Only the West can cure Assad of the Iranian variant  

In order to survive the Arab Spring, Syria’s president was forced to expose himself to an Iranian “mutation” far more contagious and dangerous than COVID-19. It will take billions of dollars to rehabilitate Syria, and it is only a willingness from the West to provide assistance in return for pushing back the Iranians, alongside sanctions, that can cure Assad of this dangerous disease.

By Oded Granot, ISRAEL HAYOM

This week, just as the world marked 10 years to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma contracted the coronavirus. Doctors claim the couple’s chances of recovering from the virus are good, even if they have yet to receive a dose of Russia’s Sputnik vaccine, which the Israelis funded in return for the release of an Israeli citizen. If regional statistics are any indication, the Assads, who are symptomatic, are highly likely to survive the disease.

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March 14, 2021 | 7:52 pm | Comments »

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Long-frustrated Jordan finally finds a way to hit Netanyahu where it hurts  

Diplomatic spat that saw Amman thwart Israeli PM’s victory lap in Gulf is rooted in Jordan feeling underappreciated, vulnerable, and a pawn in the premier’s election campaigns

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan, Jordanian Royal Palace)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, left, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan, Jordanian Royal Palace)

Years of Jordanian frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boiled over this week, as officials in Amman appeared to accuse him of endangering the region for political reasons and alleged that Israel had violated agreements with them.

At a press conference Thursday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi assailed “those who are toying with the region and its peoples’ right to live in peace for the sake of electoral and populist concerns… destroying the trust which is the basis for ending the conflict.”
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March 14, 2021 | 2:55 pm | 4 Comments »

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Progressives have no clue they are being brainwashed – daily.  

This is an email from Political Facts  [It is really worth the read]

Progressives have no clue they are being brainwashed – daily.

But the libs? They’re obsessed with Q.

They’re talking about Q in the chat rooms discussing how conservatives who never heard of Q are obsessed with Q.

YOU’VE JUST ENTERED THE LIBERAL ECHO CHAMBER!
So far I see Q-Anon as a neoliberal fantasy to which they hang the same way they hang on to the religion we know as global warming. That last was best pictured in the frozen wind turbines in Texas being defrosted by helicopters using carbon-based fuels to fly, carbon based fuels that manufactured both the copter and the wind turbines, and carbon-based defrosting fluids brought to the airport by trucks using carbon based fuels.

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March 14, 2021 | 7:24 am | 7 Comments »

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An Introduction to Q  

By Deborah Franklin, AM THINKER       January 14, 2020

Who is Q? What is Q? And, perhaps most importantly, why is Q?  Q and the ever-growing worldwide movement it’s inspired have been the objects of fascination, mockery and hatred, but of surprisingly little serious analysis.

Q first appeared in October 2017 on an anonymous online forum called 4Chan, posting messages that implied top-clearance knowledge of upcoming events. More than 3,000 messages later, Q has created a disturbing, multi-faceted portrait of a global crime syndicate that operates with impunity. Q’s followers in the QAnon community faithfully analyze every detail of Q’s drops, which are compiled here and here.
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March 14, 2021 | 6:35 am | 19 Comments »

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The Road to Perdition  

By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

We know communists and fascists began infiltrating our nation in the early twentieth century. We know they declared that our culture must be eradicated and our faith in God broken for a totalitarian socialist state to rise out of the ashes of a free republic. Who opened the door to this contagion and left it wide open? Who caused the plague to spread to a point where it has now infected the whole of our society and our culture, now unrecognizable to anyone over 50 years of age?

Our Constitution was God inspired to men of faith and like Scripture itself was supposed to be timeless, not a living document that changes with the times. God does not change. People don’t change, only societies that give license to people to become corrupt, depraved, and engage in their baser instincts.

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March 13, 2021 | 6:06 pm | 17 Comments »

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Russia and the New M.E. Part I: The USSR and the Old Middle East  

Parts II, III, IV and V to follow

By Ted Belman and Alex Maistrovoy

With the return to power by the Obama administration through their proxy Joe Biden, I worried that the Biden administration would carry on the policies of the previous two-term Obama administration that involved the embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey and Iran, all enemies of Israel.  On December 23, 2016 that administration underscored its animosity towards Israel by not vetoing the anti-Israel United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2334. Thus, the US could not be counted on to veto any anti-Israel Security Council resolution.

