhabib

Hezbollah fighters hold their group's flag as they stand in front of a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and swear their oath of allegiance to him, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of his assassination, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah fighters hold their group’s flag as they stand in front of a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and swear their oath of allegiance to him, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of his assassination, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)<
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s foreign minister said Saturday that his country will not disarm the Iran-funded Hezbollah terror group, one of 10 confidence-building measures requested from Beirut by Persian Gulf nations.

“I am not going to hand over Hezbollah’s weapons nor end Hezbollah’s existence. This is out of the question in Lebanon,” Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib told satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera, calling the jihadist group a “Lebanese party par excellence” that is active in the government but does not dominate politics in Lebanon.

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January 30, 2022 | 1:35 pm | Comments »

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Allen West: If Israel goes, Western civilization goes  

Ex-Congressman Col. Allen West says Israel supporters must not let Arab lobby rewrite history, says fate of West tied to fate of Israel.

By David Rosenberg, INN 

Former Congressman (Florida-R) Col. Allen West addressed the 2017 Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington DC on Monday, warning that pro-Arab activists in the US and abroad were working to erase Jewish history, and thus undermine the State of Israel.

West, who represented Florida’s 22nd congressional district in the US House of Representatives and is a combat veteran from both Iraq wars, argued that the fate of Western civilization was tied to the future of the Jewish state.

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January 30, 2022 | 8:45 am | Comments »

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Doctor’s Organization Has Treated Over 150,000 COVID-19 Patients With 99.99 Percent Survival  

DoD Medical Data Showing Military Cancer Diagnoses HAVE TRIPLED Since The Rollout Of The Experimental Vaccines – Along With a 10x Increase in Neurological Disorders and a Near 5x increase in Female INFERTILITY – (VIDEO)

‘Early Treatment Works, Period’

By Meiling Leech,  EPOCH TIMES

A doctor who has been offering free telehealth services to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic says that early treatment for COVID-19 works, claiming that he has a 99.99 percent survival rate.

“We have a team of volunteer free doctors that donate their time to help treat these patients that come to us,” Dr. Ben Marble, the founder of myfreedoctor.com, an online medical consultation service, said at a roundtable discussion hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Jan. 24.

He added, “We deliver the early treatment protocols to them as early as we can, and we have a 99.99 percent survival rate. So, I believe myfreedoctor.com, the free volunteered doctors have settled the science on this—early treatment works, period!”

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January 29, 2022 | 12:55 pm | 5 Comments »

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Biden Withholds $130 Million in Military Aid to Egypt, after Approving $2.5 Billion Weapons Sale,  

DAWN

(Washington D.C, January 28, 2021) – The Biden administration announced that it would withhold $130 million in military aid conditioned on Egypt improving its human rights record only three days after it approved a $2.5 billion weapons sale without any such conditions.

“Denying the Sisi government a paltry $130 million is a bit of a crude shell game after the Biden administration’s approval of $2.5 billion in weapons sales earlier this week,” said John Hursh, Program Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). “That the Egyptian government could not meet even the watered-down human rights conditions to release 16 political prisoners is just one reason for why the U.S. government has no business sending one cent of weapons to its brutal dictatorship.”

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January 29, 2022 | 12:05 pm | 8 Comments »

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Pennsylvania Court: Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional  

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Pennsylvania Court: Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional

Election workers count mail-in ballots at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Nov. 6, 2020.  (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

A statewide court on Friday declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans.

The decision, by a five-judge Commonwealth Court panel of three Republicans and two Democrats, would be put on hold immediately if Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration files an appeal to the state Supreme Court as promised.

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January 28, 2022 | 9:55 pm | 7 Comments »

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Ukraine and the American crack-up  

Not only is the Biden administration enabling the break-up of NATO, it is also destroying America’s deterrent power and superpower position.

By Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

Hennadiy, an Ukrainian serviceman, uses a periscope to observe the front line in the Luhansk area, eastern Ukraine, on Jan. 27, 2022 | Photo: AP/Vadim Ghirda

From Washington to Berlin to Warsaw to Kyiv, everyone says that only Russian President Vladimir Putin knows what he plans to do with the 120,000 troops he has deployed to the Ukrainian border. But at this point, even if Putin decides not to invade, even if he withdraws all of his forces from the border zone he has already won a strategic victory of historic proportions against the United States.

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January 28, 2022 | 5:34 pm | 2 Comments »

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You’ll stand up and cheer after seeing these Canadian trucker convoy videos  

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Image: The Freedom Convoy. YouTube screen grab.

