Morning Report: 2024-07-03

ISRAEL:  CDR SALAMANDER, CAROLINE GLICK, AND THE IDF'S FAILED DOCTRINES.

https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/caroline-glicks-failed-doctrines

The title of CDR Salamander's blog post is a little confusing; the article is an endorsement of Caroline Glick, sharing her critiques of the "failed doctrines" of the IDF.  [EDIT:  CDR Salamander has fixed the title.]  Quoting from Glick:

Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains, rather than brawn, would rule the roost.

…the second underlying assumption that guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. This assumption, also championed by Barak, asserted that Israel’s most important strategic asset was the United States.

Salamander adds:

The Smartest People in the Room™ assured them all was well.

When this war ends - or at least this stage of a “war” that may never really end - this reality will have to be addressed, and probably looks like it already is.

The failure of the second assumption should ring loudly in Europe as well. The Russians have made this apparent.

Glick's original article - titled 'Rising from the Ruins of a Generation of Failed Doctrines' - is here:

https://carolineglick.com/rising-from-the-ruins-of-a-generation-of-failed-doctrines/

Glick notes that the IDF is already starting to learn some hard lessons, and moving back towards domestically-produced weapons and munitions in a program called the "Independence Project".

COMMENTARY.  I have little to add to the knowledgeable analyses of Caroline Glick and CDR Salamander, but I do want to point out one thing.  The IDF was not wrong in its estimation of the American people's support for the Jewish state, but it made the mistake of confusing the American people with the American government.

 Every American patriot understands that while our own Nation's security is entrusted to our government and our armed forces, ultimately it is the American citizenry - We The People - who are responsible for our Nation's safety and our own.  Our Bill of Rights enshrines the individual citizen's right to keep and bear the tools of his or her own defense, and of the Nation's.  This is every American's last line of defense against enemies foreign and domestic, and it is our protection in the event of an ineffectual or hostile government regime.

 The defense of Israel is Israel's responsibility.  The Israeli people have paid a terrible price for their government's over-reliance on technology, intellect, and a friendly regime in Washington.  As Americans prepare to celebrate our Independence Day, Israelis are looking for a way forward in the wake of last October's bloodshed.  May they do so in a renewed spirit of independence.

Morning Report: 2024-07-02

EUROPE:  FRENCH ELECTIONS FAVOR LE PEN IN FIRST ROUND.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/01/le-pen-victory-triggers-leftist-protests-what-happens-in-the-french-election-now/

'France-wide election results trickled in overnight for the first round of the Parliamentary selection, largely confirming the exit polls published Sunday night and the opinion polling in the days running up to the vote. Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) is the largest party with 33.15 per cent of votes cast on the highest turnout for a French election in decades. The New Popular Front, a new pan-left alliance put together for this vote got 27.99 per cent and globalist-managerialist President Emmanuel Macron’s faction came in third with just 20.76 per cent.'

 

ISRAEL:  LIORA ARGAMANI, MOTHER OF NOA, PASSES.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/392409

The mother of Lior Argamani, who was rescued from Hamas captivity on June 8 together with three other hostages from the October 7 attacks, has died from brain cancer.

SCOTUS:  PRESIDENTS COVERED BY IMMUNITY FOR OFFICIAL ACTS.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/01/trump-wins-supreme-court-says-presidents-covered-by-limited-immunity/

The Court held, according to the summary of the decision:

Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.

 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  ANTIFA CELL BUSTED.

https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-so-cal-antifa-members-all-sentenced-to-prison-or-jail-over-2021-san-diego-attack

'Eight convicted rioters were sentenced to varying prison and jail terms last week for their role in a So Cal Antifa attack in southern California in 2021.

The sentencing in San Diego Superior Court on June 28 brought the conclusion to more than three years of investigations, a secret indictment, plea deals, and a dramatic trial. This marks the first time in U.S. history that prosecutors have broken up an Antifa cell with a string of multiple convictions. In fact, all 12 defendants related to the case were convicted.'

 

Morning Report: 2024-07-01

 SOVIET FLAG RAISED OVER SVALBARD.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2024/06/back-ussr-soviet-flags-wave-svalbard

Russian state-owned company Arktikugol has recently raised three large hammer-and-sickle flags at its facilities at Pyramiden and Barentsburg.  'It was last weekend General Director of Trust Arktikugol, Ildar Neverov, climbed the summit of Pyramiden and hoisted the flag of the Soviet Union. '

EL AL PLANE REFUSED REFUELING IN TURKEY, DIVERTED TO RHODES.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-808378

An El Al spokesperson announced that "following the medical incident that occurred on flight LY5102 from Warsaw to Tel Aviv, and the plane's landing in Antalya, the passenger was referred for urgent medical treatment."

"The flight crew prepared for a renewed take-off to Tel Aviv, but local workers refused to refuel the plane, even though it was a medical case. The plane took off to Rhodes, where it will refuel before taking off to Israel." 

From insurgency to establishment.

 
I don't regret the years I spent campaigning to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, and transgender people.  I do not support today's organized LGBT movement because it has stopped being a quest for justice and has become an exercise in raw power.  

The anti-gay social conservatives of an earlier generation often claimed that "homosexuals are trying to destroy society" which certainly is not true.  What is true, however, is that the leftist LGBT organizations really are trying to destroy society - not because they're gay but because they're leftist, and that's what leftists do.

Gay advocacy groups are far from unique in this regard.  Since the early 20th century, the left has successfully marketed itself to minority groups - workers, Jews (in Europe and America), black Americans, other ethnic minorities, and gay people - as the "protector of the oppressed".  But this "protection" comes at a price:  eternal loyalty to the left is demanded.  And in order to justify its perpetual claim on that loyalty, the left has an interest in perpetuating the prejudices - or at least, the perception of the prejudices - that it claims to fight.