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May 15, 2021

Tolerating Iran’s genocidal aims – for how long?  

It will be up to Israeli generals and politicians to decide if response to rockets and control of Arab rioters preclude another front. Op-ed

By Howard Rotberg, INN       , May 14 , 2021 9:14 AM

Iranian missile display in Tehran
Iranian missile display in Tehran

On May 12th, Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon, broke the story that just days before Palestinian terror groups began bombarding Israel with rocket attacks from Gaza, a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) admitted that the group’s funding and weapons are provided by Iran.

Ramez al-Halabi, disclosed his group’s close ties to Iran in a May 7th interview on Iraqi television just before the rockets started launching from Gaza.

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May 15, 2021 | 1:15 am | 1 Comment »

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May 14, 2021

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450 bombs in 35 minutes: This is how the IDF tricked Hamas  

IDF publishes unclear notice – causing Hamas to panic, escape into terror tunnels.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Just after midnight on Friday morning, Israel announced that “air and ground forces from the IDF are now attacking in Gaza. More details to follow.”

The military columnists in Israel understood that this meant the armored corps and artillery deployed near Gaza will attack, but the unclear notice led foreign reporters to report the beginning of a ground operation in Gaza.

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May 14, 2021 | 1:50 pm | 17 Comments »

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Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?  

Israel needs strategic genius to defend itself against Obama’s surrogate third term

By Melanie Phillips  May 14/21
Rocks to attack Israeli civilians and police, stored inside al Aqsa mosque

US President Joe Biden has dispatched the American official Hady Amr to the Middle East to “de-escalate the fighting” between Israel and Hamas.

In the past, Amr, now the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for “Israel-Palestine,” said he was “inspired by the Palestinian intifada” and accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

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May 14, 2021 | 1:15 pm | 1 Comment »

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IDF: Overnight bombardment targeted Hamas’s tunnel network under Gaza City  

Military says 160 aircraft dropped 450 missiles on 150 targets in operation, as ground troops in Israel struck terror operatives who try to attack them

By JUDAH ARI GROSS , TOI    Today, 10:04 am

Some 160 aircraft flying simultaneously conducted a massive attack on a network of tunnels dug by the Hamas terror group under the northern Gaza Strip around midnight Thursday in the largest Israeli strike since the outbreak of fighting earlier this week, the military said Friday.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, in this air campaign, which lasted nearly 40 minutes, some 450 missiles were dropped on 150 targets in northern Gaza, particularly around the city of Beit Lahiya. The military said it was still working to determine the extent of the damage caused to the underground infrastructure, which IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman told reporters was a “strategic asset” to Hamas, and the number of terrorist operatives killed in the strikes.

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May 14, 2021 | 12:38 pm | 1 Comment »

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How To Assure Repetition of Hamas Rocket Attacks  

by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  May 14, 2021

  • There is one sure-fire way of guaranteeing that Hamas will continue to employ terrorism against Israel…. That sure-fire way is to reward the terrorists who employ this tactic and to punish their intended victims who try to fight back.
  • The real root cause of terrorism is that it is successful — terrorists have consistently benefited from their terrorist acts. Terrorism will persist as long as… the international community rewards it, as it has been doing for the past [many] years.
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May 14, 2021 | 12:21 pm | Comments »

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Into the fray: Why Gaza must go  

The only durable solution requires dismantling Gaza, humanitarian relocation of the non-belligerent Arab population, and extension of Israeli sovereignty over the region.

By MARTIN SHERMAN , JPOST    JULY 24, 2014 23:37

Givati brigade in Gaza (photo credit: IDF SPOKESMAN'S OFFICE)

Givati brigade in Gaza- (photo credit: IDF SPOKESMAN’S OFFICE)

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind…. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny… That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.  – Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.  – Albert Einstein

At the time of writing this column, ground operations in Gaza were still going on and reports of increasing casualties were coming in with depressing frequency. This should, therefore, be a time for national cohesion and solidarity, with unity and support for the war effort, and criticism of the government suspended.

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May 14, 2021 | 11:40 am | 4 Comments »

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A New Pennsylvania Election Report and Petition for Audit  

By  John B. Nevin, UNCOVERDC  –  May 13, 2021

Pennsylvania State Representative Seth Grove released ‘A Comprehensive Review of Pennsylvania’s Election Laws: How Pennsylvania Can Guarantee Rights and Integrity in Our Election System’ based on state election hearings held between January and April. The testimony from election officials and experts was intended to identify and fix any problems with the voting system and the 84-year-old laws that govern it.

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May 14, 2021 | 11:23 am | Comments »

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Will Israel defy a UNSC call for a ceasefire  

Clearly, a nation that balks at being controlled by the UN will be deemed to be a threat to the UN’s definition of peace. And the UN has authority under this section of its Charter to wage war to accomplish its idea of peace.

By Ted Belman

At the insistence by the Biden administration the UNSC will discuss the violence in Israel early next week. Will America put it off again or will it allow the Security Council to attempt to impose a cease fire.

If the latter will Israel comply?

