Media malpractice as a weapon of war  

Corrupted journalism helps incite murderous hysteria against Israel and the west

By Melanie Phillips   July 9/21

BBC Broadcasting House, London

This week, Israel signed a deal for the immediate transfer to South Korea of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine which are due to expire at the end of this month. In exchange, South Korea will return the same amount of vaccines to Israel from a future order later this year.

This is a win-win deal. Israel has found a good use for vaccines surplus to its current requirements and which would otherwise shortly expire; South Korea is being helped to accelerate its vaccination program.

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July 9, 2021 | 2:20 pm | 2 Comments »

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At 75, the UN is embracing failure  

A systemic rot has spread through the organization and its agencies

By  Jonathan Levin, ISRAEL HAYOM

The United Nations, the successor to the failed League of Nations, is now in its 75th session. However, while seventy-five may be a big milestone, the UN has few reasons to celebrate. Although born amidst high hopes, the UN is now a systemically rotten organization that is embracing failure, repeating the errors its founders warned to avoid.

One factor in the League’s failure – an often cited one – was the departure of many states, including Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. Germany left due to disagreements about disarmament, Italy left after the League imposed sanctions on it for its invasion of Abyssinia and its use of chemical weapons, Japan departed after the League published a report blaming its conduct in Manchuria, and the USSR was expelled after it invaded Finland in 1939.

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How Trump Saved America from the China Virus  

By |July 8th, 2021

In a carefully orchestrated political trap, Joe Biden is threatening to send government workers house to house to try to get Trump supporters to take the Trump Warp Speed China virus vaccines. This strange turn of events tells you everything you need to know about why the Trump movement is in disarray and on defense. They don’t trust their leader, former President Trump, who has repeatedly urged people (except youngsters) to take the vaccines.

Trump, whose Operation Warp Speed saved America from the butchers of Beijing, is now trying to save the lives of his own supporters, who won’t answer the door if Biden’s operatives start knocking. Biden’s backers are counting on confrontations in order to make Trump supporters look bad.

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July 9, 2021 | 1:22 pm | 5 Comments »

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No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees  

Prospects look dim for those caught up in Merrick Garland’s Capitol protest witch hunt. 

By Julie Kelly, AMJ GREATNESS

Joe Biden’s Justice Department wants the Lego Man kept behind bars—indefinitely.

Federal agents seized a plastic replica of the Capitol building from the Pennsylvania home of Robert Morss during his arrest on June 11. Justice Department officials are citing the Lego model as evidence in the criminal case against Morss for his involvement in the January 6 protest: “During his arrest, law enforcement recovered some clothing and other items that appear to match those he carried with him on the 6th—including a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag, a neck gaiter, a military utility bag, a black tourniquet, and military fatigues. (Law enforcement also recoverd [sic] a fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set.)”

So wrote government prosecutors in a July 2 filing asking the D.C. District Court to deny Morss’ release while he awaits trial on nine counts, including assaulting police officers and disorderly conduct.
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Obama’s third term – to finish the decapitation of America.  

9 Years Ago, Andrew Breitbart Revealed Obama’s Ties To Critical Race Theory ‘Godfather,’ And Corporate Media Waved It Away

By Gabe Kaminsky, July 8, 2021

Critical race theory has blossomed in the United States into a culture war between institutions and those they purport to serve. As usual, legacy media have colluded to delegitimize any objections by either minimizing the dogma, re-defining it, or denying its existence. Americans ought to consider the media’s frenzy to smear writers exposing CRT in 2012 when examining the reality of today.

After Andrew Breitbart indicated at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he had footage to substantiate that President Barack Obama maintained a relationship with a prominent critical race theorist, it led to a news storm.

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Amid signs of fragility, Biden and Bennett move to shore up Jordan’s Abdullah  

Water shortage, tensions in royal family, economic woes push nervous US and Israel to show of support for king, fearing fall of key ally could have disastrous effects on region

Today, 8:54 am  

Both Israel and the United States made major gestures to Jordan and its ruler King Abdullah II this week, a sign that they share serious concerns over the kingdom’s stability.

On Tuesday, the US administration announced that Abdullah will travel to the US later this month and will be the first Middle East leader to visit the Biden White House.

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July 9, 2021 | 10:32 am | 1 Comment »

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The Teachers Unions Go Woke  

The NEA and AFT get behind progressive political indoctrination.

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Parents didn’t ask to be thrown into the trenches of America’s culture war, but progressives aren’t giving them a choice. Witness the way the national teachers unions are adopting woke values and pressing them into K-12 curriculums across the U.S.

The National Education Association, the largest teachers union, held its annual meeting last week and the measures approved by delegates deserve broader attention. One calls for the union to support and lead campaigns that “result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education.”
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How They Did It  

By Victor Rosenthal July 8, 2021

Between 1967 and 2021, the enemies of the Jewish state and the Jewish people created in effect an army of anti-Israel operatives in key positions in Western societies, including Israel herself. These operatives are often opinion leaders who influence the behavior of their countries.

