COMMENTARY / OPINION
Israel Needs a War with Lebanon: Historian Gadi Taub [42:58]
Jul 29, 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.
He is co-host of the / @israelupdate-
Israel Update is a video podcast hosted by Israeli historian and political commentator Gadi Taub and Michael Doran. The show offers news from the ground as well as an unparalleled insider perspective on the war.
This interview was conducted by Pamela Paresky.
00:00 The Need for a Clear Israeli Victory 01:28 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as the First Israeli-Iranian War 02:27 The Threat Posed by Iran and the Importance of Bold Actions 03:26 The Failure of the Two-State Solution and the Role of the Palestinian Authority 05:24 Recognizing the War Between Civilization and Barbarism 19:52 What is the case for rejecting two state solution 35:00 north Gaza should be annexed 38:20 Palestine Authority will be next war
Are the 2024 Olympics a trial run for a 1984 Digital State? ASHMEDAI
First person report of QR Codes, Digital ID’s and police militarization of Paris
JUL 28, 2024 – This is a guest post from a friend who is on the ground in Paris reporting what the situation is like.
The best way to begin might be to say that there are three distinct categories of Olympic games sites that the City of Paris wants to make ultra-safe for visitors and athletes, each with its own unique security challenges.
First, there are the many official, already-existing sporting venues (stadiums, arenas, tennis courts, aquatic centers, etc.) located throughout Paris and France. These require the least amount of novel security measures, whether in the form of protective perimeters or the (unusual) methods used to maintain them.
Included among these is the historic Grand Palais, an architectural jewel from 1900 located at the foot of the Champs-Elysées. A monumentally massive building with a marvelously versatile interior space, it regularly plays host to museum exhibitions of all types, in addition to galas, elaborate fashion shows, concerts, conventions and even an ice-skating rink. Turning it into an Olympic sporting event site won’t have been very difficult.
Second, and complementing these dedicated sporting facilities, are several famous outdoor public monuments and historic landmarks that have been transformed into temporary games sites.
These comprise, most notably, the Trocadero and area next to the Eiffel Tower, the Château de Versailles, the Place de la Concorde, the Alexandre III Bridge, and the expansive lawns in front of the Hôtel des Invalides.
Massive amounts of bleachers and facilities for ticketed spectators have been brought in and creatively set up to adapt to the often unusual contours and spatial constraints of these areas. Seeing the obelisk at la Place de la Concorde hidden behind a patchwork of crisscrossing bars and stands was strange indeed. From the outside, the expansive fenced-in area, with giant stands rising out from the emptied out streets, looks like a curious sort of fairground.
Third, and arguably most importantly, there is the Seine river itself, which will be the location of the opening ceremony as well as several aquatic competitions.
From a security standpoint, the first category of venues is the most straightforward because entrances and exits are already part of the structures. All that is necessary to guarantee spectator and athlete safety is to set up slightly expanded perimeters around the buildings and flood the access points with staff and security guards so that no one — or anything — dangerous gets through.
Think of the Barclays Center on game night. Plenty of space to accommodate the crowds at the entrance waiting to go through security, with minimal disruptions to the immediate surroundings.
The second category of event sites, as mentioned above, significantly modify public spaces outdoors; they pose greater security and logistical challenges, as the physical enclosures separating “outside from inside” — separating the ticketed spectators from the unticketed — have to be brought in on trucks and set up.
These barriers are made up of hundreds of miles of what are essentially chain link fence units (about 10-feet long and 7-feet high) set into concrete slabs that can be moved around and connected as needed.
They wrap around the temporary outdoor sporting event sites in odd, unsightly ways and, notwithstanding the considerable effort to line them up neatly, look to many like human kennels. (Upset Parisians are referring to them as cages.)
The last site/category of Olympic events, and the location of the opening ceremony, the Seine river, is the most problematic in terms of security perimeters.
In fact, in order to meet the endless safety, commercial, and sanitary needs associated with the many uses to which the river is being put, an unprecedented thing has taken place: for 8 days leading up to the opening ceremony (tomorrow), the Seine and its immediate surroundings have undergone a form of privatization that has kept almost the entirety of the Parisian population off its riverbanks and away from its nearest surrounding streets and bridges.
