The great strategic question is what should be the long-term future for Gaza? Is there a plan?

By David Shalom, INN           May 25 , 2021 11:09 PM

The CoS and Intelligence Units  IDF Spokesman

Modern wars are by their very nature campaigns on multiple fronts of differing channels and importance that are not limited to just the tally on the battlefield itself. The current conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is an example of this and, although agreed to due to US pressure, the resulting cease-fire is no less than a capitulation by Israel to the Arab aggressor.

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TIERNEY NEWS: President Trump did an interview with Steve Cortes, his former adviser, on Newsmax yesterday. One of the BEST interviews I’ve ever seen him do – with lots of new revelations. Grab a cup of coffee and watch the whole thing. It’s 25 minutes but uninterrupted & really really worth your time. I could paraphrase it but it’s better if you hear it yourself.

T. Belman.  This report is very alarming.  “oppose” and “prefer” have entirely different meanings. Netanyahu also said “There won’t be an advanced dialogue with Abbas and the PA as long as they continue to try to harm the State of Israel, its soldiers and its civilians,” In other words, so long as the PA promotes investigations into Israel activity by the ICC or UN there won’t be advanced  negotiations.  We’ll see.

I also find it strange that Pompeo is visiting Israel now. What’s that all about?

Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would prefer that a consulate to another entity – the Palestinian Authority – not be on Israeli sovereign territory.

By LAHAV HARKOV , JPOST   MAY 26, 2021

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 25, 2021 (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel opposes the reopening of a US consulate for Palestinians in sovereign Israel, hours before the US went public with its plan to do so in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu said Israel would prefer that a consulate to another entity – the Palestinian Authority – not be on Israeli sovereign territory.

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Revolver, May 25, 2021 (12h ago)

A group of thirty Republican Congressmen led by Matt Rosendale of Montana are demanding action from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after Revolver’s recent reporting exposed the disturbing depths of woke ideology taking control of the highest echelons of the American military.

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By Michelle Malkin, JWR

Patriots should be united in demanding answers about the murder of Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt. GOP Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is leading the way on that and has called for the feds to “release the tapes” in her case and others. American Greatness editor Julie Kelly reports there are some “14,000 hours of footage” being suppressed by Washington, D.C., prosecutors and judges. Republicans should also be united in raising the alarm over abusive treatment of detained Jan. 6 protesters held in solitary confinement, which even Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin have criticized.

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by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  May 26, 2021

• The big problem, though, with Mr Biden’s commitment for the US to work with the Palestinian Authority in Gaza is that the ability of Mr Abbas’s organisation to exercise any influence over Gaza is virtually negligible.
• While Mr Abbas continues to indulge in the fiction that he is the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, the reality so far as Gaza is concerned is that it is the Islamist leaders of Hamas who exercise total control over Gaza.
• The jubilant celebrations that took place among Palestinians when the ceasefire finally took hold were not held to express their relief that the fighting was over. The celebrations took place as a demonstration of support for Hamas’s role in launching a massive attack on Israel.
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T Belman. Notice that the AG is not willing to say he will press for an indictment.  Besides I think it is incumbent on the AG not to mention who is being investigated or anything about the Grand Jury until there is an indictment. This appears to be more of the same smearing that has been going on for 4 years.

By Shayna Jacobs and David A. Fahrenthold, WASH POST         May 26, 2021

IF YOU DON’T SEE THIS VIDEO GO HERE.

T. Belman.  This is a fascinating account of  behind the scenes goings on between the military and the president on the question of withdrawal.  It may be the reason the military didn’t back the imposition of Martial Law to protect the true winner of the election.

By Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu, AXIOS

Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Axios’ “Off the rails” series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.

One important piece is only now beginning to emerge: Former President Donald Trump’s last-minute bid to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan and swaths of the Middle East, Africa and even Europe ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration — and why he blinked.

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‘New Hope MKs will back Netanyahu as PM’ , Likud MK Shlomo Karhi claims.

