The following artcle was published on Aug 17/17.

Mudar Zahran and Ted Belman are now mortal enemies of Hamas, PLO, Fatah and King Abdullah.

I think you wil find it interesting.

By Bradley Betters, AMERICAN THINKER

By David Solway, AMERICAN THINKER

Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria neither explain Palestinian unwillingness to make peace with Israel nor are they the cause of traffic jams in Tel Aviv

By David Weinberg, JPOST

THE JEWISH community of Mitzpe Kramim east of the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2015. (photo credit: REUTERS)

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman set off some alarm bells last weekend by telling The New York Times that: “Under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”

It’s not clear why this comment should raise eyebrows, since US policy and all previous rounds of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have been based on this very possibility, indeed likelihood.

Perhaps some unfriendly types were upset because Friedman speaks not only of settlement realities that must be considered when calculating the possibilities for Israeli-Palestinian accommodation, but also of Jewish Israeli rights to live in the historic heartland of Israel. That is certainly a change of tone, and hopefully of US policy, too.
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By Dogan  D. Akman

During the first 2019 election campaign, MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right Wing Parties (URWP) declared: «The State of Israel and the state of the Jewish people will return to be governed as it was governed in the days of King David and King Solomon by Torah Law.”

Human dignity (kvod habriot) is of utmost significance in Jewish law. Hence, among others, the imperative order commandment in Leviticus 19.18: You shall love your fellow as yourself .And precisely because human dignity is so important, the Talmud describes the numerous enactments and laws designed to insure, among others, that poor people were not embarrassed.

I have yet to encounter the kind of right-wing- coalition democratic government of the hue that governs Israel under Netanyahu’s tenure as Prime Minister that respects the human dignity of the old, the needy and the poor and adequately provides for their needs.
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By Richard Palmer, WATCH JERUSALEM

A massive stockpile of explosives for a terrorist attack was uncovered in London, in the autumn of 2015. Hezbollah had stockpiled three tons of ammonium nitrate—more than what was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to kill 158 people and injure around 700 others.

In the heart of a dense city such as London, such a cache would be devastating.

But more shocking than the attempted mass murder of perhaps hundreds was the response of the British government.

There wasn’t one.

Then Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May were briefed on the plot. They covered it up.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AMERICAN THINKER

Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15, exactly 630 years ago today in 1389.  It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are resistant to Islam.

Because the jihad is as old as Islam, it has been championed by diverse peoples throughout the centuries — Arabs in the Middle East, Moors (Berbers and Africans) in Spain and Western Europe, etc.  Islam’s successful entry into Eastern Europe was spearheaded by the Turks, specifically that tribe centered in westernmost Anatolia (or Asia Minor) and thus nearest to Europe, the Ottoman Turks, so-named after their founder, Osman Bey.  As he lay dying in 1323, his parting words to his son and successor, Orhan, were for him “to propagate Islam by your arms.”
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“By the time we got to this project, I was able to write my own code and figure out a lot of things on my own.”

BY LORI SILBERMAN BRAUNER/JTA

Back to school (illustrative). (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)

When California experienced one of its worst-ever wildfire seasons last fall, New Jersey high school student Orlee

The fires were still fresh on the Jewish sophomore’s mind when she and fellow students Sarah Cohen and Devin Scharf put their heads together to come up with a novel concept for a school science project.

The trio decided to engineer a forest fire detection system that equips trees with sensors to signal firehouses in case of a blaze.
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By Simon Watkins, OIL PTICE

Underlying the one-year anniversary in mid-August of the signing of the ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’ is one of the greatest oil industry swindles in recent years. When representatives of the five Caspian littoral states meet on the 11th and 12^th of August, Iran intends to seek some redress from Russia on Moscow’s manoeuvring last August. The Islamic Republic believes that it was robbed of its historical rights in the Caspian, conned out of a US$50 billion per year income, and left without Russia’s support against the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions.

Little of any apparent consequence was decided last August when the five Caspian littoral states – Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan – signed the ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’. The limited publicity that surrounded the signing stated only that the agreement stipulated that relations between the littoral states would be based on the broad principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality among members, and the non-use of threat of force.
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While the State Department establishment rejects Friedman’s assessments, its own track record in the Middle East has been systematically flawed.

By Yoram Ettinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

US Ambassador David Friedman’s June 8 interview in The New York Times was inconsistent with the worldview of the State Department establishment but quite consistent with Middle East reality and US national security interests.

Friedman stated: “The absolute last thing the world needs is a failed Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan. … Israel retaining security control in the West Bank should not be an impediment. … Certainly, Israel is entitled to retain some portion of it [the West Bank]. … I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”

While the State Department establishment (except for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton) rejects Friedman’s assessments, its own track record in the Middle East has been systematically flawed. For example:
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By Barry Shaw,

Zionism is Jewish intersectionality, the diversity of the incoming exiles, the answer to three millennia of Jewish victimhood.

It is where left and right, black, white and brown, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, religious and secular, intersect, come together in defense of our self preservation, to celebrate our Judaism in whatever form it takes, to struggle to create a better world for ourselves and for others, while protecting those within our community not of the tribe.

As such, Zionism is the most progressive movement in a repressive and violent region. it is especially obvious this week, looking at those who received the 2019 Moskowitz Pri? for Zionism on Jerusalem Day.
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T. Belman. If this is the way the parties will stand after the upcoming election, Netanyu will have no choice but to force the Religious parties to accept Liberman’s legislation. Its either that or leave them out of the government and go with Liberman and Blue and White.

Bibi put all his pressure on Liberman last time around but left the Hareidi parties alone. He should now pressure the religous parties.

New poll shows rightist-religious bloc leading 68-52 – but still lacks majority without Avidgor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would win, again, if new elections were held today – but would still be unable to form a majority right-wing government without the support of Avidgor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party, a new poll shows.

According to a survey conducted by the Maagar Mohot polling agency and released by Radio 103FM Friday morning, if elections for the 22nd Knesset – slated for September 17th – were held today, the Likud would be the largest faction, with 35 seats, the same number the party won in April, prior to a merger with the Kulanu party.

The center-left Blue and White party, however, would fall from 35 seats to 33.
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Liberman sees exploiting the religious-secular divide as a winning campaign strategy, but fanning the flames of the most divisive issue in Israeli society poses a risk.

By David Isaac, World Israel News

Avigdor Liberman, head of the Israel Beiteinu party, has single-handedly brought down the government not once, but twice, leaving Israel’s chattering class agape.

A consensus has formed as to his motives — it’s a bid to revive his electoral chances by exploiting secular fears of religious coercion. Overlooked has been the dangers this political strategy poses to Israel’s social fabric.

Liberman refused to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over a bill to draft ultra-Orthodox, or haredi, Jews. Large numbers of haredi men receive deferments for studying in yeshivas, sparking wide-spread resentment among the rest of Israeli society that must serve in Israel’s military.
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While the Jewish nation is unique, Israel is far from unique in being a state that combines democracy with a specific national and religious nature.

By Daniel Krygier, World Israel News

While the Jewish nation is unique, Israel is far from unique in being a state that combines democracy with a specific national and religious nature. Liberal critics frequently blast Israel as an “anomaly” among the family of nations. Critics argue that Israel is “archaic” and even “racist” for defining itself as a democratic and Jewish nation-state.

Is Israel an anomaly among the world’s modern democracies? Is it possible to be one or the other — Jewish or democratic — but not both?

In Israel and the Family of Nations, the Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights, legal scholar Amnon Rubinstein explores the fundamental question: Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic?
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