COMMENTARY / OPINION
The Anti-Israel Sanctions Machine BY MICHAEL DORAN
In response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, the Biden-Harris administration assembled a team tasked with toppling Bibi
AUGUST 11, 2024 Tablet Magazine – President Biden recently achieved a historic first for which he has received no credit. He is the first president to form an interagency team dedicated to imposing sanctions on an ally, namely, Israel.
To be sure, the United States sanctioned allies on many occasions. Recent examples of this kind include sanctions designed to prevent Germany from completing the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, and sanctions on Turkish defense industries to penalize Ankara for its procurement of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system. These sanctions resulted from a specific action by an allied government that Washington sought to reverse.
But the sanctions against Israel are of a qualitatively different kind. The Biden administration has assembled an interagency team of targeteers tasked with finding individuals and groups to sanction—not to reverse a specific policy, but to weaken if not topple the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel Must Not Allow Hamas to Survive Gaza War by A.J. Caschetta
August 12, 2024 Special to IPT News – Chinese support for Hamas is no surprise. In December, the IDF discovered massive caches of Chinese weapons in Gaza. In 2014, the IDF disclosed that an enormous Chinese-made tunneling machine with 40 inch blades was used to dig Hamas’s underground city.
China has been hosting “unity talks” between Hamas and Fatah since April. In June, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Webin announced that China supports “all Palestinian factions in achieving reconciliation and increasing solidarity through dialogue and consultation.” On July 23 came the announcement that Chinese diplomacy had culminated in the Beijing Declaration, an agreement to form an “interim national reconciliation government” allowing Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations to survive in the light of day as partners in a government.
The Biden administration’s plan for Hamas’s survival, on the other hand, is more subtle.
Rebuilding Trust…and other recent thoughts Chananya Weissman | chananyaweissman.com/
August 11, 2024 – When a critical mass of people stopped taking the poison shots, and the monsters who rule over us had to “discover” that they weren’t so safe and effective after all to save face, there was no accountability. No heads rolled. The same monsters who poisoned us still rule over us.
What was the message? The “healthcare” system needed to rebuild trust. Their main concern was that the sheep continue to trust them, and keep turning to them to keep them healthy and safe, so the sheep could continue to be easy prey.
In the aftermath of the coordinated mini-Holocaust that everyone near the top of the power structure had to know about, there was no accountability. No heads rolled. The same monsters who allowed thousands of Jews to be brutally maimed, tortured, killed, and hauled off to captivity to advance the Amalek agenda still rule over us. They even get to lead our people into “war”.
When a critical mass of people started to wake up ever so slightly, the monsters who rule over us had to admit that “mistakes were made”. But their main concern, once again, was about rebuilding trust in the IDF, so the sheep would continue to follow their instructions and count on the monsters to keep them safe…so they could continue to be easy prey.
It’s always the same playbook.
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I’m sure this keeps him up at night.
The snake also looks back and wonders if he could have done things that would have prevented them from eating the forbidden fruit.
And the people who tortured a false confession out of Amiram Ben Uliel wonder if there’s anything they could have done that would have prevented it.
And the Germans…never mind, you get the point.
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American Jews: “It’s perfectly safe here. Don’t believe the news.”
American Jews believe the news 100% about every other narrative.
Make it make sense.
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Whatever they refer to as “Iron Dome” is taking out more people than it ever took out missiles.
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The vast majority of Jews outside Israel have a galus mentality, and the vast majority of Jews inside Israel were born with Stockholm Syndrome. If you want to reduce complex problems to the bare essentials, you can’t do much better than that.
“Judicial Reforms Led to October 7 Massacre”– Historian Gadi Taub [13:09]
Aug 9, 2024 – Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, author, and commentator known for his work in political and cultural criticism. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University and is a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications and Journalism.
He has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, exploring themes of Israeli identity, politics, and culture. Notable titles include “The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism” and “The Valley of the Cross,” a novel.
Taub is a prominent voice in Israeli media, known for his critical views on various aspects of Israeli society and politics. He has written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the role of religion in Israeli politics, and the country’s democratic challenges. Besides his academic work, Taub is a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, and television programs in Israel, providing analysis and commentary on current events and political developments.
He is known for his outspoken and sometimes controversial opinions. He has been critical of the Israeli left, the settlement movement, and certain aspects of liberalism, often sparking debate and discussion within Israeli society and beyond.
