“If Hezbollah will achieve precision strike capabilities, they will cause us very significant damage. This is a clear redline.”

BY JULIANE HELMHOLD, JPOST

If an Israeli preemptive strike is not carried out in the near future, the window of opportunity for preventing Hezbollah’s precision strike capabilities will close, former education and interior minister Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) said at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem.

Despite the involvement in Syria’s civil war and the occasional Israeli strike on Hezbollah targets in Syria, Iranian effort through its proxy to develop a qualitative strike capability on Israel’s civilian infrastructures has significantly improved since the end of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Sa’ar warned.

Specifically, the former minister warned that Hezbollah was upgrading the accuracy of missiles which will be able totarget Israeli civilian infrastructure to a precision of 10 meters.

“If Hezbollah will achieve such capabilities, they will cause us very significant damage. This is a clear redline,” he explained.
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By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun 

Theodore Kupfer’s attack on my remarks last week in these pages about President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord cannot be allowed to pass without comment.
Mr. Kupfer cites Svante Arrhenius as the originator of the theory of the greenhouse-gas generation of global warming in the 1890s. Arrhenius predicted in an 1896 paper that doubling carbon-dioxide emissions would increase temperatures by six centigrade degrees but ten years later reduced that estimate by two-thirds, and even that has proved to be unfounded.

Arrhenius’s perspective was of someone trying to promote milder temperatures in Sweden, by increasing greenhouse gases, and concluded that it would take at least 3,000 years for any such hoped-for warming to come to pass. It is doubly bizarre for Mr. Kupfer to cite him as a source in that Arrhenius, one of the founders of the Nobel Prize, which he quickly received for chemistry, is chiefly known as a leader of the Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene.
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T. Belman. From what we read, the Khashoggi attackers were as negligent and error prone as the Keystone Cops. This account is more believable. The plan was to drug him and then take him back to Saudi Arabia for trial just as Israel did with Eichmann. But Khashoggi died as a result of the drugging.

BY MIKE EVANS, JPOST  –  NOVEMBER 20, 2018

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Shedding-light-on-the-Saudi-Turkey-rift-572375

It appears that Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood are one, and that included sympathizer, and colleague Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi Arabian officials have conceded complicity in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The time has come to shed light on Turkey’s position in the matter. It is recognized by many that the main battle was not between Khashoggi and the Saudis, but rather a clash between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The struggle is not over the death of the journalist, but rather for control of the entire Sunni world.
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Security cabinet members Gilad Erdan, Yoav Gallant, and Israel Katz call for targeted killings of terrorist group’s leaders

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Israel is coming close to retaking the Gaza Strip and should assassinate the leaders of terrorist group Hamas, senior Israeli ministers said Wednesday.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that Israel is “closer than ever” to re-occupying the coastal enclave and “must move from defense to offense,” which he clarified means “targeted killings of the terrorist leaders of Hamas’ military wing.

“And it means being willing to capture and hold the Gaza Strip, until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” said Erdan, a member of the security cabinet, speaking at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in the capital.
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Gilad Erdan also says he will ask U.S. lawmakers to use anti-boycott laws against Airbnb following its decision to bar listings in Jewish settlements

By Noa Landau, JPOST

Israel is “closer than ever” to controlling part or all of Gaza, Strategic Affair minister Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post Diplomats’ Conference in Jerusalem, Erdan said that “moving from defense to offense against Hamas means targeted assassinations of terror leaders in Hamas’ military wing.”

This, Erdan says, “means being ready to take control of the Gaza Strip and hold it until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, Today we are closer than ever – since the devastating disengagement plan – to having to control parts of the Strip, or all of it.”

Erdan also addressed Airbnb’s recent decision to bar listings of homes in West Bank settlements, saying “anybody who supports Israel should stop using Airbnb and tap other services.”

