Gantz agrees to annexation within 2 months.

Blue and White says Likud seeks to renegotiate judicial issues after the sides had already reached an agreement on them.

Arutz Sheva Staff, 06/04/20 20:15

Netanyahu, Gantz, and RivlinChaim Tzach/GPO

Unity negotiations between the Blue and White and Likud parties were halted Monday evening, several hours after reports leaked detailing an agreement between the two sides.

Sources in the Blue and White party said that after reaching understandings on all issues, the Likud sought to re-examine the operation of the Judiciary Committee.

“As a result, the negotiations have been stopped. We will not allow any change in the functioning of the Judiciary Committee and the resulting damage to democracy,” the party said.
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PM Netanyahu’s Statement 

On Wednesday, before the Passover seder, everyone will stay at home from 18:00 until 07:00 on Thursday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Monday, 6 April 2020), at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, issued the following statement:

“Citizens of Israel, we are in a fateful week, for the world and for the State of Israel. It is fateful because in the battle to block the coronavirus, these days will determine the direction – progress or retreat, and for many people, life or death.

In New York, the epidemic is running wild. President Trump told the American people that the worst is yet before them. In Europe, the countries struck by corona have succeeded in slightly reducing the number of dead. This provides optimism but the overall picture continues to be chilling. Hundreds of funerals take place in Europe on a daily basis; people are fighting thedisease.
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– Global Coronavirus Cases Appear to Have Peaked – Down 16% on April 4th and Then 15% on April 5th

HUGE! Official IHME Model for Coronavirus Used by CDC Just Cut Their Numbers by Half!… They’re Making It Up As they Go Along!

LATEST NUMBERS: Govt. Models Overestimated Hospitalizations by 8 Times; ICU Beds by 6.4 Times; Ventilators Needed by 40.5 Times

OUTRAGEOUS!… Top Experts Used by CDC Move Total US Coronavirus Deaths From 2.2 Million to 200,000 to 81,766 in Only 8 Days!

By Ted Belman

What follows is a fake media release, intending to smear Mudar and I.   It is the third or fourth bogus email that our detractors have circulated intending to belittle us.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Jordan Option <jordanoptionmedia@gmail.com> wrote:

In the name of the people of Jordan, I would like to inform you of the following:

Tens of thousands of Jordanians and Palestinians are suffering from Coronavirus.

The kinglet of Jordan is in denial and refusing to reveal the exact numbers of patients. His disregards for the safety of our people will turn into a disaster.

The Jordan Opposition Coalition, together with Ted Belman, Chairman of the Jordan is Palestine Option, have prepared a plan to over through the Kinglet in order to save the lives of my people.

We will announce our plan very soon.

We would like to inform you that our plan has been approved by Presdeint Donald Trump and Senior Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner.

Mudar Zahran, , Secretary General, The Jordanian Opposition Coalition

First of all neither Mudar or I or any of our supporters wrote this. We never heard of “Jordan Option Media”.
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American Thinker posts two more great articles.

President Trump paralyzed

Trump is in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation with regard to the coronavirus panic. More

Careful, dispassionate analysis is totally lacking in coronavirus panic

The panic is being fueled by irresponsible, uninformed, stupid, and sensationalized media coverage, along with politically motivated scare commentary. More

By John Dietrich, AMERICAN THINKER

The firing of Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, is another step toward the gradual exposure of the Deep State.  Atkinson had been nominated for the position by Trump in November 2017.  In his letter to Congress the President explained that he had lost confidence in Atkinson.  Progressives were up in arms.

Former CIA director John Brennan called President Trump’s shakeup in the intelligence community a “virtual decapitation.”  Nancy Pelosi stated, “This latest act of reprisal against the Intelligence Community threatens to have a chilling effect against all willing to speak truth to power. The President must immediately cease his attacks on those who sacrifice to keep America safe.”  Adam Schiff tweeted, “Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community.”  Schiff tweeted this at 9:39 PM, so he could not have received it in the “dead of night.”  However, it sounds more sinister than late Friday evening.  Senator Chuck Schumer said,  “Michael Atkinson is a man of integrity who has served our nation for almost two decades. Being fired for having the courage to speak truth to power makes him a patriot.”  And Sen. Mark Warner said, “In the midst of a national emergency, it is unconscionable that the president is once again attempting to undermine the integrity of the intelligence community by firing yet another intelligence official simply for doing his job.”
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T. Belman. Both of these issues are deal breakers for Likud and Yamina. They won’t compromise on them nor should they.

