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Jordanian King to U.S. Jewish Leaders: I Have No Idea What’s in Trump’s Peace Plan  

Abdullah says reports that Arab states support the White House plan are premature as they don’t know what plan will include

By Amir Tibon, HAARETZ

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, speaks as King Abdullah II of Jordan, listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on, June 25, 2018.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, speaks as King Abdullah II of Jordan, listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on, June 25, 2018.Bloomberg

WASHINGTON – Jordanian King Abdullah told leaders of Jewish American organizations on Friday that he has “no idea” what is included in the Trump administration’s plan for Middle East peace.
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September 25, 2018 | 1:03 pm | 4 Comments »

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Abbas said planning UN event aimed at thwarting Trump’s peace plan  

Israel working to undermine meeting on sidelines of General Assembly that will include envoys from over 40 states and international groups, Channel 10 reports

By TOI STAFF 24 September 2018,

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will host a conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week to review ways to torpedo the Trump administration’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, Israeli television reported Monday.

The meeting, which Channel 10 said will be held Wednesday, comes in the wake of a series of financial and diplomatic sanctions the United States has enacted against the Palestinians, who it accuses of rebuffing its peace efforts.
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September 25, 2018 | 4:01 am | 1 Comment »

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Emergency Report: Trump planning mass arrests, military tribunals for deep state traitors  

T. Belman. This post came from INFOWARS. You may think it is over the top or that its about time. I posted it to enable you to make that choice.

Comey, McCabe, Clinton and Obama in the administration’s crosshairs

By Mike Adams | Natural News – SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As the documents cited here clearly show, President Trump is planning to carry out mass arrests of deep state traitors, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey and even Barack Obama.

This is fully covered, with accompanying documentation from the U.S. Federal Register, in the links and video below. (This author is fully supportive of this effort to save America and arrest the traitors.)

The confirmation of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the key to getting this done in a timely manner, which explains why the deranged Left is going to such outrageous extremes to fabricate false allegations against Kavanaugh and stage coordinated, well-funded protests to try to block the U.S. Senate from confirming him.
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September 25, 2018 | 3:05 am | 6 Comments »

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New Yorker: Brett Kavanaugh (allegedly) Exposed Himself at Freshman Party; Kavanaugh Denies  

T. Belman. Grassly set Friday 10:00 AM as the last opportunity for Ford to testify. I don’t know if the latest accusation will be considered.

Multiple Witnesses and Friends Contradict New Kavanaugh Accuser

By Joel Pollak, BREITBART

In this Sept. 6, 2018, file photo, after more than an hour of delay over procedural questions, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Christine Blasey Ford, the â?¦

The New Yorker reported a new accusation Sunday evening against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: that as a college freshman at Yale University, a drunken Kavanaugh “exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party,” and that when she tried to push him away in her drunken condition she accidently touched his penis.

The article, by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, comes hours after Christine Balsey Ford agreed to testify Thursday about an allegation that Kavanaugh groped her in high school.
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September 24, 2018 | 4:15 pm | 8 Comments »

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Amid crisis in Russia ties, lawmakers urge greater US involvement in Syria  

‘Netanyahu takes pride in his relationship with Putin, but the Russian leader is much less romantic,’ warns Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah

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In this file photo taken on Saturday, March 4, 2017, the Russian Il-20 electronic intelligence plane of the Russian air force with the registration number RF 93610, which was accidentally downed by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli air strike, flies near Kubinka airport, outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Marina Lystseva)

Opposition chief Tzipi Livni and Yesh Atid lawmaker Ofer Shelah on Sunday called for greater American involvement in Syria amid a burgeoning dispute between Israel and Russia over the downing of a Russia spy plane by Syrian anti-aircraft missile fire over Syria last week.

Blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allegedly pursuing only limited “tactical” coordination with Russia over Syria, the lawmakers urged the government to work to bring the US more actively into the Syrian arena in order to better contain Iran’s military entrenchment in the country.
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September 24, 2018 | 3:56 pm | Comments »

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PM Netanyahu may help Trump preside over UN Security Council session  

Israeli and American delegations to the United Nations examine the possibility of Netanyahu helping the American president chair Wednesday’s meeting, during which Trump is expected to discuss increasing pressure on Iran over its regional belligerence.

By Ariel Kahana and Israel Hayom Staff

Israeli and American delegations to the United Nations have in recent days examined the possibility of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helping U.S. President Donald Trump chair a meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday.

Netanyahu is expected to depart Monday for the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York.

