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Genesis 16:4and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes. 5And Sarai saith unto Abram, `My violence is for thee; I--I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.' 6And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid is in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.

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Gantz appears to rebuke IDF chief over public criticism of US, threat to Iran Defense minister says comments like those made by Aviv Kohavi in his Tuesday speech should be made ‘in closed rooms’ By Judah Ari Gross Today, 8:47 pm Defense Minister Benny Gantz appeared to rebuke IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday over a speech he made the day before, in which he criticized the White House’s Iran policies and threatened potential military action against Iran. In his remarks, Kohavi denounced US President Joe Biden’s stated intentions to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal as “bad” and said he had ordered the military to develop operational plans for striking Iran’s nuclear program. While a number of Israeli politicians — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have openly spoken out against Biden’s plan to rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran and threatened military action against Iran, it is highly uncommon for an IDF chief of staff to make public comments critical of an American administration, which provides significant financial and logistical support to the Israeli military. “With the changing of the administration in the United States, the Iranians have said they want to return to the previous agreement. I want to state my position, the position that I give to all my colleagues when I meet them around the world: Returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement or even to an agreement that is similar but with a few improvements is a bad thing and it is not the right thing to do,” Kohavi said.

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies think tank’s annual conference on January 26, 2021. (Screen capture/INSS)

It is unlikely that Kohavi would make such remarks without receiving approval from the Prime Minister’s Office. The PMO refused to comment on the matter. Gantz on Wednesday indicated that he believed Kohavi should not have made such remarks in a public speech. “A nuclear Iran is a danger to the world, to the region and is a challenge to the security of Israel. Of course Israel must be prepared to defend itself in any way, but red lines are drawn in closed rooms,” Gantz said. The defense minister made his remarks at a press conference in which he unveiled his plan to expand the country’s conscription program to include ultra-Orthodox and Arab Israelis, who are currently largely exempt from military service. Gantz was not alone in his criticism of Kohavi’s speech. Amos Gilad, a former head of Military Intelligence and former top Defense Ministry official, denounced the remarks as counterproductive. “What are we getting from this? You excoriate the administration in the United States that has barely been in its position for a week instead of having a quiet negotiation to see how to limit the damages of the deal and get some compensation for the IDF,” Gilad said, speaking to the 103FM radio station. Gilad, who criticized the Iran nuclear deal as “terrible,” said that Israel should nevertheless refrain from publicly criticizing the Biden administration in order to ensure that it can make the deal as good as possible and get commitments from the US to offset the potential damage to Israel’s national security. [Once again you have Israel’s political establishment bowing and kowtowing to the US not unlike they did 2500 years ago when they were incessantly leaning on pharaoh and other leaders than on their God. They are fearful of offending everyone because they can’t accept the fact that mankind is fundamentally weak and only God is Great and all powerful and if they love Him and follow His ways they can overcome all obstacles. It appears that the Israeli leaders are still slaves as they were in Egypt. – rdb] “If you want to have a negotiation, with all due respect, the prime minister can have a quiet negotiation with the president of the United States. Why insult and excoriate? That’s not how you lead policy,” he said. “The question isn’t what the chief of staff believes behind closed doors and what positions he takes. The moment the chief of staff says things that are so harsh, that contradict the position of the new American administration, this could be seen as defiance. This is not something that the chief of staff needs to do,” Gilad said. In addition to his criticism of the US, Kohavi also indicated he had ordered the military to prepare plans to strike the country’s nuclear program to prevent it from obtaining an atomic bomb if need be. “Iran can decide that it wants to advance to a bomb, either covertly or in a provocative way. In light of this basic analysis, I have ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans, in addition to the existing ones. We are studying these plans and we will develop them over the next year,” Kohavi said. He added: “The government will of course be the one to decide if they should be used. But these plans must be on the table, in existence and trained for.” Gilad, who retired in 2017, said that he believed this to be “just words,” as it was highly unlikely that Israel would conduct such a strike without a green light from Washington. “You think you would carry out a strike without strategic cooperation with the United States? It will never, ever happen,” he said. Israel has twice conducted military strikes against the nuclear programs of its enemies — Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007 — under what’s become known as the Begin Doctrine, which maintains that Jerusalem will not allow an enemy country to obtain an atomic weapon. https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-appears-to-rebuke-idf-chief-over-public-criticism-of-us- threat-to-iran/ When you stop believing in an almighty, all powerful Miracle working God you have lost your strength and advantage. – rdb]

Joint List appears to dissolve alliance as talks between Arab parties founder ‘We’ve failed,’ says Balad MK Mtanes Shahadeh, after four-way meeting fails to bring unity; parties will likely not run as one bloc, although decision not final By Aaron Boxerman Today, 9:51 pm Representatives of three of the four Arab parties which compose the Joint List said on Wednesday night that negotiations to maintain the unity of the bloc have failed, making it likely that they will not run together in the coming March elections. “We’ve failed, unfortunately. The Joint List will not continue in its current lineup,” said Balad MK Mtanes Shehadeh, adding later: “At this point, we cannot continue as the Joint List because of our fundamental political differences.” Hadash party secretary Mansour Dahamsheh, who participated in the talks on Wednesday night, said that “there will be no Joint List with four parties. The negotiations are over.” A week remains before the February 4 deadline to submit final lists of candidates to the Central Elections Committee, however, leaving some room for negotiations to continue. Tensions among the four Arab parties have been rising steadily over the past few months, stoked by renegade Ra’am party chief Mansour Abbas. Abbas has publicly pursued closer ties with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a move seen by his Joint List colleagues as beyond the pale. Abbas has said that in order to advance legislative priorities for the Arab community, he would even consider voting in favor of a law providing Netanyahu with immunity from prosecution in his corruption cases, or serve as a minister in a Likud-led government. [It would seem reasonably obvious that this topic must have been mentioned in their negotiations which actually answers the questions about why Bibi has been doing everything and it appears that most of his actions have been focused on getting out of his legal predicament rather than what is actually for the best of the country. L- rdb] His Joint List colleagues see him as providing aid and comfort to a prime minister who they say has conducted a campaign of racist incitement against Arab Israelis. “Joining, aiding or abetting the right-wing government, annexation, or settlements is a red line from our perspective. We won’t allow a branch of the Likud party in the Joint List,” Hadash said in a statement on Monday. The Joint List, an alliance of four Arab-led factions, is united mainly by a desire to avoid falling below the Knesset’s electoral threshold of 3.25 percent of the vote. The parties span the gamut of political opinion, ranging from Hadash’s committed communists to Ra’am’s conservative Islamists. Last March, high turnout among Arab Israelis swept the Joint List to the strongest-ever showing in the Knesset for their constituency — a record 15 seats. But after a year of successive political blows, internal division and precious few policy achievements, they face rising voter apathy and widespread frustration among their base. Three meetings between Joint List representatives have been held over the past few days in an attempt to maintain the bloc’s unity ahead of the March elections. Arab political unity is a popular position among Arab Israelis: past experience shows that when the Arab parties have run together, voter turnout among Arab Israelis generally increases. But the clashes — both in private and in the media — have only intensified over the past few weeks, as the Arab parties took shots at one another in public. The tensions have been compounded by an aggressive campaign by Netanyahu to court Arab votes. Netanyahu, previously known more for denouncing Arab voters heading to vote “in droves,” has been regularly meeting with Arab mayors in an attempt to gain votes from their constituencies. MORE - https://www.timesofisrael.com/joint-list-appears- to-dissolve-alliance-as-talks-between-arab-parties-founder/

Gantz threatens to enlist all Haredim unless his national service plan advances Defense minister, who has been feuding with ultra-Orthodox parties, says he won’t extend military exemption which ends next Monday By Judah Ari Gross Today, 11:11 pm Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday threatened to move to conscript all ultra-Orthodox Israelis, who currently are largely exempt from military service, beginning next month, as he presented a fresh plan to address the country’s overall enlistment policy. For decades, ultra-Orthodox Israelis have maintained a near-blanket exemption from national service in favor of religious study, but in 2012 the High Court of Justice struck down the law permitting this arrangement as discriminatory. A new law was drafted to address the issue, but this too was overturned by the court in 2017, demanding that the government pass fresh legislation on the matter or else Haredi Israelis would be forced to enlist. For the past three and a half years, the defense minister has been requesting and receiving extensions on this demand as it failed to draft and pass legislation that would not also fall afoul of the country’s discrimination law. The current extension is scheduled to expire next Monday, February 1. In a press conference, Gantz said he would not request another extension unless his plan, which would require national service not only by Haredi Israelis but also by Arab Israelis, who are also legally exempt, is passed. The Haredi population of Israel overwhelmingly opposes performing a mandated national service, including positions within the Haredi community, seeing it as a way for external forces to potentially draw away its members. Some more extreme elements of the Haredi community have protested violently against military conscription. Arab Israelis, who are generally seen as less connected to state apparatuses, have not been required to perform any national service. There have been relatively few significant pushes to change this situation.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks in a press conference at the military’s headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2021. (Screen capture)

