By Frances Martel, BREITBART

Ahmet Hakan, a Turkish journalist with a history of criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published a column Friday claiming that one of his reputable sources called reports that missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dead “garbage” and that he is still alive.

Hakan also claimed to receive gruesome pictures of hacked body parts this week from sources who claimed the remains belonged to Khashoggi, but he did not offer proof identifying the remains.
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By Ted Belman

It’s been a year now since I last asked for donations to support our agenda which includes:

1. First and foremost, The Jordan Option.

2. advocating for no more land for peace, Israel sovereignty to the Jordan River, the supremacy of the elected Knesset over the unelected Court, incentivizing Arab emigration and for American recognition of Israel sovereignty over the Golan Heigths.

3. advocating for rejection of the Palestinian narrative and the Palestinian Authority,

4. ending UNRWA

5. supporting the Trump agenda in the Middle East

6. advocating for Kurdish independence

If this is your agenda or close to it, please donate to help us make a difference. Be our partner, not a bystander. I know we can count on your generous support.

DONATE or send a check made payable to Ted Belman at Dan #25, Jerusalem, 93509, ISRAEL and include your email address.

Chelsea Football Club spearheads the way for fighting discrimination and antisemitism on the soccer pitch.

By Tamar Beeri, JPOST

The Chelsea Football Club training grounds were alive on Wednesday in preparation for the big game against Manchester United, but that was not the only thing haunting the minds of those in the facility.

The team were recently introduced to Holocaust survivor Harry Spiro, who chillingly recollected his experiences in Auschwitz, a concentration camp located in present-day Poland, within which the Nazis had murdered over a million innocent people, most of them due to their Jewish lineage.
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T. Belman. Who’s running the country? The eletist Court or the elected Knesset? The leftist elite or the people?

‘A disgrace, Supreme Court decision was a huge victory for BDS’

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri joins other ministers and MKs in outrage after High Court rules BDS advocate be allowed to stay in Israel.

Lara Alqasem in Supreme Court, REUTERS

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri slammed the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday permitting BDS activist Lara Alqasem to study in Hebrew University.

“The decision to leave the student who openly acts against the State of Israel in Israel is shameful,” said Deri. “Where is our national honor, even in the US, would it dare to act against the state and demand that we stay and study there? I will examine how to prevent such a recurrence. ”
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http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=28797

INN – Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born writer who was allegedly murdered on the orders of the Saudi government in Istanbul last week, has been the subject of much concern in the mainstream media since his disappearance.

However, Khashoggi was far from a liberal journalist, writes Jordan Schachtel of Conservative Review.

Schachtel stated that Khashoggi, who wrote for the Washington Post’s serious bloodlust when it came to violence against the state of Israel Global Opinions section, was an Islamist extremist who displayed a “serious bloodlust when it came to violence against the state of Israel” and was connected to terrorist organizations.
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WOW. This is a much bigger problem than I imagined.

By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH PRESS

More than half of the forests in the western Negev are now gone, burned down over the past six months by the Hamas terrorist organization in its arson terror campaign, according to a report prepared by the Jewish National Fund. The report summarizes the impact of the past six months of terror by the Arabs of Gaza.

According to KKL-JNF (Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund), since the beginning of the kite and balloon terror campaign (25 Nissan), more than 1,100 fires were recorded in KKL-JNF forests alone.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

The State Dept. is planning to merge its long-serving consulate in eastern Jerusalem with the newly created US embassy in the western part of the Israeli capital, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday. This step is viewed as yet another slap in the face of the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, since the consulate has been serving Arabs from Judea and Samaria and from the eastern part of the city for decades.

The announcement also does away, for all intents and purposes, with the idea that President Trump was planning to turn the consulate into a US embassy in a new Palestinian State whose capital would be eastern Jerusalem.
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The birth rate in the U.S. has fallen to a all-time record low

Most ordinary people don’t give too much thought to population issues, but for the elite this is like a religion.<

By Michael Snyder – End Of The American Dream –

The elite have worked very hard to slow down birth rates all over the world, and their efforts appear to be working. 

Just as we have witnessed in so many other countries, the birth rate in the United States continues to fall.  In fact, it just plunged to yet another new all-time record low.  So why would the elite want this to happen?  Well, they believe that climate change is the greatest threat that our planet is facing, and they also believe that humans are the primary driver of climate change, and so they are convinced that if they can get people to have fewer babies they are actually “saving the world”.  And according to the most recent CDC numbers, they have made a tremendous amount of progress in accomplishing that mission…
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By Caroline Glick, BTEITBART

Jewish Democrats have long taken pride in the high number of American Jews serving as Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Given that the Jewish community in the United States constitutes less than two percent of the general population, the fact that nearly two dozen American Jews serve in the House and Senate is a legitimate source of pride, regardless of party.