He is scheduled to arrive in New York on Tuesday, the day Trump is scheduled to address the forum, marking the start of the General Debate, a several-day event in which leaders of member states take the podium to discuss a range of global issues.
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September 24, 2018 | 3:37 pm | Comments »

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A slice of Sunni revenge for Syria  

By Elad Black, ISRAEL HAYOM

The tendency to view Iran as a homogeneous national-religious-social entity is mistaken. Similar to other countries in the Middle East, Iran is a colorful tapestry of ethnic groups. Although the majority group within the population of around 82 million is Persian (61%), there are also Azerbaijanis in the north? Kurds in the West; Lurs, Turkmen and the Baloch tribe on the eastern border with Pakistan; and the Arabs – mostly Sunnis –situated in the Khuzestan Province in the southwest, adjacent to the border with Iraq, whose capital Ahvaz was the scene of Saturday’s large-scale, deadly shooting attack at a military parade marking the 38th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq War.
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September 24, 2018 | 3:31 pm | Comments »

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INTO THE FRAY The rumored “ultimate deal”: Potential payoffs and possible pitfalls.  

T. Belman. Martin’s point is that the “ultimate deal” must include incentivised emigration. I agree.

In my article Trump’s Deal of the Century, I made no mention of this as I considered it to be the second stage of the process. First things first, namely end the Oslo Accords, UNRWA and the “peace process”. And finally destroy the Palestinian narrative. I did not want to jeopardize those very significant gains by suggesting that incentivised emigration must be part of the first deal.

Nevertheless the first deal as described by me includes a Jordanian initiative to incentivize emigration of Palestinians by providing free housing and jobs as the incentives. Also there is nothing to prevent Israel or others from providing further incentives.

I made it clear that the first deal, (Deal of the Century), includes Israel sovereignty west of the Jordan River. Pursuant to that sovereignty, Israel would appoint administrators of the former Area A namely a friendly Jordan. It is understood, though not mentioned, that Jordan would amend the text books and cirriculae for all students under its care to one acceptable to Israel. Jordan would be no more than the agent of Israel while admistering Area A and in no way autonomous.

By Martin Sherman

The potential impermanence of the positive measures already undertaken by the Trump team should not be the only reason for Israeli concern over the brewing “ultimate deal”

…we will not put forth a plan or endorse a plan that doesn’t meet all of Israel’s security issues because they are of extreme importance to us—Jason GreenblattAssistant to the President & special representative for international negotiations, JNS, September 12, 2018.

…To defend itself Israel must retain control over the Jordan valley…[A]ny future arrangement must include Israeli control of the mountain ridge and a demilitarized Palestinian state…[T]o defend itself Israel must control the airspace over the West Bank—Israel’s Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 25, 2010.

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September 24, 2018 | 1:38 am | 9 Comments »

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Elie Wiesel Interviews Felix Kersten, 1959, and learns more about Rudolf Kastner  

T. Belman. Ben Hecht, a very successful Hollywood script writer in the first half of the  nineteenth century wrote the riviting book Perfida in which he covered the trial of Rudolf Kastner by Israel in the early fifties. 

In the forties, Hecht was very active together with Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson) in the campaign to save the Jews of Europe. Their story was covered in another riviting book titled “A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust” by David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff.

By Elie Weisel, Yediot Achronot, 

September 4, 1959
[…] At this point our extremely lengthy discussion essentially came to a close. At the end of this conversation I became very tired. Whenever I go back to those days and nights, I feel that part of myself remained there. I arose and extended my hand – and then I suddenly remembered a question:“Did you hear the name Rudolf Kasztner? ”I was sure that he would answer negatively and was already prepared to explain to him everything behind this name, when to my total surprise he replied:“I did.”“When?” I asked. “Now – post-war?”“Yes, also post-war. I heard he had problems in Israel.”He doesn’t know – I thought – that Kasztner is dead.
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September 23, 2018 | 4:45 am | 15 Comments »

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A Matter of Humanity  

By Tabitha Korol

The anti-American, anti-Semitic activist jihada, Linda Sarsour, was a scheduled speaker at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), in Houston, Texas.  Last year, she called for jihad against President Trump and this year, she warns her “sisters and brothers” to avoid the trap of “humanizing” the Jews.

Born and raised in a shame-honor culture by “Palestinian” parents who made hijra to Brooklyn, New York, her messages, unsurprisingly, are directed against America and Israel.  Regarding the former, her words, “it is not our job to assimilate,” received applause from the audience.  Regarding the latter, she insists that only extermination will suffice. Her diatribe was designed to shame the attendees into vigorously supporting the Palestinian cause for the total destruction and Islamic replacement of Israel.  Any dialogue is discredited as an indication of weakness and perfidy towards Allah.  Islamic ideology specifies that holy war is a religious duty because of the universalism of the Muslim Mission and their obligation to convert everybody to Islam by either persuasion or force.  Sarsour’s purpose and rhetoric, intolerance and death, are as old as Islam itself.

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September 22, 2018 | 12:32 pm | 1 Comment »

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Trump’s Iran sanctions prove the establishment wrong — again  

By Jonathan S Tobin, NY POST

Trumpâ??s Iran sanctions prove the establishment wrong â?? again

When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal back in May, the foreign-policy establishment was unanimous in its opposition.

Their dismay was rooted in loyalty to Barack Obama’s legacy and personal contempt for Trump. But there was at least one point the critics made that seemed irrefutable, in warning against the re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran’s oil exports.

