T. Belman. In fact the Kashoggi affair has helped move things along. MBS was so weakened that he needed support from both Trump and Netanyahu and thus became a yes man.

The New York Sun | January 7, 2019

Is President Trump about to make his move in the Middle East? We ask because Secretary of State Pompeo leaves Tuesday for a swing through the region at a time when the stars seem to be aligning for something big. Is it possible that President Trump’s talk with Prime Minister Erdogan, our plan pull GIs out of Syria, John Bolton’s visit to Israel, and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for an election are linked?

Feature the latest from one of the most sagacious scoop artists on the Middle East beat, Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal. She’s out with a column in tomorrow’s Journal alerting her readers not to be surprised if Prime Minister Netanyahu fetches up in Riyadh to meet with the Crown Prime, Mohammed bin Salman — and “soon.” Ms. House doesn’t write something like that off the top of her head.
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T. Belman. This is a huge problem and must be solved. Israel must consider an easier way to convert just as the Reform have done. It is very important that the children of these immigrants be deemed Jewish. Those who want to be Jewish according to Hareidi standards can convert according to their standards. The rest should have a lower standard for joining the Jewish people.

By Sam Sokol, JTA

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, second from left; Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, third from left; and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau at a special meeting of the Israeli Rabbinate Council at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem’s Old City, May 24, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time, Israel announced that Jewish immigrants to Israel were outnumbered by non-Jewish immigrants.

The headlines might suggest that Christians and perhaps Muslims have been moving to the Jewish state in significant numbers, but the truth is more complicated: According to numbers released Monday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, 17,700 of the 32,600 migrants who moved to Israel in 2018 came under the Law of Return but were listed as “having no religion.”

Such immigrants, hailing largely from the former Soviet Union and Baltic states, count Jewish ancestry but are ineligible to marry as Jews, for example, under the state-controlled rabbinic court system. In 2017, there were 11,400 such immigrants out of a migratory population of 29,100.
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TV report says secret taboo-busting trips arranged with goal of building basis for future ties; delegates tour Yad Vashem, meet academics, discuss Iraqi Jewish heritage

By TOI STAFF

A residential area lies in ruins, after an Iraqi Scud missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel on Januar 18, 1991. The Iraqi missile attack came one day after US forces launched Operation Desert Storm – the Gulf War – against Iraq. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)

In an unprecedented series of visits, three delegations of local leaders from Iraq have reportedly made trips to Israel in recent months, and held meetings with Israeli officials.

The delegations, totaling 15 Iraqis, held meetings with Israeli academics, visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and, most significantly, met with Israeli government officials, Hadashot TV news reported on Sunday night.

Iraq is at war with Israel and is a firm supporter of the Arab League boycott of Israel. Its passports are not valid for travel to Israel.
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General Flynn Attacked Because He Knew Too Much

A former Law Enforcement Officer named Roscoe B. Davis unveiled a number or tweets over the weekend tying the attack in Benghazi to the Clinton Foundation.  The foundation reportedly made millions gun running and General Flynn was allegedly attacked because he knew too much.

The tweets are as follows and start with information about the Taliban having US Stinger missiles:

The Taliban had obtained the stinger missiles that Hillary and McCain had hoped to go to Libya –McCain’s contact by the name of Marc Turi sold billions to the US in weapons and was involved in the Obama plan to give guns to Al-Qaeda to get them to overthrow Qaddafi:

Charges against Turi were dropped in Obama’s last days in office.

He knew the US was running the arms through Libya but the CIA surprisingly was not supportive of this: Hillary was the one who was for the arms sales to Libya and she was out to make millions on the deal –
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David Friedman says April elections not the sole reason for postponement; Washington wants to release plan ‘in way that gives it the best chance of getting a good reception’

By TOI STAFF

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in Jerusalem on August 22, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Sunday that although the Trump administration’s long-anticipated Middle East peace plan is “pretty much completed,” the rollout of the proposal will be delayed by several months.

Israel’s April elections “are a factor, but not the only factor” in the postponement, Friedman told reporters.