Sources in party quoted as saying Likud insistence on veto power over judicial nominations could see talks end without coalition agreement

By RAOUL WOOTLIFF, TOI Today, 9:58 am  1

Benny Gantz in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The Blue and White party is reportedly willing to compromise on West Bank annexation in order to form a government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, which has demanded support for the move.

Likud’s insistence on veto power in the appointment of judges, however, could see the coalition negotiations blow up without agreement, the Kan public broadcaster quoted sources in Benny Gantz’s party as saying Monday morning.

Blue and White has been holding coalition talks with Likud on forming a government in which the two would rotate as premier, with Netanyahu serving first. The negotiations picked up pace after Gantz was elected Knesset speaker with the backing of Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc, causing Blue and White to split.

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Volume of ex-USSR new migrants leaps past Africans

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST

JEWISH GRAVES in Ukraine.(photo credit: REUTERS)

The first ever report by the special appeals court system for migrants was issued on Sunday, noting that the volume of new Ukrainian and Georgian illegal migrants in 2018 far outpaced those of African origin.

Established in 2014 to lighten the case load on the District Courts – which were becoming swamped with a spike in cases of Africans who came to Israel illegally but claimed refugee status – it has been difficult to follow the migrant courts.

Proceedings in the courts are not publicized as well as proceedings in other courts, and most results are obtained by the media only when an NGO or specific lawyer involved chooses to provide them.
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In a new ‘Victory Commanders Forum’ video released Sunday, former officials insist that Jewish settlement is an asset- not burden.

By Ido Ben Porat, INN 05/04/20 22:49

Yehuda Wagman

In a new “Victory Commanders Forum” video released Sunday by the “Middle East – Israel Forum”, former IDF officials express their professional opinion on the ‘Deal of the Century’ and the historic opportunity to turn Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria from a burden into an asset.

The “Victory Commanders Forum” brings together former senior IDF commanders who have joined forces to turn the Israeli army into a fighting unit whose primary goal is the complete defeat of the enemy. Members include Maj. Gen. Gershon HaCohen, Brigadier General Zvika Vogel, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani, Col. Moshe Peled and others.

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By Evelyn Gordon, JNS April 2, 2020

After years of leftists crying wolf about democracy being endangered, Israel finally experienced a real constitutional crisis last week. That crisis was temporarily frozen by the decision to form a unity government, but it will come roaring back once the coronavirus crisis has passed.

It began with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein’s refusal to let the newly elected Knesset vote to replace him as speaker and culminated in two interventions by the High Court of Justice. I’m one of very few people on my side of the political spectrum who considers the court’s initial intervention justifiable. But its second was an unprecedented usurpation of the prerogatives of another branch of government, in flagrant violation of legislation that the court itself deems constitutional.

Edelstein’s refusal, despite its terrible optics, stemmed from a genuine constitutional concern, and was consequently backed even by Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon, who had opposed Edelstein many times before and would do so again later in this saga. The problem was that neither political bloc could form a government on its own, yet the proposed new speaker came from the faction of Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party that adamantly opposed a unity government. Thus whether a unity government was formed or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s caretaker government continued, the new speaker would be in the opposition. Read more…

Poll: Trump Voters Have Made Up Their Minds

By Michael Austin, WESTERN JOURNALISM

In a national poll released Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden appears to be edging out President Donald Trump in November’s general election.

However, as was the case with the many 2016 polls declaring Hilary Clinton the likely winner, appearances can be deceiving.

While the former vice president has more generalized support, Trump’s base is much more loyal.

