T. Belman. Why should the Jews of eastern Europe feel closer to Israel and shun intermarriage moreso than American Jews do?

Survey finds 96% of Jews in Eastern Europe feel safe, compared to 76% of Jews in Western Europe • Intermarriage rate drops from 64% in 2008 to 40% in 2018 • Alienation from Jewish community life, demographic decline seen as greatest threats, data shows.

By Dan Lavie, ISRAEL HAYOM

A new poll finds 68% of European Jews fully support Israel, regardless of its government’s actions 

Support for Israel among Jewish communities in Europe has increased dramatically, according to a 2018 survey of community leaders and Jewish professionals recently published by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Of the 893 respondents from 28 European countries and Turkey, 68% said they fully support Israel, regardless of its government’s actions. In comparison, 55% said they fully supported Israel in a poll taken in 2015, and 61% and 56% said they did in the first two such polls taken in 2008, 2011, respectively.
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T. Belman. I have been advocating this grand bargain for a few years now. See,  Contemplating a US-Russia Alliance.

Mark Langfan the same, When Putin drops hints, the West should listen

By Brandon J. Weichert, AMERICAN THINKER

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What few acknowledge is that the North Koreans came to the negotiating table because of the increasing pressure that the Trump administration placed on China.  Trump used tripolar diplomacy (among the United States, China, and North Korea) to bring North Korea to heel.  Just as China is North Korea’s most important partner, Russia is Iran’s most important ally.  Thus, Trump must replay his strategic gambit of using tripolar diplomacy to prevent a seemingly implacable rogue state – this time Iran – from threatening the world.
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Iran (newspaper) (pdf)
November 17, 2018
Daniel Pipes is interviewed.

According to Gallant, Hamas is at a “very dramatic junction,” in which it has to recalculate whether it wants to fight Israel or keep the calm of the past week.

By Lahav Harkov, JPOST

Israel is ready for a large-scale operation in Gaza if necessary, Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant, a retired IDF major-general, said at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

“Let me say it to be clear: [Hamas leader in Gaza] Yihya Sinwar’s time is limited. He won’t finish his life in an old-age home,” Gallant said.

According to the minister, Hamas is at a “very dramatic junction,” in which it has to recalculate whether it wants to fight Israel or keep the calm of the past week.
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Katz espoused a policy that mirrored Liberman’s, saying what was needed was a harsh military strike.

BY Tovah Lazaroff, JPOST

Israel can only conduct a policy of normalized ties with the Arab world from a position of strength, Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.

He was one of a number of high-level ministers who spoke at The Jerusalem Post’s annual diplomatic conference in Jerusalem.

“The pragmatic Arab states in the region recognize Israel’s capabilities” in the military and civilian spheres, said Katz.
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“If Hezbollah will achieve precision strike capabilities, they will cause us very significant damage. This is a clear redline.”

BY JULIANE HELMHOLD, JPOST

If an Israeli preemptive strike is not carried out in the near future, the window of opportunity for preventing Hezbollah’s precision strike capabilities will close, former education and interior minister Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) said at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem.

Despite the involvement in Syria’s civil war and the occasional Israeli strike on Hezbollah targets in Syria, Iranian effort through its proxy to develop a qualitative strike capability on Israel’s civilian infrastructures has significantly improved since the end of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Sa’ar warned.

Specifically, the former minister warned that Hezbollah was upgrading the accuracy of missiles which will be able totarget Israeli civilian infrastructure to a precision of 10 meters.

“If Hezbollah will achieve such capabilities, they will cause us very significant damage. This is a clear redline,” he explained.
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By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun 

Theodore Kupfer’s attack on my remarks last week in these pages about President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord cannot be allowed to pass without comment.
Mr. Kupfer cites Svante Arrhenius as the originator of the theory of the greenhouse-gas generation of global warming in the 1890s. Arrhenius predicted in an 1896 paper that doubling carbon-dioxide emissions would increase temperatures by six centigrade degrees but ten years later reduced that estimate by two-thirds, and even that has proved to be unfounded.

Arrhenius’s perspective was of someone trying to promote milder temperatures in Sweden, by increasing greenhouse gases, and concluded that it would take at least 3,000 years for any such hoped-for warming to come to pass. It is doubly bizarre for Mr. Kupfer to cite him as a source in that Arrhenius, one of the founders of the Nobel Prize, which he quickly received for chemistry, is chiefly known as a leader of the Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene.
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T. Belman. From what we read, the Khashoggi attackers were as negligent and error prone as the Keystone Cops. This account is more believable. The plan was to drug him and then take him back to Saudi Arabia for trial just as Israel did with Eichmann. But Khashoggi died as a result of the drugging.

BY MIKE EVANS, JPOST  –  NOVEMBER 20, 2018

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Shedding-light-on-the-Saudi-Turkey-rift-572375

It appears that Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood are one, and that included sympathizer, and colleague Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi Arabian officials have conceded complicity in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The time has come to shed light on Turkey’s position in the matter. It is recognized by many that the main battle was not between Khashoggi and the Saudis, but rather a clash between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The struggle is not over the death of the journalist, but rather for control of the entire Sunni world.
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Security cabinet members Gilad Erdan, Yoav Gallant, and Israel Katz call for targeted killings of terrorist group’s leaders

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Israel is coming close to retaking the Gaza Strip and should assassinate the leaders of terrorist group Hamas, senior Israeli ministers said Wednesday.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that Israel is “closer than ever” to re-occupying the coastal enclave and “must move from defense to offense,” which he clarified means “targeted killings of the terrorist leaders of Hamas’ military wing.