The White House wants to release the plan “in a way that gives it the best chance of getting a good reception,” said Friedman, noting that there was still additional “wordsmithing and smoothing” required before it was publicized.
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By Amil Imani, AMERICAN THINKER

The various Muslim sects subsumed under the Sunni label constitute nearly 90% of Muslims worldwide, while the total number that form the Shiite sect account for the remaining 10%.  The exact number, all things being equal, bestows greater advantages to the majority.  In the case of Muslims’ heinous agenda, the religious underpinnings of the two sects may be different.  Even their strategies may be different in some respects.  Yet their singular objective is the same: to dominate the world.

History has proven that to Islam, the ends justifies the means.  Hence, the two sects are at work with their own schemes, many of which are one and the same.  The division goes back to the time of the prophet himself.  Shiites believe that the enemies of true faith subverted its chain of authority at Muhammad’s death.  Sunnis believe that when the prophet Muhammad died, he did not leave any tangible proof of a will for his followers to enforce his Ummah.
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By Odet Granot, ISRAEL HAYOM

In two months, Syria will mark the eight-year anniversary of what was initially and mistakenly called the Arab Spring and became the massacre of over half a million people and displacement of millions more. What’s ironic is that the camp seeking rapprochement with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the victorious butcher, is already growing by the day.

Indeed, in around two months, Arab leaders will gather in Tunisia to discuss re-welcoming Syria into the Arab League, which revoked its membership status in November 2011 after Assad began violently suppressing insurgent forces. Now, however, most Arab states support a reversal of the decision, which Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, from Egypt, has already described as “too hasty.”
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US national security adviser tours Old City tunnels with US ambassador Friedman and their Israeli counterparts

By Raphael Ahren, TOI

US National Security Adviser John Bolton on Sunday visited the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Western Wall tunnels, raising the ire of a senior Palestinian official.

Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, took to Twitter to denounce the visit, arguing that it undermines international law and will “only lead to lawlessness.”

“This behavior will not change the fact that East Jerusalem is occupied territory and the capital of the state of Palestine,” Erekat tweeted.
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By Eli Leon, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff—

Hackers leaked hundreds of confidential reports from Jewish billionaire George Soros’ network of philanthropic organizations to the DC Leaks website over the weekend, revealing some troubling information. The reports detail the organization’s activities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority and expose the scope of Soros’ donations, as well as the network’s efforts to conceal its activities.

According to the leaked data, Soros’ Open Society Foundations focused on both U.S. and EU advocacy to exert pressure on, and delegitimize, Israel.

“For a variety of reasons, we wanted to construct a diversified portfolio of grants dealing with Israel and Palestine, funding both Israeli Jewish and PCI [Palestinian citizens of Israel] groups as well as building a portfolio of Palestinian grants and in all cases to maintain a low profile and relative distance — particularly on the advocacy front,” a foundation report noted.
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How a Rogue Alliance Betrayed the Rothschild’s and attempted to hijack the One World Government

By JC Collins, PHILOSOPHY OF METRICS

Update 2:  Two months after I wrote this article it is being reported by Bloomberg that Hungary, the home nation of George Soros, will be banning NGO’s funded by Soros foundations.  This follows the actions of Russia to outlaw the Open Society Foundation and other Soros related charities.  The country which George Soros was born in is turning against him.  His funds are beginning to lose money.  The tide is only beginning to turn against him.  

George Soros is running out of friends.

With the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States and the BREXIT vote in Great Britain, a pattern is beginning to emerge.  This pattern is indicating that a major take-down of George Soros and his Open Society Foundation, among other organizations, both sub and individual, is in process.  The evidence to support such a claim is difficult to collect and present because of the very nature of such an operation.
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After 18 months of research, first claims being finalized for reported $35b from Tunisia, $15b from Libya, for assets Jews left behind when kicked out after establishment of Israel

By TOI STAFF

Jews of Aden, Yemen, awaiting evacuation to Israel on November 1, 1949. (GPO/Public domain)

Israel is preparing to demand compensation totaling a reported $250 billion from seven Arab countries and Iran for property and assets left behind by Jews who were forced to flee those countries following the establishment of the State of Israel.

