T. Belman. Not to worry. GOP won’t lose the House and Trump will crush the pipsqueak.

A top Israeli official revealed that Jerusalem believes Macron will release his plan for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement if Trump does not produce his long-awaited deal-of-the-century plan within a few weeks.

By The Algemeiner

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official told a Knesset committee earlier this week that if U.S. President Donald Trump did not present an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan within a few weeks after the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm elections, French President Emmanuel Macron would likely unveil a diplomatic initiative of his own, Channel 10reported on Tuesday.

Alon Ushpiz, the Foreign Ministry’s director of diplomacy, also revealed that Israel was not aware of the details of Trump’s long-awaited proposal.
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Although this video is is a little over one hour in length, I believe you will want to watch it til the end. The talk was delivered in April 2016,

Our brothers, the liberal Jews in the United States, are in the eye of the storm and take a most visible position in the campaign against President Trump and the conservatives.

By Oded Tira, JPOST

Our brothers, the liberal Jews in the United States, are among those who want to revive the socialist revolution. Many of them are hardcore about globalism.

As a result, they worked tirelessly to eliminate the candidacy of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. This is in contrast with the conservative positions of the American Right, a supporter of capitalism, patriotism and the right of every state to govern itself.

Our brothers, the liberal Jews in the United States, are in the eye of the storm and take a most visible position in the campaign against President Trump and the conservatives.
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T. Belman. To my mind, American liberal Jews should be taught what makes the right in Israel tick. They don’t have to agree with us but must understand that liberalism doesn’t work in the ME. They must understand that a strong national identity is our most important defense asset. The more American Jews embrace their Jewish identity the closer will our communities become.

Secondly they must learn that Trump is their friend not their enemy. In so many ways his policies are good for them, (e.g.,lower taxes, higher stock market, more law and order, less antisemitism to name a few), yet they are at the forefront of attempts to destroy him. They must learn to support Trump because he is the biggest defender Israel has ever had

The initiative comes at a time when the Reform movement, along with the Conservative movement, has deep disagreements with the current Israeli government over state recognition for the progressive Jewish denominations, Jewish conversion, and prayer rights at the Western Wall.

By Jeremy Sharon, JPOST

•  Reform movement affirms its zionist core
•  Reform congregation wins right to build synagogue in central Israeli city

Reform Movement prayer service at the Western Wall . (photo credit: Y.R)

The Reform movement in the US will be ramping up education about, and engagement with, Israel, as well as increasing its support for Reform communities in the country, as part of a strategic initiative to strengthen the identification of Reform Jews in North America with the Jewish state.

The initiative comes at a time when the Reform movement, along with the Conservative movement, has deep disagreements with the current Israeli government over state recognition for the progressive Jewish denominations, Jewish conversion, and prayer rights at the Western Wall.
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Moderate Muslims belong to four main categories: the non-practicing, the textual cherry-pickers, the impostors, and the brave.

By Raphael Castro, INN

The response of moderate Muslims in the face of atrocities committed in the name of Islam has been underwhelming. Whereas hundreds of thousands of Muslims readily rally against American or Israeli actions, demonstrations to protest jihadism have drawn far smaller crowds in European and American cities.

This apathy has given rise to voices accusing Muslims of sympathy towards jihadism. This is untrue. A strong majority of Muslims revile the goals and methods of Islamic extremists around the world. Since the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful and law-abiding, the dissonance between individual peacefulness and collective lack of mobilization against jihadism needs to be explained. Light must therefore be shed on the attitudes and outlook of moderate Muslims.
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Arbitrary Arrests, Torture Systematic

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

(Ramallah) – The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas authorities in Gaza routinely arrest and torture peaceful critics and opponents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. As the Palestinian Authority-Hamas feud has deepened, each has targeted the other’s supporters.
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After Egypt, Libya and Syria, will we stop falling for the same lies?

