According to article 140, presidents were to be elected for a four-year term and could be reelected for only one more term as is in the case in the United States.

BY ZVI MAZEL , JPOST

Should the proposed constitutional amendments now being discussed by the parliament be adopted – as it appears they will, the people of Egypt will find themselves living in a regime quite unlike the one they voted for in 2014.

Following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi and the army takeover on July 3, 2013 led by then-defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a constitution was drafted under his aegis and adopted by an overwhelming majority.

It provided for the traditional division of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as checks and balances between the prerogatives of the president and those of parliament.

According to article 140, presidents were to be elected for a four-year term and could be reelected for only one more term as is in the case in the United States.
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T. BELMAN. THE ONLY PALESTINIAN STATE THAT WILL BE CREATED BY AGREEMENT IS jORDAN.. IT HAS 78% OF THE MANDATE LANDS.

Minister claims “Netanyahu and Trump are in agreement on launching plan for Palestinian state immediately after elections.” Likud denies.

Arutz Sheva Staff, 

Minister Naftali Bennett weighed in on the Trump peace plan as he entered Sunday’s cabinet meeting. He claimed that a plan to establish a Palestinian state will be presented immediately after elections.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump are in agreement on launching the plan to establish a Palestinian state immediately after the elections,” he said.

“They are coordinated not to present the plan before the elections so as not to make it difficult for Netanyahu, but a day or two after the elections the plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state on 90% of the area and the division of Jerusalem will be presented.

“Lapid and Gantz will enter the government as a national peace government. The only way to stop this is with a strong and real New Right,” he said.

Likud blasted the assertion, calling it a “complete invention with no connection to reality. After the elections Netanyahu will establish a right-wing government headed by himself.”

By Phil Schneider

Progressives today have more power and influence than almost any other time in recent history. Under the guise of liberalism, the thought police attitude has become a prevalent attitude among tens of millions of college age youth and recent graduates.

Yes, things have spun out of control, and something needs to be done about it.

Liberals vs. Progressives
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ISRAEL HAYOM

Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin says he sees no difference between Meretz, New Right and Yesh Atid • Zehut will get youth vote, he says • Announcing party’s Knesset list, Yisrael Beytenu head Lieberman says he hopes to make double-digit Knesset seats.

If Gaza hostilities don’t flare up by summer, it will be a major achievement for Israel’s army chief

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

Palestinian demonstrators run away from Israeli fire and tear gas during a protest on the Israel-Gaza border, February 15, 2019. \ IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/ REUTERS

By Ted Belman.

Mordechai Nisan wrote Only Israel West of the River and had it published in 2011. This book is a classic and should be read by everyone. He wrote with such clarity and logic that its hard to dispute him. As a result, I invited him to speak at the conference on The Jordan Option.

He has now written The Crack-Up of the Israeli Left. It is a precious book, in fact, an intellectual tour de force. Hardly a paragraph exists that doesn’t contain some nugget of value.

This book is way more than a recount of the crack-up of the Israeli left. In fact, it is an intellectual history of Israel and its transformation from as “socialist utopia” some hundred years ago to the present day where is it is one of the most successful capitalist countries in the world notwithstanding that it has yet to shuck all its socialist baggage.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For a Canadian “Festival of Literary Diversity,” some cultures are more equal than others.

By Howard Rotberg, FPM

For over 15 years, I have been operating a small publishing house, which is Canada’s sole conservative and pro-Israel publishing house. We publish some of the greatest Canadian, American and international authors who support fundamental freedoms, liberty, justice and individual rights as opposed to group rights. Our authors generally oppose cultural and moral relativism, and for that reason they are generally shunned by leftist publishing houses who naively believe that all cultures are equal.

I am the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost his parents and then eight-year-old sister in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. When someone tells me that all cultures are equal, I ask if the person believes that the culture of Nazi Germany or of ISIS is equal to the culture of Canada or the United States. The person usually walks away at that point. Read more…

Ted Belman. Its way too early to poll everybody after all the jockying for mergers. These polls suggest that the Right isn’t growing as they always claim. Generally the party with the most seats is invited to form a government. But the left can’t form a gofvernment without including the Arab parties. You can bet that the Right parties will harp on this and I expect that it will mean a drop off of the support for the left during the campaign.

Polls show new center-left list in first place, six to 10 seats ahead of the Likud under PM Netanyahu • Labor, which spurned merger with Meretz, drops to single digits • Kan 11 poll: Arab Ta’al-Hadash list will be third-largest party in the Knesset.

Israel Hayom Staff

Small Beresheet satellite embarks on 7-week journey, at the end of which Israel could become the fourth country to land on the moon

By MELANIE LIDMAN,TOI

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with Israel’s Lunar Lander and an Indonesian communications satellite at space launch complex 40, February 21, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

With sights set on the moon, Israel to launch privately funded spacecraft Friday

Beresheet set to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility on April 11; $100 million project, paid for mostly by Jewish donors, would make Israel 4th country to land a craft on the moon

By MELANIE LIDMAN, TOI      18 February 2019,

Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)

Israel hopes to become the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, with the launch of the unmanned spacecraft Beresheet from Florida’s Cape Canaveral this Friday. If successful, the 160-kilogram (350 pounds without fuel), four-legged spacecraft will also be the smallest and cheapest spacecraft to land on the moon.

The $100 million (NIS 370 million) spacecraft is a joint venture between private companies SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, funded almost entirely from private donations from well-known Jewish philanthropists including South African billionaire Morris Kahn, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Lynn Schusterman, and others.
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Ted Belman. Abbas reiterates: It’s the full tax money or nothingI think Abbas is threatening riots as a result of having no money coming in.

By David Singer, CFP

Israel’s decision to withhold US$138 million dollars in tax revenues collected for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) – equalling the estimated annual payments made to Palestinian Arabs (or their families) carrying out random and indiscriminate attacks against Israeli civilians—marks a watershed in Israel-PLO relations.

Israel’s action will see the PLO being finally jettisoned as a possible negotiating partner on President Trump’s long-delayed peace plan—deferred yet again until after the Israeli elections in April.
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By Adi Rubinstein and Efrat Forsher, CJN 

Zehut leader Moshe Feiglin believes that his party will be the dark horse, or the “surprise,” of the upcoming April 9 elections in Israel.

In an interview with Israel Hayom, Feiglin, who in the past ran for leadership of the Likud Party, said, “We are not just talking about the electoral threshold. Looking at the momentum we have created, we can be much more than that.”

Feiglin is dismissive of recent polls that do not bode well for Zehut.
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The following is a letter from Morton Klein, President of the National Zionist Organization of America to Nancy Pelosi:

Dear Madam Speaker, 

We are writing to you to express our profound, even frightened concern and, indeed, our pained astonishment that you have decided to appoint newly-elected legislator, Representative Ihlan Omar, to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

We cannot believe that Representative Omar has been appointed to the Committee on the strength on any particular expertise or competence she holds in foreign affairs.

We do know, however, that Representative Omar has a horrific and frightening record of viciously anti-Israel actions that amount to antisemitism as defined by the State Department definition of antisemitism as determined in its May 2016 document, ‘Defining antisemitism.’
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