By JoeSettler, JWR
In case Netanyahu doesn’t have a natural 61, the other parties will need to decide: will they be responsible for another round of elections or will they sit with Bibi. I am sure at least one of them will sit with Bibi.
But the current (initial) situation creates 3 problems for Netanyahu:
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Watch this special investigative report which exposes how the Palestinian Authority is establishing a Palestinian State under the nose of the State of Israel, which is procrastinating and failing to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
This is what Israeli negligence in Judea and Samaria looks like. While the State of Israel is squandering the opportunities to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian Authority is establishing facts on the ground, and is establishing a de facto Palestinian state. An investigative report produced jointly by the Channel 13 News and the Ad Kan organization, exposes the truth that should trouble and concern every citizen in Israel.
Iran is investing heavily in the war in Yemen, through technical know-how and provision of weapons over the last six years, as well as political capital. Where once the Houthi rebels were portrayed as an indigenous rebel force that sprang from the mountains of Yemen, Iran is now taking ownership of the war.
This isn’t the first time Yemen has been caught in a proxy war. In the 1960s it was a center of conflict for Egypt and other powers, including Saudi Arabia. Today, the situation has changed and Iran is seeking a broader foothold. Iran also thinks that it has outplayed the Saudis and the US in the country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Tehran initially sought to use the war there as a testbed for new munitions, supplying expertise in long-range ballistic missiles and also improving the Houthis drones.
March 18, 2021, Halfway through their four year campaign, the U.S. military is already failing at combating “violent extremist organizations” in Africa, according to a recent Pentagon report and formerly secret plans. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adzpb/secret-plans-detail-failures-of-us-commandos-in-africa
VICE World News has obtained formerly secret plans that, combined with a recent Pentagon report, detail the failures of U.S. Commandos in Africa over the last two years.
T. Belman. Goldman holds that America must tell it people ” that the task of maintaining a world order is unending and fraught with costs but preferable to the alternative.” This is classic neo-conservatism.
I bought this during the Bush era until the folly of the Iraq War.
Yes, maintaining the World Order is important and even necessary. But America must learn to delegate responsibility. It must create and strengthen alliances and delegate to them. Russia is not the enemy. China and militant Islam is. NATO should be repurposed. The Abrahamic Accords should be enlarged and strengthened. Iran and China should be contained.
He describes Trump’s policies as “loopy”. I don’t see it that way.
SPENGLER (DAVID P. GOLDMAN), ASIA TIMES,
MARCH 19, 2021, Biden’s embrace of neocon dogma will accelerate a Chinese-Russian-European coalescence that will dominate the world economy, https://asiatimes.com/2021/03/life-after-death-for-the-neoconservatives/
Delusions die hard. The obsession of American foreign policy after the fall of communism was pro-Western democracy in Russia, and the foreign policy establishment has never forgiven Vladimir Putin for returning Russia to the sort of authoritarian governance it has endured for all but a few brief years of its history.
The obsession is back with Joe Biden – and, with it, the neoconservatives who dominated the failed administration of George W Bush.
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In Georgia, a judge has agreed that the group “Voter GA” can go ahead and inspect Fulton County Georgia ballots from the 2020 election for Fulton County. This time, they will use the method developed by Jovan Pulitzer.
Pulitzer is an inventor, best known for the bar code you find on groceries and other products found in stores. He claims that by using his method you no longer need to examine the machines used in the counting to discover fraud.
The vote in Georgia comes down to Fulton County and so if the count there is correct, there is no doubt that Biden won.
By Thomas Gallagher on March 25, 2021
A Politico/Morning Consult Poll, released this week, shows a big decline in support for citizenship for illegal immigrants, even among Democrats.
This finding, by a liberal Democratic-oriented national survey firm has the potential to roil further the debate about Biden’s immigration proposals.
The survey showed that only 43% of registered voters favored creating a “pathway” to citizenship for illegal immigrants. That figure is down from 57% last month — a drop of 14 points.
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By Lauri B. Regan, AM THINKER
At less than 100 days in, Trump-haters have imposed growing disasters on the country. Trump-hating voters cared about one thing and it wasn’t the success of Operation Warp Speed, a strong economy, or peace in the Mideast. Bad Orange Man must go, the country, our kids’ and grandkids’ futures be damned. And we reap what we sow.
The 46th President of the United States Joseph Robinette Biden began by signing an unprecedented number of executive orders designed to bypass the legislative process (including job killers and open borders). He signed the hyper-partisan “Covid relief package” proving that he has no interest in unifying the country. He actually boxed out Republican voices in the negotiation process resulting in a true moderate, Susan Collins, wondering why Biden “would want to alienate” Republicans willing to work with him. In between we’ve barely seen the president while he hides behind Harris and Dr. Jill.
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T. Belman. Bennett’s choice. He can join the left including Ra’am and form a government. But he already said he wouldn’t.
Or he could join the right, in the hope that some or all of New Hope or Yisrael Beytenu will do likewise. Perhaps he will wait for the right to find two more seats before joining.
On the other hand if Likud appointed Israel Katz as head of the party and Netanyahu as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Likud could easily form a government with New Hope, YB and Yamina. To cement the deal the new government could pardon Netanyahu ( or the Israeli equivalent) and everybody would be happy.
