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By Ted Belman

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  1. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir commented on Monday evening on the possibility that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide on the formation of a unity government without him.

    “If Netanyahu comes and says he doesn’t want me because I want judicial reform or because I insisted on the reasonableness standard, we all understand the meaning – that tomorrow Otzma Yehudit will not get 14 seats, but 30 seats,” said Ben Gvir in an interview on Radio 103FM.

  3. Mudar tweeted:

    The last crossing… Jordan’s kinglet’s half brother, Hamza, [Lisa al-Halabi’s kid], leaves #Jordan to the safety and warmth of his mother’s estate in the North West of the United States… The country where the rest of the HASHemites are at the moment...

  6. Reasonableness Clause and Judicial Reform and the reaction to it by large number of Israelis is really tearing Israel apart. Continuing this now seems to be madness. What is more important having a state or hoping things will be okay and the judiciary will be reformed. This is starting to feel like Russian Roulette.

    Large amount of reservists including over 1000 in IAF are saying they will no longer serve. That is truly scary because Israel does not exist in the long run without the reservists as the standing IDF is very small.

    I actually wish both sides would agree to sit down for six (6) months and come to a judicial reform and bill of rights. I also wish constitution but that is not a reasonable expectation.

  7. @Ted
    I am very familiar wth this article as well as the long list of comments on it. It is an excellent read and an important one as well, which has clearly stimulated a great deal of interest.

  11. @Ted
    Yes, I read the others and one of Perfidy is one of my favorite books. I read it when I was much younger and it changed me forever. I hadn’t heard about the book by Wyman and Medoff til a few years ago, and was quite excited about it, but then the world went mad and …

  15. DeSatantis since his early days in politics has been supported by conservative GOP Jews who are the biggest supporters of Israel and the GOP. Including the Moscovitz Family. This family donates to Israel like no other including buying properties to have Jew live in them in Eastern Jerusalem. Have a whole Casino in the LA area (Hawaiian Gardens) in which all the profits go to Israel (family member runs its for $1 per year). Mrs. Adeleson and other large conservative GOP supporters have backed Ron DeSantis.

    Ron DeSantis himself is very pro Israel. He is also more conservative than Trump on some issues. Mostly they agree on issues.
    Trump is better at smearing people and name calling however.

    It is not fair to label DeSantis a RINO. (this is for you Peloni)

    There are some RINO’s who have decided to support DeSantis and also Independents who are looking for a new intelligent and not with baggage candidate.

    If DeSantis is a RINO then Trump is a NAZI. Trump has had NAZI’s and their ilk support him openly. Does that make him a NAZI? So if Trump is not a NAZI then DeSantis.

    Any of you calling DeSantis a RINO tell me which left wing policies he supports and show me the proof. The man is as conservative as they get. Unlike Trump.

  16. Ron Destantis early and continued support (from Congress days through two terms of governor) have included the Irving Moscowtiz family now headed by the Matriarch of the family in Florida. This family runs a whole casino in the LA Area in which all the profits go Israel NGO’s buying properties in Eastern Jerusalem and in Judea/Samaria among other things. Also other GOP supporters like the Addelson’s.

    These are very conservative respectable conservative GOP supporters. There are many others.

    DeSantis has been smeared just like was smeared. Some people consider Rhino’s decided they like Ron DeSAntis. Does this make him a RINO,

    If this makes him a RINO then Donald Trump is a NAZI. Some NAZI’s have rallied for Trump and supported. Is he a NAZI no.

    So DeSantis has been smeared.

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  17. Bear,

    Trump won at the polls in 2020, and, barring some shenanigans, will again win next year. DeSantis should not have run; but I’m grateful that he did and revealed his RINO heart.

    Vivek Ramaswami is, from the latest I’ve seen, the next most popular MAGA Republican.

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  18. @Bear
    Desantis had a great deal of potential, but he sold out to the establishment wing of the party. He has no chance of beating Trump and no path to the White House if he did beat Trump unless the Uniparty selects him with their vote rigging. He has no appeal to the blue collar voters. He supports the war in Ukraine, just after opposing it. When in Congress he supported the Globalist TPP trade deal. His donors are all big money donors, mostly RINO donors, while he has nearly no small dollar donors – the distinction being further evidence for a lack of popular support for his candidacy.

