In the next election, every party should consider the great potential in the Arab public, where voters are searching for a new political home, yearn for hope and aspire to a new political reality where they can feel like an inseparable part of Israeli society.

By Joseph Haddad, ISRAEL HAYOM

Another election race has come and gone and again we see that one of the main runners, the Arab public, is not being counted. In 2015, it happened when Arab Israelis flocked to vote for the Joint Arab List, which became the country’s third-largest party. This time, it happened due to indifference and low voter turnout, which resulted in fewer Arab members of Knesset and the Balad party fighting for its life to remain above the electoral threshold. Out of some 928,000 eligible voters in the Arab sector, only one-third voted for Arab parties. The Arab public expressed a lack of faith in its representatives and told them: You’ve let us down, neglected us; we aren’t in your pocket anymore.
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The flames at Notre Dame Cathedral should remind Jews of the burning by that very same church of tens of wagonloads of the Talmud in the Middle Ages.

By Abraham Chicheportiche, INN

The mainstream media, even in Israel, is featuring in headlines “The Crown of Thorns and tunic of St Louis saved from Notre Dame fire.”

I do not like to do it, but sometimes it is necessary to remind some Jews of historical facts about antisemitism in France.

Many of you have certainly visited Paris or The Notre Dame Cathedral, but how many of you have seen the two statues at the main entrance of the Paris Cathedral?
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Is Israel’s Air Force the next frontier for haredi integration into the IDF?

Arutz Sheva Staff,

An F-16 flying over Israel’s skies conjures up many images in the minds of anyone taking notice, one of them is decidedly not an image of Israel’s Haredi population. But if Gavriel Hemo and his Barkai program have their way, the absence of that image will soon belong to the past.

In 2012 the Ministry of Defense’s Department of Social and Security Policy approached Hemo with the idea of establishing a program for integrating young Haredi men into the Air Force. Hemo, who served for many years as Deputy Mayor of the Golan Heights Regional Council, is currently chairman of the “Ruach HaGolan” educational network, which runs twelve unique high schools and post-high school institutions with over 2,000 students.
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By Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor

The United States is pressing its Kurdish allies in Syria to ease their resistance to allowing Turkish forces to deploy on their side of the Turkish-Syrian border, well-informed sources told Al-Monitor. The Turkish forces would be a part of the proposed safe zone in northeastern Syria.

US officials are pushing for “a limited number” of Turkish forces to be allowed to deploy on the Syrian side of the border, along a stretch of territory running from the east of the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border, according to a senior official from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The source told Al-Monitor, “The subject has already been broached with us and we regard the presence of Turkish troops on our soil as extremely problematic and have made our position clear.”

The source said that the Donald Trump administration’s Syria envoy, Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, was expected to travel to northeastern Syria in the coming days, when he is likely to renew demands that Turkish forces be allowed to enter northeastern Syria.

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MEMRI

In the wake of the massacre perpetrated by an Australian right-wing extremist in two New Zealand mosques on March 15, 2019,[1] the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) called on non-Muslim countries to ban the dissemination of hatred against Islam. A statement published by the IMUMS on the day of the massacre, which was read out by its head, Dr. Ahmad Al-Raissouni, urged non-Muslim countries to “prohibit the dissemination of hatred and alarmist messages against Islam, [because] these racist crimes are among the results of [the dissemination of such hatred].”[2]

In an interview on Al-Jazeera TV,  Al-Raissouni held all Western countries responsible for the New Zealand massacre, because the organizations which orchestrate campaigns against Islam and Muslims operate openly in those countries. He added, however, that the real issue is no longer the anti-Islam movements and organizations, but states that take action against Muslims, adding that, “in Western countries today the spirit of a Crusader war against the Muslims is reawakening.”[3]
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Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq and Syria: Iran making the return of displaced Christians and Sunni Muslims nearly impossible

by Ezequiel Doiny

The Assyrian International News Agency published a list of Christian Institutions converted into mosques or destroyed by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq in 2014.