“I plan to go to the prime minister and demand that this proposal receives government approval in the next cabinet meeting, in accordance with the directives of the attorney general. If this proposal is not advanced, my position to the High Court of Justice will be to oppose an extension of the draft law,” Gantz said, speaking in the Defense Ministry’s headquarters in Tel Aviv. Gantz acknowledged that the announcement was coming ahead of elections, making it seem as though this move was part of his campaign rather than a serious policy proposal. [So you have Bibi going one way and Gantz the other all in the interest of substantial political gains?? – rdb] “I know what you are going to say — but this is not a campaign stunt. It is the continuation of a proper process,” he said. In recent weeks, Gantz has clashed with the ultra-Orthodox parties in the government over coronavirus restrictions, which have been notably flouted in some Haredi communities. Gantz has called for harsher penalties for these violations. According to Gantz’s plan, ultimately all Israelis will be required to perform some form of national service after high school. Each year, 5,000 more people will be required to perform national service, until after six to eight years every eligible person will be conscripted. Under the program, the military would get first choice of recruits and the rest would perform other security and civil service roles, in the police, in hospitals, in schools, etc. Everyone would be required to perform two years of national service. This would further shorten military service, a move that is sure to face criticism from the IDF, which already opposes the current service time of two years and six months for men, down from three years prior to 2015. This model was largely developed by a group called Pnima, which was recently led by the director-general of Gantz’s ministry, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel, and with which Gantz was also once involved. Minister in the Defense Ministry Michael Biton, who was also involved in Pnima, led the team that crafted the proposal, which included representatives from the Defense Ministry, the IDF and other government ministries. The plan is meant to bring different groups in Israeli society together through national service and to provide them with access to training and education to help them get jobs later in life. Until now, even the most far-reaching proposals that have been seriously considered by the country’s governments have not called for full conscription of all ultra-Orthodox and Arab Israelis, as this plan does. Currently, roughly half of eligible Israelis perform military service, despite the IDF’s claims that it is a “people’s army.” The exemptions include not only Haredi and Arab Israelis, but also a growing number of Israelis who are released from service for mental health or physical reasons. “The IDF turned from a people’s army into a half-of-the-people’s army. The people in service and in combat have become chumps,” Gantz said. The relatively low-profile Pnima Movement was created in 2015 by former education minister Shai Piron, aimed at addressing Israel’s socio-economic problems. He was joined a year later by former IDF chiefs of staff Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi, who are now defense minister and foreign minister, respectively. Ashkenazi first led the team that developed Pnima’s universal conscription proposal. https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-threatens-to-enlist-all-haredim-unless-his-national-service-plan-advances/

Blue and White threatens to oppose extending lockdown amid enforcement dispute Bill to up fines for rule-breakers stalls, as Gantz’s party rejects Likud compromise with Haredim on closing rebellious schools; ultra-Orthodox MK says party smearing Haredi public By TOI staff Today, 7:43 pm Coalition infighting continued on Wednesday over a bill that would step up enforcement of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown by hiking fines for institutions that violate the rules. The Blue and White party has said that unless a proposal for far stricter enforcement passes, it will oppose the extension of all lockdown restrictions beyond Sunday. That discussion is planned for Thursday. According to Channel 12 News, the Health Ministry wants a week-long extension but may settle for four days. Blue and White is pushing for stricter enforcement and heavier fines, measures that are opposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox allies. Many institutions in the Haredi sector have continued to operate throughout the lockdown despite the fines, angering critics who say that the current level of enforcement isn’t enough. The thorny issue has been threatening to thwart the extension of the lockdown altogether and has inflamed tensions within the battered coalition, with the Likud party caught between its ultra-Orthodox allies and Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White. Likud on Wednesday proposed a compromise bill that would allow authorities to close schools without first issuing a fine, but would require giving schools a 48-hour notice before they actually close. Blue and White rejected the proposal, and the discussion was shelved for the time being, according to Kan News. According to the current version under discussion, fines will be raised but not doubled as previously planned, institutions will only be forced to close after receiving two fines, and lower-ranking officers will not have the authority to hand out fines. Likud said Wednesday it will support the bill in its current form in its second and third readings, adding that it does not object “if Blue and White and the ultra-Orthodox parties reach agreements on small changes.” But if no agreement is reached, Likud will back the current proposal, the party said. Kan reported that coalition whip Miki Zohar of Likud, considered a close ally to Netanyahu, pressured the ultra- Orthodox parties to compromise with Blue and White and to agree to allow for immediate school closures for schools that violate lockdown rules. Zohar objected to a proposal from United Torah Judaism’s MK Yaakov Asher that would only allow high fines be given to schools with over 40 students present. Zohar said all schools that open against lockdown restrictions should be fined, Kan reported. Zohar also feuded with Blue and White over the fines, accusing the party of opposing all compromises and endangering the public to advance its political interests. Asher, who heads the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, accused Blue and White of smearing the Haredi public. He said raising fines would hurt small businesses and would fail to deter schools from opening illegally. “You’re knocking a million business owners in the name of populism,” Asher said. “This is character assassination of the Haredi public.” The bill on the fines passed its first reading earlier this week, but the ultra-Orthodox parties have fumed over the fact that it seeks to double current fines. Pressured by his Haredi allies — who have threatened to nix their political partnership with him ahead of the elections — Netanyahu sought to tone down the bill and ensured the legislation went to a Knesset committee controlled by the United Torah Judaism party before its two final readings, scheduled for Thursday. Blue and White is vehemently opposed to the compromise, arguing that it will cause the continuation of the current state, which it alleged sees tougher enforcement in non-Haredi areas compared to Haredi areas — where infection rates are much higher. Likud, which depends on the ultra-Orthodox parties in the upcoming March 23 elections, hasn’t budged. https://www.timesofisrael.com/blue-and-white-threatens-to-oppose-extending-lockdown-amid-enforcement-dispute/ [Interesting to watch the revolting political infighting as the Israeli people are being pushed under the economic bus so to speak while the politicians do their power plays. Looks like they should boot the whole bunch and start over again in the Knesset. – rdb]

Israel expands coronavirus vaccine drive to over-35s Country's world-leading campaign has already been opened to 11th and 12th graders taking exams, pregnant women who may be at greater risk from new strains; despite vaccine successes, infection rates remain high Nina Fox | Published: 01.27.21 , 20:06 Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Hezi Levi on Wednesday instructed Israel's four health funds to begin vaccinating anyone aged 35 and over, effective Thursday. The country was already vaccinating anyone over the age of 40. Two of the health funds, Clalit and Meuhedet, had started vaccinating younger people last week, without waiting for government approval. Levi ordered both funds to immediately halt those inoculations.

Israelis queuing to receive the coronavirus vaccine in Tel Aviv (Photo: Moti Kimchi)

The country also began Sunday to vaccinate 11th and 12th graders aged 17 and 18 in order to allow them to take their matriculation examinations without fear of infection. Pregnant women have also been urged to get vaccinated due to concerns that the new strains of the virus pose more of a threat to them. Israel began what has become the world's fastest per capita distribution of vaccines against the new coronavirus on Dec. 19, using the shot developed by the American firm Pfizer Inc. and Germany's BioNTech. On Tuesday, the government said the inoculations were proving to be highly effective, with Israel not seeing a single serious case of COVID-19 among the more than 6% of the population who have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told lawmakers Tuesday that he knew of "no serious morbidity" among Israelis eligible for the "green passport" issued by the state a week after the second dose is administered, when Pfizer says the vaccine is 95% effective. Edelstein said 0.014% of the roughly half a million people who have received both vaccine doses had contracted milder forms of COVID-19. The minister also said that 80% of at-risk Israelis have been vaccinated, with 252,000 waiting to be inoculated. Even so, the country is still struggling to contain the spread of the virus among the general population. Edelstein also warned Tuesday that new infections and hospital admissions for serious or critical COVID complications were at record numbers. The Health Ministry said Wednesday evening that 4,778 people had tested positive for coronavirus in Israel since midnight, bringing the country's number of active cases to 74,785. A total of 52,500 tests were conducted since midnight, yielding an infection rate of 9.1% - a slight reduction since Tuesday. Israel has now seen 4,574 people succumb to COVID-19. A little over 25% of that total - 1,211 people - have died since the start of January. The country also has 1,160 virus patients hospitalized in serious condition. The Health Ministry blames highly communicable variants originating abroad for setbacks in Israel's bid to halt the spread of the virus. A week after beginning vaccinations, it imposed its third national lockdown, which officials say may need to be extended past its January 31 expiry date. But last Thursday it reported a reproduction number - known as "R" - of less than 1, which indicates that epidemic is no longer growing. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/XLGFB3285

Vaccines versus variants: Israel's exit from pandemic hangs in balance Israel's world-leading COVID vaccination drive could spell delay of up to 4 weeks in country's exit from pandemic, deputy health minister says; exit may be delayed by months if current vaccines not effective Reuters | Published: 01.27.21 , 19:02 Israel's plan to parlay its COVID-19 vaccination drive into an exit from the pandemic next month hangs in the balance as new variants of the virus have spurred an increase in infections, a senior official said on Wednesday. Highly infectious foreign variants are currently flooding Israeli hospitals with serious cases and the newly developed vaccines have yet to be proven fully effective against them, Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch said.

