By Mike Konrad, AMERICAN THINKER

Politics make strange bedfellows and none could be more oddly paired than the present coordination of Black and Arab sympathizers, as is evinced in this photo of a mural of George Floyd on the Palestinian side of Israel’s security wall.

For some time now, black American and Palestinian sympathizers have tried to make common cause with each other. The most famous example would be that of Marc Lamont Hill, a former CNN commentator, and the words he delivered to the United Nations:

“We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” — YouTube

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By Ted Belman

I finally got around to changing the search coding. Near the top of the Right Column there is a new box called “Customized Search” for now. It used to be you could only search for words in the title.

Now you can search for words that appear in the title or anywhere else in the post.

Also you may want to visit “Archives” in the blue bar menu above. It allows you to look at articles by the day they were posted.

I hope this helps.

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSEF FEDERMAN, AP •  June 16, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering withholding aid to one of its closest Arab partners, Jordan, in a bid to secure the extradition of a woman convicted in Israel of a 2001 bombing that killed 15 people, including two American citizens.The administration says it’s weighing “all options” to press Jordan to extradite Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is wanted by the U.S. on a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against American nationals. The charge was filed under seal in 2013 and announced by the Justice Department four years later.The extradition issue is likely to be raised this week when Jordan’s King Abdullah II speaks to several congressional committees to voice his opposition to Israel’s plans to annex portions of the West Bank.

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By David Makovsky, WASH INSTITUTE with Basia Rosenbaum and Lauren Morganbesser june 15, 2020

New maps explore the scope of Israel’s potential moves next month, though domestic politics, unprecedented Gulf warnings, and other factors are raising questions about whether annexation will actually proceed.

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly declared that he will be putting forward his proposal for West Bank annexation as early as July 1. Yet uncertainties about his plans still abound, indicating that this timetable may not be met despite his assertions to the contrary.

Many of these uncertainties are political, related to Israeli domestic dynamics surrounding specific territories, the Trump administration’s intentions, the widespread international opposition to the move, and Netanyahu’s lack of response to the plethora of arguments against the idea. Initially, he appeared keen on moving forward with annexation before the final stages of the U.S. presidential campaign pick up in the fall, but there is speculation that since his government coalition is brand new, it needs time to work out the details—for example, the Justice Ministry reportedly has not come up with the necessary legal groundwork for any such move.
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By Yochanan Visser, INN

Do Arabs living in areas which would fall under Israeli sovereignty under Trump peace plan really oppose the deal?

The debate over the introduction of Israeli sovereignty over areas in Judea, Samaria and the entire Jordan Valley is heating up.

In both the left and right camps, there are critics who are against applying Israeli law in the aforementioned areas.

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(As It Is Doing In Europe)

by Daniel Pipes, Washington Times

Street riots, eminent liberals fired, the Democratic party veering sharply Left: these trace directly back to events of fifty years ago.

“The 1960s” (which in fact ran from 1965 to 1975) was a decade of massive change, a rebellion against the stability, growth, and (yes) smugness of the immediate post-World War II era, 1945-65. The 60s are now remembered primarily as a time of youthful rebellion, of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. University hippies in Volkswagen microbuses decorated with peace signs represented the vanguard; mellow students followed. Woodstock represented the heights and Altamont Free Concert the depths. British poet Philip Larkin memorialized this spirit in a famous poem with its first line, “Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three/(which was rather late for me).”

A Volkswagen microbus decorated with peace signs.

But it was not all fun, the leftists of yore adopted classic themes of Marxism-Leninism, focusing on imperialism and insisting that the Western wealth came from plundering the rest of the world. The imperialist system, with its perpetual drive for new markets on which to dump its industrial surplus, stood as humanity’s central evil; the war in Vietnam supremely represented its rapaciousness.

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They fear crime more than police and know rioters are opportunists, not revolutionaries.

By Jason L. Riley, WSJ  June 16, 2020 6:56 pm ET

Pastor Calvin Sparks hugs a police officer at a protest in Los Angeles, June 2.

Moreover, the heightened group identity associated with black militants, as with the Black Lives Matter movement today, was followed by a white backlash in the 1970s and ’80s, which saw the rise of the skinhead and white-power movements in the U.S.You don’t need to read an academic paper to understand that peaceful civil-rights demonstrations have had more success than violent protests, but a Princeton scholar just published one that is well worth your time.

