BREAKING: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has voted to hold Anthony Fauci in CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS after he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during last week's hearing on COVID origins, vaccine policy, and pandemic restrictions.
Every Democrat, including Fetterman, on the committee voted to table the resolution, arguing that Senator Rand Paul's approach bypasses a full Senate vote, relies on an untested legal strategy, and that the committee should first hear from Fauci's attorney.
The resolution now moves forward as Senator Paul pursues a rarely used, but legal pathway, sending it through the VP, instead of a full Senate vote of contempt, to seek a Justice Department referral.
Let's see if VP Vance will play ball...

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Mainstream media won't even crack open the Fauci journal and do some basic research.
They are completely invested in the model that Fauci is a hero. That their reporting is accurate. They tell the tall tale that all public health initiatives are good (except if they come from the Trump administration). That anyone questioning "the science-TM) is evil.
The regulatory capture doesn't happen in public health...
The big question is why?

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The Guardian is into doing satire now!

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Anthony Fauci took the Fifth 111 times before Congress.
Hours later, the Senate committee voted to hold him in contempt.
Then his wife, one of America's most powerful bioethicists, flipped off a photographer.
You couldn't script the Fauci era better. 🧵

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Yes, bioethicist.
Christine Grady spent nearly three decades at the NIH Department of Bioethics.
She eventually became its chief.
Her specialties included informed consent, human-subject protections, vulnerability and research ethics.
And apparently, public relations.

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Grady wasn't merely an NIH employee.
She occupied the top position in American bioethics.
She served seven years on the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
She lectured the rest of us about ethics.
She is married the most powerful public-health bureaucrat in America.

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NIH likes to says that Grady did NOT personally approve Fauci's research protocols or clear his financial conflicts.
Fine.
But she did oversea writing the policies that directed Fauci's research and approvals.
And that leaves a much more interesting question: Who did?
Because Fauci wasn't just running NIAID. He was also a government inventor who received royalty payments.
And here we enter the magical world of Washington ethics.
Where a conflict of interest can be a conflict of interest without technically being one.

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Under federal rules, government royalty payments aren't automatically considered a financial conflict of interest.
Read that again.
You can receive royalties from an invention connected to your government work... work that you personally directed funds to.
and Washington may conclude there is no financial conflict.
All perfectly normal.
...Apparently.

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NIH does acknowledge one small complication.

If a government scientist conducts research involving his own royalty-generating invention, that can create an apparent conflict of interest requiring review.

"Apparent."

Washington really does have a word for everything.

So who reviewed Fauci?
Who examined his royalty interests?
Who decided whether he should recuse himself?
Were waivers issued?
Where are the conflict reviews?
Who signed them?
And was Grady in charge of the very people making these determinations?
These aren't conspiracy theories.
These are hard questions that NIH has avoided answering.

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And here's another.
Who designed this ethics system?
Who decided that government scientists could receive royalty payments without those payments automatically constituting financial conflicts?
Who defended that policy?
And who was responsible for policing it?

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Which brings us back to Christine Grady.
She spent decades inside NIH bioethics while her husband accumulated extraordinary power inside NIH.
That doesn't prove wrongdoing.
But it certainly makes one question worth asking:
What role, if any, did her department play in developing or defending these policies?

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NIH needs to release the records.
Show the recusals.
Show the waivers.
Show the conflict reviews.
Show us who reviewed Fauci and what they concluded.
This shouldn't be difficult.
It is, after all, an ethics question.

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For years, Americans were told:
Trust the science.
Trust the institutions.
Trust the experts.
Now Fauci takes the Fifth 111 times, and his bioethicist wife gives the public a one-finger salute.
Perhaps it's time to stop asking Americans for trust.
And start showing them the receipts.

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It's Friday - and that means more jokes, memes, comics and video, today at Fauci's, as well as Bernie's, expense with the Friday Funnies.
Follow the link to catch up on your daily dose of humor:

https://www.malone.news/p/friday-funnies-people-will-die

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Israel is trying to stop taking American money.

Not reduce it. Stop it. Netanyahu has floated forgoing aid already committed for 2027 and 2028.

Understanding why requires understanding what happened in May 2024, and almost nobody in the US covered it correctly.🧵

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April 2024: the administration begins reviewing which weapons Israel may receive.

May: one shipment held. 1,800 two-thousand-pound bombs. 1,700 five-hundred-pound bombs. 6,500 JDAM guidance kits under review.

