Saving Israel.

When the Trump Administration granted de facto sovereignty recognition of what is labelled Area C of the West Bank it did what the vast majority of Israelis already knew. That this land has been known as Judea for three millennia and is an integral part of the State of Israel.

Following a visit to the area by US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, in December 2020, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency issued a directive that “producers within certain areas designated in the Oslo Accords and the Hebron Protocol must make their goods as ‘Israel,’ ‘Product of Israel’ or ‘Made in Israel’ when exported to the United States.” What they were doing was clarifying what had already been set out in the 1993 and 1995 Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and witnessed by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and Japan. These Accords divided up the ‘West Bank’ into three sections. Area A was put under the security and civil administration of the PA. Area B was put under the civil administration of the PA and security was to be administered by joint PA and Israeli forces. But Area C was recognized as being under both the security and civilian administration of Israel for all its residents. The new US regulation included for customs purposes that goods from Areas A and B are to be designated as produced in the West Bank, Gaza goods are designated as products of Gaza. It was significant that the US Customs ruling was turned into policy on December 23. This was the 4th anniversary of the despicable United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 in which the United States, under President Obama and Vice President Biden, for the first time in history, refused to veto an anti-Israel resolution that attempted to mark out the parameters of a Palestinian state that included vast territories that would endanger Israel’s existence. It was done deliberately and vindictively as payback for Israel’s refusal to accept the terrible Obama Administration’s Iran nuclear deal. UNSC 2334 was Obama’s slap in Israel’s face as he exited the White House in 2016.

The Trump Administration’s recognition of the validity and potential sovereignty over legitimate Israeli territory went some way to set back the damage inflicted on the Jewish State by Obama and Biden. The recent labelling ruling shored up Israel’s claim to the land in advance of a potential Biden Administration interference. Israel has, for years, been fighting against a widespread anti-Israel boycott movement which, despite the noise, has not stopped the growing prosperity afforded to all residents living under Israeli sovereignty and governance. There is no chance that over 600,000 Jews who have made their homes, schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, synagogues in Judea & Samaria will be moved out of their land. Neither will they agree to live under Palestinian rule. Indeed, many Arabs much prefer to have their lives administered by Israel than by the PLO or Hamas. Most are gainfully employed by Israelis and receive far more benefits than laboring under Palestinian rule. As for the geo-strategic fallacy of a 1967 Palestine, the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies is vehemently opposed to the notion of a Palestinian state based on a fallacious 1967 border. This has been proposed by people who are either ignorant about the strategic and security vulnerability it would impose on Israel, or by people fully aware of that fact but still push this agenda.

Here are a couple of pictures we took as part of our survey of what a 1967 Palestine would do to Israel if adopted. These pictures were taken from the Arab village of Rantis which looks down on commercial aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport.  

Villagers can also gaze at the high-rise buildings of Tel Aviv, Israeli’s major commercial center and home to four million Israelis.

This, without talking about the heart of Jerusalem, including the Old City, the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple, the Temple Mount, the City of David, the Mount of Olives, the Rockefeller Museum and the Hebrew University, to name just a few of the essential properties of the Jewish State that, thanks to the vindictive final act of the Obama Administration, bequeathed these treasure into the malevolent and cynical hands of United Nations officials and, potentially, an anti-Semitic, hate-filled, Palestinian leadership. 

The Israel Institute for Strategic Studies intends to produce further educational material and videos that will show, in stark terms, the utter vulnerability of what Israel would look like under the threat of a 1967 Palestine. We depend on your help and generosity to produce and distribute these vitally important informational aids. 

Please open the link below and partner with us to advance Israel’s cause and to inform others. 

Barry Shaw, International Public Diplomacy Director, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. https://strategic-israel.org/why-you-should-support-iiss/

HCQ. We were right. They were wrong.

In an about face, the American Medical Association has officially rescinded a previous statement against the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of early COVID-19 patients, giving physicians the green light to return to utilizing the medication at their discretion. They admit their earlier ban on the drug HCQ was wrong and was based on fraudulent reports as we have been shouting about for months. Reading from the AMA resolution, "The original studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) initially citing harm due to hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine use were retracted by said journals due to dubious research methodology and incorrect conclusions." We were right. They were wrong. "AMA policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” supports a physician’s autonomy to prescribe medications the physician believes to be in the patient’s best interest, where the benefits outweigh risk and the patient consents." This is precisely the common sense, safe, approach that we have long advocated. "Physicians have used off label medications for years and this use is supported by existing policy." Again. That is what we have been saying from the beginning. "Data regarding harm have been limited due to poorly designed studies or studies usually in Stage 2 or later, or stopped without harm but no effect in phase 2." They admit we were right.

