Economic cooperation of China with the countries of the region is progressing very successfully.

By Seymur Mammadove, JPOST

China is turning into an increasingly active player in the Middle East, entering the competition for influence in the region with both the United States and Russia. While Beijing views the Middle East region from the perspective of economic interests, Moscow and Washington view it from the perspective of geopolitical interests.
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Shoshana Bryen • October 31, 2018 • The Washington Times

Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo: AP)

OBSERVE WHY NIKKY HALEY CALLED HIM “A HIDDEN GENIUS”

DISCUSSION ON M.E. STARTS AT 17:00

Boeing is competing for a Defense Ministry tender which could result in billions of dollars flying into Israel’s economy throughout the next decade.

By Eytan Halon, JPOST

Aerospace giant Boeing could invest billions of dollars in Israel’s economy in the next decade after signing a reciprocal spending agreement with the Ministry of Economy, the government announced Tuesday.

Boeing, which is currently competing for a Defense Ministry tender worth an estimated $10 billion over the next decade, has agreed to collaborate with Israeli industry to the value of at least 35% of all government deals exceeding $1 million.
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Copenhagen recalled its ambassador to Tehran after Israel alerted it to a plan to kill Iranian opposition figures in the Scandinavian country, officials say

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI

The Mossad intelligence service provided its Danish counterpart with information concerning an alleged plot by Tehran to assassinate three Iranian opposition figures living in the Scandinavian country, Israeli officials said Wednesday.

The information about Israel’s involvement in the thwarting of the plot was first released to a small number of journalists by a “senior official,” but was later confirmed by others.

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T. Belman. Very distressing to learn just how pervasive antisemitism is.

Perhaps my readers might comment on the factors that influence the different percentages between the east, the west and the north.

Pew surveys of 56,000 adults in 34 nations find Western Europeans more willing to have Jewish family members, neighbors than in East; divide in acceptance of Muslims even greater

By TOI STAFF

Eastern Europeans are far less willing to have Jews in their families or as their neighbors than their Western European counterparts, a gap that is even more pronounced when it comes to attitudes toward Muslims.

According to an analysis of a series of surveys by the Pew Research Center carried out from 2015 to 2017 among some 56,000 adults in 34 European countries, the gap between Europe’s two halves is significant.

The figures are also largely unchanged among young adults, aged 18-34, suggesting that current attitudes are likely to remain constant for the foreseeable future.
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T. Belman. If you want to know if a person is Jewish, look at the religion of his grandkids. Trump has 3 Jewish grandkids by Ivanka and 5 almost Jewish grandkids by Vanessa who is half Jewish. ( I don’t know what half but presume her father was Jewish

Not only did Pres Trump vist Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue and hospital to honour the victims but Jared and Ivanka and Amb Ron Dermer accompanied them. Not only were they representing the US but they were also there in their personal capacity as Jews. I am very impressed.

By Marc A. Scaringi, AMERICAN THINKER

The American people should be proud of their president. In the wake of the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, President Trump spoke out in the most forceful condemnation of anti-Semitism ever uttered by an American president.

While former president Barack Obama nonsensically chose to the blame the lawfully possessed firearm used in the crime, as if the gun fired itself, Trump put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the evil ideology and man who pulled the trigger while shouting, “Kill all the Jews!”

In a speech in Murphysboro, Illinois, Trump declared,

“We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism, vanquish the forces of hate … Through the centuries, the Jews have endured terrible persecution…Those seeking [the Jewish people’s] destruction, we will seek their destruction.”

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Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle East refugee problem. But only Israel lived up to its end of the deal.

By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

Kobby Barda couldn’t believe what he was seeing. While researching the establishment of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee under the auspices of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa, Barda found his way to the personal archive of one Isaiah Leo “Si” Kenen, a Canadian-born lawyer, journalist and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the pro-Israel lobby.
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By Christina Laila, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Legendary Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was killed in prison overnight on Tuesday.

89-year-old Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was killed in prison by a ‘fellow inmate with mafia ties’ shortly after he was transferred to a West Virginia federal prison.

Bulger was reportedly wheeled away from security cameras and beaten with a lock in a sock and also had his eyes gouged out.

Sources told The Daily Mail that Whitey Bulger was about to out people in the FBI, specifically FBI officials of the informant program.
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America is safer and the world functions better when America is engaged throughout the world.

By Dr Eric R Mandel, JPOST

Every time America tries to pivot its foreign policy toward China and the Far East, the Middle East comes calling. If policy makers in Washington think it’s a binary choice between the challenges of China and North Korea vs. the recurring malignant variants of Shi’ite and Sunni Islamism undermining our national security interests, they are sadly mistaken.

America is safer and the world functions better when America is engaged throughout the world, leading from strength and not from behind. Those who equate engagement with only military action mislead the conversation, as military strength leverages diplomacy, economic sanctions and other tools.

