Trump’s Golan Move Could ‘Lead to NATO’s Collapse' in the Long Run, PhD Claims

This week, President Trump announced that the time had come for the US to recognise Tel Aviv's claim to the Golan Heights following over 50 years of illegal occupation of the Syrian region by Israel following the 1967 Six Day War. Sputnik spoke with American writer Dr. E. Michael Jones to get a sense of what drove Trump to make his decision.

Sputnik: What is your impression of the Golan Heights announcement, and the accompanying 'Deal of the Century' — this mysterious deal mentioned by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that no one seems to know anything about?

E. Michael Jones: In his announcement [on the Golan Heights] with Mike Pompeo, Benjamin Netanyahu said this proves that America stands by Israel. This is on YouTube, it has 13,000 views, and if you want to know whether America stands by Israel, just start to read the comments. None of the comments are in favour of Israel. They are all [conveying the sentiment] that 'now we have the United States of Israel', 'America is selling out' and so on and so forth. So this is not the case. The American people are indifferent, and when they're not indifferent, they're hostile to the whole thing.

The question is: why is this happening now? The real reason is that you have two drowning men holding on to each other in the middle of a very big storm. The two drowning men here are Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is on the verge of being indicted. He desperately needs some type of coup to get out of that mess. Donald Trump is in the same situation in the United States. Not exactly facing indictment, but, ever since he got into office, an attempt by the Deep State to get him removed from office, or at least tame him and get him doing what the Deep State wanted.

This is not why he was elected. I was there in South Bend, Indiana when 5,000 people showed up and rallied for Trump because they realised at this point that they had two parties that represented the interests of the oligarchs, and no party that represents the interests of the American people. One of the main components of oligarchic rule is Jewish hegemony over the political system. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota brought this up – she's a Muslim, a Somali, and everybody cried 'how could she say this?' Well, she said it because everybody knows it's true. So right now you have this huge dichotomy between the alternative media, YouTube, the comments there, and the mainstream media which is simply going along with the plan, which led to Donald Trump becoming president.

Sputnik: Do you think that Washington's support of Netanyahu prior to the upcoming elections amounts to interference in Israel's internal affairs?

E. Michael Jones: [Laughs] This is a joke! Are you kidding me?! Of course they mutually interfere with each other's elections. I'd rather talk about the reverse of it…Does Israel interfere with the American election? Of course Israel does. Netanyahu shows up here, in spite of the fact that Obama did not want him to come here, campaigns against the [Iran] nuclear agreement, gets 25 standing ovations, and this isn't interference in the election? This is a joke; they control the elections. They don't interfere, they control the elections.

Sputnik: The US recognition of the Golan Heights has been condemned by the international community. Many politicians worldwide have been saying that the US actions violate international laws. What's your opinion on the line that the administration is taking?

E. Michael Jones: Every time Donald Trump does something like this, he takes one more step toward destroying NATO. The most vehement reaction against this came from Erdogan in Turkey, who said this cannot be tolerated. Erdogan is in NATO. Erdogan has now bought Russian missiles, the United States is now not going to send its F-35s [to Turkey]. It is only a formality to say that Turkey is in NATO. Once you buy these missiles, that means you're basically not inter-operational, and that means you're out, and this has only accelerated the alienation of Turkey from NATO.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201903231073482316-trump-golan-announcement-to-backfire-writer-warns/

High fructose corn syrup A government engineered explosion

The deep dark secrets of high fructose corn syrup

The deep dark secrets of high fructose corn syrup.

#1. There’s nothing natural about it.

#2. It requires toxic materials to produce

#3. It is overwhelmingly the most used sweetener in America and it’s in everything.

How healthy is it? Not very.

But it sure is cheap and it makes its makers a whole lot of money.

There’s a reason high fructose corn syrup maker Archer Daniels Midland spent tens of millions of dollars sponsoring TV news programs.

One of the unlisted ingredients: mercury

https://www.brasscheck.com/video/high-fructose-corn-syrup/?omhide=true

Egypt sees Golan Heights as occupied Syrian land – Cairo

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Cairo considers the Golan Heights as occupied Syrian land. The statement rejects a call by US President Donald Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The Egyptian ministry cited UN Security Council resolution 497 of 1981 which rejected Israel’s annexation of the territory. Cairo stressed that everybody should respect the resolutions of international legitimacy and the UN Charter “in respect of the inadmissibility of acquiring land by force.”

https://www.rt.com/newsline/454478-egypt-golan-us-syria/

Politics Has Failed, Now Central Banks Are Failing

With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle.

