Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has said that Israel will not annex the Jordan Valley, according to a television report last Wednesday.

Both Netanyahu and Gantz are begging Abbas to negotiate.

Shaked spoke out amid growing reports that Israel planned a partial sovereignty plan over settlement blocs and would not at this time annex the full 30% allowed.

BY TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Mevo’ot Yericho in the Jordan Valley  (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)

Israeli plans to apply sovereignty over portions of the West Bank will not include the Jordan Valley, Yamina MK and former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told Army Radio.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has given up on the Jordan Valley” because of the opposition from the Arab world, Shaked said adding that her party has received reports to this effect.

Shaked spoke out amid growing reports that Israel planned a partial sovereignty plan over settlement blocs and would not at this time annex the full 30% allowed it under US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, which he unveiled in January.

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Right-wing would easily win majority, one TV survey indicates; in second poll, 58% say they disapprove of Netanyahu’s performance on the economic aspects of COVID-19 outbreak

By TOI STAFF

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry, in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party would win just nine of the 120 parliamentary seats if Knesset elections were held today, even as Israelis sour on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the coronavirus crisis, according to a pair of television polls on Sunday night,

The survey by Channel 13 was conducted on the backdrop of reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to dissolve the unity government to prevent Defense Minister Gantz from becoming premier in November 2021, and due to coalition disagreements with Blue and White.

Netanyahu is reportedly interested in fresh elections — the fourth since April 2019 — due to favorable polls. Sunday’s poll was no different and predicted a landslide victory for the premier’s right-wing bloc.

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By Alexander Maistrovoy

Antifa, the BLM and the globalist elite standing behind them are driven by the desire not for reforms, but for the total destruction of Western civilization. In their hatred they merge with the “jihadists”

In April 1918, the Bolshevik government headed by Lenin signed the decree “On the Monuments of the Republic.” Monuments “in honor of the kings and their servants” must be demolished, but with a significant reservation: if they had no “significance from either historical or cultural point of view”. This allowed preserving a significant part of cultural and architectural heritage of Russia. Thanks to it, in our time tourists can see the beautiful monuments of Russian tsars and emperors, although all of them were “ruthless exploiters of the working people”: Peter the Great, who built Saint Petersburg on the bones of millions of peasants; Catherine the Great; Alexander I of Russia (famous Alexandrovskaya Kolonna in Petersburg), Paul I of Russia and so on. People’s Commissariat for Education even preserved the monument to Nicholas I because of its cultural value (the monument was erected by the French architect Auguste de Montferrand). Although Nicholas I is traditionally considered as retrograde and tyrant in Russian historiography. Surely, nobody could even think about demolishing monuments to Russian victorious generals and sailors, greatest scientists, composers, writers and poets. Thus, in St. Petersburg they preserved the monument to the sailors of the Russian battleship “Imperator Alexander III” (1908) who died during Battle of Tsushima against Japan.

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T. Belman.  Israel treads lightly because it does not want to violate free speech norms and because she benefits from evangelical political and financial support.  Its the same policy that has her standing by whenever the PA broadcasts antisemetic material.  For my part Israel should draw the line without equivocation and take the position that missionizing and preaching antisemitism will not be tolerated.  If Israedl can outlaw Naqba celebrations, it can outlaw the PA narrative.

Israeli regulatory authorities say God TV, one of the world’s largest Christian broadcasting network, failed to disclose true agenda

By Judy Maltz, HAARETZ

In a landmark ruling, Israeli regulatory authorities announced on Sunday that they are shutting down an evangelical Christian television station for not disclosing in its license application that its true agenda was missionizing Jews.

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council notified Hot, the Israeli cable television provider, that its new Hebrew-language channel would be taken off the air within the next seven days.Shelanu, a new channel set up by God TV – one of the largest Christian broadcasting networks in the world – in partnership with the Israeli Messianic community, had been broadcasting on cable television since the end of April.

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Arab states normalizing ties with Israel are making noisy threats about their sustainability. But informed by years of disillusionment, Palestinians are rightly skeptical about their protestations

By Yousef Alhelou, HAARETZ

With days left to the potential start of Israel’s annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, potentially extending Israeli sovereignty over about 30 percent of its total area, the Arab states that have moved closer to normalization with Israel are making noisy threats about the sustainability of that process if Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead. But informed by years of disillusionment, Palestinians are rightly skeptical about their protestations.

The most prominent public intervention by an Arab state warm to Israel was an op-ed written by UAE ambassador to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba, published earlier this month in the high-circulation Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The surprising piece, and the accompanying direct-to-camera videos shared on Twitter, was addressed to officials but was most clearly aimed at the Israeli public. His message: annexation could be the trigger for “igniting violence, rouse extremists and destabilising the entire Middle East and North African region” and would spell the end of normalization.

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In the 28th June 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• A critically ill Israeli Covid-19 patient has received the world’s first (Israeli) passive vaccine.
• Israeli scientists have combined two non-cancer treatments to kill cancer.
• Holocaust survivor sees his granddaughter become an Israeli Air Force pilot.
• Tel Aviv University has the world’s best on-line cybersecurity course.
• An Israeli device helps parents interpret a baby’s cries.
• Six Israeli startups are 2020 World Economic Forum tech pioneers.
• Two Israelis are ranked top US sports prospects.
• An Israeli Ethiopian technician maintains the plane that brought her family to Israel.

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by Raymond Ibrahim, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  June 28, 2020

On May 8, 2020, a man tried to torch the Surp Asdvadzadzin Armenian Church in Istanbul, which in previous years was repeatedly attacked with hate-filled graffiti, among other desecrations. (Image source: Vmenkov/Wikimedia Commons)

• • “The atrocities against Christians have gone unchecked and risen to alarming apogee with the country’s security forces and concerned political actors looking the other way or colluding with the Jihadists.” — The Nigerian Voice, May 14, 2020
  • Earlier this year, Christian Solidarity International issued a “Genocide Warning for Christians in Nigeria.”

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Editorial of The New York Sun | June 27, 2020

As the House readied its vote to make a new state out of the District of Columbia, the Speaker went before the press to dilate on injustice of what has obtained for the past 230 years. Mrs. Pelosi called the District “an affront to our democracy.” She noted that its residents pay taxes, serve in the military, and contribute to the “economic vitality” of America but lack for representation. “How could it be? Whose idea was that?”

It turns out that we know exactly whose idea it was. That’s because it was hatched at the very dinner party that, among other things, is now being immortalized anew in the Broadway blockbuster “Hamilton.” The dinner took place in 1790 at New York. It was no cabal of counter-revolutionary cads. The three persons in the room where it happened were Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.
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Globalism is the enemy of Zionism and the USA

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Biden Says If Elected, He’ll Issue Executive Order To Make Mask-Use In Public Mandatory

Can the country confront its current problems with its traditional can-do spirit? We have barely four months to figure out how.

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, WSJ  June 26, 2020

Outrage is the natural response to the brutal killing of George Floyd. Yet outrage and clear, critical thinking seldom go hand in hand. An act of police brutality became the catalyst for a revolutionary mood. Protests spilled over into violence and looting. Stores were destroyed; policemen and civilians injured and killed. The truism “black lives matter” was joined by a senseless slogan: “Defund the police.”Democratic politicians—and some Republicans—hastened to appease the protesters. The mayors of Los Angeles and New York pledged to cut their cities’ police budgets. The Minneapolis City Council said it intended to disband the police department. The speaker of the House and other congressional Democrats donned scarves made of Ghanaian Kente cloth and kneeled in the Capitol. Sen. Mitt Romney joined a march.

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