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This is another in a series of children’s propagandist story books distributed to libraries nationwide and in other countries, another facet of the many war strategies used against the west, overtly about Israel, but covertly about changing opinions and accepting Islam.  The facade of victimhood is usually at play; one need only be alert to recognize how it’s employed.  

by Tabitha Korol

Tasting the Sky, by Ibtisam Barakat, is a story told through the memories of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl in Ramallah, West Bank, the heartland of Biblical Israel and known through the centuries as Samaria.  it is categorized to be read by Middle Graders, ages 6 and up, who know nothing of the region’s history.   Without guidance, analysis and clarification, they would conclude that Israel is the interloper and Palestinians the natives, and by extension, western civilization is evil.  This is Islamic indoctrination, inappropriate for distribution.

It begins with a sketchy historical note that the conflict over the State of Israel, the background of the story, continues to this day, but the conflict’s origin is ignored.  For over fourteen centuries, Arabs have been following Mohammed’s decrees by attacking and slaughtering the Jews within the land and brutalizing Christians, Romans, Persians, Ethiopians, Berbers, Turks, Visigoths, Franks, Egyptians, Indians, and more, elsewhere.  Unable to deny 1400 years of Jewish presence in the land, the Arabs embellish the discord with lies of shared history, prophets, and archaeology.  But the land has only ever been the ancestral homeland of the Jews, who reestablished their national independence in Israel after 2,000 years, its legality endorsed by the United Nations, in 1948.  Israel also received the recognition of Yusaf Diya al-Khaldi Mayor of Jerusalem (1899), Lord Robert Cecil (1918), Emir Faisal, leader of the Arab World (1919); and Sir Winston Churchill (1920).

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Process may take years, but officials and analysts accusing Israel of killing option for future Palestinian state have started calling for a unitary state with equal rights for all

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Illustrative: Palestinian officials along with Israeli and International peace activists plant trees near Beit Al Baraka compound as part of a protest against the land being taken over by Israeli settlers on April 9, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

For years, Israeli officials have insisted that reports of the death of the two-state solution are greatly exaggerated, and that the option of a Palestinian state is still alive, despite ongoing settlement expansions.Now, many proponents of a two-state solution are worried that Israel’s planned unilateral annexation of large parts of the West Bank would bury that possibility once and for all.

Advocates of an Israeli annexation, on the other hand, say the move, if carried out in accordance to the US peace plan, would actually advance a “realistic two-state solution.”Either way, an Israeli annexation as envisioned by the deal of the century is likely to erode the international consensus behind the two-state paradigm, and may cause the world to start backing the idea of a unitary state in which Israelis and Palestinians enjoy equal rights. Read more…

Opponents of Israel’s sovereignty plan express pessimism that it can be reversed if approved.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST MAY 27, 2020

LEFT-WING ACTIVISTS demonstrate against US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, in Tel Aviv last February.
(photo credit: MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH90)

With West Bank annexation appearing to be almost a certainty, its opponents have looked for a ray of hope in day-after scenarios, as they ponder whether a Knesset sovereignty vote can be reversed.

For two leading left-wing attorneys, that chance seems slim to nonexistent, both for legal and geopolitical reasons, unless it comes within the context of a major peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.

“I cannot imagine reversing annexation without a comprehensive agreement. I do believe that annexation is reversible, but in a framework of an alternative permanent-status agreement,” said attorney Michael Sfard, who often represents the left-wing groups Peace Now and Yesh Din in cases before the High Court of Justice.
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Obama’s policies are in tatters, and the worst scandals of his White House are coming to light.

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, NATIONAL REVIEW

“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”   Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.

After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years —

• the Susan Rice memo,
• Christopher Steele deleting his computer records,
• FBI-doctored and lost 302s,
• text messages wiped clean,
• the bizarre Obama January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting,
• the ambush interview of Michael Flynn,
• the unmasking and leaking of redacted names swept up in reverse-targeting surveillance operations,
• the administration fraud perpetrated on the FISA courts.

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By Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, JCPA

Women make T-shaped gesture in message to U.S.: You send your soldiers to the region standing up, and they will come back lying in coffins.

• Iran has been celebrating International Quds (Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan since Ayatollah Khomeini began the observance in 1979, to express Muslim yearning for the “liberation of Jerusalem” and the “restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinians.”
• Khomeini’s doctrine – “The destruction of Zionism and the ‘Zionist entity’ (Israel) is the basic condition for solving the contemporary problems of Islam” and liberating Palestine – continues to resonate and to guide even the second and third generations of the Islamic revolution, a sort of eternal precept that brooks no deviation, questioning, or disagreement and that one must strive constantly and actively to fulfill.
• According to this doctrine, the ongoing struggle against Israel and the United States is not a separate phenomenon but part of the centuries-old battle against Western arrogance, domineering, and imperialism, which implanted the “Zionist entity” in the heart of the Muslim domain.

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The efforts to unseat Netanyahu failed at the polls. Will they succeed in court? Three cases about gifts and media coverage. Opinion.

By Barry Shaw

When Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday May 24th it made political history.

Israel has had no shortage of leaders who have been proven corrupt.

An Israeli President was sent to prison when Moshe Katzav was sentenced to seven years on rape charges.

Ehud Olmert resigned as Prime Minister to stand trial on charges of bribery and breach of trust both as mayor of Jerusalem and later as Prime Minister. He was sentenced to 27 months on fraud charges and was discharged from prison after serving just sixteen months.
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PA ambassador to UK Husam Zomlot argues former VP has sent message to Netanyahu that there will be no consequences for annexing West Bank — no matter who wins US election<

By ERIC CORTELLESSA, TOI

Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy to Washington, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, on February 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON — Palestinian Authority official Husam Zomlot  decried Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday for not taking a strong enough stance against Israel’s proposed annexation of parts of the West Bank.