“The time has come to correct the historic injustice of the pogroms (against Jews) in seven Arab countries and Iran, and to restore, to hundreds of thousands of Jews who lost their property, what is rightfully theirs,” Israel’s Minister for Social Equality, Gila Gamliel, who is coordinating the Israeli government’s handling of the issue, said Saturday.
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Democratic leadership members have a history with Louis Farrakhan.

By Jeryl Bier, WSJ

• James Clyburn of South Carolina. Mr. Clyburn, first elected in 1992, will hold the No. 3 post, majority whip, as he did in 2007-11. Mr. Clyburn is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which in September 1993 entered what then-CBC Chairman Kweisi Mfumecalled a “sacred covenant” with the Nation of Islam. The pact was ostensibly dissolved in February 1994, after it emerged that Farrakhan aide Khalid Abdul Muhammad had given a speech in which he called Jews the “bloodsuckers of the black nation.” But in July 2000, Mr. Clyburn, then CBC chairman, formed a partnership with Mr. Farrakhan’s Million Family March.
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U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton in Israel to allay concerns there over shock decision to pull out U.S. troops

Haaretz and AP

Some American troops could stay in southern Syria despite a U.S. military withdrawal from the war-torn country, NBC News quoted a senior Trump administration official as saying on Friday.

The official was traveling to Israel alongside U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has been sent on a mission to allay Jerusalem’s concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump’s shock decision to exit Syria.

The pullout announced before Christmas was initially expected to be completed within weeks, but the timetable has slowed as the president acceded to requests from aides, allies and members of Congress for a more orderly drawdown.

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JCPA

Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, architect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, who tends to avoid the supporters of the reformist camp in Iran, has warned that the political system used in Iran (“guardianship by the Islamic jurist,” known in Farsi as Vilayat e-Faqih) is about to collapse. Khomeini’s words join other statements heard among the religious establishment, according to which there has been considerable erosion of the legitimacy of the Islamic regime as it approaches its fortieth year.

Why won’t the U.S. government release the whole truth about Palestinian textbooks’ rampant incitement, martyr worship, and refusal to accept Israel’s existence?

By David Bedein, Center for Near East Policy Research

Why won’t the U.S. government release the whole truth about Palestinian textbooks’ rampant incitement, martyr worship, and refusal to accept Israel’s existence?

The think tank that I run, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has completed a four-year research activity, in which all 364 school books for grades 1-12 that were published by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and used in UNRWA schools, in the years 2013-2018 were examined.

We presented our findings at the US Congress, Canadian Parliament, the Swedish Parliament, the British Parliament and, most recently, at the UN.
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By Paul Miller, THE HILL

Like it or not, the 2020 presidential election is already starting to heat up. Progressive Democrats are visiting early primary and caucus states, while a few old guard Democrats have been testing the waters since Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump in 2016.

But while more and more Democrats hope to make President Trump a one-term White House resident, the astute ones will take note of one factor that played a decisive role in the GOP’s grabbing a larger Senate majority in the 2018 midterm elections:  support for Israel.

During the recent midterms, if you got all your news from the old guard press, you likely were unaware that support for the Jewish state was an important issue. By contrast, readers of new media outlets were well informed of far-left Democrats running for Congress who were clearly anti-Israel or even blatantly antisemitic.
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By Kara Pendleton, CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE
JANUARY 3, 2019

The refugee arrivals numbers are in, and there’s good news and bad news. The numbers are calculated based on the fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, according to the Cato Institute.

Early on, President Donald Trump was attacked over the travel ban. Some claimed it was a Muslim ban, but it was not.

It had been used by President Barack Obama, as well. The focus was on restricting entry to the United States from people coming from countries that were known as terrorism hotbeds.

In September 2017, CNN reported that the Trump administration would “dramatically reduce the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States, bringing the number to less than half of what former President Barack Obama had proposed for the current fiscal year.” And the number of refugees for the last fiscal year has shown a significant decline.
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