T. Belman. This article and and perhaps the book itself misses the point entirely. The condemnation of the occupation and the settlements is politically motivated. The Palestine Mandate gave Jews the right to settle these lands and nothing since then has undermined that right. Furthermore, Israel is the sovereign over these lands and any denial of this is a distortion of the law.

By Michael Curtis, AMERICAN THINKER

Say it over and over again, and never stop saying it.  It is a truth that should be universally acknowledged that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not the central nor the only problem preventing a peace process to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other factors — Arab terrorism, refugees, Jerusalem, Iran — can be considered as equal or more important.  Nevertheless, the conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) are illegal and violate international law are “imprudent” is widespread in the international community.
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A survey found that 81 percent of American Jews feel same or more positively towards Israel over last 5-10 years, and that 65 percent are largely unaware of controversies over religious pluralism.

By Jeremy Sharon, JPOST

Contrary to popular belief, American Jews’ feelings toward Israel have grown more positive in recent years, according to findings of a new poll conducted by the J-Street lobbying organization this week.

The poll, taken on the day of the US mid-term elections, apparently contradicts the frequent dire warnings heard from elements in the North American Jewish leadership that Diaspora Jews are becoming increasingly alienated from Israel because of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians and on matters of religious pluralism.
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By Ben Marquis, WESTERN JOURNAL

Mere hours after Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, it was announced that President Donald Trump had requested and accepted the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

This finally vindicated the persistent rumors since the early days of the administration that Sessions would eventually be fired by Trump, most likely due to Sessions’ recusal from all matters related to Russia as soon as he was confirmed.
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JEWISH VOICE

Only months after President Donald J Trump made the history books by assuming the status of the first US leader to actually fulfill the promise of moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it now appears that the president is getting some pushback in a passive-aggressive manner by the very people he moved the embassy for.

According to published reports, the Jewish Federations of North America will be holding their upcoming general assembly conference in Tel Aviv, rather than Jerusalem. Every few years this conglomeration of “federations” displays their purported support for Israel by holding their conference there and (always in Jerusalem) as most organizations have accustomed themselves to do.
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By Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

Some 31% of Germans believe “Jews still have too much influence,” 29% think that “Jews use dirty tricks more than others” and that “Jews don’t really fit in with us” • Some 40% say Israel’s policies contribute to unsympathetic sentiments toward Jews.

By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

Eighty years after the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom, nearly one-third of Germans harbor varying degrees of anti-Semitic beliefs, new research has revealed.

Although the research – conducted by Leipzig University in conjunction with the social-democratic Friedrich Ebert Foundation – shows that anti-Semitism is less widespread in Germany today than it was in the past, a significant number of Germans still hold negative views of Jews.
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Jewish conservatives declare a Democrat-run House of Representatives will be Corbyn-style hostile to Israel, and Jewish liberals think Democrats will punish Netanyahu for his love affair with Trump. They’re both wrong

Jonathan S. Tobin

Newly-elected U.S. Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and State Attorney General Keith Ellison during their campaign for office, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 26, 2018.Brian Snyder/ REUTERS

The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were a mixed bag for U.S. partisans. But critics of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believe the Democrats’ capture of the House of Representatives is the start of a process by which Israel will be made to pay dearly for its government’s decision to tie itself so closely to President Donald Trump and the Republicans.

Yet though the outcome will alter the political landscape in Washington, the notion that Netanyahu’s tilt to the GOP will come back to bite him anytime soon doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Even under new management, politicians who are resolutely pro-Israel, and by no means unfriendly to the government in Jerusalem, will still lead the House. Nor will the Democrats be in any position to impede Trump’s Middle East policies that please Jerusalem.  Read more…

https://www.infowars.com/roger-stone-predicted-sessions-firing-the-night-before-what-comes-next/

T. Belman. In response to the threat of investigations, Trump tweeted that “Two can play that game.” As a result their bark is worse than their bite. Wilner points out that much of Jewish rejection of Republicans has to do with Republican embrace of evangelicals. Trump is publically embracing God and Christianity and Jews hate that.

Jews, on the other hand, have always been attracted to Communism/socialism ever since Marx. They had a lot to do with the communist revolution only to lose out to Stalin and his thugs.  There is something about the siren call of socialism or “equality” that they find irresistable.

Because they were oppressed by the establishment for centuries, they had no interest in conserving the social order. Instead they hoped for progressive change.

79% of Jewish voters chose Democrats, only 17% supported Republicans. Down nearly 10% in two short, if eventful years.

BY MICHAEL WILNER, JPOST

Americans take part in the annual Salute to Israel parade in New York City. (photo credit: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS)

WASHINGTON – They plan to conduct hearings on his foreign policy, lead oversight into his administration, subpoena his closest aides, investigate his family and run against him in 2020.

In large numbers, American Jews are becoming the face of a Democratic resistance against US President Donald Trump by assuming critical chairmanships in the House of Representatives and preparing campaigns for the White House.