    If Desantis is going to win the presidency, without the support of election fraud, he is going to have to gain the support of Trump’s supporters. In light of this, it is curious that he has come out and supported the idea that Trump is responsible for Jan. 6. Desantis has never even tried to achieve the support of MAGA. Like Haley, Pence (what an idiot), Pompeo and the rest, they believe that Trump’s supporters will simply flow to them when Trump is placed on trial for whatever crime is cooked up against him. This is not only naive, it is completely illogical. Trump’s supporters are not Republicans. They are MAGA. Anyone who doesn’t grasp the very clear difference will not win anything. MAGA found a champion in Trump, someone who could carry their message and who they found that they could both trust and rely upon. Desantis has lied repeatedly, changed his position to suit, not just the day but the hour it would seem. MAGA recognizes that their 2020 election victory was stolen, and at a minimum, anyone they support would necessarily need to support them in this view.

    This is not even raising the question about the election bill which he put forward which reduces transparency, reduces accountability and reduced election ID significantly. It also outlaws hand counts and paper ballots in an age in which the machines have been shown to have manipulated election results and the machine counts have been shown to be completely unreliable when compared with the real outcome of elections.

    As to the looming conviction of Trump, it will not stop him from running, and it seems to actually be having the greater effect of solidifying support around him. Of course, Trump is not the only man who could do what he has done, he is simply the only man who did do what he has done. If it becomes necessary to find an alternative to Trump, however, the choice will not be found among the RINO and RINO-light group which now stands on the stage unable to speak honestly about the coup which took place and removed their own president from the White House, and that would certainly include Desantis.

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  19. Curious how other’s on this site feel about Ron DeSantis?

    I think he is well qualified to be POTUS. I think he is smart, articulate, well versed in all the subject by knowledge and actual experience. His age is a plus and so is his wife.

    I think Trump has serious legal complications and those in power are trying to keep him from running and mudding up his possibility of winning. So whether one loves him or not I think GOP voters need to think of best alternative to Trump. Clearly at this point in time Trump is the GOP front runner but the GOP and its voters need prepare for the serious possibility of Trump being convicted in his upcoming trial.

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  20. Tablet published Back to the Borscht Belt. It brought back many memories. I worked there in the Concord and in Grossingers as a life guard for two summers and two Christmas holidays. In the evenings I always went to the nightclub to see the shows. The included rafts of Jewish comedians.

    The Canadian equivalent was epitomized by Richler’s novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.. It was made into a movie starring Richard Dreyfuss. It launched his brilliant career.

  21. READER-

    Thank you for your post. I must say that if you wait ubtila government not only satisfactory to you , but with action in accord with your world view, is elected and performs suitably, you will be a very old man before yu set foot in the Land.

    When I went, there was NO one to greet me with song and dance, no real benefits and about 1/5th of my good were stolen through flaps cut in the cardboard boxes on the flat truck, before I even got to my cousin’s home.
    Fortunately he had lots of space, a penthouse and flat roof garden in Tel Aviv;he helped me to find a furnished home in Givatayim where my fiance and I were married.

    It was good for a while, but I couldn’t help but notice that the whole country seemed awash with failed olim from elsewhere, some of whom I knew, with stinky reputations.

    A REAL MESS that I endured for 14 years before they wiped me out entirely. You have read my posts re same .

    But I never regretted going there and even today I regret leaving.

    My first pleasurable shock was to see a roll of toilet paper in a jumbled window with the label in Hebrew. Then the delight of being completely surrounded by JEWS is something I’ll never forget.
    But you and I may have different reasons and different psyches.

    I was rich when I wnet there wiped out when leaving, but with a preplanned reserve still abroad, so I recovered. I lost well over $250,000 when it really meant a lot of money. And I didn’t gamble, or play poker or anything, was jus trying to live a normal carefree life-which I did, for a few years. ….until I tried to build a house, they called it a “villa”.
    one part of my downfall. legal crookery played a big part, REAL crooks in High Places.

    So I wish you all the very best and hope you make the right decision -for you.

  22. “Pence just committed political suicide.”

    Tucker:

    Your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can’t find on a
    map, who’ve received tens of billions of U.S tax dollars, don’t have enough tanks.
    I think it’s a fair question to ask, like where’s the concern for the United States in that?

    Pence:

    Well, it’s not my concern. Tucker I’ve heard that routine from you before, but that’s not my concern.

    Pence never had a path to the presidency, but if he did, this simple statement would have been enough to end it. Tucker also addresses Pence’s tone deaf position on Ukriane’s religious intolerance and election fraud.

