TV survey: Nearly 2/3 think Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid should step aside to let the Yamina chief lead government; 80% dissatisfied with election results and expect 5th vote

By TOI STAFF      31 March 2021, 11:12 pm

Left to right: Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett; and New Hope party head Gideon Sa’ar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nearly two-thirds of voters who backed parties seeking to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power believe his chief rival, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, should stand aside and let Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett be prime minister instead, according to a Channel 13 survey published Wednesday.

The opinion poll also found widespread dissatisfaction among Israelis with the inconclusive election outcome, with 80 percent of respondents expressing disappointment with the stalemate and predicting a fifth round of elections within two years would be called.

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By A Disillusioned Administrator, AM THINKER

Like a cancerous tumor that has metastasized in the body, Critical Race Theory and its variants including social justice; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); anti-racism; cultural competency; and implicit bias have poisoned all aspects of public education and even some private schools.  These hateful and racist philosophies have become entrenched in every level and aspect of American public education.

The basis for Critical Race Theory is the belief that America is systemically racist and divided into a racial hierarchy with black people at the bottom.  For America’s inherent racism to end, Caucasians must recognize that through the color of their skin, they are afforded certain privileges in American society that “people of color” do not have.  Once this recognition is made, American society can begin the radical process of dismantling every institution and remaking each to bring about equity, or equality of outcomes for everyone.  This radical alteration of every aspect of American society is communism, using race as the basis for the destruction of traditional norms and values.
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The Biden administration is ruining everything. So it must ruin Passover.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM     Thu Apr 1, 2021

After twenty minutes of dead air, Biden’s Virtual Passover got underway. Biden, who can only be counted on to remain coherent for short stretches of time before launching into a random tirade, only showed up briefly.  And that was the only good thing about Virtual Passover.

Virtual Passover, like the Biden administration, makes no sense. But the Biden administration can’t be expected to ruin every aspect of our lives, without also ruining Passover.

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by Drieu Godefridi, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  April 2, 2021

• Five hundred years from now, when historians look back on the COVID era, they will say that America’s “Operation Warp Speed,” under President Donald J. Trump, was a triumph of science and logistics.
• Many liberals have a short memory, but the EU has not always been the big, remote machine it has become.
• The principle of equality of states and the principle of equality of citizens cannot be reconciled in the current EU setting of institutions, says Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court.

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By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESAApril 1, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A little-acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the US and the Islamic Republic over the modalities of a US return to the deal from which President Donald Trump withdrew.

A little-noted provision in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran could scupper the deal’s resuscitation. The provision’s magic date is 2023. If the Biden administration chooses to return the US to the agreement in that year, it would have to seek Congressional approval for the lifting or modification of all US nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.

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The way that American policymakers measure national power is insufficient for the 21st century

By BRANDON J WEICHERT, ASIA TIMES         APRIL 1, 2021

The United States “is no longer qualified to speak to us from a position of strength,” crowed the imperious senior diplomat from the People’s Republic of China, to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a particularly frosty meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.

Much to the Joe Biden administration’s credit, it appears to be taking the potential threat that China poses the United States more seriously than it did during the contentious 2020 presidential campaign.

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The Turkish president was convinced he was on the cusp of restoring the glory of the Ottoman Empire. Alas, this did not happen.

By Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM

The latest election and its results have paralyzed Israel, stagnating the dynamism of its policies in the Middle East in recent years. Our region, alas, never stands still, nor is it waiting for Israel to get back on track. A series of initiatives are poised to change the reality in our region and will also affect Israel, which is failing to pay them the proper attention or prepare.

For instance, we recently learned about the rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt, two adversaries whose animosity seemed irrevocable. Several months ago, the two countries appeared to be on the verge of a clash at sea or in Libya, but based on numerous reports recently, Ankara and Cairo are reaching understandings and bridging the gaps between them.

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In Riyadh at the start of his six-country Middle East tour, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed Sino-Arab relations, COVID-19, and the situations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

MEMRI

China is now the biggest trading partner and a major investor in the Middle East. Looking ahead, China’s relations and cooperation with countries in the Middle East will enjoy even greater prospects.

Q: Since taking office, the Biden administration has indicated an intention to adjust its Middle East policy, triggering new changes in the regional situation and hotspot issues. The Iranian nuclear issue may return to the framework of the JCPOA. New developments are unfolding in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Libya and other flare-ups. How would you characterize China’s current Middle East policy?
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T. Belman. I grew up in the forties and fifties and remember this song well. Jews were in love with baseball.  It made us all feel American. My father and all his friends went to every ball game in our small hometown and I went to to see if I could find a foul ball and take it home. When a Jewish  ex big leaguer came to play for our team he became a local hero.

The Jewish Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never been to a ballgame

BY ROBERT ROCKAWAY, TABLET APRIL 01, 2021

Cover of sheet music for ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’FLICKR

Every baseball fan knows that during the seventh inning stretch, the organ plays and the crowd stands up to sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” But most don’t know that the man who wrote the music was the Jewish composer Albert Von Tilzer, and he had never attended a baseball game.