Regardless of any pro-Israel assurances uttered by the current administration, I believe that their policies are all detrimental to Israel.  They are once again seeking to revive the JCPOA and the two-state solution, both of which have been rejected by Israel. Though the Biden administration hasn’t rejected the Abraham Accords, their involvement in them and in the final negotiations with Saudi Arabia to join the Accords will co-opt the Arab states to once again back the two-state solution and other anti-Israel measures they intend taking.

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March 13, 2021 | 5:00 pm | 2 Comments »

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Minneapolis City Council agrees to pay $27 million to family of George Floyd  

By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

In what is claimed to be “the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. history,” the far left Minneapolis City Council has voted 13-to-0 to pay $27 million to the family of George Floyd. This happened as a jury is being seated in the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.  Floyd died of a drug overdose, according to the coroner, after Chauvin subdued him using a knee on his neck, as he was trained to do, when Floyd resisted arrest for passing a counterfeit $20 bill.

It is hard to see this massive payout to the family of a career criminal who resisted arrest and died of a drug overdose as anything other than an attempt by the progressives on the council to influence to the jury to convict Chauvin.

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March 13, 2021 | 4:27 pm | 2 Comments »

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Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel  

T. Belman. There are legitimate criticism of what is included as a Covid-19 death but there is no denying the excess death numbers. “Between March and November 2020 there were 36,149 deaths in Israel compared to an average of 32,889 deaths between of 2017 and 2019 in these months, with an excess of 3260 deaths.” We can legitimately ask how many of these deaths are attributable to Covid-19 and how many attributed to the lockdown (suicide and crime). And what would the excess have been without the lockdown? In other words, did the lockdown lower the excess death numbers and if so by how many?

READ ALSO: The Façade of the Covid Fraud

March–November 2020: when, where, and for whom?

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research volume 10, Article number: 17 (2021)

Total mortality rates for March–November were significantly higher by 6% in 2020, than the average of 2017–2019, 14% higher among the Arab population and 5% among Jews and Others. Significantly higher monthly mortality rates were found in August, September and October by 11%, 13% and 19%, respectively, among Jews and Others, and by 19%, 64% and 40% in the Arab population.

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March 13, 2021 | 2:44 pm | 7 Comments »

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Public diplomacy between the US and Iran is stuck  

By Ted Belman

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday:

“Diplomacy with Iran is ongoing, just not in a direct fashion at the moment. There are communications through the Europeans and through others that enable us to explain to the Iranians what our position is, with respect to the compliance-for-compliance approach,”

“We’re waiting, at this point, to hear further from the Iranians how they would like to proceed,”

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March 13, 2021 | 12:50 pm | 1 Comment »

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Arutz Sheva has published some great Op-eds today  

A crisis of Jewish leadership – politics trumps Jewish issues
Biden is never challenged by the media and a progressive Jewish establishment to whom liberal politics means more than Judaism.
By Matthew M Housman

Meghan Markle and the Jewish question
This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front, disloyalty and spite have moral worth.
By Melanie Phillips

Iran’s mullahs and the start of negotiations
The Biden administration has come under increasing and accelerating Iranian pressure in recent days. Will it give in?
By Dr. Salem AlKetbi

March 13, 2021 | 10:54 am | 1 Comment »

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Iran’s Plans For Jordan In The Biden Era Middle East: The Hassan Doctrine  

T. Belman. There is no way that Israel will allow Iran to take over Jordan. Look what Israel is doing to prevent Iran’s entrenchment in Syria. Even greater effort will be expended to prevent Iran from dominating Jordan

JaFaJ Intelligence Report March 10, 2021

CONCLUSION
King Abdullah’s regime and family have been in cahoots with Iran for almost two decades. During this time, Hashemite ties to the MB has been forged and grown stronger, blossoming into a full economic and social partnership. At the same time, the Hashemite regime’s antagonization of Saudi Arabia and UAE has grown stronger because both regimes are opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Stacey Abrams Pressuring Corporate America to Oppose Voter Integrity Laws  

BREITBART

Stacey Abrams, a far-left activist desperate to enshrine cheat-by-mail into law, is pressuring Big Business to speak out against a number of voter integrity laws making their way through the XXX Georgia legislature.

“There were businesses that were silent in the XXX election for whatever reason. But there should be no silence from the business community when anyone in power is trying to strip away the right to vote from the people,” Not-Governor Abrams said on a call Tuesday with two extreme-left organizations that XXX back cheat-by-mail. “There should be a hue and cry.”