  23. @Edgar

    I find the behavior of the current Knesset coalition even more amazing than the COVID affair.

    Remember, how the previous coalition kept screaming that Lapid and Bennett betrayed their voters?

    What the current coalition is doing is WAY worse than anything the previous one might have done, and the worst part is that, most likely, they will succeed, no matter what this does to the state or to the rest of the population..

    I still hope and plan to make aliyah but sometimes I think that what f it wasn’t meant to happen for me.

    I am not the cream of the crop, i.e. I am not someone who is younger than 35, with the skills and training which are in high demand, and I am not a wealthy retiree.

    Plus, most of the required “proofs” expire after 1 year (?!), and with the very religious in charge of aliyah, they will just about put an end to it because it interferes with the well-being of their “sector”.

  24. Concerning the Ottoman Sultan. I thought it was common knowedge that for at least 150 years before it’s demise, the Sultan was completely cloistered in an inner “city”, basically a prisoner, whilst his siblings who might try to overthrow him were assassinated in avariety of ways. The real rulers of the Empire were the Viziers, often Eunuchs, not the totally uneducated, often half-witted Sultan recently released from Thralldom.

    This explains it’s utter failures over many years which earned it the name of “The Sick Man of Europe.
    It was only the antagonism of the rest of Europe which prevented Russia from totally overcoming the Ottoman Empire, .They were sworn enemies and Russia craved a sea outlet into the Black Sea.

    Prevented as I say, by the rest of Europe.

  26. READER-

    Since I saw you post after a long absence, I’ve been meaning to ask you how your Aliya plans are progressing. I think I saw that because of some Israeli internal nonsense , you may have put them on hold.

    So please let me know, just a matter of my interest;

  27. ABEDALELAH AMAALA TWEETED TWICE:

    Two pictures that reflect the status of the Jordanians. The picture is of the prostitute Rania, who impoverished the Jordanians because of the dresses of humiliation, profligacy and immorality. And the second picture that gave birth to red eyes and spent their lives to protect the most corrupt family that feeds on the blood of Jordanians. Every global or Arab leader who receives and glorifies this Hashemite family is more base than them in insolence. They must be dragged into the streets of Amman, and soon, God willing

    AND

    Abdullah II is now living the state of riding a bike race in the mountains of California, and the Jordanian people are groaning from hunger, thirst, poverty, and indebtedness. All the world leaders in their countries follow the affairs of their countries, and Abdullah II considers Jordan and the Jordanians as a cash cow to pay the expenses of the Hashemite palaces and their salaries, which destroyed the Jordanians, slaughtered them, and starved their children. Abdullah II, the king of immorality, corruption and starvation. Israel and America should bring down this prostitute. Containing and covering up Abdullah II’s corruption is a crime against Jordan and the Jordanians and their slow killing.

  30. Abedalelah Amaalah tweeted today:

    Exercise Intrepid Maven 23.4 to Commence in Jordan > United States Marine Corps Flagship > News Display . The alliance between the Jordanian army and the American army is the nucleus of the next Arab-Israeli NATO

  31. Mudar tweeted today.

    The Jordanian from Bethlehem, Musa Al-Taamari, the pride of Jordanians in the French League… and before him the Olympic champion Ghosheh and others. The New Jordan is based on achievement only…….

    He is conditioning Palestinians to think of themselves as Jordanians.

  34. Hi, Bear

    You are cheering for them that is good.

    Yes, the Russian army is incompetent and unmotivated. Specifically, it seems to be incompetent from the top down, and unmotivated from the bottom up. The Ukrainians are a proper citizen army, fighting for their loved ones, so yes, they have spirit; but they are also tough as nails, smart and inventive.

    Under Donald Trump, the American armed forces were, hands down, the best in the world; but Joe Biden and his supporters seem to have intentionally done everything possible to sap their strength and morale. On 9/11, we were attacked by our enemies; but under Joe Biden, we have attacked ourselves.

  35. @ Michael,
    US Military is now too woke and enlistment is having problems because of this under Biden.

    Ukrainians are determined because they are fighting for their lives and homes. Best soldiers in the world ??? You are cheering for them that is good. They are way better than in 2014 and fighting incompetent Russian army who is not motivated.

  36. Hi, Bear. The date of the article you cited was Saturday 26 May 2018 — during the Donald Trump Administration..

    Judging by his performance in Afghanistan, I dare say that under Biden, the casualty figures would be flipped. Thank God, we have the Ukrainians, the best soldiers in the world, to protect us from the Russians.