Baseball fans can sing the first couple of lines of the chorus by heart, but the full song is as follows:

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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement:

The Biden administration’s morally reprehensible decision to re-engage in the antisemitic United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is turning into a disaster. When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the administration’s decision to re-engage with the UNHRC in early February, Blinken sought to justify re-engagement as allowing the U.S. to reform the UNHRC, “including [the UNHRC’s] disproportionate focus on Israel.” But instead of using U.S. “re-engagement” to try to stop the UNHRC from constantly bashing Israel (and ignoring real human rights abusers), the U.S. has now led a harmful UNHRC joint statement citing the shockingly vicious anti-Israel 2001 Durban racism conference as a favorable precedent.
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By Victor Davis Hanson

There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.

1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.

Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.

2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.

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by Victor Rosenthal

The whole story of Israeli politics today is Binyamin Netanyahu.

I won’t bore you with countless scenarios, most of which are about as likely as the one in which I become Prime Minister. Everything is contained in six numbers:

Number of Knesset seats needed to form a government: 61.
Number committed to join a coalition with Netanyahu: 52 (Likud, Shas, UTJ, Religious Zionism).
Number opposed to Netanyahu: 57 (seven parties).
Uncommitted: 7 (Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party).
Committed to supporting Netanyahu from outside the coalition: 4 (Ra’am party of Mansour Abbas*).
Number considered “right-wing”: 72 (Likud, Shas, Yamina, UTJ, Religious Zionism, Tikvah Hadasha).

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By Caroline Glick, THE JEWISH VOICE

“If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse.”

Two weeks ago, a bus filled with veteran Israeli generals from the Bithonistim, a grassroots national security organization, slowly made its way up the slopes of Mt. Ebal in Northern Samaria to visit a biblical-era site that was severely damaged by a Palestinian Authority contractor in late January.

They came to draw the public’s attention to the strategic implications of the war the Palestinians are waging against Jewish history.

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by Jonathan Spyer, JPOST     March 25, 2021

^{Originally published under the title “What Does Russian Mideast-related Diplomatic Activity Signify?”}

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on March 17 (left), and with Hezbollah envoy Mohammad Raad two days earlier.

In an event covered in a variety of regional media outlets but largely ignored further afield, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on March 15 in Moscow with a delegation from the Lebanese Hezbollah organization. The delegation was led by Mohammad Raad, who heads the Hezbollah bloc in the Lebanese Parliament. This was the first official Hezbollah delegation to visit Moscow since October 2011, and the second in total. Also on the trip was Ammar al-Moussawi, who heads the movement’s foreign relations desk. A report by Russian analyst Anton Mardasov at Al-Monitor noted that the visit immediately preceded Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi’s trip to Moscow on March 17, possibly leading to some logistical challenges for the Russian airport and other authorities.

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By  JAMIE GLAZOV      MARCH 30, 2021

Hosted by Anni Cyrus, producer of The Glazov Gang and Founder of Live Up To Freedom.

This new webinar features Clare Lopez, is the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC, with a mission to alert and educate Americans on a range of national security threats, international as well as from the Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood and collaborators among the ranks of Marxists/communists in this country.

Clare discusses The Marxist Agenda Infiltrating Our Schools, revealing how parents across America, some for the first time, are realizing what their children have been learning in school — and they’re horrified.

And make sure to watch our last three webinars with Robert Spencer, Dr. Charles Negy, and Barry Nussbaum:

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T. Belman. These results justify vaccination or do they. But two issues come to mind. 1. What is the long term affect, if any.  2. Do these results justify penalizing people who refuse to be vaccinated?

Underlying all this is the question of whether the world has been conned as to the severity of  the pandemic and whether the reality justified the lockdown, masks etc. Was it all to enable the fraud in the 2020 elections?

By Jacqui Wise, BMJ

The Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine produces as good results in the “real world” as have been previously documented in randomised trials.

A case control study, which has been peer reviewed and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared 596?618 people who were newly vaccinated in Israel and matched them to unvaccinated controls.1

Two doses of the mRNA vaccine reduced symptomatic cases by 94%, hospitalisation by 87%, and severe covid-19 by 92%, according to the data from the Clalit Institute for Research which is Israel’s biggest healthcare provider.

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By C. J. Hopkins

So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven’t been “vaccinated” yet. Us. The “Covidiots.” The “Covid deniers.” The “science deniers.” The “reality deniers.” Those who refuse to get “vaccinated,” ever.

There is no place for us in New Normal society. The New Normals know this and so do we. To them, we are a suspicious, alien tribe of people. We do not share their ideological beliefs. We do not perform their loyalty rituals, or we do so only grudgingly, because they force us to do so. We traffic in arcane “conspiracy theories,” like “pre-March-2020 science,” “natural herd immunity,” “population-adjusted death rates,” “Sweden,” “Florida,” and other heresies.

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