Week in Review: Will Israel Now Require a Fifth Election?, Merkel’s Lockdown Embarrassment, and More

• In Israel’s fourth election in two years, Benjamin Netanyahu performed well personally but failed to secure the votes needed to lead a governing coalition. And he faces firm opposition from the new Biden administration in Washington.
• In a major embarrassment, Angela Merkel announced new covid restrictions and then did an abrupt about-face after massive public backlash—just the latest in a series of political convulsions in Germany.
• China has taken extraordinary tactics to assert de facto control over another reef in the Philippines, part of its strategy to secure and to militarize the South China Sea.
• We also talk about the Suez Canal being completely shut down, Europe introducing a centralized European vaccine passport, a mass murder in Colorado that has the left crying out for more gun control, a resumption of provocative missile tests from North Korea, and massive flooding in Australia.

Links

• [00:40] Israel Elections (9 minutes)
  • “Biden Is Undermining the Abraham Accords”
• [10:00] Merkel About-face (7 minutes)
  • “European Democracies Search for a Savior”
  • A Strong German Leader Is Imminent
• [17:00] China and the Philippines (8 minutes)
  • “China’s Maritime Militia Asserting Control Over Another Philippine Reef”
  • “China Is Steering the World Toward War”
• [24:40] Colorado Mass Murder (10 minutes)
  • “Barack Obama’s Radical Gun Control Agenda”
  • “Saving America From the Radical Left—Temporarily”
  • America Under Attack
• [34:40] Suez Canal Shutdown (5 minutes)
  • “Iran Gets a Stranglehold on the Middle East”
• [39:35] North Korea Missile Test (5 minutes)
  
  • Russia and China in Prophecy
• [44:30] EU Vaccine Passports (7 minutes)
  • “Coronavirus and the Holy Roman Empire”
• [51:50] Australia Flooding (4 minutes)
  
  • Why ’Natural Disasters’?