By Victor Rosenthal

Israel’s Supreme Court decided a few days ago that conversions to Judaism by the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel must be recognized by the state for the purposes of the Law of Return. Until now, the state has somewhat illogically recognized non-Orthodox conversions done outside of the country, but has not accepted those that took place here.

Despite what many of us think about the Court, it did not make this decision out of rampant leftism and desire to destroy Judaism. In fact, the justices probably would have preferred not to have to take up this issue, which is the hottest potato in Israeli politics.
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By Patricia McCarthy, AM THINKER

[…] Bierce’s little parable describes our plight in the face of the tsunami of leftist abrogation of our Constitution since they illicitly took power.  Not even their mouthpieces in the media believe that Biden won the election fair and square.  That is why they protest so hysterically when anyone states the obvious.  That is why there are seven or eight thousand National Guard troops stationed as props around the Capitol in D.C.  As Devin Nunes remarked, it is a Hollywood production, all for show, a pseudo-event meant to send a particular message: we are running the show now.  You will do as we say, and you’ll like it.

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By Ted Belman

As you know, the ICC is getting ready to open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israeli officials.

The probe will deal with the armed conflict of the summer of 2014, but notably excludes any investigation of the murder of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian terrorists that started the escalation.

According to the TOI,
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By Ted Belman

Arutz Sheva published an article by Nitsan Keidar in which he commented on the change of tone of the State Department.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price spoke to reporters on Monday, with his answers to reporters’ questions clarifying the change between the positions of the Trump administration and those of President Joe Biden.

Biden’s State Department is driven by the desire to not support anything that Trump did domestically or internationally.

Price noted that “the United States opposes any action taken by Israel which may make it difficult to reach a two-state solution.”

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Tierney’s News (3/03/21)

T. Belman.  Erich Fromm, in his seminal book, Escape from Freedom, postulated that the masses preferred serfdom to freedom as freedom required responsibility and choices. This book was also republished under the title Fear of Freedom. Fromm was greatly influenced by both Freud and Marx. Apparently, according to him, people prefer to be taken care of rather then to have to fend for themselves.  If that involved the loss of freedom or rights, which it does, so be it.

Obviously not everyone wants that trade off.

Communist societies herald collectivism as the way forward as opposed to individualism. Under the former, everything is done for the collective as opposed to the individual.  Jabotinsky wrote a paper Individual v Socialism.  (Sorry, I couldn’t find a link for it.) in which he condemns socialism and noted that the Jews are far better off as individuals.

Washington — March 3, 2021 — Authoritarian actors grew bolder during 2020 as major democracies turned inward, contributing to the 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, according to Freedom in the World 2021, the annual country-by-country assessment of political rights and civil liberties released today by Freedom House.

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Dying WITH Covid and dying FROM Covid are two entirely different things.

By Dennis McGowan, AM THINKER

I’ve had enough.  The media continues to report what they consider the death toll from the Wuhan Virus, despite the fact that it is fiction and defies basic tenets of scientific integrity.  Back in October Senator Hirono repeated, again, the “over 200,000” deaths statistic.  This is a lie.  I’ll explain why, but first let me tell you what qualifies me to know it’s a lie.

From 1964 to 1970, in High School and College, I worked as an autopsy assistant at St. Vincent’s Hospital on 12^th Street in New York City, a few blocks from my own address on 14^th.  After getting married and moving a few times I went to work in the Medical Examiner’s Office in Freehold, NJ both as a tech and an in-house investigator dealing with forensic cases.  From there I went to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Newark supervising several disciplines.  Finally, in 1992 I was hired as the Chief Investigator for the Medical Examiner’s Office in Fulton County, Georgia, in the city of Atlanta.  Along the way I taught many classes in death investigation and served in several posts within the Federal team that responded to mass fatalities.

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By STUART WINER, TOI 2 March 2021, 

A technician collects nasal swab samples for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at the Ben-Gurion International Airport on February 28, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

The number of deaths in the country rose by 7 percent during 2020 compared to the years 2017-2019, taking into consideration population growth, the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies said in its report. However, considering the fact that the figures had been expected to decrease without the virus spread, the mortality rate actually rose by about 10%, according to study author Prof. Alex Weinreb.

“Although this is a significant increase, it is lower than the increase in other countries,” the statement said. It highlighted the situation in the United States, where mortality has gone up by 18%.

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By Ted Belman

So said United Torah Judaism Yitzhak Pindrus, speaking Monday on a panel at a conference organized by the ITIM organization and Kipa website, when discussing  the case of the daughter of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother who converts under the military’s auspices. He later apologized.

The army’s Nativ program, founded in 2001, is the only state-recognized conversion system in the country not controlled by the Chief Rabbinate. Hundreds of soldiers, most of them non-Jewish immigrants or descendants of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, enter the army’s conversion system each year.