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T. Belman. I have posted a few articles here and links on the subject of antisemitism. Foxman argues “When you remove political correctness, when it’s OK to say Mexicans are rapists and Muslims are murderers – of course that means it’s OK to be more antisemitic or more antisemitic in public.” First of all, no one including Trump, has said that. The Democrats including leftwing Jews, argue that because Trump wants to be more selective in approving who can be an immigrant, and in particular, wants to ban Muslims, among others, who don’t share our values, he has openned up the floodgates which heretofore had suppressed antisemitism.

In effect they are arguing that the less exclusion, the less anitsemitism. I don’t buy it at all. I argue that the more we exclude groups such as Muslims who are very antisemitic, the less antisemitism. That is not to say that Trump shouln’t declare war on anitsemitism.

The head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, called for “greater scrutiny” of the textbooks by the Trump regime.

ADL head warns: U.S. at risk of ‘normalizing’ antisemitism

BY MICHAEL WILNER, JPOST

WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabian textbooks continue to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories and violence against Jews, despite public statements from leadership in Riyadh claiming the kingdom will reform, according to a study released this week.

The paper, released by the Anti-Defamation League, found that high school textbooks continue to teach of Zionist ambitions for a “global Jewish government to control the entire world” and of false religious teachings calling for the murder of Jews.
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T. Belman. According to Akiva Bigman, “the new compact will grant labor migrants the same legal status under international law as asylum seekers and refugees who flee tyrannical regimes. This would essentially make all migrants, legal or not, eligible for economic benefits.”

According to this article, Israel had to be convinced not to join, In fact I read else where that Israel contributed to its drafting.

I am shocked. It should have been a no-brainer.

With this development, Israel will not send officials to the conference in Marrakesh, which is scheduled to be held between Dec. 10 and Dec. 11.

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Israel will join the United States and other countries in rejecting the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration, which is expected to be adopted in Morocco in December.

The final version was agreed in July and consists of 23 goals to encourage legal migration and better administer the flow or immigrants and refugees as the number of people moving worldwide has increased to 250 million, or 3 percent of the global population.
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Technological advancements are to serve mankind, not the other way around.

Supreme Court to hear petition against Civil Administration’s failure to enforce the law over thousands of acres in Hevron hills.

INN
Training Ground 917 in the southeastern Hevron Hills area is a strategic firing ground located between the Jewish communities of Carmel and Ma’on, the descent to the Dead Sea, and the Arad Valley.

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear a petition submitted by the Regavim organization against the Civil Administration’s failure to enforce the law in this area.

In 1999, Training Area 917, comprising some 55,000 dunams (13,600 acres), housed over 500 illegal Palestinian Arab-built structures. Rather than enforcing the law and evacuating the squatters, the Civil Administration marked off the area and set aside thousands of dunams of land, creating a no-go zone and effectively legalizing the illegal construction.
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GATEWAY

Conservative author and radio host Rush Limbaugh promoted the latest article by conservative law professor and writer Glenn Reynolds in USA Today on Monday.

Glenn Reynolds called on Trump on Monday to breakup the tech monopolies like his predecessor Teddy Roosevelt did back in the early 1900s.

Donald Trump must bust Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google monopolies like Teddy Roosevelt.

Rush discussed this article on Monday:
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There is more than meets the eye in Israel’s ceasefire agreement.

By Yochanan Visser, INN

On Sunday evening, in an effort to save his coalition, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli public during a nine minute televised speech at the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv.

After recapping his own history as a member of the IDF elite unit Sayeret Matkal, the death of his brother Yoni who died in 1976 during the famous Entebbe raid in Uganda, and his injuries during several battles, Netanyahu said he had endangered his life time after time and as Prime Minister gave the orders for “countless actions” to ensure the security of the State of Israel.
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PM says Israel will withdraw from nonbinding compact, which is set to be approved at UN gathering in Morocco next month

By TOI STAFF<

Eritrean demonstrators chanted “Refugees, not infiltrators,” outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Israel would not be joining the United Nations’ global migration pact, set to be signed next month in Marrakech, Morocco, by most of the world’s governments.

