The AP’s building in Gaza collapses after an Israeli air strike. Is the organization’s credibility crumbling too?

By Charles Lipson, SPECTATOR

Journalists stand next to the rubble of al-Jalaa Tower

Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported. The idea was simple and powerful. If journalists tried to be neutral and kept their reporting separate from their opinions, analysis, and speculation, then the public would believe them.

Those days are long gone — and the media’s credibility is gone with them. Journalists and media organizations are now smack in the middle of many stories they cover, in part because they want to be. They want to spin them, to set ‘the Narrative’.

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BY ZACHARY STIEBER, EPOCH TIMES      May 18, 2021

A Michigan judge on Tuesday threw out a case challenging the 2020 election in Antrim County.

13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer, a Republican nominee, ruled that plaintiff William Bailey, a resident of Antrim County, had received the relief he sought after he filed the lawsuit last year following the election.

Bailey was seeking an independent audit of Antrim County’s election but Elsenheimer decided that the February risk-limiting audit conducted by county clerks, who reviewed a random sample of some 18,000 ballots, was sufficient under state law.

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By  TPS / Tazpit News Agency    7 Sivan 5781 – May 18, 2021

At least 10 synagogues were attacked and burned in the past week of Muslim pogroms and riots across Israel, while 28 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites, the data show.

Data from the Central District of Fire and Rescue show that from last Tuesday, 10 synagogues and government institutions in the city of Lod in the center of the country have been set on fire. No mosques were attacked or burned.

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FIRESIDE CHAT

Nikki Haley shines. She is smart, articulate and presidential.

https://www.prageru.com/a3d9015f-74e9-45f9-a7c2-3e4b67e4f647\

She has started a new organization called Stand for America which  stands for

Freedom at Home, Strength Abroad

The is now promoting this Pledge for Israel.

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There are people out there fighting for recounts and willing to act if the results show a less than 270 electoral vote count for Biden.

By Dr. R. Sklaroff & L.L.Lechter , INN May 18 , 2021

US Supreme Court

State Legislatures are conducting forensic audits of the 2020 Presidential election, and the result of systemic ballot-stuffing may be invoked to prompt the Supreme Court to supplant or to invalidate Electoral College delegations in at least three states.

This can be accomplished by filing a nunc pro tunc Writ of Certiorari, claiming that proof unavailable “then” [tunc] has subsequently emerged “now” [nunc].

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  May 18, 2021

• The Biden administration is apparently offering even more concessions and sanctions relief to Iran’s leaders, concessions that “go beyond the nuclear-specific sanctions.”….Meanwhile, these leaders from Iran are openly encouraging Hamas to launch more rockets….
• In addition, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…has been inciting terrorism on social media…. [and] labeled the whole nation of Israel a terrorist camp…. Read more…

By John Cleer, AM THINKER

If these were any other vaccines, they would already be off the market.

In fact, they would have been pulled a long time ago.  Usually, a new drug is withdrawn after 50 deaths, which isn’t typical because the FDA has a strict approval process.  The COVID-19 vaccines have been exempted from it, instead being temporarily “authorized” for emergency use.
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More than 3,000 rockets and mortars have been fired, and Israeli are surprised at their range

By Michael Goodwin | New York Post

US should be allowing Israel to ‘punish’ Hamas: Elliott Abrams

The former deputy national security adviser joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the major foreign policy test facing the Biden administration.

For many Americans, the violent clash between Israel and Hamas sparks an understandable sense of having seen it all before. While it’s true there is a long, bloody history between the combatants, the current fighting is unique in ways that make the endgame especially crucial for the Jewish state and the entire region.

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T. Belman. Let’s have some perspective here. This war has been going on for 7 days.  The 2014 war lasted 51 days. Eight months after that war 100,000 Arabs were homeless. 380,000 people were killed in Syrian War compared to the current death toll of about 200 Arabs in Gaza. which is 1/10th of the number killed in 2014.  In the 2014 war 4560 rockets were fired and they had a much smaller explosives payload and shorter range. The number of of rockets fired so far in this war exceeds 3150.

Key figures on the 2014 hostilities if you can believe the U.N.

Data featured in the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

For original sources or more information see the summary(link is external) or the full report(link is external).

• • 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed.^[1]

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By Dr. Alex Joffe, BESA     May 18, 2021

Prominent progressive Democrat Representatives Ilhan Omar (left) and Rashida Tlaib. (Image source: Brad Sigal/Flickr)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war between Israel and Hamas has brought a crisis between progressive Democrats and the party headed by President Biden fully into the open. As progressives have racialized the conflict into “white” Israelis oppressing “brown and black” Palestinians, a look at the trajectory of the British Labour Party is instructive. Buoyed by Muslim immigration, Britain and now the US are beset by antisemitic electoral politics and threats of violence. And just as this phenomenon has helped sideline the British Labour, it may in the near future undermine the Democrats.

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T. Belman.  Too bad she shot herself in the foot when she criticized Trump. Her comments here are right on. The Arabs are fed only anti-Israel stuff.  That combined with the fact that The Hadiths contain many admonishments to kill Jews.  Their leaders have to overcome such beliefs and function in their best interests as in the Abrahamic Accords.

Many Arab people support groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, Hamas, PLO and Houthis but the rulers want to disown them because they represent a bigger threat to their regimes than they do to Israel.

By Cameron Arcand, WESTERN JOURNALISM      May 17, 2021

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley does not suffer fools when it comes to foreign policy, and her recent criticism of President Joe Biden highlights one of the prior administration’s accomplishments that he cannot simply undo.

Biden “just reversed everything,” Haley said this week in an interview on the “Glenn Beck Podcast.”

“But the part that he can’t erase, and it’s really a point of pride, I think, is the Abraham Accords, because this was an amazing thing. Many presidents before Trump had said that the only way to get peace in the Middle East was through the Palestinians,” she added to host Glenn Beck.

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The lies behind the terror.

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Editors’ note: Below is the text of David Horowitz’s pamphlet, Why Israel is a Victim. It was published in 2002; its preface on Gaza was published in 2013. Since then President Trump brokered the Abrahamic Accords which established peaceful relations between four Arab states and Israel. The Accords were based on the withdrawal of U.S. support for the Palestinian terrorists who rule the West Bank and Gaza. Among its first acts, the Biden administration undid those accords, resuming funding for the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which has led directly to the current war.

Order the pamphlet: HERE.

Why Israel is the Victim
by David Horowitz

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Gaza’s terror rulers misjudged Israel’s readiness to respond to its rockets, and the IDF implemented a long-prepared response. But Israel is not about to end Hamas’s rule

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI 16 May 2021, 9:49 pm

Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets above the coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 15, 2021, following their launching from the Gaza Strip (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

The Israel Defense Forces believes it has achieved its major goals in this round of fighting against the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups as of Sunday, indicating Jerusalem may soon accept a ceasefire offer, The Times of Israel has learned.

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NY TIMES

Last Updated :  May 17, 2021, 6:14 a.m. ET  27 minutes ago

A U.N. Security Council meeting made no progress on resolving the conflict, and Israeli warplanes began attacking Gaza again as the conflict moved into its second week.

Netanyahu says there is no clear end in sight, and airstrikes begin again.

Speaking on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said there was no clear end in sight to the violence between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“We’ll do whatever it takes to restore order and quiet,” he said, adding, “It will take some time.”

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