Less than 3% of serious COVID cases are fully vaccinated, proving effectiveness  

Only 175 of the 6,095 coronavirus patients hospitalized in serious or critical condition since the start of Israel’s vaccination campaign have received a second shot

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Less than three percent of all seriously ill COVID-19 patients in Israel have been fully vaccinated, according to Health Ministry figures released Sunday, in the latest figures proving the success of coronavirus vaccines,

Of the 6,095 coronavirus patients hospitalized in serious or critical condition since the start of Israel’s vaccination campaign, only 175, or 2.87 percent, had received the second vaccination dose, the figures show.  Read more…

March 7, 2021 | 3:16 pm | 5 Comments »

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Middle East Peace Abandoned by Biden  

The new administration’s actions have served to undermine the accords by removing their American foundations.
Iraq Releasing Billions in Iranian Frozen Assets with US Approval

By Caroline Glick

The Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official involved in the efforts. The official divulged that the negotiations between Israel and the world’s most populous Muslim state were run by then-President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and Adam Boehler, then-head of the International Development Finance Corporation.

Israel was represented by then-Ambassador Ron Dermer and Indonesia by Minister Mohamed Lutfi. To secure peace, Boehler told Bloomberg News last December, the United States would be willing to provide Indonesia with an additional “one or two billion dollars” in aid. Indonesia was interested in Israeli technology and even wanted the Technion to open a campus in Jakarta. It wanted visa-free travel to the Jewish state and Arab and U.S. investment in its sovereign wealth fund. Israel wanted Indonesia to end its economic boycott of the Jewish state. Direct flights from Tel Aviv to Bali were on the table.

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March 7, 2021 | 1:03 pm | Comments »

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Decertification begins  

GA STATE SENATE COMMITTEE recommends decertifying GA Electors

The Georgia Senate Committee released its report on the election irregularities and quite possibly fraudulent activity when it came to counting the votes. They had listened to witnesses telling what they saw and other evidence that shakes people’s ability to trust the election report. They voted to rescind their certification.

Georgia had over 16,000 more absentee ballots than they counted on election night. Just enough extra votes to put Biden in the lead by about 12,000 votes. In Fulton County, they threw the Republicans and the press out because they said they were done counting for the night. As soon as the coast was clear, they pulled out suitcases full of votes.

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March 7, 2021 | 1:46 am | 3 Comments »

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Iran is Blamed Of Eco-Terrorism As Oil Washes Up On Israeli Beaches  

By Ariel Cohen, FORBES

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The Israeli government is accusing Iran of environmental terrorism over the historic oil disaster unfolding along its Mediterranean coast line. At this point, nearly 100 tons of tar and contaminated material have been scraped off the country’s shores since cleanup efforts began on the 21st of February. XXX In the ensuing investigation the original culprit has since been identified by authorities as a pirate-owned Libyan oil tanker carrying stolen cargo from Iran to Syria.
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March 6, 2021 | 11:09 am | 1 Comment »

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The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority  

The notion that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the paranoid suspicions of the anti-Semite that the Jews are slippery customers who change their shape at will and thus hide in plain sight.

By  Melanie Phillips

A row over anti-Semitism that has erupted in Britain illuminates the problem that bedevils so many in the West over their understanding of what Judaism actually is.

The controversy started with a tweet by the Labour Party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, congratulating the new head of the Scottish Labour Party, Anas Sarwar, on his appointment. Rayner described Sarwar, who is of Pakistani descent, as “the first-ever ethnic minority leader of a political party anywhere in the UK.”

Sarwar is certainly the first Muslim or Asian leader of a political party. But there have been four Jewish party leaders in the United Kingdom – from Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the 19th century to Labour Party leader Ed Miliband in the last decade.
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March 6, 2021 | 2:36 am | 23 Comments »

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Gantz: IDF updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites  

T. Belman.  Gantz gave a few messages namely 1.  100,000 missiles, 2. Civilian areas and 3 prepared to act unilaterally.

If the world doesn’t stop Iran, we must defend ourselves by ourselves.\

By Elad Benari, INN

Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Fox News in an interview on Thursday that the IDF is updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites and is prepared to act independently.

Israel has identified numerous targets inside Iran that would hurt its ability to develop a nuclear bomb, he said.

“If the world stops them before, it’s very much good. But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves,” Gantz added in his first sit-down interview with an American outlet.

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March 5, 2021 | 8:29 pm | Comments »

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Middle East peace abandoned by Biden  

The Biden administration’s actions have served to undermine the accords by removing their American foundations. It is the most ideologically rigid and radical administration in US history.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

Biden abandons Middle East peace

US President Joe Biden | File photo: AP/Alex Brandon

The Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official involved in the efforts. The official divulged that the negotiations between Israel and the world’s most populous Muslim state were run by then-President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and Adam Boehler, then-head of the US’s International Development Finance Corporation.