Woman walks through an abandoned Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem during COVID-19 pandemic (Photo: Gil Yochanan)

Israel currently leads the world on per capita vaccinations, having inoculated about 30% of its population of nine million with at least one dose. "We are in a war with very low intelligence [about the enemy]," Kisch, a former fighter pilot, told Reuters. "That means that things are changing as we go. The enemy is using different tactics and different methods that we are not fully aware of." Israel began vaccinating high-risk groups on Dec. 19 in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted would provide them with full protection by the end of this month and enable the economy to begin reopening in February.

Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch (Photo: Amit Huber)

But despite expanded eligibility criteria for the Pfizer Inc. vaccines and the imposition of a third national lockdown, infections and deaths are surging. 'OPTIMISTIC' Israel's projections of a vaccine-fuelled turnaround last week proved false, Kisch said. Now it is hoping to see in the coming two weeks a reduction in morbidity as well as solid research data showing that the vaccines defeat the variants. "We are optimistic because, as of now, the knowledge regarding this vaccine is [that it is] effective against them," Kisch said. If that is correct, that means a delay of only two to four weeks in Israel's planned exit from the pandemic, he said. If not, Israel could be facing a further delay of six to eight months. "We'll have to wait for a new development of a vaccine that will give the answer against this mutation," Kisch said. Asked what hospitalization data would give Israel cause for hope, Kisch said it had not set a threshold. But if the 2% rate of serious cases among COVID-19 patients could be halved, that would "make a huge difference". Netanyahu is up for re-election on March 23. His Likud party messaging suggests that the coronavirus strategy is central to the campaign. Yet Kisch, a Likud lawmaker, sounded circumspect. "We are doing the best that we can against corona, with or without elections, with or without politics," he said. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SkgiXzJgu

Israeli scientists unveil ‘powerful tool’ advancing personalized cancer medicine Tel Aviv University team is building an index on the level of chromosomal imbalance in various cancerous cells to guide drug decisions for patients By Nathan Jeffay Today, 6:23 pm Israeli scientists are claiming a breakthrough that could help doctors make more personalized decisions when choosing cancer drugs for their patients. It is well known that many, but not all, cancer cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes — a phenomenon called aneuploidy. Dr. Uri Ben-David of Tel Aviv University and his international collaborators have completed a massive study of 1,000 cancer cells, to uncover correlations between their aneuploidy levels and how much impact different drugs have on the cells. They say that while aneuploidy has long been observed, it hasn’t helped doctors to advance treatment. He believes that the lab research, conducted jointly with academics in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, points to the potential of aneuploidy levels guiding drug decisions. The data was published Wednesday in the influential peer-reviewed journal Nature.

This microscope image made available by the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research in 2015 shows human colon cancer cells with the nuclei stained red. (NCI Center for Cancer Research via AP)

“We systematically characterized aneuploidy levels in these 1,000 cancer cells, and have uncovered a set of ‘vulnerabilities’ that the cells have to different drugs based on indexing their aneuploidy levels,” Ben-David told The Times of Israel. He hopes that in the future, checks of aneuploidy levels in patients’ tumors — which are relatively simple to perform — will become routine, and doctors will deploy his ever-growing “aneuploidy index” when deciding on treatment. “This could be a powerful tool to advance personalized cancer medicine,” he said.

Dr. Uri Ben-David of Tel Aviv University (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

Ben-David stressed that the correlations he is uncovering between aneuploidy and effectiveness of drugs have only been tested in labs, and need to be checked on humans before they are deployed en masse to guide doctors’ decisions on drugs. In its first drug-related finding, Ben-David’s team has documented a strong correlation found between aneuploidy levels and the effectiveness of one particular set of drugs that is expected to become available soon. Clinical tests are underway for drugs that inhibit the mitotic checkpoint — a cellular checkpoint that guides the separation of chromosomes during cell division. Ben-David believes that aneuploidy levels are a giveaway sign of whether patients are likely to respond well to the new inhibitors. “Until now we didn’t have any biomarkers to suggest how effective these drugs will be among different people, but now it seems we do, in the form of aneuploidy levels,” he said. “This is an important first finding from our research, that could help patients.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientists-unveil-powerful-tool-advancing-personalized-cancer-medicine/

Canada probes UNRWA funds over textbooks for promoting hate Australia also announced an investigation into UNRWA and the UK has raised the issue with the organization. By LAHAV HARKOV JANUARY 27, 2021 20:20 Canada will investigate its contributions to UNRWA following a report that the refugee agency for Palestinians uses textbooks that incite hatred and violence, Canada’s International Development Minister Karina Gould announced. Gould said she was “deeply concerned” to learn that educational materials UNRWA gave Palestinian children during coronavirus-related lockdowns “contained references that violated UN values of human rights, tolerance, neutrality and nondiscrimination,” the minister said last week. [This would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. The UN and UNRWA know full well what has been going and have simply been making excuses for years. The “PA” schools are basically terror indoctrination sites for the radical terrorist Islamic ideology and should have been removed from their own control years ago. – rdb] Canadian officials plan to investigate “how this happened and to reinforce UNRWA’s corrective actions, monitoring and oversight in the future,” Gould added. Gould also spoke directly with UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini. “I reiterated that the use of these educational materials violates the neutrality principles that UNRWA is committed to as a UN organization and under the Framework for Cooperation between Canada and UNRWA,” she stated. “I am personally reaching out to a number of my counterparts to discuss this situation, and Canada will remain closely engaged with UNRWA and other donor countries on this and other neutrality issues.” Canada pledged $24 million to UNRWA in 2020. Gould’s statement came less than a week after IMPACT-se, an Israel-based organization that monitors textbooks, mostly in the Middle East, released a report showing UNRWA distributed content that “promoted jihad, violence and martyrdom, [and] libelous claims that Israel intentionally dumps toxic waste into the West Bank.” The materials also erased Israel from its maps. The Australian government announced an investigation into UNRWA last week, as well, and UK Middle East and North Africa Minister James Cleverly said in parliament that his government had raised the issue with UNRWA. Lazzarini said last week that the textbooks were distributed “mistakenly” and “quickly replaced with content that adheres to UN values.” There is “no place for discrimination and incitement to violence in UNRWA schools,” he tweeted. IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff called on donor states to “ensure that Palestinian children in UNRWA schools are not being taught hate,” saying, “it is well within the rights of current and potential UNRWA donors to demand answers as to what is being taught by UNRWA teachers.” UNRWA also blocked public access to learning materials after the IMPACT-se report was released, the organization said. “UNRWA’s behavior in immediately moving all study materials to a secure server following the exposure of hateful content does not inspire trust,” Sheff added. “The agency is shirking its responsibility to transparency.” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/canada-probes-unrwa-funds-over-textbooks-for-promoting-hate-656894

US puts temporary hold on sale of F-35s to UAE Washington reviewing some foreign arms sales during Trump administration, including deal reached as part of Israel normalization; new US secretary speaks to Israeli counterpart By TOI staff Today, 1:53 pm By AP The Biden administration has put a temporary hold on several major foreign arms sales initiated by former President Donald Trump. Officials say that among the deals being paused is a massive $23 billion transfer of stealth F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates. That sale and several other massive purchases of US weaponry by Gulf Arab countries had been harshly criticized by Democrats in Congress. The officials did not identify the other sales that had been temporarily halted. The new administration is reviewing the sales but has not made any determination about whether they will actually go through, the State Department says. It calls the pause “a routine administrative action” that most incoming administrations take with large-scale arms sales. “The department is temporarily pausing the implementation of some pending U.S. defense transfers and sales under Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales to allow incoming leadership an opportunity to review,” the department says. “This is a routine administrative action typical to most any transition, and demonstrates the administration’s commitment to transparency and good governance, as well as ensuring US arms sales meet our strategic objectives of building stronger, interoperable, and more capable security partners,” it says. In its waning months, the Trump administration authorized tens of billions of dollars in new arms sales, including announcing plans to send 50 F-35s to the UAE. That announcement came shortly after Trump lost the Nov. 6 election to now-President Joe Biden and followed the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE, under which the Arab states agreed to normalize relations with Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden- administration-freezes-f-35-sales-to-uae-report/

