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The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as “fake news”. Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.

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“I refuse to spend this sacred day listening to lies and condemnations. This debate disgraces the fallen, and Israel will not take part in it.”

The United Nations Security Council convened Tuesday for an open debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite requests to move the meeting by Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan in order to respect the sanctity of Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen IDF soldiers and victims of terror.

In an act of protest, Ambassador Erdan read the names of the troops who fell and those murdered by Palestinian terror over the past year, lit a memorial candle, and left the chamber.

Before leaving the chamber together with the Israeli delegation, Ambassador Erdan slammed the members of the Council.

“We made numerous requests to reschedule today’s debate, describing the deep importance of the day, yet tragically, this Council refused to budge. The decision to nonetheless hold this debate on today of all days only further proves what Israelis already know and feel about this biased organization,” he said.

“Today, on this hallowed day, every Israeli remembers those courageous sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and dear friends, who lost their lives defending Israel. Yet while Israelis mourn, this Council – as usual – will hear more blatant lies condemning the State of Israel and falsely painting it as the root of all the region’s problems. This could not be further from the truth.”

“I refuse to spend this sacred day listening to lies and condemnations. This debate disgraces the fallen, and Israel will not take part in it,” he concluded.

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Republican donors hoped Ron DeSantis could replace Donald Trump as a right-wing populist without the chaos and ineptitude. Instead, DeSantis is looking more and more like Jeb Bush.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis gives remarks at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on April 21, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Last November, things momentarily looked auspicious for Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his allies in the Republican Party. Having barely eked out a win in 2018 over Democratic rival Andrew Gillum, DeSantis’s reelection bid was a double-digit blowout. As the most prominent face in the GOP, moreover, Donald Trump could be made to wear its lackluster midterm results and, perhaps, finally be cast off for good. To many apparatchiks and big donors, it looked like a perfect opportunity.

For one thing, DeSantis’s electoral track record proved that he was a winner: in just a few years, he had dyed an erstwhile purple state deep red and could pitch himself as a candidate who could replicate the same result elsewhere. His political antennae also seemed well attuned to the desires of conservative voters. As Florida’s governor, DeSantis’s strategy has been to stimulate the pleasure centers of the Republican base as much as he possibly can: by dispensing with vaccine precautions; by attacking Disney over “wokeness”; by declaring war on “woke capitalism” and “gender ideology.”

It did not seem unreasonable, therefore, to think he might be offered to the GOP primary electorate as a kind of compromise candidate — someone who could provide an ersatz simulation of Trumpism while, at the same time, severing it from the actual personality of Donald Trump. To this end, the spin doctors went into high gear and the big donors duly opened their wallets. No less than Rupert Murdoch publicly warned Donald Trump that it was time to move on.

Less than six months later, the Republican establishment doesn’t have much to show for its DeSantis efforts. As it stands, Trump leads the GOP primary field by an average of twenty-nine points and enjoyed a 15 percent lead on DeSantis in a recent survey commissioned by NBC News. While the governor’s poll numbers have plummeted, the former president has opened up a big lead in endorsements from elected Republican officials and currently enjoys a considerable edge in no less than DeSantis’s home state. Trump, in characteristic form, has gleefully taken to narrating the whole thing: “Ron’s poll numbers are dropping so fast and furious that many people are speculating he’s not going to run. . . . because I’m leading in Texas by forty-two points, in Iowa and New Hampshire by a lot — overall by close to forty.”

DeSantis has yet to even enter the race, but the rivalry already has obvious parallels with an earlier feud between Trump and another Florida governor, whose ham-fisted 2016 campaign proved that there really are limits to what money can buy.

Seven years ago, with a cavalcade of donors and a windfall of endorsements at his back, Jeb Bush secured a grand total of three delegates at a price tag of about $50 million each. Despite unprecedented opposition from the Republican establishment, meanwhile, Trump arrived at the Republican National Convention with some 1,725 pledged, his own per-delegate spending coming in at just $39,000.

That disjuncture owed much to Bush’s laughable ineptitude as a candidate. But it was also the product of a failed strategy that sought to meet Trump’s insults and bombast by taking the high road. It’s therefore difficult to watch DeSantis pitch himself to crowds of donors with bloodless statements like “Florida shows that leadership really matters. Results matter. And I think if you look at our results they are second to none” and not immediately think of Jeb Bush.

In interactions with the media and public, meanwhile, he radiates the distinctly Jeb-ish air of a diffident man easily knocked off his game by an opponent who refuses to play according to the standard rules of political etiquette.

“I’m not a candidate, so we’ll see if and when that changes,” Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump. pic.twitter.com/nDVeyBoVHN

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 24, 2023

DeSantis, like Bush, also seems distinctly vulnerable to Trump’s heterodox rhetoric around entitlements like Medicare and Social Security. As Jamelle Bouie observed in January, the Florida governor’s “radical and unpopular views on social insurance and the welfare state” represent an obvious chink in his armor — a fact that Trump (who, if nothing else, has a talent for sensing political weakness) visibly understands. Even DeSantis’s allies and backers are beginning to sound anxious.

These developments suggest that Trump’s opponents on the Right continue to misunderstand the sources of his appeal and underestimate the firmness of his grip on the Republican base. In 2016, such myopia was at least partly understandable. Trump, after all, was an outsider with little real political experience and seemed to be violating every established rule about how to win a presidential nomination. Some seven years later, however, they appear to have learned so little that their chosen anti-Trump figure is already flailing in a race he has yet to even join. Let the Jebification commence.

CNN admits that the “sensitive US nuclear technologies” in question “could be used in a way that undermines US national security interests”, which is disturbingly similar to earlier US claims about the so-called “biological research labs”.

The population of the Jewish state is expected to reach 15.2 million in 2048 ,when the country celebrates its 100th anniversary.

By Pesach Benson, TPS

Israel’s population stands at 9.72 million, according to figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Independence Day.

Of those 7,145,000 are Jewish, or 73.5 percent. Arabs make up 21% of the population, while other minorities, such as Druze, Bedouins and Circassians make up 5.5% of the population.

Since last Independence Day, Israel’s population has increased by 216,000, or 2.3% over the previous year. This includes the births of 183,000 babies, the arrival of approximately 79,000 immigrants and the deaths of 51,000 people.

The bureau also noted that 46% of world Jewry was living in Israel as of the end of 2021.

According to the bureau’s projections, the Israeli population will number 11.1 million in 2030, 13.2 million in 2040 and 15.2 million in 2048 when the country celebrates its 100th anniversary.

The first Israeli census in November 1948 counted 806,000 citizens. Today’s population is 12 times that size. According to the bureau, about 60,000 Israeli citizens alive today were born in 1948, and more than 3,300 are over 100 years old.

Since 1948, more than 3.3 million people have immigrated to Israel, of which 1.5 million (43.7%) arrived after 1990.

Twenty eight percent of the current Israeli population are aged 14 or younger while 12% are over the age of 65.

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