In this mailing: Gordon G. Chang: Cut Off the Blood Supply to China's Communist Party: End Trade Naomi Linder Kahn: Something is Sinking, and It's Not Just the Dead Sea Cut Off the Blood Supply to China's Communist Party: End Trade by Gordon G. Chang  •  June 29, 2021 at 5:00 am       The real problem for Beijing is that consumption, the only sustainable part of the Chinese economy, looks far softer than officially reported, something evident from the widely followed China Beige Book survey. Spending will not fully recover until the coronavirus pandemic passes, and that is unlikely to happen soon due to China's barely effective vaccines. In any event, Washington must begin enforcing laws, especially those banning the importation of products made with forced or slave labor. Japan's Uniqlo is not the only brand that has been implicated. Nike and Apple have, through subcontractors, apparently used such labor. Enforcement has been hampered by, among other things, lack of personnel and a failure of political will. The larger goal has to be an ending of trade relations with China. "Because the threat posed by China to the United States results from its hostile system and includes economic, technological, and military dimensions, only systemic, not piecemeal, responses can possibly protect critical U.S. interests," Washington, D.C.-based trade expert Alan Tonelson tells Gatestone. "Sanctions against individuals or companies will inevitably produce only pinprick effects, and even these are easily nullified with shell game corporate renamings and personnel changes." (Image source: iStock) "I want to be clear on this, our goal is not to hold China back," said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a June 25 interview with Anne Claire Coudray of TF1. "It is not to establish a policy against China." Really? The Chinese regime spread a disease that has at last count killed 604,000 Americans; last year it urged the violent overthrow of the American government; it is killing tens of thousands of Americans annually with fentanyl and related opioids; and it steals half a trillion dollars of American intellectual property every 12 months. It has even declared a "people's war" on America. To defend itself, the United States should declare that its policy is to end the rule of China's Communist Party. At the moment, the Party is especially vulnerable because China's economy is weaker than reported and the country is still dependent on the American market. Continue Reading Article Something is Sinking, and It's Not Just the Dead Sea Fake News and Jew-Hate in Europe and the Media by Naomi Linder Kahn  •  June 29, 2021 at 4:00 am       The Palestinian Authority (PA) uses European funding to cultivate more and bigger tracts of Israeli state land every year, a well-known... loophole in the Ottoman Land Law (still in force in these territories) that grants rights to anyone who uses land for agricultural purposes for a period of several years, whether they own it or not. [T]he question should be, how was this water allocation determined, and how are the actual water needs of this population determined? .... [H]ow much water does each Palestinian in this region need, and how many people are we talking about? The PA invests untold millions of European taxpayer-funded "humanitarian aid" to initiate massive, unsustainable agricultural projects in desert areas under Israeli jurisdiction... to take control, physically, of ever-expanding swaths of territory. It goes to tremendous lengths to pad "population statistics" -- allowing people born abroad who have never set foot in the Middle East to register as residents... failing to remove deceased persons from the rolls, and double-counting people who live in other areas. The allocation of water to Palestinian residents under Israeli jurisdiction was determined in the framework of the Oslo Accords according to population size. Simply put, there would be no water crisis if Europe and the PA would not have orchestrated a large-scale migration of people.... for political purposes. Israel provides approximately 70 million cubic meters (MCM) per year of water to the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") alone... even though the Water Agreement signed in the Oslo framework allocates a much smaller quantity of only 23.6 MCM/year.... If the PA so desired, the residents of the "village" of Kardala could easily be living in Bardala and enjoying sufficient water supplies. Similarly, the housing needs of all Palestinians currently living in illegal structures on Israeli state land throughout Area C [under Israeli jurisdiction] could easily be met if the PA invested its resources in development and construction in [the Arab jurisdiction] areas A and B -- where there is no threat of demolition, confiscation of equipment or materials, and no need for Israeli permits. [O]ver 60% of land resources under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction remain available. Rather than using its resources to improve the lives of its people, the PA instead chooses to divert all its resources into illegal, politically motivated projects that are designed to wrest control of as much land as possible away from Israeli jurisdiction. Agenda-driven journalism is not journalism. It is propaganda.... Kardala School in 2020. The recently-aired episode of ABC Australia's "Foreign Correspondent" program, titled "The Sinking Sea," presents visually stunning images that convey a sense of loss of a major geographic feature of the Middle Eastern landscape. The video documentary by Eric Tlozek, ABC's outgoing Middle East correspondent, focuses on the demise of the Dead Sea caused by the diminished supply of its tributary waters. Tlozek's tenure as ABC's Middle East correspondent followed a long line of ABC journalists, including Sophie McNeill, who have faithfully pushed ABC's anti-Israel agenda; in fact, McNeill will be the keynote speaker at the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network's annual dinner this month. Apparently, Tlozek and McNeill share more than an entry on their respective CVs. Continue Reading Article