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An entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of more than $136 billion, Bill Gates founded Microsoft and technology; is deeply involved with the World Health Organization, which encompasses the world economy and world peace; the international Planned Parenthood Foundation, focusing on eugenics and population control; and the many facets of academia, all without the corresponding educational background. He is now prepared to control our food supply, the climate, and shoot for the sun.   

by Tabitha Korol

Bill Gates is one of several non-academics who, notwithstanding, has been permitted to implement major changes in our education system in preparation for a federal takeover.  Promoted by President Obama’s administration, the schools now communicate a radical political ideology to produce workers for a global economy.  Had their intentions been honorable, they might well have reverted back to the older textbooks when the overhaul proved to be less than stellar, but it was progressing precisely according to plan.

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By Ted Belman

Kisti Noem said in her speech at CPAC that as Governor of  North Dakota, she never mandated masks or social distancing or closed business and her citizens were not the worse for wear.

Now many states are following her trail blazing.

Texas Governor says statewide mask mandate ends March 10th & all businesses can reopen at 100% …

By Ted Belman

The US “encourages” Israel to avoid unilateral steps that “exacerbate tensions and make it difficult to preserve the viability of a two-state solution,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday.

He went on to say “We intend to provide assistance that will benefit all Palestinians, including refugees. We are in the process of determining how to move forward on resuming all forms of that assistance consistent with US law,” and he also indicated that the Biden administration wants to craft a peace deal with Saudi Arabia and take the credit for it.  Pompeo said it was in the bag.

Biden, no doubt will screw it up.

Read about it on Israel Hayom.

By Ted Belman

It has been my opinion for years that the globalists want the the Arabs and the Jews to war for ever.  That’s why it had lasted for a century.  Perpetual conflict suited their purposes.  Trump made short shrift of that by negotiating the Abrahamic Accords.

You would think these Accords were like motherhood and apple pie. Who could not like them?

Now that the globalists are back in power, they are  showing their distain for motherhood and apple pie and the Accords.

Former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo just delivered a speech at the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement in which he pointed his finger at certain US and European officials who opposed progress on the Accords and the Palestinians who only benefit from perpetual conflict.

Read all about it here.

And here

By Ted Belman

A class action lawsuit being set up under the aegis of thousands of lawyers worldwide behind the American-German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich, who is prosecuting those responsible for the Covid-19 scandal manipulated by the Davos Forum. Crimes against humanity are being alleged.

Therefore, an international network of business lawyers will plead the biggest tort case of all time, the Covid-19 fraud scandal, which has meanwhile turned into the biggest crime against humanity ever committed.

A Covid-19 commission of enquiry has been set up on the initiative of a group of German lawyers with the aim of bringing an international class action lawsuit using Anglo-Saxon law. Here is the summarized translation of the last communication of Dr. Fuellmich of 15/02/2021

“The hearings of around 100 internationally renowned scientists, doctors, economists and lawyers, which have been conducted by the Berlin Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 affair since 10.07.2020, have in the meantime shown with a probability close to certainty that the Covid- 19 scandal was at no time a health issue. Rather, it was about solidifying the illegitimate power (illegitimate because it was obtained by criminal methods) of the corrupt “Davos clique” by transferring the wealth of the people to the members of the Davos clique, destroying, among other things, small and medium-sized enterprises in particular. Platforms such as Amazon, Google, Uber, etc. could thus appropriate their market share and wealth.”

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By Ted Belman

The Times of Israel published an excellent article discussing the decision. The NYT also weighed in.

Aryeh Deri, who heads the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said this decision constitutes “a mortal blow to the Jewish character of the state” and the “complete demolition of the status quo [on religious affairs in Israel] that has been upheld for over 70 years.”. This decision will reverberate in the current elections. Both UTJ and Shas have vowed not to serve in a coalition that doesn’t commit to reversing this decision.

This ruling only applies to conversions in Israel. A previous court decision forced the state to recognize non-Orthodox conversions abroad for purposes of immigration, but not those performed in the country.

Emigrate to Israel through the Law of Return, makes you an Israeli citizen but not a Jew.

What say you?

TFI GLOBAL Feb 25/21

By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA March 1, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi creates a fundamental challenge to the kingdom’s geopolitical ambitions.

The options available to Saudi Arabia (and the United Arab Emirates) are limited by the fact that they cannot fully replace the United States as a mainstay of their defense as well as their quest for regional hegemony, even if the report revives perceptions of the United States as unreliable and at odds with their policies.

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Biden’s recalibration of Saudi Arabian ties betokens disaster for the US and the west

By Melanie Phillips

President Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Kremlin, 2017

America’s former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has denounced as a “reckless” move and “political stunt” the Biden administration’s release at the weekend of a declassified report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence implicating the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, in the killing of the Saudi writer, Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

The release was also, on the face of it, a perplexing move. After all, the report is not only three years old but is a mere four pages long, with a lot of white space and a proportion devoted merely to a list of names of those it says were involved in the Khashoggi killing. To call it a report is to dignify what is in reality no more than a cursory note.

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