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  Usually, a new drug is withdrawn after 50 deaths, which isn’t typical because the FDA has a strict approval process.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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UN NEWS

The current “senseless” cycle of violence in the Middle East must end now, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to a Security Council meeting held on Sunday morning in response to the crisis.Describing the hostilities as “utterly appalling”, the Secretary-General warned that hopes of coexistence and peace between Palestinians and Israelis are being pushed even farther to the horizon.

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T. Belman.  Frankly, I am surprised that the US is resisting the resolution so much.  Noon has come and gone. I wonder if Israel cut a deal with the US i.e., give us 2 or 3 days more to pound the shit out of them and we will agree to a ceasefire.  I hope not.  This is probably a Chap 6 resolution.

The Globalists are desperate to protect and preserve Hamas, particularly since Netanyahu has talked about destroying them. The last thing they want is for Israel to achieve peace.  They want the 100 year conflict to go on forever or at least until Israel is destroyed.

Member states have until noon on Monday to negotiate; diplomats tell ToI that Washington is pushing back on statement which criticizes both sides for ongoing fighting in Gaza

By JACOB MAGID, TOI     Today, 8:58 am

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

NEW YORK — For the third time in a week, the US is blocking a joint statement from the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, two diplomats involved in the matter said Sunday.

The statement was introduced by Norway, Tunisia and China following an emergency session earlier in the day on the fighting in Gaza and criticized both sides for the ongoing violence.

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The new American Middle East policy is an extension of the new American domestic policy.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS    May 16, 2021

More than 2,500 rockets have landed in Israel over the past week. Some Arab Israeli citizens are terrorizing Jewish Israelis. Apparently, as the rockets fall, these citizens are to be Arab Islamic nationalists first, and Israelis last—even if they wisely prefer to live on the Israeli rather than the Palestinian side of Israel’s hated wall.

The usual Hamas sympathizers are promising death to the Jews on social media (so much for the idea that Twitter and Facebook are “shocked, shocked” by impolite expressions of the Trumpian sort).

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by Victor Rosenthal        May 17, 2021 

In my last post, I wrote that coexistence between Jews and Arabs in the Land of Israel was impossible. Since then, I’ve been told that I’m wrong – it’s necessary. The alternative to coexistence is said to be civil war, a war that will destroy our country. There’s no doubt that such a war would be terrible indeed. But if I’m right, then my critics are looking at it from the wrong direction. Rather than trying and failing to live together with the Arabs, we need to find a way to live apart from the Arabs without precipitating a disastrous war.

Why do I think coexistence is impossible? Because – as has been demonstrated conclusively in the last few weeks – the combination of the nature of Arab culture, combined with the all-pervasive Palestinian narrative, the well-organized and financed anti-Zionist forces, and the effective use of media, especially social media, make it so.

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T. Belman. Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas in this go around. It bothers the hell out of me that Hamas was able to acquire a stockpile of 20,000 rockets while Israel was supposedly keeping Gaza under blockade and Egypt had destroyed the smuggling tunnels. Last go around we were surprised by the tunnels they had built. This time it was the stockpile.

We should count ourselves lucky that Hezbollah didn’t let loose with their arsenal of 150,000 rockets. We won’t be so lucky next time. I read that Iran restrained them as its primary goal this time is to get sanctions lifted.

Hamas must be made to choose either power or rockets. It cannot have both. Meanwhile, by allowing its civilians to be the target of rocket fire, the government has violated its basic obligation to defend them.

By Zvi Hauser, ISRAEL HAYOM

The results of Operation Guardian of the Walls will be examined according to one basic question: did Israel fight “yesterday’s war” and stay trapped in the concept of periodic rounds of fighting, or did Israel use Hamas’ surprise to create a new reality for the Israel-Gaza relationship?

The strategy of containing rocket attacks on civilians from the Gaza Strip is a fundamental violation of the agreement the state undertakes to defend its citizens. There is no other place in the world where civilians live under the threat of rockets as a matter of routine, with the end of each round promising another one to come.

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by Richard Kemp, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  May 16, 2021 at 5:00 am

• • Hamas is no match for the IDF and could be quickly and much more cheaply defeated by blunt and crushing military force were it not for one thing — the Israeli need to minimise loss of civilian life. Hamas know that.
  • Over many years of conflict in Gaza, the majority of the world’s media have enthusiastically reported the deaths of Palestinian civilians as though they were the deliberate object of Israel’s callous and uncaring way of war. This blatantly false propaganda has been taken up by Hamas supporters and “useful idiots” in the West…. Human rights groups around the world have been doing the same.

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