MAR 2018
Exclusive to Israel Hayom: Senior Venezuelan opposition member says presence of Iran, Hezbollah and other terrorist elements in the country “is very concerning. … Israel can help us establish the necessary apparatuses to contend with this problem.”
By Eldad Beck, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff 13/02/2019
Juan Guaidó gestures to supporters during a march against the Maduro regime, in Caracas, Tuesday
A senior member of Venezuela’s opposition, which supports interim President Juan Guaidó, told Israel Hayom on Tuesday that the presence of Iran, Hezbollah and other Arab terrorist elements in the country “is very concerning” to the democratic opposition and will pose an “immense challenge” to the new government after the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro is ousted.
“We are presently formulating policy pertaining to defending Venezuela’s internal security and are looking for help and advice,” the senior official said. “And Israel can help us establish the necessary apparatuses to contend with this problem when the political change in Venezuela realized.”
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Lt. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor in the head of the Almagor Terror Victims Association, ISRAEL HAYOM
The diabolical smile on the face of Ori Ansbacher’s killer as he sat inside the courthouse is a call to the Israeli public, the judicial system and the prosecution. The murder that shocked an entire country should be a watershed moment for the State of Israel in the war on lone-wolf terrorism. Having been caught alive, the killer’s trial can also be an opportunity for the State of Israel to make clear it has changed its approach. To that end, the legal proceedings must be handled by a military court that has the authority to issue a death sentence as well as ensure the entire legal arsenal is exhausted against the terrorist. The time has come for the judicial system to engage in some serious introspection.
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By Martin Sherman, IISS
Two weeks ao, I began a series of comparative analyses between our hard-pressed IISS and the well-heeled INSS, highlighting the huge imbalance in the resources that we each have at our disposal to advance our respective agendas—see here & here for last two week’s analysis.
But the difference is not only in the massive imbalance in resources but in the substance of the countervailing policy paradigms that each institute endorses.
To help redress this imbalance, click HERE to make a donation.
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Putin says Obama created ISIS paid and armed mercenaries to fight Assad
BREAKING NEWS – PUTIN EXPOSES OBAMA’S PAID ISIS MERCENARIES IN MIDDLE EAST AND SYRIA!
October 1, 2015 October 3, 2015 Dianne Marshall
UPDATED OCTOBER 3, 2015
In a press conference at the Valdai Discussion Club 2014 in answer to a question to a United States Journalist, President Vladimir Putin addressed his concerns regarding the US and their role in the middle east and ISIS.
Although the film footage of the press conference has been banned, Live leaks released a copy of the press conference to the public.
The White House shares the Israeli government’s illegal settlement ideology and backs its attempts to normalize relations with the Arab world while maintaining control over our country. That’s why Palestine won’t participate in Trump’s anti-Peace Plan
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Washington.Evan Vucci,AP
The policies taken by the Trump Administration have undermined peace and security in our region. By fully siding with the Israeli government, they have tried to normalize the Israeli occupation and the systematic denial of the Palestinian right to self-determination.
The Warsaw Conference is part of this context. While the obvious target of the conference is Iran, the Trump Team aims to use this conference as an event to push for their vision for Israel and Palestine, one that, based on the steps they have taken, is certainly not about peace making.
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Bezalel Smotrich says Jewish Home, Otzma Yehudit, Yachad and his own party can’t afford to be divided; accuses Bennett of leaving religious Zionist camp
Head of the National Union party MK Bezalel Smotrich, speaks during an event of the Movement for the Quality of Government, in Modi’in, February 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
National Union party head Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday said that four religious right-wing parties are close to agreeing on a united slate for the upcoming elections.
His comments flew in the face of remarks from National Union and Jewish Home officials who over the weekend said unity talks between their parties had stalled.
“The news is that we will go together,” Smotrich declared at the annual Besheva right-wing media group conference in Jerusalem. “The news is that we are making every effort.”
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The German government that resides there has in recent years allowed hundreds of thousands of antisemites from Muslim countries to immigrate without selection.
Berlin has become Europe’s capital of antisemitism. Those who have been accustomed to considering Malmö as such were, however, not wrong. Malmö still suffers from major antisemitism. Yet, antisemitic incidents require not only potential perpetrators. These in Malmö come mainly out of parts of the Muslim community. There must also be a sufficient number of Jews to harass.
Berlin, Germany’s largest Jewish community, has well over 30,000 Jews. The Jewish community in Malmö has shrunk to an estimated 500-600. Perhaps the best solution would be to establish different categories of European antisemitism capitals according to the number of Jews.
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BOLD MOVES
“Israel is a home for all Jews, but we respect those who choose to live in the Diaspora,” Shaked says.
The New Right wants a “wider” range of conversion options than those that exist today, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said at an English-language event in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
However, Shaked said that the process would still be in line with Orthodox Judaism.
“We want to encourage more and more people to convert to Judaism, and the best way to do that is through the army,” she said, praising the efforts of religious-Zionist Rabbi Haim Druckman on this front.
Former Jerusalem Post columnist and New Right candidate Caroline Glick, who joined Shaked onstage, said that seeking a freer conversion process was one of the reasons Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett broke off from Bayit Yehudi.
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Russian foreign minister laments fact that ‘deal of the century’ doesn’t include Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital ? Abbas arrives in Saudi Arabia in bid to get Arab world to oppose plan
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has attacked the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that the Trump administration is working on, saying it would destroy the Palestinians’ achievements to date in the Middle East.
Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting in Moscow with representatives of Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, Lavrov said President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century, a plan that has not been formally presented yet, does not include a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt slams Fox News report suggesting 175-page “Deal of the Century” has been shown to President Trump who is “happy with its parameters” • “Your sources gave you bad info,” he says. “We’ll continue to refine it until release.”
By Yoni Hersch and Israel Hayom Staff
U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt shot down on Monday a Fox News report claiming that the administration’s peace plan was complete and got the endorsement of the president.
“Sorry @FoxNews & @TreyYingst your sources gave you bad info,” Greenblatt tweeted on Monday. “While the plan is close to complete, we aren’t there yet & we’ll continue to refine it until release. 175 pages is also inaccurate. It’s a very detailed political/economic plan but not that long.”
According to the Fox News report, which is based on two senior administration officials, “fewer than five people have access to the complete document.”
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By Majid Mohammadi, AMERICAN THINKER
In 1982, when Iranian universities and colleges opened their doors to students after the so-called Cultural Revolution, a new group of students was admitted based on affirmative action. They were coming from very low-income families and from families who had a “martyr” during the 1979 Revolution. Almost all of them failed in STEM courses in the first semester. In a class of 40, all of them got zero scores in Physics 101.
To cope with these students, faculty members lowered the level of the courses. As the academic level plunged, more and more of these students occupied university and college seats. Some years later, the family members of killed soldiers, the veterans of the Iran-Iraq War, and Basij members were added to the list of groups who could benefit from the affirmative action policy. These groups became the counter-movement to any anti-authoritarian and anti-totalitarian movements in the universities and elsewhere.
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The Continent’s grand unity project is failing, and its global influence is fading.
Last week offered fresh evidence that the most consequential historical shift of the last 100 years continues: the decline of Europe as a force in world affairs. As Deutsche Bank warned of a German recession, the European Commission cut the 2019 eurozone growth forecast from an already anemic 1.9% to 1.3%. Economic output in the eurozone was lower in 2017 than it was in 2009; over that same period, gross domestic product grew 139% in China, 96% in India, and 34% in the U.S., according to the World Bank.
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By J.E. Dyer, LIBERTY UNYIELDING
This isn’t a time for joking. It is now clear that it isn’t a time for mild “dialogue” either. In America, Ilhan Omar has the right to express antisemitic views, using, if she chooses, the same antisemitic themes as Nazi propagandists. Her constituents in Minnesota have the right to elect her to Congress. But that doesn’t mean any of them has a right to any committee assignments for Omar in the House of Representatives, much less choice ones like the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Howard Portnoy noted earlier today that Omar offered an apology for implying that Jews exercise undue influence in Congress by buying it with payoffs from AIPAC. He assumed – with good reason – that her apology was insincere. I would point out that the “apology” was basically for being caught using an anti-Semitic trope, but since it also included a double-down on the meaning of the trope, the “apology” outed its own self as a fake.
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Yes, Ori Ansbacher’s mother asked the audience to “add light in the world, an act of kindness” to preserve her daughter’s soul.
A condemnation of the assassination of Ori Ansbacher by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Jerusalem is still not in from:
-The European Union, always quick to condemn the construction of new Israeli houses in Judea and Samaria;
-The UN, always meeting in an emergency session when Israel kills a terrorist;
-The Western newspapers, always ready to make room for the terrorists who died on the Gaza border and the pin-up of the Intifada, Ahed Tamimi;
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T. Belman. I choose this title because Jordan and the PA are railing against the coup in Venezuela because they see foresee a US lead coup in Jordan and the PA.
By attacking the US they make it all the more likely.
Articles In Jordanian, Palestinian Authority Press: America’s Moves Vis-à-vis Venezuela Are Barbaric Imperialism
U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Venezuelan National Assembly President and opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s president, in place of Nicolas Maduro, evoked harsh criticism in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA), from both officials and columnists. Jordan issued no official response to the events in Venezuela, but one of its MPs called on the parliament to issue a statement of support for Maduro, saying that he merits this because of his support for the Palestinian cause. A columnist in Jordan’s Al-Dustour daily harshly attacked the U.S. for the “injustices” it has committed throughout history, and called it an enemy of the peoples who was and will be the embodiment of barbaric imperialism. A columnist for the government daily Al-Rai wrote that the U.S., the head of global imperialism, constantly plots coups and assassinations like the “coup” that is currently taking place in Venezuela.
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JERUSALEM – The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan is finished and President Trump has been briefed on its contents, two senior administration officials told Fox News on Sunday.
The final draft of the administration’s “Deal of the Century” is 175 to 200 pages long — and fewer than five people have access to the complete document, sources told Fox News.
The plan is done… [the president] is happy with the parameters of the deal,” a senior administration official said.
By Chris Robbins, ISRAEL HAYOM
The Religious Action Center of the U.S.-based Union for Reform Judaism has announced that its upcoming “Consultation on Conscience” leadership event will include a controversial community activist who built his career inflaming racial and religious prejudices.
Al Sharpton first came to my attention in August 1991 when he helped incite a three-day race riot in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
A motorcade transporting the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was driving to a cemetery. The rebbe had a police escort. One of the vehicles in the motorcade was involved in an accident that killed a 7-year-old African-American child, Gavin Cato, and severely injured his 7-year-old cousin, Angela Cato.
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State tells court it will retroactively legalize structures in Alei Zahav, invoking new legal mechanism for the first time
The state informed the Jerusalem District Court that it will retroactively legalize structures built in part on private Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Alei Zahav.
In doing so, the state will for the first time invoke a legal mechanism the attorney general approved in December, senior sources say. Alei Zahav is a secular settlement located close to Route 5, which links Ariel and the Greater Tel Aviv area. Read more…