CHAPTER 31: Marxism, Gnosticism, and Transgenderism by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is
August 11, 2024
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
If “liberation is a destructive lie,” as James Lindsay stated at the end of Chapter 30, what is the truth? Lindsay offers an incisive analysis in this summary of The New Discourses Podcast, Ep. 61, The Gnostic Temptation:[i]
Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It’s not because Gnostics go around telling people they’re wrong. It’s because they go around telling people they’re limited. Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or whatever, aren’t wrong; they’re low-level. The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you’re into than you do, and they explain their superiority as being “liberated” from the limitations “THEY” (your teachers, pastors, etc.) are placing upon your knowledge. They don’t want you to know these secrets, but we do. That’s the Gnostic temptation.
So, “liberation” is presented as transcending one’s mortal limitations, including one’s own physical body. Understanding the gnostic roots of transgenderism is essential for understanding Marxist political exploitation and its implications for the modern trans movements. One of Gnosticism’s core beliefs is its dualistic worldview. Adam Drakos’s January 17, 2022, article on Thinking West, “The Gnostic Roots of the Trans Movement,”[ii] explains the importance of understanding this duality:
Olympics Pres: We Would Screen Out Men if Science Could Tell Men and Women Apart [VIDEO] By Michael Austin
August 10, 2024 at 9:03am – Science has a foolproof way of telling you whether someone is a man or woman — chromosomes.
If they’re XY, you’re looking at a guy.
Apparently, that memo didn’t make its way over to the office of the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, because he seemed to be a little more confused on the subject in recent comments.
The comments came in response to Bach being pressed by a reporter on the female boxing controversy currently dominating Olympic discourse.
The two finalists in the women’s boxing final, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, failed a chromosome test last year, according to the International Boxing Association.
By implication, that suggests both tested positive for XY chromosomes, making them male. However, the credibility of the IBA has been called into question.
Some media outlets have reported that Khelif suffers from an incredibly rare medical condition known as “Differences of Sex Development.”
The Cleveland Clinic defines DSD as “conditions where a person’s reproductive organs and genitals are ‘mismatched’ at birth. Examples include male chromosomes (XY) and genitalia that appears female (vulva) or female chromosomes (XX) and genitalia that appears male (penis). Some people with DSDs have characteristics of both sexes.”
But if it is true that Khelif has DSD, that still doesn’t answer the question. As far as we know, the boxer could be a male with DSD.
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Victor Davis Hanson Discusses the Controversies Surrounding Tim Walz and Offers Advice to the Trump Campaign (VIDEO 22:20) By Mike Lachance
Aug. 10, 2024 10:00 pm – Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson recently spoke to podcaster Tony Kinnett and offered some of his sober analysis on the introduction of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the 2024 race.
Hanson touched on Walz’s record as a far left governor and the questions swirling around his military record.
Hanson also had some advice for the Trump campaign on the messages Trump should focus on and hammer each day as he speaks to voters across the country.
Partial transcript via The Daily Signal:
Hanson: Yeah. So, when she picked Walz, there was no traditional, no unusual, no eccentric reason why he would be picked. Minnesota’s going to go blue. He doesn’t bring the Electoral College to that. He’s not well known. Seventy percent of the people have no idea who he is. He was not vetted.
And so, almost immediately, it took all the attention off what Trump had said, or his campaign was plateauing, and it put it on both his hard-left record, basically greenlighting for four days rioting in Minnesota, the tampons for boys’ restrooms, open borders, illegal alien subsidies, canceling pipeline—I mean, it was more extreme than hers.
And then, personally, all these things started to come out and he kind of asked for it. His first introduction to the American people, he said, he mentioned the completely refuted lie and smear about the couch. And he said, “Couch,” and then he turned to Kamala Harris and he said, “How’d you like that?” Well, she kind of even, “How do you like me lying about the vice president?” It didn’t work.
This is part of what he said about the Trump campaign:
Just focus on, they have nominated two neo-Marxists who are openly proud of what they have done. Here’s the record, here’s what I did in the past, here’s what I’ll do in the future. You couldn’t have a starker choice. And if he does that, he’s got about 88 days to do it, he will win. He still has time.
I mean, in 1988, the Republicans got a similar gift. All of a sudden they nominated Mike Dukakis and he knew his problem because he was from Massachusetts. So he said, “It’s not about ideology. I’ve never been … Competence, I’m more competent than Bush. It’s all about what I’ve done.” And he left the Aug. 1 convention 17 points ahead, and the Bush campaign went into panic. And they asked [Ronald] Reagan and Reagan said, “You know what? It’s bad. I don’t know what I can do to help you.”