Those living in revolutionary times are rarely aware of the tumult ahead: in 1766, a mere decade before the Declaration of Independence, virtually no one was calling for American independence. Indeed, in 1771, a mere 5 years before the rebellion was declared, the voices promoting independence were few and far between.

The shift from a pre-revolutionary era to a revolutionary era took less than a year. Perhaps no one exemplified the rapidity and totality of radicalization more than Benjamin Franklin, who went from an avowed Loyalist bent on reform to a dedicated, zealous revolutionary at the tender age of 70. (Old dogs can learn new tricks, at least in revolutionary eras.)

Recall that news could only travel as fast as a ship between seaports or a horse on the colonies’ minimalist roads, and it took days to travel between Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and much longer to reach Williamsburg and Charleston and points west. Communications were slow and limited, and this makes the rapid change of the political tide even more extraordinary.

Are we in a pre-revolutionary era? Here’s clue #1: politics has failed. When the political process can no longer fix what’s broken, politics has failed. When entire classes of citizenry no longer feel represented, politics has failed. When the system delivers a steadily declining standard of living to the bottom 80% of households, politics has failed.

Clue #2: having failed, the political machinery passed the baton to the central bank, which attempted to fix what’s broken by creating money out of thin air.“Free” money and low-cost credit has always been viewed as the go-to fix for whatever’s broken, because it’s, well, free to the issuing central state and politically popular (everybody loves free money, free bread and free circuses).

This political expediency works for a time–hence it’s popularity throughout history– but eventually the asymmetries, perverse incentives and unintended consequences pile up and the entire financial system capsizes.

Clue #3: America’s monetary substitute for political process has failed. The failure isn’t visible to those paid not to look at centralized failure, but it’s visible to objective observers. Glance at the chart below: the Federal Reserve has announced it will end reducing its “emergency response to save the world” balance sheet in September 2019, leaving it roughly $3 trillion larger than it was a decade ago in the pre-crisis definition of “normal.”

This exceedingly modest reduction has been called “normalization,” and so the end of “normalization” means we’re back to normal, right?

Calling the extraordinarily abnormal balance sheet “normal” doesn’t magically render it normal.

The magic trick of substituting monetary policy for the political process has failed. Creating credit and currency out of thin air is not a substitute for the loss of representation, soaring inequality, the dominance of parasitic elites or for responding to the changing realities of finance, economics, demographics or resources.

Central banks only have a few levers, and when they lower interest rates and buy assets, they’re only temporarily propping up a failing system: they’ve fixed nothing. Huge swaths of the populace are still unrepresented; parasitic elites still dominate the financial and political systems; wealth and income inequality has been greatly accelerated; the majority of people are still losing ground and their wealth/income are increasingly precarious.

Revolutions are manifestations of dynamics that have been festering beneath the surface for decades. Those benefiting from a failing status quo–the top 5% that dominate finance, government, the media, think tanks, philanthro-capitalist foundations, higher education and the national defense/healthcare cartels–all reckon that since the system works great for me, it works great for everyone.

With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/politics-has-failed-now-central-banks-are-failing/

How Israel Rules The World Of Cyber Security

‘New York Times’ reporter Bergman to speak at AIPAC– though he’s not identified as a Times reporter

Five months back we saw New York Times reporter Ronen Bergman at a closed-to-the-media AIPAC event in Westchester County praising the Israel lobby organization.

“You know, I’ve been all over the U.S. with AIPAC and it’s always a great pleasure, as an Israeli. I always tell AIPAC, you do so much in the U.S., and… I know that you’ve got our backs. It’s such a great feeling.”

Well, Bergman is going to have that great feeling again real soon. He will be speaking at AIPAC this coming Sunday at a session on the threat Iran poses to Israel. The panel at the policy conference in Washington sounds like a typically-slanted presentation by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee:

…the Islamic Republic is continuing its aggressive behavior across the region. Iran is building its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, supporting the Assad regime in Syria, shipping missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and attempting to establish the Revolutionary Guard in the Syrian Golan Heights, next to Israel. …And what can be done to counter Iran’s negative influence in the Middle East?

