Support for Israel in EU nations has grown from 38% to 43%, while anti-Israel feeling has fallen from 30% to 29%, Foreign Ministry finds • European preoccupation with other issues and rise of social media are playing a big part in change, official says.

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

The EU “has come to realize ?that Israel is an asset,” a Foreign Ministry official says |

Surveys conducted by the Foreign Ministry in major ?European countries show a clear rise in support for ?Israel, Israel Hayom learned Thursday.?

The polls found a rising trend of support for Israel in Germany, ?Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, which for many years were hubs of hostility toward Israel.?

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T. Belman. This is very problematic for Israel’s emerging relationship with s. Arabia. On the other hand it makes S. Arabia more dependant on Israel.

By Marlo Safi, NATIONAL REVIEW

Saudi Washington Post journalist goes missing and is presumed dead. Reporting suggests that he may have been savagely dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in what has been described as a Pulp Fiction–style killing at the hands of the government he once servedf has become the rallying cry of Western media against the Saudi regime’s barbarism — as of last week.

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Because while Haley was a loyal representative of the administration, she was more than a mouthpiece. She was a leader.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s sudden resignation this week distressed a lot of Israelis. On the face of things, the widely felt concern makes little sense. After all, Haley wasn’t a lone wolf in the Trump administration.

Then-president Barack Obama’s anti-Israel UN ambassadors Susan Rice and Samantha Power weren’t free agents when they took hostile actions and made hostile statements about Israel. They were speaking and acting as representatives of their boss, Obama.

Just so, in defending Israel by word and deed, Haley was a loyal representative of the policies of her boss, President Donald Trump.

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“It is certainly not in our interests to see the status of the Saudi government diminished in Washington.”

By Herb Keinon, JPOST

Here’s the rule: If some major event happens in the Middle East, it will generally have an impact on Israel.

The disappearance of Saudi government critic and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey – and the very real possibility that the Saudis either kidnapped him, killed him, or both – is no exception.

On the surface, this story seems distant from Jerusalem. Israel was not involved in any way, and even Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who never misses an opportunity to blast Israel, is not saying that Jerusalem had anything to do with it.

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T. Belman. I agree.

Influential nationalist Rabbi Eliezer Melamed says Israel need not fear creating close bonds with Austrian Freedom Party and others like it.

By Gil Ronen, INN

Influential nationalist rabbi, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, says the European Right is no longer anti-Semitic.

Rabbi Melamed wrote in his widely-read weekly column in Besheva Magazine Friday that Israel need not fear creating strong bonds with the European Right, including the Austrian Freedom Party, which is a member of the Austrian governing coalition.
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In examining the content of what Dr. Ford claimed was indicative of the Trauma she endured, mental health professionals would have difficulty connecting a diagnosis of Trauma to what Dr. Ford spoke about during her testimony.

By Ron Jager, INN

What differentiates Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from all other mental disorders? The difference is in its origin or what’s known as the trigger. Other such disorders, in general, are dateless, they may erupt because of genetics or a dysfunctional upbringing, or response to substance abuse, but little is known about when they actually began. With PTSD, however, there must be an event, a specific event that can be identified as related to the ensuing psychological and emotional state of an individual. With PTSD, the accompanying symptoms are easily identifiable and are related to the event or trigger.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, NATIONAL REVIEW

The Trump administration smartly recognizes the threat posed by Beijing. It could use Russian help to head that threat off.

Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America’s two most dangerous rivals. He sought closer ties to both the Soviet Union, with its more than 7,000 nuclear weapons, and Communist China, with the world’s largest population.
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T. Belman. Be sure to read what I wrote in 2012. Tiny Qatar casts a giant shadow.

Some of these leaders even invited members of the Qatari royal family to their children’s weddings, all while Qatar continued to fund Hamas and spew antisemitic bile through Al Jazeera.

By Shmuley Boteach, JPOST

It was the eve of Yom Kippur and I had just finished a public event on repentance at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles with my friend Roseanne Barr. The event was moderated by David Suissa, editor-in-chief of the prestigious Jewish Journal. A story suddenly broke on Bloomberg News. It said that Qatar had targeted the personal email accounts of both me and my wife to punish me for my criticism of that terrorism-funding country, Hamas’ principal patron.

