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The U.S may lose Israel to China, if an Israel-hating Democrat becomes President  

By Ricky Ben-David, NO CAMELS

The recent presentation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the Iran nuclear deal showed the incredible intelligence capabilities of Israel. We also learned that the first country to be privy to this invaluable intelligence was the United States. Intelligence is just one element of the U.S-Israel “special relationship.” The U.S-Israel relationship benefits the U.S military and intelligence services tremendously. However, Israel has generated significant value to the U.S economy, in particular to the hi-tech sector. Technology giants such as Intel, IBM, Google, Apple, HP, Facebook, Amazon, and many others could point directly to their Israeli operations as being a key factor in giving their companies a technological edge.
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May 4, 2018 | 2:46 pm | 16 Comments »

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COLUMN ONE: Watching Netanyahu in Tehran  

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

Netanyahu’s detractors in the US and Israel called his presentation as a dog and pony show. “He didn’t tell us anything we haven’t known for years,” they sniffed.

Moreover, they insisted, Netanyahu’s presentation was actually counterproductive because he couldn’t show evidence that Iran is in breach of the nuclear deal it concluded in 2015 and so did nothing to persuade the Europeans to abandon the deal.

None of these claims is correct. Mossad agents who seized a half ton of documents and computer discs from a secret warehouse in Tehran brought proof that Iran has been lying about its nuclear ambitions since 1999. The information was never more than surmised by nuclear experts.

As for the nuclear deal, the archive itself is a material breach of the nuclear deal. Paragraph T.82 of the deal bars Iran from conducting “activities which could contribute to the design and development of a nuclear explosive device.”
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May 4, 2018 | 2:00 pm | Comments »

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Trump to ask Israel to withdraw from four east Jerusalem neighborhoods  

Move is part of administration’s peace plan expected to be unveiled after embassy relocation.

BY Yanir Cozin/Maariv Hashavua, JPOST

Sources: Trump to ask Israel to withdraw from 4 east J'lem neighborhoods

The Trump administration will ask Israel to withdraw from four Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, which will likely become the capital of a future Palestinian state, US officials told Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman during his visit to Washington last week.

The transfer of control over the neighborhoods – Jebl Mukabar, Isawiya, Shuafat and Abu Dis – was presented to Liberman as just one piece of the larger peace plan the administration has been working on over the last year. Israel, the officials indicated, would be expected to accept the plan once it is presented despite the potentially painful concessions.
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May 4, 2018 | 11:27 am | 18 Comments »

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Relations between Israel and the USSR/Russia  

Mrs. Micky Aharonson, Expert in international relations, JISS

On Israel’s 70th anniversary, it is useful to evaluate the country’s relationships in the international arena. Among the countries with which Israel has maintained relations since its creation, one of the most important—for better or for worse—has been the Soviet Union, and subsequently Russia, its successor state. This relationship has been multi-dimensional, subject to ups and downs, and sensitive to developments not only in the Middle East but also in broader geopolitical settings. Soviet/Russian interests and involvement in the Middle East have been reflected to varying degrees in the regional constraints that Israel has faced during the various periods of its history. Therefore, an examination of Israel’s relations with the Soviet Union/Russia against the historical background of these interests can enhance our understanding of Russia’s behavior in contexts that affect Israel in the present, and can also offer a hint of likely trends in the future.

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May 4, 2018 | 10:57 am | Comments »

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Why war between Israel and Iran is unlikely today  

By Vic Rosenthal, ABU YEHUDA

Si vis pacem, para bellum (if you want peace, prepare for war) – Vegetius, c. 450 CE

I’ve said that I am expecting a hot war soon. But recent developments are changing my mind. The strategy of deterrence and interdiction seems to be working on our northern border, and firm resistance to Hamas’ attempts to overrun our southern one seems – so far – to be effective.

The attack on the T4 airbase in Syria on April 10, and the one on the weapons depot near Hama this week, both attributed to Israel, have sent a strong message to the Iranian regime that Israel is serious about not allowing an Iranian buildup in Syria. Although little is publicly known about these attacks, it seems that both offensive and defensive weapons were destroyed, and that in both cases there were casualties among Iranian personnel.
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May 4, 2018 | 6:42 am | Comments »

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INTO THE FRAY: Iran & the chilling significance of the “No Alternative” argument  

By Martin Sherman

The attempt to justify the 2015 deal with Iran, as being the only viable alternative to allowing it to develop nuclear weapons, is both infuriating and disingenuous.