"There are many studies that indicate that the use of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin is effective and front-line physicians are using the therapy where permissible." And here is the big announcement; "The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious medical issue, people are dying, and physicians must be able to perform as sagacious prescribers; therefore, be it RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association rescind its statement calling for physicians to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine until sufficient evidence becomes available to conclusively illustrate that the harm associated with use outweighs benefit early in the disease course. Implying that such treatment is inappropriate contradicts AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” that addresses off label prescriptions as appropriate in the judgement of the prescribing physician and be it further RESOLVED,

That our AMA rescind its joint statement with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and update it with a joint statement notifying patients that further studies are ongoing to clarify any potential benefit of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of COVID-19 and be it further RESOLVED, That our AMA reassure the patients whose physicians are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for their early-stage COVID-19 diagnosis by issuing an updated statement clarifying our support for a physician’s ability to prescribe an FDA approved medication for off label use, if it is in her/his best clinical judgement, with specific reference to the use of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of the earliest stage of COVID-19 and be it further RESOLVED, That our AMA take the actions necessary to require local pharmacies to fill valid prescriptions that are issued by physicians and consistent with AMA principles articulated in AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” including working with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists." Sorry this is so long-winded but, in short, we are winning this battle. It's not over. AMA are not alone, but they had the courage to admit the studies and trials led them to rescind their restrictions on a drug that could have saved many lives. The CDC, the FDA, every national public health bureaucrat with a conscience, must follow AMA’s lead and immediately lift the ban on our doctors and local clinics from prescribing a safe and effective treatment for early stage Covid patients. It is a tragedy that thousands have died through, dare I say it without being banned by social media, deliberate malpractice based on false information. If anyone would like to receive details of the life-saving Zelenko Protocol, which combines HCQ or Ivermectin together with zinc and an antibiotic, please send me a message. Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-10/nov20-handbook-addendum.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2UJjmeCpYFYfGiqnwVCCIiBa6DPAiapElHS6368ralcYTFmvjymfeHlq4

The Death of an Iranian Frankenstein is not a Human Rights Crime.

 Here are a few quotations from the Arab world about the removal of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of the Iranian nuclear bomb.

"There is no gloating about death, but the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was not the scientist who discovered the anti-coronavirus vaccine, but the scientist called the father of the Iranian nuclear bomb." Tareq Al-Hameed, Saudi author, Okaz, November 30, 2020. "How can they condemn the killing of a man who devoted his life to making a sinister bomb for an evil regime, but they do not condemn Iran's killing of innocent people in the region. Iran kills Syrians, Iraqis, and Lebanese, and destroys Yemen, and sponsors all terrorist groups." Al-Hameed, Saudi author Okaz, November 30, 2020. "Disrupting the Iranian regime's access to nuclear weapons is a long-term service to humanity." Iran... sees nuclear weapons as a tool "that enables it to occupy the rest of the world." Mohammed Al-Saaed, Saudi political analyst, Okaz, November 30, 2020. "We are talking about a gang that hijacked Iran, and its defeated people became its captive. It seeks to hijack the entire region, fueled by intense hatred for the Arab. Is it acceptable to allow it to produce nuclear weapons and use them to kill millions of people?" Mohammed Al-Saaed, Saudi political analyst, Okaz, November 30, 2020.

If there is one thing that we Israelis and our moderate Arab neighbors agree on it is this.

It is troubling to us in Israel, and our regional neighbors, to hear so many European and American voices mourning the loss of this monster, some calling his death a criminal act and a human rights crime.

This man was working on a weapon of mass destruction for an evil regime seeking world domination.

They need to be told that what this man was doing was, in itself, a human rights crime worthy of delivery to the International Criminal Court.

Those who condemned his demise joined with Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Turkey, Qatar, and the Assad regime in Syria, which clearly shows what side they are on in mourning the loss of a nuclear Frankenstein.

Fakhrizadeh's death was no more a human rights crime than was the removal of Iranian Quds Force Commander, General Qasem Soleimani, killed by a US strike outside Baghdad Airport in January 2020, or that of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed by an elite American strike force in October 2020.

These same European and American mourners deny, despite clear evidence, that the Iranian regime has been surreptitiously inching its way to the bomb, and not so surreptitiously developing the heavy impact precision missiles that will carry death on a massive scale. They are already delivering them in large numbers to their Middle East proxies.

It is time those who should know better come out of their woke stupor and do something about it, before Israel has to do it for them.

Barry Shaw,

Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.