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Volume 14, Issue 44
 

“Deterrence is a simple equation: capability times will. I think that many of our adversaries today think our will is about zero. I think we’re set up for a cascading crisis now in large measure because of the perception that our will is diminished.”

                                                   
                   —Former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster as told to Bari Weiss

Our Broken World Order

By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour | February 25, 2022

As the world watches the events unraveling in Ukraine, Putin’s message is clear: the old world order dominated by the United States, its values and interests is over. This declaration should not be seen as a sudden coup d’état, but a major step in a steady shift in the global power structure that is being tilted towards America’s foes. Through a well-calculated combined effect of strategies, Russia, China, and Iran have been able to undermine the American-led world order and profoundly shake the confidence of the world in American resolve. 

2021 was the best year of Russian-Chinese relations in the history of the two historical rivals, as the world saw many signs of complete convergence of Russian and Chinese strategies against the United States. Joint military exercises, some of which included the Islamic Republic of Iran, joint patrols in the Pacific, a united front against the US deployment of a different weapons system, and a united front in international institutions became a definite theme of Russian-Chinese action.  

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Fight Back Against the UN's Latest Assault on Israel
The “Inquiry” has formally issued a “call for submissions.” It states: “The Commission invites individuals, groups and organizations to submit information and documentation relevant to its mandate."

Jewish and non-Jewish experts, NGOs, other organizations, parliamentarians or legislators – who care about defeating modern global antisemitism embodied in this UN Commission of Inquiry – need to proffer submissions. Literally every human on earth is eligible to make a submission.

By making a submission to this rigged exercise, will we legitimize it? The answer is emphatically NO, the greater the number of individuals and organizations who act. 

Submissions are not about changing their minds, but about educating those who remain open to learning the truth about the Jewish state and the Jewish people.  About exposing antisemitism and calling it out as such. About urging others to stand with the people of Israel and to object to the perversion of law and the falsification of right and wrong by the United Nations – for the sake of real human rights victims, now and in the future.

So stand up to #PillaysPogrom. Write now.
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Shoshana Bryen is a leading specialist in U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs. The former Executive Director and SeniorDirector for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. Bryen was author of the widely republished JINSA Reports. She has worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and lectured at the National Defense University in Washington.

Mrs. Bryen coordinated programs in the Middle East for military professionals that allowed more than 450 American military officers to engage in professional discussions of issues that both unite and divide the United States, Israel and Jordan. She also created a program to take the cadets and midshipmen of America’s service academies to Israel for a three-week work/study program that has permitted hundreds of future officers to have a positive, in-depth experience in Israel. She has also taken Turkish and Israeli military officers to speak at the service academies and has lectured in the  academies as well.

Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun and Defense News, among other outlets, as well as in JINSA Reports.

She is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Aleethia Foundation that provides opportunities for wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and is a Member of the Board of the Naval Academy Jewish Chapel Foundation.

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About this webinar: As Russia invades Ukraine, the entire world is wondering what on earth is Vladimir Putin thinking? How does this affect the liberal world order as we know it, with the United States at the helm? What is this going to do to the world’s energy supply? Would that further empower Iran? How does all of this affect Israel?

Here to answer these questions is Dr. Stephen Blank.

About the speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad.

Blank has advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005).

He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood, 1992).
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EMET normally does not solicit for other charitable organizations but these are very desperate times, and our fellow Jews are in need.

We are all watching the developments in Ukraine with great concern. As the situation continues to develop, there are already efforts to ensure that the Jewish communities in the region have the assistance that they need. In addition to your tefillot, please consider donating to one of these funds being established to support our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are facing unknown challenges in the days and weeks ahead.

EMET in the News

EMET lauds Rep. Gallagher and colleagues for strong letter to Biden on Iran talks  - JNS

Iran

Iran demanding Revolutionary Guards be taken off terror list in nuclear talks: Israeli PM  - Axios

West is on verge of signing 'surrender pact' with Iran  - Israel Hayom

Foreign ministers expected to gather with eye on reviving Iran nuclear deal  - JNS

Iran appears ready to swap prisoners with U.S.; nuclear deal near  - Reuters

Gantz claims Iran giving Venezuela attack drone know-how - Times of Israel

Iran’s Hollow Victory - Foreign Affairs

Antisemitism

Media Manipulation: How Fringe Jewish
Group Neturei Karta Is Used to Attack Israel
   - Algemeiner
New Proposal Would Force CA School Districts to Adopt “Liberated” Curriculum if Students Want Admission to UC Schools   - Jewish Press
Antisemitic Pamphlets Distributed in Colleyville, Texas, Weeks after Synagogue Hostage Attack   - Jewish Press
Louisville Jewish politician ‘traumatized again’ by the release of his assailant, as his case becomes fodder for bail debates   - JTA
Universities vote in support of BDS motion   - Diario Judio
Israel
How war in Ukraine increases Iran’s threat to Israel - analysis  - Jerusalem Post

Amnesty’s Israel chief criticizes group’s report accusing Israel of apartheid  - Jerusalem Post

The lessons for Israel from a new Iran nuclear deal  - Jerusalem Post

Amnesty International’s Problematic Israel Report

  - The Dispatch

Israel expresses "concern" on Ukraine invasion but doesn't mention Russia  - Axios

Palestinian Affairs

The Palestinian Leaders' Five-Star Jihad 
- Gatestone

Biden Admin Appointed Palestinian Government Lobbyist To Steer Mideast Foreign Aid Strategy  
- Free Beacon
Middle East

Why Arabs Do Not Trust the Biden Administration  - Gatestone

IDF, police seize dozens of weapons being smuggled in from Jordan  - Times of Israel

Israel, Morocco to quadruple their annual trade to $500m  - Middle East Monitor

United States

US announces new sanctions against Iran-backed network funneling money to Houthis 
- Times of Israel

Rutgers’ Sahar Aziz and the (ongoing) rise of the know-nothing professor  - JNS

Why Is Democratic Biden Rescuing Autocratic Erdoğan at the Expense of U.S. Allies? 
- Gatestone

American Military Diffidence Handed Iran the Bomb  - Wall Street Journal

Heard on the Hill

Queens Jewish leader slams AOC for suggesting Israel ‘cages’ Palestinian kids  - New York Post

NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman withdraws support for Abraham Accords  - JTA

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