For the past fifity years, Democratic Jewish lawmakers like Representatives Tom Lantos, Howard Berman, Steven Solarz, Shelley Berkley, Jane Harman, Nita Lowy and Elliot Engel; and Senators like Joe Lieberman and Frank Lautenberg; played key roles in forging and maintaining their party’s strong support for Israel and the U.S.-Israel alliance.
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T. Belman. Currently, it is an embarassment for Israel that they haven’t been able to stop the attacks but at least no Jews have been killed so far. If Israel decided to fully invade and retake Gaza, many IDF soldiers would die and continue to die as the new occupation continued. It doesn’t seem worth it. We would be trading a bad situation for a worse one. Perhaps its time to start assassinating the leaders of Hamas whether they be in Gaza or elsewhere.

Both Israel and Hamas wanted quiet, they simply couldn’t agree on the terms for such a cessation of hostilities, settling instead of a series of minimal understandings.

BY TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sounds strong when he talks about a Gaza “military operation” and dealing Hamas “the harshest of blows.”

His words stoke the fantasy that Hamas violence, such as rockets and incendiary devices, would disappear if only the IDF would unleash its full military powers.

The Palestinian launch of two powerful rockets Wednesday morning – one that hit a home in the southern city of Beersheba and one that landed near the coast in the center of the country – almost seemed to be a way of egging Liberman on.
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T. Belman. The idea is to build a power plan and a desalination plant near Al Arish which is about 25 miles from Gaza. These facilities would be build by Sinai Bedouin and Gazans and would benefit Gaza. Hamas would benefit by finding a way to tax the earnings of the Gazans. There is no plan to allow Gazans to emigrate. I am for emigration not rebuilding.

Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira and Shlomi Fogel, JCPA

The withdrawal of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from the peace process, his actions against the Hamas leadership, the worsening of the economic situation in Gaza to the point of a humanitarian crisis, the escalation of military confrontation at the Gaza border, and the possibility of a descent into war have created a new crisis situation in Gaza. A new response is required that is different from what already exists. It should be based upon a new paradigm that is primarily supported by an element external to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but which has a direct and decisive influence upon it.
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T. Belman. Trump and Kushner have too much invested in MBS to let him go down.  So does Israel. The Deal of the Century depends on him.  Khashoggi was against any form of rapprochment and knew secrets that could undermine MBS. He was too dangerous to have around.

Khashoggi was opponent of Israeli-Saudi ties, said J’lem won’t protect region from Iran

By Seth Frantzman, JPOST

The missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an outspoken opponent of rumors that Saudi Arabia was considering increased ties with Israel. His disappearance while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul may now result in a reduction of Washington’s support for Riyadh and have repercussions that affect Jerusalem.
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The grisly hit-job on Khashoggi has implications far beyond its exposure of the Saudi Crown Prince as brutal and reckless. In Jerusalem and D.C., they’re mourning their whole strategic concept for the Mideast – not least, for countering Iran

By Daniel Shapiro, HAARETZ

The shocking brutality of Jamal Khashoggi’s abduction and murder by Saudi security forces cannot be papered over, no matter how implausibly it is dressed up as an interrogation gone wrong or the work of rogue actors.

But its implications go deeper than the tragedy visited upon Khashoggi’s family and fiancee. It raises fundamental questions for the United States and Israel about their whole strategic concept in the Middle East.
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Military doesn’t say which terror group launched rockets that hit Beersheba home, landed off central Israeli coast, but lays responsibility on Strip’s rulers

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI

The Israeli military bombed 20 “military facilities” in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, the army said, in response to a predawn rocket attack that struck a home in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, causing damage but no injury.

A second rocket fired from Gaza landed off the coast of the greater Tel Aviv area, known in Israel as Gush Dan, which consists of the metropolis itself along with a number of large suburbs.
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T. Belman. The divide betweem American Jews and Israelis is too large to bridge. They support the two state solution, most Israelis don’t. They support the Iran deal, Israelis don’t. They support Muslim immigration, Israelis don’t. They reject Trump. Israelis love him.

Seventy-four percent of respondents plan to vote for Democrats for Congress in Nov.

Washington, DC – A new poll finds that 75 percent of American Jews disapprove of President Donald Trump, and that 74 percent plan on voting for Democratic candidates for Congress this fall. The survey was conducted by the Mellman Group on behalf of the Jewish Electoral Institute (JEI). The poll of 800 American Jewish voters confirms that American Jews remain firmly within the Democratic fold.

JEI is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization focused on deepening public’s understanding of the American Jewish electorate. This new organization is providing the public with information regarding the American Jewish electorate and leading a national, non-partisan Get Out The Jewish Vote effort.
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