AIPAC lists Bergman as “Investigative Journalist and Author, Yedioth Ahronoth.” How curious that AIPAC left the Times out. The Times is very clear itself: Bergman is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine. On twitter, Bergman states that he works for the New York Times as well as Yedioth.

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. AIPAC exists to assure American support for Israeli colonization and massacres; the New York Times does a poor job covering AIPAC’s influence; most of the Democratic presidential field is skipping AIPAC because it’s rolling out a red carpet to the prime minister even after he attacks Palestinians as non-citizens; and AIPAC doesn’t let independent media cover its conference. But Israeli reporter Bergman loves the organization, and he’ll be there.

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/reporter-bergman-identified/

Netanyahu, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) display racist views

Netanyahu: “Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the nation-state law we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people — and not anyone else.”

How is the camel’s back not broken yet?

Fifty years of occupation, twelve years of blockade, 600,000 Israeli settlers, 250 dead unarmed Gazan protesters, three one-sided “wars” in which 3,500 Palestinians in Gaza (and about 150 Israelis) have been killed–that’s not a big enough deal for us to utter a word of reprimand or turn off the financial spigot to Israel.

The US is shelling out $10 million a day, $7,000 a minute in aid–not humanitarian, but military aid, mind you–to a country that last summer passed the openly racist Nation-State Law, that last month saw its prime minister create a coalition including disciples of a Jewish supremacist, that last week disqualified pro-Palestinian parties from even appearing on the election ballot, while welcoming an anti-Palestinian candidate who is a member of a Jewish terror group.

These outrageous acts did not outrage our politicians; Israel’s leaders are emboldened.

Israel for Jews only

Prime Minister Netanyahu went on record over the weekend in defense of that indefensible Nation-State Law.

On Sunday, when a TV personality dared to suggest that “Israel is a state of all its citizens and that all people were created equal,” he felt compelled to respond:

Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the nation-state law we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people — and not anyone else.

And then:

[Arabs in Israel] have equal rights.

(Question: Equal to what? Answer: Equal to the rights of second-class citizens.)

Netanyahu’s next statement completely disassociated the Palestinian people from their own homeland:

The Arab citizens have 22 nation states around them and they do not need another.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/netanyahu-anti-defamation-league-adl-display-racist-views/

Chris Hedges blasts Israeli interference and bribery

Italy Officially Becomes First G7 Country to Join China's Belt and Road Project

The signing of the agreement comes during Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to Italy in an attempt to improve relations with Rome as China is currently engaged in a trade war with Washington.

Italy approved on Saturday China's Belt and Road (BRI) industrial initiative — this move makes the European country the first member of the Group of Seven (G7) powerful economies to join the Chinese project.

In addition to the 'Belt and Road' deal, Chinese and Italian businesses concluded around ten other trade agreements — these include projects in the steel, energy and gas industries.

This comes after on 22 March Italian President Sergio Mattarella commented on the planned deal signing with China saying that it would create "perfect conditions" for boosting cooperation between the two countries' businesses.

He also expressed hope that the BRI, also known as the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, would be a "two-way road," and it would allow exchanging not only of goods but of ideas. His Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, who is currently on an official three-day visit to Italy, for his part, said that he and Mattarella had reached a "broad agreement."

In 2013, Xi unveiled China's planned Belt and Road project; its aim is to accelerate economic advancement and strengthen relations between Eurasian countries.

https://sputniknews.com/business/201903231073482270-italy-belt-road-china-deal/

5600 Stores CLOSING Down in Massive Nationwide SHUTDOWN of American Business!

I can’t keep up with the store closures. In no time at all we’ve already hit 5600 stores so far in 2019. This is unstoppable. The economy is falling and yet I keep hearing about the U3 unemployment rate. I can’t believe it every time I see someone talking about it. It’s really embarrassing now for them. What do you think is going on?

The amount of store closures continues to increase. Every day it seems a new chain is filing for bankruptcy. This is always happening to some degree. Stores go out of business. But to the degree we have seen in the last few years is unprecedented. We are at the same level from back in 2008 and investors don’t even know what’s happening. They may believe the rise in online sales is the absolute reason behind this. But of course, we’re seeking the data and finding that really isn’t the case.

