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In the 16th Aug 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• An Israeli passive vaccine is saving critical Covid-19 patients.
• Israeli expectant mothers are being issued with a home ultrasound monitor.
• The United Arab Emirates is making peace with Israel.
• An Israeli device allows patients on ventilators to communicate.
• Israel is investing a billion Shekels to support the tech economy.
• An Israeli system is to recharge electric vehicles in Eastern Europe.
• Another top international cyclist has signed for Israel’s Tour de France team.
• An Israeli paramedic saved a life at his own son’s wedding.

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Senior officials in United Arab Emirates emphasize intention to quickly establish embassy in Israel, but say it won’t be in Israeli capital.

Shaked : “Netanyahu in fact pledged to relinquish sovereignty.”

Arutz Sheva Staff

Senior officials in the United Arab Emirates say that the embassy that their country will establish in Israel will not be in Jerusalem, the Maariv newspaper reports.

According to the sources, “the intention is to establish the embassies in the two countries with the signing of the agreement, because there is no mutual normalization without a mutual presence on the ground.”

They added that in order for the process to progress quickly they need to start at a stage of collaborations in a variety of areas that will lead to the development of diplomatic relations.

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by Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum Webinar

Archaeologist and historian Alexander H. Joffe, a Ginsburg-Milstein Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, spoke to participants in a June 19 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the “dramatic upswing” in anti-Zionist and antisemitic rhetoric in the US following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“What we’ve seen … is a classic example of the red green synthesis in action,” said Joffe, referring to the alliance between Islamists in the West and the far left that has spearheaded anti-Israel activism over the past few decades. Its goal is to “racialize and marginalize Jews, particularly American Jews, as white people, as enemies of people of color.”

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Willful blindness and a bleak future for American Jews.

By Alan Bergstein, INN

“Jewish political intelligence is an oxymoron.” Never forget that maxim when you walk into a gathering of Jewish/Americans. Be prepared to be amazed at their ferocious arrogance tempered with an unwillingness to hear you when you’re recognized as a Conservative.

It’s a fact that about 72% of this group are of the Democrat persuasion and infused with a suicidal zeal for the destruction of their own people. Their fanaticism and supportive compliance with their haters, a genetic mutation fostered by 2000 years of being treated like dirt in every nation in which they sought refuge, has led them to bend their knees to their oppressors, groveling to seek acceptance as “one of them.”

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JCPOA’s Snap-Back at the U.N. Security Council Will Upend Iran/EU

By Robert Sklaroff

Already discussed is why *”Electing any Democrat-POTUS empowers Iran’s intent to destroy Israel”* (Parts 1 & 2 & 3) and why a *Cornered/Weakened Iran/Hezbollah won’t remain passive*, even as *American Domestic Machinations have evolved from Obama to Trump* and*Iran’s Regional Terrorist Activities Persist Despite Having Hoodwinked Obama; the former were composed from a more disinterested perspective, whereas the latter emphasized personal interventions regarding the Iran-Nuke Capitulation-Pact (JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) that have, for example, conveyed a *comprehensive Iran-Iraq Exposé* that linked Iran’s neo-Nazi threats with writings about *Kurdistan*.

These inferences reinforce previously-drawn conclusions as to the illegality of this “political commitment”—claimed to be neither a “treaty” nor even an “executive-legislative agreement”—as demonstrated in 20 essays by this observer dating from May 2015 until January 2016; pivotal has been the persistent, personal advocacy of SoS Mike Pompeo (with whose Congressional staff I had linked).

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Barack Obama was never a traditional American president. After all, he was the only president ever to come to the White House manifestly disliking and being embarrassed by the country he was elected to lead. With that as a background, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that he’s publicly meddling in the upcoming election in a way that even Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton didn’t try. (Former Republican presidents have more graciously stayed out of the fray.)

Both of Obama’s lines of attack are serious. First, he’s explicitly saying that Trump is trying to throw the election by putting his managerial skills to work to address a postal system that is in complete disarray. Second, he’s attacking his own former Vice President, who is now waiting in the wings to be officially crowned as the Democrat party’s presidential candidate.
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Setting aside a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main impediment to peace, to work on the region’s other priorities, marks a fundamental shift that just might work

By Michael Oren, TOI

President Donald Trump announces an agreement to establish diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the Oval Office of the White House on August 13, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

The impending peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is more than just a stunning diplomatic breakthrough. It represents a fundamental shift in the paradigm of peace-making.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR

Several of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate Elizabeth Warren put it, “I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College.”Furor over the Electoral College among the left arose from the 2000 and 2016 elections. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, respectively, won the popular votes. But, like three earlier presidents, they lost the Electoral College voting — and with it the presidency.

The Founding Fathers saw a purpose in the Electoral College. It ensured that small, rural states would retain importance in national elections.

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PM Netanyahu has his own reasons for positioning Yair Lapid as his main rival, but if we go to an early election, his main challenger could be Naftali Bennett, and Bennett could win.

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

“Everything with you is fake news. You know little, about almost nothing,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insulted Opposition leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset on Wednesday. The speech was a low blow from Netanyahu that played into Lapid’s hands. And it didn’t happen randomly; Netanyahu was fingering Lapid as the person most likely to take him on in an election, if there is one.

But an examination of the polls indicates that Lapid won’t necessarily be Netanyahu’s main adversary. There are reasons to think that in the next election, Naftali Bennett will be the one to put up a fight.
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Democrats support racism because it leads to diversity and diversity is a good thing. Or is it. I have alwayws preferred the guiding principle to be meritocracy.

In the name of “strengthening democracy” in Central Europe, Joe Biden’s clueless policies would undermine democracy and NATO, too.

by Clark S. Judge, AM GREATNESS

All but ignored on this side of the Atlantic, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán recently summed up one of the presidential campaign’s most critical and least-discussed issues—U.S. support for the frontline NATO states of Hungary and Poland against political assaults from their allies and ours in the European Union. Our national security is at stake in the outcome.

“American Democrats [and] the American Left, together with the elites of Western Europe,” Mr. Orbán observed, are working to impose their “world vision, choice of values and concepts—including . . . views on families . . . migration . . . work . . . unemployment—on countries that have a different thinking.” He meant Hungary and Poland.

These countries, he continued, have been targets of the European Union’s “liberal [in the radical woke sense] imperialism,” that is, the EU’s hostility to what Americans would call socially conservative and economically populist governments that are, as Americans are, jealous of their sovereignty.
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by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  August 14, 2020

• According to the report, despite the scale of the crimes, prosecutions have barely increased…
• “This is a systemic issue that is borne out of poor regulation, poor legislation and exploitation at every level. You have to ask yourself who actually has the power to change this? And that buck stops with government”. — Adam Clarke, deputy mayor of Leicester, Sky News, July 13, 2020.
• The protesters of historical slavery could well be wearing clothes produced by the marginalized, victimized modern slaves who have no access to the justice and equality for which the protesters claim to be fighting.
• It is telling that both public and private resources, as well as endless media coverage, are being dedicated to the issue of “racist statues” and historical slavery, while the plight of living, suffering modern slaves — an issue that needs tremendous effort to be tackled to even some degree — barely interests anyone.

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