Here is how they did it.
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July 8, 2021 | 8:48 pm | 3 Comments »

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Pennsylvania Republican Announces Investigation of 2020 General Election, 2021 Primary  

Why I am initiating a forensic investigation of the 2020 General Election and 2021 Primary

By: Senator Doug Mastriano, n Jul 07, 2021

A forensic investigation of our election results and processes for the 2020 General Election and the 2021 Primary will go a long way to restore trust in our system. Voting is the fundamental right of all citizens. We should continually look for ways to improve the voting process to ensure every voice is heard.

Today, as Chair of the Intergovernmental Operations Committee, I issued letters to several counties requesting information and materials needed to conduct a forensic investigation of the 2020 General Election and the 2021 Primary.
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The next crisis? Coalition faces uphill battle in bid to extend Haredi draft law  

After failure to extend ban on Palestinian family reunification, and with Ra’am party rejecting another IDF-related law, legislation regulating exemptions in danger of expiring

By TOI STAFF       Today, 1:07 pm  

 

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the arrest of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who failed to comply with a recruitment order, in Jerusalem, June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

The government is reportedly concerned it won’t muster a Knesset majority to renew a law set to expire next month that regulates exemptions from army service for many members of the ultra-Orthodox community.<
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The issue could shape up to be the new coalition’s next major crisis, since one member, the Islamist Ra’am party, along with the opposition Joint List party are refusing to back laws related to the Israel Defense Forces, and right-wing opposition parties have refused to vote in favor of any coalition legislation even if they ideologically support it — such as an extension to a ban on Palestinians with Israeli spouses getting Israeli citizenship — in an effort to cast the government as impotent.

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Arabs (and Israel) are united against Iran  

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Opulent 2,000-year-old ‘city hall’ unearthed near Western Wall in Jerusalem  

One of the most significant public buildings from the Second Temple period ever uncovered; new pathways in Western Wall Tunnels provide 2nd life to underground ancient Jerusalem

By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN, TOI

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Remains of the magnificent 2000-year-old building recently excavated and due to be opened to the public as part of the Western Wall Tunnels Tour in Jerusalem's Old City. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)
Remains of the magnificent 2000-year-old building recently excavated and due to be opened to the public as part of the Western Wall Tunnels Tour in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

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Beijing’s Woke Propaganda War in America  

Linda Goudsmit. I never knew the history of the expression “consciousness raising.” It is yet another example of the power of words, and how they can be used for construction or destruction – like every other force of nature. The inscrutable Chinese are not so inscrutable. Their long-range plan for world domination exploits the greed of the Washington swamp, unleashed the Wuhan virus, helped steal the 2020 election, and is propagandizing America with the help of the globalist media. The corporatists think they are exploiting cheap Chinese labor. The CCP is laughing all the way to the bank as it destroys what is left of American manufacturing, strength, greatness, freedom, and independence. China is partners with the Washington swamp, the Hollywood glitterati, the globalist propagandizing media, and Obama’s bolshevik resistance movement that promotes critical race theory and BLM. Wake up America! It is much later than you think. If China and its business partners are successful in collapsing America from within, they will then battle each other for primacy. Americans will become the population yearning to be free.

by Miles Maochun Yu, HOOVER INST

Propaganda is older than the medieval printing press, and every communications innovation increases the propagandists’ reach. Westerners most often think of propaganda coming from its two ardent twentieth-century practitioners: the German Nazis and the Soviet communists. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, laid out plainly the role of propaganda in a totalitarian regime: “It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion…not every piece of news should be published, but instead those who control news policies must make every piece of news serve a certain purpose.”

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July 8, 2021 | 2:56 pm | 1 Comment »

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Biden Freezes Trump’s Abraham Fund, Established to Strengthen Israeli-Arab Ties  

The investment fund was meant to strengthen regional ties between the signatories to the Abraham Accords.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News,     July 7, 2021:

The new American administration has decided to put on hold its mega-investment fund that was supposed to help strengthen regional ties after last year’s signing of the Abraham Accords, Globes reported Wednesday, based on American and Israeli sources.

The Abraham Fund was established immediately after Israel signed the historic normalization agreement with the UAE and Bahrain in September 2020.

It was to be underwritten by some $3 billion from both the U.S. government and private financial institutions to “promote economic cooperation and to encourage prosperity in the Middle East and beyond.”
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China and Russia: A New Vision for Central Asia  

By Emil Avdaliani , BESA       July 7, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Kremlin’s fixation on competing with the West might cost Russia dearly, as its clout in Central Asia is under strain from a rising China. Moscow will try to mitigate the tilting balance of power by applying methods of the post-liberal world order to the region. China and Russia might reach a condominium in which issues of economy and security are subdivided between them.

On May 12, 2021, China’s FM Wang Yi hosted the second China + Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the city of Xi’an. At the top of the agenda was Afghanistan, as China is worried about possible spillover into Central Asia and its eastern provinces.

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