Implementing this shutting down of the river has involved widespread use of the aforementioned chainlink-type moveable fences — thousands of them — along with a novel but not entirely unfamiliar technological device: the QR-coded pass.
Self-hating Jews Adina Kutnicki
There seems no doubt that there are Jewish funders, in tandem with non-Jewish co-conspirators, who are helping fund some of those bent on destroying the Jewish Homeland. America, alike. Op-ed.
Jul 28, 2024, 7:35 AM (GMT+3) – Too many people from divergent walks of life, even the most well-informed within the loftiest recesses of political/media/academia/business power centers, are left scratching their heads – at the bizarre spectacle of Jews (by birth) marching in lockstep, that is, arm in arm, with avowed enemies of Israel. As should be expected, reflexively, they spew anti-semitic and anti-American vitriol; a marriage made in hell. But, for the most part, a preponderance of these onlookers are overjoyed that this is the case and stay silent. After all, as is said, “to be silent is to agree.”
Despite the interest or, for that matter, the lack thereof in this odd phenomena, there are countless exhibits demonstrating its overall truth. See the claims in Launderers for Muslim Brotherhood Mafia; Campus Jihad in Forefront!
In point of fact, a most glaring and grotesque testimonial took place in the run-up/during/after PM Netanyahu’s D.C. speech before Congress, July 24, 2024. Inarguably, over many decades, Netanyahu is, rightfully, deemed an incomparable orator – without peer on the world stage. But said oratorical prowess is neither here nor there, regardless of the content. For when it comes to the anti-American/anti-Israel braying jackals howling outside the Capitol and elsewhere, well, all of it is poison.
Let’s place the spotlight on the self-hating Jews:
Jewish Voices For Peace Hold A Sit-In On Capitol Hill Protesting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Visit. Like it or not, they are a clear and present danger. Though small in numbers, they lend an overall “kosher” stamp of approval towards the destruction of Israel, as well as aim a dagger in the heart of the heretofore greatest Constitutional Republic, America. This twin-edged spear dare not be underestimated.
As intuited from the above, one cannot separate the outright support for Jihadi Terrorism vis-a-vis the “Dark Money Launderers” who directly aid and abet the enemies of Western Civilization – or what’s left of it!
More specifically, according to the highly esteemed political/geo-analyst, Caroline Glick:
“Lawfare, or the use of the language of law and the judicial process to achieve political, rather than legal, outcomes, isn’t the only aspect of the left’s current campaign to overturn the election results where MQG (leftist Movement for Quality Government) is leading the charge. The movement is also the primary organizer and sponsor of the mass protests against judicial reform. The speakers at the rallies stand under the MQG banner when they call for insurgency, civil war and violence.
Since the media, as full partners in MQG’s efforts, are working now as full-time propagandists, no one is asking the organizers who finances their activities. Someone is paying tens of millions of shekels to rent buses to transport scores of thousands of people to rallies, buy them flags, print banners and signs, rent stages and sound systems, and finance ad campaigns in every newspaper and on billboards across the country.
Whoever is footing the bill, the front group for all of it is MQG.
A look at MQG’s funding reports on the Government Registrar of Non-Profits website doesn’t reveal much. MQG’s private and institutional donors are unnamed. But under the law, all registered nonprofits are required to report funding they receive from foreign governments. So MQG’s only named donor on its annual reports is the U.S. State Department.
‘Even the cockroaches won’t survive’: Expert discusses Hezbollah’s new EMP weapon By MATAN WASSERMAN
Rotem Mey-Tal, CEO of Asgard Systems, a company developing military technology for the defense industry discusses Hezbollah’s new tactic and supply of electromagnetic ordnance.
JULY 28, 2024 11:10 – The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported that Iran has supplied Hezbollah and other Iranian proxy forces with electromagnetic ordnance, which can disable communication systems and shut down radars. Rotem Mey-Tal, CEO of Asgard Systems, a company developing military technology for the defense industry and the initiator of the “30U30 in Defense” competition for 2024, discussed the issue.
First, what is electromagnetic ordnance?