On April 11, 2019 Carl Anderson wrote in the Wall Street Journal  ” Christian towns in Iraq increasingly look neither Christian nor Iraqi – but Iranian.

Since taking over Mosul on June 10, ISIS has destroyed, occupied, converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or shuttered all 45 Christian institutions in Mosul. At the bottom of this article is the complete list of the Christian institutions in Mosul, grouped by denomination.

The religious minorities persecuted under the ISIS caliphate remain in peril, thanks to the Iraqi government’s tolerance of Iranian influence.
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By Paul Joseph Watson, INFOWARS

The number of anti-religious attacks against Jews and Christians in France continues to rise, while attacks against Muslims are at their lowest for 9 years.

According to a group that studies hate crime attacks against Christians, February was the worst month for attacks on Christian churches since they began collecting data.

Other public Christian symbols have also been targeted, including summit crosses on mountaintops and public statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, which have been decapitated or destroyed.

A deliberate attack on the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris which caused nearly a million euros in damage was reported by the mainstream media as a ‘brief fire’ in which no one was hurt.
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SHEP SMITH CUTS OFF FRENCH OFFICIAL FOR ALLUDING TO ISLAMIC ARSON OF NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL

NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL IN PARIS ON FIRE, WORKER CLAIMS IT WAS “DELIBERATELY” STARTED

By Nachman Kanovsky

With the ascendancy of the Left’s near total control of academia, the media, and the culture, an increasing number of articles, news reports, and other media items are circulated reporting various outlandish and egregious outrages taking place in our country. The problem is that these outrages occur at such increasing frequencies that one becomes almost inured to them. Some might argue that the other side, specifically our president, is equally responsible for some of these outrages. Even if one were to nominally equivocate – an approach which I eschew – at worst the president’s outrages are limited in scope and number while the Left’s are literally off the charts. The Left is responsible for indoctrinating our youth with socialist and Marxist values, designing and promoting identity politics with all its abhorrent ramifications, tolerating if not promoting outright anti-Semitsm, ideologically seeking to deny any differences between the sexes, and in general undermining American values and western civilization as a whole. Volumes can be written on any of the above topics.
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By Victor Sharpe, RENEW AMERICA

There is an old saying, originating in the Middle East, that if you allow the nose of a camel into your tent, soon its entire body will enter and possess it.

Nancy Pelosi’s craven rush to appoint the Somali Muslim immigrant, Ilhan Omar (D. MN) to the highly sensitive House Foreign Affairs Committee allowed Omar the opportunity to spew Islamic hatred against both America and Israel. The Camel’s nose is indeed now in the Congressional tent.

Omar, along with Rashida Tlaib (D. MI) are two Muslim ingrates who were given sanctuary and freedom in America – Omar from the hell of Somalia and Tlaib from the repressive and corrupt Palestinian Authority. They are joined with a rag bag of Socialists and Muslim radicals poisoning Congress and attacking our Judeo-Christian civilization, which has been the bedrock of America and the underpinning of our increasingly beleaguered Constitution.
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Erdogan, whose party lost Turkey’s internal elections, insists on purchase of Russian S-400 missiles, may find itself eased out of NATO.

By Yochanan Visser, INN

For the first time since Turkey’s Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan ascended to power, he’s in trouble at home, while at the same time the tyrant is risking a major confrontation with the United States.

Erdogan’s AKP party lost the March 31 municipal elections to the secular ultra-nationalist CHP party which used to help the AKP party to establish its Islamist regime.

As a result, for the first time in a quarter-century, Turkey’s main population centers such as Istanbul and Ankara will be governed by secular politicians and not by Islamists who take their orders from the Turkish strongman.
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We must never allow Sharia Law to get a foothold in America

By Tabitha Korol

The internet provides everything you’d want to know about courtships, weddings, married life, but few of them include the instructions on wife-beating. There is a brief but enlightening film, produced by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and posted on Jihad Watch, of a Muslim sociologist who demonstrates the “proper” wife-beating technique. Of course, the sociologist assures his audience that Islam is merciful, and that the man, the head of the household, should not have to beat his wife every day, and to do so lightly, never to hit her face or head, bruise, break bones or cause blood to flow (m10:12, Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law – ROTT). But the cautionary statement rings hollow when the wife’s bruises will never be seen because she must be covered from head to toe. And, should she become inured to the discipline’s sameness, there are other means of control and punishment available to him, all sanctioned by The Religion of Peace.

