By Gabriella Muñoz – The Washington Times – Thursday, November 29, 2018

President Trump essentially dared Democrats on Wednesday to investigate him when they retake the House in January and threatened to release “devastating” Justice department documents in retaliation.

“If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me,” Mr. Trumptold the New York Post. “I’m a counter-puncher, and I will hit them so hard they’d never been hit like that.”

In September, Mr. Trump ordered the Justice Department to declassify and publicly release documents released to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application for former campaign adviser Carter Page, reports about the application and FBI interviews with Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr.
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Nationwide strikes all across Iran, Nov. 15 – 30th

By Joyce Karam,  The National (UAE)

The US administration sounded the alarm on Thursday about the prospects of a regional conflict fuelled by the spread and reach of Iranian weaponry into the region including to the Taliban, the Houthis and Iran’s proxies in Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook delivered a speech at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington D.C. with an exhibition of Iranian Materiel Display (IMD) with Farsi markings shown in the background.

The weaponry included Iranian Sayyad-2C SAM missiles, AK-47s, small arms and debris from an Iranian drone that were caught in Yemen, Afghanistan and Bahrain where he said that Iran is seeking to expand its influence and foment instability.

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Canadian legal scholar Dr. Jacques Gauthier has devoted 20 years to the thorny question of the ownership of Jerusalem, and has concluded that Israel has unquestionable sovereignty not only over the whole city, but over Judea and Samaria as well.

By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

T. Belman. This plan is already 6 years old and yet they stick to the idea that when Area C is annexed Israeli citizenship should be given to Arabs living there. The Jordan Option proposed by me and Zahran,  which is close to fruition, provides Jordanian citizenship for these people so there is no need to give them Israeli citizenship. Bennett’s plan does not discuss how Israel will prevent Palestinians from taking up residence in Area C or Israel. Nor does it discuss how we maintain a border between Israel and Areas A and B.

In foreign press briefing, justice minister calls for annexation of Area C, claims Palestinians may in the future agree to her plan

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI – 29 November 2018,

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Maariv Conference in Jerusalem on October 15, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has proposed a “confederation” between parts of the West Bank, Jordan, and Gaza.

“Our plan is to apply Israeli sovereignty on Area C and give the Palestinians living there full citizenship. Areas A and B will be part of a confederation, together with Jordan and Gaza,” she told journalists Wednesday in Jerusalem.
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Republicans need to fight the wild ideas of the Democratic Party’s left wing.

By Karl Rove, WSJ

Sen. Bernie Sanders knows what he wants. In a Washington Post op-ed last week, the democratic socialist from Vermont laid out a legislative agenda for the 116th Congress’s first 100 days. Among the dizzying array of proposals Mr. Sanders pushed were his signature “Medicare for All” bill, tuition-free college, student-debt relief, tax increases requiring “wealthy people and large corporations to begin paying their fair share” and a $15 minimum wage indexed to “median wage growth,” not inflation.
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ISRAEL TO SHIP GAS DIRECTLY TO EUROPE

By Barry Shaw, IISS

After fairly rapid negotiations, Israel has agreed with European nations to supply Europe with its future natural gas needs. The project will turn Israel into a significant fuel-exporting nation.

Construction will begin on the longest and deepest underwater fuel pipeline in the world. 1,305 miles in length and lying 1.86 miles under the Mediterranean Sea. The $7 Billion project will take five years to complete.

Natural gas will flow from Israel’s natural gas reserves in the Mediterranean via Cyprus to Greece and Italy. This multi-national pipeline will supply Europe with 125 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually by 2030.
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T. Belman.  It bothers me the most when liberal Jews or their leadership, support antisemitic Muslim immigration on the basis that we Jews were once immigrants.  Jewish immigrants shared American values, hated no one and wanted to be American. Muslim immigrants don’t share American values, hate Jews (at least a large majority do) and don’t want to integrate.

Like Engelhard says, there is no comparison.

Ignorance? Anti-Semitism? There is no comparison between today’s militant migrants and Holocaust survivors and no excuse for the spurious comparison.

By Jack Engelhard, INN

It appears that throughout this entire great country, we have but one proper news channel, Fox News, and even over there we can use a day without Juan Williams.

Or Geraldo Rivera.

There he was, saying that it is wrong to use the Holocaust to score political points, as Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) just did – which would have been a good place for him to stop.

For those who haven’t heard, Ocasio-Cortez, neither our best nor our brightest, compared the migrants crashing our borders to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
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By ELANA SCHOR, POLITICO

The Senate delivered a stunning rebuke to the Trump administration on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to advance a measure yanking U.S. support for Saudi-backed forces at war in Yemen.

The 63-37 vote, in which 14 Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to move forward on the bipartisan Saudi resolution, came hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis failed to sway key undecided senators with an appeal to hold off lest they upset progress of nascent talks on a cease-fire in Yemen. Read more…

A group of 63 senators voted to allow a debate over ending U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Iranian proxies in Yemen, despite calls from the administration not to harm the U.S.-Saudi alliance.

By Amir Tibon, HAARETZ

WASHINGTON – The vote which took place on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate over America’s involvement in the ongoing war in Yemen represented a stinging foreign policy failure for the Trump administration.

A group of 63 senators – including every Democrat in the Senate and 14 Republicans – voted to allow a debate over ending U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Iranian proxies in Yemen. The vote took place just hours after two senior Trump cabinet members, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, pleaded senators not to take steps that could harm the U.S.-Saudi alliance.

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The crown prince seeks support to blunt criticism over Khashoggi murder, but despite his charm offensive in the Arab world, he is still getting a hostile reception

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Tunisia’s decision to invite Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a visit had local journalists up in arms last week. “Inviting bin Salman to Tunisia is an insult to the revolution and its values,” the Tunisian journalists union announced, upon learning of the invitation. “He’s an enemy of freedom of expression.”