Stores closing include Family Dollar, Charlotte Russe in 2019 – Business Insider

www.businessinsider.com/stores-closing-in-2019-list-2019-3

Shopko store closings: All stores to close by mid-June

www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/03/18/shopko-store-closings-bankrupty-plan-now-calls-all-stores-close/3206639002/

United States: e-commerce share of retail sales 2021 | Statistic

www.statista.com/statistics/379112/e-commerce-share-of-retail-sales-in-us/

Retail apocalypse continues as stores close, as seen in photos – Business Insider

www.businessinsider.com/retail-apocalypse-continues-photos-2019-3

Bankruptcy Top Filings

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https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/5600-stores-closing-down-in-massive-nationwide-shutdown-of-american-business/

>>5848730

my thoughts exactly

Strange feeling today. It's like that slow motion effect you get when you about to be in a car accident, the brakes are screeching the cars out of control and you know the impact is about to hit.

>>5848795

Indeed probably a better metaphor than mine

New war won’t start in Afghanistan after foreign troops pullout — diplomat

Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said that "Afghans should have a chance to sort it out by themselves and establish order"

The war won’t resume in Afghanistan after foreign troops leave the country and ceasefire is established, Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said after trilateral consultations on Afghanistan in Washington with the US and Chinese envoys.

"Many fear that like in previous decades in case the Americans leave, there will be power vacuum, collapse and war. But the fact is that this won’t be so. If events develop in accordance with the scenario of the agreements on pulling out foreign forces and establishing ceasefire, there won’t be any war. The process of intra-Afghan agreements will begin on the future of their country and there won’t be any sense in the war," the diplomat said.

"We will offer our helping hand as we will participate here as foreign players contributing to this process," Kabulov said.

"Afghans should have a chance to sort it out by themselves and establish order. I won't try to assume what that order might look like, but in any case, it should be a normal state. This is what we are talking about with the Taliban. Monopoly rule and return of the Taliban are out of the question," Kabulov said.

"Yes, we are considering a democratic system of governance. However, one must be careful with such terms as democracy, as this word has become demonitative in some countries in the last 18 years. This is all a formula of failure. Afghans have their own forms of democracy, national forms that can use elements of widely recognized democratic norms. The main thing is that the new system of governance in Afghanistan ensures the rights of all layers of the Afghan population," he noted.

"The whole process may take longer than we would want. Forty years of war have to be taken into account. There is common exhaustion from the war, and it will be used to facilitate achieving normal agreements," the diplomat added.

Kabulov also talked about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. "If the presence of US bases did not lead to defeating terrorism, this prompts serious considerations — what is the purpose of those bases? Military bases are not necessary to fight against the Taliban [outlawed in Russia], and they are not used to fight against IS [Islamic State terrorist organization outlawed in Russia]," he said.

http://tass.com/world/1050164

>>5848837

>I'm also trying not to get hyped.

Like it

Keep calm and dig!

Henningsen: ‘Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column – working against the people’

On February 9, 2019, an open forum of ideas was held in Oslo, Norway to discuss and shine a light on a number of high-profile issues including Syria. The general outcome of this event was to educate and inspire delegates, and to elevate the level of political discussion in Norway which is a key component of Western geopolitics and hugely influential in international affairs through its multilateral institutions like the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and presently as a leading member of NATO, according to the American writer and global affairs analyst Patrick Henningsen who gave a presentation to the forum.

Henningsen told the Syria Times e-newspaper that the name of the conference was ‘Mot Dag’, which roughly translated in English means, ‘out of darkness, towards light’. The event was co-hosted by Pål Steigan, who is a major left-wing political figure in Norway, and Norwegian activist and media personality, Kari Angelique Jaquesson, who has been advocating on a number of high-profile social and political issues including Syria.

“The two day event covered a number of controversial issues including mainstream media propaganda, the West’s war on Syria, the White Helmets scandal, NGO fraud, the Venezuelan coup, the Gilet Jaunes aka Yellow Vests, feminism within the current western political discourse, and the debate on gender identity, including a political critique of transgender identity politics,” the writer clarified.

He underscored that the audience was extremely well-versed in cutting edge political issues which is not surprising considering that one of Pål Steigan’s core missions with his media and advocacy organization, Steigan.no, is about educating people on a broad range of political and social issues, and certainly this crowd exhibited a very high degree of political awareness on a range of topics.

