T. Belman. This is great advice for Israel too. High Court judges would have to be elected or retired every five years. This would make the Judges responsible to the people. It would constitute a check on them. Currently, they answer to no one. Their power is absolute.

By Hugh McInnish, AMERICAN THINKER

Comes now Peter Skurkiss and posts a fine piece on American Thinker concerning the panic the NYT is having at the thought of impending retirements on the Supreme Court.  The Times laments the horrible possibility that one or more of the justices may quit while Trump is in office and be replaced with a “conservative” – that is, with someone who has a reverence for the Constitution and what our venerated founders intended for the limited role of the Court.

But shouldn’t those of us who stand as the antithesis to the NYT be equally concerned?  Indeed, we should.  The Court “has morphed into an u?ber legislative body,” “[m]andating homosexual ‘marriage’ and abortion for all 50 states.”
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By Elad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

A delegation of leading Republican members of Congress are urging newly installed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cut all U.S. taxpayer funding to the Palestinian government over its continued use of American dollars to pay the salaries of terrorists and their families, according to communications between these lawmakers and the State Department.

A group of 14 lawmakers formally petitionedPompeo this week to “immediately suspend all aid payments to the Palestinian Authority” due to recent reports these funds continue to be used to pay convicted terrorists and their families, a material breach of newly passed laws barring American aid money being used for such purposes.
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Ashraf Abd al-Hameed, Cairo – Al Arabiya.net

Abbas voiced his rejection to Mursi and told him that the Palestinians will not accept such proposals. (File photo: Reuters)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that he had rejected an offer by former Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi to get a part of Sinai to settle the Palestinians there.

“When the Brotherhood ruled during Mursi’s presidential term, we were offered a part of Sinai but we turned down the offer,” he said while addressing the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah.

He added that this was an Israeli project dubbed “Giora Eiland” and aims to completely put an end to the Palestinian cause.
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Although right-wing antisemitism has made headlines, the real threat emanates from the viciously anti-Israel and antisemitic Left.

By Isi Leibler, JPOST

American Jewry, apart from the Orthodox and a minority of committed non-Orthodox, is demographically imploding.

Paradoxically, this is taking place at a time when support for Israel among the American people is at an all-time high and traditional antisemitism is at its lowest level. Jewish education among non-Orthodox Jews is catastrophic, with widespread ignorance of Judaism and understanding about Israel. Assimilation is rampant, with intermarriage levels reaching 70%.

Although right-wing antisemitism has made headlines, the real threat emanates from the viciously anti-Israel and antisemitic Left and the growing numbers of Muslim extremists.

Under normal circumstances, a proud Jewish community supported by most Americans could neutralize these negative elements. However, the crisis is largely internal. In the past, American Jews, with valid historical justifications, have always had a penchant for liberalism. Their attachments to Israel and Judaism were synonymous and liberal political forces were Israel’s strongest supporters, while conservatives were less inclined to support the Jewish state.
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By Ted Belman

Ken Pollack gave a prescription in two parts which AEI Ideas and National Review published.

• Pushing back on Iran, part 1: The Why
• Pushing back on Iran, part 2: An overview of the strategy

Let me save you some time. He writes,

“I remain convinced that it would be a mistake for the United States to unilaterally abrogate or violate the agreement. Its flaws notwithstanding, we cannot lose sight of the fact that (a) the JCPOA has significantly constrained Iran’s nuclear activities, and (b) the rest of the world strongly favors it and could well break with the United States if we gut it. Given the critical role of our allies to make pushback work, that is a risk we should not run.”

No thanks.

Sources reveal how Mossad agents smuggled half a ton of top-secret records from Iran’s nuclear program from Tehran to Israel.

By David Rosenberg, INN

According to a report Monday night by The New York Times which cited an anonymous Israeli senior official, the massive document haul was undertaken in a January 2017 operation he hailed as one of Israel’s “greatest achievements” in intelligence gathering.

Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, discovered the location of the Iranian nuclear weapons program’s secret file archive in Tehran in February 2016, the source told the Times, which Netanyahu revealed was located in the Shorabad district.

