Only about 15% say they prefer Israeli citizenship, compared to 52% who answered similarly when questioned on the matter in polls conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy between the years 2010-2015

By Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM 05-11-2020

An elderly Palestinian man performs the Friday prayer during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Mount of Olives with a backdrop of the Old City of Jerusalem | Photo: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli

A revolutionary shift in the political preferences of east Jerusalem residents: Only about 15% of people asked in a recent poll now said they prefer Israeli citizenship over Palestinian citizenship, compared to 52% who said they would rather be “Israeli” and not “Palestinian” when questioned on the matter in polls conducted between the years 2010-2015.

The new surveys, which point to the dramatic conclusion, were conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in conjunction with Palestinian pollsters, under the directorship and supervision of Dr. David Pollock throughout 2018-2019 and in the first two months of 2020. The results were presented during an online event sponsored by the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, which helped Pollock during his time and work in Israel. Pollock has surveyed the views of east Jerusalem Arabs since 2010.

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The annexation of lands in Judea and Samaria is not contrary to international law

by Michael Calvo, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  May 19, 2020 at 5:00 am

According to international law, the Jews are the indigenous people of the lands referred to as Judea, Samaria, Palestine, Israel and the Holy Land. Jewish rights of “settlement” in the so-called “West Bank” therefore exist; it cannot seriously be contended, as the EU, France, Britain, Russia, China and other states do, that Jewish communities in the West Bank are illegal and that annexation is contrary to international law.

Pictured: The Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, at the edge of the Judean Desert. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

• Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired (Art. 26.1) and that the exercise of these rights shall be free from discrimination of any kind (Art. 2). — UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007.
• Among others, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Israel and Luxembourg voted in favor of the Declaration. Since 2007, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, who voted against, formally endorsed the Declaration in 2010. In their relations with Israel, these states cannot claim that the Declaration does not apply to Israeli Jews, since such position would amount to blatant racial discrimination.

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By John Horvat II, AMERICAN THINKER

In the fight against the coronavirus, most governments, including some state governments in the U.S., have enacted the Chinese lockdown model for industry. The plan shuts down all “nonessential” activities, lays off workers and expands government benefits and control of society. These massive one-size-fits-all programs deliver predictably inhuman and inflexible results, typical of communist governments.

The problem is that the coronavirus crisis is a human problem. Human problems demand human solutions. Treating human problems in a global, mechanized way treats people like mass-produced goods. It destroys those organic solutions that arise when people employ the original and proportional means that are part of their human nature. Governments need to work with nature, not against it. The Chinese model is an example of how not to deal with a crisis.

The German Model of Lockdown

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T. Belman.  I don’t like the title or the sub-title.  If Israel can’t handle threats from Jordan, then they can’t handle any threats. Israel can’t allow itself to be intimidated by such threats.  Abdullah’s bluff must be called.  So far Israel has tolerated Abdullah’s threats whether relating to the temple mount or the Jordan Valley or the two state solution.  Jordan is not about to follow through on the threats.  It can’t afford to. The same goes for Egypt.  Besides, Trump won’t stand for it.

Can Israel take advantage of a “historic opportunity” while preserving Israel’s peace treaties?

By Herb Keinon, JPOST

Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and White Party, visits Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip on March 13 with party candidates Gabi Ashkenazy and Moshe Ya’alon

Israel-watchers abroad looking for cues as to whether the new Netanyahu-Gantz government will extend Israeli sovereignty over large swaths of the West Bank got little clarity from Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi’s maiden speech on the world stage on Monday.

For Ashkenazi, in a changing of the guard ceremony at the Foreign Ministry with Israel Katz, sent mixed messages.

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By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Combatting the coronavirus pandemic and coping with its economic fallout may be Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s most immediate challenge. Equally urgent is repairing strained relations with the US and ensuring the kingdom’s competitiveness with Iran as the two rivals compete for China’s favor.

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman may feel the global coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout are the more immediate of his problems as the kingdom gradually lifts restrictions put in place to stymie its spread.

However, looming large on the horizon is a potential rift with the US resulting from the kingdom’s oil price war with Russia, which contributed to the collapse of oil markets and an existential crisis for America’s shale industry.

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Why don’t Kuwaiti Palestinians hold a Nakba for the 400,000 expelled from Kuwait by the Kuwaitis for supporting Saddam Hussein?

By Daniel Greenfield, INN

Imagine if every year on the 7th of May, Germans held an annual commemoration of the defeat of the Nazi state, complete with Swastikas, anti-Semitic chants and slogans, and claims that the Volksdeutsche expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were the real victims.

That’s the spectacle that takes place every May as Muslims in Israel chant and riot to protest their unsuccessful genocide of the indigenous Jewish minority.

And the media sympathetically covers this repulsive spectacle of historical obliviousness, of a regional majority responsible for multiple genocides, dressing up as the victims because their invasion of Israel ended in a stalemate, rather than the intended genocidal purge of the Jews.

The revisionist Muslim history of Israel ethnically cleanses the thousands of years of history of the original Jewish inhabitants and a thousand years of persecution under Muslim rule.
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If you live in Israel, it is difficult fully to describe or explain Trump Derangement Syndrome

By Rabbi Dov Fischer, ISRAEL HAYOM

If you live in Israel, it is difficult fully to describe or explain Trump Derangement Syndrome (“TDS”). If you live outside Israel, it is equally difficult to explain Bibi Derangement Syndrome (the other BDS, or “TO-BDS”).

