By Dr. Edy Cohen and Dr. Frank Musmar,  BESA      September 16, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US-brokered Israel-UAE normalization agreement was swiftly followed by a similar agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, as well as an Israel-Bahrain agreement. The Trump administration has momentum as it continues to work toward a reformulation of formerly combative relationships. The Israel vs. Arab perception is rapidly changing to an Israel-Arab vs. Iran perception, and that dynamic will create further new alliances on both sides.

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Disturbing Findings Reveal Significant Number Of Millennials and Gen Z Can’t Name A Single Concentration Camp Or Ghetto, Believe That Two Million Or Fewer Jews Were Killed And A Concerning Percentage Believe That Jews Caused The Holocaust

CLAIMS CON

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem is a memorial to each and every one of the six million Jew who perished in the Holocaust

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: September 16, 2020 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today announced the release of the U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, the first-ever 50-state survey on Holocaust knowledge among Millennials and Gen Z. The surprising state-by-state results highlight a worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge, a growing problem as fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors – eyewitnesses to a state-sponsored genocide – are alive to share the lessons of the Holocaust.
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9/11 Came From Riyadh & Tehran.

Post-9/11 – Helping Saudis Slip Away.

Revealed: Osama’s Post-9/11 Safe Haven in Iran.

T. Belman.  Bloomberg’s money didn’t buy him the nomination and it wont buy Biden the presidency.

Aside from freeing up Democrat resources for other key swing states, a win for Biden could tamp down Trump’s railing against mail ballots

By Brian Slodysko, TOI

Then-Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at a campaign event in Providence, Rhode Island, February 5, 2020. (David Goldman/AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — When billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his presidential campaign in March, he pledged to spend “whatever it takes” to help Democrats defeat US President Donald Trump. Less than two months before the election, he’s finally coming through.

Facing questions about whether he would fulfill his promise, Bloomberg over the weekend moved to direct $100 million to Florida alone in support of Joe Biden. It’s a massive sum on par with the resources he poured into helping Democrats retake the House in 2018 and could put Trump on defense in a state that is critical to his reelection.

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Letter of warning sent to Prime Minister, Health Minister, Attorney General before petition submitted to Supreme Court against lockdown.

A letter of warning was sent this morning to the Prime Minister, the Health Minister and the Attorney General before a petition was submitted to the Supreme Court against the lockdown, as part of the requirement to exhaust procedures before submitting the petition. The arguments in the petition to be filed will be based on this letter.

The letter was submitted by Attorneys Batya Zacks and Rita Price, and speaks on behalf of a number of medical, science, academia, law, journalism personages, and citizens.

The arguments set out in the letter disprove, one by one, all justifications raised for imposing the closure, both regarding the extent of the morbidity of the virus, which health officials testified in the Knesset Coronavirus Committee is much less than publicized due to incorrect definitions, both regarding the number of critical and ventilated patients and the expected increase in their number; and regarding the threat of the collapse of the hospitals, which is far from reality and is not necessarily related to the coronavirus disease, and also regarding mortality rates from the virus that are very low.
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By: Michael Doran

Last year, a former Obama-era Defense Department official testified before Congress about Chinese strategy in the Middle East, saying “China’s strategy in the Middle East is driven by its economic interests…China…does not appear interested in substantially deepening its diplomatic or security activities there.” This view certainly sums up conventional foreign-policy wisdom, but, write the Hudson Institute scholars Michael Doran and Peter Rough, it couldn’t be more wrong.

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“As a Christian pro-Israel organization dedicated to the interests of Israel and the Jewish people, this is a day of celebration.  As an organization dedicated to the well-being of our children, this is also a wonderful day of remembrance.  A new day is dawning for the children of the Middle East.  A new textbook being implemented by the United Arab Emirates is already in use in the UAE—an Arab textbook that teaches peace with Israel

“The impact organization that analyzes textbooks for the Arab world noted the content of the textbook being presented to their children “is remarkable in that the new treaty is not just presented as a fact, but students are presented with the religious, ethical and national reasons to support peace and employ critical thinking in completing an exercise about the importance of peacemaking.”

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As of April 30th

By Peronneau Vandehey, FRANK REPORT

1. Trump recently signed three bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
2. Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
3. Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.

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T. Belman. The author writes “What Israel ended up with was a promise to support a Palestinian state as soon as those PA folks decide they want one and said state would include a hefty portion of Area C, which Israel would have to vacate partially to make room for a contiguous landmass, including the promise of a protected road from Ramallah to Gaza.”

I disagree.  Israel’s right to immediately extend sovereignty, was dependent on her instituting a 4 year construction freeze in Area C and agreeing to negotiate in good faith the creation of a Palestinian state according to the Plan.  Since they didn’t get the right to extend sovereignty they aren’t committed to the freeze or to negotiate.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS  – September 14, 2020

Jared Kushner, July 23, 2019

Every new year (Jewish and the other one), JewishPress.com selects a person who stood out over the past year and had a significant impact on Jewish lives. This person may not necessarily be someone we agree with, and their actions may not meet our approval, but our criteria are their impact. This year’s choice came as a surprise to us as much as to anyone else, since the winner was not even in the running until a few short weeks ago – or was he?