Predicting what’s next in the Middle East is a slippery slope. Who would have predicted the Khashoggi debacle or the 2011 Arab Winter? Yet, it is still imperative for the United States to invest the time and resources to analyze the likely possibilities of what’s coming next to create flexible strategies.
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T. Belman. “Weak”? For sure. “Untrustworthy”? Absolutely. “Irreplaceable”? Nonsense.

King Abdullah of Jordan Needs to Abdicate written by me and published by American Thinker, among others, makes the case for why he is not an ally and why Mudar Zahran can and should replace him.

By Caroline Glick, BREITBART

It is an open secret, seldom discussed, that the regime of King Abdullah II of Jordan is extraordinarily weak.

He is viewed in the U.S. as a close ally, whose counsel is sought by senior officials and foreign policy practitioners. But more than an ally, Abdullah is a dependent. Without the U.S. — and to a similar degree, without Israel — the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan would not long survive.

The weakness of the Kingdom has two sources. First, Jordan is poor. It lacks natural resources, and due to the regime’s failure to liberalize the economy or reform the legal system in order to cultivate economic growth and productivity, there are few opportunities for private advancement. The average Jordanian lives in poverty. Per capita income in Jordan is $3,238 per year.
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By Douglas Murray, SPECTATOR

Should you be allowed to say that the founder of one of the world’s largest religions was a paedophile? According to the European Court of Human Rights the answer is ‘no’. In a decision issued this week the Court in Strasbourg ruled that this statement is defamatory towards the prophet of Islam, ‘goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate’ and ‘could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace.’ Details of the long-running case can be read here.
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T. Belman. Arens says we can handle Iran without Saudi Arabia so we shouldn’t compromise our principles and enleague with them. Perhaps. But if we are to embrace them why not demand a mutual embrace. We must insist that they recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and accept our eastern border as the Jordan River.

Israel and the United States can tackle the Iran issue alone; nothing can justify the recent revelations in the murder of journalist and MBS critic Jamal Khashoggi, which show how things are truly done in Saudi Arabia

By Moshe Arens , HAARETZ

When choosing allies for opposition to a common enemy, balancing interests against values is a perfectly legitimate issue that governments occasionally face. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt chose to be allied with Stalin’s brutal communist dictatorship in the war against Germany. Without the participation of the Soviet Army, they would have faced an impossible task. National interests trumped stark ideological differences, and rightly so.
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Netanyahu says incoming president, who has disparaged women, gays and blacks, but also vowed to move his embassy to Jerusalem, will lead to ‘great friendship between our nations’

By Raphael Ahren, TOI

A supporter of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, holds an oversized, fake rifle, as she celebrates the election runoff results in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 28, 2018 (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Israeli leaders on Monday welcomed the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a controversial hardliner, as new president of Brazil, hailing his bona fide pro-Israel credentials.

“I am certain that your election will lead to a great friendship between our nations and to a strengthening of Israel-Brazil ties,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Bolsonaro during a congratulatory phone call, according to a readout his office on Monday evening.

“Looking forward to your visit in Israel,” he added, referring to the far-right politician’s pledge to come to Israel on his foreign trip as president.
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The horrible reality is that we are in fact negotiating with a terrorist entity while our own military acts as though Hamas represents an equal, mutual deterrent.

BY ISI LEIBLER, JPOST

All of us abhor military confrontation or war, which inevitably leads to casualties.

Today Israel faces a major threat from Hamas in the south; Iran and Hezbollah could become involved if we go for the military option.

I am not privy to military strategy or intelligence and neither am I aware of what other diplomatic elements are in play which may inhibit us from acting.

The Jewish state was created as a haven for the Jewish people who were powerless in the face of persecution in their countries of birth. Israel has developed as a serious military power and has the obligation to provide security to all its citizens. Yet it has failed to do so for months and effectively neglected those residents in the South who feel like helpless refugees in their own country. Such inaction would not have been tolerated if the target had been Tel Aviv rather than Sderot.
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Don’t Insult Me As a Rabbi by Blaming Your Political Enemies for Some Dirtbag Jew-Hater  

By Dov Fischer, AMERICAN SPECTATOR

Here we go again: “It’s all Trump’s fault.”

Do you remember the Democrats and the CNN crowd rushing to blame Saudi Arabia for the 9-11 attack on the Twin Towers? Or to blame Islam? I don’t. There were 19 murderers on 9-11, and 15 of them came from Saudi Arabia. The others also were Muslims. And all we hear — from Obama and George W. Bush on down — is that Islam is a “religion of peace,” so don’t blame Islam. Obama tells us that ISIS “is not Islamic.” Instead, we were told after 9-11, the “Saudis are our friends.” They, their Wahhabi Islam, the hundreds of anti-Christian madrassas they have built throughout the United States, the $10 billion they have poured into Western colleges and universities, the hundreds of millions they have thrown at American universities to buy off entire Middle East Studies departments and to teach anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and anti-Judaism to young people on our soil. And yet we repeatedly get fed the mantra about “our friends the Saudis.”
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