by Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

The latest controversy in the world of American wokeness reads like a parody of the phenomenon.

This week, the online publication Slate indefinitely suspended without pay one of its most well-known podcasters, Mike Pesca, after it became known that he had a private conversation with a fellow employee about the controversial firing of New York Times staff reporter, Donald McNeil. McNeil was let go after the outside world became aware of a conversation he had with students in 2019 when he was asked for his thoughts on whether it was appropriate to impose professional consequences on someone who uses a noxious racial slur. During that conversation, McNeil used that slur (which he was encouraged to do) to illustrate his point. And for that, he was fired. “My points,” Pesca told his colleagues in an internal chatroom discussion, “are his internal conduct was in a grey area, you guys don’t think it was.” This offense resulted in Pesca being consigned to professional limbo.

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Sidney Powell. After SC rejection, “There are still important live cases. Irrefutable proof is coming soon. Keep educating everyone about the facts. Today’s Supreme Court orders were disappointing but we are NOT done, and we will not let this fraud stand. #WeThePeople are supposed to run this country.

By Dick Morris on February 23, 2021

The Supreme Court has been neutered by Democratic threats to pack it.

The various schemes to add justices, rotate those now on the bench, or retire elderly members have had their desired effect: The Court is so intimidated that they have refused to weigh in on the central legal issue of our times: The honesty of the 2020 election.
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By Isa Cox, WJ February 23, 2021

Justice Clarence Thomas has issued a scathing dissent to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear the merits of lawsuits challenging the 2020 election in Pennsylvania and by so doing, detailed what he described as the “inexplicable” avoidance of cases with critical implications for future elections.

Yet again, Justice Thomas had the backs of millions of American conservatives as Chief Justice John Roberts inexplicably failed to act on a critical constitutional issue.

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The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim Brotherhood are funding Biden.

By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Mag, 11/2/2020,

Joe Biden had spent the entire election hiding the names of his bundlers, the big money fundraisers who fueled his campaign, until releasing them right before Election Day.

What did he have to hide?

The list of bundlers who managed to raise at least $100,000 for Biden includes some of the usual Democrat politicians and big party donors, along with some other names.

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By Kipp Jones, WJ     February 20, 2021

Alarming polls conducted in recent years and months show a terrifying trend: Generation Z — which includes young people who are now voting in our elections — support socialism, rioting, looting and restrictions on free speech.

Polls dating back to 2019 show that much of America’s youth is in favor of policing speech that isn’t popular, is supportive of burning down or ransacking private businesses amid gripes with government and also resents the idea they can succeed as capitalists.

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By Andrea Widberg, AM THINKER

[..] Tucker Carlson is also one of those worrying about the Biden administration using the excuse of the Wuhan virus to turn America into a totalitarian state with the Bill of Rights a forgotten, dead letter. Therefore, he invited Naomi to be his guest to discuss the issue.

Tucker was stunned – as were those of us who know Naomi – to hear her give a fluent, impassioned disquisition on American liberties and the threats they’re facing as states and Biden use them to grab permanent power.

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By Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

A Politico report published Monday revealed that Joe Biden’s administration wants to rid itself of the troublesome Middle East. In terms of global priorities, one Biden adviser confessed that the region “is not in the top three.” The new administration would prefer to focus on instability in the Western Hemisphere, containing threats and pursuing diplomatic initiatives in Europe, and, of course, finally pivoting to Asia. “They are just being extremely purposeful to not get dragged into the Middle East,” another adviser said. But the Middle East has a habit of dragging the United States back in, and a heedless effort to withdraw from the region is one of the easiest ways to stumble back into open-ended commitments.

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T. Belman. The way I see it, is that for being Jewish or democratic in nature and in the same country, we have to marry imperfect Judaism with imperfect democracy.  Compromises are made as in any marriage.  Similarly, if we try to define whether Israel embraces socialism or capitalism, we quickly understand that we are a little bit of both. What must be done in all marriages is to find where to draw the line.

A duality of visions as to what we are all about has echoed since before the State’s founding. Time to think about where you stand. Op-ed.

By Avraham Shusteris, INN     Feb 22 , 2021

A Jewish state and a democracy: we say that we are both, but what do we actually mean? What is a Jewish state, and what is a democracy? If we chose to be flexible in our definition of Jewish, then why are we so parochial in our definition of democracy? If our definition of Jewish is diluted, then why should our definition of democratic be absolute?

If no one has the right to tell us what is a Jew, then why should anyone have the right to tell us what it means to be democratic? If there are absolute standards for democracy, there should equally be absolute standards for what is Jewish. If we can call ourselves a Jewish state without any commitment to or implementation of Jewish law, then why can’t we call ourselves a democracy, without a commitment to ensuring that our democratic principles are always strictly implemented?

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“Biden repudiates Trump on Iran, ready for talks on nuke deal,”  Matthew Lee, AP News, 2/18/2021,

“Biden’s Six-Step Strategy to Rejoin the Iran Nuclear Agreement,”  Eric R. Mandel, The Hill, 2/18/2021,

[Dr. Eric R. Mandel is the director of  MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network. He regularly briefs members of the U.S. Senate, House, and their foreign-policy advisers. He is the senior editor for “ Security ” at the Jerusalem Report/The Jerusalem Post.)]