Georgia in one of the states where His Fraudulency Joe Biden squeaked out a win in 2020, but only after voting laws were drastically changed to invite XXX widespread fraud, and not by the state legislature as required by the Constitution, but by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, who is widely seen as someone who caved to pressure from Stacey Abrams.

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March 12, 2021 | 11:28 am | Comments »

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Has Israel prevented itself from extending sovereignty  

Is Israel unable to promote the application of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria because of commitments that may have been made by Netanyahu as part of the Abraham agreements?

By Yoram Ettinger

This claim, which is heard mainly from senior members of Sa’ar’s New Hope party, is dismissed by the former Israeli ambassador in Washington, Yoram Ettinger, based on both the characteristics of democratic regimes and Israel-US relations in the past.

It has been suggested that the next Prime Minister of Israel will be proscribed from annexing parts of Judea and Samaria – for the next three years – due to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s personal commitment to President Trump to refrain from annexation.  This ostensible commitment was never ratified by Israel’s Legislature.

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March 12, 2021 | 11:26 am | 1 Comment »

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The Western cultural Stockholm Syndrome  

Are US leftists, so enamoured of the supposed victims of racism, creating an antisemitic Stockholm Syndrome of “domestic terrorists”?

By Howard Rotberg, INN

Hamas terrorists in Gaza

Hamas terrorists in Gaza – Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90

I spend a lot of time reading about and writing about worrisome cultural trends in what have traditionally been the liberal democracies of the West, including America, Canada, Australia, Israel and a weakening Europe.

I am saddened when I contemplate the extent to which our traditional free society has succumbed to:

  • an excessive tolerance of evil (which, in a book by the same name, I term “tolerism”);
  • a masochistic self-hatred, leading to threats to our fundamental liberties; and
  • ultimately a submission or surrender to what I call the Leftist-Islamist-Globalist alliance.

We make compromises in our freedoms to accommodate fascist collusion among leftist Democrats, big Tech censorship, our education and university systems, and media that blatantly ignores stories that challenge their bias.

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Jewish Woman Sees Numbers Tattooed on Uncle’s Arm;  

T. Belman.  Many thanks to Epoch Times for publishing this article pictures included.

on Hearing the Story Behind It, She’s Shocked

BY MICHAEL WING, EPOCH TIMES   March 2, 2021 

Epoch Times Photo
Joseph Sedacca and his family in a photo taken in the mid-80s in Queens, NY: (Top Row, Left to Right) Janice Clough, Joseph’s son David, Joseph Sedacca, his son Albert, Janice’s mother Ida (Sarah’s younger sister), and Joseph’s wife Sarah; (Bottom Left) Janice’s husband Ed; (Bottom Right) David’s then-wife Yvette (Courtesy of Janice Clough)

Joseph Sedacca’s own children could tell that their father wasn’t a normal man. Emotionally, they could see that there was something wrong with him.A Sephardic Jew born in Turkey in 1916, Joseph came to America after the second world war. He always seemed suspicious of others, as if threatened; he spoke very loudly and yelled often when his kids were young; his nieces and nephews, as children, were afraid of him.

Stories of Joseph were told around the dinner table over the years, of how he was in the concentration camps where Jews were sent to be exterminated by the Nazis. “Did he work in the ovens?” some pondered. It must have been horrifying, they knew.

Joseph’s niece Janice Clough (on his wife’s side) remembers that her uncle would wear long sleeves when he visited when she was young. Recalling a gathering years later, Joseph, wearing short sleeves, reached across the dinner table for matzah, and her young daughter saw the numbers “112594” tattooed on his forearm, and was curious about what it meant.

Thus began Janice’s inquiry into her uncle’s traumatic past.

PLEASE READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ON EPOCH TIMES.

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Evidence of Election Fraud & Foreign Election Interference  

TIERNEY NEWS

UPDATED 3/11/21 with a MUST READ SUMMARY from the Federalist on how the courts REFUSED to hear ANY election evidence on “technical” grounds: https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/11/courts-repeatedly-refused-to-consider-trumps-election-claims-on-the-merits/

UPDATED 2/5/21 with a CONFESSION from Time Magazine that the coup plotters in the Chamber of Commerce & the Koch Libertarian Party, the Communist Party & the AFL-CIO union leaders worked together to RIG the election for Biden to allegedly SAVE America! https://trendingpolitics.com/shock-time-magazine-article-admits-how-the-2020-election-was-rigged-against-president-trump/

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