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March 5, 2021 | 3:41 pm | 1 Comment »

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The US Confers Legitimacy on the Palestinian Authority and Hamas – Toward a Palestinian State?  

T. Belman.  My advise to Israel is not to open the door for the Biden administration.  They don’t have your best interest at heart.  They are fronting for all leftwing Jewish organizations like J Street and the Reform Movement and others who want to force Israel to accept a two state solution. They also have there own agenda which is to weaken Israel and strengthen Iran.

Israel is an strong independent country and should act like it. They don’t need America to intercede in their relationship with the Palestinians or with the Gulf States.  Biden will just screw it up.

By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, BESA    March 5, 2021

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,949,

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Since taking office, the Biden administration has been in direct contact with Palestinian Authority leaders, encouraged and assisted by Israeli leftists who want to bring a Palestinian state into existence as quickly as possible. The Israeli government is not in the picture except in one regard: the administration is pressuring PM Netanyahu to enable Palestinian elections not only in the West Bank and Gaza but also in East Jerusalem, which would prove to the world that Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is no longer valid.

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March 5, 2021 | 2:45 pm | Comments »

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In Search of a Miracle   

Why start from scratch when you can stand on the shoulders of giants? 

EPOCH TIMES

Konstantin Levin
Konstantin Levin in Anna Karenina (2012 film)

Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever.  Aside from being a novel about betrayal, faith, family and marriage, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is also a story about one man’s search for meaning in a complicated world.

Konstantin Levin, the story’s second main character, spends a large portion of the novel trying to figure out how his wife Kitty could believe in a higher power he’s never seen any signs of.
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March 5, 2021 | 2:12 pm | 4 Comments »

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Harvard Law School and The New McCarthyism  

by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE IONSTITUTE  •  March 5, 2021

  • This self-serving defense of censorship is intended to convey a crass economic threat: if you want to get a good job after law school, make sure that Harvard bans teachers and speakers who are trying to “rehabilitate their reputations and obscure the stain of their complicity in the Trump administration….”

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March 5, 2021 | 1:59 pm | Comments »

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A Gulf-Israel defense alliance will end the Israel-Palestinian conflict and confront Iran  

T. Belman. The pact between Israel and the Gulf states is well on its way. The US is powerless to stop it or redirect it.  The US is now a bystander.  If they want to be a player they have to help not prevent. Gantz has given notice to the world that Israel is ready to destroy Hezbollah and its missiles and to set back the Iranian nuclear project. Israel can’t wait much longer.

A Safe Israel is necessary for a safe Sunni bloc

By Gregg Roman, MEFORUM Mar 04 , 2021 
The Arab Gulf States

The Arab Gulf States

The historic narrative of the Israel-Arab conflict has been that the region and the wider Arab and Muslim world will not countenance the existence of the Jewish State, and has tried on many occasions in the past to extinguish it.

A recent report suggesting that Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are exploring the possibility of creating a four-nation defense alliance has potentially game-changing ramifications.

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March 5, 2021 | 9:32 am | 9 Comments »

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Right wing projected at 62 seats.  

Naftali Bennett is on a roll.

By Ted Belman

Yamina now leads  MK Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party, and is  projected to become the third largest party in the Knesset, according to a new poll released Thursday.

The poll  found that if new elections were held today, the Likud would win 29 seats, down from 31 in the previous Direct Polls survey, which was published in early February.

Yamina gained 2 seats going from 11 to 13 .
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March 5, 2021 | 9:03 am | 18 Comments »

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Jew-Hatred in Education  

By BROOKE GOLDSTEIN Founder and Executive Director, THE LAWFARE PROJECT   3/4/21 One of our most sacred responsibilities as parents is to make sure our children receive a proper education. When we place our kids in the state’s care for eight hours per day, we hope and expect they will come home with more knowledge than they had before leaving the house in the morning. And while we want that information to increase their chances of succeeding in the world, we also want them to come home kinder and more open-minded.

We don’t want them to come home hating Jews. Yet, with California’s ethnic studies model curriculum, that’s a real risk.

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March 5, 2021 | 8:54 am | Comments »

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US to rejoin UNCHR  

By Nitsana Darshan Leitner,

It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. This is especially true concerning the wishful thinking in the moral divide of international affairs. One month into his administration, President Joe Biden’s foreign policy team is about to embark on a measure of what is pure political insanity by rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council—a decision that contradicts everything that the United States is supposed to stand for.
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March 5, 2021 | 1:13 am | Comments »

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