The Speakers included Henningsen, journalists Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett, women activist and campaigner Posie Parker from the UK, and also leading Norwegian writer and cultural commentator, Terje Tvedt, Norwegian journalist Eva Thomassen, and many more. While attendees consisted of activists, writers, artists, philosophers, journalists, and politicians mainly from Norway, guests also came from UK, Europe, Canada and the US.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2019/03/23/henningsen-fourth-estate-has-become-a-fifth-column-working-against-the-people/

Web 3.0: the decentralised web promises to make the internet free again

Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn’t be alone. The tech giants are invading our privacy, misusing our data, strangling economic growth and helping governments spy on us. Yet because these few companies own so many of the internet’s key services, it seems there is little people can do to avoid having to interact with them if they want to stay online.

However, 30 years after the world wide web was created, a third generation of web technology might offer a way to change things. The DWeb, a new decentralised version of cyberspace, promises to enable better user control, more competition between internet firms and less dominance by the large corporations. But there are still serious questions over whether it’s possible – or even desirable.

The first generation of the web lasted from its creation by Sir Tim Berners Lee in 1989 to roughly 2005. It was mostly a passive, “read-only” web with minimal interaction between users. Most of us were merely recipients of information. Then came Web 2.0, a “read-write web” based on social networks, wikis and blogs that let users create and share more of their own content, which increased their participation and collaboration.

Web 3.0 is the next step. In part it will be a “semantic web” or a “web of data” that can understand, combine and automatically interpret information to provide users with a much more enhanced and interactive experience. But it could also be a decentralised web that challenges the dominance of the tech giants by moving us away from relying so heavily on a few companies, technologies and a relatively small amount of internet infrastructure

Peer-to-peer technology

When we currently access the web, our computers use the HTTP protocol in the form of web addresses to find information stored at a fixed location, usually on a single server. In contrast, the DWeb would find information based on its content, meaning it could be stored in multiple places at once. As a result, this form of the web also involves all computers providing services as well as accessing them, known as peer-to-peer connectivity.

This system would enable us to break down the immense databases that are currently held centrally by internet companies rather than users (hence the decentralised web). In principle, this would also better protect users from private and government surveillance as data would no longer be stored in a way that was easy for third parties to access. This actually harks back to the the original philosophy behind the internet, which was first created to decentralise US communications during the Cold War to make them less vulnerable to attack.

https://theconversation.com/web-3-0-the-decentralised-web-promises-to-make-the-internet-free-again-113139

Robert Steele: Memo for POTUS – Stop Tongue Kissing Netanyahu and Focus on America First!

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SUBJECT: Election 2020, Jarvanka, MoveOn Boycott of AIPAC, and Your Legacy

DATE: 22 March 2019

1. Bottom Line Up Front. The call by MoveOn for all Democratic candidates to boycott AIPAC, is the beginning of the end of Zionist control over the US economy, US government, and US society.

1. What Has Changed? Two things have changed this week.

The first, long in the making, has been the complete destruction of Jared Kushner and his wife – your daughter – Ivanka Trump Kushner. The book Kushner Inc. is being read by millions this week and next. Kushner’s life is over. Not only will no one deal with him as a businessman, but the line among senior Democratic observers – not just Chris Christie and me – is that he will follow in his father’s footsteps, right into jail. Ivanka is tarnished.

The second, also long in the making and I credit the Honorable Dr. Cynthia McKinney with having started this process long ago, is the call by MoveOn for the boycott of AIPAC by all Democratic candidates. MoveOn is reacting not just to the courageous truthful words of the Honorable Ilhan Omar, but also to the strong support of Omar by most Jews, and the vote by 76% of MoveOn’s members against Zionism. “Beto” O’Rourke, ever the opportunist, has just slammed Benjamin Netanyahu and his remarks make it clear that the Democrats are planning to rightfully nail Israel for the genocidal apartheid racist state that it is, and hit you hard on both war – you have failed to keep your promises – while seeking to stop the #WalkAway movement that is one third black, one third Sandernista, and one third Jexodus. My article “Is Zionism Over” has been published around the world, and read around the world and across America the Beautiful. I do not believe you are being properly briefed on this matter.

https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/robert-steele-memo-for-potus-election-2020-jarvanka-moveon-boycott-of-aipac-and-your-legacy/

Biden-Abrams ticket is music to ears of some Dems

Democrats hoping that Joe Biden jumps into the Democratic race for the White House are salivating over idea he could pick Stacey Abrams as his running mate early in the process.