You can watch the whole thing here
It’s fascinating to hear the part where Hanson talks about how wrong the polls have been in past elections. This year may be one of those cases. Polls showing strong support for Harris are difficult to believe.
Just my two cents [3:22] Estee Palti
Jul 19, 2024 – Just my humble opinion
Waiting for the Apocalypse: Have Iran/Hezbollah Gotten Cold Feet? [32:42] Ruthie Blum and Ambassador Mark Regev
Aug 8, 2024 JNS TV – How many Israelis need to be massacred to lend the Israel Defense Forces legitimacy to take action?
This question has been front and center as Jerusalem decides whether to strike Iran and Hezbollah first or to wait for Tehran to launch its assault.
While many Israelis insist that a wider war is necessary to neutralize the Iranian-led threat, some are saying that realism must prevail over idealism.
Chapters:
0:00 Preparing for battle
3:00 What are Israel’s goals?
8:30 Going on the offensive
12:30 Deterrence
21:00 Gaza goals
27:00 Realism Vs. Idealism
The Coming Kamala Calamity & Israel [59:41] Caroline Glick
Aug 7, 2024 JNS TV – Prepare to be rattled by the harsh realities Israel must confront to emerge victorious from the current crisis.
American foreign policy specialist David Wurmser joins “The Caroline Glick Show” today for a full 360-degree assessment of the threats facing the United States and Israel across the globe.
Together with JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick, Wurmser examines what a Harris/Walz victory could look like and how the Jewish state should strategize for possible outcomes.
Chapters
0:00 Kamala’s VP choice
5:45 American deployment in the Middle East
9:20 Implications for the U.S.
15:30 What happens if Kamala wins
17:50 Why isn’t Israel preemptive attacking?
24:40 Lessons from Haniyeh assassination/deterrence
36:00 Realistic strategy for Israel
43:30 Looking at Egypt
56:00 Strategic environment today (Iran)
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jp7MORoeoU
It’s time to end Israel’s nuclear ambiguity Prof. Louis René Beres
Listening to Iran’s repeated threats to initiate aggressive war with Israel, something seems to have been overlooked: Israel is a nuclear power; Iran is not. Opinion.
Aug 7, 2024, 10:45 AM (GMT+3)
Synopsis: Israel’s political leaders and military strategists should plan for an immediate end to “deliberate nuclear ambiguity.” This is because still non–nuclear Iran (1) is loudly broadcasting its willingness to re-start and enlarge active hostilities against Israel, and (2) is apt to miscalculate and overestimate its actual capacity for “escalation dominance.” Though Iran would surely suffer the greater harms if Israel were left no rational intra-war choice but to “go nuclear,” the more powerful Jewish State could still suffer the egregious consequences of Iranian “hubris.”
In full:
Listening to Iran’s repeated threats to initiate aggressive war with Israel, something seems to have been overlooked: Israel is a nuclear power; Iran is not.
It follows that Iran is hardly in a credible strategic position to make such threats. After all, any actual follow-through on these arguably incoherent threats could produce potentially unendurable Iranian losses.
What is going on here?
Why such an ironic disconnect between relative national power capacities and the country issuing existential threats? Prima facie, in any direct and protracted war with Iran, only Israel would be in a position of “escalation dominance.”
The factor that could substantially change such Israeli superiority would be direct North Korean military involvement. This is because Iran’s belligerent ally in Pyongyang is “already nuclear” and because Israel is a “fifty target state.” In short, Israel is a geographically small adversary with no meaningful strategic depth. Absent a recognizable nuclear advantage, this is anything but an enviable survival position for an imperiled nation.
The remedy, for Israel, should be an immediate policy shift from “deliberate nuclear ambiguity” (Amimut in Hebrew) to “selective nuclear disclosure.
Guess Who’s Paying For The Anti-Israel Protests? [5:37] Mark Levin
The Islamo-Nazi regime in Tehran has been funding the anti-Israel protests around the globe. Why is the administration continuing to fund Iran? Joe Biden is the most anti-Israel President. Obama comes in a close second. While Israeli- and American- hostages remain in Gaza, many Jewish Americans are seeing certain Democrats for what they really are– Marxist, Islamist, anti-Semites.