“I instructed the Foreign Ministry to announce that Israel won’t participate [in the Marrakech gathering] and won’t sign the migration pact,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the press.
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By By James Taylor, AMERICAN THINKER

This month, voters throughout the country inflicted a bloodbath on climate activism and climate-activist political candidates. Voters rejected the two highest profile climate-activist ballot initiatives, severely punished Republicans who joined the congressional Climate Solutions Caucus, and sent home the Democratic climate activist most heavily supported by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer.

State Ballot Initiatives Rejected

Washington State voters soundly rejected a ballot initiative that would have taxed carbon-dioxide emissions. It was the second consecutive election in which Washington voters rejected a carbon-dioxide tax. Even in deep-blue Washington, the proposed tax lost by double-digits in 2016 and now in 2018.
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By Matthew M. Hausman

On Shabbat Vayeira, an anti-Semitic madman attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, killing eleven people and injuring several others.  Those who turned on their televisions and computers that Saturday night were greeted with shock and horror.  The killer had railed online about Jewish influence in the White House before stating he was “going in.”  President Trump swiftly condemned the shooting and denounced the scourge of anti-Semitism, and his remarks sounded cogent and sincere.  Nevertheless, Democratic politicians within hours began to heap blame on Trump, despite the killer’s posted statements of disdain for him because he “is surrounded by k*kes…”  In somewhat cryptic fashion, Joe Biden seemed to impute responsibility to Trump by stating that “words matter” and “silence is complicity,” while Barack Obama and others swiftly usurped the tragedy to blame “gun violence” and implicitly smear Republicans before the midterm elections.

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T. Belman. I have long been aware of this alledged conspiracy and didn’t think much about it. But this video, ILLUMINATI AND CFR 1967, is seriously researched and explains its origin, methodology and goals. Although it is very long, you could watch it in 30 minute segments. I found it very interesting

Ahead of U.N. conference to adopt global pact on immigration, NGO warns that Israel’s sovereignty is at stake • Non-binding agreement, which grants labor migrants same legal status as refugees, could eventually be incorporated into international law.

By Akiva Bigman, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel should not join the new U.N.-drafted agreement aiming to protect the rights of migrants because it would hurt its own interests, the Israeli Immigration Policy Center warned on Sunday.

The center, known also as Eitan, has been actively calling on the government take a more aggressive approach to illegal immigration.

Under the recently negotiated Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, U.N. member states tentatively agreed to cement the rights of refugees under the auspices of the U.N. Charter. The document is set to be officially adopted in December, during an intergovernmental conference in Morocco.
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T. Belman. My guess is that Bibi shared with them the secret info that he spoke of.

Netanyahu rides out cabinet crisis with expected Gaza move

DEBKA Nov 19, 2018

Education and Justice Ministers, Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked surprised Monday, Nov. 19, by announcing that their Jewish Home party would stay in the government if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stood by his pledge to reverse the “hesitant and stammering” security policy of the last decade, and switch to a “creative, proactive course for leading the country to victory.” The two ministers spoke at a special news conference they called in the Knesset, at which they were widely predicted to announce their resignations.

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T. Belman. Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the controvery around it has been front page news since 2003. The Abandonned Property Act of 1950 provided that title to all abandoned property in Israel pass to the state and that a fund be set up to compensate the former owners at fair market value. This article doesn’t comment on whether the Sabags have claimed their compensation.

No such law exists for the Sheikh Jarrod land abandonned by Jews. Jordan and the UN simply built on the land and gave possession to Arab refugees at nominal rent. Since 2003 at least the Sabags have lived there rent free.

I wonder if the court ordered them to pay rent for the time they have lived there rent free.

Some 40 members of family fighting eviction since 2008 must leave home in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood within months

By Nir Hasson, HAARETZ

File photo: Homes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.Emil Salman

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a Jerusalem Arab family’s appeal against their eviction and refused to hear a case on the ownership of the building, citing the statute of limitations.

As a result, around 40 family members will have to leave their home in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood within months. The ruling will also make it very difficult for dozens of other Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah to avoid eviction.

The appellants are members of the Sabag family, who live in a building with five apartments. About 40 relatives, including 30 children, live there.
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