“It would be a bold and smart move,” said one Democratic operative who has been in touch with Team Biden. “Who wouldn't want Stacey Abrams as your partner? I think you've got to own the narrative. She's so popular, so exciting, so commercial. It would be a bold move. No one can tell me it's a net negative.”

Biden’s camp on Friday pushed back against rumors of a “pre-cooked” Biden-Abrams ticket.

“@JoeBiden has an enormous amount of respect for @staceyabrams (it is why he endorsed her!) — but these rumors about discussions on a pre-cooked ticket are false, plain and simple,” Biden spokesman Bill Russo wrote in a tweet.

But Russo’s tweet didn’t completely knock down the idea that Biden’s camp has been talking about the idea, and sources confirmed to The Hill that it has been under discussion.

Abrams, who was narrowly defeated in her bid for Georgia’s governorship in November, could negate lingering doubts surrounding whether Biden is the historic candidate Democrats need in an election against President Trump.

While Biden is leading polls and would enter the primary as a front-runner, he faces significant doubts about whether he’s liberal enough to defeat rivals such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

He also faces questions about this age — he’d be 78 a few weeks after Election Day 2020 — and whether a party propelled by the energy of woman and minority voters should elect an older white male as it standard-bearer.

Democrats say bringing Abrams aboard would immediately counter many of those arguments while giving his campaign a forward shine in the #MeToo era. It would also help secure women, black voters and millennials to Biden’s side, who will all be essential to winning a primary and general election.

“It answers the concerns about Biden's age,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. “Abrams broadens Biden's reach with women and blacks. And it's innovative which helps a candidate like Biden who comes across as a traditional politician.”

Biden’s team, including longtime advisers Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon, are continuing to look at the idea, according to sources familiar with their internal conversations.

Ricchetti, who is expected to serve as a top adviser on Biden's campaign “sees the pros and cons” of the Abrams idea, according to one longtime Biden ally.

One con, some Biden allies say, it that it would highlight a point that Biden couldn’t seal the nomination himself.

They point to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who in a last-ditch effort to beat Trump in the 2016 Republican primary picked former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina to be his running mate.

“It makes him seem sort of desperate,” said one Biden ally.

The former vice president and those around him are spending an enormous amount of time trying to figure out his entry into the race. Biden is now expected to enter the race later next month, likely after the Easter holiday, sources say.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/435356-biden-abrams-ticket-gets-strong-reviews-from-dems

Pompeo’s VIDEO Shows ‘Third Temple’ Model, Sparks Fears Over Biblical End Times

The video also shows US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo singling out President Trump’s decision to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights; the occupied Syrian land was described by Pompeo as “hard-fought real estate”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has published a video of his visit to Israel on his Twitter page, which omits Muslim shrines in Jerusalem but includes a model of the Third Temple there.

The footage shows Pompeo visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which is followed by a model of the Third Temple.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201903231073479183-mike-pompeo-jerusalem-third-temple-model/

>>5849163

Israel MK calls for Trump to recognise Israel’s annexation of West Bank

Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, controversial Israeli Knesset Member (MK) Bezalel Smotrich has called for Trump to take a similar step regarding the occupied West Bank.

On Twitter, Smotrich wrote: “President Trump, thank you. For 52 years, we have succeeded in the West Bank. It is also of a strategic, historical and security importance for Israel,” Safa news agency reported yesterday.

He added: “It is the time to recognise our sovereignty over the West Bank. God willing, we will work to achieve this soon. We hope to see your support, too.”

President Trump justified his recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights by claiming “it is of strategic, historical and security importance for Israel”.

Many of Israel’s right-wing parties – among which is Smotrich’s National Union party – are calling for annexing “Area C” of the occupied West Bank to Israel, which constitutes 60 per cent of the whole territory. Buoyed by President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017, these parties have become more fervent in their demands, particularly ahead of Israel’s upcoming election on 9 April.

The US State Department did not use the word “occupied” in reference to the Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip in its report about human rights issued earlier this month.

Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula in the Six Day War of 1967. Despite returning the Sinai to Egypt under the Camp David Accords of 1979, Israel has maintained its occupation of the other territories.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190323-israel-mk-calls-for-trump-to-recognise-israels-annexation-of-west-bank/