Austin confirmed it to Senate appropriators on May 8.

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That same evening the President said it on CNN. If Israel went into Rafah, he would not supply those weapons.

Nothing about the purpose requires inference. Washington wanted a different Israeli operational decision and used the delivery pipeline to get one.

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Here is what most Americans get wrong about the aid itself.

Foreign Military Financing is not a check. It is a credit line that must be spent on American weapons, made by American companies, in American plants.

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Israel used to convert about a quarter of it into shekels and spend it with Israeli industry.

The 2016 agreement phases that out. It hits zero in fiscal 2028.

By then, 100% of American military aid to Israel is spent inside the American defense industrial base.

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There is more.

In a side letter to Secretary Kerry, Netanyahu committed Israel to reimburse the US for any appropriation above the agreed level, and not to lobby Congress for more except in wartime, and then only with the administration's consent.

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And the agreement binds nobody.

A Memorandum of Understanding is not a treaty. No Senate concurrence. It appropriates nothing. Congress must fund it every year, and the executive must actually obligate and deliver it.

Three separate switches. Three separate hands.

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Now the comparison nobody runs.

Israel: roughly $318 billion since 1951, the largest cumulative recipient since WWII.

Ukraine: roughly $183 billion allocated since February 2022, with about $65 billion in military assistance.

FY2024: Israel $6.8bn, Ukraine $6.5bn.

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But the dollar figure is the wrong number.

American FMF is about 16% of Israel's defense budget.

For Ukraine, American assistance was a substantial fraction of the entire capacity to keep fighting.

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Watch what each country did when the flow slowed.

Kyiv rationed artillery. It had no alternative.

Jerusalem started negotiating its way out of the arrangement.

Dependency is a function of ratio, not dollars.

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So what is Israel proposing instead?

A twenty-year framework running to 2048. Joint R&D. Defense technology. AI. Participation in Golden Dome.

Read correctly, that is not aid reduction. It is a change of business model.

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FMF is donor and recipient. One party appropriates, the other spends it with the first party's manufacturers.

The successor is co-investment. Both commit capital. Both contribute technology. Both hold a position in the resulting IP and production.

That is a joint venture.

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The precedents already exist. Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow are cooperative programs with American money, Israeli development, and co-production lines in the United States.

Raytheon builds Iron Dome components in Arkansas.

Israel wants to make the exception the rule.

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Now the part Congress should be reading, stated flatly by its own research service.

Replace FMF with joint programming funded from Defense accounts and two things happen.

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Oversight migrates. Away from the foreign affairs committees, which hold the foreign assistance portfolio and are where conditions get attached. Toward the defense committees.

And Leahy Law restrictions may not reach a sale financed with the purchasing country's own funds.

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An arrangement funded by aid appropriations is conditionable by design.

An arrangement structured as joint programming with Israeli money in the capital stack largely is not.

The transition being negotiated is a transition out of the architecture through which American leverage operates.

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This cuts against both camps.

Want the aid ended on fiscal grounds? Price the leverage that ends with it.

Think conditionality restrains Israel? The brake is being disconnected, and May 2024 is a substantial part of why.

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Washington spent sixty years and roughly $318 billion building an instrument of enormous influence over Israeli decisions.

It used the instrument once, in the spring of 2024.

And in using it, persuaded Israel to build something the instrument cannot reach.

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Full essay, with sources:

https://www.malone.news/p/israel-is-trying-to-stop-taking-our

Part four of a series from what Jill and I saw in Israel.

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Christians are being spat on in Jerusalem.
That is true.
The people doing it are overwhelmingly drawn from small, identifiable religious communities.
That is also true.
And much of what Americans are now being told about WHY it is happening is false.
A thread. 🧵

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Earlier this month, Israeli teenagers knocked on the door of the Armenian Apostolic Church headquarters in Jerusalem.
They asked if Christians were inside.
They wanted to spit on them.
Some reportedly called it a mitzvah, a religious duty.
This is not invented. It is happening.

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And the people documenting it are not anti-Israel activists.
The Religious Freedom Data Center was founded and is directed by Yisca Harani, a Jewish Israeli scholar of Christianity.
Jewish Israeli volunteers document attacks, accompany victims and provide protection at Christian sites.

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There were 107 documented incidents in 2024.
181 in 2025.
By early June 2026, more than 88 had already been logged.
Spitting. Verbal abuse. Vandalism. Desecration. Stone throwing. Arson.
So who is doing it?