The poll, conducted between March 27-30 for Grinnell College by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, is based on phone interviews with over 1,000 U.S. adults aged 18 and over and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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SEE ALSO:  Why Accepting Two Million COVID-19 Deaths May be Better Than a National Lockdown

By Lynne Lechter, AMERICAN THINKER

Italy implemented harsh triage principles when its medical system was overwhelmed with a flood of COVID-19 patients, first  denying medical treatment to those afflicted over seventy-five years.  Without regard to an individual’s physical age or lifestyle, seventy-five, and poof — one’s elders’ existence was declared disposable.  The triage logic ordained that a younger patient had a greater likelihood of survival and a more productive life ahead.

Well, that didn’t last long.  As the system further collapsed, their triage threshold plummeted: no medical treatment, for COVID-19 sufferers, for anyone sixty or older.  Obviously, the Italians didn’t buy the meme that sixty is the new forty.

A crash of the United States’ fragmented medical system is one of the fears that have compelled political leaders,  in the majority of states,  to shut down all but essential establishments.
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www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com

In the 5th Apr 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Major advances in Israeli coronavirus testing and treatment solutions
• Bio-filter sticker gives extra protection to surgical masks.
• Israelis have donated millions to combat coronavirus and help its victims.
• Israeli individuals and organizations are helping save lives in Italy.
• Israeli military factories are making ventilators, goggles and ambulance parts.
• Israel’s Emergency R&D Team leader led the team that built Iron Dome.
• Wildlife returns to Israel’s cities and airports.
• Recovered father & son MDA paramedics return to work.

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T. Belman. Israel Policy Forum is left of center.

By Michael J. Koplow, ISRAEL POLICY FORUM     April 2,2020

It has been a week since Benny Gantz upended the structure that had ruled Israeli politics for the past year and a half, putting himself forward as a candidate for Knesset speaker in order to launch unity negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu and fracturing Kachol Lavan in the process. Yet despite his stated intention to create a government with Netanyahu in order to deal with the coronavirus emergency, a unity agreement has remained elusive. It turns out that after having three hotly contested elections that centered around one man’s fitness for office, dropping the central premise of Kachol Lavan’s reason for being and working out a deal is easier said than done. Reports have identified a host of sticking points between Netanyahu and Gantz, from the control of specific ministries to the timeframe and mechanics of a prime ministerial rotation to the fate of West Bank annexation, none of which were worked out before Gantz publicly announced his intention to join with Netanyahu.
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T. Belman. Gantz’s mandate expires in a week.  Then Netanyahu gets the mandate to form the government.

Gantz informed the public on Friday that “essential and critical issues remain to be decided in coalition talks.”

By Gil H offman, JPOST APRIL 4, 2020 23:34

BENNY GANTZ : His government would only have to last until Netanyahu is indicted (photo credit: REUTERS)

Blue and White and Likud negotiating teams met late Saturday night in an effort to finalize a coalition agreement that could be brought to a vote in party institutions on Sunday and the Knesset on Monday, before the parliament adjourns to its summer recess.

But sources in both parties said over the weekend that even if that would happen, Israel still would have no government before Passover, because legislation must be passed to facilitate the government’s formation that will be challenged in the High Court of Justice.

One such bill would enable the swearing-in of two prime ministers, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu serving the first year and a half of the term and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz the next year and a half.

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Replacing the highly controversial Jeremy Corbyn, new leader immediately apologizes to Jews for hatred in ranks; his wife comes from a Jewish family, has relatives in Tel Aviv

AFP Today, 1:32 pm

File: Labour Party lawmaker Keir Starmer speaks to the media following the launch of his campaign to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader, in Stevenage, England, Sunday Jan. 5, 2020 (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Saturday said that Keir Starmer had been elected as its new leader, replacing Jeremy Corbyn who resigned after its crushing December election defeat.

The 57-year-old former chief state prosecutor won 56.2 percent of the vote of more than 500,000 Labour members, defeating Corbyn loyalist Rebecca Long-Bailey (27.6%) and backbencher Lisa Nandy (16.2%) for the top job. Angela Rayner becomes the new deputy leader.

“Congratulations to @Keir_Starmer, the new Leader of the Labour Party!” the party announced on Twitter after a three-month leadership campaign.
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