COMMENTARY / OPINION
Ezri ToBe responds to President Biden for his libel against the Jewish settlers of Judea and Samaria [2:52]
December 18, 2023
[Ed.: There are no “innocent Palestinian civilians” and are are no “violent settlers in Judea and Samaria”. This is Obamas’ doublespeak blood libel fed to Biden.]
Rising from the ruins of a generation of failed Israeli security doctrine Caroline Glick
It will take years to correct the damage the generals wrought by reducing the size of the IDF and inducing its total dependence on the United States. Opinion.
Dec 23, 2023, 6:00 PM (GMT+2) – Caroline B. Glickis the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship.
(JNS) Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains, rather than brawn, would rule the roost.
The primary author of the “small and smart IDF” doctrine was Ehud Barak, who served as Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces when the Berlin Wall crumbled. In later years, the slogan was finessed.
A generation of IDF Chiefs of General Staff organized around the vision of a “small, technological and lethal army.”
As Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, (retired) who served as the IDF ombudsman for ten years, has documented, operating under the spell of Barak’s doctrine, the IDF shut down multiple reserve divisions. It cut its artillery forces by 50%. Armored brigades were shut down. The reserve force was reduced by 80% between 2003 and 2017. The non-commissioned officer corps was gutted. The bulk of the IDF budget and nearly all the U.S. military aid were diverted to the Air Force—the strategic arm of the “small, technological and lethal” IDF.
The doctrine was repeatedly exposed as a farce. But to no avail. The air force didn’t defeat the Palestinian Arab terror factories in Judea and Samaria in 2002. The ground forces did. The air force never had a response to missiles from Hezbollah to the north and Hamas to the south. Without regional brigades defending the borders, Israel’s “peacetime” borders with Jordan on the east and Egypt at its west became highways for weapons smugglers
Tucker Carlson Visits Julian Assange [5:43] Tucker Carlson
December 22, 2023 – Tucker visits Julian Assange at the infamous Belmarsh prison.
The Great Taking – Documentary [1:11:56]
David Webb exposes the system the Central Bankers have in place to take everything from everyone.
Israel Iran War is (Terrifyingly) Inevitable The Tom Nash Report
0:00 – Introduction, 0:09 – Israel’s next war, 0:45 – Introduction to the larger geopolitical chess game, 1:07 – Iran’s goals for regional dominance, 2:00 – Shift in US policy with the Trump administration, 4:00 – The proposed EU-Israel-Saudi Arabia-India economic corridor, 5:02 – Iran’s response to geopolitical shifts, 6:26 – The ‘Ring of Fire’ strategy against Israel, 7:17 – US announcement of the economic corridor, 8:01 – Iran’s potential strategies against Israel, 9:00 – Discussion of the situation in Gaza, 10:00 – Prediction of a larger conflict involving Iran, 12:17 – Likelihood of direct conflict between Israel and Iran, 13:05 – The role of Hamas in regional dynamics, 14:00 – US and Iranian interests in delaying conflict, 15:18 – Conclusion
“I was wrong about Trump.” TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 23, 2023 – This op-ed ran in the American Thinker and got virtually no play. It should have. It was the most read and shared article of the year on my website so I thought I would post it again. It’s a must read.
I know many people who say the exact same things about President Trump. I am glad M.B. Mathews had the courage to be open-minded and admit he was wrong!
I was wrong about Trump By M.B. Mathews
I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable.
Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them — until I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein’s speech titled “Trump’s virtues.”
It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump’s character and his virtues, the former being deeply flawed, the latter being almost perfect.
I need to man up in my defense of the former President’s virtues. The speech was among the most pointed I have heard and deserves some exposure. Klingenstein says:
Other Republicans say some version of: “I like Trump policies but I don’t like the rest of him.”
This gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the ‘rest of him’ that contains the virtue that inspires the movement… Trump was born for the current crisis, a life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call woke communism… that controls all the cultural and economic powers in America…
Trump revealed, not caused, the divide in this country.
In war, you must make a stand…
Trump is a manly man… traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential… Trump plays to win… There are no clean hands in a fistfight…Trump is unreservedly, unquestionably pro-America… Trump is a refreshing break from the guilt and self-loathing that marks our age…
It is [the left’s] anti-Americanism that makes so many of us very angry: The Left have trashed America’s Founding and her history to the point where some believe it virtuous to hate America. Rather than advocating forgiveness for sins, the Left are advocating hair shirts, self-flagellation, and perpetual guilt. It is un-American and certainly un-Christian.
Victor Davis Hanson on Colorado Supreme Court Trump Ballot Ruling: ‘Does the Left See Where it is Taking the Country?’ By Mike Lachance
Dec. 22, 2023 9:10 pm – Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson has weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot in a new column that poses some very important questions.
Hanson reminds readers that Kamala Harris supported the riots of 2020 and that Chuck Schumer threatened two justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and asks if those acts qualify as forms of insurrection.
He also wonders if the left realizes where all of this is taking the country.
Hanson writes at American Greatness:
Trump Derangement Syndrome became Orwellian with the recent ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court.
It approved the erasure of Trump from the Republican primary ballot in Colorado, by invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
That ossified clause was intended to bar any ante-bellum federal officials who joined the Confederacy from again holding federal offices after 1865.
Hanson compares the left’s outrage about January 6th to the BLM riots:
