By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Ten years ago I read a copy of a new book containing the reasons for Israel’s transformation into a nation of entrepreneurs.  “Start-Up Nation” by Dan Senor and Saul Singer inspired me to start compiling a weekly newsletter of positive news about Israel.  The photo is of some of the many inspiring books about Israel published in the last 10 years. They reinforce the thousands of articles in these positive newsletters.

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In the 19th July 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli scientists have used fat-reducing medication to starve coronavirus.
• An Israeli trial has greatly improved cognitive function for healthy seniors.
• Israeli drones rescue Europeans plus help Florida prepare for hurricanes.
• Intel’s new superfast USB connectivity was developed in Israel.
• Huge new investments in joint US-Israeli projects.
• Israeli-German partnership promises to transform food production.
• The 10th anniversary of the very first VeryGoodNewsIsrael newsletter.

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ByAmir Taheri, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 19, 2020

US President Donald Trump has tried to rebalance globalization to halt the long-term de-industrialization of the United States. Prior to the coronavirus crisis, his administration had one of the best records in job creation and the reduction of poverty among black Americans. So far, he is also the first American president in a century not to have led his country into a new war. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

• In elite circles, notably in Europe, Trump-bashing is regarded as a sign of intelligence and cursing him a duty of progressive humanists.
• In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson campaigned and won on a Trumpian platform of national identity and industrial revival. Even Germany’s Angela Merkel, a sneaky critic of Trump, now talks of the need for a bigger defense budget, curbs on globalization and Russia as a threat.

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By Judith Bergman, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 19, 2020

The systematic discrimination of the United Nations is too obvious to ignore. There is simply a whopping international double-standard here on what passes as institutional racism and what does not — and it needs to be acknowledged. Pictured: The Secretariat Building at United Nations headquarters in New York. (Image source: UN)

• There is simply a whopping international double-standard here on what passes as institutional racism and what does not — and it needs to be acknowledged.
• At the very least, people might question whether an organization that has made discrimination against one country in the world one of its operating principles… is worth the exorbitant cost. The United States, for instance, as the organization’s single largest donor, in 2018 funded the UN to the tune of $10 billion.

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By Douglas Herz, AMERICAN THINKER

A huge problem is coming soon.  Authoritarian blue-state governors and mayors thought they could conduct lockdowns without dire consequences.  But all that these fools have done is deferred disaster.  That disaster is the reduction in city and state taxes due to the business shutdowns that they ordered.

State and local government officials are starting to hear about this lack of income from their finance teams, and they are mighty concerned.  As a result, all across the country, panicked conference calls have been conducted and are probably still going on this weekend.

Specifically, the problem is balancing state and local budgets.  Sales taxes from closed businesses are way down, and expenses due to precautions for the coronavirus are way up.  There is no way to make these numbers balance.  As a result, governments are burning through their reserves, safety funds, slush funds, and rainy day set-asides that they had managed to squirrel away in better times.  But within weeks, if not months, the situation will become dire.

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By Yishai Fleisher, NEWSWEEK 

Donald Trump Unveils Middle East Peace Plan: ‘No Palestinians Or Israelis Will Be Uprooted From Their Homes’

The good news is that even Peter Beinart understands that the two-state solution is dead. The progressive public intellectual recently penned a New York Times op-ed in which he admitted that the Left’s old dream of creating an independent Palestine in the historic Israeli heartland is never going to happen.

The land in question—Judea and Samaria, or the “West Bank”—is the ancient cradle of Jewish civilization. In modern times, the Jews lost this land to the Arab onslaught during the 1948 War of Independence, but liberated it from Jordanian occupation in 1967 and began to resettle. Now, 50 years later, over half a million Jews live here under Israeli protection, and it seems that the realization that Israel is going to be sovereign in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank is finally trickling down.
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The pandemic revealed dangerous US dependence on China, including for medical supplies, and must spur a return to Made in USA.

By Dr. Joe Tuzara, INN

loading of the first cargo aircraft in China

SARS-COV-2, more commonly called coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China is certainly a curse, but is in one way a blessing in disguise which will bring much-needed changes on how the U.S. deals with its hitherto unchecked dependence on that Communist country.

China’s has shown a desire to become the world’s dominant power, revealing its hand when it allowed the virus to spread in 189 countries.

And the highly pathogenic virus also exposed our nation’s troubling weaknesses and vulnerability in the pharmaceuticals and medical equipment global supply-chain in more ways than can be imagined.

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With Exception of New York and New Jersey,

By Joe Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT July 15, 2020

On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO over-stated the mortality rate of the virus by at least 30 times.

We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. We reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu.

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The push to place Muslims in elective offices.

By Robert Spencer, FPM

Editor’s note: In this monograph, Robert Spencer reveals the disquieting agenda and goals of those who are working hard to get Muslims elected to political office at the national, state, and local level. He shows how this initiative is gaining ground despite the frank anti-Americanism of Ilhan Omar and others – or is it because of that anti-Americanism?

Building power

“Invest in building power for Muslims in politics,” is the invitation from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) in a tweet on May 23, 2020, which features a photo of a smiling Salam al-Marayati, MPAC’s President and co-founder, with the notorious Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Ca.).[1] “We ensure that Muslim voices are heard by decision-makers in Washington, DC,” the tweet also says, “and we work diligently with policymakers like Rep. Adam Schiff to advocate for legislation that protects our communities.”[2]
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Some Republicans are worried the adviser is spread too thin, with a portfolio including the coronavirus, immigration, reinventing government and, for good measure, the Middle East

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER, TOI

In this June 14, 2020, file photo, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s White House senior adviser, follows Trump across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, after stepping off Marine One (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump’s long-in-coming campaign shakeup rearranged some big job titles but isn’t likely to change the identity of the person truly in charge of day-to-day operations: Jared Kushner.