Trump’s unilateral move would certainly fail because of the interest of America’s European allies as well as the Russians and Chinese in continuing to do business with Iran. But if by some chance it worked, the experts were sure that would result in a severe hike in oil prices that American consumers would feel at the gas pump.
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September 22, 2018 | 12:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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Many countries are our “friends” but hardly any support us diplomatically.  

By Ted Belman

TOI reports,

Russia’s embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday excoriated the US for closing the PLO mission in Washington and for cutting funding for Palestinian refugees and hospitals in East Jerusalem, amid tensions between Moscow and Jerusalem over the Syrian downing of a Russian spy plane following an Israeli missile strike on a Syrian weapons facility.

“[The] closure of PLO office in Washington, US decisions on Jerusalem testify to attempts to undermine the well-known international basis for the Israeli-Palestinian settlement,” the mission wrote in a statement on its Twitter account. “We don’t understand recent funding cessation to UNRWA, refusal to help hospitals in Eastern Jerusalem.”

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September 22, 2018 | 12:01 pm | 4 Comments »

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Dozens reportedly killed in terrorist attack on Iranian military parade  

“Shooting began by several gunmen from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured,” a correspondent told state television.

BY REUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Attack on Iranian military parade in Ahvaz, Iran, September 22, 2018

Eleven people, including eight or nine military personnel, were reported killed after gunmen opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iranian media reported.

“Shooting began by several gunmen from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured,” a correspondent told state television.

More than 30 were injured in the attack, local officials told ISNA. Of the four attackers, two were killed by security forces and two were arrested, the officials said.
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September 22, 2018 | 10:34 am | 1 Comment »

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The Last Days of Syria and the Non-Interventionist Catastrophe  

The course the West followed has been a disaster.

By Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

Syria

Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP

The West has squandered the last, best opportunity to rid the world of the criminal regime in Syria.

Damascus was designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1979, and it has lived up to that title every year since. Syria’s descent into civil war presented several opportunities to dispense with the despot in Damascus and avert a crisis in the process, but they were all ignored. As I wrote for National Review, Syria is a case study in the perils of ideological non-interventionism. The results of the West’s over-reliance on covert action, outsourcing, and diplomacy in Syria is arguably the worst-case scenario.
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September 22, 2018 | 10:17 am | Comments »

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Why the ‘Jordanian Option’ Won’t Die  

T. Belman. Rosner and all the other pundits who dismiss the Jordan Option, which is all of them, do so on the basis that neither the king nor Abbas will agree to it. I am the only one that supports the Jordanian Option and I do so on the basis that both Abbas and the king can be replaced by rulers who are more amenable to it. In my opinion, Mudar Zahran is one such potential ruler to replace the king. As for Abbas, he is already irrelevant.

Another aspect of my version which is different, is that the Jordan River remains the border and there is nothing to negotiate.

A confederation of the West Bank and Jordan is once again under discussion. Is it such a bad idea?

By Shmuel Rosner, NYT

Protesters with Jordanian and Palestinian flags near the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan, last year.Muhammad Hamed/Reuters

TEL AVIV — In January 1968, only a few months after Israel conquered the territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol received a memo. The reasonable way to deal with the newly occupied territory, wrote the memo’s author, a professor named Benjamin Akzin, was to join it to Jordan, the country from which it was taken during the 1967 war.

Akzin’s memo, which is recounted in a new book by the historian Yoav Gelber, was one of the first articulations of what is known as “the Jordanian option.” It’s still alive today.
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September 22, 2018 | 7:09 am | 19 Comments »

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Forcing Iran out of Syria  

By David m Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel has fully joined the battle against Iran in Syria, but it is not clear it can achieve any of its goals there. It will be very hard to force the complete withdrawal of Iranian forces and their proxies from Syria.

According to Dr. Jonathan Spyer, a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran has invested between $30 billion and $100 billion in propping up the Assad regime and building its own military infrastructure in Syria over the last seven years. The Iranian investment in Syria is deep, formally based, and longstanding.

Iran has done so for its own good strategic reasons: to create a hegemonic land bridge under Iranian sway from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and to establish a new front against Israel. The ayatollahs are not going to reverse course, write off that investment and decamp back to Iran just because the Israel Air Force occasionally strikes a missile shipment to Hezbollah or a few anti-aircraft batteries. Iran is in this fight for the long term.
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September 21, 2018 | 4:46 pm | Comments »

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US aid to Israel is an investment  

By Yoram Ettinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S.-Israel relations have outgrown their one-way-street mode, evolving into a mutually beneficial, two-way relationship. The U.S. enjoys a well-deserved, high return on its annual $3.8 billion investment in Israel, which it calls “foreign aid” even though Israel is not like any other foreign country that receives aid from the U.S.

The strategic compatibility between the U.S. and Israel is underscored by the two allies’ national security orientation – allocating 3.6% and 4.7% of their budgets, respectively, to defense. This is much more than any European country: Britain allocates 2.1%, France 1.8%, Germany and Italy 1.1%.
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September 21, 2018 | 4:31 pm | Comments »

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