What is terrific about this interview is that it is not like any other. They are both so natural. There is no formality here. They are two great friends sounding off and having fun. That doesn’t mean they don’t get serious at times. Very entertaining.

With a few tweets and comments, Trump has rebranded the Democratic Party as the party of socialism, with its new party leaders viewed negatively by the vast majority of swing voters.

By Brian C. Joondeph, AMERICAN THINKER

By Ron Jager, AMERICAN THINKER

T. Belman. Liberman now stands at 9 seats. Bibi is weakened. If the polls are right, Blue and White will be the biggest party. But the Right under Shaked and the religious parties will not abandon Likud. I don’t see a way around. Liberman must be bought off. Let’s hope he doesn’t up the ante. Before he just wanted his law on drafting the Hareidi to be accepted. He has almost doubled his seats. How can Bibi and the Hareidi say no?

Surveys indicate Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu remains kingmaker of next coalition

By TOI STAFF

A pair of television polls aired Sunday gave an alliance of the New Right and Union of Right-Wing Parties headed by Ayelet Shaked 12-13 seats in parliament, if September’s Knesset elections were held today. Shaked was announced earlier Sunday as the New Right’s new leader.

If Shaked’s New Right and Rafi Peretz’s URWP ran separately, they would pick up six and five seats respectively, for a combined total of 11, according to a Channel 12 TV news survey. However, together on a combined slate with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party and under Shaked’s leadership, the alliance would get 13 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, the poll found.
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Troubling as this issue is, it is Iraq’s relations with its geographical neighbors that find the state balancing on a political tightrope.

BY NEVILLE TELLER, JPOST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference at Salam Palace in Baghdad, Iraq March 11, 2019. (photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)

Glance at a map of the Middle East, and the geopolitical-cum-religious complications facing Iraq are immediately apparent. The country is like a wedge, forced between the two bitterly opposed leaders of the Muslim world – Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran. Following decades of instability and civil war, it is only in the past few months that Iraq has been secure enough to start the process of carving out an appropriate place for itself within the political structure of the region.

The overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 led to Iraq becoming a battlefield of competing jihadist militias. For a while, US-led coalition forces attempted to quell the chaos. When this failed, the US formally withdrew its fighting force in an effort to outflank the strong anti-Western sentiment that provided the battle cry for many of the armed forces.
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by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established November 25, 2002, by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. DHS is a cabinet department formed in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the homeland. The DHS mission statement is clear, “With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.”
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Living under threat, the Yemenite community in Silwan were evacuated for safety concerns by the Jewish National Committee, and by 1945, no Jews remained in Silwan.

BY BARRY SHAW, JPOST

Jerusalem’s Pilgrimage Road. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)

I was reading an article in The Jerusalem Post about the newly discovered Pilgrimage Road, a pathway that Jewish pilgrims took to the ancient Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The site was stumbled upon by accident. A rusty water pipe burst in Silwan, a place where after 1948, Arabs moved into the homes of Yemenite Jews forced to flee by marauding Arab rioters and the invading Jordanian army, while the nascent state of Israel perilously held onto territory by its fingertips from aggressive Arab armies launching a war of annihilation against the new Jewish state.

In the 1880s, Jews from Yemen began to make their way to Jerusalem on foot, a journey drawn by the magnet of the Jewish Temple. The pilgrimage trek took half a year. They arrived destitute, but elated, to make their new homes in Silwan within touching distance of all that was sacred by the Old City walls.
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T. Belman. CBS interviewed the “Squad”. These four snakes (a la Trump’s tale about the snake killing her saviour)are very articulate, for the most part attractive and very softspoken. Demure you might say. But they are as dangerous as the snake in the tale.

The interviewer in this CBS video, started by asking them about their antisemitism and anti-Americanism. They all avoided the question and and went on full attack mode dripping with honey. They all played fast and loose with the facts, i.e., lied and distorted to vilify Trump. They all act saintly while demonizing Trump. They made me sick. I couldn’t watch the whole thing.