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Most documented incidents involve Haredi youths and men, with one small Lithuanian Haredi community in Jerusalem appearing repeatedly in reporting.
But not all.
Some offenders have come from the Religious Zionist world.
That distinction matters.
This is not "the Jews" doing it, and there are not a large number of incidents.

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There is another uncomfortable fact.
Ben Gvir is now Israel's Minister of National Security and he defended spitting at Christian monks and churches years ago, calling it an ancient Jewish tradition and questioning why it should be treated as criminal.
The police answer to him.

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In 2023, after five people were arrested for spitting at Christians and churches, Ben Gvir again said the behavior was not criminal.
His own Jerusalem police district publicly contradicted him.
That gets very close to the heart of the problem.

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This is not evidence that Israel is a state hostile to Christianity.
Israel has about 184,000 Christians. Its Christian population has grown enormously since 1948.
Across much of the surrounding Middle East, Christian communities have collapsed.
Israel is the regional exception.

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Which brings me to Tucker Carlson.
Carlson has spent two years building a case that Christians are being persecuted by Israel.
Some of the facts he cites are real.
Palestinian Christians face real hardships.
Israeli Christians have experienced real harassment.
Israel's visa bureaucracy has mistreated Christian organizations.

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The problem is what Carlson does with those facts.
He repeatedly blurs Palestinian Christians in the West Bank with Christian citizens of Israel.
They live under fundamentally different legal and political circumstances.
And that changes the argument.

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If a Palestinian Christian faces the same checkpoints, permits and restrictions as his Muslim neighbor, that may be an argument about Israeli occupation.
It is NOT evidence that Israel is persecuting him because he is Christian.
Those are two different claims.
Carlson merges them.

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Then Carlson crossed into something else.
In April, while attacking the IHRA definition of antisemitism, he objected to describing the claim that Jews killed Jesus as classic antisemitism.
"So there goes the New Testament," he said.
"The whole New Testament is antisemitic too."

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This is the deicide charge.
Not the historical claim that particular Jewish authorities participated in the events leading to the crucifixion.
The deicide charge assigns responsibility to Jews collectively, as a people, for killing Christ.
It has followed Jews for centuries.

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None of this excuses what is happening in Jerusalem.
Christians are being spat on.
Church property has been vandalized.
Israeli authorities have failed to enforce the law consistently.
And the minister responsible for the police has publicly minimized the offense.
Israel needs to fix this.

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But American Christians should be very careful about being told that "the Jews" hate them.
Because one of the facts missing from that narrative is extraordinary.
The most extensive documentation of these attacks is being done by Jews.
Jewish Israelis protecting Christians from other Jews.
And the number of these incidents is actually very small.
All things can be true.

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Israel has a real anti-Christian harassment problem among a small religious fringe, and its government has handled it badly.
And that problem is being inflated into a sweeping indictment of Israel and increasingly of Jews themselves.
The evidence supports the first.
It does not support the second.

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I went through the incident reports, the arrests, the Israeli organizations documenting them, the politics behind the failure to prosecute, Ben Gvir's history, Huckabee's private warnings, and Tucker Carlson's claims.
The full essay:

https://www.malone.news/p/who-is-spitting-on-christians-in

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Sunday Strip: "There’s an App for That"
Whether you want it or not...
Click on the link for more memes, cartoons, video and humor.

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-Israel's Closing Frontier-
The West Bank runs on a property law written in 1858 by the Ottoman Empire.

It is still the operative code. It decides who holds what, and it is about to decide it permanently.

Almost nobody outside the region knows this. It explains more than any headline.🧵

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A disclosure first, because it belongs at the top and not in a footnote.

Jill and I were there for a week in July. The delegation and the itinerary belonged to the Combat Antisemitism Movement, an American nonprofit.

We met Israeli Jews, Arabs, Bedouins, Palestinians, and Americans. Somebody else chose who.

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That is selection bias, not blindness, and it is worth naming.

One week is not enough to understand a place like this. What we can report is what we saw and were told.

What we cite is different: Israeli court rulings, Israeli police data, Israeli planning organizations, UN reporting, EU policy documents, and an Ottoman code from 1858.

Every other post in the thread stands as written. Nothing else depended on that claim.

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Start with a morning.

July 24, near a village called Tell. Six people killed. Two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians from one family.