Nevertheless, both these political-psychological phenomena continually emerge in the public forum to disrupt the great debates on the issues of the day. Simply put, TDS and TO-BDS strike certain conservatives, not others, and the impact is striking.

In the United States, for decades Republicans looked to great conservative pundits including Bill Kristol, editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, and George Will, long-time Washington Post columnist, television-news analyst, and author.

For me personally, I followed Will avidly, published articles in The Weekly Standard, and exchanged a few friendly emails with Bill Kristol. An early highlight in my career as a widely published opinion writer came when The Weekly Standard not only front-paged me but listed me above Charles Krauthammer. Only a week later, National Review began soliciting my articles. Read more…

The arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabshe family home killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents, Sa’ad and Riham.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST MAY 18, 2020 10:08

Amiram Ben-Uliel appears at Lod District Court ahead of his conviction in the Duma arson case, May 18, 2020 (photo credit: YONAH JEREMY BOB)

The Lod District Court on Monday convicted Amiram Ben Uliel in the 2015 Jewish terror arson murders of three Palestinians in Duma.

The arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabshe family home killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents, Sa’ad and Riham and destabilized Israeli-Arab relations throughout the region.

The court also acquitted Ben Uliel of membership in a terror group.

Asher Ohayon, the lead lawyer for Ben Uliel, vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, saying that the court had wrongfully accepted confessions given post-torture.

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By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT

** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.
** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic
** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model
** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “completely unusable for scientific purposes” — The Imperial College study is a complete sham
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a garbage model on the White House and the American public and destroyed the US economy

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Debate over Shin Bet ‘torture’ of Jewish detainees.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST MAY 18, 2020

A PALESTINIAN boy looks at the damage at the Dawabsha family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma, 2015
(photo credit: MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH90)

The Lod District Court will rule on Monday on one of the most controversial cases impacting Israeli-Arab relations: the verdict in the Duma arson murders of July 2015.

The arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabshe family home killed 18-month-old Ali and his parents, Sa’ad and Riham.

For months after, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) performed a massive manhunt and investigation, but turned up empty-handed.

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I URGE YOU TO WATCH THIS EVEN IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND YIDDISH.

By Talia Kaplan | Fox News

Trump: Unmasking of Flynn is greatest political scam in history of our country

President Trump called the Russia Probe “the greatest political crime in the history of our country, ” and labeled his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn a hero, in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Trump’s comments, during the interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” come after the Justice Department this month moved to drop its case against Flynn, in a stunning development that follows internal memos being released and raises serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s late 2017 guilty plea of lying to the FBI.

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An Italian politician demanded the arrest of Bill Gates for “crimes against humanity” in a passionate speech on the parliament floor.

By Cassandra Fairbanks, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome, blasted Gates during her seven minute long speech on Thursday, claiming that he has been working on a depopulation policy and plans for dictatorial control over global politics.

The lawmaker blasted the shut down orders, handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and vaccines.

Cunial claimed that the “real goal of all of this is total control. Absolute domination of human beings, transformed into guinea pigs and slaves, violating sovereignty and free will. All this thanks to tricks/hoax disguised as political compromises.”

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By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

Early in the Wuhan virus’s trajectory, the British government announced that it was going to go for a herd immunity approach (that is, the approach Sweden eventually used). Because the government is Tory, the left-leaning media insisted this would kill every Briton.

These arguments gained weight when epidemiologist Neil Ferguson introduced his model showing that anything other than a total lockdown would kill over 500,000 Britons and 2.2 million Americans. Britain and America instantly stopped in their tracks. Only now, months later, are we learning that Ferguson’s model was a buggy mess.

The British Telegraph reports that the disgraced epidemiologist, who broke quarantine for his sex life, had a fatally flawed model:

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By Janice Shaw Crouse, AMERICAN THINKER

Well informed citizens have been rocked by revelations from recently unclassified documents that clearly show THAT President Obama “was aware of the details of wiretapped conversations of then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.”  Further, there’s a long list of Democrat dignitaries who are also part of the unprecedented spying on an opposition party in an attempt to influence a presidential election and then undermine the duly elected president.  The really pivotal fact, however, is that “Obama’s knowledge of Flynn being wiretapped raises significant questions about what Obama knew and when he knew it with regard to the attempt to railroad Flynn and prevent him from serving as Trump’s national security advisor.”

There is nothing new about Obama seeking private information in order to smear a political opponent.

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In the 17th May 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli surgeons extracted a long metal rod from an Arab patient’s head.
• An Ethiopian-Israeli woman and a Haredi woman are new Israeli ministers.
• Israel is to lead a United Nations digital conference to tackle coronavirus.
• Three Israeli disinfectant and purification innovations.
• Israel offers incentives for startups to partner overseas medical research.
• Israel re-opens many national parks and nature reserves.
• Discovery in Jerusalem of a 1900-year-old Jewish “freedom” coin.

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BREITBART

President Donald Trump made a promise on Saturday to address the censorship of conservatives on social media platforms.

“The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation.”

The president shared a video of a speech from conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who stood up for fellow conservatives who were removed from social media platforms because of their beliefs.
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