  37. A couple of years ago – US fighters in Syria squared off against the “elite” Russian Wagner fighters. The USA had 45 fighters in the battle and the Syrian and Russian Troops number a total of about 500 thought it would be an easy slaughter.

    Wrong none of the USA commandos died and about 200 to 300 of the elite Russians were killed. Prelude to Ukraine were we see a failed Russian military on display.

    The truth about the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria
    Up to 300 Russian and Syrian fighters killed in the attack

  38. US military reveals it eliminated ISIS leader in Syria
    In a strike in Syria, CENTCOM killed Usamah al-Muhajir, an ISIS leader in eastern Syria.

    The drone that killed the ISIS leader are the same ones the Russian planes in Syria were harassing in the last few days. Confusing who is on whose side.

  39. @Sebastian, I just read that your Mom died last month. I am very sorry to hear that but glad to hear she lived a very long life of 99. My mother died in 2017 six weeks after the love of my life died and widowed me. My mother also lived a long life to 97+ years.

    Your question about football or soccer in Israel. The Hebrew word is CadurRegal which translates to Football. Cadur is a ball and Regal is a foot.

  41. A new, improved Torah?

    Yuval Noah Harari, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suggested that AI could be used to create a new Bible that will “be able to invent new concepts and beliefs that are more socially acceptable than the Bible,” according to the Christian Broadcast Network. Harari further noted that in the years to come AI could make religions that may be “actually correct” and asked the audience to consider what religion could look like “whose holy book is written by an AI.”

    — https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/making-jesus-image-leftists-use-ai-rewrite-bible-talk-god/

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  42. “A popular Mexican TV doctor who regularly appeared on “Mexico Today” as a “vaccination expert” died suddenly from a myocardial infarction, according to reports. Dr. Alfredo Victoria Moreno was only 42 years old when he died in his sleep early Monday. He was a vocal advocate of COVID mRNA vaccines. The physically fit medical doctor and public health specialist had no preexisting medical conditions. He regularly appeared on TODAY (“HOY!”) to administer vaccines to the show’s staff on the air…”

    — https://sandrarose.com/2023/06/tv-doctor-and-vaccination-expert-dr-alfredo-victoria-dies-suddenly-at-42/

  46. @Felix
    So you are going to go with the US intelligence community as the conclusive evidence for your beliefs? Do recall that this is the same group who told you that the shots were safe and effective, that IVM was horse paste, that HCQ was fish tank cleaner, that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, that there was no election fraud, that Biden won 81million votes, that the laptop was Russian disinformation, and that Trump was a Russian asset. They also hold that Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by Israel, that the PA is Israel’s best hope for future stability, and that the TSS is the only path towards peace. They also hold that there are no Nazi’s in Ukraine, that Putin is a madman, that Ukraine is winning the war, and that the US had nothing to do with blowing up the Nordstream pipeline. Check your sources. The US govt is not worthy of your trust. Need I say grassy knoll, or Gulf of Tonkin, or Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Operation Paperclip? No doubt you will find some support for some of these fables put forward from the CIA and her sister fabulists, but you should be well aware that these folks actually lie for a living, and document lies to support policy, which is what you are now citing as conclusive evidence.

    I never held that these captured agencies would ever support the truth on this or any topic, even if they bothered to discover what the truth might be. I have spoken with you in detail on the lab leak over the past years, but you continue to support the well disproven claim that China did not develop either SARS-Cov2 or its immediate predecessor while colluding with and being paid by the very same US govt whose report you now hold as being conclusive. Consequently, I have no respect for the authors of this drivel you find earth shattering, but rather find you have once again tied your hopes to yet one more piece of ‘Brought To You By Phizer’ disinformation.

    One more point to share with you, though it hardly changes the fact that garbage in leads to garbage out. The summary of the report hides from view the fact that even among the US intel agencies, there was no agreement upon the source of the virus. Indeed, the Energy Dept held that the Chinese Lab actually was the source of the virus, while most of the agencies withheld a conclusive judgement. In fact, the conclusions revealed in the report are not news, but have been known for some time now, even as report finally being released seems to have given you yet another impetus to revisit this topic without the benefit of anything new to share.

