Jerusalem News
(June 9, 2020, 17 Sivan 5780) an 5780)
Contents:
1. German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
2. Daniel Pipes: 'A Reluctant but Unhesitating Vote for Donald Trump' Newsweek, #1656
3. Is "Black Lives Matter" anti-Semitic?
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1. German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/29/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-as-global-false-alarm/
Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.
Extracts:
The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.
More people are dying because of state-imposed Corona-measures than they are being killed by the virus.
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2. Daniel Pipes: 'A Reluctant but Unhesitating Vote for Donald Trump' Newsweek, #1656
Extracts:
[President Donald Trump]
has governed as a resolute conservative. His policies in the areas of education, taxes, deregulation, and the environment have been bolder than Ronald Reagan's. His judicial appointments are the best of the past century (thank you, Leonard Leo). His unprecedented assault on the administrative state proceeds apace, ignoring predictable howls from the Washington establishment. Even his foreign policy has been conservative: demanding that allies contribute their fair share, confronting China and Iran, and singularly supporting Israel. Ironically, as David Harsanyi notes, a potential character flaw actually works to our advantage: "Trump's obstinacy seems to have made him less susceptible to the pressures that traditionally induce GOP presidents to capitulate."
(Economic performance drives many voters to support or oppose a sitting president, but not me. Partly, because the president has only limited control; partly, because it's a transient issue that matters much less than long-term policies.)
Of course, I also disagree with Trump: protectionism, an indifference to public debt, a hostility toward allies, a soft-spot for Turkish strongman Erdo an, and those dangerous meetings with Kim Jong-un. His unrestrained behavior interferes with proper government functioning. The tweets are a protracted liability.
But, of course, we all disagree with some of what every president does; more surprisingly, I agree with about 80 percent of Trump's actions, a higher number than any of his predecessors', going back to Lyndon Johnson.
I have come to understand the wisdom in Salena Zito's September 2016 witticism about Trump that "the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." Or, as Daniel Larison notes, "We need to judge Trump by his actions and not his words." I also agree with James Woolsey that Trump would be a much better prime minister than president.
Slowly but inexorably over the past three years, my approval of the policies has outbalanced my distaste for the person. Finally, knowing that Joe Biden will represent the radicalized Democrats in November, I conclude that I will do my small part to help Trump get re-elected by writing, giving, and voting.
I reached this conclusion reluctantly but unhesitatingly. Emotionally, esthetically, and intellectually, I would prefer to keep my distance from Trump and inhabit a neutral space between the parties, as in 2016. But I will vote for him as the politician who represents my conservative views. I urge other reluctant conservatives to do the same.
Mr. Pipe
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3. Is Black Lives Matter anti-Semitic?
https://www.quora.com/Is-Black-Lives-Matter-anti-Semitic/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Yair Davidiy
May 7, 2018
ANSWER COLLAPSED (i.e. closed down, removed) by Quora Moderation.
Quote:
The Movement for Black Lives (MBL). MBL recently publish their policy and agenda manifesto. Unfortunately, they decided to single out Israel, accuse it of committing genocide and demand support for the Palestinian BDS movement."
Black People reportedly refer to each other as "Nigger." If an Afro-American refers to his fellow black man in the same way it is somehow OK. A white man however who uses the "N" word is considered to have uttered an insult.
Black people in the Sudan, Nigeria, and in effect throughout Africa kill each other. "Black Lives Matter" is not concerned with these cases. "Black Lives Matter" is perturbed with how white men relate to Black Men. How Black men relate to each other is not something they are concerned about. In such cases evidently black lives do not matter any more. Many blacks in the USA are the victims of crimes committed by other black people. Here too "Black Lives Matter" is not perturbed. The Palestinians and their backers are attempting to commit genocide against the Jews in Israel and elsewhere. The Jews make some efforts to prevent this. It follows that the Jews are accused by BLM of committing genocide even though they are the ones against whom genocide is intended. The Jews are Jews and therefore the BLM do not like them. It may be that many Jews are a little bit less colored than the Palestinians? In the eyes of BLM this may be enough for the Jews to deserve extermination and to be accused of genocide when they fail to agree with attempts to terminate them. The BLM is therefore anti-Jewish. This means it is anti-Semitc.
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