The prime minister of Israel is deeply opposed to it, I think he’s made that very clear. I have repeatedly asked, what is the alternative that you present that you think makes it less likely for Iran to get a nuclear weapon? And I have yet to obtain a good answer on that. Barack Obama, on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Office of the White House Press Secretary, April 11, 2015.
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May 4, 2018 | 6:36 am | 2 Comments »

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Britain cracks down on university students silencing free speech  

T. Belman. Where there is a will to defend free speech, there is a way. Why can’t Canada and the US get it together?

By Rosemary Bennett, THE TIMES

‘I wholly disapprove with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. Voltaire

Sam Gyimah, the universities minister, referred to attempts to silence debate at universities as “chilling”
Sam Gyimah, the universities minister, referred to attempts to silence debate at universities as “chilling”
 Students will be banned from refusing speakers a platform at their universities under the first government intervention on free speech on campus for 30 years.

Sam Gyimah, the universities minister, will announce tough guidance on the issue at a meeting today, calling attempts to silence debate “chilling”.

He will accuse some student societies of “institutional hostility” to certain unfashionable but perfectly lawful views. A “murky” legal landscape, with guidance from various regulators, lets zealots censor those with whom they disagree, Mr Gyimah will say.
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May 4, 2018 | 6:27 am | 1 Comment »

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Many plans have been tabled. They all have their problems  

T. Belman. The one plan he didn’t talk about is the Jordan Option that I am advocating. That was because it wasn’t yet tabled. It is also the plan that makes the most sense and the one that is going to be effected this year.

What are we talking about when we talk about solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

BY HERB KEINON, JPOST   May 20, 2017
Ma’aleh Adumim

A general view of a part of Ma’aleh Adumim. (photo credit: REUTERS)

Judea and Samaria. The West Bank. Whatever you want to call it, this piece of land (which includes parts of Jerusalem) is 5,640 square kilometers of the most hotly contested real estate on the planet.

The landscape varies from barren desert to arable mountainous terrain. It has rocky terraces and graceful hills and gurgling springs and gnarled olive trees.

For Jews, it is the biblical heartland. It is where the patriarchs and matriarchs walked, where they are buried, where the Tabernacle and Temple stood, where the stories of the Bible played themselves out – where they were also massacred, expelled and returned.
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May 4, 2018 | 2:51 am | 3 Comments »

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The Death of Oslo and the Rebirth of the Jordan-is-Palestine Option  

By Matthew M. Hausman

The “Jordan-is-Palestine” model for resolving the Arab-Israeli stalemate is an idea that, despite historical precedent and logic, was beaten into silence by Israel’s enemies in the Arab-Muslim world and their enablers in the West.  Critics denounced the concept as preposterous, reactionary and counterproductive.  And yet, the idea has been resurrected from within Jordan itself.  There can be no dispute that Jordan was created in a sovereign vacuum on land that had comprised most of the Palestine Mandate.  However, the creation of Jordan (then Transjordan) in 1921 satisfied a geopolitical need unencumbered by a Palestinian national myth that had not yet been invented. 

In contrast, the Oslo “peace process” is based on the false premise that a native, ancestral population was displaced by the Jewish State and must be repatriated at Israel’s expense.  Because Jordan embodies the concept of Arab self-determination as contemplated by the San Remo Conference and the Palestine Mandate, and because most Jordanians identify as “Palestinian” as that term came to be known after 1967, it is high time to consider a homeland in Jordan as the political solution to the Mideast conflict.
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May 3, 2018 | 5:55 pm | 1 Comment »

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Jordan as Palestine: a paradigm shift for a two-state solution  

T. Belman. Moshe does a great job until the end. He writes,”I do not suggest or intend in any way the overthrow of the current Jordanian government. Jordan is a strategic partner and hopefully will continue to be.” Jordan is an enemy and the King must go. Moshe should study up on what makes him an enemy.

By Moshe Dann, JNS

Arabs living in Israel and PA-controlled areas who consider themselves “Palestinian” and seek national self-determination can affiliate with a Palestinian-Jordanian state, and move there if they wish. Those who prefer to stay in Israel can be allowed to do so with full civil, but not national rights – as is now the case.

The problem with “the two state solution” — creating a sovereign independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan River — is that a Palestinian state already exists east of the Jordan River; it’s called Jordan.  Its population is predominantly “Palestinian” and it is located in the eastern part of what was once called “Palestine.”  Demographically and geographically, therefore, Jordan is a Palestinian state.
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May 3, 2018 | 4:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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The end of the peace process  

T. Belman. Close but no cigar. Abbas the the PA will soon be finished. There is no need for them. With the abdication of the King and the ascension of Zahran, Jordan will become Palestine and thus you will have the two state solution that both sides will agree to. The Jordan River will be the border.

