T. Belman. Bar’el has a narrow vision. Yes Israel has played security as the reason she demanded  a permanent presence in Area C. This flows from Res 242 which entitles us to “secure” borders. But the real truth is that it belongs to us according to International Law and The Legality of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria according to International Law

It is imperative that all Israel leaders state categorically that the land is Sovereign Israeli lands and not Palestinian Occupied lands.

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush wrote, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free society,” because “a democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.”

Last month, prior to the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, President Joe Biden took exception to Bush’s approach. “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,” he said. Instead, it was to eliminate Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and to reduce the threat of terrorism faced by the United States. This week, in addressing the American people, Biden declared that the “mission to degrade the terrorist threat of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and kill Osama bin Laden was a success.”

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T. Belman.  Please comment with links that present alternate views.

I agree that higher temperature can cause extreme weather. But I don’t believe that its been proven that such higher temperatures have been caused by man or that the answer is to cut down on carbon emission.

By Katharine Hayhoe and Friederike Otto, NYT

Dr. Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, is the chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy. Dr. Otto is the associate director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and a co-investigator for World Weather Attribution, which assesses the human influence on extreme weather.

This is so powerful, I had to share it. After being sickened by Netflix, this video is a welcome relief. I had forgotten how powerful, theater could be. Starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Lawrence Olivier.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

According to Kan 11 reporter Carmel Dangor’s tweets late Tuesday night, building permits for more than 800 housing units for Arabs in Area C (under full Israeli control – DI) have not been issued, contrary to the plan. The reason: the Civil Administration Employees Committee decided not to convene the approval committee. A new date has not yet been set for approving the construction plans for the Arabs.

Meanwhile, according to Dangor, the building permits for 2,223 housing units in the settlements, which were scheduled to be issued on Wednesday will also be postponed to an unknown date, also by order of the Civil Administration Workers’ Committee.

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TIERNEY NEWS

1) He can’t announce if he’s running due to campaign finance laws.

2) Trump said his plan for Afghanistan was to remove civilians FIRST, then military equipment – then the solders. Biden removed the soldiers FIRST & then left thousands of civilians there in harm’s way – and billions of dollars of US military equipment to be seized by the Communists & the Taliban. He said Biden literally left our enemies BRAND NEW Black Hawk helicopters paid for by the US taxpayer and military secrets they can use against us.

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By Peg Tierney

I get tons of emails from people asking me what I really think about the Delta variant & the vaccine. Here are my thoughts:

FAUCI: “With Delta, the viral load in vaccinated people is the same as in unvaccinated people!”

CDC: “Among people infected by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, fully vaccinated people with “breakthrough” infections may be just as likely as unvaccinated people to spread the virus to others, new research suggests.”

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Salim Mansur emigrated from Pakistan many decades ago and became a Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He spoke at my conference on the Jordan Option. He is a great friend of Israel. This video comes highly recommended by Howard Rotberg, who was recently interviewed on his new book  The Ideological Path to Submission.

By Nick Arama, RED STATE | Aug 18, 2021 10:30 AM ET

One of the claims you have heard from Joe Biden was that he was somehow locked into the deal that President Donald Trump made in Afghanistan to withdraw, basically blaming Trump.But there are several problems with that argument. The problem isn’t the withdrawing, it’s how it was done in the incompetent way that Biden did it. Not to mention, Biden’s plan even before Trump was just to withdraw and to heck with the allies or whatever mess he left, as we reported. So he can’t legitimately blame Trump now. Read more…

By Jack Wedam, AM THINKER

We saw Joe Biden’s horrible press conference.  Sixty-nine percent of American disapprove of how he handled the recent debacle in Afghanistan.  Who else was involved in this disaster?  The first domino to fall in Afghanistan was caused by secretary of defense Lloyd Austin and chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General Mark Milley.  According to the AP on July 6, 2021:

The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

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T. Belman. Even without it, it was destroyed long ago.

Americans once supported military withdrawal, but they will punish a president who leads the US to defeat

By Frank Luntz and RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery, FDD

Some people are comparing the chaotic end of US involvement in Afghanistan to the final days of South Vietnam. They’ve got it wrong. What’s happening in Kabul is more akin to the Bay of Pigs under JFK or the disaster in Iran in 1979. That failure cost Jimmy Carter the presidency in 1980, and Afghanistan could cost Democrats the White House in 2024.

T. Belman.  Israel should be mindful of this when the US pressures them to accept a two-state solution and make concessions in that direction. Under no conditions should Israel do this.  One might ask, why is the US supporting the Palestinians at Israel’s expense.  What’s in it for them? Why doesn’t the US butt out of Israel’s internal affairs.  In pushing the TSS, the US is opting for conflict, not peace.

By C. Douglas Golden ,WESTERN JOURNAL

In the midst of the Vietnam War, during one of the many moments when America was potentially set to betray the South Vietnamese side, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that if we did, “the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

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By Daniel Greenfield 

The media is filled with absolutely worthless analyses of why the Afghan army surrendered.

Some commentators blame the United States for not providing logistics. Others claimed that we undermined its non-existent morale. There’s hand-wringing over the 300,000 Afghan soldiers who wouldn’t fight. And the $90 billion that we squandered on building up the army that wouldn’t fight.

These analyses are just as dumb as the ones that accompanied the collapse of the Iraqi Army in the face of ISIS.

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Bar Ilan confirms ransomware attack targeting its system, urges staff to shut down computers; national cyber authority involved

Computers at Bar Ilan University. The academic institution was targeted by what an internal email said was a massive cyber attack that is seeing Bar Ilan’s data deleted

HAARETZ

A cyberattack targeted Israel’s Bar Ilan University Sunday, the school reported. An internal email sent out by the university’s IT department said the attack was ongoing and urged staff to shut down their computers.

“A serious cyberattack is underway right now against Bar Ilan University,” the internal mail said. “The attack involves data being erased or encrypted,” they noted, likely indicating a criminal motive, rather than espionage. It may be a ransomware attack, or what is called a “wiper” attack: In both cases, the victim’s data or network is taken over and access to it is restored only if a ransom is paid to the hackers. If no payment is made, the data is erased or remains locked behind the hackers’ encryption.

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By Desk Blitz

An end to the current Iranian regime, and the replacement of the ruling Islamists by secular democrats, would put an end to regional aggression of Iran, that had been undertaken by the Islamic Republic to help other Islamist groups, from the Houthis to Hezbollah, in order to spread the Iranian revolution, and Iran’s power, across the Middle East. Writes Hugh Fitzgerald

The street protests that have taken place in Iran this summer are of two kinds. First, there are continued protests against the mismanagement of the economy, the corruption of the Islamic Republic’s leaders, and the continued transfer of Iranian wealth to support such proxies and allies as the Houthis in Yemen, Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq, and especially, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the terror group supported by $700 million transferred annually from Iran. Second, there are the demonstrations by ethnic minorities, who make up 50% of Iran’s population, and bristle under the continued dominance of the Persians.

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“Now is a critical time,” Israeli Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz said as the 56-year-old got a COVID-19 booster shot on 13 August, the day his country became the first nation to offer a third dose of vaccine to people as young as age 50. “We’re in a race against the pandemic.”

His message was meant for his fellow Israelis, but it is a warning to the world. Israel has among the world’s highest levels of vaccination for COVID-19, with 78% of those 12 and older fully vaccinated, the vast majority with the Pfizer vaccine. Yet the country is now logging one of the world’s highest infection rates, with nearly 650 new cases daily per million people. More than half are in fully vaccinated people, underscoring the extraordinary transmissibility of the Delta variant and stoking concerns that the benefits of vaccination ebb over time.

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