Now teachers decide to keep students out of class Chicago's massive district at standstill over COVID-19 By Bob Unruh Published January 27, 2021 at 6:04pm After concluding that the harm of school lockdowns outweighs the risks of COVID-19, many districts across the nation are reopening their classrooms, employing new sanitation standards, social distancing and masks. But not in Chicago, where the district is responsible for the education of 355,000 children. It's because teachers won't go back. FoxNews.com reported the standoff between the members of the American Federation of Teachers and the nation's third-largest school district. It means students must continue with online learning, which has been in place for almost a year. The district wanted the classrooms open because, Fox News said, online learning is "not working, particularly for many low-income black and Latino students who comprise the majority of the district." Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed disappointment. "There is no question that students are persevering. But there is also no question that there is no substitute for in- person learning," she said. Teachers claim the district hasn't done enough to ensure their safety. That's after school managers deep cleaned, offered COVID-19 testing and installed thousands of filters. The report said teachers insist on widespread vaccinations, "better metrics" and more testing. The conflict has been building for some time. This month, pre-K and special education classes were held in-person over the union's protests. Teachers and staff who refused to do their jobs were docked pay. But the union then threatened a walkout. According to Chicago Public Schools, FoxNews.com reported, a December survey found that 6,500 of the nearly 17,000 eligible preschool and special education students expressed interesting in returning. Only about 3,200 attended each day earlier this month, the district said. https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/now-teachers- decide-keep-students-class/

Just 1 cost of lockdowns: A million cases of cancer undiagnosed Scott Atlas warns 'the science' seriously 'damaged' during pandemic By WND News Services Published January 27, 2021 at 8:43pm By Scott Atlas Real Clear Politics The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will certainly follow. Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. Despite all efforts, there has been an undeniable failure to stop cases from rapidly escalating and preventing hospitalizations and death. Here’s the reality -- almost all states and major cities, with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least the summer. These measures did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage from the SARS2 virus. President Biden openly admitted as much in his speech to the nation on Jan. 22, when he said “there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” Instead of rethinking the results of implemented policies, many want to blame those who opposed lockdowns and mandates for the failure of the very lockdowns and mandates that were widely implemented. Ironically, all new policies will coincide with a decrease in cases, because that decrease is already evident across the United States. Hospitalizations in every age group, by CDC data, as well as deaths, have begun to decline. Confirming that trend is the marked drop in symptomatic COVID-19 patients coming to emergency rooms, down 40% from its peak almost a month ago to become lower than that seen before Thanksgiving. Despite that reality, is there any doubt how most of the American media will portray this in their analysis of the administration’s “First 100 Days”? And let’s be clear about behavior -- social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the CDC have shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask wearing since the late summer similar to Western European countries and approaching that in Asia. America has an internal comparison. Florida, a large, diverse, highly populated state, stands out as having one of the highest percentages of vulnerable elderly in the entire nation, one of only two states with more than 20% over 65 years of age. Florida widely opened schools and businesses months ago, discarded most mobility restrictions, and ended mandates. Florida did not eliminate cases, hospitalizations, or deaths, but Florida has outperformed many states during the recent surge, including those with warm climates, like California, that implemented longstanding lockdowns. Florida’s deaths per capita has also beaten half the country as well as the national average. Even if Floridians on their own behaved similarly to people under mandates, why is that not a subject of open discussion and highlighted by the media? Separate from their limited value in containing the virus -- efficacy that has often been “grossly exaggerated” in published papers -- lockdown policies have been extraordinarily harmful. The harms to children of closing in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower income groups. A recent study confirms that up to 78% of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over three months. If one extrapolates to the entire country, where about 150,000 new cancers are diagnosed per month, three-fourths to over a million new cases over nine months will have gone undetected. That health disaster adds to missed critical surgeries, delayed presentations of pediatric illnesses, heart attack and stroke patients too afraid to call emergency services, and others all well documented. Beyond hospital care, CDC reported four-fold increases in depression, three-fold increases in anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of suicidal ideation, particularly among young adults after the first few months of lockdowns, echoing the AMA reports of drug overdoses and suicides. Domestic abuse and child abuse have been skyrocketing due to the isolation and specifically to the loss of jobs, particularly in the strictest lockdowns. Given that many in-person schools have been closed, hundreds of thousands of abuse cases are never reported, since schools are the number one agency where abuse is noticed. Finally, the unemployment “shock” from lockdowns, according to a new NBER study, will generate a 3% increase in mortality rate and a 0.5% drop in life expectancy over the next 15 years, disproportionately affecting African Americans and women. That translates into what they called a “staggering” 890,000 additional U.S. deaths from the lockdowns. We know we have not yet seen the full extent of the damage from lockdowns, because it will last for decades. Perhaps that is why lockdowns were not recommended in previous pandemic analyses, even for infections with far higher death rates. To determine the best path forward, shouldn’t policymakers objectively consider both the data and the totality of impact of policies to date? That’s the importance of health policy experts with a broader scope of expertise than that of epidemiologists and basic scientists. That necessarily means admitting that social lockdowns and significant restrictions on individuals are deadly and extraordinarily harmful, especially on the working class and poor. Optimistically, we are seeing the light at the end of the long tunnel with the rollout of vaccines, now at 1.5 million per day. On the other hand, using logic that would put “Alice in Wonderland’s” Mad Hatter to shame, the new vaccines have been more frequently administered first to healthier, younger people instead of those at risk to die. Few states at the time of this writing have administered most of their vaccinations to people over 65; many have given more than 80% to low-risk age groups. And why is the fact that tens of millions already have biological protection after being infected with the virus -- so they should not be immediate priorities -- not even acknowledged? Just as in Galileo’s time, another problem is the “vested academic interests.” Many universities have overtly intimidated views contrary to their own, seemingly for political motives, leaving many afraid to speak up. Perhaps university mottos like Harvard’s “truth,” Stanford’s “the winds of freedom blow,” and Yale’s “light and truth” need revision. Social media has piled on with a heavy hand to eliminate discussion of conflicting evidence. Without permitting, indeed encouraging, open debate and admission of errors, we might never solve any future crisis. America is now a country where differing interpretations of science in order to seek the truth is the new anathema. I fear that “the science” has been seriously damaged, and many have simply become fatigued by the arguments. That is even worse, because fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over truth. Perhaps Harvard Medical School Professor Martin Kulldorff was correct when he lamented, “After 300 years, the Age of Enlightenment has ended.” https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/just-1-cost-lockdowns-million-cases-cancer-undiagnosed/ [the amount of ‘REAL” science associated with this has been abysmal. The distancing the masking and everything else they have done has been politically motivated voodoo. – rdb] "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. " -- Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American science fiction writer Rand Paul's disturbing face-mask prediction Senator urges massive pushback against left: 'We should all resist' By Joe Kovacs Published January 27, 2021 at 1:45pm PALM BEACH, Florida –– U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a medical doctor by profession, made an unnerving prediction about masks on Wednesday, saying mandates to wear facial coverings are never going away as long as the political left is in charge. "They will never relent. These people are never letting you not wear a mask," the Kentucky Republican told Todd Herman, the fill-in host on Rush Limbaugh's national broadcast. "I promise you, you will never get out from the mask because they're saying that even after all are vaccinated, we don't know, you still might catch it a little bit, you still might transmit it, even after everybody's vaccinated. So don't listen to these people. "The mask mandates have not worked, none of the mandates have worked," Paul added, referring to government strategies during the coronavirus pandemic. "There's study after study after study that show that when you put in place these mandates, guess what, the incidents of the infection kept rising. Even [President] Biden admitted this the other day. The trajectory of the virus has been unaffected by anything we've done so far. Our only hope of changing the trajectory is a vaccine, but it should be voluntary." An incredulous Herman noted, "The masks ain't going away. ... The technocrats don't want to give up control." Paul also blasted the absurdity of the Congress' second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, who is now a private citizen. "It means we can impeach Todd Herman, Rush Limbaugh. We're coming for you, buddy," he said. He pointed out the process was unconstitutional because chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is not presiding over the proceedings. "The fact that the chief justice refuses to walk across the street means we're not impeaching a president," Paul said.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at President Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. (Video screenshot)