“And it means being willing to capture and hold the Gaza Strip, until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” said Erdan, a member of the security cabinet, speaking at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in the capital.
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Gilad Erdan also says he will ask U.S. lawmakers to use anti-boycott laws against Airbnb following its decision to bar listings in Jewish settlements

By Noa Landau, JPOST

Israel is “closer than ever” to controlling part or all of Gaza, Strategic Affair minister Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post Diplomats’ Conference in Jerusalem, Erdan said that “moving from defense to offense against Hamas means targeted assassinations of terror leaders in Hamas’ military wing.”

This, Erdan says, “means being ready to take control of the Gaza Strip and hold it until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, Today we are closer than ever – since the devastating disengagement plan – to having to control parts of the Strip, or all of it.”

Erdan also addressed Airbnb’s recent decision to bar listings of homes in West Bank settlements, saying “anybody who supports Israel should stop using Airbnb and tap other services.”

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T. Belman. I have posted a few articles here and links on the subject of antisemitism. Foxman argues “When you remove political correctness, when it’s OK to say Mexicans are rapists and Muslims are murderers – of course that means it’s OK to be more antisemitic or more antisemitic in public.” First of all, no one including Trump, has said that. The Democrats including leftwing Jews, argue that because Trump wants to be more selective in approving who can be an immigrant, and in particular, wants to ban Muslims, among others, who don’t share our values, he has openned up the floodgates which heretofore had suppressed antisemitism.

In effect they are arguing that the less exclusion, the less anitsemitism. I don’t buy it at all. I argue that the more we exclude groups such as Muslims who are very antisemitic, the less antisemitism. That is not to say that Trump shouln’t declare war on anitsemitism.

The head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, called for “greater scrutiny” of the textbooks by the Trump regime.

ADL head warns: U.S. at risk of ‘normalizing’ antisemitism

BY MICHAEL WILNER, JPOST

WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabian textbooks continue to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories and violence against Jews, despite public statements from leadership in Riyadh claiming the kingdom will reform, according to a study released this week.

The paper, released by the Anti-Defamation League, found that high school textbooks continue to teach of Zionist ambitions for a “global Jewish government to control the entire world” and of false religious teachings calling for the murder of Jews.
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T. Belman. According to Akiva Bigman, “the new compact will grant labor migrants the same legal status under international law as asylum seekers and refugees who flee tyrannical regimes. This would essentially make all migrants, legal or not, eligible for economic benefits.”

According to this article, Israel had to be convinced not to join, In fact I read else where that Israel contributed to its drafting.

I am shocked. It should have been a no-brainer.

With this development, Israel will not send officials to the conference in Marrakesh, which is scheduled to be held between Dec. 10 and Dec. 11.

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Israel will join the United States and other countries in rejecting the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration, which is expected to be adopted in Morocco in December.

The final version was agreed in July and consists of 23 goals to encourage legal migration and better administer the flow or immigrants and refugees as the number of people moving worldwide has increased to 250 million, or 3 percent of the global population.
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Technological advancements are to serve mankind, not the other way around.

Supreme Court to hear petition against Civil Administration’s failure to enforce the law over thousands of acres in Hevron hills.

INN
Training Ground 917 in the southeastern Hevron Hills area is a strategic firing ground located between the Jewish communities of Carmel and Ma’on, the descent to the Dead Sea, and the Arad Valley.

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear a petition submitted by the Regavim organization against the Civil Administration’s failure to enforce the law in this area.

In 1999, Training Area 917, comprising some 55,000 dunams (13,600 acres), housed over 500 illegal Palestinian Arab-built structures. Rather than enforcing the law and evacuating the squatters, the Civil Administration marked off the area and set aside thousands of dunams of land, creating a no-go zone and effectively legalizing the illegal construction.
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GATEWAY

Conservative author and radio host Rush Limbaugh promoted the latest article by conservative law professor and writer Glenn Reynolds in USA Today on Monday.

Glenn Reynolds called on Trump on Monday to breakup the tech monopolies like his predecessor Teddy Roosevelt did back in the early 1900s.

Donald Trump must bust Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google monopolies like Teddy Roosevelt.

Rush discussed this article on Monday:
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There is more than meets the eye in Israel’s ceasefire agreement.

By Yochanan Visser, INN

On Sunday evening, in an effort to save his coalition, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli public during a nine minute televised speech at the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv.

After recapping his own history as a member of the IDF elite unit Sayeret Matkal, the death of his brother Yoni who died in 1976 during the famous Entebbe raid in Uganda, and his injuries during several battles, Netanyahu said he had endangered his life time after time and as Prime Minister gave the orders for “countless actions” to ensure the security of the State of Israel.
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PM says Israel will withdraw from nonbinding compact, which is set to be approved at UN gathering in Morocco next month

By TOI STAFF<

Eritrean demonstrators chanted “Refugees, not infiltrators,” outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Israel would not be joining the United Nations’ global migration pact, set to be signed next month in Marrakech, Morocco, by most of the world’s governments.

“I instructed the Foreign Ministry to announce that Israel won’t participate [in the Marrakech gathering] and won’t sign the migration pact,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the press.
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By By James Taylor, AMERICAN THINKER

This month, voters throughout the country inflicted a bloodbath on climate activism and climate-activist political candidates. Voters rejected the two highest profile climate-activist ballot initiatives, severely punished Republicans who joined the congressional Climate Solutions Caucus, and sent home the Democratic climate activist most heavily supported by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer.

State Ballot Initiatives Rejected

Washington State voters soundly rejected a ballot initiative that would have taxed carbon-dioxide emissions. It was the second consecutive election in which Washington voters rejected a carbon-dioxide tax. Even in deep-blue Washington, the proposed tax lost by double-digits in 2016 and now in 2018.
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