TOI
Pro-Netanyahu activists are reportedly gearing up for what is being described as a massive campaign designed to pressure right-wing parties to join a Likud-led government coalition.
Right-wing parties New Hope and Yisrael Beytenu are both in the replace-Netanyahu bloc and Yamina is also considering signing on, joining forces with center-left and Arab factions to oust the premier.
How China Waged A Covert War On The US Using Covid-19
TIERNEY’S NEWS
President Trump is excited about Project Veritas’ win in the New York Times defamation case and its impact on libel laws in America: “I want to congratulate Project Veritas on their big win on the New York Times. Now the suit will continue, and whatever you can do for their legal defense fund, we’re with them all the way. They do incredible work. They find things that nobody would even believe possible.”
A prominent scientist said it is highly likely that COVID-19 is a Chinese bio-weapon that was developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. According to David Asher of Hudson Institute, COVID-19 could have emerged as part of China’s military program to develop a universal antidote to bio-weapons. He believes that China already had a vaccine and were figuring out ways to “weaponize” coronavirus and make it more lethal. We know!
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‘Ali Al-Sharimi (image: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia)
In his December 28, 2020 column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan, liberal journalist ‘Ali Al-Sharimi proposed ways to prevent young people from being recruited by extremist organizations like ISIS. The primary need, he said, is to reform the curricula, especially in the field of religious studies, which currently offer no ideological protection and in fact radicalize the youth and turn them into potential recruits for terror organizations. Al-Sharimi suggested, inter alia, to reexamine the concept of jihad in these curricula; instill values of religious pluralism, human rights and the nation state, and teach about all religions at all grade levels – so as to prevent dogmatism and violence and cultivate independent and critical thinking.
T. Belman. The walls are closing in on the fraud due to the actions of the legislators and the courts. Once the fraud is proven it will mean the end of the Biden administration.
By Cristina Laila, GP March 23, 2021:
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin state assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to authorize an investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
The resolution passed on a 58-35 party-line vote.
The committee will now have subpoena power to compel testimony and gather documents.
By Simon Watkins , Oilprice. Mar 22, 2021, 7
After the first oil price war launched by the Saudis against the then-nascent U.S. shale sector in 2014, Washington took the view that the Kingdom had broken the core 1945 agreement made between the two countries and that consequently, the U.S. needed to begin to reduce its dependence on Saudi oil imports down to insignificant levels over time. This view was reinforced when the Saudis launched another oil price war in 2020, again principally aimed at damaging the U.S. shale sector, that was only ended with the direct threat from former President Donald Trump to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) that unless Saudi stopped the oil price war then the U.S. would withdraw its military support for the country in general, and the ruling Al-Saud family in particular. Given this backdrop, it is unsurprising that the U.S.’s new cornerstone strategy to counter growing Chinese influence in the Middle East’s oil and gas sector appears to barely involve Saudi Arabia at all.
Amala Ekpunobi grew up in a leftist home and worked as an organizer for the political left. She never questioned the narrative — until she discovered the racism she thought she was fighting against was being perpetuated by her side. “We are bringing back segregation in this country, and people will sell it to you that we are doing it in a positive manner…it perpetuates the same racist narrative that they are trying to run away from.” Amala shares her story of questioning leftist ideology, which ultimately led to changing her mind.
Speaking to UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Lavrov suggests ministerial-level multinational summit in the spring or summer
26 January 2021,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas in Moscow, on January 20, 2012. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)
UNITED NATIONS, United States — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday backed a Palestinian proposal for a Middle East peace conference, saying at the UN that it could be held at ministerial level in the spring or summer.
Recalling that Moscow had backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s idea for international talks in early 2021 when he first proposed it in September, Lavrov offered ideas about who could be invited.
What’s new in Beijing’s latest proposal and what does it tell us about China’s views and intentions concerning the region?
By Yoram Evron, DIPLOMAT August 14, 2017
Every now and then China comes up with a diplomatic proposal to resolve the conflicts of the Greater Middle East. In 2014, China made a five-point proposal to end the Gaza armed conflict raging that year and in 2012 Beijing produced a four-point proposal to end the Syrian civil war. As for the wide-ranging Israeli-Palestinian conflict specifically, the last Chinese proposal was in 2013.
T. Belman. It will be interesting to see how Russia and the US respond to this new player. The US already has an initiative of its own. So does Russia.
By AARON BOXERMAN, TOI
File: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, February 26, 2020. (Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China will advance a five-point plan to realize “regional peace and stability in the Middle East.”
As part of the initiative, Wang backs a recent Saudi initiative to end its long-running war in Yemen. He also invites Israeli and Palestinian “notables” to meet for talks in Beijing.
Jordan Peterson became world-famous in 2016 because he stood up to Canada’s human rights law, which made it a crime to “misgender” someone. Since then, Canada has slid even further into gender totalitarianism. The latest example is a Canadian man who was sent to prison for refusing to adopt his teenage daughter’s new masculine pronouns.
The father and mother were not raising the child together, so it was only when his daughter was 13 that the father learned that the girl’s public school and his ex-wife had been working with the child to turn her into a boy. This included pushing the child to take hormones to mimic male sexual attributes such as facial hair and a deep voice.
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