    Do tell me, did you hear about the other recent revelations about this topic which continues to hold your interest? Three Chinese scientists who were actually working on the virus research were among the very first to die of the China Flu. Also, one of the Chinese bioweapon researchers who patented a vaccine for Covid in Feb 2020 died after being thrown off the roof of the lab where the gain of function research was being conducted.

    Well, perhaps this is disinfo as well, but what is known from various sources, and I have shared this in detail in the past, is that China had a serious lab breach in the very lab which was conducting research on the gain of function research being conducted in Wuhan in September 2019, resulting in the international airport being closed and their ventilation system replaced. They also prepared for a viral outbreak at population scale beginning back as early as May 2019. None of what you shared here addresses these facts, nor do I think it likely to be beneficial for either of us to re-re-re-revisit the details again.

    That is, unless you care to go around this barn once more.

  48. A Christian friend has expressed reluctance to support Donald Trump, because she “heard bad things about him”. I have an answer for her and others in this situation:

    Do you want to vote for this?

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/26/the-party-never-stops-admiral-rachel-levine-declares-summer-of-pride/

    We have a Mother’s DAY, a Father’s DAY, a Memorial DAY, a Labor DAY, a Flag DAY… and a Pride MONTH. Is this what we’re about as a nation and a people? Some have called us a “New Jerusalem”, but we’ve become a “New Sodom”. Now Admiral Rachel wants us to have a Pride SEASON! When Fall begins, will she mark our Fall (pun intended) by declaring every year as Pride YEAR?

    Christians are taught that “By their fruits ye shall know them”. Trump’s fruit is pretty much “standard orange”; but the fruit of his opposition smells like compost.

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  49. School Choice — a way out of the Culture Wars?

    In surfing the morning news, I came across the following:

    Suddenly, School Choice: Its Rapid Post-Pandemic Expansion Sets Up a Big Pass/Fail Test for Education
    By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigations
    June 22, 2023

    …Eight states – including Arizona, Florida, Indiana, and West Virginia – have approved “universal” or near-universal school choice laws since 2021. They open the door completely to school choice by making all students, including those already in private schools and from wealthy families, eligible for about $7,000 to $10,000 in state funding each year for their education…

    — https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/06/22/suddenly_school_choice_its_rapid_post-pandemic_expansion_sets_up_a_big_passfail_test_for_education_941979.html

    Our Founding Fathers (here, in the US), in 1787, enacted the Northwest Ordinance that called for setting aside one section per every 36-sq.-mi. township for schools. This was the first nation-wide recognition, that the US government had an interest in providing universal education. Over the years, this good idea has degenerated into a cesspool of mandatory sexual grooming, pornography in the texts, anti-religious teaching and all manner of wickedness, controlled by a predatory teachers’ union. School choice seems like a good way to reverse this situation by returning choice to parents, regardless of income and social status, and funding it with tax dollars that have heretofore been squandered.

    What are everyone’s thoughts on this? Does Israel have a school choice program?

    PS Peloni,

    I just read your posting on the disgusting Biden Crime Family — Mainstream Media — Chinese Dirty Money quagmire. I agree with what you say; I’ve just been thinking more, lately, about my grandchildren coming to live in the US — and what a jungle of wickedness they’ll be exposed to. China, Hunter, etc. are things for the politicians to thrash out. Schools are something more in our local control. Thank you for posting.

  50. @Michael
    It’s even more extensive story than the short intro which Wong describes:

    Hunter Biden used his father to pressure his Chinese business partner to send him millions of dollars.

    10 days later, he received a payment of $5.1 million from the Chinese to his law firm.

    He then moved over $1 million to Joe Biden’s brother’s consulting firm.

    Their bank than shut down his account due to suspected money laundering.

    Also, they now have photo evidence that Biden was with Hunter on the day and at the time that phone call was made to the Chinese, even as Hunter’s lawyer states that no other family member is responsible for what Hunter does while on drugs, while ignoring the money laundering of the Chinese money transfers which followed his client’s phone call to China.

    The Mainstream Press even spent about four whole minutes yesterday at the White House press briefing pretending that they were journalists and asked the Press Secretary about it. Also, the White House NSC Coordinator, Kirby, walked off the state refusing to comment. Similarly a question was shouted to China Joe while with Modi. Hunter’s lawyer responded by stating that no one

    Twitter has been in a state of complete melt down since this story first broke which might be surmised to be not unrelated to the timing of the latest outrage from Prighozin…perhaps. Ignoring the Russian angle for the moment, though, this story is not going to go away.