By Hezki Baruch, TOI , May 25 , 2021 12:05 PM

New Hope MKs

Three opposition lawmakers from the New Hope party are considering joining a Likud-led government, a Likud MK claimed Tuesday morning, despite their party’s commitment not to sit in a government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) told Yediot Aharanot Tuesday morning that three New Hope MKs had announced to party chairman Gideon Sa’ar that they will not consider themselves obligated to the party line vis-à-vis refusing to back Netanyahu, should Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s mandate to form a government expire, sending the mandate to the Knesset.

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If you don’t see the videos look at my comment where I provide them.

THIS ONE IS ONY 4 MINUTES LONG

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

An anonymous State Department employee leaked a document in which the State Department, headed by the feckless Anthony Blinken, has instructed all diplomatic and consular posts to support Black Lives Matter beginning on May 25. Rather than being written in the usual dry, turgid language we expect from such communications, this one is different. Its language is pure Marxism and its hatred for America pours out of every word.

Jack Posobiec at Human Events reported that a State Department employee shared a copy of the order. It states in relevant part that May 25 (today) “marks one year since the brutal murder of George Floyd…” It lauds the Black Lives Matter protests that “demand an end to systemic racism and police brutality.” Accordingly, it’s time for guidance.

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T. Belman.. After two years of Pres Trump, 75% of the young evangelicals supported Israel. What could possibly have caused such a dramatic drop to 33% in three years.

During those 3 years, the percentage having a positive view of Muslims increased from 29% to 42% viewed Muslims . This is probably as a result of the Abrahamic Accords.

Since 2018, backing for Israel dropped from 75% to 33%; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump

By JACOB MAGID , TOI 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Evangelical Christian movement and a mission of approximately 800 members of Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization, in Jerusalem on March 18 2012. (Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90)

NEW YORK — A new survey points to a growing divide in the US between young evangelical Christians and their elders, particularly in their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, indicating Israel could see a significant drop in support in coming years.

While the religious group has long been a bulwark of support for Israel in the US, the Barna Group-administered poll commissioned by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke indicates a sharp drop in support for the Jewish state and raises concerns that Israel could lose a key ally going forward, its authors told The Times of Israel on Monday.

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T. Belman. Both Biden and Blinken say they “firmly supporting Israel’s right of self-defense.” Why does this not include our right to defeat Hamas and disarm them?

‘Biden wants to rebuild relationship with the Palestinians’.  Why?

By David Rosenberg, INN , May 25 , 2021 12:36 PM

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday morning, as Blinken began his three-day visit to the Middle East.

In a joint press statement with Blinken, Netanyahu thanked President Joe Biden and Blinken for “firmly supporting Israel’s right of self-defense.”

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We may hope that COVID has run its course, and we may mourn our 700,000 dead. On the other hand, strange and terrifying times may have just begun.

By Edward Ring, AM GREATNESS

There has been a lot of speculation, much of it backed up by evidence, that over the past year, America’s “cause of death” statistics have been skewed. For reasons alleged to be both political and financial, people who did not have a fatal case of COVID were reported as dying from the disease. The classic example is the young man who died in a horrific motorcycle accident, who tested positive for COVID in the postmortem, and was listed as a COVID victim.

Less likely, however, is the possibility that “deaths from all causes” have been misrepresented. Assuming we can rely on the CDC statistics, the data tell a grim story. During the 12 month period between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021, the number of people dying in the United States exceeded the recent historical average for that same April through March period by 701,680. If anything, this number is understated, because CDC data can take up to eight weeks to fill in completely and our dataset is only updated through May 12.
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By Dale Aluf, SIGNAL

The current fighting reveals just how difficult it will be for Beijing to maintain friendships with both sides.

Recent weeks have seen Israelis and Palestinians engage in a conflict of the largest scale since 2014. More than 3,000 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza this past week, and for a brief period, several more rained down from Lebanon and Syria.

Israel has responded with force, including airstrikes on high-ranking Hamas officers, tunnels used to smuggle heavy artillery into the strip and weapons stockpiles hidden within the civilian infrastructure.

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