They are voting against him in record numbers. In midterm elections on Tuesday, 79% of Jewish voters chose Democrats, according to exit polls conducted by Pew Research Center and CNN. Only 17% supported Republicans– down nearly 10% in two short, if eventful years.
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T. Belman.  An American liberal Zionist Jew (self -described) wrote an article which I have posted below, which starts, “Netanyahu owns the result of going all-in with a racist and corrupt Donald Trump and an extremist GOP, turning support for Israel into a bitter partisan issue.”  Unbelieveable.

The Democratic majority’s greatest influence will be oversight – the ability to call hearings

Democrats will try to harden U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia, Russia and North Korea with their newly won majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, while maintaining the status quo on hot-button areas like China and Iran, congressional sources say. [THIS IS WAY OFF BASE.]

On Tuesday night, Democrats won control of the House of Representatives from Republicans for the first time since 2011. That means they can determine what legislation can be considered in the chamber and have a bigger role in setting spending policy and writing legislation, in their challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda.
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T. Belman. And don’t forget HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).  It no longer supports Jewish immigrants but focuses its attention on Muslim immigrants. As a result antisemitism is increasing in America.

The ADL, which at one time was preoccupied with fighting anti-Semitism, is now preoccupied with fighting Donald Trump and fighting on behalf of the American left.”

“Given the rule that whatever the left touches it ultimately ruins (the universities, for example), the Bronsteins will continue to pay the price for the Trotskys’ revolutions.”

 By Dennis Prager, JWR

It is probably impossible to overstate the damage left-wing — not liberal but left-wing — Jews are doing to Judaism, Jews and America. Of course, the same can be said of the damage left-wing Catholics are doing to Catholicism and America, other left-wing Christians are doing to Christianity and America, and, most obviously, the damage the secular left-wing is doing. But since anti-Semitism is in the news, and given the prominence of many left-wing Jews, I will focus on them.
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Efforts to kill “Obamacare,” the Affordable Care Act that was President Barack Obama’s signature policy win, are dead.

BY RON KAMPEAS/JTA

If you thought the first half of Donald Trump’s first term as president was volatile, think about the next two years: His hated opponents, the Democrats, are now weaponized.

Returned to the majority after eight years, Democrats in the US House of Representatives will now wield the awesome power of subpoena. And some of the key party figures who will be able to force Trump administration officials to testify are Jewish.

Caucus elections will take place between now and the launch of the 116th Congress, but barring a surprise, these five Jewish Democrats are now set to chair key House committees, including three from New York — Jerrold Nadler, the Judiciary Committee; Eliot Engel, Foreign Affairs; and Nita Lowey, Appropriations. Also, Adam Schiff of California will helm the Intelligence Committee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky will lead the Budget Committee.
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The Pittsburgh terrorist attack, Trump’s response, and the way the Left Media then hit him viciously anyway may be the “Rosetta Stone” historians will use to decipher that Trump was right to call the Fake News Left Media the “enemy of the people.”

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

No American President in memory has been picked on and lied about with the intensity and frequency that President Trump has had to endure.

The media — because it is almost-monolithically Left-Democrat — regularly depicted Ronald Reagan as a moron, occasionally tying him to a movie in which he acted, “Bedtime for Bonzo,” where he went to bed in one scene alongside a chimpanzee (forgetting that he was cast in the film as a university professor). Reagan endured it, avoided reciprocal name-calling, and history unequivocally has registered that he actually was quite brilliant, understood what so many others could not grasp, revived the moribund Jimmy Carter economy with creative strategies and tax-cutting boldness that George H.W. Bush myopically had called “Voodoo Economics,” stared down Mikhail Gorbachev and defeated a century of Communism, and launched an anti-ballistic military focus that his enemies mocked as “Star Wars” but that today is central to protecting Western democracies from incoming ballistic missiles.  The “Iron Dome” missile-defense system that Israel has used so effectively against Gaza Hamas terrorist rockets is the fruit of “Star Wars.”
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As well as 480 major attacks, Shin Bet also thwarted 590 lone-wolf attacks and arrested ?219 Hamas cells, while combating cyberattacks and espionage plots, agency director says • Hamas is constantly trying to stage attacks in Judea and Samaria, he warns.

By Dr. Mordechai Chaziza, BESA,
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 996, November 5, 2018

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the importance Beijing assigns to ties with Jerusalem, China’s powerful VP, Wang Qishan, made a visit to Israel last week. He is the highest-level Chinese official to visit since then-president Jiang Zemin visited in 2000. Wang is known as a “firefighter” and is a close ally of President Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao.

Last week, Chinese VP Wang Qishan led a large delegation to Israel to comprise the Chinese side of the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee conference. The delegation included Jack Ma, co-founder and head of the Alibaba Group, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies. The conference was hosted by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.

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Israeli soldiers confiscated bags and computers and acted violently, employees say Police have recently enforced a stricter policy against individuals in the PA who have acted to uncover Palestinians who sold properties to Jews

By Nir Hasson, HAARETZ

File photo: A man is seen from a window as Israeli flags fly on top of a house in Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem, August 27, 2015. AP

Border policemen and Shin Bet security service agents on Sunday raided Palestinian Authority offices in A-Ram, north of Jerusalem, in connection with the sale of a home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City to Jews.The police officers seized files and computers, with employees claiming the security forces acted violently and that four employees needed medical attention. Adnan Husseini, the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs, was there at the time.
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