By Brian Freeman, NEWSMAX

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After taking several barrages of 100 rockets on Monday, Nov. 12, Israelis living less than 40km from the Gaza border were told to stay in fortified spaces until further notice as Hamas threatened to expand its rocket targets if Israeli air strikes hit large areas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation.

Rocket alerts were accordingly heard Monday evening in more distant parts of southern Israel, including the Dead, Sea region.  Residents of towns up to 40km from Gaza, including Beersheba, Lachish and Kiryat Gath, were advised to stay within easy access to shelters.

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By Abraham Diskin, ISRAEL HAYOM

Exit polls are one of the most important tools for identifying supporters of a specific candidate or party in U.S. elections. Various media outlets station people outside sample voting stations to poll voters on how they voted immediately after they exit the station. The results of these polls are usually based on huge samples taken from across the country and they are fascinating.

Midterm exit polls showed that around half of voters said they had decided who to vote for “in the last month” and even “in recent days.” In this respect, there was no difference between supporters of Democratic and Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The polls indicated the final results long before the election was held. The same was also true in the past. When U.S. President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections, many commentators called it a “big upset,” but it turns out early exit polls had been right.
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The plan is based around a simple idea: Establish an Israeli desalination plant, built on Israeli land, funded by Saudi Arabia, the Europeans and others, that provides clean water to Gaza.

BY MIKE EVANS, JPOST  NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Seven Palestinians killed, including Hamas military commander, in Israeli raid in southern Gaza ? Wave of rocket alarm sirens sound, Iron Dome intercepts three projectiles

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

The Israeli military confirmed late Sunday night that one officer was killed and another was moderately wounded during an operation in the southern Gaza Strip.

“During IDF special forces’ operational activity in Gaza, an exchange of fire broke out, during which an IDF officer was killed and an additional IDF officer was moderately injured,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. The military added the officer was a lieutenant colonel.

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Jason Greenblatt reportedly says plan will be announced ‘soon’ and urges people not to believe rumors about the plan before they’ve read it.

ARUTZ SHEVA

US envoy Jason Greenblatt said at a closed-door event in London on Wednesday that the US will “soon” announce President Trump’s peace plan, Channel 10 reported, citing officials attending the event, organized by the UK Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers.

Greenblatt was in London after meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday. He tweeted that he had “discussed important topics including the situation in Gaza and regional developments” during the meeting with the prime minister.
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JEWISH PRESS

Hostile Takeover: Regavim’s latest report exposes the Palestinian Authority’s systematic but silent plan, powered by massive European Union financial support: Strategically-positioned agricultural land-seizure projects covering tens of thousands of dunams of land in areas under full Israeli jurisdiction are creating irreversible facts on the ground. Large-scale planting, creation of irrigation systems, and an enormous network of illegal roads are carving up the open spaces in Judea and Samaria and drawing the borders of a de facto Palestinian state in Israel’s heartland – in flagrant violation of the law.
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By Vic Rosenthal

Every time Tzipi Livni opens her mouth, the word “democracy” comes out. According to Livni, the government and the Knesset that were democratically elected by the people are constantly “endangering” it, “undermining” it, “imperiling it,” and so on.

Nothing contradicts her more powerfully than the fact that her bloc is consistently defeated at the ballot box in elections that are probably the most free and fair in the world.

There is, however, another word that she does not say – and unfortunately, that our supposedly “right-wing” government doesn’t utter often enough either. That word is “sovereignty.”
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The Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron, is more than just a riveting account of the author’s nearly sixty-year career as an international outlaw in the field of slot machines and casinos.

Myron is a regular contributor to Israpundit.

Myron Sugerman, THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH MOB AND THEIR REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BOTH HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN PALESTINE PRE STATE ISRAEL…. DURING THE 30’S FIGHTING THE AMEIRCAN NAZI PARTY, THE 40’S HELPING THE UNITED STATES MILITARY, AND THEN POST WWII, HELPING HAGANA AND IRGUN SECURE WEAPONS AND ARMS ETC TO HELP CREATE THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.

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The vaunted two-state solution is defunct, because the Palestinian Arabs want to annihilate Israel, not “live alongside of Israel in peace.” The one-state solution has its own insurmountable problems. So, what is the best alternative other than continuing the status quo? Jordan as the State of Palestine.

When the Balfour Declaration was promulgated in 1917 during WWI, it included all of today’s Israel and Jordan, with the idea that the “National Home” for the Jews would be established “in” Palestine. But, in the 1916 ?ussein-McMahon correspondence, Britain had already promised an independent Arab state in Palestine to the Hashemite clan, for its assistance in opposing the Ottoman Empire.
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By Katrin Bennhold, NYT

Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world. Nearly 8,400 of roughly 12,000 soldiers buried there remain unidentified.Tomas Munita for The New York Times

Ted Belman. Harel neglects to mention that the US is also trying to force Iran to abandon its attemps at hegemony and its support for terrorism and to get it to withdraw from Syria. Why Israel’s intelligence community is not on board is a mystery to me.