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May 14, 2021 | 9:43 am | 4 Comments »

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Deadly duel: Photos capture battle between Iron Dome and Hamas rockets  

Series of stunning images from the AFP news agency highlights macabre dance that plays out in the skies as Israel tries to thwart massive rocket fire from Gaza

By TOI STAFF     Today, 6:19 am

Rockets (R) are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptors rise to meet them. (Photo by ANAS BABA / AFP)

Rockets (R) are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptors rise to meet them. (Photo by ANAS BABA / AFP)<
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A stunning series of images captured early Friday depicts the intense, otherworldly battles being raged in the skies above Israel and Gaza between the rockets launched by terror groups and Israel’s Iron Dome interceptors.

One particular image, captured by Anas Baba of the French news agency AFP shows the rockets launched from Gaza, drawing straight angular golden lines in the night sky. Iron Dome interceptor rockets are seen rising up in swirling fury, ready to bring them down.

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May 14, 2021 | 9:13 am | Comments »

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Kohelet: A Time For Everything, Now, ITS A TIME FOR WAR  

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
  • a time to be born, and a time to die;
  • a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
  •  a time to kill, and a time to heal;
  • a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  •  a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
  • a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  •  a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
  • a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
  •  a time to seek, and a time to lose;
  • a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
  •  a time to tear, and a time to sew;
  • a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  •  a time to love, and a time to hate;
  • a time for war, and a time for peace.
May 14, 2021 | 8:02 am | Comments »

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May 13, 2021

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Bennett Says Lapid Government Is Off the Table, Renews Talks With Netanyahu’s Likud  

In closed conversation, Bennett says Jewish-Arab violence rules out an anti-Netanyahu government ? Lapid: Bennett is wrong, I will continue my attempts to build a government

HAARETZ

Naftali Bennett waves after leaving a meeting with leaders of parties opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, last week.

Naftali Bennett waves after leaving a meeting with leaders of parties opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, last week.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum  Michael Hauser Tov

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett has said in a closed-door meeting between members of his party and Likud representatives on Thursday that a “government of change,” composed of the parties that seek to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is off the table.

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May 13, 2021 | 8:36 pm | 14 Comments »

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Tierney’s Real News (5/13/21)  

Tierney’s Real News (5/13/21)

Four news sources are reporting that Palm Beach officials, tied to Biden’s brother, are plotting ways to ARREST President Trump at Mar-a-Lago if Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan DA, indicts him for whatever reason. Ron DeSantis has the power to block extradition from Florida to New York. Democratic DAs and AGs all over the country are working overtime to find statutes to arrest President Trump for. That happens? There will be civil war.

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May 13, 2021 | 6:55 pm | 1 Comment »

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Surprising Trends Driving Conversion to Judaism  

It’s not just for marriage anymore

BY Mark Oppenheimer, TABLET

An increasing number of people are converting to Judaism, and for reasons other than marriage, according to a Tablet survey of American rabbis.

Since most surveys of American Jews overlook converts—the latest Pew Research Center survey is no exception—in March and April we posed questions about the state of Jewish conversion to over 100 rabbis, from all denominations of Judaism, and received answers from 79. Thirty-four of them, or 43%, indicated they were doing more conversions today than earlier in their careers. And these numbers are conservative. For example, some rabbis said they had seen huge bumps they were certain were related to COVID-19; in those cases, we grouped them among the 34 who said conversion had remained steady.

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May 13, 2021 | 6:29 pm | 1 Comment »

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ISRAEL’S JIHAD CRISIS IS THE WORLD’S JIHAD CRISIS  

By  May 12, 2021

Israel is a not a war zone because of geopolitics, but because it shares a common crisis with Europe, America, Russia, China and numerous other countries, most of whom are trying to buy time for their own internal Islamic insurgencies by siding with the Jihadist insurgency inside Israel.

A sizable hostile minority within your borders is always an explosive element, but Islamic migration is unique in that it emerged and still emerges from a tribal and religious manifest destiny of world conquest.
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May 13, 2021 | 6:19 pm | Comments »

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How Israel can reclaim the agenda and defeat Hamas  

T. Belman. This is a fantastic article. Wurmser explains Israel’s folly to date’.  Israel has conned itself into believe that she was too big and too strong to be defeated. That concession and appeasement was the path to follow.

Wurmser argues that Israel should choose victory not calm. She should destroy Hamas and reassert herself on the Temple Mount.

Gaza is not where Hamas can be defeated, because Hamas is no longer about Gaza, but about Jerusalem, and about the heartland of the Holy Land. Op-ed.

By Dr.David Wurmser, CSP      , May 13 , 2021 12:00 PM

Terror flags on Temple Mount

Terror flags on Temple Mount  Muath Al Khatib/Flash 90

(JNS) Every intelligence officer in the United States at one point in his formal training learns about the great Israeli intelligence failure in the 1973 war. The lesson is clear, and is the same one identified by Roberta Wohlstetter regarding the great failure in Pearl Harbor in 1941: a set of ideas, or “conception,” can so thoroughly dominate elites and the professional strategic and intelligence communities that it overpowers growing evidence and information suggesting an approaching tectonic shift.

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May 13, 2021 | 6:06 pm | 1 Comment »

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