Qatar, blockaded now for over a year over its sponsorship of terrorism, allegedly contracted large-scale campaigns of cyber-warfare to be waged not only against hostile countries but against critics of their regime, including private American citizens.

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T. Belman. Trump should appoint Aayan Hirsi Ali. She is one of the most amazing people in the world. Born in Somalia, a Muslim, subjected to female genital mutilation and an arranged marriage,she had the clarity and the gumption to flee. She got to Holland, went to university, got a MA in Poli Sci, wrote books and made videos about Islam, especially women under Islam. Her partner in the videos, Theo van Gogh, was murdered. by a jihadi. She was elected to the Netherlands Parliament. Eventually the government refused to continue her round-the-clock protection and she fled to the US, where she continues to tell the truth about Islam and Western policy toward Islam and Muslims. She tells the truth from her life experiences and has been banned from college campuses as an “Islamophobe” and all that PC nonsense.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs (GS.N) executive Dina Powell has withdrawn from consideration to succeed Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Powell told President Donald Trump by phone that she was honored to be considered but planned to stay at Goldman Sachs, the source told Reuters.

By Isi Leibler

There is no disputing that, except for the vast majority of Orthodox Jews, American Jews and their leaders have distanced themselves from their Jewish identity.

In most cases this reflects an indifference to global Jewish issues, and often, a deliberate display of contempt toward Israel and its security challenges and the belief that Israeli leaders are not willing to discard an “outdated nationalist ideology.”

Many express their Judaism by proclaiming a distorted version of “tikkun olam,” which many of their rabbis promote as an espousal of liberal and universal policies. They are totally supportive of the Democratic Party, which many Reform rabbis, in effect, promote as the contemporary embodiment of Judaism.

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By Josh Rogin, WaPo

The coming departure of Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has sparked a new round of competition inside the top ranks of the Trump administration — a contest not just for a job but also for greater influence and control over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of President Trump’s first term.

On Tuesday, Haley seemed to pull off what few senior Trump administration officials so far have been able to achieve: an honorable exit. How she did it could be a model for others looking to leave the Trump team with their dignity and political viability intact. Haley organized her departure with the White House, praised Trump in a joint news conference, promised (in writing) not to challenge his political interests and thereby was able to depart on her own terms. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis must be taking copious notes.

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You don’t drain the swamp by appointing the swamp

Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Two days after Netanyahu said Putin understands the territory’s importance for Israel, Russian FM says any change of status would violate UN resolution

By RAPHAEL AHREN , TOI

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday indicated that his country will not agree to any change of status for the Golan Heights, which Moscow, along with the large majority of the international community, considers occupied Syrian territory.

His comments followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on the international community Monday to recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin appreciates how important the strategic plateau is for Israel.
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DEBKA

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu won praise from US special ME negotiator Jason Greenblatt for letting the Qatar-funded fuel trucks go through to the Gaza Strip on Oct 9.  That is because its was the first step, DEBKAfile reports, towards implementing the administration’s Israel-Palestinian peace plan, partnered with Israel and Egypt, to eventually separate the Gaza Strip from Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to form two separate Palestinian entities.

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T. Belman. Many of Israel’s leaders, Netanyahu and Bennett included, advocate for improving the condition of the Palestinians, as a path to stability if not peace. I maintain, as does Sherman and Feiglin, that we must incentivize Palestinian emigration. Two million Palestinians, who presently live in J&S, is too many, way too many.

Our efforts must be focussed on helping them to emigrate rather than improving their economic condition so they will be stable.

Who wants Israeli-Palestinian Arab coexistence? And who most emphatically does not?

By Ariel Natan Pasko, INN

The Barkan Industrial Zone massacre, is just days old, and already the moral watchdogs of the Peace Process are wringing their hands, mourning its possible demise. “We shall not allow abominable terrorists to harm coexistence,” is the rallying cry.

President Reuven Rivlin, addressing the attack, said, “I’m appalled and distressed by the horrible terror attack carried out in the Barkan industrial area…This was an attack against the idea of Israelis and Palestinians coexisting, and living peacefully side by side. I call upon the Palestinian leadership to condemn this despicable terror attack…”
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