“Describing electromagnetic ordnance is like talking about something no one has ever seen, but everyone understands exists and is present in reality—in our case, on the geopolitical and military chessboard of the Middle East. In essence, imagine lightning striking the building you live in, not hitting a lightning rod or antenna, but the entire building, causing all the electrical panels, water heaters, water and electrical systems, household appliances, computers, television systems, and even life-saving medical systems to stop working. It’s like a power outage, but in this case, the systems can also burn out from the inside like in an electrical short.”
Where is this threat aimed?
“I suspect the threat is more focused on bases, strategic facilities, desalination systems, and the Israeli power grid. However, it’s impossible to say precisely, as such a weapon has never been used in history, so there are no sources or references to learn from.”
Does it work like an electric wave or like conventional munitions and rockets?
“The physics are the same in any way they choose to use such capability, but I suspect the model will likely be in the form of a low-flying UAV. Much like the Iranian-Houthi attack of the upgraded Samad 3 UAV, which struck near the US Embassy in Tel Aviv last weekend, only instead of a kinetic warhead with gunpowder, the front of the UAV can be armed with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) activation mechanism, which is triggered during the UAV’s flight and emits an EMP upon contact with the target. But again, it’s mostly speculation, as there is no documentation to date of the use of such a weapon or technology.”
Is this an escalation? How do you think such a threat should be addressed?
“In my personal opinion, not only is this an escalation on the map of potential threats, but it should also be regarded as close to a non-conventional weapon threat. Just as no sovereign country would tolerate a non-conventional weapon threat, the same applies here. This is because, in 2024, electronic processors manage and operate all the vital systems in the State of Israel—infrastructure, medical systems, security, and military applications.
“Think of the analogy from the 1960s, which describes that in a nuclear explosion, only the cockroaches would survive. In the same vein, in an electromagnetic attack, the ‘cockroaches’ (a nickname for electronic components in electrical circuits) will not survive this time. It will affect all of us in our daily lives and emergency preparedness. Like in a poker game, when someone raises a bet on the table, everyone stops everything and looks him in the eye to understand his next move or whether he is bluffing. I think we need to look them in the eye.”
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The hour of Israeli leadership has arrived Caroline Glick
The Jewish state’s need to act against Iran largely alone won’t disappear, even if Trump becomes president again in November. Op-ed.
Jul 28, 2024, 2:17 AM (GMT+3) – (JNS) Hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his address before the Joint Houses of Congress, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper reported that Iran has provided Hezbollah with electromagnetic pulse weapons.
Citing a source from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, the newspaper reported that the devices now in Hezbollah’s hands are capable of neutralizing Israel’s radars and communications systems.
The IRGC also reportedly provided Hezbollah with drones with electromagnetic pulse warheads and EMP bombs. Some of the EMP projectiles can be launched from stationary launchers and others from drones and can reach targets deep inside Israel, according to the Kuwaiti report.
The implications of the report are stark. The destructive power of an EMP attack is equal to that of a nuclear attack. Given Iran’s nuclear advances, there is every reason to believe that Iran has developed EMP capabilities, and would transfer them to Hezbollah. Iran’s now open threat of an EMP attack against Israel is nothing less than a threat to annihilate Israel. And since the threat was made in the midst of Iran’s multi-front war against Israel, it has to be taken seriously, with appropriate urgency.
CHAPTER 29: Gnosticism, the Frankfurt School, and Freirean Education by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is
July 28, 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.
The reader will recognize the unmistakable voice of Gnosticism in ideological Marxism and the myriad Marxist species attacking America and its children in schools today. Political Marxism, which focuses on social agency (an individual’s independent capability or ability to act on one’s own will) and class conflict, was reconstituted as cultural Marxism by the Frankfurt School (Chapter 15). Its members launched the Marxist Cultural Revolution against America in 1935. To understand the foundations of Frankfurt School tactical maneuvers, particularly social change through education, a 2009 article written by Timothy Matthews is very instructive. “The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt“[i] begins with a prescient quote by English Catholic historian Christopher Dawson:
Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests…. Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory. —Christopher Dawson. Enquiries into Religion and Culture (1936), p. 259.
Basically, the Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief—or even the hope of belief—that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible [Marxist Critical Theory] of every sphere of life which would be designed to destabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘oppressive’ order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus, ‘continuing the work of the Western Marxists by other means’ as one of their members noted.
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