He discussed suggestions of impeaching Sen. Bernie Sanders or Vice President Kamala Harris for their own incitement of violence. "None of us said we should impeach Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris because it's a dumb idea to hold someone responsible for inciting violence. ... We have to have saner, calmer minds take over this." To evince how people are overreacting to use of certain words such as "fight," Paul recounted how he stated on the Senate floor Tuesday: "If you are a senator who has never used the word 'fight' figuratively in a speech, raise your hand. No one raised their hand." "This is a charade," he concluded concerning the second impeachment of Trump. Paul also hammered the recent onslaught against freedom of speech by Big Tech in America. "It's a closed-minded notion to not let other people speak," he said. "It started with the climate extremists ... They made only one truth, and if you didn't agree, you're a denier. ... When you cannot dissent, there is no free society. ... We should all resist. We should all fight in a figurative way. But we should all resist." Paul also focused on allegations of massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, urging changes be made in all state legislatures to ensure election integrity in future races. "We shouldn't have Republicans kept behind the barbed-wire fence 30 feet away," Paul said, referring to the exclusion of GOP members during the ballot-counting process. "Yeah, they recounted the votes," Paul noted, "the same votes that were counted the first time. But no one found out if they were valid." https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/rand-pauls-disturbing-face-mask-prediction/ [Paul hits all the points right on the head. He needs to crack Pelosi and Schumer and McConnell and Harris’s heads all together like coconuts and see if anything falls out. I doubt anything would because they are vacant and flagrantly evil. – rdb]

Biden’s Asia Policy Czar Helped Found Group ‘Heavily Influenced by the CCP’ China hawk: Kurt Campbell's U.S.-China Strong Foundation 'tantamount to a front group' Kurt Campbell / Getty Images Alana Goodman - January 27, 2021 5:00 AM Joe Biden's incoming Asia policy czar was a top leader at a nonprofit group that was bankrolled by the head of a Chinese propaganda front group and partnered with a Chinese foreign mission. Kurt Campbell, a former Obama State Department official and businessman, was until August 2020 listed as board vice chairman of the U.S.-China Strong Foundation, ostensibly a nonprofit group that promotes student language exchanges with Beijing but whose leaders included prominent members of the Chinese government’s overseas propaganda fronts, according to State Department and Department of Justice records. Campbell is slated to serve as the chief coordinator for President Joe Biden’s Asia policy on the National Security Council, but his leadership role with the foundation is raising concerns with China hawks in Washington. The foundation has promoted the Chinese army and China's Belt and Road Initiative—deemed a national security threat by U.S. officials. It has also partnered with the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, an educational nonprofit organization that the State Department designated as a foreign mission last summer, citing its promotion of Beijing's propaganda efforts to academics across the world. In August 2017, the U.S.-China Strong Foundation appeared to celebrate the founding of the People’s Liberation Army on its Twitter account, writing, "Today is the 90th anniversary of the founding of China's PLA!" and urging followers to read about a commemorating address by President Xi. The group also posted multiple favorable Twitter messages about China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure program that U.S. officials have decried as a national security risk. MORE - https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-asia-policy-czar-helped-found-group-heavily- influenced-by-the-ccp/ [Sounds like a great way for Sleepy Joe to keep on feathering his nest at US taxpayers expense. – rdb]

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10 reasons to impeach Barack Obama Democrats warned of setting precedent for former presidents By Bob Unruh Published January 27, 2021 at 3:22pm Barack Obama used to be president. He isn't any more. But he still could be impeached, according to the precedent established by Democrats in Congress against Donald Trump. And he should be, argues PJMedia's Matt Margolis, who listed 10 reasons, including for illegally firing an inspector general and for his administration's spying on the Trump campaign based on a bogus dossier funded by the Hillary campaign. He cited the Senate Democrats's plan to hold an impeachment trial for Trump over allegations he incited the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Democrats already have been warned of the precedent they are setting. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said, for example, that if "it is a good idea to impeach and try former presidents, what about former Democratic presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022?" "Think about it and let’s do what is best for the country," he said. Margolis recalled that Obama illegally fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service after Walpin investigated Obama's friend and donor, Kevin Johnson, who had "misused federal grant money for AmeriCorps by funneling it to his personal nonprofit group, paying for political activity, and using it to pay hush money to underage girls he’d sexually abused." Then there was Obama's "war on cops." "Seeing as Democrats say that Trump's rhetoric 'incited an insurrection' at the U.S. Capitol as the primary reason for their second bogus impeachment, it's more than fair to say that Obama should be equally held accountable for his rhetoric as president which inspired a war on cops, resulting in a spike in assassinations of police officers nationwide," Margolis wrote. Among those who were lost in the attacks were five Dallas police officers murdered in an attack in 2016. And Obama agreed to "illegal treaties" without the consent of the Senate, the Iran Nuclear Deal and Paris Climate Accords, both of which met the requirements for an international treaty. However, Obama refused to submit them to the Senate presumably because he knew they would be shot down. So he simply implemented in apparent violation of the Constitution. Margolis points out that Obama also "violated at least four federal laws back in 2010, for offering then-congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a job in his administration in exchange for not challenging Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate." "Bribery is a crime, and Barack Obama committed it," he wrote. In 2014, 47 of 73 inspectors general wrote to Congress charging "the Obama administration was obstructing investigations by not giving them full access to the information they need." Such "systemic corruption ... would have been considered an impeachable [offense] for almost any other president," Margolis said. And Obama spied on the news media, demanding two months of phone records from some Associated Press reporters and editors. "One consequence of this Obama administration spying was that longtime sources stopped talking to the Associated Press and other news organizations," Margolis noted. Reporter James Rosen of Fox News, even was "threatened with jail time when the Obama Justice Department labeled him a 'co-conspirator' with one of his sources." At No. 4 on the list was Obama's "illegal war in Libya." "Obama knew Congress was not going to approve of military action in Libya, so instead of going to them for an official declaration of war, he went to the United Nations to get authorization to remove Muammar Gadhafi from power—bypassing Congress's authority," he explained. The Benghazi attack cover-up was next. Four Americans, including the ambassador, were murdered in Benghazi in an orchestrated terror assault. But Obama's administration, instead "called it a spontaneous demonstration" in order "to hide the fact it was a pre-planned terror attack and that they were grossly unprepared." The Obama administration, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, "obstructed" an investigation by Congress. Officials then jailed an innocent man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, whose film "The Innocence of Muslims" was pulled out of anonymity and blamed for the attack. The second-most important article of impeachment against Obama should be the IRS targeting scandal, which former IRS official Lois Lerner confirmed actually happened. "Not only were tea party groups improperly targeted, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, but the whole scheme was also orchestrated out of Washington, D.C. There was also evidence of White House involvement. Then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman was at the White House at least 157 times while the IRS was targeting tea party groups," Margolis explained. And finally, there's Obamagate. "The spying on President Trump’s campaign alone [that is] is chock full of abuses of power and illegal activity." "The Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign based on a bogus dossier funded by the Hillary campaign. The Obama administration used the dossier, that they knew was Russian disinformation ginned up to distract from Hillary’s email scandal, to obtain a FISA warrant even though they never had any empirical evidence of collusion. Further, evidence that Russia actually preferred Hillary over Trump was allegedly suppressed by Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan. The Obamagate scandal runs deep, wide, and dirty." And Obama "was aware that his administration was spying on Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whose communications with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were illegally leaked to the media to bolster the bogus claims of Russian collusion between Trump and Russia." "Obama’s direct knowledge of the details of Flynn’s wiretapped calls even shocked his then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 in order to protect Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Evidence that the Obama administration intended to catch Flynn in a perjury trap or get him fired was also exposed, prompting Trump’s Department of Justice to drop the case against Flynn. And Obama’s direct knowledge of the attempt to railroad Flynn proved that the effort to undermine Trump went all the way to the top." https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/10-reasons-impeach-barack-obama/ [What’s good for the goose is good for the gander so if they are going after The Donald they must go after the Obamanation . – rdb]

