PM summarizes his meetings with Russian President Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu.

By Ido Ben Porat, Sochi,  INN

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who returned early Friday morning from a diplomatic visit to Russia, discussed his meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, which focused on the Israeli campaign to prevent Iran’s establishment in Syria.

“There was a great meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu followed by a long and excellent meeting with Putin that was delayed because he came from Dagestan,” Netanyahu told Israeli journalists who accompanied him on the visit.

He added that during these two meetings that took place in the city of Sochi and lasted a total of five hours, “we went into the security issue in great detail. Very detailed work. They always asked if our freedom of action would be preserved. And it is indeed preserved and grounded in understanding.”
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By Capital Research Center (Sponsored)

A largely unknown, massively funded strategy company pushing the interests of wealthy leftist donors has been quietly funding successful efforts to ensure the federal government’s role in control of the Internet.

The secretive Arabella Advisors is a centralized hub that runs nonprofit arms that in turn have spawned a nexus of hundreds of front organizations outwardly designed to appear grassroots but actually working against ordinary people by expanding government control in the lives of Americans.

Arabella’s vast network was unmasked in an extensive exposé by conservative watchdog Capital Research Center, which documents the shadowy system developed by, housed in and staffed by the for-profit, privately held Arabella Advisors.
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Despite announcing departure, US envoy leaves door open if peace plan gains “traction.” “I have my family’s support.”

By Tal Polon, INN

Despite declaring his planned departure from the White House last week, Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt on Thursday left the door open for a continued stay in his position if the Trump administration’s peace plan gains “traction.”

“Although I have announced my departure, I am trying to stay until the plan is launched,” Jewish Insider on Thursday reported Greenblatt as saying in a recording from an event in New York City.

He added, “If the plan is launched soon, I will stay. And if the plan is launched and we get traction, I hope to stay longer — and I have my family’s support for it.”
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By Barry Shaw, TOI

On September 10, Benjamin Netanyahu pulled off one of his famous political masterstrokes when he made a dramatic announcement one week before a contentious national election in which it looked far from certain that he would hold onto his record-breaking office as Israel’s prime minister.

The polls were showing a tight race between his Likud Party and the Blue & White Party, with neither showing the electoral ability to form a coalition government.

The master tactician had to find a way to break the Gordian knot by applying his version of Dale Carnegie’s famous book. How to win voters and influence people.
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Given the two major departures of pro-Israel figures like the now former national security advisor and the upcoming resignation of U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt, questions remain as to the direction of the Trump administration. Photo: Then U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton holds a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, June 23, 2019.

Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

By JewishWebSight

With John Bolton ousted as national security advisor on Tuesday, questions remain regarding the Trump administration’s posture on both the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Iranian threat.

T. Belman. I am with Bolton and Bibi on this.  All the pressure is on Iran. They are in need of a resolution, not the US. If Iran makes moves on the nuclear issue, the US should make them pay. Lifting some sanctions in order to get a meeting undermines one’s negotiating position. I think the US should actively be working for regime change.

Bolton was key architect of ‘maximum pressure’ campaign

By Jennifer Jacobs, BLOOMBERG

John Bolton Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Religious scholars in Gaza have tried to issue a ruling that prohibits emigration from it, but that does not help: more and more Palestinian middle-class boys and girls are choosing to try their luck elsewhere. The difficult humanitarian situation and the desperation of the political situation only strengthen the decision

Tell Al Sultan is a middle-class in Gaza whose family has a pharmacy. Compared to most Gazans, his situation was good: he had a steady income, he did not suffer from poverty – but still felt choked. Al Sultan blamed Hamas for the dismal state of Gaza and even participated in the rare protests against the organization. His mysterious death this week, on his way to finding a better life in Belgium, became the talk of the day in the Strip, prompting reactions of frustration and despair by middle-class people who see no future: “Everywhere is better than Gaza.”
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By Thomas Lifson, AMERICAN THINKER

Watch the above speech in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, by AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel, and start to realize that populism is a global force in the highly industrialized world and that the complaints we Americans feel against our elites, and the complaints Brits have against ceding control to the E.U., are all of a piece.  She does not hesitate to point her finger at France, which is leading the resistance to a negotiated Brexit.
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Despite lip service offered by senior French officials, Jew hatred still runs rampant in France as it did during the Dreyfus Affair. The similarity is striking.

By Barry Shaw, INN

The Venice Film Festival awarded their Grand Jury Prize for best movie to Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy.’

The film is about the trial and wrongful conviction of a Jewish officer in the French military in 1894.

The Dreyfus case symbolized the rise of French anti-Semitism. The Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was wrongly accused and sentenced to life imprisonment on distant Devil’s Island on charges of being a traitor spying for Germany.

He was innocent. The real traitor was Major Walson-Esterhazy.
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