Some 100 Egyptian journalists also issued a statement condemning the visit of bin Salman to Cairo, where he was received Monday with all the requisite flourishes.oth countries, while the social networks in Egypt, where he landed on Monday, and Tunisia and Algeria, where bin Salman is also expected to visit, were roiling against the visit of the “holder of the saw,” as one tweet called him, and not just because of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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A betrayal of justice.

BY EVELYN GORDON, COMMENTARY

The International Criminal Court’s blatant anti-Israel bias is no secret. Just two months ago, I wrote about its decision to launch an unprecedented fishing expedition against Israel.

Nevertheless, its latest decision raises bias to an art form—the art in question being farce. It also completely destroys any pretensions the court has left of serving its original purpose: Ensuring that the world’s worst crimes don’t go unpunished.

On November 15, the pretrial chamber of judges ordered the court’s prosecutor—for the second time—to reconsider her refusal to investigate Israel’s 2010 raid on a flotilla to Gaza. Demanding one reconsideration is rare. Demanding two is unheard of. No such option even exists in the ICC’s rulebook.
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T. Belman. Crushing Palestinian aspirations is the right thing to do. This includes oblitherating the Palestinian narrative.

Crushing Palestinian aspirations is no less significant for the prime minister than derailing the Iran nuclear deal

By Chemi Shalev, HAARETZ

Palestinian demonstrators shout during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest on the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, April 6, 2018.\ MOHAMMED SALEM/ REUTERS

Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy has been, by his lights, a resounding success. The United States is in his pocket, at least until Donald Trump presents his “deal of the century.” Europe is mostly engaged with itself, Brexit and immigration, and in the meantime Netanyahu is forging a formidable pocket of resistance with the four Visegrad countries, in exchange for an Israeli pardon for past and present anti-Semitism of some of its members. His idyll with Vladimir Putin may have been marred by the downing of a Russian plane over Syria, but the astounding progress in ties with Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries, and even Chad more than makes up for it.
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T. Belman. The prospect for such a war is extremely high.  Israel must be in it to win it. That means Israel must massively invade invade Gaza and Lebanon with a view to destroying their missiles before too many are fired on Israel. Every day counts. Plus Israel must attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the IRPG and the Mullahs. Victory must be our goal and not a ceasefire.

By Yochanan Visser, ISRAEL TODAY

Iranian leaders stepped up their war of words against Israel and the United States over the weekend while new information shows both the Israel Defense Forces and the Islamic Republic are actively preparing for a multi-front war in Israel.

The new war of words started when Iran’s so-called moderate president Hassan Rouhani told participants in an Islamic conference that Israel was a “cancerous tumor” and “a fake regime” founded by Western nations.

While calling upon the Islamic world to establish a “joint force” that could win the “battle against criminals”  Rouhani claimed Israel had killed and displaced the (non-existing) “historic nation of Palestine.”
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Decision to stop some services in Israel met with strong opposition

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

he recent decision by Airbnb to stop its services for Jews living in the West Bank of Israel is being met with criticism by the Trump administration and pro-Israel leaders on Capitol Hill, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the company’s choice to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to wage economic warfare on the Jewish state.

Airbnb, a growing tech company that allows travelers to rent lodging across the globe, announced that it removed some 200 Jewish-owned rental homes in the West Bank, sparking fury in pro-Israel circles.
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By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

The narrative adopted by many American Jews these days is that rightist governments enable anti-Semitism, while liberal governments allow Jewish communities to flourish. A corollary of this thesis is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s open friendship with rightist governments in Eastern Europe has enabled anti-Semitism. Thanks to a poll of European Jews published last week, we now have some facts by which to judge this thesis. And the facts appear to belie it.
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Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran has not yet seen “any tangible results” from European promises to help Iran trade despite U.S. sanctions • He says Iran could ramp up uranium enrichment if 2015 nuclear deal unravels.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Iranian patience is running out on the European Union’s pledges to keep up oil trade despite U.S. sanctions and Iran would be warning the EU’s top diplomat of this, Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said his country could resume enriching uranium to 20% purity – considered well above the level needed to fuel civilian power plants – if it fails to see the economic benefits of the 2015 international nuclear deal, which curbed its nuclear program.

“If we cannot sell our oil and we don’t enjoy financial transactions, then I don’t think keeping the deal will benefit us anymore,” Salehi said ahead of a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Tuesday.
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After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There’s plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.

By Arthur Herman, MOSAIC

In March 2017, President Xi Jinping of China hosted two important visitors from the Middle East. The first was King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose country’s oil supplies are crucial to China’s energy and economic outlook. The second was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Unlike Saudi Arabia—or Iran, or Iraq—Israel is one Middle Eastern country with no oil to offer China. Nor does it count China among the many customers for Israeli arms exports; to that prospectively lucrative arrangement, a 2005 dispute with the United States closed the door. Nor is there a large expatriate Chinese population in Israel clamoring for good relations with Beijing. Nor, in China itself, is there a Jewish community of any size whose interests an Israeli prime minister might deem a fit topic to bring up with his Chinese counterpart.
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The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

“More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world”.

Those are among the key findings of a survey carried out for CNN. In another poll, 43 percent of Dutch Jews take active steps to hide their Jewish identity, such as wearing a hat over their kippah or hiding Star of David pendants. Anti-Semitism is destroying Europe from within. About 180 million Europeans hate the Jews, again.

The pattern is very clear: Israel is the “aggressor”, Israel is the state of the Jews, hence the Jews are the aggressors. This new European anti-Semitism, in fact, has been fueled by the global hate for Israel and the rise of radical Islam. The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.
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