Reichal (Rae) Kushner, Jared’s paternal grandmother, with her siblings and her father Nachum, were Holocaust survivors who made it to America in 1949 from Navahrudak, in Belarus. As Andrea Bernstein put it in her portrait of President Trump’s son-in-law (Who Is Jared Kushner?), his family made it “through the destruction of their home and the confiscation of their business; through family separations and multiple mass executions; through starvation, lice, beatings, forced labor, German dogs, and Nazi bullets; through barbed wire and months of hiding in the forest during the Polish winter, a trek across international borders, and years in a displaced-persons camp,” and she summarizes: “The Kushners lost everything.”

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

At the beginning of September, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget announced that, at President Trump’s direction, all federal agencies would be banned from imposing Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) on their employees. This was the right thing to do. CRT is pure racism. While the KKK was obsessed with blacks and the Nazis were obsessed with Jews, CRT is obsessed with white people. Teaching it at federal agencies is a shocking violation of the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Despite its unconstitutionality and the President’s order, though, the CDC is planning to continue CRT training.

Christopher Rufo, who has become the point man for all of these stories about CRT training in the federal government, discovered what he aptly called a “BOMBSHELL.” The CDC is going ahead with its plan – paid for with your money – to impose a thirteen-week long CRT training program on its employees.
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Assistant FM encourages PA to use annexation suspension to reengage with Israel; downplays disagreement over F-35 sale, saying real issue is new Middle East that deal ushers in

By JACOB MAGID, TOI 

WASHINGTON — A senior Emirati diplomat pushed back Monday against Palestinian claims that his country’s normalization with Israel would come at Ramallah’s expense.

“They need to want to help themselves as well, and perhaps instead of using the traditional criticisms and curses, they actually look at what we are trying to do,” said Assistant Minister for Cultural and Public Diplomacy Omar Saif Ghobash in an interview.

Ghobash argued that the “connectivity” that the UAE-Israel normalization agreement fosters “is going to help rather than hinder” the Palestinian cause.
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T. Belman.  Bottom line is that the Government imposing the lockdown must satisfy the Court that it is justified.

COVID-19 Reinforces the Argument for “Regular” Judicial Review—Not Suspension of Civil Liberties—In Times of Crisis. Harvard Law Review.

Former Chief Justice Aaron Barak in Israel is known for resisting suspension of rights during an emergency. He argued that the rights are all the more important during such emergencies. If anyone can supply his famous quote on this, please do so.

Breitbart NEWS14 Sep 2020

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down Gov.Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down, calling them unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV sided with plaintiffs that included hair salons, drive-in movie theaters, a farmer’s market vendor, a horse trainer and several Republican officeholders who sued as individuals.

Stickman, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote in his ruling that the Wolf administration’s pandemic policies have been overreaching, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights.
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by Gerald A. Honigman

Fast forwarding from the days that Presidents Truman had to fight his own Arabist, Big Oil-connected State Department over the very rebirth of Israel in ’48; when Secretary of State Dulles and Eisenhower threatened to cut off all private as well as official aid to Israel over its response to incessant terror and blockade in the Sinai Campaign in ’56; the officially neutral stance of President Johnson in the brief “Six Day War” in ’67; positive response from Nixon but horrendous reviews for his machiavellian SoS, Kissinger, in the Yom Kippur War of ’73; etc….there were reports that emerged, despite “the filter,” that the ground-breaking flight of President Sadat of Egypt directly to Israel in 1977 and historic peace treaty which followed in ’79 actually took place as much as despite Jimmy Carter than because of him… https://ekurd.net/jews-should-not-henry-2019-07-14
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Condeleeza Rice demonstrates why she has achieved so much in life. She has excelled in sports, music, academia, diplomacy as Secretary of State and now begins another journey as Director of the Hoover Institution.

by Marilyn Stern, MEFORUM

Mark Durie, Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, and Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam, spoke to participants in a July 25 Middle East Forum Webinar (video) about the crisis of faith in Islam as disillusioned Muslims leave the religion.

“If you want to understand a religion, you need to understand what it says about the human condition … the rewards it offers, the promises it makes,” Durie explained. “Islam’s view of humanity is that human persons are basically weak and easily led astray, and [that] the solution to this problem is divine guidance, which is imposed by … all the institutions of society and the state keeping people on the right path.”

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By Kurt Schlichter, TOWNHALL

You know, I am still not tired of all the winning. Imagine having a Republican president conserva-woke enough to issue an executive order banning the poisonous lies of critical race theory from being inflicted upon our federal workforce. Well, we do have a president fearless enough to fight back, boldly and publicly, against the noxious propaganda of the academic left we taxpayers have been shelling out millions to pay commie consultants for. And he did it in the face of the utterly predictable narrative that “Trump is racist for prohibiting indoctrinating government employees with the idea that people are good or bad based on their race!” Read more…