When is it necessary to beat one’s wife? The sociologist did posit that there are women who prefer domineering, authoritative, and even violent husbands. For the most part, however, beatings are needed when the wife has disobeyed him and the strict Islamic rules of marriage. She may have refused to wear a hijab (m:2:7-8, ROTT) or the finery he chose for her; or fancied attending school with the hope of one day having a career and earning a wage. She may have wanted to leave the house unaccompanied or without her husband’s permission; she is literally under house arrest.
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US secretary of state tells CNN ‘The vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used’

By TOI STAFF

13 April 2019,

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo during a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said he did not believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk of extending Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements would hurt the Trump administration’s long-gestating peace plan.

His comments would appear to indicate that the US plan does not provide for Palestinian statehood, or even for Palestinian control of substantive contiguous territory in the West Bank.

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In letter to President Trump, 10 “Pillars” of Liberal US Jewry urge him to block Netanyahu’s Area C annexation pledge

by MG

Now we know what the recent Israeli elections and the Gantz-Lapid candidacy were all about:

Blocking Bibi’s intended annexation of Area C of the West Bank!

In a nutshell, the despicable cooked-up lawfare against Bibi, followed by the generals’ swiftly-created Kachol-Lavan opposition, were all part of a comprehensive operation orchestrated by the Liberal US Jewish establishment in order to prevent Bibi’s intended annexation of Area C and consequent decisive victory over Israel’s Palestinian-Arab enemies!

After failing in their above machinations, and while Israel continues to fight for survival against genocidal enemies, these delusional “2-Stater” Left/Liberal US Jews now want to interfere through the back door and tell the US president as well as the democratically-elected Government of Israel what’s good for Israel and its vital security!

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JEWS CHOOSE TRUMP

By Nisana Darshan Leitner

Our amazing victory in the Airbnb case, a lawsuit we initiated last November has really pushed back against the BDS movement. The federal action we launched against the hosting giant last year, under the Fair Housing Act, was only the beginning. Next we sent letters to the Attorney Generals of all the 25 states that enacted anti-BDS laws, asking them to utilize their statutes to take action against Airbnb. We also warned that we were preparing a complaint to be submitted to the SEC prior to Airbnb’s planned IPO, emphasizing its anti-Semitic policy. It was all of these actions together that finally brought Airbnb to reach a settlement agreement with us and to cancel its discriminatory policy against Jewish property owners.

The success has been fuelled by what one Israeli CEO described as ‘an ecosystem that feeds itself’

By Victor Ferreira, FINANCIAL POST

In 2011, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an ambitious promise to turn a country with less than a quarter of Canada’s population and GDP into a top-five global cybersecurity power within five years.

Now, less than a decade later, Israel has far outstripped those goals: it is recognized worldwide as a cybersecurity innovation hub that continues to produce not only some of the best products and services — but the best minds.

Israel currently has 450 cybersecurity companies, some of which are publicly traded in North America, and approaching US$10 billion in exports in the sector, according to Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute chairman Adiv Baruch.
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By Evelyn Gordan, JNS

Distorting the meaning of language is a seductive but dangerous game. It’s seductive because it provides enormous short-term benefits. It’s dangerous because, as two recent examples show, it can ultimately eviscerate fundamental values.

One example comes from this week’s Israeli election, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party actually gained seats despite multiple corruption cases against him. A survey published in February by a Haifa University political scientist explains why: Most voters for Likud and allied parties don’t believe the allegations because they don’t trust the legal system. Fully 65 percent of Likud voters and 75 percent of haredi voters think law-enforcement agencies are simply trying to oust Netanyahu.
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