By Dr Reuven Berko, ISRAEL HAYOM

On the eve of the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in other words, the organization for the liberation of the Land of Israel, convened for its 23rd session in Ramallah. Grown men in suits listened to the don, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spew anti-Semitic lies, fabricate history and deliver empty promises.

According to Abbas, the Palestinian coffin was nailed shut as a result of the split with and corruption of Hamas, the Arab states’ abandonment of the Palestinians, Israel’s strength and the U.S.’s traitorous rejection of the Palestinian demands for a “right of return” and Jerusalem. The only thing that remains for Abbas to do is claim a chapter in the Quran commands the Palestinians wait patiently alongside the borders of Palestine. Let them wait, because the same Quran promises this land to the Jewish people, and that is why we are therefore the actual owners.
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May 3, 2018 | 2:51 pm | 3 Comments »

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Are NBC and CNN Paying Off Top Spies Who Leaked Info With On-Air Jobs?  

News of the News: How the ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ sausage gets made

By Lee Smith, TABLET

The White House Correspondent’s Dinner Saturday night was a platform for the media to push back against the most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States. While Donald Trump constantly derides the top brands in American journalism as Fake News, the WHCA’s prize committee presented the Merriman Smith Award for broadcast journalism to CNN’s Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper, and Carl Bernstein for their Jan. 10, 2017 story reporting that Barack Obama’s four intelligence chiefs briefed Donald Trump that Russia had compromising information on the President-elect.

The compromising information—ranging from allegations of the Trump team’s criminal activities to the sexual depravities of Trump himself—was sourced to a 35-page-long opposition research file allegedly authored by the ex-British spy Christopher Steele. The so-called Steele dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which hired the Washington, D.C. opposition research firm Fusion GPS to produce and disseminate it to the press. As the award citation explains: “Thanks to this CNN investigation, ‘the dossier’ is now part of the lexicon.”
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May 3, 2018 | 2:35 pm | Comments »

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By striking Iran in Tehran as well as Syria, Israel opened another war arena outside Syria  

T. Belman. My source tells me that Israel has already destroyed 70% of Iran’s assets in Syria.  This has been made possible because the US has cut a deal with Russia and Assad just as I have been recommending. Assad gets to rule Alawite Syria and Russia gets to keep her bases and influence there. They have agreed that Iran has to withdraw.  The US gets to control what happens in the rest of Syria and intends to create four other states that may or may not be federated. So there will not be a war.

DEBKA

Israel has been braced for Tehran’ revenge – and on high war alert – for three weeks, after opening two war fronts against the Islamic Republic. One in Syria, by means of air and missile strikes on Iran’s Syrian infrastructure (on Feb. 10, April 9 and April 29) and two, an intelligence coup in the heart of Tehran, where Israel agents raided the secret hideout of Iran’s Atomic Archive and walked off with its contents.  This breach of a top-secret site wrought as much damage to Iran’s security as the theft of the documentary trove. The next stage of the Israeli-Iranian conflict may therefore reach for the first time outside the Syrian-Lebanese arena to Iran proper, and open the door for a direct reprisal for Israel’s assaults from Iranian soil.
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May 3, 2018 | 12:41 pm | 2 Comments »

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FDR wanted Jews “spread thin” and kept out of US, document’s reveal  

T. Belman. American Jews were wrong about FDR and wrong about Obama, twice

New documents revealed by the FDR library shows the president’s secret plans to resettle Jews out of Europe.

By Daniel P Roth, JPOST

FDR wanted Jews â??spread thinâ?? and kept out of U.S., documents reveal
Third meetings of the Board of Directors of the War Refugee Board in the office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Pictured from left to right are: Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry L. Stimson, and John Pehle, Executive Director, March 21, 1944 . (photo credit: VIA UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM (COURTESY FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT LIBRARY))

NEW YORK – New evidence suggests that as the Jews of Europe were being slaughtered across continent during the Holocaust, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not want them seeking refuge on American shores.

Tucked away in a secret vault inside the White House during his 12 year tenure as commander-in-chief, the newly revealed documents recently made public via the FDR Library paint a portrait of the President’s plan to ‘spread thin all over the world’ the remains of European Jewry.
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May 3, 2018 | 7:29 am | Comments »

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Jordan Peterson On Why Jews Are So Successful – Alex Jones Responds  

There is much to criticize about what Jones says but he coesn’t come accross as an antisemite. But the comments on Infowars were about 80% antisemetic. Also Peterson and Jones focussed on power positions. That’s only part of genius.  Jews are exceptional in all aspects of culture and science and charity, also.

May 2, 2018 | 4:50 pm | 2 Comments »

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