In a move expected to worsen relations between the Palestinian Authority and the Trump administration, PA declines some $60 million out of fear that accepting the money would expose it to lawsuits under 2018 Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

U.S. security aid for the Palestinian Authority was set to dry up on Thursday after the PA declined the money over concerns it could increase its exposure to U.S. anti-terrorism lawsuits.

The loss of the nearly $60 million in annual funding marks another tear in ties between the Trump administration and PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and potentially undermines his security cooperation with Israel in Judea and Samaria.

Diplomatic sources said Palestinian, U.S. and Israeli officials were seeking a way to keep the money flowing despite Abbas’ decision to turn it down as of a Jan. 31 deadline set by Congress’ Anti-Terrorism Clarifcation Act (ATCA) of 2018.
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Christianity went through a Reformation in the 16th century. Can Islam do the same in the 21st?

By Rafael Castro, INN

Whether Islam will be reformed is one of the most uncertain issues of our times. The stakes of this reformation are tremendous. An Islamic World whose intellectual energies are released from dogma and censorship could contribute greatly to global prosperity during the 21st century.

The issue is clouded by misconceptions and false historical analogies. Many Westerners think that Islam’s reform is inevitable, and that just like the reforms of Christianity were ushered by modernity, so will Muslims adapt their faith to modern science and technology.

Some of the world’s most avant-garde cities dot the landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula. That is, in deeply traditional societies which are ruled largely by Islamic sharia. Arab Peninsula societies have managed to accommodate material modernity with religious traditionalism, refuting claims that modern science and technology invariably usher secular thinking.
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Foreign Allegiance

by Tabitha Korol 

Progressivism has exposed America to self-destruction by welcoming aliens who, by their own confession, brazenly declare that they are here to challenge and then destroy our way of life.

Whereas America’s doors have always been open to people of all races and religions who come with hope and gratitude for the opportunities granted in a free society, we were unprepared for those who want to erase our history and accomplishments, destroy our monuments and  customs, and replace our laws with their barbarism, in the hope of replicating their oppressive regimes here.

Two Muslim women have been voted into office under the cover of deceptive manifestos.  They misrepresented their platform and have thereby candidly sullied the dignity of their positions, insulted the United States, the Executive Office of the President and, specifically, our esteemed President Donald J Trump.

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“We will not allow the continuation of an international force that acts against us,” PM says of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, which has been accused of systematically targeting Jewish residents • Palestinian Authority denounces the move.

By Ariel Kahana, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “They want to uproot us from here. They will not.” 

Israel on Monday said it is suspending operations of an international observer force in the West Bank city of Hebron after 25 years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it would not extend the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, saying “we will not allow the continuation of an international force that acts against us.” It did not give a timeframe for the observers’ exit.

TIPH has deployed unarmed civilian observers from Norway, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey in Hebron, located in Judea and Samaria, since 1997. Its stated mission is to report on violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws.
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As support for Israel falls among younger Democrats and the party’s left-wing, centrist Democrats launch pro-Israel group.

By Ron Kampeas, JTA,

By HANK BERRIEN, DAILY WIRE January 28, 2019

For all the Israel-haters out there, they’d better hope that that Israelis are forgiving if they are stricken with cancer, because if a new report out of Israel turns out to be true, scientists in the Jewish state have discovered a cure. And not just a cure for certain forms of cancer, but a complete cure for the deadly disease.

According to Dan Aridor, chairman of the board of Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi) and CEO Dr. Ilan Morad, their treatment will not need time for the body to acculturate to it before it works. Aridor stated, “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer. … Our cancer cure will be effective from day one … and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market. Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
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Finance minister says chipmaker’s plan to invest in Kiryat Gat manufacturing site is expected to bring thousands of jobs to Israel’s south.

INN

Intel said Tuesday it is expanding its operations in Israel, where government ministers said the US computer chipmaker will invest some 10 billion dollars in a new plant.

“Intel today announced it will submit a business plan to the government of Israel for continued investment in the company’s Kiryat Gat manufacturing site,” a statement from Intel’s Israeli representatives said. Read more…

Jews are now returning

By Dovid Mark, ISRAEL RISING

A few months ago I had the privilege of visiting a newly reacquired Jewish property in what is today the Muslim quarter in order to witness Jews returning to a former Jewish home.

Although I usually focus myself on sticking with teaching Jewish mystical thought to a wide variety of students across the world, I have a soft spot for present day urban pioneering in ancient Jewish neighborhoods now settled by Arab squatters.

It is a little known fact that most of today’s Muslim quarter was actually Jewish until the Arab riots and pogroms of the 1920s and 1930s pushed the indigenous Jews out and into the present Jewish quarter. In 1948 the Jewish quarter was wiped out by the Jordanian Legions.
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By Edy Cohen, ISRAEL HAYOM

H. Rotberg. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day today is a immoral fraud, meant to divide the Jews of Europe  from the Jews of Israel.  The real Holocaust Remembrance Day is held in Israel in May.   Here is chapter 10 of my book Tolerism:  The Ideology Revealed which hopefully makes clear my take on this important topic:

By Howard Rotberg

April 21^st marks the 2009 Holocaust Commemoration Day, or, as it is called in Hebrew, Yom HaShoah, I suggest it is time for a re-evaluation of Holocaust Commemorations, Museums, and Education.    We must re-consider what is the message we are trying to give, and re-consider the objective of our Holocaust teaching resources and the objective of our museums, ceremonies and other commemorations of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Centre of Toronto, for example, states in its Mandate that “It is our responsibility to educate the community at large to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust will be learned.”

In its statement of Purpose, the Toronto Holocaust Centre states:  “ As custodians of memory, we must dedicate ourselves to preserving the past and educating future generations. Only through education and remembrance can we safeguard the lessons of the Holocaust, for it is clear that they have not yet been learned.”
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By Ora Cohen, HAARETZ

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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,074, January 27, 2019

By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Moscow’s public demand that Israel stop its attacks in Syria places Israel’s longstanding air campaign at a critical juncture despite PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s avowed determination to sustain it for as long as necessary.

Three primary goals underlie Israel’s longstanding air campaign in Syria, dubbed the “Campaign Between Wars”: 1) preventing the buildup of a terrorist front on the Golan Heights; 2) preventing Tehran’s military entrenchment in Syria; and 3) preventing the acquisition of long-range precision missiles/rockets by Hezbollah and other Iranian-propped militias. In a 2015 doctrinal pamphlet entitled “The IDF’s Strategy,” then-Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot defined the Campaign Between Wars as designed to “weaken negative factors and achieve deterrence in order to keep the next war away.”

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By Zvi November

All Israeli politicians and most foreign supporters proudly proclaim that Israel ‘is the only democracy in the Middle East’. Actually Israel is a pseudo democracy because it is really a PARTYOCRACY. Israelis get to vote every few years for their favorite party. There are 14 parties now competing in the current election which will be held on the 9th of April. Most of the parties only represent a small sub-group of the populace. For instance, the hareidi parties represent the ultra orthodox. Shas represents religious Sephardim. The Jewish Home party represents modern, orthodox, nationalistic communities while several Arab parties supposedly promote Arab interests but expend most of their efforts supporting the Palestinian hot and cold wars against Israel. Indeed, Israeli Arabs invariably refer to themselves as ‘1948 Palestinians’. They, in effect, undermine Israel from within.
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