Commentaries: Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots Daniel Greenfield January 26, 2021 On May 31st, a violent Black Lives Matter mob burned American flags, threw bottles at police officers, and started a fire in the historic ‘Church of Presidents’ which had been visited by almost every president. Another building was set on fire, and windows across the area were smashed by the rampaging BLM mob wielding baseball bats, bricks, and even more lethal weapons. Helicopter footage showed the Washington Monument wreathed in smoke from the fires set by the massive BLM assault on the center of our government. But while the BLMers assaulted numerous buildings, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, and had vandalized historical landmarks, including the Lincoln Memorial, the real target of the radicals was the White House. 60 members of the Secret Service and 150 law enforcement officers in total were eventually injured. As the BLM mob assailed the White House, the Secret Service took President Trump and his family to a bunker: an eventuality meant to deal with terrorist or nuclear attacks. Black Lives Matter mobs didn’t break through to the White House, but they managed to set the White House guardhouse on fire. Instead of condemning this extremist assault on our nation, Democrats supported the rioters and falsely claimed that law enforcement had assaulted “peaceful protesters” for a “photo op”, and demanded the removal of the National Guard. Democrats and their media allies sneered at President Trump for retreating to a bunker. Barack Obama, as the first black man to sit in the White House, a D.C. resident, and the politician who had done the most to bolster the racist and radical BLM movement burning American cities, had the opportunity to put out the fires. Instead he poured on more gasoline. After the White House attack, Obama delivered a speech at his own foundation’s event which made no mention of the assault on the house he had formerly occupied or the threat of violence to his successor. Obama then spoke to Brittany Packnett Cunningham, described as, “one of the most prominent activists behind the Black Lives Matter movement” whom he had appointed to serve on his Task Force on 21st Century Policing after the Ferguson riots. Obama began his speech by once again accusing America of racism, which he described as an "original sin", and praised the mobs terrorizing the country. Instead of condemning the violent attack on the White House, he falsely claimed that the violence was the work of a "tiny minority". Then, putting the lie to his false claim, he chatted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham who had previously urged attendees to repeat a chant by domestic terrorist Assata Shakur still wanted by the FBI for her role in the murder of a police officer. Shakur is the icon of BLM and while Democrats accuse Republicans of being domestic terrorists, the movement they embraced is built around one of the FBI’s top ten most wanted terrorists from a violent racist hate group. The month before, she had tweeted Martin Luther King's quote about a riot being the "language of the unheard" while appending her own text, "Property damage at protests, 101". Not only wasn’t the violence coming from a tiny minority, but Obama’s own event was complicit. Obama’s speech described the turmoil as “profound as anything that I’ve seen in my lifetime”, and urged that, "at some point, protests start to dwindle in size. And it's very important for us to take the momentum that has been created… and say, let's use this to finally have an impact.” Every American man and woman who had been assaulted, robbed, and threatened by Obama’s mobs felt the impact. The police officers in the hospital, the shopkeepers sifting through the rubble, and the dead in the BLM riots felt the impact. Obama could have stopped the violence, instead his political support for the violent racist BLM terrorists helped keep the riots going. While in the White House, Obama had helped incite the racist BLM movement. When the Ferguson riots broke out after Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and assaulted a police officer, Obama and his administration incited violence by spreading false claims without evidence that Brown had been an innocent victim of police racism. The DOJ attempted to suppress the surveillance video showing Brown’s attack on a minority store clerk, and Democrats refused to stop spreading false claims that he had been murdered. Recently, Senator Kamala Harris doubled down on the lie, inciting violence by falsely claiming that “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.” Obama claimed that “the anger and the emotion that followed his death awakened our nation”. The BLM racial terrorist movement, backed monetarily by left-wing foundations and corporations, timed its riots to coincidence with election years. These were not mere race riots: they were and are election riots that exploit the shooting of a criminal to help the Democrats. The biggest years of BLM and proto-BLM riots in 2014, 2016, and 2020 were election years. When Obama and the Democrats fed the racial supremacist agenda of BLM, they were engaging in a campaign of political terror to turn out votes and tilt elections in their favor. In 2016, the BLM riots surged again. On July 7, 2016, Obama delivered a speech from the Marriott in Warsaw falsely accusing the police of racism against black people. That same day, Micah X. Johnson, who had attended BLM rallies, set out to murder as many white Dallas police officers as he could. He killed 5. Obama spoke at the funeral of the police officers in defense of the racist hate group that killed them, and continued to incite violence by falsely accusing police officers of “the killing of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge and Philando Castile of Minnesota” at a funeral for police officers. Sterling had raped a 14-year-old girl and was shot by police officers after reaching for a gun. “Even those who dislike the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter,’ surely we should be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family,” Obama had urged. Earlier that year, Obama had invited BLM organizers, including Brittany Packnett Cunningham and DeRay Mckesson, as well as Al Sharpton, to the White House. Mckesson had been sued that year by a Baton Rouge police officer who suffered brain trauma and lost teeth after being assaulted by a McKesson organized mob at a BLM protest for child rapist Alton Sterling. Obama had invited a man accused of having “incited the violence” that crippled a police officer. The Supreme Court case of Mckesson v. Doe, in which the racist movement was represented by Covington & Burling attorneys, was tossed by the Supreme Court with Justice Thomas, the court's only black justice dissenting, but it's already playing a role in the attempt to impeach President Trump over false allegations that he had somehow incited the Capitol riot. The Democrats would like to continue impeaching President Trump even after he leaves office. But if a president can be impeached even after he leaves office for supporting protests that turn violent, then Obama’s impeachment should be next. Obama’s long history of supporting Black Lives Matter is a matter of public record. Obama’s defenders will argue that he urged peaceful protests. So did President Trump. It hasn’t stopped Obama’s cronies from impeaching Trump. The Democrat case against President Trump hinges on using the word, “fight” in his speech. At Obama's BLM event at the White House, Brittany Packnett Cunningham had urged, "we have to take the fight everywhere.” On the campaign trail for Biden in Philadelphia Obama had ranted, "We can't abandon those protesters who inspired us. We've got to channel their activism into action, we can't just imagine a better future. We've got to fight for it." A week later, massive riots broke out in Philly that brought out the Pennsylvania National Guard. A curfew was imposed across multiple districts as mobs of thousands rampaged through the streets. Thirty police officers were injured: including a female officer who was hit by a car. That’s how the “protesters” were fighting for that better future. The case for impeaching Barack Obama is simple enough. He backed a violent racist hate group. He delivered multiple speeches in support of its extremist cause while falsely claiming that America was racist and that the racist protests were justified. After he used the word “fight” in a speech, devastating riots followed that brought a great American city to its knees. That’s the same case that the Democrats have made for impeaching President Trump. If it’s good enough to impeach President Trump, it’s good enough to impeach Obama. Obama abused his office to support a racist hate group. He invited members of the racist hate group to the White House. Including those accused of inciting violence. He used his office to undermine law enforcement efforts to stop the extremist violence. And the end result has been thousands of injuries, numerous deaths, and billions of dollars in damages across America. Impeaching Obama won’t fix all of that. But it will offer justice to some of BLM’s victims. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2021/01/impeach-obama-for- inciting-black-lives.html