Zomlot, the PLO’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and a former envoy in Washington, argued that Biden’s unwillingness to threaten harsh consequences for Israel should Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extend sovereignty to the West Bank settlements enables him to move forward with his plan.

“We are not seeing any new sort of policy lever on the part of the Biden campaign that would actually help in the changing of the calculus,” Zomlot said on a Zoom call organized by the US-based Israel Policy Forum, a nonprofit that supports a two-state solution. “So far, it’s nothing that would actually dissuade Netanyahu from going ahead with annexation.”

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Center for Human Rights in Iran

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state violence that was used against protesters in Iran during the unrest that gripped the country in November 2019 and January 2020.

The 66-page report, Gunning Them Down: State Violence against Protesters in Iran, provides dozens of firsthand accounts by eyewitnesses, families of those killed, and lawyers of detainees.

These accounts describe in detail the state’s indiscriminate firing of live ammunition into crowds of civilians, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of individuals, including women, children and bystanders, untold injuries from gunshots, tear gas and beatings, and thousands of arrests in the span of roughly a week.
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While Arab leaders officially oppose Israel’s sovereignty plan, many have backed the plan in closed-door talks with the US.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Netanyahu with Jordan Valley sovereignty map

A number of Arab states allied with the US are quietly backing Israel’s plan to apply sovereignty over nearly a third of Judea and Samaria, despite officially opposing the move, senior Arab officials say.The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, first unveiled on January 28th, includes provision for Israel applying sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea area, and all Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who had vowed in September to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria, immediately endorsed the Trump plan.

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T. Belman.  I had an extended conversation with their spokesperson yesterday on just this issue. I argued that

• the PA will never come to the table so there is nothing to worry about
• even if negotiations get started, Israel can be as rejectionist, for 4 years, as the PA was, for 25 years following Oslo
• Israel is just being asked to negotiate in good faith.  That’s not synonomous with accepting a Palestinian statelet
• best to pocket the 30% now and then focus on the rest.
• Trump has earned the right to be trusted and we should give Trump some wiggle room as he is trying to keep the Gulf states on board

He argued that

• The two state solution was dead and soon to be buried so why revive it
• This statelet involves our biblical heartland, we shouldn’t be asked to put it on the table
• Pompeo opened the door for us by saying the US thinks that the settlements are not illegal.  That was enough.
• Israel should not be taken for granted. It argues about everything.
• Trump’s base does not support his Plan

Shomron Regional Council embarks on aggressive campaign for Israeli sovereignty, warns against what it calls “half sovereignty.”

By Ben Ariel, INN

The Shomron Regional Council is embarking on an aggressive campaign for Israeli sovereignty this July, warning it of what it calls “half sovereignty.”

The campaign operates using two arms, one of which is in Israel with a clear demand not to accept “poisoned candy” within the sovereignty agreement, meaning a de facto approval in a government decision to establish a Palestinian state, and to leave Jewish communities as enclaves in the territory.

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By Gregory R. Copley, OIL PRICE   – May 25, 2020,

Mid-2020 saw the world at war, actual strategic war as far as the Forbidden Palace in Beijing was concerned. This was almost disbelievingly acknowledged by some in Washington, DC, London, Canberra, Ottawa, New Delhi, and Tokyo. It was a war that was viewed tentatively and with incredulity in much of the West because it was a war of a very new type. And it was a war in which the West — for the first time in a century or more — did not write the rules of engagement.

Indeed, because it had emerged from covert war to overt war, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) leadership was aware, certainly by early May 2020 (and probably even by January of that year), that it had to move quickly to use the cover of the global coronavirus preoccupation and lockdown in order to make and consolidate some key strategic advances while it could do so unopposed. These initial objectives for Beijing included:

• Locking down control of the autonomous Hong Kong region — a significant source of the PRC’s access to foreign exchange generation — once and for all, and hoping to do so with minimal foreign reprisal;
• Rebuilding a PRC position whereby it could resume domination of global supply chain origination manufacturing, something which it had essentially been losing even before the 2020 crisis;
• Consolidate military domination of the South China Sea region;

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David Ben-Gurion adopted the partition map, with all its disadvantages, at a time when the threats to the fledgling state were much greater than what we face now.

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM 05-26-2020

Now that everything is behind us – the election, the coalition, and even the start of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trial – a historic moment is here. Israel now has a window of opportunity the like of which it hasn’t seen since the 1967 Six-Day War. Backed by the only superpower in the world, Israel may now take over large parts of Judea and Samaria.

This is a step that only two or three years ago, even under US President Trump, would have been unimaginable. This is a decision that would have led to an international earthquake if it had been made under the Obama administration. And now, an event that approaches a diplomatic miracle is unfolding before our very eyes.

As with every historic watershed moment, the decision to apply sovereignty is not without its dangers. European nations oppose it. Arab states, especially Jordan, are making threats. While we must not dismiss these risks, we have an obligation to lay out the advantages and benefits, which are unmatched.

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One American official tells Israel Hayom: “If the settlers don’t want what the administration currently has to offer, they shouldn’t come to us in the future. The expectation was that they see the bigger picture.”

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM 05-26-2020

Frustration is mounting among US administration officials over the g over the position expressed by some setter leaders in Israel, who oppose President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century.”

The deal stipulated that Washington will endorse an Israeli decision to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, a move Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to pursue as early as July 1, in accordance with the Trump administration’s vision for peace.

Israel’s plan, as well as the White House’s support for it, has been lambasted by the Palestinian Authority, which ordered its security forces to suspend security coordination with Israel, as well as by the EU and UN, with both warning annexation could be the final nail in the coffin of the regional peace proceeds, moribund since 2014.
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