The Israeli military and the village council give accounts that cannot both be true.

No authority either side accepts can determine which is.

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That is not a border incident. It is a frontier incident.

Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron drew the distinction. A borderland has overlapping sovereignties and no monopoly on force. A bordered land has a hard line and one sovereign on each side.

Gaza was the second. The West Bank is the first.

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Now the Ottoman code.

Miri is state-owned land where a cultivator holds a possessory right. Mewat is dead land, uncultivated and unclaimed.

Two provisions run in opposite directions. Ten years of uncontested cultivation establishes a right. Three years without cultivation returns the land to the state.

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Anyone who has held an oil and gas lease knows this instrument. Held by production.

Anyone with an appropriative water right knows it better. Beneficial use is the basis, the measure, and the limit, and most western states forfeit after non-use.

Ottoman law applies that to dirt, on a shorter clock.

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Which means water is not an amenity in this system.

Water is what keeps the clock from running out.

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Two dates make it operational.

December 1968: Israel suspends land registration by military order, with about a third of the territory registered. Two thirds frozen with title unresolved.

That is the precise condition in which a mewat finding can be made. No deed exists to contradict it.

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1979: the Israeli Supreme Court rules in Elon Moreh that private land cannot be seized for a settlement on military necessity grounds.

State land declaration under the Ottoman categories replaces requisition almost immediately.

It requires no military justification at all.

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Then February 2026. Israel adopts systematic land registration across the territory.

Registration converts an indefinite use-right into recorded title.

And it records whoever is holding on the day the surveyor arrives.

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Now the water, and the number that reframes it.

Total annual recharge of the mountain aquifer is 679 million cubic meters. About 550,000 acre-feet.

That is roughly what one California groundwater basin pumps in a year.

It is the primary natural freshwater source for over thirteen million people.

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Every basin is already drawn past recharge. Water tables in places twenty to thirty meters below 1960.

Anyone who has farmed in California recognizes the shape of that, then notices what's missing.

No regulator with authority over both parties. A joint committee where each side holds a veto.

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Paralysis in an overdrawn basin favors whoever is already pumping.

Jill and I both grew up in California and both worked her father's avocado and lemon ground on the Central Coast. A well permit there was the difference between a crop and dead trees.

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Here is why perennials matter.

You cannot fallow an orchard. A row-crop farmer plants less in a dry year. A man with olive trees either waters them or loses two decades.

And under the Ottoman code, cultivation is what defends land against a mewat finding.

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So planting a tree there does three things at once.

Water claim. Title claim. Possession claim. One act, ripening for decades.

That is why olive groves and vineyards draw violence out of all proportion to what they earn, and why uprooted trees provoke what damaged equipment does not.

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Both sides understand this, and both are running the same play.

Israeli outposts. And EU-funded Palestinian construction in Area C, which is declared policy rather than a secret.

Americans squatted public land ahead of title because possession forced legalization. Congress ratified it, repeatedly.

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We drove past a great deal of that European-funded construction standing empty.

The Homestead Act required residence. An industry promptly developed in satisfying the requirement without meeting it.

A building on a frontier does not have to shelter anyone. It has to be standing when the surveyor arrives.

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And the third thing the landscape measures.

A settlement gets a permit, a road, a water main, a power line. A Palestinian building in Area C gets none of it, because approvals run at a fraction of applications.

Anyone who has fought a county planning board knows what that difference is worth.

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You are not looking at two kinds of builder.

You are looking at a builder the sovereign recognizes and a builder it does not.

The American frontier worked the same way. Homesteaders with title got roads and rail spurs. Mexican grantees who lost in the land courts did not.

Nobody argues that reflected character.

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Where the comparison breaks, and it breaks hard.

American territories became states. Residents became citizens with votes in the government ruling them. That is what closure meant.

No equivalent is on offer here, and both the Israeli government and its critics agree on that much.

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The frontier is closing anyway. By registration and jurisdiction rather than cavalry, which is less violent and more durable.

Every historical closure ended with the resident population inside the legal order as members, outside it as subjects, or gone.

We asked. Nobody had a fourth option.

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Full essay, with sources, including the Ottoman code, the military orders, the Supreme Court rulings, Israeli police data, and Israeli planning organizations:

https://www.malone.news/p/israels-closing-frontier

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Robert Malone: How MAHA Was Corrupted From the Inside

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We asked what Alexis de Tocqueville would have written if he had landed at Ben Gurion instead of Newport.