No President In History Has Been Treated So Badly By Ron Ewart|January 27th, 2021 “As many have noted, Donald Trump’s presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.” —Shelby Steele, black conservative author, columnist, documentary filmmaker “Please don’t begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.” —Alex Pareene, American writer and editor There were 44 presidents before Donald Trump. A few were great presidents. Some were effective presidents and some were ineffective or corrupt presidents. Three presidents were impeached in the U. S. House. However, they weren’t convicted in the Senate trial because either there was no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, or they weren’t convicted for purely political reasons, or they couldn’t meet the two-thirds majority to convict. Richard Nixon resigned from office before an impeachment resolution was passed in the U. S. House. Had he not resigned, impeachment was a virtual certainty. That the press has always had an adversarial relationship with past presidents is not in dispute. Thomas Jefferson, our third president, had his own problems with the press. In response he said, ”Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Still Jefferson was frustrated and displeased by the partisan nature of the press. He retorted that, “nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” Does any of this sound familiar. Nothing seems to change. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, all presidents before Trump did not have to contend with the obvious collusion that now exists between filthy rich Democrat billionaires, the press, social media, academia and the Democrat Party. For almost five years they attacked Trump and his family, not only hourly and daily, but relentlessly and unmercifully as well. Trump became the butt of all jokes and the whipping boy of all criticism. The attack on Trump really started when Barack Obama “roasted” Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. Perhaps that is why Trump decided to run for President. Even today the Democrats seemed determined to crush Trump even more, with the sham of an impeachment trial in the Senate. Some Republicans, who should be on Trump’s side are equivocating, or putting their finger in the air to determine which way the political wind is blowing. The two words that come to mind are “political cowards.” There are way too many “political cowards” in our alleged Republican Party. Liz Cheney and nine other Republicans are suspicious candidates for the “political coward” award. President Trump did nothing to rise to the level of High Crimes and Misdemeanors and they know it. His second impeachment in the U. S. House was just as politically groundless as his first, without concrete evidence or substance. Some of Trump’s troubles were magnified by his own and sometimes petty demeanor, as were manifested in some of his tweets. The press picked up on his shortcomings and beat him to death with them, all the while refusing to acknowledge the many positive actions he took for America and Americans of all ages, gender and races. Totally ignored is a list of accomplishments that eclipsed the accomplishments of any past president. But Trump made an incalculable error, an error he may not have seem himself before it was too late. He ran for president as a total outsider, beholden to know one. He threw a log into the gears of the Establishment from both parties and ignited a firestorm of opposition from the federal Establishment itself and from the federal bureaucracy that some now call the Deep State. Unbeknownst to most of the American people, that Establishment and Deep State and their corporate, union, socialist, environmental and globalist enablers, fully infected with the Progressive virus, have been building up for decades and its entrenched power, like a wounded lion, will attack anything that threatens it. Donald J. Trump was a direct threat to the Establishment and Deep State, even after he left office. That is why they have to crush he and his movement with impeachment, de-platform him from social media and silence him and his entire cabinet and support staff forever. That’s why they talk of labeling Trump supporters as domestic terrorists and the immediate imperative to re-program them. The Establishment and Deep State are deathly afraid that Trump might still have political power and be able to keep the MAGA movement going. Hell hath no fury than a freedom-loving, well-armed American when scorned and has his or her rights taken away. Might he or she not think of insurrection, civil war, or revolution? With enough pressure, thoughts become actions and the Progressives know it. The only thing the Establishment and Deep State (the Swamp) fear from the freedom crowd is the possibility that they just might decide to challenge The Swamp’s power with violence, en masse. Why else would they arm the U. S. capitol with 26,000 troops during Biden’s inauguration? No matter how bad Trump was treated; no matter that there is a strong possibility that he lost the election due to massive fraud and voting machine tampering; his contribution to America and Americans in four years is unprecedented. Had China’s Coronavirus not erupted on the scene, Trump would have been re-elected in a landslide. No-nothing, intellectually challenged Joe Biden would have been relegated to the scrap heap of failed recent Democrat presidential candidates like Mondale, Dukakis, McGovern, Humphrey and Kerry. With respect to massive voter fraud and voting machine tampering in the 2020 election, Hillary Clinton amassed 65,844,610 votes in the 2016 election and beat Trump by 2.9 million votes, even though Trump won the Electoral College. How could anyone believe that Joe Biden actually received 81,283,485 votes in the 2020 election, a 23% increase for Democrats in just four years? It is truly unbelievable and a blatant fraud perpetrated on the American people! As Thomas Jefferson said, “you can’t trust the newspapers.” Well neither can you trust an American election any more. It has all the earmarks of an Iraqi election under Saddam Hussein, or a Venezuela election under Nicolas Maduro. Surprise! Surprise! The dictator got 100% of the votes cast! If there were any cooler heads in our midst that used logic and intellect to make their decisions instead of dipping into the deep well of emotion or political party blindness, it could easily be construed that Donald J. Trump was one of the best presidents America ever had if you objectively judged what he did for America in both domestic and foreign policy and not what he tweeted. He should be applauded and heralded, not vilified, slandered, smeared, denounced and denigrated, all of which he was by rich billionaires, the news media, social media, the Establishment, the Deep State and the Democrat Party. You can add a few Republicans to that list as well. In recognition of his being, in our opinion, the best president we’ve ever had, we have created not only a special Medal of Freedom for Donald Trump, but a framed certificate to go along with the medal. It is our intent to deliver the MEDAL and CERTIFICATE to Mr. Trump by special delivery as soon as possible after collecting as many signatures as we can. We would like to present the Medal and Certificate to Mr. Trump in person, but the logistics of that may be more than we can accomplish. If you would like to participate in and lend your endorsement and approval of the Medal of Freedom and the Certificate, we ask that you log onto our Trump MEDAL OF FREEDOM web page and follow the instructions contained therein. This is designed to be a high quality endeavor, suitable for an extraordinary president that made us all feel good about America and being Americans. It is no doubt that Mr. Trump has entered private life on a down note, having done so much for the American people and receiving little to no recognition for it. We believe that receiving this Medal and Certificate from tens of thousands (or millions) of Trump supporters will lift his spirits and encourage him to emerge as the true leader of the Republican Party and the MAGA movement. We hope that you will find it in your heart to lend support to this effort. He deserves no less. We ask that you forward the MEDAL OF FREEDOM web page to as many on your list as possible, pass it around to other venues, put it up on social media, write articles about it for on-line newspapers and magazines and send letters to the editors of newspapers applauding this endeavor. Do something that will make you feel good about America for a change. https://newswithviews.com/no-president-in-history-has-been-treated-so-badly/ Prayer for the IDF - Mi Sheberach, Yaakov Shwekey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEpLklULs0

THE SHORASHIM BIBLICAL GIFT CATALOG 005 http://mad.ly/7f9f64?pact=20013931524&fe=1 Support Shorashim! ARUTZ SHEVA Soldier's parents, Emergency Council slam COVID vaccine pressure Parents of IDF soldiers engage attorney as children 'face threats, sanctions, shaming, cancelled leave' for declining COVID-19 vaccine. Mordechai Sones , Jan 27 , 2021 8:49 PM The Public Emergency Council for the Coronavirus Crisis, comprised of senior Israeli doctors and researchers today directed a letter to IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi regarding what they call indirect pressure and coercion to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the IDF. This, after a group of 160 parents of IDF soldiers last week engaged an attorney to protect the rights of their children in the army who they say face threats, sanctions, shaming, and cancelled leave for declining to submit to the COVID-19 vaccine. Group organizer Arnon Grossman spoke to Arutz Sheva about why they are engaging legal representation for soldiers: The issue came to the attention of Galei Tzahal radio, who last week aired an IDF Spokesman statement that there is no policy to pressure soldiers into receiving the vaccine. However, members of the Parents of IDF soldiers group maintain their claim that the IDF Spokesman’s denial has no relation to the situation on the ground, and that soldiers who do not want to be vaccinated continue to face shaming, personal talks with commanders, cancelled leave, and isolation. The Public Emergency Council wrote to the Chief of Staff: "We appeal and request your urgent intervention regarding recurring reports in media and social media, as well as inquiries from parents that include official publications by various units, which explicitly show that in the military there exists a system of pressure (whether by imposing sanctions, providing benefits, or social pressure) on soldiers who are reluctant to be vaccinated. This, in stark contrast to repeated statements by senior military officials and the announcement by the IDF Spokesman." The Council is comprised of senior doctors in Israel who "can no longer stand on the sidelines in light of what is happening in Israel." The Council is an ad hoc volunteer group, not funded and not politically identified with any party. "As you can also see in the attached document (Maglan, Paratroopers Brigade), while officially the military has chosen an approach of encouragement to vaccinate, as it trickles down to the field units, this translates into a very serious violation of the principles of medical ethics of autonomy and confidentiality. With respect to these documents, there is no justification that a soldier who refuses to be vaccinated must talk to his commander, who is not a professional authority or to provide an answer that respects the principles of 'informed consent'. This is a situation designed to cause the soldier to feel obligated and create a situation that simulates an order, and even creates a blatant violation of medical confidentiality. It might have been possible to understand a request that a soldier who refuses to be vaccinated talk to a medic or a doctor, but certainly not a commander. With regard to the guidelines in AH 35, the issue of the 'green passport' has been firmly rejected in the world as ineffective and morally, ethically, and socially defective. The document clearly shows an active 'green passport' program, which constitutes invalid pressure that is in serious violation of the Patient Rights Law and Basic Rights. "Needless to say, COVID-19 poses a very low risk to soldiers. Of the many thousands of soldiers who tested positive, there was a meager number who needed medical attention, and no one has died. The primary importance of the vaccine is in protecting at-risk populations, and in preventing severe morbidity among them. The risk of a soldier dying from COVID-19 (including in this age group), is lower than the risk of being killed in a training accident or road accident on weekend leave. In addition, it is important to emphasize that it is not at all clear to what extent the vaccine reduces infection and contagion. So that, also from the military's point of view, the health rationale behind such heavy pressure is unclear. "Patient's choice is an ethical axiom. Even when it is clear that life-saving treatment is required, the law gives the patient the clear freedom to choose not to receive essential treatment, such as chemotherapy. Among the signatories to this letter are the former Chief Medical Officer as well as the drafter of the army's code of ethics, and we - who welcome the vaccine and support its distribution - clearly say that it is all the more important to keep these things in a hierarchical system such as the army where it is easy to 'slide' from recommendation to pressure and issuing commands. "In light of the evidence that commanders in the field are acting according to their beliefs and worldview, we ask that you consider communicating to all soldiers, commanders, and units the message that it is forbidden to oblige, instruct, command, incentivize, or create negative reinforcements to encourage a soldier to be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. Beyond that, to remind the commanders and clinics that medical confidentiality must be maintained regarding the decision to get vaccinated. Every male and female soldier should know that they have the direct backing of the Chief of Staff to choose their medical choices in general, and regarding the COVID-19 vaccine in particular." Council Members include: • Former IDF Chief Medical Officer and Medical Association Ethics Committee Chairman Brigadier General (Res.) Prof. Eran Dolev. • Former Health Ministry Director and Sheba Medical Center Director Prof. Mordechai (Motke) Shani. • AIDS medicine in Israel pioneer and Tropical Diseases and AIDS Center at Ben-Gurion University head Prof. Zvi Bentoitch. • Former School of Medicine Dean and Ben Gurion University President Prof. Rivka Carmi. • Israel Prize laureate post-trauma expert Prof. Zehava Solomon. • Former Health Ministry Geriatrics Division Institutional Services head, Dignity and Patients' Rights Committee Chairman, and National Council for Geriatrics member Prof. Yaakov Gindin. • Infectious diseases in children specialist and Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv Microbiological Laboratory Director Prof. Amos Adler. • Hebrew University Family Medicine Department and School of Medicine Head Prof. Amnon Lahad. • Tel Hashomer Hospital oncogenetic unit and clinic for high-risk women founder and former Health Ministry Supreme Helsinki Committee Chairman Prof. Eitan Friedman. • Professor of Social Work, former President of the Achva Academic College, and Ben Gurion University School of Social Work head Prof. Elian Alkrinawi. • Former English Hospital in Nazareth Director and Society for the Promotion of the Health of the Arab Population in Israel Chairman Prof. Elian Alkrinawi. • Former Meir Hospital Director and United Health Insurance Fund CEO Prof. Asher Elhiani. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295734 [Way to go! It is time there was a major rebellion against this kind of thing. There should be resistance to the Mask which really doesn’t work and all parts of the insane control freak behaviors associated with the Plan-Demic. – rdb]