U.S. may be trying to force Tehran into reopening the nuclear deal, or affect regime change. Either way, the pressure is leading Iran to make grave mistakes in Europe

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

A protester sets fire to the American flag during a demonstration on the anniversary of the U.S. embassy seizure, in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2018.Bloomberg

The imposition of the second wave of American sanctions against Iran, following Washington’s exit from the multilateral nuclear agreement with Tehran, has led to smiles in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hastened – and quite rightly – to claim credit for the Trump administration’s move. The final outcome from the escalation of the pressure on Iran is still a ways off, but it’s hard to deny the claim that Netanyahu is the one who pushed Trump in that direction, especially as he did it despite a contrary view in much of the Israeli intelligence community.
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Burying the Other Russia Story

The Editorial Board  Wall Street JournalNov. 9, 2018 

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T. Belman. Can anyone advise of the following:
Is there an approved voters list?
How is a ballot identied as belonging to a certain person on the list?
Are dead people removed from the list or is there a problem here?
What is to stop someone from using unused ballots to stuff the ballot boxes with fraudulent votes?

Breaking: Broward County Employee Signs Affidavit Admitting Seeing Elections Staff Filling Out Blank Ballots!

By Carl Rove, FOX NEWS

Local Democratic officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties in Florida are recklessly violating state law in what may be an attempt to overturn the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections for governor and the U.S. Senate in the Sunshine State.

This looks like a repeat of the actions in Florida in the 2000 presidential election, when Democratic officials ignored state election laws – and were slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision.

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda C. Snipes said Tuesday night that 634,000 votes had been cast in the county. But by Thursday night, Snipes was claiming 712,840 ballots had been cast.
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J Street National Post-Election Survey
BY GBA Strategies https://jstreet
org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/J-Street-Post-Elect-Topline-Results-110818
pdf
November 6, 2018
1,139 Jewish Voters
236 Oversample of Voters Aged 18-34 (130 Online, 106 Phone) Full sample
weighted to be representative by age
All results show 903 weighted interviews

Q 11 Below is a list of issues facing our country today Please mark which
TWO of these issues were the most important for you in deciding your vote
for Congress today
Total
Health care  43
Gun violence  28
Social Security and Medicare 21
The economy  19
Immigration  18
The environment 14
Taxes  11
Education 8
The deficit and government spending 8
The Supreme Court  8
ISIS and terrorism 7
Israel  4
Russia  3
Iran  1
Other  8
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How have we let things go so wrong for Canada’s roughest neighbourhood?

Marcus Gee, GLOBE AND MAIL

Trey Helten, frontline worker for the Overdose Prevention Society, opens the door for a user at the facility on East Hastings Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

It’s just another day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

A young man sits on the wet sidewalk, his legs spread wide, sucking the smoke from a burning fragment of dope with a plastic tube. A man with lank black hair is slumped against a wall, bent over double like a limp marionette, his dangling arm twitching at his side. A woman in skinny jeans, leaning on a storefront, pulls the plunger of a syringe carefully up and down, getting ready to give herself a hit. An open package of dainty cookies lies by her side.

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Virginia Hale, BRIETBART

A majority of Germans say the level of mass migration has left them feeling “like a stranger in their own country”, according to a new study.

Presented as part of this year’s Leipzig University research into “authoritarian” attitudes in the country, the figure showed a rise of 12 points since the Competence Center for Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy Research tested Germans on the same questions in 2014, with 56 per cent of Germans expressing the sentiment in 2018.
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By James Lewis, AMERICAN THINKER

Flags outside the headquarters of the European Commission in BrusselsPhoto credit: Sébastien Bertrand

This guy Donald Trump has amazing physical staying power. Right after his end-sprint in the Midterms, which ended pretty well, and only pausing for a White House presser to deliver a kick to Jim Acosta, Donald Trump is in Europe, where the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day is being memorialized on Sunday.

In case you forgot, Armistice Day is the day the guns stopped firing in the trenches in World War I, after the United States sent in our first huge expeditionary force to tilt the balance against the Central Powers, including the German Empire, as Bismarck had rebranded Prussia in 1848, and the other German Empire of the time, called the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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As part of Egypt-mediated talks, Jerusalem is demanding the crossing be monitored by security forces and international inspectors, according to a Lebanese report

TOI

Israel and Qatar have reportedly agreed to establish a sea crossing between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip as part of Egyptian-mediated talks aimed at reaching a deal between Israel and Hamas, which rules the Palestinian enclave.

The Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported that Israel is demanding that the crossing be monitored physically by international inspectors as well as Israeli security forces. Hamas, a terror organization committed to Israel’s destruction, is reportedly insisting that the crossing be under video surveillance while agreeing to international forces.
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