Writing last month in the American Political Science Review, Omar Wasow, a professor of politics, described the results of a 15-year research project on the political consequences of protests.
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The leader of the Yamina Party speaks from heart and head on Aliyah, Iran, COVID-19, and sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

Former Defense Minister and leader of the Yamina Party Naftali Bennett joins Eve Harow for a wide ranging, frank conversation.

He speaks from heart and head on Aliyah, Iran, COVID-19, Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria – sans a Palestinian state – hi-tech, Shabbat and more.

MK Bennett is busy in the opposition, continuing to apply his formidable skills and vast experience in many spheres to build and secure Israel’s future as a vibrant, stable, creative and successful Jewish state in the fullest meaning of the term.

Where do we go from here, and what are some Jews calling other Jews to do?

Israel News Talk Radio , 16/06/20

The Democratic Party in the US has gone rogue.

It is totally off the charts, and it is not safe for conservatives or Jews anymore.

Where do we go from here, and what are some Jews calling other Jews to do?

Tamar Yonah speaks with Barry Shaw, International Public Diplomacy Director at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies and with Michelle Terris, Founder and President of JEXIT – ‘Jews Leaving the Democrat Party’.

BBC 9 December 2019

The value of Iran’s currency hit record lows as a result of the US sanctions

The United States reinstated economic sanctions on Iran after President Donald Trump abandoned a landmark nuclear deal in May 2018.

Mr Trump says he wants to apply “maximum pressure” on the government in Tehran to compel it to renegotiate the accord. But Iran’s leaders have remained defiant.

The substantial impact the sanctions have had on the country is clear, and the economic hardship Iranians are facing helped trigger widespread protests in November 2019 that were brutally quashed by the authorities.

The economy has fallen into a deep recession

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MK Miki Zohar says ‘Deal of the Century’ can serve as a basis for negotiations, does not require Israel to accept Palestinian state

T. Belman. I agree..  The Plan is a vision only and our obligation is to agree to negotiate the Plan in good faith. Everything is negotiable except for the pre-conditions laid down by Trump requiring the PA to become Canada. The Palestinians have to actually satisfy these conditions and not just agree to do them.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Coalition chairman MK Miki Zohar wrote a post on his Facebook page Tuesday entitled: ‘We will never recognize a Palestinian state.’

“During the Likud faction meeting yesterday, my colleagues and I discussed in-depth President Trump’s Deal of the Century, and I want to share some important insights with you,” Zohar began.

“The Prime Minister has unequivocally announced that neither the Knesset nor the government would ever agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state under any conditions,” he said.
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Remembering the rape of an ancient Christian city.

By Raymond Ibrahim, FPM

This last May 29 was the 567^th-year anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople, one of ancient Christianity’s greatest capitals that for the previous seven centuries had, as Europe’s easternmost bulwark, withstood Islam.

Lesser known is what immediately followed this Muslim seizure of “New Rome”—which Turkey is immensely proud of—as described below (note: all quotes are from contemporary sources, mostly eyewitnesses):

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SCARY

By David Isaac, World Israel News

The Palestinian flag flies above an ancient Hasmonean site in Area C. The Palestinian Authority is systematically taking control of the area. (Regavim)

Israel’s government will hold a discussion on the grave threat posed by the illegal takeover of Area C by the Palestinian Authority.Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will meet this Tuesday to discuss the illegal land grabs of Palestinians in Area C, an area designated for Israeli-control in the Oslo Accords, Hebrew weekly Makor Rishon reports.The three Knesset members who requested the special meeting, Likud MK Shlomo Karai, Shas MK Moshe Arbel and Yemina MK Matan Kahane, did so in light of the coming annexation of parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

“At a time when the government of Israel is preparing a plan to apply Israeli sovereignty on areas of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Authority is accelerating its control over many open areas of Area C,” said Karai.

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Speaking at virtual annual conference, secretary of state says Trump administration considers China a threat to American ‘way of life’, slams human rights abuses

By Amir Tibon, HAARETZ  Washington | Jun. 14, 2020

WASHINGTON – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that China represents a “growing challenge” to both the U.S. and Israel, and is viewed by the Trump administration as a threat to their “way of life.”

During a speech before the American Jewish Committee which held its annual conference virtually in light of the Coronavirus crisis, Pompeo attacked China for its foreign policy, and for quashing human rights within its borders, as well as for its attempt to take away the civil rights of the citizens of Hong Kong.

China, Pompeo said, “endangers all of us” with its behavior. “We all must be alert to the Chinese Communist Party’s threat to our way of life,” he cautioned. Pompeo also accused China of spreading “disinformation campaigns” in other countries.

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