Former Chief of Staff: Any attack on Hezbollah's missiles will cause extensive damage Staff Gadi Eizenkot at INSS conference: Sunni states and Israel have common interest in preventing Iranian nuclear capabilities. Arutz Sheva Staff , Jan 28 , 2021 1:36 AM Former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot spoke on Wednesday at the annual conference of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). In his remarks, Eizenkot stressed the importance of cooperation between Israel and Arab states, together with the United States, in fighting Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “The pragmatic Sunni states in the Gulf and Israel have a common interest in preventing Iranian nuclear capability and regional hegemony. Cooperation under an American umbrella is very important – while maintaining significant Israeli capabilities to operate independently in Iran,” he said. Hezbollah, warned Eizenkot, “has deployed its missile array, including those with precision capabilities, in the heart of civilian settings. Therefore, any attack will result in extensive collateral damage.” “If Israel wanted to surprise Hezbollah with a broad attack on the precision systems it would not be able to wait for the evacuation of the civilian population,” he continued, adding, “Such war would also cause heavy damage to the Israeli home front, since despite the capabilities of Israeli air defenses, it would not be possible to guarantee complete defense.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295743

Reserve soldiers stand up to ‘Breaking the Silence’ Soldiers whose friends died in operation discovered Breaking the Silence turned their friends into war criminals. Now they're suing. Arutz Sheva Staff , Jan 27 , 2021 7:07 PM Several soldiers have tired of being besmirched and accused of war crimes while participating in important military operations. Two IDF soldiers are now suing a fellow soldier who served with them in the same tank after he gave testimony to Breaking the Silence and accused his fellow soldiers of participating in indiscriminate fire against innocent civilians during Operation Protective Edge. Attorney Tzur Polk, who serves as the legal advisor of the ‘Ad Kan’ organization, is representing the soldiers and drafted the complaint. In the complaint he writes, “In 2014, the IDF entered the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge after three teenagers were kidnapped and rockets were fired at Israel. Soldiers endangered their lives and many were killed or injured. Five months later, they discovered a book ‘How we Fought in Gaza’ published by Breaking the Silence, which contains statements from 111 soldiers with 10-12 particularly outrageous claims about what the soldiers allegedly did. “The statements include an alleged bet over who could murder a motorcyclist from furthest away just because the soldiers were bored, a supposed competition over who could destroy more vehicles from furthest away, an outlandish story about a soldier who didn’t like the color ‘orange and thus asked his commander if he could destroy an orange building, the alleged execution of an elderly man, and the burying of an elderly man alive.” These statements, explains Attorney Polk, received significant media coverage throughout the world including in European Parliaments and other forums. Polk continued, “The Ad Kan Organization has previously noted that Breaking the Silence is not careful about verifying claims and publishes wild accusations. After these accusations were made, soldiers’ good names were damaged and the accusations were brought before them by the military police. The military police presented the soldiers with testimonies from videos on the Breaking the Silence website and asked the soldiers to comment.” “All of the cases were closed and the soldiers were determined to be innocent of the charges,” emphasizes Polk. “This case was brought by two soldiers, Costa and Shneur, the commander and another soldier in the tank, who are suing Yaron Zeev who was in charge of the artillery. Yaron provided testimony to Breaking the Silence and his testimony was split into 15 parts and published as separate pieces by Breaking the Silence. Yaron made many very specific claims about what others did, yet alleged that he had no part. However, it is known that a tank is unable to fire unless the entire team takes part since without any one member it will not work. Therefore all of the soldiers in the tank were interrogated about these incidents.” “We identified the soldiers and questioned other soldiers who served with them. We determined that the alleged actions were not technically feasible. Furthermore, Gilad Ach, the Director of Ad Kan, traveled with Shneur to Germany where Yaron is currently living in order to meet with him. Yaron had avoided telephone calls from his fellow soldiers and upon seeing them, he fled and refused to cooperate.” Attorney Polk continues, “We recently received materials from the military police. Yaron Zeev was arrested by the military police when he visited his family and was interrogated. After the interrogation, the military police determined that in every case he mentioned the shooting was either justified or never actually took place. Yaron claims that the statements he provided to Breaking the Silence were edited. It is indeed clear that the testimony he gave to the military police is quite different from what was published by Breaking the Silence.” According to Polk, every fa can be proven and he expects that “Yaron Zeev will attend the hearings, and will either argue that he and all of his fellow soldiers are murderers or admit that he lied.” MORE - https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295724 [The breaking the silence group are essentially ‘self-hating Jews who love to make trouble for others. If they are involved simply don’t believe it. It is like believing a demon-rat. – rdb] Pfizer: Vaccine effective against South African mutation Initial study by Pfizer shows company vaccine seems to be effective against South African coronavirus Arutz Sheva Staff , Jan 28 , 2021 10:09 AM Pfizer has announced that a study on the new South African coronavirus mutation showed that the company's vaccine is effective against the variant, Israel Hayom reported. In a Thursday morning statement, Pfizer said that its vaccine is only slightly less effective against the mutation than against the original, contradicting earlier studies which were published in the past several weeks. According to Pfizer, research done in the company labs in Texas tested the vaccine against the three mutations present in the South African mutation, while using antibodies from people who had received both doses of the company's vaccine. Pfizer noted that the research had been done using a genetically engineered virus which included only some of the characteristics of the mutation. The company is currently preparing to test a genetically engineered virus which includes all of the genetic characteristics of the South African strain. The results are expected to be published in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Pfizer announced that they would begin work on an additional dose of the vaccine which would provide complete protection from the South African variant. "Every time a new variant comes up we should be able to test whether or not [our vaccine] is effective," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was quoted by Bloomberg as saying. "Once we discover something that it is not as effective, we will very, very quickly be able to produce a booster dose that will be a small variation to the current vaccine." Earlier this month, it was announced that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against the British coronavirus mutation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295767 [Their experimental treatment. – rdb]

Will there be a third dose of coronavirus vaccine? 'If vaccine isn't effective against mutation, we'll weigh third dose,' Head of Public Health Services Dr. Alroy-Preis says. Arutz Sheva Staff , Jan 28 , 2021 10:33 AM Head of Public Health Services Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis on Thursday morning spoke about the possibility that the coronavirus vaccine might not be effective enough against the South African mutation. In an interview with Galei Tzahal, Dr. Alroy-Preis said: "If the vaccine is less effective against the mutation, we will consider the possibility of a third dose." "As of two days ago, 63 people who received the second dose contracted coronavirus. Of those, five are hospitalized in serious or critical condition. That's just 0.0014%." She emphasized that the number of coronavirus cases has not yet seen a significant drop. "There are 7,600 confirmed cases today, and we still haven't received the data from the hospitals. I hope we will begin to see a drop in the numbers of seriously ill patients." Meanwhile, Pfizer has announced that a preliminary study showed its vaccine to be effective against the South African mutation, and that the company will tweak its vaccine to be effective against all emerging coronavirus mutations. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295769

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