“Israel Cautions Biden against Rejoining Iran Deal,”  Mairead McCardle, National Review, 2/19/2021,
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By Ted Belman

Go this link

Dark To Light: The Deep Rig – An Interview With Patrick Byrne

and listen to the interview.

I intend to buy his book The Deep Rig.

Miri Aloni and Ehud Olmert may display masochism in believing Israel’s enemies, but most Israelis know better. Does the West? Opinion.

By Howard Rotberg, INN   Feb 22 , 2021

“We are tired of fighting; we are tired of being courageous; we are tired of winning; we are tired of defeating our enemies.” – Ehud Olmert

Masochistic Personality Disorder “is a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood nd present in a variety of contexts. The person may avoid or undermine pleasurable experiences, be drawn to situations or relationships in which he or she will suffer…”- Psychnet.com

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By Victor Rosenthal

Bedouins are tribal, nomadic Arabs, tracing their ancestry to the Arabian peninsula, who today live all over the Middle East and North Africa. Today there are at least 200,000 Bedouins in Israel, and the population is growing rapidly. They are Israeli citizens with full political and civil rights.

Historically they fed themselves primarily by herding animals and other forms of nomadic agriculture and fishing. Some were bandits, raiding the caravans that passed through their region, and taxing non-Bedouin tribes in the vicinity. Over the years they have become more settled, with many of them living in towns and cities. But there still are some who follow traditional nomadic ways.
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By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN February 22, 2021

A poll watcher monitors the counting of ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse on November 6, 2020 in Pittsburgh.

Christian leaders remain silent as another church figure recycles its oldest hatred

By Melanie Phillips

Jews being persecuted; Rochester Chronicle, 13th century

The World Council of Churches has gone full theological incitement against the State of Israel.

In a recent Zoom webinar with more than 300 Christian activists to promote a film about the pro-Palestinian activism of Michel Sabbah — the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem — Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, went much further than the usual falsehoods about Israel’s “brutality” towards the Palestinians.

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The Democratic administration of US President Joe Biden takes Europe’s opinion of Israel very much into account. As such, the work of Shai Bazak, a former Israeli diplomat and currently CEO of ELNET, an organization dedicated to fostering Israeli-European ties, becomes that much more critical.

By  Ran Puni, ISRAEL HAYOM

Former diplomat and ELNET CEO Shai Bazak | Photo: ELNET/Wikimedia Commons

Earlier in his career, Shai Bazak was the media director for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the consul general in Miami and later in Boston, and head of the Jewish National Fund mission in London.

Most recently, he has been bringing his 25 years of experience as a diplomat to ELNET, a pro-Israeli nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening relations between Europe and Israel.

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Experts call the spill Israel’s worst beach contamination in memory, and they fear much marine life has been wiped out. Nobody can say how long recovery will take

By SUE SURKES, TOI

Main image by Ariel Schalit/AP: People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera,

An oil spill at sea that has dumped tons of tar almost all the way along Israel’s Mediterranean coast forced the authorities on Sunday to close all beaches from Rosh Hanikra in the north to Ashkelon in the south until further notice.

Gila Gamliel, the environmental protection minister, said she hopes the cleanup will end in time for beach season to open as planned in May, but neither she nor anybody else can be certain yet of the damage wreaked by the disaster.
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BY AXIOS

In his first post-presidential appearance, Donald Trump plans to send the message next weekend that he is Republicans’ “presumptive 2024 nominee” with a vise grip on the party’s base, top Trump allies tell me.

• A longtime adviser called Trump’s speech a “show of force,” and said the message will be: “I may not have Twitter or the Oval Office, but I’m still in charge.” Payback is his chief obsession.

I’ve learned that Trump advisers will meet with him at Mar-a-Lago this week to plan his next political moves, and to set up the machinery for kingmaking in the 2022 midterms.

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Racist Dems buy a ticket in the leftist lawsuit lottery.

By Matthew Vadum, FPM   Fri Feb 19, 2021

The leftist NAACP, which never met a conservative it didn’t consider to be a racist hatemonger, is suing former President Donald Trump using an obscure law that was wielded against the Democratic Party-affiliated terrorists of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered blacks and their Republican enemies after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan Act is an unusual tool to pull from a cobweb-covered chest of old laws nobody knew were still in existence. President Ulysses S. Grant (he’s the guy on the $50 bill, millennials!) used the statute to declare martial law, penalize terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the KKK after the Civil War.
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By Isa Cox, WESTERN JOURNAL

The Arizona state Senate just passed a bill that would allow the state legislature to subpoena critical elections records, paving the way for a closer look into some of the most contested data amid the messy fallout of the 2020 election.

Senate Bill 1408 passed 16-14 cleanly along party lines with Republicans forming the affirming vote, according to the Arizona Mirror.

If the bill is ultimately signed into law, it would force officials in Maricopa County to hand over documents and information they have been so far refusing to provide to the state legislature in an ongoing legal battle, including those pesky voting machines themselves.

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