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

In 2014, Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post’s Tehran Bureau Chief, was arrested and spent two years in prison. Iran kept him in one of its worst prisons, he slept on a damp concrete floor, was denied medical treatment, experienced hallucinations due to sleep deprivation and was abused by his captors. His wife was told that her legs would be cut off and her husband would be thrown off a cliff if she didn’t confess.

While Jamal Khashoggi has often been misidentified as a Washington Post journalist, all he did for the radical leftist paper owned by Amazon’s CEO is write editorials promoting the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. The Muslim Brotherhood leader and former Bin Laden pal was never a journalist. The closest he came to it was acting as a terrorist propagandist in Afghanistan, glamorizing Osama bin Laden, on behalf of a man listed by the Treasury Department as one of “the world’s foremost terrorist financiers.”
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By Hugo Schmidt-Fischer

You may want to study the treatise “Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” It is only meant as a rhetoric question, the answer according to the UN is a resounding yes, and the migratory streams, everything you are witnessing today it is all detailed in that little piece of work.

This was written in 1999, and issued around 2000 courtesy of the office of Mr. Joseph Chamie, Director, Population Division, United Nations, New York 10017, USA.

Truth is, the forerunners of the EU were already working hard on generating mass migrations starting with the late 1970s oil shock. The former EC (European Community) thereupon constituted the Euro-Arab Dialogue. It later culminated in the Barcelona Declaration of 1995 and the subsequent creation of the Union for the Mediterranean which cemented the earlier 1980s agreements to allow Arab mass migration into Europe.
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Ted Belman. I attended this 4.5 hour conference and found all the talks very informative and interesting.

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By Ted Belman

In response to this query by Prof Paul Eidelberg,

I would deeply appreciate your thoughts about the invasion of migrants into the USA?
What can be done to diminish this enormous NATION-DESTROYING problem?

I replied:

My first thought was that the upcoming invasion bore many similarities to the attempted invasion of Israel by Gazans. Israel responded with a policy of zero tolerance.
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A confederation of the West Bank and Jordan is once again under discussion. Is it such a bad idea?

By Shmuel Rosner, NYT

Cancellation Move Diverts Attention Away from Protests Against His Regime
AP Story is incomplete and amounts to “Fake News”

(Amman) – In reaction to the King of Jordan’s announcement regarding the cancellation of annexation agreement between Jordan and Israel, the Jordanian Opposition Coalition (JOC) announced its commitment to peace with Israel, and continued support for the agreement and called the King a Liar.

“The JOC will uphold the agreement after it achieves its goal of regime change,” Dr. Mudar Zahran, Secretary General of the JOC said. “We hold sovereignty near and dear and appreciate the parts of the agreement that enforce Jordan’s sovereignty over the areas leased to Israel”.

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Millennial Evangelicals are not as automatically supportive of Israel as their parents’ generation was. Evangelical groups are taking action – some trying to secure young Evangelicals’ love of the Jewish state, others to get them to learn about Palestinians

Western intel revelations regarding Iranian, Hezbollah activities vindicate Netanyahu’s claim Iran building arsenal inside of Lebanon.

By Yochanan Visser, INN

On Saturday, news broke that Western intelligence sources believe Iran is stepping up its efforts to deliver sophisticated weaponry, including GPS systems meant to turn unguided rockets into high-precision missiles, to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

FOX News reported that a Boeing 747 civilian airplane of the Iranian carrier Fars Air Qeshm made an unusual stop in Beirut after flying to Damascus International Airport as flight QFZ9950.
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By Judi McLeod, CFP

It’s late in the day and a loud and ugly mob mentality is utterly dominating midterm elections.

The Protest that was the legacy of ex-President Barack Obama is no longer out in the town park or on the street, it has moved into the restaurants where average people stop for a bite to eat, the gas station where they go to fill up and in other once safe and public spaces.

A phrase that has become a mark of our time: “It’s getting crazier and more dangerous out there by day!”
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