Kushner wields his influence quietly and is rarely a presence in the campaign’s suburban Washington headquarters. Fittingly, he was nowhere to be seen Thursday when, in an emotional changing of the guard meeting, campaign manager Brad Parscale surrendered his title to onetime deputy Bill Stepien.

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T. Belman.  What is happening in America, I have never experienced in my lifetime.  It is right out of the Marxist/Lenenist/Nazi playbook. When I see how massive the BLM is I think to my self that its current roots are to be found in the old ACORN and Barak Obama, the community organizer, self identifieed. He teamed up with Soros to get elected, to create J Street, to embrace the Muslim Brotherhood and to start Occupy Wall Street. There may be others that I missed. BLM was a long time in coming and didn’t just start with the killing or George Floyd.  I see the hand of Barack Obama, the community organizer, and avowed communist, at play here.

By Grant Baker, AMERICAN THINKER

As Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots ransacked brick-and-mortar businesses over the summer, publicly traded companies, especially retail, began ponying up tremendous sums of money to BLM affiliated organizations. The staggering sums promised by Walmart, Target, Nike, McDonald’s, and others might be dismissed as a marketing stunt in a different context, but the size and timing of the donations suggests something more sinister.

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JULY 18/20

T. Belman.  There is much more  in favor of Trump’s reelection than Benson alludes to.  70,000 people a month are joining the walk away movement.  The Primary Model which announced with 87% certainty, a Trump victory in 2016, now perdicts, with 90% certainty, a landslide victory in 2020. Latinos are warming to Trump especially because of his proposed DACA legislation.  Blexit is also moving the needle.  Only 9% of blacks voted for Trumo in 2o16. Candace Owens famously announced that all she had to do was move the black vote to 15 % and it would assure a Trump victory.  Latest poslls have him receiving will over 20%. Police Union Backs Trump for Re-Election in 2020.  Recent studies have concluded that riots and looting result in a move to the right by the electorate.

By Guy Benson, TOWNHALL

Among the last five national surveys of the 2020 presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead is nearly ten points on average.  If you exclude the two outliers among those five data sets — Rasmussen’s (+3) and Quinnipiac’s (-15), the approximate average doesn’t change.  President Trump is currently losing his re-election bid, and he knows it, as evidenced by his high-level campaign shakeup announced yesterday.  Sometimes actions speak louder than words or polls, so his struggles are not fake news.  Let’s take a look at the new NBC/WSJ poll, which gives Biden an 11-point advantage:
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Analysis: Beijing’s full-throated defense of the Islamic Republic should set off alarm bells for any Israeli who fears a nuclear-armed Iran with advanced ballistic and cruise missiles capable of bringing a second Holocaust

By Mark Dubowitz and Richard Goldberg, FDD

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called on the United Nations Security Council to reimpose, or “snapback,” international sanctions and restrictions on the Islamic Republic of Iran – a terror-sponsoring regime that seeks to wipe Israel off the map.

Just as the prime minister was speaking, another country was addressing the Security Council in defense of Iran: the People’s Republic of China.

Most Israelis would be shocked to learn this. According to a December 2019 Pew research poll, 66 percent of Israelis hold a favorable opinion of China against 25 percent who hold an unfavorable view.

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By Eileen F. Toplansky, AMERICAN THINKER

In a world that appears to be tottering off its axis with sheer lunacy ruling the day, here is a small sampling of the dangerous ideas gaining traction and the cowardice displayed by so many.

• In Great Britain, where grooming gang crimes exist, “British women who drew attention to ‘Asian’ [Pakistani and South Asian] sex grooming gangs, are also being attacked by the ‘woke’ establishment” because “if the victim is white and the rapist is not, she is no victim at all; worse, she is a ‘racist’ and ‘hater’ who, if anything, apparently deserves what she got and more.”  In fact, far-left extremists and radical feminist academics “don’t care about anti-white racism, because they appear to believe that is doesn’t exist.”  Thus, the idea that “Western women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men” gets a free pass for fear of Islamophobia.  The “Left validates Islam’s sexual fantasies and victimization of Western women.”

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Even with the incessant Democratic media effort to terrify the entire population out of its wits over the COVID-19 pandemic, it will no longer be possible to represent Trump as President Chaos.

By Conrad Black • AM GREATNESS July 16, 2020

It may be premature (as well as unoriginal), but I believe, in one of the Democrats’ former favorite phrases, that “the walls are closing in” on Joe Biden. The Rasmussen poll—one of the only regular polls consistently accurate in 2016 and one that tends to lead fluctuations in the current polling—has recorded a six-point gain for President Trump in the past 10 days.

Aggregators that issue averages of a group of polls cannot be relied upon because most polls, like most of the media, start from the conclusion they desire and reason backward. Almost all of these polls are of echelons of the population and not of likely voters, and there is always a reticence among pro-Trump respondents.

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by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 17, 2020

The prospect of a new Iran-China military alliance taking shape in the Indian Ocean is a development that will be taken with the utmost seriousness by the U.S. military, which is already concerned about Iran’s attempts to spread its influence throughout the region. Pictured: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on January 23, 2016 in Tehran. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

• Announcing Iran’s intention to build a new military base in the Indian Ocean, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the naval attachment of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that the base would be used to protect fishing and commercial vessels from piracy and “foreign ships”, a reference to the US-led multinational naval task force that is currently protecting Gulf shipping from Iranian interference.

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