Last January, Mossad agents infiltrated the archive in an overnight operation, removing the half ton of material, and smuggled the files to Israel that very same night.
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T. Belman. Why is US maintaining good relationships with Qatar who is a major financier of Islamism and terror and antisemitism throughout the world. Now is not the time for compromise.. Qatar is aligned with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. It should be forced to change. Jordan is the same. Jordan is the world headquaters of the Muslim Brotherhood and maintains ties with Iran and Qatar. The King will soon be gone from Jordan and so will the MB.

ByPhilip Gordon, Amos Yadlin, Ari Heistein, INSS,

Special Publication, June 13, 2017

The recent dispute between Qatar and some of its neighbors is the most serious dispute among them in years, and has the potential to further destabilize an already turbulent region. But the crisis also presents a potential opportunity. If a united front that includes the United States and the leading countries in the Arab world can induce Qatar to contain its support for organizations that promote extremism and threaten regional order, it could help stabilize the region, limit the reach of the Islamic State, and isolate Iran. The United States, which maintains close relations with both sides, should play an active role in trying to bring its quarreling partners together.
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By Victor Davis Hanson, NATIONAL REVIEW

The more Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he ignores the actual lawbreakers.

The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.

In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump’s campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.

Why are the two now about to collide?
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Blame it all on the US

By Mark Christian, AMERICAN THINKER

What is to be made of the mess that is Syria?  Does there exist a side with which America might prudently align?  To decipher this puzzle, it’s important to recall a little of Syria’s history and how that history continues to shape its people.

Syria is a nation with a diverse collection of ethnicities and a multitude of religious affiliations.  Its capital, Damascus, is the oldest still existing city in human history.  Since 1970, when a coup led by then-family patriarch Hafez Assad brought them to power, the Assad family have enjoyed uninterrupted rule, despite repeated attempts to dislodge them.
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T. Belman. It wont be long now. When KIng Abdullah abdicates and Jordan becomes Palestine, Saudi Arabia will recognize Israel.

WIN

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said the Palestinian leadership needs to accept the peace plans proposed by the US or stop complaining and that the Arab world has lost interest in the so-called Palestinian issue.

In a closed-door meeting with heads of Jewish organizations in New York in March, Bin Salman harshly criticized Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians’ diplomatic conduct over the past 40 years, according to a report by American news site Axious. The report cited an Israeli foreign ministry cable sent by a diplomat from the Israeli consulate in New York as well three other sources – Israeli and American – who were briefed about the meeting.
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Death tool up to 26 and still rising – mostly iranians

AL JAZEERA

Blasts were reported in the Hama countryside on Sunday night [Al Jazeera]

The Europeans won’t do business with Tehran if that means losing access to American banks.

By Jamil N. Jaffer WALL STREET JOURNAL April 29, 2018

Will President Trump terminate the Iran nuclear deal? Many national-security experts are concerned he will, by refusing to waive sanctions that are up for renewal in mid-May. Some worry that unilaterally reimposing sanctions on Iran would isolate the U.S. internationally, as Europe’s leaders still broadly support the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Others argue that the JCPOA is working and Iran is largely abiding by its commitments. Still others urge the U.S. to continue waiving sanctions if the Europeans are willing to consider potential changes to the deal.
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“We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s dangerous escalation of threats to Israel and the region and Iran’s ambition to dominate the Middle East remains. The US is with Israel in this fight,” Pompeo said.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, April29, 2018. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)

Mike Pompeo voiced a strongly worded message of support for Israel as he came to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday on first trip to the Middle East as secretary of state.

The discussions, unsurprisingly, focused on Iran, its actions in the region, as well as the nuclear accord that President Donald Trump has threatened to walk away from by May 12th if serious changes are not made. Pompeo and Netanyahu apparently see eye to eye on these issues.
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Conflicting reports in Arab media pin blame on Israel, US, and UK after dozens killed at Iranian facilities in Syria.

By David Rosenberg, INN

At least 18 Iranian servicemen were killed in a series of explosions at military sites across Syria Sunday night, a state-run Iranian media outlet reported Monday.

Arab media outlets have issued conflicting reports Monday morning, blaming either Israel, or the US and UK for a series of explosions at military facilities in Syria believed to have been used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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