Then we wrote it.

His method is the reason: he spent most of a book admiring American democracy, then wrote the chapter that saw the Civil War coming.

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He held that the decisive facts about a people are not its laws but its habits.

Americans began with a Puritan holding a covenant and no lord above him.

Israelis did not begin with a covenant. They began with a conclusion.

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The conclusion: respectability confers no protection whatever.

Their founders watched a people become useful, learned, prosperous, indistinguishable from their neighbors, and watched it make no difference when the knock came at the door.

Everything else descends from that sentence.

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Which explains what Americans consistently misread.

The second act of this state was to fire on a ship carrying arms to one of its own factions, and dissolve the most distinguished fighting force among its founders.

America wrote the militia into its constitution. Israel shot at one.

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Tocqueville's great American discovery was voluntary association. He finds more of it here, from the opposite premise.

The American associates because he is free and has time.

The Israeli associates because the alternative is to wait, and he has learned what waiting costs.

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He notices something in Israeli dress that America does not have.

In an aristocracy a coat announces rank at fifty paces. Here dress declares nothing about a man's fortune and everything about his convictions.

The taxi driver and the minister dress as equals. The believer and the believer of another sort do not.

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And he corrects the impression every visitor brings.

The Frenchman who calls himself secular has generally departed.

The Israeli who calls himself secular has generally only stopped attending.

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Which explains behavior foreigners call madness.

Pikuach nefesh: preserving a life overrides nearly every commandment, the Sabbath included.

So 1,027 prisoners for one soldier. Volunteers gathering fragments with tweezers so a whole man may be buried.

They have been arguing about that ranking since the second century.

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On his own warning about majority tyranny, he finds Israelis argue louder than anyone and are not exempt. They have concentrated the effect into a single object.

The devil's advocate office existed on the morning of October 7. Staffed, mandated. It did not fire.

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Then the arithmetic almost nobody states plainly.

Inside Israel's recognized borders, Jews are about four fifths.

Add the West Bank: three fifths.

Add Gaza: parity.

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Israel has no electoral districts. One national list. What a population is, the chamber becomes.

Two fifths of 120 is 48 seats. Not a government, but a permanent hand on the throat of every government after.

And the present majority rests partly on the other side's abstention.

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"But the birth rates crossed."

They did. Israeli Jewish fertility is 3.09, Israeli Muslim 2.51. Both stood at 3.13 in 2015. Israel is the only developed nation whose birth rate went up.

So why not wait it out?

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Because the advantage is almost entirely Haredi, whose women bear 6.5 children while secular women bear fewer than two.

You win the count by growing the sector that does not serve in the army.

And every projection has all those rates falling. It is a summit, not a plateau.

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And because they made this exact wager once already, and lost it in a single lifetime.

1949: the conscription exemption granted to 400 yeshiva students, on the explicit prediction that they were a remnant and would not persist.

Sixty-three thousand now. Two parties. A veto over the government.

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America ran the same instrument longer and worse. The three-fifths clause was a device for weighing a population that could not vote. Forty years of managing an arithmetic nobody would name aloud.

The reckoning cost six hundred thousand young men.

Full essay:
https://www.malone.news/p/democracy-in-israel

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Remember what they said about @RWMaloneMD, @DrSteveKirsch and me when we tried to warn you in June of '21?

Now that you know Dr. Fauci lied to us, as he covered up a massive miscarriage signal, you should rethink everything else. The man is very comfortable killing innocent people.

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NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says President Trump’s vaccine executive order finally gives parents a real voice in decisions about their children.

And ensuring a child can’t lose access to an education because of a vaccine decision can only benefit children and society.

“What this does is it restores the autonomy of families and parents to make good decisions for their kids.”

“We shouldn’t be keeping kids out of school because they have made different decisions than other parents.”

“A lot of the collapse in trust in public health has come because of these mandates.”

“Fundamentally, it restores a healthy relationship between public health and parents.”

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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on the new childhood vaccine schedule:

"It's more in line with what European nations do. Less emphasis on force, more emphasis on shared decision-making. More emphasis on parental autonomy.

"We're now partners with parents rather than overlords of parents telling them what they must do."

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President Trump, alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr, this week announced new childhood vaccine recommendations, expanding parental choice, as well as direction for the Attorney General to challenge states that do not provide vaccine exemptions. @RWMaloneMD

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