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Ben-Gvir: Biden sides with Tlaib, Sinwar over Netanyahu 

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The national security minister told The New York Times that the US president is “enormously mistaken” to pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas. 

JOSHUA MARKS JEWISH NEWS SERVICE

(March 27, 2024 / JNS)

Israel’s National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of siding with the enemies of the Jewish state.

During an interview with The New York Times published on Tuesday, Ben-Gvir said, “Presently, Biden prefers the line of [Palestinian-American Democratic Representative from Michigan] Rashida Tlaib and [Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya] Sinwar to the line of [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir.”

While the Biden administration provided unwavering early support for Jerusalem in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, including Biden becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit Israel during wartime, Washington has taken an increasingly critical stance as the ground war against Hamas in Gaza enters its sixth month.

This culminated on Monday with the Americans deciding not to use their veto power at the United Nations Security Council, allowing a resolution to pass that for the first time decoupled a demand for a temporary ceasefire from the release of 134 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.


In response to the U.S. move, Netanyahu canceled a high-level delegation’s planned visit to Washington.

Netanyahu said that the changed U.S. position “hurts the war effort and the effort to release the hostages” by giving Hamas hope that international pressure will bring about a ceasefire without requiring the terror group to release the captives.

The Israeli delegation was supposed to discuss alternatives to a pending IDF ground operation in Rafah city, Hamas’s last bastion in the Gaza Strip. While Israel is adamant that the operation is required to achieve its war goals of destroying Hamas as a political and military entity in Gaza, the Biden administration opposes a full-scale offensive.

For his part, Ben-Gvir in a statement called the passage of the U.N. resolution “proof that President Biden is not prioritizing Israel and the free world’s victory over terrorism, but rather his own political considerations.”

Ben-Gvir called for Israel to ramp up its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.

Secret French Military Documents Show It’s Impossible for Ukraine To Win the War – Officers About Their Troops: ‘Facing the Russians, France Is Army of Cheerleaders!’

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By Paul Serran Gateway Pundate

The French paper Marianne has published excerpts by secret military documents that are causing an uproar in Europe and the world, for dealing with the situation on the ground in Ukraine without the disguise of propaganda that pervades almost all reports on the subject.

In the piece, the French journalists wanted to understand what happened to President Emmanuel Macron to make him consider sending troops to Ukraine?

These ‘confidential defense reports’ explain the ‘panic’ at the Élysée palace.

When it comes to the perspective of sending troops to fight the Russian forces, they were incredibly blunt in their assessment.

“Several French soldiers, interviewed by Marianne, say they ‘fell out of the closet’. ‘We must make no mistake, facing the Russians, we are an army of cheerleaders!’, mocks a senior officer, convinced that ‘sending French troops’ to the Ukrainian front would simply be ‘not reasonable’.”

The greatest takeaway from the documents is that ‘a Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible’. The Russian forces are waging ‘a slow and long, high-intensity war based on the continued attrition of the Ukrainian army’.

The defense reports harshly criticize the ‘disastrous’ planning done by western military and Ukraine:

Well, well, well, the French army a bunch of cheerleaders? Doesn’t surprise me, nevertheless it is extremely concerning. Because of Gender confusion and DEI policies most western armies will soon follow suit. Another fine mess the Clinton and Obama administrations have gotten the world into. RHarris

House Intel Chair Turner warns of ‘serious national security threat,’ urges Biden to declassify 

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner on Wednesday urged President Biden to declassify information related to a “serious national security threat.” 

Turner, however, did not specify the nature of the threat.

“Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat,” said Turner, an Ohio Republican. 

“I am requesting that President Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat.”

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said White House press briefing, after Turner’s social media post on the matter, that earlier in the week he offered to personally brief the “Gang of Eight on the matter Thursday and declime to provide any detail at least until before that time.

The Gang of Eight is the Democrat and Republican leaders of the House and Senate and the chairmen a top member of other party on the Senate and House Intelligence committees.

“I am a bit surprised that Congressman Turner came out publicly today in advance of a meeting on the books for me to go sit with him alongside our intelligence and defense professionals tomorrow,” Sullivan said, according to FoxNews.com.  

This does not surprise me at all. A porous southern border and an ineffective foreign policy emboldens our enemies. Peace through strength. Our pretend President shows weakness and confusion. Rh