By Rabbi Aryeh Spero, AMERICAN THINKER

Most of the Jewish community has feverishly and piously supported last week’s Democrat-sponsored Resolution condemning President Trump’s remarks against Ilhan Omar. Omar, of course, is a notorious, unrepentant anti-Semite and daily demonizer of Israel.  But she has become, for many Jews, a heroine, a civil rights star, a noble cause.  Enjoying such support, Omar rewarded the Jewish community by immediatelyannouncing, after the Resolution’s passage, a piece of legislation demanding that Congress vote in favor of BDS against Israel and her Jewish inhabitants.

Reading a prepared statement, Rep. Omar introduces her resolution (YouTube screen grab)
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By Clarice Feldman, AMERICAN THINKER

The French movie Hiroshima Mon Amour is based on human memory and forgetfulness as recounted by two lovers. The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media’s airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem “refugee” was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump. The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance.

Hard work by independent media, however, has exposed her and her media apologists and the Democrats have little choice: Condemn her and remove her from her committee assignments or suffer the consequences. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s repeated defense of her, (doubtless for fear of being targeted by the leftist nutjobs in her ranks) has placed her party’s continued majority in serious jeopardy.
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A group of leading Religious Zionist women is calling for Ayelet Shaked to be placed as the head of a joint right-wing list.

By Shimon Cohen, ARUTZ SHEVA

Shortly before the decisive moments regarding the shared or separate future of the right-wing parties, a number of leading Religious Zionist women formed a group to call for former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to be placed as the head of a joint right-wing list.

Under the headline “Let Ayelet Win!” the group’s message says, “Ayelet Shaked should lead the list of the United Right.” The group reports on the great responsiveness of women from all walks of Religious Zionism to the call to place Shaked at the top of the list. The group’s call is backed by recent surveys in the Religous Zionist community which showed that Shaked would bring the maximum number of seats to a right-wing list.
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Debunking the “cycle of violence” lie.

Howard Rotberg, FPM

By Asaf Romirofsky, JPOST   JULY 20, 2019

In contrast to the American political arena, Palestinian politics have always been about identity politics: Palestine is for Palestinians and we are here, whatever that means.

By Daoud Kuttab, JORDAN TIMES

This is Duaa from Radio Nisaa FM in Ramllah, tell us what is happening in Jordan.”

“This is Rawan from Radio Al Balad in Amman, tell us what is happening in Palestine.”

The above is the opening exchange of a weekly slot on Palestinian and Jordanian radio shows. The exchange is informative, funny and warm. The two women talked about politics, daily life issues and what is trending on social media in each other’s community.

The morning radio programme exchange is just one of many signs about the Jordanian-Palestinian re rapprochement that has been going on for some time as Palestinians seek a trusted neighbour outside the Israeli occupation.

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Israel’s prime minister has now served in the role for as long as the country’s founding father. Voters support him because they’re convinced he keeps them safe and reduces their international isolation.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER, FOREIGN POLICY

As a wave of anti-Israel hate spreads from elite college campuses to public high schools, some Massachusetts parents wanted to fight back. But they were not joined by the major Jewish organizations. What happened in Newton?

By Liel Leibovitz, TABLET

Shortly after Rosh Hashanah of 2011, Shiri Pagliuso, a Jewish ninth grader at the Newton South High School, came home with an awkward question for her father. She had learned some things about Israel in school, she said, and she wanted to know if they were true. For example, she asked if it was true that Israel was systematically torturing and killing Palestinian women.

Her father, Tony Pagliuso, pressed her for more information, so the young woman produced the handout she was given at school, titled the Arab World Studies Notebook. In it, Pagliuso found the following line: “Over the past four decades, women have been active in the Palestinian resistance movement. Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces.”

Pagliuso, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, was alarmed that such claims had somehow found their way into the curriculum of a public school. He called his daughter’s teacher, Jessica Engel.
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