Across the world, people are pushing back against COVID mandates. Monica Showalter wrote that “Europe’s COVID mandate protests are getting big and violent.” Europeans are doing that because they understand that, through the digital “vaccine passports” being enforced there, they are about to become slaves to a social credit system similar to the one used in China. But this post is about Canada, where protest has taken a non-violent but incredibly inspiring form, thanks to truckers who are pushing back against vaccine mandates and tracking.
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January 28, 2022 | 2:26 pm | 2 Comments »

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Settler Violence, Netanyahu’s Trial and COVID: Haaretz Interview With Prime Minister Bennett  

Bennett recalls Netanyahu threatening him in coalition talks. In Syria, Israel has ‘significantly increased activity,’ and on Iran, ‘I’m not looking for a quarrel with the Americans for the sake of a quarrel’

By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ

A day after the interview with Naftali Bennett, the mountaintops were covered in white but the depths of the pandemic filled yet again with bad blood and wrestling in the mud. Teachers’ Union head Yaffa Ben David against the cabinet, top public health official Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis against cancellation of the quarantines, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton against everyone. Israeli parents went to bed yet again in despair, confused and uncertain about what the morning would bring.
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January 28, 2022 | 2:05 pm | Comments »

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Appeasement mentality brings not peace but war  

Tyrants and extremists regard compromise as an incentive to redouble aggression

By Melanie Phillips

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Reykjavik 2021

As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question in particular poses itself. How can it be that, having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the west is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia?

At a synagogue meeting in Atlanta earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken displayed the all-too hapless posture of the west. Asked what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next move might be having deployed 100,000 Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, Blinken replied: “He is the only one that can give you an answer”.

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January 28, 2022 | 1:13 pm | 7 Comments »

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Synergy between Iran’s global and domestic violence  

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

Iran’s domestic violence feeds the global Islamic Revolution<
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According to London-based Iran human rights review: “The combination of Iran’s human rights practices, its weapons programs, its democratic deficit and its support for listed terrorist entities make it a special and dangerous case. Human rights abuses in Iran threaten the peace and security of people elsewhere. It must be tackled, not just for the sake of justice, but also for the peace, order, and good government of Western democracies….”
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January 27, 2022 | 5:36 pm | Comments »

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The ADL Has Chosen a Side. And It’s Not the Jewish One  

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Anti-Defamation League CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the ADL National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., June 4, 2019. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The organization’s championing of progressives has increasingly clashed with its stated mission of calling out antisemitism.<
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Not long after a slew of attacks on religious New York City Jews, the Anti-Defamation League’s new director of Jewish outreach, Tema Smith, declared, “One of these days we need to talk about how the Jewish community’s reactions to antisemitism coming from Black people is inherently tied to (implicitly racist) fears of Black violence.”

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January 27, 2022 | 1:04 pm | 2 Comments »

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The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is Back  

By Victor Rosenthal

Do human stupidity and wickedness have any bounds?

After reading the comprehensive Wikipedia article about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I have to answer a resounding “no.”

The Protocols, from its its first publication in Russia in 1903 by Pavel Krushevan, an antisemitic activist, publisher, and politician whose newspaper articles instigated the notorious Kishinev Pogrom, to its employment by Henry Ford, the Nazis, and Hamas, has been one of the most effective tools for spreading Jew-hatred throughout the world.
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January 27, 2022 | 8:44 am | Comments »

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Kuwaiti Writer: It Is High Time To Put Aside Hatred Against Jews, Which Has Gotten Us Nowhere  

MEMRI
In a January 17, 2022 article on the English-language website Fanack.com, Kuwaiti writer and poet Nejoud Al-Yagout notes that, when, in December 2021, the U.S. embassy in Kuwait wished the local Jews a happy Hanukkah, many Kuwaitis responded with fury. They used the incident not just to troll the ambassador, but to express hatred for any and all Jews. Al-Yagout wonders where “this cringe-worthy fear” towards Jews comes from, and why Kuwaitis are not ashamed of it, given that their country prides itself on tolerance and coexistance. She notes that this antagonism has caused most of Kuwait’s Jews to emigrate, and the few who remain to hide their identity, which, she says, is a great loss for the country.

Nejoud Al-Yagout (Source: Bazaar.town/an-interview-with-nejoud-al-yagout, February 5, 2017)
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January 27, 2022 | 1:46 am | 1 Comment »

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